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WEDNESDAY../ SEPTEMBER 18, 1895 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ~ If the law stands the Solid Eight must go. County fairs and fiestas are the life of the State. __^____ The San Bernardino fiesta was a bull frolic, but no fight. The maintenance of the law is the first step toward municipal reform. Advertising home goods is the only way to invite people to the home market. It may turn out to have been themselves the Solid Eight gave away on Monday night. If Chattanooga is wise she will take a city census while the Chickamauga cele bration is with her. China promises to reform and Turkey promises to reform, but the Solid Eight stays where it stuck. Sport is speedy, but trade keeps up with it ; there is already a Defender souvenir spoon on the market. We expected our wine exhibit to take the Atlanta folks, but it seems they were too early for us and took it. The fight against the corrupting power of the monopoly will be long and hard, but it can be won in the end. The sight of eight forfeited seats on the Board of Supervisors would comfort the people mightily just now. The powers would divide Turkey at once if only they were sure there would be enough of it to go around. The best way to call Dunraven's bluff is to send the Defender to British waters and give him a trial over there. One advantage to Spokane in her double set of policemen is that one set will keep the other set swak» at night. There is a prospect that the biggest issue of the next campaign will be over the question of retiring greenbacks. The vigorous foreign policy has begun to show itself. Two gunboats will make a demonstration of it at Ku Cheng. It may be true that the America cup cost only $350, but the interest taken in it all these years has made it very costly by this time. You get all the essential details of the Durrant case in our reports without any of what Falstaff called the "damnable iterations." The only noise in the world that the South Carolina Constitutional Convention has made so far was a threat of a free fight on the floor. , The adjournment of Parliament has in tensified the silly seascn in England, and the prevailing discussion at present ia "What is the proper a<;e for love?" It is now asserted, and with considerable show of reason, that it is the competition of the Sunday newspaper that has forced the publication of cheap editions of stand ard books. The surest way to bring other manufac tories to San Francisco is to render pros perous those we already have; and the best way to do that is to make a home market for them. The reported discovery of rich gold fields in Ontario may have some effect in divert ing the mining capital of London and Paris from Africa to this continent, and then it will come our way. If the tariff proves dull and silver ceases to divide the people, there will be a good enough issue for the Republicans in 1896 in the desire of the people to wallop the Cleveland Democracy. Platt's victory in New York, like that of Quay in Pennsylvania, is a triumph of organized Republicanism over the faction fighters, and will be hailed with gratifica tion all over the Union. Bryan of Nebraska will find a cordial welcome in this City. Republicans will join with Democrats in doing honor to his splendid talents as an orator and his ster ling services in the cause of bimetallism. There is a cheerful prospect that home bankers will take care of the treasury reserve after this until the Republican Congress can reform the tariff and provide the Government with the needed revenue. There would have been no objection to the grant of the Sunnyside franchise to the Market-street Railway Company if the grant had not been given for practically nothing and in violation of a law enacted for the express purpose of preventing just such practices. It is evident that popular interest in the reclamation of arid lands has not been diminished by the years of depression, for the Irrigation Convention now in session, though held in so remote a place as Albu querque, is one of the largest ever assem bled, and has able delegates from nearly every State in the Union. The recent statement by Dr. Paul Gibier before the Medico-Legal Congress that a criminal by pricking his intended victims with a pin containing a few deadly bacilli on the point could kill them and leave no trace of crime has put a horrible sugges tion in the minds of the vicious and it will not be long before some of them will try it. I COUETS AND RAILBOADS. It is reported from Omaha that the re ceivers of the Union Pacific intend to urge the Government to compel the directors of the Central Pacific to operate the Ogden line in harmony with the Union Pacific road, according to the original plan of a transcontinental route devised by the Government at the time the roads were chartered. This appeal, which implies another step in the direction of the control of railroads by the Government, will re call a statement made by an Eastern Judge not long ago, that unless some new conditions arise the United States would