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18 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL— IC per year by mail; by carrier, 15c per week. SUNDAY CALL— II.SO per year. WEEKLY CALL-n.50 per year. The Eastern office of the SAX FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver tising Bureau, Hhinelander building, Hose and Duaue streets, New Yerk. SUNDAY MARCH 24, 1895 See the Memorial Museum. Charity can cover almost anything ex cept a cobblestone pavement. Treat life as a fine art and you can make it equal to all that fancy painted it. It is to be hoped the Memorial Museum won't perpetuate too many memories. A man's best thoughts are often no more than the emanations of his wife's cooking. Putting all your eggs into one basket is not so bad as using all your baskets for one egg. • Are we to understand that John L. Sullivan knows now that he has had enough. Make tho best of your leisure as well as of your work if you wish to enjoy the full ness of life. The cheapest recreations are nearly al ways the best. Good things are too plenti ful to cost much. There is one thing about Jake Schafer. Although ho has met his Napoleon he ad mits no Waterloo. The distinction between a fool and a Silurian disappears the moment the silu rian begins to talk. Every attraction added to Golden Gate Park is an addition to the wealth and pop ulation of the city. How many Ban Franciscans have seen all the attractions of San Francisco or even know what they are? Enterprise is so truly a local issue that when reduced to the last analysis it results in the individual effort. The halo about the head of honest prog ress casts a shadow <m the throne of mo nopolistic corporations. The best way to enjoy the advantages of San Francisco is to keep continually at the work of improving them. When cooking shall be elevated to the domain of tine arts the culinary artist can no longer nose as a model. After we shall have learned the lesson of cooking as a line art it shall be in order to learn how to eat as a science, When we are helping home industries we must not furpet that music, art and elocution are also industries. Xo man makes the best use of all his faculties who does not cultivate an habitual avocation as well as a vocation. The local police have a nut to crack in Commissioner Gunst's insistence that they wear their clubs outside their coats. The fitting end of every Silurian is to rattle his bones over th* 1 stones; when dead he's a pauper whom nobody knows. BThe incoming of the valley road will probably have an important effect on real estate values south of Market street. Under the new law compelling the filing for record of all marriage contracts, mar riage in California cannot be considered a failure. He is a wise man who delights in his ■work a« if it were play and he not less so who puts as much zest into his play as if it were work. The stage-driver who permits himself to be held up by a highwayman armed with a sausage is not sure but that the weapon is likely to bark. The business community that depends upon the silurian promise of a better day coming leans upon the broken crutches of false pretense. The progress of the valley road compels even the head of the Southern Pacific to incline to the belief in the future advance ment of California. Superintendent McLaren has said what he will do for Golden Gate Park if he be allowed money enough. Let him be allowed money enough. If all the festivals and excursions now talked of in the State are carried out the season will be as noted for the revival of pleasure as for that of business. Whatever we may fear of the possibility of fraud in public improvements it must not be forgotten there is always more cor ruption in stagnation than in progress. The dissolution of the California redwood tree, transplanted to the trusty soil of the Nation's capital, is an object lesson on the fallacy ox shipping raw material out of the State. The public will sorely miss the cars which for a long time have been following each other on Bush street at so close inter vals that they looked like a string of link sausages. Much of the unhappiness of the world results from the persistent effort of an in dolent minority to disturb the machinery of government constructed by an industri ous majority. Governor Budd's stipulation that On lease of China Basin shall not be assigned was as cheerfully accepted by the direc tors of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad as it will be welcome to the people. A golden key is often used to unlock secrets, but that prepared for the Me morial Museum is none such, for Director- General de Young made it a stipulation that the doors should never be locked. As it is reported one scene in a play now running in Paris represents Herod and John the Baptist in a Graeco-Ronian wrest ling match it appears the irreverent wits of France are so eager to make a profit of their jests they are willing to make a jest of the prophets. The need for a comprehensive pure-food law throughout the L'nion finds another illustration in the report that nearly 300 cheese factories in Wisconsin are reported to be making "filled cheese" — that is, cheese from milk which has had all the butter fat extracted from it and cottonseed oil substituted in its place. ART OPPORTUNITIES. However noble have been the efforts of painters* to put upon canvas the strange and inspiring wonders that so distinctly set California apart from the rest of the world, there appears good reason to believe that they have