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FRIDAY.. DECEMBER 13, 1593 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Tom Read hesitates, tral hr> isn't lost. Currie seems to agree with the Sultan. Aa a result cf having a new railroad, Stockton will have also a new hotel. This snappy Christmas weather makes the fur fly— across the furriers' counters. Don't forget that the Art Exhibit closes thia week, uv.d after that you can't see the Murillos. It is not surprising to learn that Hunt insiton is active; he Knows the people are after him. Misfortune pursues David B. Hill. He sought Old Point Comfort and found a snow blizzard. The wild colts Kais< r William has on his hands seem to buck worse than those that Cleveland had. To be appropriate with the revival Con -houid appropriate much for public improvement-. Pittsburg takes Water gracefully — she will extend her hospitality to the Prohibi tionist convention. Itio Japanese are certainly enough like the Chinese to be treated to an equal ex ', from this country. Cleveland's diplomatic plan to keep Salisbury waiting has the defect of keep ing this country waiting also. The London News may be right in saying "Bayard won't scare worth a cent," for as a matter of fact he does nothing worth a cent. Collisions in the British Channel are be coming so common that it is time for the world to move its shipping center further west. Judging from the noise they make there must be either a great many socialists in Germany or else every one of them has a foghorn. It may be that Cleveland took his holi day just for fun, but the chances are it was the assembling of Congress that cave him a duck fit. It is an ill wind that blows good to no body—the accident to the Germanic post pones Dunraven's arrival in this country for a day or so. St. Louis hotel-keeper? have begun to feel like plutocrats and talk as if they owned the earth and had all the people on it coming their way. "While the Musicians' Union is out of harmony, no member seems to be instru mental in the discord, for all are taking part in the chin musi ■. As Bebel has been taken to task for call ing the Kaiser "a certain somebody," it would seem that dignitary prefers to be known as an uncertain nobody. Now that leading horsemen with some of their best Horses are coning from the East, everybody can see what a drawing card for the City Ingleside Park is. We are now promised that work- on our new postothce building will begin in the spring, and Dernaps by that time we will be able to swallow anotaer promise. The only actual movement in Turkey of ■which we have had any definite informa tion is that of Said Pasha, who went away from home one day and then went back •gain. As Barbara Aub's third story contradict? her second one and doesrrt confirm the first, see had better quit running her con fession as a continued story and write a volume of memoir.-. The new Korean Minister expected in this country is only 19 years old, but he is one of the rare youths who rise rapidly, for he distinguished himself early in life by being born as the second son of the King. It is pleasing to note the incorporation of the Camp Itoache School of Husbandry in the Santa Cruz Mountains, as the ses sion last summer was sufficiently success ful to justify tne promoters in making it a permanent institution. While Goat Island might be put to bet ter uses than that of a training station for naval apprentices, it will be better to use it for thai than to leave it idle, and, there fore, the efforts of Senator Perkins in that direction will be cordially supported by the people generally. There is r.o doubt Senator Allen is cor rect in saying the Populist? are a? earnestly in favor of enforcing the Monroe doctrine as the Republicans and the Democrats. In fact, no one in thin country is opposed to it except the Cuckoos and the Mug wumps. Science by means of an autopsy has dis covered that Haywards, the Minneapolis murderer, was a degenerate, but the jury discovered that much without an autopsy, and what the world expects of science is sonic means of discovering degenerates be fore they commit their - murders. As a result of the mini.:? craze at Crip ple Creek it is said large amounts of Brit- L-h capiiiil are being .sent there for invest ment. From this it will be seen that white booms have niany defects they have at least the advantage of attracting atten tion to distant localities and are that far beneiiciai in developing their resources. SUSPICIONS OP BOODLE. "jit is the simplest of all propositions that if public officers of high character should be elected there would be no reasonable or generally credited charges or suspicions that they had accepted or could be induced to accept bribes. Conversely, men of evil political associations and without high personal standing are presumed to be in office for boodle, as experience lias shown amply that snch suspicions are gen erally correct. It follows that whether the officers of this kind actually do or do not accept bribes, their presence in office is practically as damaging to the City aa though they were guilty. This is the most serious phase of the <a>e. The Solid Eight of the Board of Supervisors have acted in such a manner as to invite a general distrust. As a re sult every person