soon be operating a consolidated system of railways without purchasing them and without intending to undertake the work. Judge Walker's prediction was based upon the increasing number of ioads and length of mileage which have come prac tically under Government control by being placed in the hands of receivers appointed by the United States courts. The extent of road already administered in this way is large and every year adds to it. It will not be long before these different sets of receivers would be able to form a pool, as it were, and organize quite a comprehen sive system, if the authority under which they act would permit them. Nor per haps would such authority be withheld if it should be shown that the combination would be beneficial to the stockholders for whom the receivers were appointed to act. The plan which the Union Pacific re ceivers are renorted to have in view goes a step farther. It asks Congress to compel another road still in the hands of private owners to act in such a manner as will benefit tne Union Pacific. The demand is apparently founded upon justice and will doubtless receive favorable consideration at the hands of Congress. Thus there will be brought about practically a Gov ernmental supervision of the entire route of the Union and Central Pacific roads. It appears from this tendency that the force of circumstances is carrying us by safe and slow degrees toward a solution of some of the greatest difficulties in the problem of railway management. Much of the evil of existing conditions arises not from any intentional wrongdoing on the part of railroad managers, but because in the strife and rivalry of one road with another, rates are unsettled, business dis turbed and each side compelled in self-de fense to resort to every conceivable man euver to gain the advantage over its opponents, no matter how disastrous the effects may be upon the general run of shippers and the public welfare. When a road, after a prolonged struggle of this kind, has become bankrupt and passes into the hands of the courts, the aim of the receivers is to conduct it eco nomically and pay the stockholders a rea sonable dividend. The operations of such roads have on the whole given a fair degree of satisfaction. There is of course a wide spread and well-founded objection to Gov ernment ownership of railways and it is not likeJy that any plan of that kind will ever become a question of practical politics in this country during this generation. This fact renders the present tendency all the more interesting. Without any desire on the part of the Government, and against public sentiment, the drift of things is toward a complete Governmental super vision of railway?, but fortunately the course of this development puts the roads in the hands of men appointed by the courts and not in those of the politicians. UNEQUAL BENEFITS. In exchange for the opportunities which we give Chinese in this country to amass wealth and take it out of the country we enjoy the privilege of sending missionaries to China. Our non-judicial consideration of the treaty is to blame for this. China makes no such mistake. She holds us to the strict letter of the treaty so far as our citizens in China are concerned. That is to say, American enterprise and capital may not invade China and compete with the natives as we permit them to compete with us. Probably such competition on our part in China would be as hurtful to them as is Chinese competition with us in this country injurious to us. If so, China displays a wisdom which it might profit us to imitate. We might have been content, in our easy-going philanthropic way, to give China the benefit of her superior wisdom were it not that she has failed recently to protect our missionaries from mob vio lence. It has become necessary to send gunboats to the vicinity of the outrages to force China to observe her treaty obliga tions. It is not to be supposed for an in stant that China is desirous of engaging in war with England and the United States, but it is imaginable that her indifference with regard to our missionaries means a greater desire on her part to be rid of them than to preserve treaty relations which permit so many thousands of her citizens to fatten on our indulgence. For that matter, the Government of China has never desired to encourage its people to emigrate to the United States. Their intercourse with a considerable frac tion of our poDulation has been so unpleas ant as to lead to embarrassing interna tional complications at times, and the imperial Government dislikes annoyances of that character. It has sufficient worry over keeping its own uncounted hordes in subjection. The suggestion presents itself, Would it not be wise to bring about a new treaty which, while maintaining trade relations, will prohibit the residents of one country from settling in the other? It would be interesting to speculate on the result of a vote on that question submitted to the people of California. THE CUBAN SITUATION. The inability of the Spanish army to put down the Cuban rebellion has been ex plained on