not yet grasped some of the morealluringopportuiuties that exist. Bier stadt, Moran, Hill, Keith. Latimer and hosts of others have pictured the grandeur of the Yosemite, the depth, mystery and sileuce of the redwood forests and hundreds of those bewitching nooks where sunshine and shade play hide-and-seek on quiet roads and peaceful streams. But the gen erosity of nature's invitation does not end with these. The amateur photographer has shown a hardier and more aspiring spirit. No hard ship or danger has proved sufficient to check his zeal, and there is not a strange tiling in the State that he has not found. True, the photographer's mission is different from the painter's, and his processes are Quicker and simpler. The elaborate training required to produce a painter is not essential to his success. But for all that, the amateur photographer has the true artistic conception and a skill to put it in force. He knows a picture when he sees it and will spare no pains to secure it. More than that, he hunts indefatigably for pictures that have not yet been found, and in this regard sets an example of originality and enterprise that should be a sermon to every painter in the State. He will not thrash over old straw if he can find new for his Hail. The photographer ha? penetrated into ihe heart of Death Valley and ha? traced the mysterious Sargosa River from the point where it bursts full-grown from the ground to its weird and misera ble disappearance in the vast salt marsh of the desert, covered with its fantastic hummocks and pillars of salt; and he has despaired because the limitations of his art made it impossible for him to reproduce the wonderful light that can be found nowhere else in the world. He has longed for the skill of a painter that he might be able to preserve and take away for the wonder of others even the faintest hint of this unearthly blaze of light that the sun sends pouring over the desolate, wind-swept wastes. He will set up his tripod before the lonely grave of a prospector who has died of hardships on the desert, and beside the rude mound of loose stones he will ponder the affection and grief of the friend who, thus left alone in the wilderness, stayed to give decent burial to the dead. The higher Sierra.*, where the splendors of the Kings and Kern River canyons lie remote from the gaze of the world, have seen the advent of the photographer, who takes pictures because he loves them, but the painter is a stranger there. The camera has made us familiar with the desolation of Mono Lake, but the painter has rarely or never sought it out. And so it goes. Not only wonders but an infinite variety of them have yet to re ceive that recognition of their value for artistic purposes that painters alone are competent fully to extend. THE STOIC OF THE SEA. Retween Scylla and Charybdis, between the devil and the deep, deep sea, between the upper and the nether millstone^, be tween the eternal menace of wind and wave, between the sharks in water and the sharks in boarding-houses, between all dual things that grind and crush and pulverize, is the sailor. There is extant no early account of poor .lack's mishaps. History was yet un written when he was colliding with the first belaying-pin or rebounding from the impact of the third mate's foot. Ag humanity cannot be followed deeper down in the earth's crust than the glacial period, where the primal mariner straddled his coniferous log and floated through the chartless sounds of the Stone Age, all pre tertiary track? of the sailor are lost. His earlier remains arise not from their cere ments of rock at the scientist's call, and his remoter existence is entombed in a night that had no beginning. But lower than Paleolithic Man— millions of epochs under the pliocene cave deposits of organic life, among the fossil marine plant forms of the carboniferous limestone — have been found indistinct tracings which might have, restored, more resemblance to a hand spike than to any other vpgetable In the terrestial flora of the 100.000,000 geological years. This is a long jump down through the unrecorded age 3, but like the student who rebuilds a mammoth from a bristle or a planet from a pebble the bridging of the measureless abyss between the two remote periods is here* attempted. Man's occu pancy of even the very late glacial day can be established only by the discovery of a few fragments pf second-hand stone furniture destroyed when the ice flood evicted the cave-dwellers. As only contemporaneous evidence is little short of mere conjecture the associa tion of the modern sailor with the prehis toric club may be founded on the fact that one is the contemporary of the other in the present period, and both are so closely brought together now that they could not have been far removed in the early strata of time. Albeit, the man of the later sea is be tween the upper and nether stones figuratively as he is geologically, and there is no probability that he will escape from the rocks until some great social upheaval and cleavage— possibly in the millennium — takes place. Perchance in other and far away ages drawing down to the present the twin fossils of Jack and his coexisting belaying-pin will be found cased together in the hard debris of dead years. And then science will" find, more indelibly engraved in the pages of imperishable eranite, the record of their inseparable lives. The ill wind that is now supposed to blow some, or somebody, go«d may have been blowing in the long-ago, and while raking the past