of easy morals who has dealings with the City deems bribery necessary, and honest men who would scorn that road to success are kept at a distance. Necessarily the influences af fecting the City government become thoroughly evil, as the very fact that these beliefs and suspicions are prevalent multiplies the chances of their becoming tangible. This is just the condition of affairs that corrupt bosses work to produce. Their sole aim is to make money by corrupt means, and Uieir whole plan is to create an atmosphere of corruption and suspicion about the men whom they thrust into office. An extraordinary phase of the subject is the willingness now and then of a decent man to accept the sup port of such bosses and secure election at their hands and so serve as a tool in hood winking the voters and increasing the power of the Dosses. Some very important matters may soon be brought before the public. It may just as well be realized at the start that it is impossible for legislation alone to produce good government A new charter, what ever may be the safeguards which it creates against oihcial rascality, will be inefficient if its administration is permitted to re main in the hands of corrupt manipula tors. Human ingenuity is not able to devise laws which will compel officers to be honest. Even the defective charter which we have might be made exceedingly useful in securing good to t lie City if hon tst and intelligent men were charged with its enforcement. This argument is intended to show merely that the most important work for the people to do lirst is to secure decent politics, and this can be done only by crushing the pow»>r of the corrupt influ ences which dominate it. After that is done we may properly turn to the con sideration of measures which clean and responsible otlice-holders may carry out for the public good. WHAT IS ORGANIZATION? One of the commonest results of the efforts of respectable citizens to organize for the correction of public evils is tne development of dissensions and the break ing up of a powerful force into antagonistic factions. A recent instance of this has been furnished by some of the good women of San Francisco, who, while endeavoring to organize for most laudable purposes, rind dissenting views prevailing in their ranks and threatening to cripple their efforts. This is as common among men as among women. It was just such a division that prevented the great move ment begun by Dr. Parkhurst in New York from enjoying fruition and that re stored Tammany to power and pillage. There are several reasons for this. The most important is the unwillingness of some to work under any method except that of their own devising. Dr. Park hurst, while announcing that he did not like all the features of the reform Remibli can movement organized against Tam many, said that it could accomplish good, announced his adhesion and urged all good citizens to take that course. Having less political sense than he tney refused, and Tammany was victorious. He knew, as all must know who are very much in earnest and are wise, that organization necessarily means a sinking of individual preferences and opinions in a general scheme which represents the wishes of the majority. Another drawback is often the absence of an able leader who, by superior charac ter, wisdom, tact and patience, can induce harmony by persuasion cr argument. All would-be leaders in reform movements might learn a valuable lesson from the study of the methods of political bosses. Invariably the?e men are found to have re markable personal power. They are un failingly polite, tactful, patient and per suasive. Jt is true that their power is greatly strengthened by their ability to ap peal to the cupidity and vanity of their followers, and that these elements must be lacking to a degree from purely reform movements; but that merely requires that the reform leader should have power of a strictly personal kind to make up for the lack. Until leaders in reforms have fully mas tered those two propositions it is useless for them to expect success or complain be cause some of their followers withdraw and .start rival movements. At the same time this does not excuse the dissatisfied ones, who. by their unwillingness to sacrifice something for the general good, proclaim themselves as incapable of appreciating the trust which they have assumed. MIXED SAILEOAD MATTESS. The sale by order of court of the Atchi son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad places this ereat property under entirely new management and in the hands of a syndi cate of wealthy men having large and va ried business interests. A new broom sweeps clean. However conservative these owners may be in their other affairs or may become in the handling of this railroad, it is more than likely that the new sensation of its possession will induce them to un dertake important enterprises. Besides the advantage winch their wealth brings the owners bare a very valuable one in the friendship of the people whom the road serves. "By the pursuit of a generous policy in the past it has been the most important o[ all the factors which con tributed to the development and pros perity of Southern California. It was never hated as the Southern Pacific is, and no forward movement that it