the ground of the climate, which operates fatally against the fighters imported from Spain. Hence the Spanish authorities on the island declare that with the coming of winter, when improved meteorological conditiona will place the combatants on equal terms, they will be able quickly to suppress the uprising. At the same time great uneasiness on the part of the rich Spaniards on the island is evi dent. They are now asserting that if the rebellion succeeds their property will be confiscated. It may seem s.ngular that the rebels have not tried to overcome this impression. Ordinarily the abstract principle or pa triotism does not attach to capital, and under average conditions it will seek safety on any terms. The united and fearful an tagonism of the Cuban rich toward the re bellion is therefore significant. It is true that as yet they are under the protection and enjoy the sympathy of the Spanish army, but their attitude is so conspicu ously nostile to a change in the political administration of the island as to force some important considerations to the front. If it means nothing more it is an ac knowledgment of the fact that the native race is oppressed, and that a prominent agency in this oppression is the local aristocrats from Spain. These wealthy ones seem to regard themselves as stand ing for all that makes Spanish domina tion hateful. This being accepted aa a THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1895. fact, the situation appears somewhat cleared of many befogging conceptions. It explains, for instance, why the rebels have never tried to enlist the sympathy of the rich Spanish residents. At the same time it points to the conclusion that if the rebels succeed the grandees from Spain will be expelled and their property con fiscated. This lends a peculiarly savage aspect to the war. At the same time it explains the extra ordinary pluck and pertinacity of the rebels. The fiercest revolutions of history have been those precipitated by the ag gressions of the rich. Abstract principles of government have been mere incidents and conclusions of the struggle. And it is an interesting fact that the success of such revolutions has been followed by the adop tion of a republican form of government. The burdens which the Spanish monarchs have laid upon the natives of Cuba are identical in kind with those which the lich who are in power lay upon the poor, and Spain's attitude toward Cuba is that of a wealthy, scornful and overbearing aristocrat. Nerar since their subjugation have the natives been treated otherwise than as subjects, in a manner that keeps alive the idea of subjugation and subjec tion in its most irritating form. Thus far the warfare conducted by the insurgents has been almost entirely of a guerrilla kind, and the history of wars shows that in the end it is generally unsuccessful. The insurgents are poorly armed, are forced to fight in the moun tains and brush, have no gunboats and no capital, and seem to have the worst of the situation. Unless the wonderful love of freedom that transforms common men into heroes continue to fire them they must succumb at last. IRRIGATION CONGRESS. The dismal view taken by the chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Irrigation Congress with reference to Judge Ross' decision overturning the Wright irrigation law has an encouraging aspect, for it will lead inevitably to such laws and decisions as are demanded by Western conditions. The precedents out of which Judge Ross' decision grew were based on conditions utterly unlike those to which they are now made to apply. While the Irrigation Congress might accomplish much good by lending ail possible assist ance to efforts to secure a reversal of Judge Ross' decision, and while such a reversal would be a final settlement of the difficulty, it may be a long time before the Supreme Court can reach the case. Meanwhile the possibilities of relief at the hands of Con gress should not be overlooked. It might be profitable to investigate the laws controlling irrigation in China. There farming is carried to its furthest scientific capabilities and irrigation has been practiced without molestation from time immemorial. In other words, China regulates the matter to suit her own neces sities and probably is happily unconscious of the common law of England. The philosophy of the case is so appar ent that it needs no discussion. The problem is one of the simplest of all that affect the interests of human beings, and its embodiment in laws by the highest law-making authority in the country would be attended with no difficulties and would lead to no complicated litigation. Unless Judge Ross' decision is reversed or laws are made to solve the problem the vast empire of the West must remain shouldered out of civilization by a legal precedent of foreign origin and inappli cable to the needs of any part of our coun try. The principle involved is merely that of using in the most equitable manner the resources which nature has placed at our command; it is needed merely to establish the doctrine that while the rights of