mariner fore and aft was preparing and hardening him and the succeeding generations of his species for the mishaps of a later day. From this must come his invincible stoicism, his sturdy and perfect indifference to every calamity that energetically seeks and finds him. Jack is usually pic tured as the living embodiment of a "growl," and this gross, unfounded error has been scattered broadcast. That is only his peculiar way of submitting pa tiently, joyfully, even thankfully, to any thing that comes along. The Sunday duff, with or without plums, and the mate's list, with or without a club, were estab lished from the foundations of the earth, thinks this philosopher of the sea, and whether they were or were not in the ship ping articles when he made his mark he doesn't know nor care. The shore-sharks may take what their voracious brothers of the ocean don't get, and anybody may have what escapes the.deep sea. Long life, if he- desires it, and then a snug harbor, if he approves of such lux ury, to this true stoic of the wave, whose soul is of little less density than the upper and nether millstones that pulverize him, and whose feelings are little less hard than those of the sharks that devour him. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 1895. MR. HUNTINGTON AND THE LAW The Case of the Railroad Magnate Considered From Opposite Points of View. TOE THE PROSECUTION. The history of this country will never be complete if it omits an account of 0. P, Huntington's operations and an analysis of his influence on the business and morals of the people. "Whatever might be said in his defense must be in a comparison of his acts with those of worse men. If it be said that, unlike Jay Gould, he never wrecked a railroad, but on the contrary strengthened every one that he owned, that will merely be saying that his method of accumulating wealth was different from Gould's. The methods by which Mr. Huntington has accumulated his wealth are notorious, and need not be recounted here. The various effects of the plans which lie has followed in that pursuit are more or less clearly understood, but the theme is never dull. The most unfortunate circumstance attending them — one which schemers of his shrewdness may always rely upon to aid them — is that a desperate people, more eager to seize upon any means for relief than able to appreciate its value, fall an easy prey to their enenfy masquer ading as their friend, to charlatans who seek the power to extort money, to honest cranks and incompetents whose friendship is more hurtful than their enmity, and to other similar forces which paralyze all efforts for relief, bring discredit upon the cause of the wronged, and strengthen the enemy's power. Huntingtons would be impossible if the people were wiser. It is not their moral sense that is at fault. The future historian will not be able to find that Mr. lluntington's ignoring of the ethical relation between transportation companies and the people can be explained on the ground that he was ignorant of its existence. To do that would be to charge him with lack of understanding, and most likely he would rather be called a rogue than a fool. That he knows of the ex istence of this relation is proved by his de liberate operations to pervert and degrade it. Were he not aware that men are honest, he would not try to corrupt them. If he were ignorant of the fact that laws in tended to force him into honest ways were an expression of a sentiment of right-doing on the part of their makers, he would not resort to bribery to nullify them. If he did not expect the making of laws to check his business immorality, he would not set about to elect lawmakers on whom he could depend both to defeat laws which the honesty of the community prompts and enact others which are repugnant to the popular sense of right. To assert that in the handling of his business itself, without reference to these phases of the ethical relation, he is igno rant of the moral relations which exist between the server and the served, between master and servant, between the merchant and his customers, between duty and op portunity, between power and the manner of its exercise, would be to charge him with ignorance of one of the fundamental prin ciples upon which his success is founded. If there is one thine in the history of his conduct about which there is no intelligent doubt it is that the material prosperity of the people whom he serves has never had the smallest atom of intrinsic weight with him. If he concludes that by charging the people of Fresno exorbitant rates on their products he can make more money and secure it more quickly than by reducing rates, and thus making the people more prosperous and contented, he would never hesitate a moment to adopt the former course. It is no concern of his that the prosperity of those whom he serves would enable them to have more comforts, in creased facilities for moral and intellectual development, and larger opportunities for expanding into that higher and stronger form of manhood and citizenship which makes a people wise and their government firm. Mr.Huntington's policy has never con templated anything ulterior, anything that might even remotely tend to better the condition of mankind. Whatever in cidental benefit humanity may have re ceived from his operations, the fact of its existence has no interest for him, and it has been offset a thousandfold by his de liberate acts to degrade. Concurrently with the absence of any intention to do good have been his