may make will be hampsred by popular oppo sition. It will not have to work in the dark and through dummies to secure rights of way, ana its appeals for the co-opera tion of the new regions which it may decide to penetrate will not be greeted with jeers. It does not enjoy the reputa tion of bribing legislatures, judges and juries, nor of e7ading the laws and shirk ing its taxes. It starts with a clean record and everything in iU favor. Even its compact with the Southern Pa cific to keep out of Northern California has not been laid up against it. The only enmity that it has is found at San Diego, whose people think that it broke faith with them when, after they had surren dered their water front to' it, the condi tions of the transfer were never performed. Probably this, as well as the arrangement with the Southern Pacific, was made neces sary by lack of means. That drawback THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1895. has now disappeared. It seems significant that the Southern Pacific is pushing its lines toward San Diego, and indicates that this company, foreseeing what would be come of the Santa Fe, is preparing against the invasion of the San Francisco territory by the Santa Fp. The Santa Fe has a through line from California to Chicago, which gives it a great advantage over the Southern Pacific, for the Southern Pacific's through line to New York by way of New Orleans and steamships thence is too long and slow to compete with the Santa Fe for the most profitable tratlic. An excellent plan for the Santa Fe. and one that doubtless it has under considera tion, would be the purchase of the Central Pacific if the Government should put it up for sale on foreclosure of its mortgage. The road, until another as short and di rect is built, must always remain the best route from San Francisco to the East. It is conceivable that Mr. Huntingdon's des perate opposition to foreclosure is inspired by a fear which the reorganization of the Santa Fe arouses. With the Central Pa cific in the hands of the Santa Fe, Mr. Huntington would be effectively bottled. Of course he would have an equal chance with the Santa Fe in bidding for the road, but by so doing be would be paying the debt which he owes the Government and which he is moving heaven and earth to escape paying. Altogether, the advent of this new management of the Santa Fe puts a peculiar phase on the railroad situ ation and strengthens the reasons of California why it should oppose any fund ing measure and force the foreclosure of the Government mortgage. ALLEN G. THUBMAN. The death of Allen G. Thurman will not strike the American people as it would have done had he passed away while still holding a foremost place among our statesmen. He has been so long in retirement and his later years have been so inactive that his death can hardly be called a loss to the Nation. Nevertheless it will be sincerely mourned, for all will feel that a great historic figure has passed away and that we have one less illustrious American living among us than we had yesterday. The character of the dead statesman is well embodied in the honorable title of "the old Roman," given him years ago by his friends and adopted by the peo ple generally. It was a title well deserved and worthily borne. He was so true to the standard of what an American Senator should be that bis countrymen rightly saw in him a real ization of that ideal virtue, honesty and patriotism in statecraft which is supposed in modern times to have characterized the members of that mighty Senate that made Rome the mistress of the world. "While the bent of his nature and his early education made him a Democrat of the stalwart kind, he was never, in any sense of the word, a narrow partisan, and members of all parties in the country recognized his sterling worth, both as a man and as a politician. His personal influence, founded upon a noble character, enabled him to win his way to the Senate from a State so strongly Republican as Ohio, and in times when Democracy was weak in all sections of the North. This fact itself attests the high qualities of the man, and if further proof were needed it could be found in every action by which he served his State and Nation in the Senate. Much might be said of his services, but little is needed. Though he has been long in retirement from public life the people have not forgotten his battles fought in tueir behalf against the grasping corpora tions, railroads, trusts and money powers of the land. In this regard it may be said of him that "he being dead, yet speaketh," for what he begun will yet be accom plished snd his truest monument will be the victory thus achieved for the welfare of the Union for all time to come. M'DON ALD ACQUITTED, The acquittal of Richard H. McDonald Jr. is in accord with the expectations of all who have given an intelligent study to the circumstances of the remarkable case in which he has had the misfortune to be involved. The verdict of the jury is un doubtedly just, and saves an innocent man from being punished for the guilt of others. It is beyond question that the wrecking of the Pacific Bank and the People's Home Pavings Bank was brought about by the grossest rascality and by deliberate frauds carried to the extent of downright rob bery. It