the riparian owner should be respected, they should not be exercised at the expense of other owners who might receive a benefit from that which may be spared by the ri parian owner without detriment to his own interests. The Wright law of California covered the ground admirably, but it was nullified for the reason that it had not pro ceeded from a source sufficiently high to overturn the effect of the common law of England. It is true that Judge Ross went further than that, but his effort in so doing — in placing the equities of the ripa rian owner above all other considerations was wholly gratuitous. That, however, will Eerve only to make the States interested in irrigation more earnest in their endeavors to remedy the existing evil, and will spur the Irrigation Congress, now in session at Albuquerque, to stronger efforts. Irrigation accompanied most of the splendid civilizations which i existed in ancient times in the region of the Mediterranean, and to-day it is the re liance of some of the most densely popu lated countries in the world. The principle is just, or it would not have endured throuch these countless centuries of the world's growth. It would be strange if the intelligence of the American people should prove inadequate to its adoption in this country. AGAINST THE BIOTOLE. The refusal of the Oakland Council to grant the request made by the Chief of Police to mount certain officers on bicycles instead of horses has discouraged the Police Department of that city. The Chief declares that bicycles are more con venient and efficient than horses. The objection made by the Council was that the cost of repairing Dicycles is too great. This sounds amusing in view of the fact that some of the armies of Europe have adopted the machine for the mounting of corps engaged in certain kinds of service. If it is true that the cost of repairing a bicycle is bo great then the machine has developed a radical defect. This evidently is because the demand for light machines has forced manufacturers to construct them on too fragile lines. Had the Oak land Council taken the trouble it might have ascertained that the machine used in the army is heavier and stronger than that employed by amateur wheelmen, and that in any event a manufacturer could be easily found who will undertake to con struct a durable wheel for police use. The experience of most amateur wheelmen is that the cost of maintaining a bicycle need be no greater than that of keeping a horse. It should be remembered, however, that the amateur use of a wheel is very different from the hard service required of it at the hands of a policeman or a soldier. Certainly the bicycle should be far more useful to mounted policemen than a horse. Its noiselessness ia a peculiarly strong recommendation, to Say nothing of its sufficient speed and the celerity with which it maybe mounted and dismounted. In a level city like Oakland there seems to be every good reason why strong bicycles should be superior to horses for this pur pose. There must have been a good deal of truth plainly stated in the paper on "Poli tics and Crime," read by Professor Warner of Stanford before the Prison Congress, for it is said to have caused a, sensation and been vigorously disputed. If the Republicans carry Kentucky and Maryland the Democrats will hardly trouble themselves to hunt any longer for a candidate for '96. PLAIN TALKS TO FARMERS. [Attendants at the Camt) Roache Summer School will recognize my obligation to Profes sor E. A. Ross for much of what lollows.] The American farmer was once a jack of all trades. 1 remember that in the then new country of Northeastern Ohio each farmer sought to raise two or three acres of wheat, of which he took what he needed to the neighboring mill, paying toll for the grind ing at the rate, if I remember rightly, two quarts to the bushel and taking home his flour, middlings and bran. His surplus wheat he sold usually in my time at $1 a bushel. He had from five to ten acres of corn, which he mostly fed out on the place to hogs, of which, after filling his pork barrels, he would have one or two to turn off. A steer or "farrow cow," also fat tened on the corn, was usually killed in the fall, half sold among the neighbors and half corned or dried for family use, inci dentally furnishing the tallow for the dipped candles. From three to a dozen sheep supplied the wool, which was taken to the "carding-machine" and made into "rolls," paying for the work with a certain number of pounds of wool. Before my time the women of the house used, to do this work with hand-cards, and I have seen this done, but generally in my boy hood women had emancipated themselves from this work; but they spun the yarn and knit the stockings, and in most houses was a loom constructed by the men, where on every year was woven by the women one or two pieces of stout woolen cloth to be made up, in the house, into garments for both sexes. The bad-smell ing dye pots sat about the fire all winter. Every year or two an acre of flax was raised which the men "broke" and "hetch eled," and the women spun