deliberate acts of wrong-doing, In evading the laws, in shirk ing his taxes, and in every other conceiv able way. If he has been faithful in the performance of his written contracts, that was the policy of a shrewd business man. The Chinese are noted for that. In writ ing 5f the manner in which Mr. Hunting ton has fulfilled his moral obligations, the future historian must pause in wonder and dismay. So far as the public is concerned Mr. Huntington may well have taken the motto, "After me the deluge." It is not only because he has failed in the duty of trying to do good, but further, because he has always and deliberately employed his vast opportunity and power to do harm, that he is hated. For this he Will have a unique place in American his tory. The time now is almost past for hoping that retribution will overtake him in this ljfe. He is an old man, and his physicsrt energies are close upon annihila tion. It would be a weak soul that would care to see him punished in a spirit of vengeance. Whatever profit such punishment would bring would have an exemplary value. While every man is entitled to the full posses sion and enjoyment of his own, the written law and the moral sense which abides in men prohibit such a use of his own as will work harm to others. The harm which Mr. Huntington has worked can never be measured. The smallest part of it is his mean tyrannies and insatiable greed prac ticed in the ordinary course of his business. Immeasurably greater is the moral injury which he has done. Into what intricate and devious ways it has wandered; what measure may be found by which to ascer j tain its extent and force; what bearing it has on the pervading estimate of right conduct which men have come to hold tinder its overshadowing influence; in what manner its operation in the evasion and perversion of justice through corruption of the law-making and administrative branches of California particularly has been incorporated into the conduct of the people, and has served as the inspiration and excuse of crime, no human being can .have the wisdom to say. It is left for us only to take what conso lation we may from observing that the people are understanding the magnitude of Mr. Huntington 's power and the de grading uses to which he puts it, and that they are preparing to shake him off. This revolution will not end with his death. The ugly temple in which he lived, fat tened and held high and unlawful sway will be purified as by fire, and it will be fortunate for his survivors remaining therein if the vast, glittering structure do not fall in ruins and overwhelm them in its destruction. Mr. Huntington should be convicted. FOR THE DEFENSE. Coliis P. Huntington, president of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, has been indicted by the United States Grand Jury for violating the Interstate Commerce law. The indictment charges him with j having issued a pass over his railroad to Frank M. Stone, the issuing of such a pass being, under the law, a misdemeanor, pun ishable by a line of not less than $1000 and not more than $5000, or a year in the State Prison, or both h'ne and imprisonment. The evidence upon which the indictment is based is a part of the testimony given by Stone last January when a witness in the case of two strikers charged with offenses during the great railway strike last sum mer. As no rebutting evidence has thus far been made public, we must assume the testimony of Mr. Stone to be correct, and consider the question of Mr. Huntingtoivs guilt or innocence as a matter of law. It is in the highest degree fortunate that this issue has at last been Drought to the test of the courts, and brought there in the person of such a man as Mr. Huntingtou. No one will claim for him any exemption from the laws that govern his fellow-citi zens. He is not a poor man to be pitied for his poverty, an ignorant man to be ex cused for his lack of knowledge, nor a public favorite for his offenses to be over looked by reason of his personal popu larity. He is, on the contrary, a rich man, able to defend himself; a wise man, hav ing full knowledge of the law, and a man having so little of personal charm for the multitude that prejudice is more likely to be against him than for him. With such a man at the bar there is nothing to distract attention from the law itself. The defend ant pleads nothing in extenuation. The sole issue before us is involved in the ques tion. Has this man offended against his fellow-man to an extent deserving of fine and imprisonment? What is his offense? It is charged that he gave to Mr. Stone permission to ride free upon the Southern Pacilic Railroad, but it is conceded that he as president rep resents the owners of the road. He gave away therefore nothing that was not right fully his to give. He and those whom he represents built the road. They maintain it. They defray its running expenses. They pay all its obligations. They are taxed lor it as their property. They are responsible for all damage it does and are answerable in law to every man who is in jured by it. In its last analysis therefore the indictment charges Mr. Huntington with having given away something that belongs to him. He was driving his wagon along the road and let his neighbor ride. That is the sum and substance of his offending. American law is devised not for the per- j secution of men, but for their protection. It is not designed to deprive them of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but to secure them in the possession of those