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THURSDAY OCTOBER 17, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Forhaps Buckley can convert purity,
propriety and Popper into pea soup.
The thing that confronts the country is
not a tariff theory, but a deficit condition.
Every day the people's road moves for
ward and every day the monopoly loses
ground.
Neither the cyclone, tie blizzard nor the
earthquake are in it th s year with the
trolley-car.
The only hope for Corbctt and Fitzsim
mons is to charter a tug and make a deep
sea match.
The fall campaigns are well advanced
now, but the big Democratic speech re
mains a tale untold.
The sick man of Europe continues to
live, simply because the doctors disagree
on t!ie medicine to give him.
If Uncle Sam goes into the Venezuela
controversy with visor the British lion
will come oat oi it hk-e a lamb.
Mr. Cleveland has about four days to
limself in Washington before he
takes a junketing trip to Atlanta.
Tiie monopoly may ask for an injunc
tion, bat it cannot monopolize the court.
The people will have a hearing there.
Milk Inspector Dockery may make mis
takes sometimes, but there is no mistake
obout the fact that he is attending to his
It will take the oupreme Court of Ne
..; to decide whether the silver men or
the gold men are the Democrats of that
Bute.
The great American industry of holding
conventions, conferences and congresses
new r knows depression nor shows a fall
ing off.
Campbell of Ohio has been compelled
already to take water on some of his cam
] D speeches, and it was very hot water
at that.
One by one the Governors declare there
shall be no prise-fight, and yet almost
every (Jay brings a report of a prise-fight
somewhere.
The platform of the miners' convention
is no hole in the ground. It is bi£ enough
and strong enough for every Caltfomian
to stand on.
The much-bragged-of September surplus
has gone a-kiting and the treasury reports
a deficit for the first half of October of
more than $'J. 000,000.
As a storm center Constantinople is
nearly as varied and vigorous as our own
Kansas with Mrs. Lease and John James
lngails to the front.
The Cubans have certainly done enough
for independence to deserve recognition
from all who desire to see an end of Euro
pean control on this continent.
Tboujrh the company has long since
ised to put fenders on the trolley-cars
it is much safer yet to keep your eye on
the car than »o lend an ear to the promise.
Ever since Indianapolis was carried by
the Democrats the Democratic papers have
been assuring the people that the mayor
alty of that city is a very important office.
The Populist idea of holding a State con
vention, to which the delegates are to ride
in cvagons, is much more suggestive of old
times that are gone than of good times to
come.
As Mr. Rose has already got his chal
lenge for the America cup issued and
accepted in due form, it is evident he is too
much of an early Rose to be coDsidered a
small potato.
Antelope Valley now proposes to con
struct a railway to meet the San Joaquin
road, and thus before the main trunk of
the competing road is complete the
branches begin to appear.
It is evident that if we are to get the
next Republican National Convention for
San Francisco we must offer something
more than climate, scenery and a trans
continental trip as ir.aucements.
As millions of bushels of fruit are said
to be rotting on the wharfs along'the Ohio
because there is not water enough in the
stream to tske them to market, it would
seem the noble old river is not more re
liable than a monopoly railroad.
The friends of Miss Flagler defend her
from the charge of killing young Green
last August on the curious ground that
"she simply pulled the trigger to frighten
the boy away." But if she "simply pulled
the trigger" who did the shooting?
There can be no gainsaying the sound
ness of the mining men's proposition:
I was through one branch of the Fed
eral Government that the hydraulic min
ing industry was prostrated and destroyed,
m> must it be through another branch of
that Government that relief must speedily
cone."
Tin- shipment of more than 3,000,000
poondl of dried prunes from San Jose in
out: week deserves notice as an evidence of
< proportion* «Or fruit industry id
tniag, With a little wholesome pro
n lur oiu orchardists the people of
:>"/ujuiy will not have to look abroad
Lwiaiii.i \>n fruit of any kind.
THE PINAL BATTLE.
The final battle between the people of
California and the Southern Pacific Com
pany of Kentucky over the question of the
validity and utility of the Kailroad Com
mission is on at last. There have been
xnuny skirmishes during the past fifteen
years, leading up to the ultimate struggle
which has now taken form in the Federal
courts in an action wherein the railroad
company challenges the constitutionality
of the commission and the legality of its
recent acts. That this legal battle is one
of the most important which has ever oc
curred in California no one will doubt who
remembers the making of the new consti
tution and the labors of those who framed
it to embrace within its terms a legal and
comprehensive plan for the regulation of
railroad schedules.
In view of the importance of this issue
to the people of California, it is most un
fortunate that the present commission
permitted the Southern Pacific Company
to make ur> the record upon which it feels
that it can afford to stand before the Fede
ral court. During the recent proceedings
of the commission its members were
warned of the subtle purposes of the rail
road company in the introduction of its
evidence as to the equity of its existing
rates. In spite of these warnings the com
mission went blindly ahead with its task
of listening solely to the evidence of the
railroad company, and at the close of its
side of the case coolly proceeded to make
a decision based thereon.
However blindly or foolishly the com
mission may have acted in this latter, the
fact remains that the battle royal is on, in
volving the whole issue as to whether the
Kailroad Commission has any utility as a
State institution. The railroad company
assails the commission itself upon one
ground and upon several other grounds
questions the validity of its recent action.