and wove and made up into clothing. The hide of the beef killed for family consumption, with those of a calf or two killed during the year, were taken to the tannery, and after six months brought home and made up into boots and shoes, sometimes by the men of the house, but more often by the neighboring or traveling shoemaker. A half acre of potatoes and a good garden supplied the vegetables for the year. A few cows furnished a surplus of butter, which, with the egps not consumed on the farm, was traded at the store for the calicoes, white shirting, an occasional ribbon, and the necessary crockery and small groceries. The orchard supplied the fruit, cider and vinegar. The "sugar bush" furnished the maple sugar, which was sometimes used for sweetening, but more usually traded for "muscovado," or brown sugar. The elder males of the family had Sunday suits of store cloth made up by the village tailor; this was before the days of "ready made" ; these suits, after some years' wear, were turned and made up by the women for the boys, and were worn out by them, one after another, as they grew unto them. The elder women had each a sober dark dress for Sundays, but the girls mostly went to church in fresh calico, and very trim indeed they looked as I remember them. Corsets and similar feminine girn cracks were unknown — at least to me; but it is likely the town girls had them, and if they did our eiris knew all about them. Bonnets and hats were worn, with an oc casional change of ribbon, until they wore out. A cast-iron plow, with the necessary hoes, rakes and scythes, constituted the "boughten" farm machinery. The grain was threshed with a hand-flail on the barn floor in the winter, while the women spun and wove in the house. Many continued this practice long after threshing machines came in. The boys got their spending money by picking up nuts in the woods and from the sale of the fur of an occasional mink or muskrat. Our social gatherings were husking bees and house-raisings for the men, quilting parties for the women, and apple-paring bees, and, above all things, the winter singing-school, for the young men and women, The centers of influence were the churches, of which two or three denominations — not too sure of each other's full hold upon salvation — were al ways represented, the ministers receiving from $200 to $300 per year, partly in money and partly in provisions, wiih the neces sary wood and an annual donation party. The reading matter was the New York Weekly Tribune (I do not remember what standard paper the Democrats took; there were very few Democrats where I lived), Godey's Ladies' Book, the New York Ledger in families of doubtful piety, the Phrenological Journal by those of ad vanced thought, the religious paper of the denomination and the county paper. Each family had a few books, which were exchanged nntil all had read them, and there was always the Bible, the Sunday school library and Dick's or Josephus' works to fall back on. The education was in the district school. The above outline comprises or suggests the essential features of the life of the thrifty 100-acre farmer on the Western Reserve in Ohio fifty years ago. Further east there was a little more of ready money and luxuries; further west there was less and more dependence on wild game for meat and for furs to get money with. The great prairies had hardly been touched. Transportation was slow and expensive and the products of each district were mostly consumed therein, the small sur plus which accumulated painfully finding its way to the seaboard in exchange for such necessaries as we could not ourselves produce. The farmer's interest in markets outside his general vicinity was very small; his average trade with the outside world would not probably exceed $50 or $75 a /year. He received very little money and kept it almost no time at all ; his currency was the notes of banks that he knew noth ing about and smooth Mexican silver that would not circulate elsewhere. The young man got his "start" by being permitted to raise a pair of steers or a colt or two on the family farm, and by working out at odd jobs. If by the time he was 25 he had saved a couple of hundred dollars, or his father could help him make up that sum, he would buy a piece of timber land, cut the logs for his house, which the neieh bors would help him raise, marry and start to follow his father's footsteps. He would have a sheep or two from the farm, his wife would bring a feather bed and bed ding, a cow and such crockery as could be got hold of and a new family was founded. This was the lot of the thrifty. The un thrifty married earlier, got hold of some kind of a house, worked out for a living, multiplied rapidly and died off. But for the most part they were thrifty after a fashion ana prospered. The land was new and abundant with plenty more "out West," and the people had all the knowl edge required to put it to the beat eco nomic use possible at the time. They were, therefore, in the main well nour ished, sturdy, free from worry, and there fore happy. The farmer of those