inalienable rights. The possession of property is one of the essential rights of civilized man. Without the guarantee of that right there could be no civilization nor any degree of human advancement above the plane of savagery. How shall a man enjoy his property, however, if he may not share it with his friend? Is it to be lawful to sell, but unlawful to give? Is there to be a premium on parsimony, while common kindness is made a mis demeanor punishable by fine and im prisonment? When statute laws restrict the liberty of the citizen guaranteed by the common law and the constitution, they are to be strictly ■ mstrued. An American, whether rich or poor, is not to be deprived of the free use and usufruct of his property by some loose or strained construction of a congressional enactment. Due reverence for law does not imply a blind submission to legisla tion. That would be servility to the letter and disloyalty to the spirit of our institu tions. No people can remain free who do not bring every question of law to the test of the great principles of justice and free dom. It must not be forgotten that, young as our country is. we have had upon our National statute-books the alien and sedi tion laws, the embargo act, the fugitive slave law; and that in not a few of the States there have been many statutes even worse than those. Such statutes the peo ple have refused to sustain. Lacking the strength of the popular will they have been idle words upon the books, unworthy of the name of law. until in the end they were repealed amid the applause of the people and blotted out of the records of our justice. During the period of the French Revolu tion, when the Tory party in Great Britain, mad in its rage against republicanism, enacted law after law to restrict the liber ties of the people, freedom found for her self a defense in the courts. The juries refused to convict men under laws that were abhorrent to every instinct of justice, and it has been well said that during those years the liberties and the rights of Eng lishmen reposed in the jury-box as in an ark of divine covenant. To the courts and to the intelligence and honesty of an in corruptible jury the American can appeal with an unshaken confidence. Mr. Hunt ington can confront the tribunal of his fellow-citizens without fear. He has wronged no man by this act with which he is charged. He has deprived no citizen of his property, interfered in no way with his person, conflicted with no principle of justice, violated no precedent of our com mon law, and can safely rely upon an upright and impartial jury for vindi cation. We have said it is fortunate the case has been brought up in this way. It is indeed high time to have some questions affecting property and vested rights set tled in this country. The old foundations of law, which were honesty and justice, are being bitterly assailed by some of our would-be lawmakers, and if the American is to have any right to his property in the uture it is time to draw the line at socialis tic legislation and to repudiate it in the courts. Security for the rights of property is a matter of public expediency. Indus try asks it, progress demands it, civilization is dependent upon it. Vast consequences, therefore, are involved in this case of a free pass. The pass itself was a little thing. It was but a rich man's casual gift, for gotten as soon as given, but within the issue it has raised under this status are the riehts of every citizen to his property and every man to his own. We look to the jury to acquit Mr. Hunt ington of this charge trumped up under a socialistic statute, but if for any reason the final solution of the case is carried bayond their adjudication we are sanguine his vindication will be given in the august tribunal of the Supreme Court, which guards the constitution of the Nation and stands for every American as the symbol of inviolate justice. Even if such a rebuke should serve no further purpose than a blow to meanness in the law, it will not have been in vain. OUR EXCHANGES. Quoting from the Call the paragraph, "When you help your neighbor's business you put him in a position to help yours,' ' the Telegraph says every one in Grass Val ley should clip this out and place it in their hat, study and profit by it. The ad vice is good. When a man has that senti ment in his hat, he can talk through it with a profit both to himself and to those who heed him. While conceding to the Call, as it says, "the highest and most patriotic motives in its opposition to the income tax," the Wil lows Journal says: "We cannot see any better reason for opposing the income tax than any other tax. It is attacked as un constitutional on the ground of being class legislation. If it be so, then every particle of 'protective tariff' taxation is class legis lation ; and so in the sugar bounty and every special grant, franchise and sub sidy." Supposing we admit, for the sake of shortening the argument, that "protec tion" is class legislation, cannot the Jour nal see that it fosters enterprise instead of taxing its income ? There is a great deal of difference between building up industry and tearing it down. According to the Seattle Trade Heg^ter, Austin Claiborne of that city, representing the Pacific Steam Whaling Company, says the supremacy of the New Bedford whaling fleet is a thing of the past, and San Fran cisco now lias a firm grip on that trade, the company he represents capturing 301 of the 352 whales caught last season. The manufacture of whalebone was begun