The ground upon which the legality of the
commission itself is assailed is that the
State constitution, in its sections declar
ing that li The rates of freights and fares
established by said commission shall
be deemed conclusively just and rea
sonable," contravenes the language
of the Federal constitution, which guaran
tees to persons and corporations alike that
their property rights shall not be invaded
without due process of law. That the rail
road company itself esteems this point of
little merit may be judged from the fact
that it has devoted small space to its state
ment in its complaint. If the railroad
company in fact was given an opportunity
to be fairly and folly heard before the com
mission upon the issue of the equity of its
schedules, the fact that no appeal was pro- !
vided from the decision of the commission
would by no means mako it an illegal
body, nor cause the sections of the State
constitution which created it to be ob-'
noxious to the higher organic law.
This being so. the present issue before
the Federal court becomes solely one of
the legality and regularity of the recent
attempt of the Railroad Commission to j
regulate the existing freight schedules of
the company. This involves three in
quiries, and they are: First— Did the Rail- !
road Commission acquire jurisdiction over j
the railroad company by giving it what is
known in legal parlance as "its day in
court"? Second — If it did, can its conclu
sions be reviewed ? Third— lf they can be j
reviewed in this action, what evidence will j
the Federal court consider in making that j
review? Will it taKe into account only I
the record which the Railroad Commission ]
has permitted the railroad company to j
makeup? Or, will it go into the broad
and far-reaching inquiry as to the equity
of existing freight rates, regardless of the
record which ths commission has let the
railroad make?
These questions are not to be answered ;
flippantly nor decided off-hand by the j
State officials, whose business it is to con- j
sider them deeply and defend their con
clusions upon them honestly and fearlessly i
in the interests of the people of California j
before the Federal courts. The Governor
of California and its Attorney-General
would do well to refrain from off-hand I
opinions upon these problems until they
have given them tnat consideration whicn
the importance of the subject demands.
The whole energies of the State adminis
tration should be devoted to the business
of maintaining the legality of the Railroad j
Commission and the validity of its recent i
action.
ANOTHER DEFICIT.
The treasury reports for the first half of
this month show the receipts to have been
$13,230,332 and the expenditures f22,721.000.
This makes a deficit for the first fifteen
days of October of $9,484.<365. The treasury
officials express a belief that the latter
part of the month will make a better show
in?, but they do not venture to assert more
than that the deficit for the month may be
reduced to about $5,000,000.
Thus fades another Democratic dream.
Every effort has been made by the admin
istration to so cut down expenses and ar
range the figures of the monthly treasury
reports as to make a good showing fur the
new tariff until after the tail elections. A
small surplus was shown for September
and great was the rejoicing in the .Demo
cratic camp. It has been a short-lived sat
isfaction, however. The elections do not
take place until November and October has
a deficit.
According to the treasury estimate the
total deficit since the beginning of the
present fiscal year will by the end of Octo
ber amount in round numbers to $15,000,000.
That being the record for the first four
month 3 the deficit at the end of the year
will hardly be less than $00,000,000, and
may amount to considerably more.
Under the3e circumstances the increasing
deficit is the first issue that must be dealt !
with by Congress. That much is unavoid
able. Not even the men who drew up the
Wilson bill can pretend any longer that it
serves either for revenue or protection. It
is clearly condemned by the results it has
yielded and as the men who framed it
were rejected by the people at the last
election so now it also must be put aside
and a new Republican tariff enacted that
will protect our industries, yield an abund
ant revenue and enable incoming Repub
lican administrations to continue the good
work of paying off the public debt.
SANTA EOSA'S MUDDLE.
The trouble which Santa Rosa is having
with its municipal water-supply scheme
illustrates anew the fact that the first
essential element of municipal progress is
the election of proper persons to office, and
that if this is neglected it is useless to
devise plans for bettering the public con
dition. The people of Santa Rosa recently
decided to establish municipal water
works, on the theory that the service
would be less expensive than under the old
method of taking the supply from a
private company.
Pursuant to this action the City Council
let a contract for the construction of
works on the artesian plan. The respon
sible citizens of the place have now come
forward with steps to enjoin the city
authorities from proceeding further, on
two grounds— one that the contract was
let for an exorbitant amount and the other
that the plan of securing artesian water is
THE SAN FKANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1895.
likely to prove a failure by reason of the
geological configuration of the subter
ranean region. A leading banker, suspect
ing that the contract was not right, went
to the expense of securing estimates,
which showed that the amount agreed to
be paid by tlie Council was $40,000 or
$50,000 too much. This is serious when we
reflect that the contract price was only
1130,000.
The injunction suit which has been
brought will delay the accomplishment of
the desired object and entail considerable
expense. The lesson of the situation is
that if the men who have shown the intel
ligence and public spirit to discover these
errors and attempt to check them had
themselves sought and secured election all
these troubles would have been avoided.
One of the worst effects of the present situ
ation is the publication of the fact that the
municipal government of Santa Rosa is in
the hands of persons who are either in
competent or dishonest. This will have a
natural tendency to keep intending settlers
away.