days was a producer and manufacturer with the knowledge requisite for conducting his business and a standard of comfort which his business would maintain. He was the independent man. In this age no such life is possible in America, nor, with our changed habits and desires, would it be agreeable. It would involve a distinct lowering of our present standard of comfort, which, with all our complaint, is far higher than for merly, and would not result in the same .content and consequent survival which the same conditions formerly induced. The impossibility of the life will be seen by any farmer who will trace out what would happen should he attempt it. Doubtless the California farmer could pro duce more for his own consumption than be does, but in the main, under the changed conditions of modern life, he ia compelled to sell, for money, most of his products, and buy for money most that he consumes. The mechanical facili ties of modern times have enor mously reduced the cost of produc tion, and improved transportation aa made every farmer of the civilized world the competitor of every other farmer in the sale of products consumed at his own door, and he who can produce cheapest will survive. The farmer, there fore, must have the Dest machinery and make it available over the largest possible area, and this again restricts the small farmer at least to the production of the specialty best adapted to his location. There is another reason for this: formerly, where his surplus product was consumed near by he could know the capacity of bis market and the competition to be ex pected ; now — and this is especially true of the California farmer — when his surplus is consumed many thousands of miles away and sold at the price fixed by the competition of the world it is not possible for any farmer to inform himself of the probable profit of production of many ar ticles. And yet this knowledge, while far more difficult than formerly for the farmer to obtain, is far more essential, because while formerly the farmer was interested in the money value of but a small portion of his product, he is now interested in the money value of nearly all of it. Still other elements now have to be con sidered by the farmer. The increased use of money involves borrowing and debt. With proper business knowledge borrow ing is legitimate and profitable to thy bor rower; nearly all business men are large borrowers, but borrowing in excess of the knowledge to use wisely involves risk, paid for by high interest, and often leads to disaster. The farmer, unaware of his ignorance, has become greatly indebted, and is now profoundly interested in a stable currency. From being a very small buyer he has become a very Jarge one, and is vitally interested in the control of trusts and other combinations affecting the price of the necessities of life. As all that he sells and all that he buys are necessarily transported over the great routes of com merce, he has come to have a money in terest in the conduct and control of trans portation companies. Paying more taxes than he did, the farmer is more interested in the maintenance of a giant system of taxation and the economical conduct of public affairs. All these and kindred sub jects form part of the great science of economics, as to which it is highly neces sary that the farmer be well informed in order^ in the conduct of his business, and by hia vote when necessary, to intelli gently protect nis own interests. From the lack of this knowledge he is continually misled by agitators, and often by the par tisan press. It appears then that from being a pro ducer and manufacturer on a small scale for the home market he has become a pro ducer and merchant on a large scale for the markets of the world. While once little knowledge would serve him, and that mostl3 r such as his own observation could supply, it is now essential that he be a broadly educated man, familiar with the conditions affecting his own business in all parts of the world. Henoeforward the successful farmers will be only those so educated. If the product of the small farm will not justify the expense of this information — and it will not — there re mains but the alternative of the combina tion of farmers to secure it at the common expense for the benefit of all or the gradual absorption of the small farms oy the strongest and the extinction of the small farmer, who will sink into the condition of dependant. This process of course will not be sudden but* gradual, as the world always moves, beginning with the weakest. This conclusion is not to my liking, but I know it to be the opinion of such business men as I have heard express themselves, and I believe it to be the teaching of science and the judgment of all competent to form one. If erroneous some one should be able to put his finger on the weak spot of the reasoning, and I wish he would do so. The pleasure of escaping the conclusion would be far greater than the annoyance of being caught in bad logic. This column is open to discussion and I shall be glad to devote it mostly to that purpose. I shall be