is clear from the evidence, how ever, that Richard McDonald Jr. wag not the man on whom the guilty responsibility for tirese crimes can be placed. He was surrounded by a clique of corrupt men whose wills were stronger than his, and in whose dishonest practices his ruin as well as that o f the banks were involved. He is fortunate to have found a jury sufficiently intelligent and clear-sighted to do him jus tice despite the stitima upon him caused by the evil associates who dominated him in business. The case should not be allowed to drop at this point. As it is certain the banks were wrecked by frauds, some person or persons must have committed them. The law vindicated by the acquittal of the in nocent demands now the punishment of the guilty. The offenses are so great the Grand Jury cannot afford to overlook them. A scrutinizing investigation of the closest character should be made into the matter. The gang of rascals who com mitted the crimes should be indicted whether they are in the State or not. If they are beyond oivr borders it is probable they can be brought back if demanded by our justice. At any rate such robbery of the savings of honest people should not be condoned, and since Richard McDonald Jr. is innocent, the next duty is to dis cover the guilty. KEEPING PUBLIO MONEY. In its recent editorial on the decision rendered by Judge Dougherty of Santa Rosa, The Call was misled by the incom pleteness of the telegram announcing the decision. In the editorial Judge Dough erty was praised for deciding that it is the duty of the County Treasurer to produce the money when it is de manded by the officers charged with the duty of counting it. It now seems that Judge Dougherty rendered no such de cision and that the praise which The Call gave him was misplaced. He decided in effect that as the law permits th« Treas urer to make a Bpecial deposit under cer tain contingencies, it is proper for him to produce the bank's certificate for it and have it counted as cash. It was possibly a fear that the courts would establish such a dangerous prece dent that has induced the State Bank Commissioners to make an order directing banks to refuse to accept State, county and city money except as special deposits, and even then the money shall not be touched by the banks, br.t shall be kept separate and subject to instant delivery on demand. A soecial deposit held by the Treasurer is by no means the same as cash, as it still permits the bank to use the money. Under these circumstances if the bank should fail the county would have no rights above those of other depositors. If it should be leeally prohibited from using the money its use would be embezzlement, and would lay the banker liable to criminal prosecution. Such a decision as Judge Dougherty's would make possible the danger which the Bank Commissioners have de termined to prevent. They have dis covered that in many cases banks have not the money on hand to pay immediate demands by public treasurers for money placed on special deposit. The banks are solvent, but besides the fact that the city or county has the right to demand its money and may have immediate use for it is the danger that from one cause or an other the bank may become insolvent. In addition to all that is the manifest error of a policy which permits any one to specu late with public funds or handle them for any purpose other than public use. It is fortunate that treasurers are now indirectly compelled, through a regulation affecting banks, to be ready at all times to produce the actual cash with whose cus tody they are charged, and it is fortunate for the State that an instrumentality ex ists for requiring this wise plan to be fol lowed, the courts having failed to do so. PERSONAL. Eaton Nivens of Petaluma is In the City. Charles L. Fnir and wife are in New York. C. A. I'inkham, the lumberman ofChico.is here. Dr. L. E. Cross of Stockton arrived here last night. General C. C. Pownlng of Reno reached here yesterday. W. G. Feyton of Santa Cruz registered here yesterday. O. J. Wagner, a business man of Bakersfield, is in town. Dr. R. K. Michael of Ferndale i 3 a recent ar rival here. Dr. J. (ioodman Thompson of Oakdale arrived here last night. De Wolf Hopper is back at the Palace, accom panied by his wife. J. R. Ryland of Los Gatos is here, accompa nied by his family. George S. Gould, a general merchant of Hins dale, is at the Russ. J. D. Bancroft, the mine-owner, of Inyo County, is at the Grand. G. G. Holliday, a business man of Valle]o, was in the City yesterday. C. G. Piatt, a carriage manufacturer of Healdsburg, is at the Russ. John J.Snyder, owner of gold properties at San Andreas, is at the Grand. Dr. G. Wallace Kellogg of New Jersey is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife. John T. Sullivan, proprietor of the Sea Beach Hotel, Santa Cruz, is at the California. General J. W. Montgomery of Chieo, who has been here for some days, left for home yester day. Colonel McXasser, formerly proprietor of the Gollen Eagle Hotel, Sacramento, is at the Rom. Sheriff James Quirk of Storey County, Nevada, whose residence is at Virginia City, is at the Rush. Senator E. M. Allison of Utah, after spending several days here with his friends, left for home la«t evening. Thomas Murphy of Olema and