As one of the most beautiful and health
ful places in the State, and as the center of
one of the most productive and wealthy re
gions to be found, Santa ltosa was in a
peculiar position for inviting refined and
well-to-do settlers, and for the exercise of
the utmost care and the highest intelli
gence on the part of its best citizens. It
must now pay the penalty of their indif
ference. Doubtless a happy adjustment of
affairs will be effected in time, but it is
always easier to prevent an evil than to
cure it. The case is valuable as an instance
of the way in which the best people of
many of our cities avoid the first duty to
themselves and their communities, San
Francisco being the most conspicuous sin
ner among them all.
KEFORM IN THE NAVY.
Congress at it? next session will be called
upon to deal with a subject of great im
portance to the navy and of no small con
cern to the country. The present Secre
tary of the Navy and three of his imme
diate predecessors, as well as President
Cleveland, have shown in official messages
the necessity for such legislation. To-day
there is a congestion above the grade of lieu
tenant in the navy, and if Congress faiTa to
relieve it the line officer will not reach the
command rank of captain until he is 58
years of age.
The causes of the congestion are plainly
set forth in the report of a Congressional
committee. A few years before the war
the line was depleted. During tne war
I period, from IStiO to 1866, large accessions
! were made to the navy. Young men were
rapidly advanced to hi^h rank and the
number annually graduated from the
academy was not diminished. Since then
promotions from the line have been slow
and getting slower. In regard to promo
tion the service is at a standstill. A cap
tain should be able to reach the grade of
rear-admiral by the time he attains the age
} of 52 years, so that the Government could
obtain some service from him in that
grade. Under present circumstances it
j often happens that au officer goes upon
the retired list as soon as lie is promoted
to the grade of rear-admiral, having at
tained the age of 62 years.
There is no product of human ingenuity
| more complicated than a modern battle
| ship and no officer should be intrusted
j with the command of such a vessel whose
I brain and nerves have not been so trained
j as to enable him to act in au emergency
j with promptness and decision. The suc
j cesa in battle of such a ship depends
largely upon one man. It is a question
I whether thirty years' service in a
subordinate position without the responsi
bility of command does not tend to aimin
; ish an officer's confidence m his own ability
j to direct affairs. The habit of looking to a
j superior for advice and direction in emer
gency becomes fixed. The officer has been
i taught to depend on others. Self-reliance
j has vanished with the years of his youth
and the requirements of the service brings
conservatism and impedes action, and of
al! qualities in battle the one most impor
j tant is that of immediate decision sus
tained by the confidence demanded for
prompt action.
The ur.nais of the American navy, pre
! seating a line of illustrious achievement,
I show that the victories have been won by
i young officers in command. Perry, Hull,
I Decatur, Paul Jones, Farragut and Porter
i had won high rank and great renown be
| fore they attained the age of ">O. With few
j exceptions all of the great battles of land
[ and sea of which history gives authentic
I record were won by young commanders.
The new conditions of modern warfare,
I on land as well as on the ocean, require
: more than ever the quick observation and
! alertness of youth; hence it should be the
i purpose of the Government to intrust men
' | under the age of 50 with the responsibility
1 j of command.
The bill introduced at the last session of
Congress, and the one which so thoroughly
' I engaged the attention of tke Congressional
' j committee and a board of naval officers,
! proposes to establish a reserve list to
| which officers may be assigned to agreeable
; i duty with just compensation before they
i attain the age for retirement. Objection
1 ! has been presented to the effect that as
j signment to the reserve list would woric
■ : injustice to young officers who served with
1 j honorable distinction in the late war. The
j bill, however, has been so revised that
1 officers who#ntered the navy during the
1 j war period are not touched by its pro
| visions.
A section of the bill contains provision
for the promotion of enlisted men to com
missioned rank and should result in giving
impetus to honest effort on the part of en
listed men of the navy.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS -
The Cp.abbe Expedition— C. B. H., Benicia,
Cal. It was in the latter part of 1856 that
Henry A. Crabbe went to Sonora, Mex., with
twelve men and a boy. It was generally un
derstood that he fitted" these persons out as
part of an expedition known as "Crabbe's ex
pedition" for the purpose of seizing Sonora on
behalf of certain individuals in the country
who wanted to establish an independent gov
ernment. The Mexican authorities captured
the party and without much ceremony execu
ted all but the boy.
The Cvp Race— C. S. C. City. The third time
that Dunraven entered for the America cup,
and started, although he did not sail his vessel
over the course, it constituted a race, and was
so decided by the yacht committee, a decision
which has been upheld in the United States
aud in England.
A Straight— A. P. 0., City. According to
those who are versed in card?, king, ace, deuce,
tray and four spot is not a straight in the slot
machine game. A straight is live cards follow
ing in regular numerical order of denomina
tion, without regard to suit, as king, queen,
knave, ten and nine.
No SrcH Ship— The published lists of depar
tures from the port of New York fail to show
that any vessel by the- name of Georgic sailed
on or about the 9th of last September for Eng
land. On the 7th of the month a vessel named
Georgie sailed from the port of New YorJt for
Stettin, Prussia.
Politics of Presidents— M. P.. City. Of the
twenty-four Presidents of the United States
there have been 11 Republicans, 8 Democrats
3 Whigs and 2 Federalists.
Distilled Water— J. S. , City. When artificial
ice melts and again becomes water it is not dis
tilled water. Such water is produced oilly by
distillation.
Warken-street Mystery— The number of
victims slain in the belfry of the Warren-street
church, about twenty years ago, was four.