glad to hear from my brethren farmers or others. Assuming the correctness of the conclusion it is evident that we have lost ground in the race of life by reason of our isolation. We do not meet and learn from each other as residents of cities do; nor do we have such opportunities as they to meet with the most eminent of other classes or to learn from books the experience of others. The remedy is equally obvious in the correction of that condition. The un certainty is whether that can be done. Further'profitable discussion of the subject must be on the practical ways of accom plishing this end. Edwahd F. Adams. MENU FOR THURSDAY. SEPT. 19. BHAKFAST. Fruit . Wheat Granules, Milk Omelet. Toast Coffee >■ v : ' lunch. . Corn Oysters Milk Biscuits Sliced Tomatoes. Fruit DINNER. Cream of Pototo Houp Broiled Chops, Brown Sauce Lima Beans Stewed Turnips Mayonnaise of Tomatoes Wafers Apple Pudding, with Cream Coffee '. —Household News. MANUFACTUKERS MEET. They Will Send a Delegate to the National Association at Chicago. Julian Sonntag presided at a meeting of the Manufacturers' and Producers' Asso ciation at which the State development committee of the Half-million Club of fered to assist the association in adver tising the products of the State. It was decided to send a delegate from the association to the meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers to be held in Chicago on the 19th of Novem ber. The management of the State Asylum for the Insane at Agnews promised to in clude in its schedule hereafter articles of California manufacture instead of Eastern. The secretary was instructed to com municate with Mayor Sutro with regard to a report that the railway company is pro curing articles in the East for the equip ment of the road which can be obtained in this State. The secretary was also instructed to ascertain why the Board of Prison Direc tors neglected at its last meeting to take action on the association's letter in regard to convict labor, after having promised to do so. The association will meet in two weeks, when the committee on incorporation will present its final report. Molasses Buttercups, 25c a lb. Townsend's.* Bacon Printing Company, 503 Clay 3treit • Ttpogbaphical elocution. Making the types speak ! The Koberts Printing Co., 220 Sutter. • Swindled Out of Her Property. Emma Stalling, a servant, permitted Alfred B. Bennett to sell for $1000 her equity in a §4200 piece of real estate, the mortgage being $3000. Bennett transferred the deed to his sister-in-law, Julia Haag, and received the $1000 from the latter. He paid no money to Miss Stelling and has not been seen since. Judge Hebbard yesterday gave the servant girl Judgment for the full amount against Bennett, but he granted a motion for nonsuit In the case against Bennett's sister-in-law. Hood's Sarsaparilla cures dyspepsia, scrofula and salt rheum, and by vitalising the blood strength ens the system to resist the bad effects of the vary ing temperature of the fall season. " Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup" Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth era | for their children while Teething with perfect success. • ' It soothes the child, softens the gums, al lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy J for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists In every pan of the world. Be sura and ask ; for . Mrs. Wiaalow's Soothing r Syrup, : a6a * bottle. ...'•_. SIR CHARLES HAS IDEAS The Baronet Railway Man Talks on Central Pacific Confiscation. Ho Also Favors Pooling and Says It's All Right Since England Sanctions It. Sir Charles Rivers Wilson has been talk ing again. Sir Charles is the British Baronet who was sent out here a year ago as the legal representative of the British stockholders of the Central Pacific Railroad. He came and saw, and Mr. Huntington conquered. He was commissioned by a mass-meeting of indignant stockholders to come over here and see how it was that the builders of the Central Pacific had all acquired independent fortunes while toiling stock holders could get no dividends. If is re port, after he had been escorted across the continent by Southern Pacific officials and lulled to sleep by reading Southern Pacific literature, or the ululations of Southern Pacific oratory, was not in the highest degree satisfactory to his consti tuents. It was a marvel as showing the hyp notic influence of a strong mind upon a weak one. It was a plea for allowing the Pacific railroads more time to pay the Government and all the rest of their debts. Shortly after making this report, and while resting on the laurels it gave him among railroad men, Sir Charles was chosen president of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. The other day he visited Chicago, and the Board of Trade there gave him a reception. According to the reports Sir CharJes, with his mutton chop whiskers and statuesque smile, was as unctuous and bland as ever. He talked about California, among other things, and said that the people there talked about the confiscation of the railroads which had cost millions