C. H. Hussey of Point Reyes, dairymen and creamery-owners, are at the Russ. K. F. HarrU, formerly of this City, now of Portland, where he is engaged in business, Is here for the holidays. Among the arrivals from Chicago yesterday were Henry \V. Lemon ami ('. E. Stubbs, who will probably remain many days. Jake Marie*, Register of the I'nited States Land Oflice at Phcenix, Ariz., is paying this City a visit and is registered at the Palace. A. T. Eastland has been made a director in the Stockton Gas Company, taking the place of his brother, the late Joseph G. Eastland. C. S. Knight, general manager of the Fort Wayne Electric Corporation, is at the Palace- He is looking after the agencies of hie corpora tion. Sheriff A. J. Bogard of Tehama, whose brother, then Sheriff, was some time since mur dered by a train-robber, arrived here yesterday and is at the Russ. H. J. Small, superintendent of motive power for the Southern Pacific, returned to Sacra mento yesterday without coming to a conclu sion with the engineers in regard to a read justment of wages. C. D. Boyd, superintendent of the Pacific Beach and La Jolla Railroad, is here to make contracts for the" extension of his road. It is now merely a local road to San Diego. It is to be built fifty miles further. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y\, Dec. 12.— Among recent arrivals are: W. P. Hammatt, Warlborough; J.S. Camp. Plaza; E. 11. Forst,St. Denis; F. A. Lastreh, Ashland. PRESIDENTIAL POSSIBILITIES. Coiumbns (Ohio) Express. Benjamin Harrison is again down in Kew York on "purely private business." There are also a large number of Presidential candidates and boss politicians down there on the same errand. If the New York artist who is paint ing Mr. Harrison's picture could catch the ex pression of his face at the moment he read Sherman's "Recollections" of him, the artist's fortune would be made. Cincinnati Knquirer. There is one possibility for a united delega tion from Ohio, and that would be for the friends of McKinley to unite with their opponents to make the delegation solid for Joseph Benson Foraker for President. If this should succeed and Foraker be elected Mc- Kinley could enter the field for the vacancy in the Senate thus created. President Foraker might be more willing to help McKinley to the Senate than Senator Foraker would be to help McKinley into the White House. Cincinnati Enquirer. Of course, when Speaker Reed mowed down his mustache he did not think of the coinci dence; but that change, coupled with his re turn to the speakership, has been the cause of a new crop of newspaper pic'ures of him, They will make an Interesting and versatile scrap book; but they can give the subject no idea as to what he really looks like. Any resemblance can be found in the full set, from the Apostle Paul to Captain Kidd. RETURN OF THE BUSTLE. There Are Indications That It Will Be Worn Later in the Season. Sew York World. Women who study fashions in a farsighted way have prophesied for some time that the days of the bustle were about to return. They have said that organ-plaited backs presaged the advent of the bustle, and that widely flar ing skirts lined with stiffening would inevita bly lead to the readoption of that clumsy article of attire which womengave so up gladly a few years ago. The lingerie department in the shops would seem to bear out this prophecy. The bustle has made its reappearance there, tentatively so far, but mil with the air of having come to stay. It is not the monstrous article which was ban ished when clinging skirts became fashion able. It is rather small and is made of hair cloth, sometimes black, sometimes gray and sometimes white. It consists of three vertical puffa which look like the abbreviated lininsr to an organ-plait skirt, and it is finished by a frill of haircloth. Its main object is to g"ive the skirt a start in the right direction. A well lined skirt will flare at the bottom with the aid ot a very small bustle. Of course, this slight reappearance of the bustle may be followed by a bustle revival on a large scale which will make camel-like humps once more the style. Doctors will object violently to the reiritroduction of the bustle on the ground of health, and artists will declaim against its use on the score of beauty, but the medicai and esthetic world may grow hoarse with anathemas against it before it will be discontinued if fashion once says authorita tively that It must be worn. Louis Seize and Marie Antoinette styles both require more or less padding about the hips. The paniers of the Louis Seize coats and the stiff skirts of the Marie Antoinette period demand some bouf fancy, and thi9 is obtained only by padding or by a bustle. " y AROUND THE CORRIDORS. "Forty Minutes With a King" is an expres sive caption for some of the eventful experi ence which J. F. Fugazl has recently had in Italy. Mr. Fugazi left here for the land of his birth several months ago as a representative of the Italian colony of this City, to the great festival held in Rome on September 20 in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the unity of Italj\ He was in Italy three months and twelve days, end got back yesterday. It would take a good while to tell all that Mr. Fugazi saw as he has, in his enthusiastic way, recounted