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
"It has done me a great deal of good to get
back to this coast froui my trip across the
pond," said \Y. c. Ralston, secretary of the
State Miners' Association, while lunching with
some friends in the Palace grillroom yesterday.
"Of all the ha'penny, 10-cent people In the
world, England nan the lead.
"I was making a trip from London to one of
the small towns one day when two Englishmen
got on board the train and were put in the
same compartment with me. They were the
very best of friends, and addressed each other
as 'dear fellow' and -old chappie.' They prat
tled on for quite a while and said a great deal
that led me to believe that they had
a warm regard for each other. Presently one
asked the other for a drink of brandy, and,
would you believe it, the fellow addressed
stated that the brandy he had was very low ;
that he had only about a quart left, and that
he had paid good hard shillings for the same
and that it was hardly fair to ask him for a
drink under those circumstances. He drew
the bottle from his pocket, held it up to the
light fondly and returned it with the state
ment to his triend that brandy cost money and
should not be recklessly thrown away, even on
a companion. 'You see, old fellow, if you
only had something you could give me in re
turn for a drink I would gladly accommodate
you, but to release it just for the sake of seeing
you consume it, I could never think of such a
thing. However,' he contihued, beaming all
over with smiles, 'you have'a sedlitz powder in
your grip and it will be accepted by me as a
trade for a finger or two of brandy.'
"Well, gentlemen," resumed Mr. Ralston, "as
certain as I am standing here those fellows
bartered and measured and quibbled over that
trade like two Chatham-street pawnbrokers.
Finally the transaction was completed, the
'dear fellow' delivered the sedlitz powder, and
the 'old chappie' got his drink. After that
they were just as friendly as ever, and seemed
to think nothing of it. * The next thing they
did was to cut a lead pencil in two pieces, and
one of them paid a penny for one of the ends.
Well, I nearly fell out of the car watching those
fellows beat each other out of small things like
drinks, lead pencils and cigarettes. Finally
the man who gave up the sedlitz powder for a
drink got a little sick, and tried to get the
powder back as a loan, but the plan didn't
work until he had paid 3 pence for it. When
we arrived at our destination I was in just the
mood to take the next steamer back to America.
Really I believe those two fellows would have
charged each other for oversleeping. It was
the best conducted game of skinllint I ever wit
nessed, and would almost mate an American
regret that we hadn't licked them worse than
we did. Let's all go and take a cigar."
PERSONAL.
N. C. Briggs of Hollister is at the Palace
Hotel.
Judge E. V. Spencer of Susanville, Cal., is at
the Russ House.
Judge J. C. r>aly, Code Commissioner, is at
the California Hotel.
Rev. E. Graham of Chico registered at the
Grand Hotel yesterday.
General T. H. Marlette of Los Angeles is a
guest at the Lick House.
R. J. Hartraan, a merchant of Arizona, is a
guest at the Ruse House.
W. G. Goodeshan, a well-known merchant of
Toronto, is at the Palace.
James M. Dunlop of Sydney, Australia, is a
guest at the Palace Hotel.
J. R. Tregloan, mining man of Amador, is
staying at the Grand Hutel.
Phil Herschfeld, a merchant of Los Angeles,
is registered at the Lick House.
Edward Blake of Toronto, Canada, regis
tered at the Palace Hotel yesterday.
J. A. Webster, fruit-grower and packer of
Vacaville, is a guest at the Grand Hotel.
George Walter, vine-grower and wine-maker
of Fresno, is a guest at the California Hotel.
C. M. Fitzgerald, a well-known mining man
of Georgetown, Cal., registered at the Lick
House last evening.
J. \V. Smith of Prescott, Ariz., chairman of
the Board of Supervisors of Yavapia County,
is at the Kuss House.
E. D.McCabe, private secretary of Governor
Budd, registered at the Caltfornia Hotel. He
came down from Sacramento as a witness in a
criminal case.
There is no brighter light in New York news
paper circles than Will M. Clemens— a cousin
oi Mark Twain. He is an Ohio boy, and an
honor to his State. He is present president of
the News-Press syndicate and etlitor of Chips
From Literary Workshops, a quaint conceit
that must be read to be appreciated. Mr.
Clemens is a rare combination of fertile force
and unique originality.— New York Newspaper
Maker.
PASSED OMAHA.
OMAHA, Nebr., Oct. 16.— Walter Camp, the
noted coacher and athlete, took the overland
flyer to-day for San Francisco.
ANOTHER NEW TIRE.
The Latest Wheel-Rim Patented for Use on
Bicycles.
The tire here illustrated has been patented
by a Canadian. He claims that it may be rid
den over tacks, glass and even razors", without
fear of puncture. The invention consists of a
series of elliptical steel springs set at right
angles to the rim and riveted to it. A steel
rim passes round the outer circumference of
the tire thus formed, which is in turn riveted
to the springs, forming a strong, resilient and
"quick" tire. It may be covered with rubber
to keep out dirt and water.
It ia said that several American firms have
entered into negotiations for the use of this
tire.— Philadelphia Times.
AN ILL-TIMED ONSET.
A Stirring Story op the War Carefully
Elaborated for "The Call."
"Charge!" yelled the Spanish general.
"Up and at 'em!" roared the Cuban com
mander.
With wild shouts the ferocious belligerents
rushed fiercely forward.
But hart! What was that 6trange musical
sound which suddenly rose sweet and clear
above the din of savage yells, clattering hoofs,
clanking sabers and the swift double-quick
tread of brogan-shod feet.