in San Francisco last December and the com pany promises to rapidly rebuild the in dustry which used to b% controlled by Eastern factories. This is one of the items that goes to show how San Francisco is reaching out to achieve her rightful share of the profits of the ocean. After the whalebone industry must come the seal industry, and the furs now sent to London should be worked up in this city for the markets of the world. It is a point well made by the Appeal that Marysville should stand in with Co lusa in its efforts to secure a sugar-beet reiinery because such an establishment would benefit Marysville in more ways than one. It is always better for California towns and cities to stand in with one an other, and it is pleasing to note that this truth is now becoming the controlling fac tor of public sentiment. Rivalry is giving way to co-operation and sectional prejudice to a true sense of State pride. San Fran cisco stands in with Los Angeles for the floral festival ; Santa Clara and San Joaquin valleys work together for the competing road, and Marysville will help Colusa to es tablish the sugar refinery. There is pros perity in that system. The Appeal is right in saying it will benefit in more ways than one. It will benefit more things than one. It will be an ail-round benefit in every way and to everything. It is the opinion of the' Riverside Press that the wholesale abuse of city and county officials is one of the evils of California most detrimental to public interests.. It cites the recent article in i/«rp«-'s Weekly on San Francisco as an evidence of the effect produced abroad by local "mud slingers"; quotes an instance of a broker who was unable to negotiate a loan on Riverside real estate because certain cam paign statements had exaggerated the rate of taxation and denied the efficiency of the county government, and closes by de nouncing the folly of those who slander for temporary advantage the community in which they live, since this cannot be done without permanent injury to all private as well as to public interests. This truth should be taken to heart by every editor and by every citizen whose voice has in fluence among men. No man can de nounce his city without suffering the evil effects of his own denunciation. It is time to put an end to the ceaseless attacks upon every man in power. If we are to have prosperity we must give our community a good name and not a had one. THE CITY PARKS. There is no reason why the public squares of San Francisco .should not have a reputation as worldwide for natural beauty as California has for sunshine and flowers. The mild climate affords every essential to the healthy develop ment of trees and shrubs from the semi-tropical varieties to every species of ornamental plants of temperate and northern regions. The re markable success attending arboriculture in Golden Gate Park proves that exotics under judicious processes of tempering can be made to thrive in the open air on the peninsula, and that hardy shrubs luxuriate once they are planted in the soil. Indeed in private gardens throughout the city similar results are attained without special skill or knowledge in caring for plants. • But the evidence is lacking in the city parks. Instead of a luxuriance of palms, magnolias laurels, oleanders and ornamental flowering shrubs, all of which would thrive with a little care, there is nothing better than a stiff array of hideous things, neither trees nor shrubs, hacked out of semblance to their natural forms and ugly in the extreme. Intervening in the thickt'st populated districts these bits of nature are consequently an eyesore rather than a refreshful vision. Their denuded and stunted aspect, with every tree cut down to a certain Rtandard, every stray branch and lower boughs chopped off and the smaller shrubs pruned into the most grotesque shapes, gives strangers lv the city a very poor and a false impression of San Francisco's climate and public taste. Appearances alone would indicate that trees cannot attain a healthy growth and shrubs arc all stunted here. That this should be true is a pity. The fault lies largely in a pernicious system of placing men unfitted for their duties as gardeners in the parks under control of the Street Department. Although generally wanting in taste or knowl edge of gardening, they undertake to improve nature according to their ideas. The result is anything but pleasing to the eye or elevating to the taste of the community. HELP THE BOYS. Give the boys assistance. It does not cost much, yet it makes them happy and very often helps to carry comfort to a desolate home. You meet them every day with their little box of soap, a bundle of matches or som6 newly in vented toy. They are not seeking charity, but are giving more than value for value received. Particularly now, that school is closed for a time, you meet them. They are receiving a schooling in business which in later life they can refer to with pride. Every one of them, and there are many, is put to the test of stabil ity. Do not make their burdens any more se vere than you can help. They will have enough trouble when they grow older, so give them a chance to advance with something more than a bitter recollection of early life. California has produced some excellent men. More are to come and some ofc them are now growing up in San Francisco. The boy who can take a gruff "no" with a smile and ap proach his next customer with a cheerful countenance has learned to take humanity as he finds it, and not to be discouraged over re buke. Yet "hope deferred- maketh the heart sick," and many a boy who goes on from week to week with saddened heart, though smiling face, will go down under the burden in the cud and enter manhood's stage with a contempt for life. Help the boy and you will assist man kind. The tortures of dyspepsia and sick headache, and the sufferings of scrofula, the agonizing itch and pain of suit rheum, the disagreeable symptoms of catarrh, are removed by Hood's Sarsaparilla. Use Dr. Siegert's Angostura Hitters to stimulate the appetite and keep the digestive organs in order. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp son's Eye Water. Druggists sell it at 26 cents. BEFORE GRANT WON HIS STARS Quite a bit of a controversy seems to have sprung up over an interview concerning Gen eral Grant before he won his stars, recently published in the Call. It has been asserted that 1 was not the man who introduced Mr. Grant to Governor Yates of Illinois. This reminds me that after Grant had in re ality "won liis stars" and become a major general, it was by no means an uncommon thing for one old-timer in the Illinois capital to say to another over the friendly toddy: "Oh, yes; 1 remember very well Grant's first coming to Springfield. Why, 1 introduced him to Dick Yates." And the amusing fact was well known that at least a dozen of those time worn veterans claimed the honor of bringing about that tirsi memorable meeting. The truth of the matter, of which abundant proofs are at hand, is fully and clearly set forth In my "Recollections of Grant." But any one in doubt can become reassured by consulting pages O-iC-7 of the "History of Illinois," by John Moses, formerly private secretary to Gov ernor Yates. Jt is quite true, indeed, as stated in the Call article, that Mr. Washburne did write a letter CONNIE YON GERICHTEN REVIEWS THE ABTS AND SCIENCES. [Sketched from life for the "Call" by NankivelL] introducing Grant to Yates, but the letter re mained unread and even unopened until after the latter's death, and was then first unsealed by Private Secretary Moses -when looking over the Governor's posthumous papers. I have been intimate with General Chetlain ever since the war, and have many times talked with him by the hour regarding all the inci dents of Captain Grant's life in Springfield be fore he took command of a regiment, and he agreed with me perfectly in regard to the de tails of the introduction to Yates. Colonel Moses also discussed the subject fully with General Chetlain and myself, and we were all in perfect accord concerning the facts. I, and no one else, had the honor of introducing Mr. Grant to Governor Yates, and this is how it came about. I was busy around executive quarters, enlist ing soldiers and attending to other military affairs, and had noticed a little man clad in shabby clothes who for several days had occu pied the same chair in the executive office, never approaching any one or speaking, but listening to the conversation and military dis cussions round about him with a twinkle in his eye. I was then a major. At last I became nervous and one day asked the little man if there was anything I could do for him. "Yes, major," answered the little man, "I would like to meet Governor Yates." I asked him why he had not made his wishes known to me before, and he said I had seemed so busy he did not wish to interrupt me. I took him to the Governor's room, and while on the way inquired his name. "Mr. Grant," was his reply. "What can I do for you, Mr. Grant?" inquired the Governor. "I do not like to trouble you," replied the stranger, "but I would like to obtain a position in one of the departments for a short time to fit myself for active service." We both readily perceived that his idea of fitting himself referred in one sense to obtain ing better clothing, for his appearance was certainly shabby. The Governor, turning to me, said: "Our departments are already very crowded, but if you can find a place for Mr. Grant will you please do so?" So I set the shabby volunteer at ivork copy- Ing a cord of useless letters and applications, as there Was nothing else for him to do. Mr. Grant smiled at the work, but said nothing. The anonymous writer in the Call has fabri cated that part of his article in regard to Grant's meeting with Yates out of whole cloth, and I am convinced that General Chetlain.who is referred to as authority, never authorized the statements which are made under the cap tion "Before Grant Won His Stars." Thomas P. Robb. PERSONAL. Dr. R. E. Hartley of Lakeport is at the Grand. Ex-Sheriff E. W. Kay of Visalia is at the Grand. C. E. Brown of San Jose is a guest at the Baldwin. D. S. Rosenbaum, a Stockton merchant, is at the Palace. H. L. Withers, a Philadelphia capitalist, is at the Palace. Frank 11. Gould, the Stockton attorney, is at the California. Henry Levy, a merchant of Halfmoon Bay, is a guest of the Lick. James A. Louttit of Stockton, an ex-Congress man, is at the Lick. Captain P. A. Barnet of Aberdeen, Scotland, is at the Occidental. Charles H. Lux, a well-known citizen of San Jose, is at the Grand. John Mackay, manager of Haggin's ranch" at Sacramento, is in town. Norman Rideout, a banker of Marys ville. Is a guest at the California. E. P. Rithet, a well-known citizen of San Ra fael, is a guest at the Palace. P. D. Fraser, a well-known citizen of Stockton rt'Ki-nered at the Occidental yesterday. Ralph Granger, a banker of national reputa tion, is among the recent arrivals at the Grand Benjamin b\ Stevens, president of the New England Life Insurance Company of Boston is in the city. On the 9th of next month he will have served his company forty-eight consecu tive years. Thomas Devlin, a wealthy malleable iron man ufacturer of Philadelphia, is visiting in this city and making short tours of the State. In company with Auditor Broderick, who is a friend of many years 1 standing, he recently made an inspection of the plant at the Union Iron Works and gave Superintendent Patrick Noble some valuable hints regarding the work ing of iron. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. If everybody had as much faith in the future of San Francisco as Connie yon Gerichten, the artist and musical pride of the Bohemian Club, there would be no necessity of starting half million clubs. He said yesterday in the grill room of the Palace Hotel : '•I was born in California, right in this city, on Independence day, 1870, and have been to every foreign land since then, but I tell you San Francisco is all right. People wonder why we have not the same wonderful collections of art here that one linds in the Old World, but they seem to forget that San Francisco is young and that the Government has never spent a cent to establish museums and exhibits here as is done in I'ar.is, Dresden, Munich, London and all over the Old World. "Give us a show. "There is as much talent here in proportion to the population as you find anywhere in the world. Look at the names some of our Califor- Dia people have already "made for themselves and the State. W« have artists', poets, sculp tors, musicians, inventors, statesmen, crafts men, writers and — " "What's the matter with Jim Corbett, Con- nie?" ventured to inquire the gentleman who sat next to him. "I should call him an orator," responded Yon Geriehten, as he ran his hand through his lux uriant and flowing locks, "but that is neither here nor tnere; irhut we want Is to pet rfjrt*\* down to the possibilities of the future ot th^ji coast. I tell you it is bound to come, and any man who is at all familiar with the signs of the times knows it. Here we are in the midst of a rich, remarkably healthy country, and a new railroad, backed by the best men in San Fran cisco, is on the eve of building. Now mind I do not say that the future of the arts and sci ences centers on the arrival of one or two or three new lines of railroad, but I do mean to say that a country worth building railroads in, and a country that has made other Railroads rich, is a pretty good country to stay In and a—" "Black coffe-e-e-e?'' inquired the waiter. "Yes, and some cognac. Wherever the rail roads go you will " "Here is one match for ze cognac." "Yes ; thank you. You will always find '* "Evening papers! All about the lottery," bawled a newsboy at his elbow. "Here you are, boy," said the artist, passing the youngster a quarter; "now run over there to Henry Heyman and ask him if he won the capital prize. But, gentlemen, as I was about to state, wherever you find railroads you — " "Pardon, monsieur. One lump, two lump sugaire?" "One. Well, it is always the case with any section of the country, that wherever the rail road goes the — " "Here, Connie, take this match and light yout cigarette. Excuse my interruption." "Certainly. I want to say, though, that whenever railroads get to competing the country is looking up, and I am glad there is the competition in San Francisco. Art and poetry will have better times hereafter." SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Streeter— There goes a man that has left ft great many behind him in the race of life. Meeter— So; who is he? Streeter— He's a streetcar conductor.—Cin cinnati Inquirer. Wool— What are you going to bring in as a defense to Miss Sears' breach pf promise suit? Van Pelt— They will have a hard time to con vince the jury that I was sane when I proposed. —Town Topics. Manager— Why don't you get off something that will make the people laugh? Artist— lmpossible. Thepeop'e in this audi ence here would havo to have v house fall on, them to see anything. Manager— And we ain't got a house.— Detroit Free Press. Morton — Is Miss Casey in? Butler— No, sir. She has gone out walking with a young man. Morton— All right. Just tell her that I came around with a four-in-hand to take her for a drive.— Truth. Johnny Smart-It's a sure thing that the fa ther of our new Sunday-school teacher is a butcher. Andy Quick— What makes you think so? Johnny Smart— She didn't do a thing but talk about the fatted calf and leading lambs to the slaughter. "I intend to be one of the most successful actors on the American stage," said the youth ful Roscius, proudly. "How do you mean to do it?" inquired his skeptical friend. "I'm going abroad," said Roscius, with reso lution, "stay there a number of years and come back as a foreign p.ctor.'— Chicago Record. E. H. Black, painter, 114 Eddy street. Rents collected. Ashton, 411 Montgomery.* California Glace fruits, 50c lb. Townsend's.* Bacon Printing Company, 508 Clay street. • The new Easter Cards, Booklets and Easter Novelties have arrived. Sanborn, Vail & Co. • Cvr- it-it; heals wounds, burns and sores as if by magic; one application cures poison oak; it relieves pain and abates inflammation. • Paateur Water-filters Should be in every household. They will keep the disease germs out of water. Rented or sold. C. Brown & Son, 825 Market street. • Some of the Boston beauties who are fond of atheletic exercises array them selves just after breakfast in half gymna sium costume and run footraces.