it, but it is worth listening to. He had a great time at the festival, as had the several other delegates irom San Francisco. In the procession on carnival day the Califor nians were given the chosen place of honor, being, in fact, just ahead of tlie old veterans under the great Garioaldi. That piocesj-ion started at 1:30 p. m. in Rome on that eventful day and it took till 7 p. m. for J, F. rUGAZI, THE REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE ITALIAN COLONY TO THE GREAT FESTIVAL IN ROME. it to entirely pass a given point by marching continually. The Californians carried a mag nificeDt banner in it, on which was the word "Eureka" and the arras of California, com bined with the coat of arms of Italy. Over 10,000 banners were displayed in all, but the banner oi the Californians received more ap plause, Mr. Fugazi says, thau any other. It was continually cheered. On the evening of that day, too, the Cali fornians were entertained by the municipality of Rome at a banquet. Over 200 persons were present, comprising many dukes, chevaliers, counts and what not of the nobility of the kingdom. At this, too, the Californians were given the post of honor. Mr. Fngazi sat at the feast opposite the Mayor of Rome. There were many speeches, and the claims of the Golden State for consid eration, with the hopes and successes of the Italian colony here, were told by the delegates. At the last the Mayor of P.ome presented Mr. Fugazi with a bronze medal suitably inscribed by the municipality for being present to repre sent the colony. But this was not all. A day or two later King Humbert sent weird that he would like to sec Mr. Fugazl. The invitation came signed in the name of the grand master of ceremonies and was an imposing-looking document, bear ing the great seal of the empire. When Mr. Fugazi tore open the strange and unlooked tor document it was found to read as follows : • . Rome, 23d of September. 1895. : : Office of " : : Prefect of tub Palace : —of thk— : : Ga,vNn Masteb of Ckrehoxies. .-■; : ; His Majesty, the King, will receive to-mor- ' : row. the 24th of September, at 16:45 o'clock, : : the representative of the Italian colony of San : ; Francisco, Cal., delegated for the twenty-fifth : : anniversary of the 20th of September. : : With the utmost consideration, the grand : ' • master of ceremonies of his Majesty, : : i Giavotti. : : To the Illustrious .Sir. G. F. Fugazi. represent- : ; ing the Italian colony of San Francisco, for : ; the 20th of September. : : Home. (IScforenoon dress.) : There was surprise indeed at this, for the honor had net been expected. But Mr. Fugazi and his friends prepared to make the call. "I made arrangements for the finest private conveyance I could get in Rome," he said. "I told the proprietor I did not care how much it cost so I could get it. On the day in question we drove up to the palace in a magnificent open carriage drawn by a pair of the noblest looking black horses I have ever seen. The gold of the harness shone in a resplendent way, and in our morning dress and tall silk hats I presume we appeared as magnificent in every way aa any embassy who ever called on the King. "We were treated, too, with all the courtesy and dignity accorded an embassy. The ser geant-at-arms met us with a courtly salutation and the grand master of ceremonies, who received us at the door, conducted us into the immediate presence oi the King. "A more cordial greeting it would be impos sible to receive. "The King, who is 52 years old, was clad in morning dress. His head was uncovered, and he rose and extended his hand in the heartiest way. "We sat down and talked tor forty minutes. I tried to go several times, fearing the King might be wearied, but he would not permit it. He put his arm around ray neck and asked all about Ban Francisco aud California ana the Italian people here. " «I charge you,' he said, 'that you convey my best wishes and kindest regards to the colonies of Italians in San Francisco and elsewhere in California, and say to them that I am in full sympathy with them in all tneir efforts. Say also that I am proud to get such good news of them.* "King Humbert also asked all about Cali fornia, its productions and present condition. It was a great meeting. It seemed more like meeting a brother than the King of an empire, so cordial was the reception. I can never for get any part of it. "I sent to Genoa and got a wreath for the monument of Victor Emmanuel at the Pan theon. It was inscribed by a banner as being from the California delegates, and for over three weeks it remained there. Honors were hea-ped on California everywhere. "I visited different parts of Italy. It is more prosperous than it has been for years. One cause of this is that the once dense population has been decreased by migrations to Argen tine and Brazil. I saw a single contract for no less thau 30,000 people to go to the latter country. So great has been the exodus that whole cantonments have almost been de populated. Only a few old people were left. "The South American countries transport the Italians free and even pay 60 cents each for having them registered. They also give them free board and also provide them with agricultural implements and seeds. "I went 8000 miles to attend the festival and