The opposing forces, actuated by a common
impulse, halted abruptly on the point of meet
ing in a deadly hand-to-hand combat and
listened.
Ah! .It was the whistle of a factory in the
vil!ag</near by.
"This comes of my having no watch," ex
claimed the Cuban leader, irritably.
' And my watch has stopped, I see," said the
Spanish chieftain, consulting his jeweled time
piece. "Well, never mind. Our mutual mis
take in ordering this inopportune charge is
easily rectified. Let every soldier do his duty."
W hereupon the officers and cavalrymen of
both sides sheathed their swords and dis
mounted, the infantry soldiers stacked their
guns, saddlebags and haversacks were opened,
and amid the rattle of canteens and popping
of corks all hands squatted and partook
heartily of their day's rations.
For the whistle had proclaimed the hour of
noon and it was time to adjourn the tight and
refresh the inner man.
Fred w. CLorGH (Utica Engineer).
Angels Camp, Cal.
"persistent war."
Dr. C. O. Brown in Chicago Advance.
Our Eastern friends, who occupy their spare
time (when they are not busy 'pulling them
selves together" after the last cyclone) in ap
prehension lest we may be shaken to pieces
with an earthquake, may be interested to
know that several of our business blocks are
eleven stories high and that work has begun
on oae which, is to be over .300 feet in height,
built of marble and steel. It is to be the new
home of The Call, one of our morning dailies,
whose persistent war on lotteries and gam
bling has elicited the sympathy of ail good
people. _____^_^____
OUR WHEAT AND FLOUR TRADE.
The American Eoonomist,
The official statistics of our exports of wheat
and ■< flour continue to be very interesting,
though, we must confess, . somewhat disap
pointing, inasmuch as the returns fail to show
what was promised us by the free-trade party
should they succeed in demolishing, the Mc-
Kinley tariff. The exports of wheat during
the months of July and August, 1894 and
1895, were as follows: • '..-•'•■ *'•■."
BUSHELS OF WHEAT EXPORTED. ;
July. August. Total.
1894 6,557,970 8,546.645 14.104.615
1895 4.271.483 4,205,597 8.537,080
Loss in 1895... 1,286,487 4,281,048 5,567,535
VALUE OF WHEAT EXPORTED.
,„., July. August. Total.
1894.. $3,372,687 95,013,768 88.386,455
1895- 2,730,704 2,911.109 ' 5,641,813
Loss In 1895. $641,983 $2,102,659 $2,744,642
It seems that during the first two months of
the current fiscal year wo exported 5.507,000
bushels of wheat less than we exported during
the corresponding months of the previous year,
the money loss this year being $2,744,64:2."
Our foreign trade in flour can hardly be re
garded as any more satisfactory, although it is
true that the money loss was not so great as in
the case of wheat. Here are the figures :
BARRELS OF FLOUR EXPORTED.
,__. July- August. Total.
, ] 894 1,193,321 .1,469,448 2.662.769
1895............ 906,435 1,115,161 2,021,597
Loss In 1895.. 286,885 354,287 641,172
VALVE OF FLOUR EXPORTED.
,__. July. August. Total.
1894 *4,275,683 $5,153,997 $9,429,680
1895. 3,406,270 4,080,111 7,486,381
Loss in 1895. $869,413 $1, 073,886 $1,943,299
During the first two months of this fiscal
year we sold in foreign markets 041,172 bar
rels of flour less than in the same period of
1894, this year's money loss being $1,943,299
as against a loss of $2,744,642 in our export
trade of American wheat.
Comparing the money values of our wheat
and flour exports for the first two months of
each fiscal year we have, briefly, the following
result. ;i\.: -*-.... r;:
TOTAL VALUES FOR TWO . MONTHS.
IQO . Wheat. Flour. " Total.
1894 $8,386,455 $9,429,680 $17,816,135
1835. 5,641,813 7.486,381 13,128,194
Tt1.10551895.5i.\744 1642l 642 $1,943,299 $4,687,941
It cannot be claimed that the Gorman tariff
is a new thing. It had been in force a year at
the close of last August, and there "should
surely have been time for us to reap some of
that golden harvest that was promised us when
the wall of protection was broken down and
we were enabled to reach out into the markets
of the world. Unfortunately, however, in the
case of our wheat and Hour export trade the
only golden harvest has been a loss of $4,687,
--941 as compared with trade transacted in the
same commodities a year earlier, before there
was any. breach in the wall and before we
could let outselves out into the markets of the
world, and yet while we still managed to get
there. -,
AN OPERATOR'S LOWE STORY.
Railroad Telegrapher.
Charlie Marsh worked nights at "A," which
was a division station as tut from the dis
patcher as it was possible to get. Hattie
Brown was the operator at "B," the next
station to "A." Charlie and Hattie were to
marry as soon as the sun passed the equator
once more, and during. the interval manuged
to exist by usinp the company's electricity for
love-making purposes. In the evening
it was a. sacred duty of Charlie's to sig
nal Hattie on the through wire and she
would ground the local and they had com
n'.ete possession of a battery and twenty
miles of the Missouri Pacific Company's
wire, which the train-dispatcher generally
referred to as his — the wire not the company.