of dollars to build, and added that he did not believe that any such movement could be carried out. The in telligent people should induce Congress to pass measures to relieve the railroads by permitting pooling, as it is the only sure way of maintaining rates. "I know that pooling is not looked upon with favor by many of the gentlemen," he said, "but there is nothing wrong with it. It is per mitted in England without bad effect. You should see to it that such laws are passed, as they will be for the best interests of the railroads, and also for yourselves, as rates will be maintained better." All of which will interest those British holders of Central Pacific stock whose ac tion started Sir Charles on his mad career as a railroad man. PERSONAL. B. F. Ayer of Chicago is a guest at the Palace Hotel. W. S. Leake, Postmaster of Sacramento, is at the Palace. Joseph D. Strong, the artist, has returned from Fresno. J. F. Wilson of Boston is a guest at the Hotel St. Nicholas. Isaac Levy, merchant, of Lower Lake, is at the Lick House. George Allen Hopkins of New York is regis tered at the Palace. C. P. Smith, Supervisor of Mendocino County, is at the Russ House. Dr. Joseph Williams of Boston registered at the Palace yesterday. George W. King, a merchant of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Rnss House. Dr. J. R. Bromwell, Washington, D. 0., is a guest at the Occidental HoteL A. Montgomery, manufacturer, Boston, Mass., is registered at the Russ House. Milton Nobles of Brooklyn, N. V., registered at the Occidental Hotel yesterday. William M. Kennedy, capitalist, of Wynne, Ark., is a guest at the Russ House. A. J. Smith, a prominent mining man of Alaska, is stopping at the Russ Home. Dr. M. F. Cuthbert, Washington, D. C, regis tered at the Occidental Hotel yesterday. J. C. Campbell, a mining man of Browns Ferry, is stopping at the Grand Hotel. Victor L. Gerster, a prominent coffee-planter of Guatemala, is a guest at the Lick House. D. H. Mercer, member of Congress from Ne braska, is sojourning at the Hotel St. Nicholas. W. R. Clark of Stockton, Railroad Com missioner, registered at the Baldwin yesterday. Jack Wright, division superintendent of the Southern Pacific, was at the Palace last even ing. Colonel J. McNasser, a real estate man of Sacramento, registered at the Russ House yes terday. H. Block of Redwood City, superintendent of the Moses Hopkins ranches, is a guest at the Grand Hotel. A. Markham, a well-known lumberman of Santa Rosa, was among the guests registered at the Lick House yesterday. Count dcs Gareto Quizos of Paris is a gue?t at the Palace Hotel. He is interested in a patented process for separating ores. Russell A. Alarer Jr. of Detroit registered at the Palace Hotel yesterday. He 1b a son of ex- Governor Alger of Michigan, owner of large tracts of timber land in California. State Senator J. M. Gleaves of Shasta County arrived in the City yesterday and registered at the Grand. Mr. Gleaves is a holdover Re publican and will occupy a place in the next Senate. John Bradbury and wife registered at the Palace Hotel yesterday, Mr. Bradbury re cently returned from a speedy trip around the world. He did not break the record for speed, but made good time for his first run on the course. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. V., Sept. 17.-Californians at the hotels: San Francisco— Mrs. G.Patter son, Metropole; S. H. Selano, Imperial; W. I. Smith, Grand; Miss Mead, Sturtevant; L. D. Owens, Hoffman; W. J. Dutton, Astor; W. Feirbeck, Stewart. Los Angeles— Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Baker, Mrs. W. Baker, Astor; Miss M. A. Jordan, St. Denis. Oakland— W. D. Catton, Netherland. CALIFORNIANS IN UTAH. SALT LAKE, Utah, Sept. 17.— At the Temple ton—Mrs. Isabel A. Smith, A. L. Wymen, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Norton, San Francisco ; C. M. Henderson, Pasadena. At the Cullen— W. A. Cooper, Los Angeles. At the Knutaford— Mr. and Mrs. B. A. McDonnell, George H. Young, A. W. Somerfiela, Sau Francisco. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C. Sept. 17.— 0. J. Wan nick and wife, San Francisco, Ebbitt House; L. R. Hardesty, Los Angeles, The Shoreham. MADE OVEB $11,000. The Official Returns of the Fair Show a Good Balance. The board of directors of the Industrial Exposition met last night at the Pavilion. The total expenses for conducting the fair were estimated at $22,000; the exact total receipts were $33,403. The matter of awarding the medals was referred to a committee of management, which will meet next Thursday night at the Pavilion and review all reports of the previous committees and ascertain the average percentages. Hunting; fcr His Son. Andrew Spooner of Cincinnati, Ohio, arrived in this City recently and at once requested the assistance of the officers of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in finding: his wife, Effie, and their six-iyear-old boy Al bert. He said that about sii weeks ago Mrs. bpooner left her home with the child and came to San Francisco. 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