again see Rome, but I was well repaid for it. Never will the many interesting' things of the visit fade from my mind. The other dele gates besides myself were A. Vatmone of San Jose, L. Bocardo of Santa Cruz and I. Pevoto, the Italian editor, of this City. Two other Californians in Italy accompanied us on our rounds." Compeusation of Jurymen. Los Angeles Times. It is difficult enough now to get good men to serve on juries, and too strict au interpreta tion of the law which reduces the mileage allowed talesmen may serve either to give a monoply to the "professional jurymen" who hang iiround courthouses or impose real pri vation upon the men summoned from the country. Honest jurymen do not receive any too much remuneration with all their per diem and all their mileage allowed. VARIOUS VIEWS OF CONGRESS. Chattanooga Times. The Republican Congress may easily force another issue of bonds or prevent such an issue by making it unnecessary, but this Con gress will not be able to saddle any McKinley ism on the country under the pretext that it must be done to raise revenue. As a revenue raiser McKinleyism petered out in a two years' trial. It is a fraud forever. The way to raise what money the treasury may need is to raise the beer tax to $2 a barrel and put a 20 per cent auty on tea and otFee. We would get out of the three nearly a hundred millions a year. But if you try, gentlemen, the scheme of tax ing the people's clothing and other necessa- ries you will have registered a multitudinous kick of 10,000 horsepower at the next election against you, and' you will be sent EDrawling upon the cold, hard earth. Baltimore American. Congress, shortly after it organizes, ought to find out. if possible, what amount of the Government's obligations overdue remains un paid. There is a deficiency to be provided for, and a heavy one, as shown by the treasury figures, bin it is generally believed that the actual deficiency is much larger. * • * Con gress should press this investigation, and learn the facts before it undertakes to legislate for the relief of the treasury. The Republican majority should give no handle to the admin istration by which to plead the baby act fifteen months from now. It hfts blamed every blunder it has made upon a previous Republican ad ministration. The public should now have the actual facts, so that there can be no excuse hereafter for misrepresentation. Philadelphia Telegraph. If Congress should again refuse to authorize the issue of a gold bond and insist upon a coin bond, the Government will be compelled to secure the placing of bonds upon the best terms attainable, unless the administration should submit to prompt tariff revision, where by the revenue may be increased. Cincinnati Enquirer. In the discussion of the pressing financial issues the people want to see patriotism bear ing some part in Congress; they have had all the partisan financiering that they can stand. PIONEERS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK. N. V., Dec. 7.— Thirty surviv ing members of the "Associated Pioneers of the Territorial Days of California" celebrated their twenty-second annual dinner a few evenings ago in this city, Rear-Admi-ai Rich ard W. Meade, U. S. N., presiding. The elabo rate menu included a filet a la Cliff House and a roti a la. Golden Gate to remind these makers of California history of the "days of gold, the days of '49." The members present and the year of arrival in California were as follows: 1847— Francis D. Clark (secretary); 1849—CaD tRin William F. Blanck, Captain Samuel L. Clapp, Gardner Q. Colton, James C. Caywood, Hon. Stephen JB. French, John Gault, Gen eral H. G. Gibson, C. 8. A., A. T. Goodell, Cornelius Lydecker, William A. Hedenberg, Joseph P. Manton, Rear Admiral R. W. Meade, U. 8. X., James J. McCloskey, Richard J. Paullson, Joseph. M. Pray, H. B. Scharmann, John D. Tovvusend, William M. Walton, Henry Wilson Rnd Byron WhitcomD; 1830— Hon. Mark D. Wilber "and Charles W. Schumann: 1852— C. W. Colyer; Sons of Pioneers— Dr. W. T. Van Vredeuburgh, G. W. Van Vredenburgh and William M. Sweeney. The invited guests were: Alex B. Ludlow, T. G. Palmer, John H. Comer. O. E. Carpenter, D. W. Kieinhause and Miles I'Ansen, who went to California in 1856. The literary exercises which succeeded the dinner were as follows: Address by the presi dent, Rear Admiral Meade; speeches by P. Tecumseh Sherman, son of General W. T. Sher man, Mark D. Wilber, Rev. Xewall Maynard, James J. McCloskey, Dr. Gardner Q. Colton, F. D. Clark, O. E. Carpenter, John D. Townsend, 11. B. Scharmann, Miles I'Ansen and Byron WhitcomD. Many of the speeches were remin iscent of crossing'the plains and other features of pioneer hardship. Reid Miller. LADY'S 1830 WAIST. The 1830 stylo is somewhat modified in the models otto-day. The full sleeve is furnished with a cap at the top which does not fit too close to be uncomfortable, and yet makes the long 6houlder seam effect. The pattern shown here has a yoke top from which a box pleat and a few gathers fall loosely in front to make a blouse effect. The back is gathered below the yoke and at the waist line A dark-blue crepon had a yoke, sleeve caps and the loose-fitted sleeves of embroidered batiste over paie-green silk. Dresden ribbons formed a rondeaux all around the loose edge of the yoke and sleeve caps, and across the seam joining caps to yoke. A figured silk of brown, with yoke and caps of batiste over blue, is charming. Plain blue striped brown and blue, or Dresden ribbons for belt, collar and trimming, makes a stylish finish. Pacific Coast Exports. Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman Review. Construction oi transcontinental railroads, the establishment of steamer lines between the West coast and the Orieut and Aus tralasia, and the discovery of the South African goldfleld have provided an almost universal market for the surplus food products oi the Faci&c Coast. As yet we iiave seen but thp flush of : dawn. It is the history of ages Sat ferUlo lands contijuous to the open. sea, when peopled by brave a»d progressive parts of tuition? and tfell ships whiten the of civilization, and with their ships whiten tbe vast expanse of ocean. . ; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Noon-Ma J'.ks-W. J. 8., City. Four different noon-mark* arc made in a year-December 24, Ar.ril 15, July 14 and September 1. Owing to the earth', axis and Its unequal movement in its orDlt, solar days vary in their length. The average solar day corresponds _to the twenty four hours Of o.ir clocks, which keep what is called mean time. 11 ■ dock ™reso con structed as to give the- real solar l time lor all periods of the year, it would be observed hat sometimes when the solar clock pointed at noon the ordinary clock, keeping^ mean time. would be pointing between 11:45 and l-, or at other time* between 12 and 12:15. Fo" r '™« s each year, however, upon the days mentioned, the two clocks would coincide, and the shadow of a dial, or noon-mark, would point due south at noon by the clock. Fifth axb Blvzomk-F. McQ., City. At the office of the City and County Surveyor the four corners of Fifth and Bluxoine streets are de scribed as northwesterly, southwesterly, north easterly, southeasterly. In ordinary conver sation'these are designated as the north south, east and west corner?. Streets east of Eleventh and south of Market street, like Third, run northwest and southeast, while those like Howard street run northeast ana southwest. Aluminum— H. L., City. Aluminum is one of the metals which are never found native, that is, free from combination with other ele ments. It is found combined with one hun dred and ninety -five other minerals, ana therefore constitutes a large part of the solid crust of the earth. Still, while so plentnul and possessing qualities that render it most valuable, the difficulty of obtaining it in a free state has made it expensive. Waiter— Truckee Hotel, City. An answer to the question submitted depends upon the understanding at the time the proprietor en gaged the waiter, that is, whether he said "I will hire you tor one month and pay you $30," or "I will* hire you at the rate of *3O a month." Answers to Correspondents "does not recom mend a lawyer who would take such a case on commission." Miss Cleveland— F. D. M., City. In your commnnication you do not designate which Miss Cleveland you wish to know the age of, but presuming that it is the first daughter of the President, the answer is that she was born in the City of New York on the 2d of October, 1891. , Kerry Head— M. 11. P., Oakland, Cal. Kerry Head is a lofty promontory of Ireland in Mun ster, County Kerry, south of the" entrance to the River .Shannon, and between that stream and Ballyheige Bay. There is a lighthouse on the heed and a life-saviug station very close to it. Xo Mineral— F. 8., San Jose. The specimens of rock submitted do not contain any mineral. Where rock of that character is found spo radic deposits of cinnabar are sometimes found, but never in a quantity to pay. Mining Claim— lf a mining claim was located in January, 1895, the $100 worth of assessment work must be done within the year after loca tion, and alter that each year within the cal endar year. Gold and Mercury— 11. L., City. On© cubic foot of pure gold, cast, weighs 1102 pounds avoirdupois; one cubic foot of pure mercury (quicksilver) weighs 875 pounds. Victoria Woodhull— E. C. G.,City. Victoria C. Woodhull and her sister, Tennie C. Claflin, were in this City in 1874. They arrived here on the 20th of May. There'll Be "Only a Few of Us Left." 3Los Alamos Central. How rapidly the great writers of the cen tury are passing away. Before many more decades shall have rolled around upon the ■wheel of time there will be but few of us left to push the heavy literary quill. 'Tis sad! but such is the work of providence. Christmas Candy Toys at Townsend's. • • — «. — . Write Roberts, 220 Sutter st., about card plates for Christmas gifts. • Fpectal information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Montgomery. * ■ . ■ » — • ■ . . - Mark Hopkins Institute of Art. ... .. v The exhibition will close on Saturday even ing, when 40 paintings will be distributed to the members of the association. Murillo's famous old masters will be removed on Monday. • The late Edward A. Hunter of Philadelphia left about $500,000 to be used, after the death of his wife and daughter, for tne free treat ment of surgical cases in the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. 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