One evening, as business was light, Charlie
embraced the opportunity and gave the signal,
which was unheard by Hattie but was heard
and answered by a devil in human lorm at
"C." The night operator, whose ingenious
brain had even been known to solve a puzzle
in the Youth's Companion, upon receiving the
cipher made a reply which indicated that
Hattie was on hand and the wire grounded,
Charlie opened the key on the dispatcher's
wire and called "He," which meant 'that
Charlie wanted Hattie. Now the chief train
dispatcher had an instrument on his desk, and
as he signed "He" and knew nothing oi the
use of those letters for other purposis, he
answered "I" before the man at "C"
who intended to act as Hattie could
open the key. Then Charlie opened up:
"I've been thinking of you all day,
sweetheart. Your beautiful face is present to
me continually, dear, and I can scarcely eat or
sleep for the great love I bear you. Oh, love,
how I long for the day when you will be all my
own— my own. Love, you must send me a lock
of your beautiful curly hair—' The chief
opened the key. His face was enough to keep
tiny one from sleeping, but not on account of
its beauty. His head had been absolutely,
unconditionally bald for many years, and his
children numbered six. The froth was begin
ning to come from his lips as he said slowly
and with mocb show of authority, "Sine."
Charlie knew that a cog had jarred loose some
where and kept silent. The man at "C." how
ever, signed for him. "What in thunder <lo
you mean by talkin? like that to me, He?"
Poor Charlie, he lost his job and lost his girl.
married a brakoman before he had walked
the first hundred miles of hi.s trip to Texas.
FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS.
True Glory of Santa Cruz.
Santa CAn Sentinel.
There are poets in Santa Cruz who only need
the proper recognition to make themselves
her.rd in the world of poesy. Many a scrap
book contains gems from the pens* of local
verse-makers. No city in California of equal
size leads Santa Cruz* in the number of poets.
No place in this .State can equal our city for all
that which gives inspiration to those wh'cse
s-ouls yearn to let the world know their
thoughts in verse.
Let the Church Bells Ring.
Bakersfield Californian.
Some of our exchanges are talking about
what they call -'the savage clangor of the
church Delis," and urging that the practice of
ringing bells to call worshipers to service be
done away with. To our thinking there is not
a pleasanter sound in the world than those
same bells, %nd when they are arranged in
chimes it is some 01 the sweetest music ever
heard.
Annoying to Goldbugs.
San Jose Mercury.
It must be annoying to the gold-standard
men of this country to learn that in silver
Mexico the banks are glutted with money:
that money in private hands is plentiful, and
that manufacturing is enjoying a boom. Still,
it would be too bad to interrupt Cleveland in
his fishing by calling his attention to such a
scandalous state of prosperity in a silver
country.
Public Spirit Demanded.
Marysville Appeal.
Stand by all things that tend to advance the
general good, and bitterly stand against all
who run the town down. Stand by your town
and let the other fellow sit on the cracker-box
and whittle, talk ana do nothing. Such a fel
low is no good to himself or anybody else. Be
a thorough advocate of your city or nothing.
'•Continued in Our Next."
Stockton Independent.
The Durrant trial is conducted like the pub
lication of serial stories in some literary papers.
Of course it is accidental, but the long ad
journments always seem to come at the point
where the public curiosity to know what is to
come next is at its highest tension.
Competitive Road Benefits.
Orange Herald.
The building of the Valley road ha 3 had the
effect of stirring the Southern Pacific into
greater activity in completing its coastline
Men are working day and night closing the
gap Detween Santa Barbara and San Luis
obispo.
The Southern California "Way.
Redlands Citrograph.
Whoop up the new tourist hotel. Get in and
dig. We must have it, and unless Redlands
has lost her grip we will have it— and open for
guests by the 20th of January, none too soon
ior the flood of tourists that will be upon us.
Only One of the Lesions.
Albuquerque (X. Mo Citizen.
The New Mexico wool crop is worth about
$3,000,000 to the Territory under Republican
rule, but under the present Democratic ar
rangement it is hardly worth the freight.
Good Dead Indians.
Carson CS'ev.) Appeal.
In case Corbett and Fitzsimmons join the
Chickasaws there wili be no objectloß to their
going ahead and making good Indians of each
other.
Let Somebody Pass the Hat.
.Portland Telegram.
If practicality were substituted for sentiment
there would be less copious shedding of Ameri
can ink ia the cause of Cuban freedom.
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS.
These Items Are Direct From Latest Eng
lish, French, German and Italian
Papf.es.
While mechanical contrivances have been
multiplying on all hands, composers have
hitherto sighed in vain for a machine capable
of transcribing improvisations mechanically.
One knows how fugitive a composer's inspira
tion is: sometimes it happens that in following
the continuation of a phrase which presents
itself to his mind, if he does not immediately
transcribe it, he forgets the exact form of his
original idea. It is these struggles to attain to
the definite ideal which satisfies his artistic
instincts that give the composer the real pain
of composition. If, seated at his piano, he had
an automatic transcriber at his orders, how
much time he would save, how many little
mental agonies he would be spared. Up to the
present, in spite of all efforts, no successful
transcriber has been invented, but the French
musical papers now announce that a certain
M. Rivoire has solved the problem, for he has
invented a machine which marks, on paper,
the position and the duration of the notes
struck on the piano. His recorder also divides
the music into bars. It goes without saying
that the Rivoire machine cannot copy music
exactly as it is printed, with whole notes, half
notes, etc., and flats and sharps. Such tran
scribing would be too complicated, and sim
plicity is one of the charms of the invention.
Arthur Pougin, who has seen the machine
work, gives the following description of it.
"The new 'enregistreur Rivoire' transcribes
whatever is played on the piano by aid of a
roll of paper, over fifty yards long, on which
the signs are marked mechanically by a punch.
On this paper the notes are indicated by aid of
a special and very simple stenography, which
shows the pitcn and the duration of the notes,
as well as the rests. The stenography is com
posed of horizontal lines, the width of which
indicates the duration of the notes, while the
line they occupy shows their pitch. It is so
simple that any one can learn in five minutes
to transcribe it into ordinary musical nota
tion. The band of paper is ruled like ordinary
music-paper, only the eighty-four notes of the
keyboard are represented on it. The machine
can be used on auy piano."
If the Rivoire musical recorder ever comes
into general use it will cause the number of
composers to become legion. No doubt it will
be a boon and a blessing to genuine musicians,
though many of the greatest have never com
posed at a piano. On the other hand, the re
corder will let loose on a long-suffering world
all the ambitious efforts of crude dabblers,
whose lack of the knowledge necessary to write
down'the notes they string together has hith
erto mercifully confined their compositions to
the family circle.
The municipality of Bologna is being held
up to ridicule by the European musical papers
for making a collection of new Italian operas,
which it seems to have no intention of pro
ducing. Some years ago a certain Baruzzi be
queathed a fund to the municipality which en
abled it to offer a prize of $1000 every two
years for the best new opera, to be produced at
the city theater, which in Italian towns is sub
sidized by the municipality. This year Gia
como Orefice's "Consueio 1 ' received the award,
and the public was eagerly looking forward to
hearing the new work, when the municipality
announced that it would be impossible to give
a season of opera, as the treasury was not in a
condition to make the customary grant.
"Consueio" was shelved among the dusty city
archives, and poor Oreflce saw that, though
his opera was accepted, his chance of fame was
gone, as the municipality owned his work and
would not let it be produced elsewhere. Not
deterred by the "Consueio" episode, the Super
visors of Bologna have declared the Baruzzi
competition now open for 1897. It remains to
be seen whether any more oi "young Italy's"
composers will compete for $1000 in return
for having an opera placed among the City
archives of Bologna.
Franceses Thalberg, daughter of the great
basso-buffo Lablache and widow of the cele
brated pianist, has just died at Naples, at the
age of 84. Thalberg was her second husband,
and during his lifetime they were in the habit
of spending the greater part of the year at the
magnificent end hospitable villa which she
possessed at Pausilippe. Although she was
the daughter of a world-renowned singer and
married to a virtuoso, Francesca Thalberg had
no love for music. All she cared for in society
was to talk or play at cards. So strongly was
her antipathy to music developed that during
the lifetime of her husband, when friends
begged him to play something she always es
caped from the room on the plea of being
wanted in another part of the house. There
was another subject on which she was not
always at one with her husband. Thalberg
was lavishly generous in giving to charity,
and his wife denounced his expenditures as
useless and annoying.
Spain and Mexico have sicrned a literary
convention which comes into force on the 22d
inst. The Spanish proprietors of lyric, as well
a« dramatic works, performed in Mexico, are
to receive 2. 4 and 6 per cent on the proceeds,
according to whether the work contains one,
two or three acts. The law enacts that in the
ca?e of operas, etc., this percentage shall be
divided equally between composer and libret
tist. Les Debats points out that this treaty
protects foreign composers whose Governments
have literary treaties w ; th Spain. Mexico is a
country that patronizes opera well, and French
composers are rejoicing in the feet that they
will henceforth receive royalties.
Since the beginning of the summer, the
theater-goers of Copenhagen have been pat
ronizing a new plan of entertainment, which
is unique of its kind. A society of ladies hired
a theater and put on operettas of which the
music had been written by women. The
orchestra, conducted by a lady, is also com
posed exclusively of members of the sex to
which we owe Mme. Cosima Wagner, and on
the stage the male roles are enacted by -women
travestied. Not a men is employed about the
house, and it is said that this feminine theater
is coining money.
The death is announced from Naples of Os
vino Mercadante, eldest sou of the composer
who was the friend of Rossini, author of "The
Oath," (II Giuramento) "The Vestal," "Zaira"
and sixty other operas, some of which were
the rage half a century ago. Osvino Merca
dante did not follow in his father's musical
footsteps, but devoted himself to commerce.
Strange to say he died at the moment that they
were celebrating the hundredth anniversary of
his father's birth at Altamura, his native town.
The Pope has caused a large movable organ
to be constructed in Germany for St. Peter's
Cathedral in Rome. One man, unaided, can
roll the organ all over the immense nave of the
church and place it wherever it is needed. The
instrument is said to possess marvelous beauty
of tone, and it is expected will make a gran
diose effect in the church services.
Le Menestrel says: The United States con
tinues its exportation of young prima donnas.
An American girl, Miss Traubmann, has just
sung at the Imperial Opera of Vienna before
Manager Jahnand his directors and astonished
them by her voice, which is said to be of excep
tional beauty. Miss Traubmann will shortly
make her debut at Vienna, probably In a work
by Wagner.
The Royal Theater of Munich intends to pro
duce a lyric work of an entirely new style this
winter. It is by Edward Rosner and is called
■The Children of the King." The drama only
contains two lyric roles, the other Darts being
acted by performers who only speak their
parts. It is in three acts, each one being pre
ceded by a symphonic prelude.
B. Godard's posthumous opera, "La. Vivan
diere," which languished on its production in
Paris a few months ago, has now become quite
the vogue at the Opera Comlque, with that
clever prima donna, Mile. Delna, in the title
role.
Xavier Leroux is superintending the re
hearsals of his new opera, ' 'Evangeline," at the
Theater de la Monnaie in Brussels.
Miss Sibyl Sanderson has returned to the
Grand Opera at Par*, where she made her ap
pearance on the Ist inst. in Massenet's "Thais."
United and Harmonious California.
Los Angeles Times.
Hand in hand Northern and Southern Cali
fornia are destined to go forward in the devel
opment of their unrivaled resources until the
State becomes one of the richest and most pop
ulous in the whole Union. The gospel of our
climate, so free from extremes, so rich In all
thattendg to physical comfort, is sure to win,
and we .--hall become in ihe not distant future
the empire State of the gso*ing and mighty
West.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ODTLOOK.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Milwaukee Journal has taken up a straw
vote on the Presidential question among the
leading Republicans of Wisconsin which "hows
that Governor McKinley is easily the favorite
in that State for the next Republican nomina-
The information contained in the two or
three columns of the Journal devoted to this
purpose will, in a measure, disappoint the
friends of the other candidates, but to the
party as a whole it is at once reassuring and
hopeful.
Philadelphia Times.
The present political conditions might be
peculiarly favorable to the presentation of a
Pennsylvania candidate for the Presidency if
the Republicans could be united, and there
are rumors that the name of Governor Hast
ings may be proposed. His unprecedented
majority of last year gave him peculiar promi
nence among the leading men of the Nation,
and if the factional differences now existing
in the State could be reconciled, he would
doubtles* be quite acceptable to all.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
On second thought we incline to the opinion
that President Cleveland really ought to do
something to further the plans of the Ohio
Democrats.
It is true that anything which he may say or
do for ex-Governor Campbell will only tend to
boost that gentleman into prominence as a
possible bar'to the President's renomination,
but we still think that Mr. Cleveland should
lend Campbell a helping hand.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
"Robert T. Lincoln," says an exchange, "is
talked of as an acceptable candidate for the
Presidency." This talk about Lincoln is old
and tiresome. The name of the son of the
martyr President is used as a sort of rough
lock when the Harrisons, McKinleys, Reeds,
etc., get a little embarrassed. Mr. Lincoln has
no Presidential prospects, and the Republican
leaders do not intend that he shall have. Ha
will gut tired of the nonsense about him after
awhile.
New York Sun.
Democrats are good fighters. First, they fight
in emulous rivalry with each other; then they
unite against the common Republican antago
nist. Heretofore the power to compose the
more serious quarrels, to appease the most im
placable ambitions, to abate the most bitter
jealousies and to adjust the most radical con
tentions, has never forsaken the Democracy.
Plttsburg Dispatch.
The alleged Presidential boom of Senator J.
D. Cameron is treated by the press of the coun
try as having reached an early demise.
Whether it ever had Hie enough to die may be
an interesting abstract question, but the con
crete matter now before the public is the rele
gation of his Senatorial prospects to the cate
gory of the things that have been.
Boston HeraM.
The Democrats seem to have an expectation
of carrying the State«of New Jersey this au
tumn. It is based on the fae: that they have
carried it generally for the last thirty years
and more; but in view of the vote there" a year
ago their prospects are anything but flatter
ing. The Republican majority then waa over
48,000.
New York Advertiser.
It is evident that General Harrison is not an
active candidate for the Presidency. But that
he has relinquished all Presidential ambition,
that the highest elective office in the civilized
world Is distasteful to him, that he would re
fuse another term if it were offered to him by a
united party, no sensible person will believe.
Bonon Herald.
If it Is true that Squire Benjamin Harrison is
making $85,000 a year inthepracf.ee of his
profession, his reported attitude as to the
§50,000 job in Washington is not altogether
incomprehensible, considering that the honor
that attaches to the office of President of the
United States is already his.
Cleveland Leader.
According to a straw vote of prominent In
diana Republicans taken by an Indiana paper
Governor McKinley has more supporters for
the Presidential nomination of his party than
Harrison in the latter's own State.
SAME WHIBKEHS-A NEW AIR.
The style.of whiskers formerly' ceiled "Dun
dreary" is now known as "The Wind in the
Clearing."— East Aurora (N. V.) Philistine.
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Learned Mnemonics: Professor A— Do you
know I find it difficult to remember the ages of
my children!
Professor — I have no such trouble. I was
born 2300 years after Socrates ; my wife 1800
years after the death of Tiberius Cfesar; our
son John 2000 years after the entrance into
Rome of Titus Sempronius Gracchus for the
re-enactment of the "Leges Liciniae," and our
Amanda 1500 years after tne beginning of the
Folk wandering— that is perfectly simple, you
see.— Fliegende Blatter.
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Cultured Daughter (digging at the clinkers)
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Manyunk Philosopher "may not be successful
la life, but he's continually getting a head."—
Philadelphia Record.
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