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SATURDAY JULY 27. 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The Potrcro is flying the flag of progress.
It is evident the fruit-growers must com
bine or suffer.
Though the Law and Order League may
be slumbering it still lives.
The more the third term plot thickens
the more it looks like mud.
The Poultry Association never cackles
until after it has laid an egg.
That sentiment which pities the killer is
a stranger to pity for the killed.
Every kind of work undertaken by the
Solid Eight has the appearance of a job.
Fredericks stumbled yesterday in his
speech, but not in his fall through the
gallows trap.
The Richmond at present in the field is
writing poetry and making "cinch" rhyme
with "pinch."
A police adjunct to the Free Labor
Bureau might prove a check to theenter
prise of the "ho .
A few days more of the debate, and no
one in the country will know what Horr
and Harvey i\rc talicin.L' about.
>an Francisco is too poor to give away
ible franchises and too proud to allow
her laws to be violated with impunity.
TheColma Athletic Club is not altogether
responsible for imagining that this is
Dalljß tistead of San Francisco.
The women who are worshiping at the
shrine of Durrant might be better engaged
wearing Lloomcrs and riding a "wheel. 1 '
The Grangers at Camp Roache might
prolitably devote some of their time to
discussing the beit means of marketing
fruit.
For those who wish to combine profit
with pleasure Camp Roache will b« the
prevailing attraction for the next two
weeks.
Japan seems to be dissatisfied to discover
that the bulk of parlor matches which
California consumes are manufactured in
Sweden.
In poking fun at Texas for arranging for
a prize-tight our pride in San Francisco
caused us to overlook Mr. Tom Sharkey and
Mr. Billy Smith.
The Secretary of the Interior is supposed
to look after the Indians, but while they
are on the warpath in Idaho he is making
a little campaign of his own in Georgia.
You will find in The Call all the news
and all the evidence of the Durrant case
without having to read dull columns of
distasteful stuff and spun out rhetoric in
order to get it.
The people say to the Solid Eight:
"Why do you propose to sell a valuable
franchise "for $1500?" And the Solid Eight
say to the people: "What are you going
to do about it?"
The idea of holding the next Republican
National Convention in San Francisco
grows in public favor in the East, and with
proper cultivation on our part will receive
general acceptance there.
Japan has taken Formosa, England has
taken Brazilian Trinidad, Hawaii has
taken French Frigate Shoals, and so the
island powers of the world go on grab
bing islands as if it were an insular
mania.
Whatever may be any one's sentiment
about loading a suspected murderer with
flowers, there can be no question that
daisies and violets are capable of being put
to a poetic U3e in churchyards without
doing harm.
The recent report of a discovery of anti
mony in quantity comes so closely on the
heels of other unexpected valuable discov
eries in California that we have even fore
gone the formality of a torchlight proces
sion in its honor.
The Legislature intended the statute
regulating the sale of municipal franchises
to be a check on monopoly and a restraint
on official dishonesty, but the Solid Eight
construe it as a means of giving monopoly
a cinch on the public.
Newspapers which give up so much of
their space to reports of murder trials at
the sacrifice of room that might be devoted
to wholesome news are paying just such
a compliment to public intelligence as the
more intelligent public pays them.
When an organization of earnest citizens
calling themselves a law and order league
falls into desuetude because its leaders
cannot agree one is tempted to wonder
what it was that made the old Vigilance
Committees agree with so terrible unan
imity.
Street Superintendent Ashworth may
feel a certain pride in the firmness whicn
leads him to declare that the whole army
of the United States could not back him
down from a position which he had once
taken, but he might reflect that stubborn
ness is not an evidence of integrity and
that public sentiment is often more power
ful than an army.
"OUR MERCHANT MARINE."
The Marine Journal of New York — the
organ of the American Shipping and In
dustrial League, which body contains
nearly three hundred thousand members,
among whom are enrolled many of the
most prominent citizens of the United
States — is doing famous work in educating
public sentiment toward the restoration of
our flag upon the ocean, anrt possibly no
more important question than this de
mands attention at the next meeting of
Congress.
Our decadence as a maritime power is as
humiliating to us as it is a source of won
der to those nations who listened to the
guns of our gallant sailors of ISI2 when
thej r demanded and secured respect for the
stars and stripes in the four quarters of the
globe. "With all our glorious prestige be
hind us, we have evolved into a nation of
landlubbers, and an American flag on a
merchant vessel is a curiosity in nearly
every port in the world.
What patriotic citizen can read without
intense disgust the following report of the
Hamburg Consul to the United States
Treasury Department:
"It seems a very sad commentary to
have to make on the shipping of our coun
try when I reply to the first four inter
rogatories of the treasury by saying that
during the year in question there waa not
a single American steamer of any sort or
tonnage entered at this port. Nor can I
lind in the records of this consulate, cover
ing a period of over thirty-five years, a
trace of any others, with the exception of
the year IS3B, when one steamer of about
1900 gross tons happened in.
"I cannot but believe that such an an-
nouncement would astound most of our
people when it is considered that Ham
burg, a city of over half a million souls, is,
after Liverpool and New York, the largest
shipping port in the world; that it is by
far the most important seaport and dis
tributing center of the Continent; that in
its harbor can be seen the Hag of every
third-rate power in the world that has a
seacoast; that so large a part of it has
been built with American dollars; that its
import and export trade with the United
States is larger by much than that with
any other country, and that one steamship
line alone dispatches on an average over
three steamers a week the year round car
rying passengers to the United States,
while the same number bring them back
from there."
England's greatness is mainly due to her
supremacy on the sea. She practically
does the ocean carrying trade for the
world, and America pays untold millions
annually as tribute to the shrewdness of
John Bull. "We can no longer pursue this
policy of supineness. There is rising in
the Orient a young giant whose slumbers
were broken by the guns of Commodore
Perry, and who now is about to enter the
arena of maritime conquest and contest
with all comers for the trade of the Pacific.
That this danger is not remote is evi
denced by the action of the Japanese Diet
in February last in passing resolutions to
open great lines of communication with
Australia. Europe and America by gen
erous subsidies to its steamship companies,
taking their cue in this respect from na
tions who have learned the wisdom of the
policy. . Are we to remain content on land,
or will a generous Congress enable us to
win back the inheritance which we have
lost?
FOR CLEAN JOURNALISM.
The Call stands not only for legitimate
journalism, but for clean journalism. It
has attested its earnestness in the one case
by refusing to publish lottery advertise
ments or fakes of any kind, and it will now
give proof of sincerity in the cause of clean
journalism by reporting the Dnrrant case
simply as a matter of Jaw proceeding, and
not as a morbid sensation, giving all the
news, all the evidence and even* notable
feature of the trial, but carefully abstain
ing from any tendency to pander to de
praved tastes by giving exaggerated promi
nence to that which is essentially vile,
vicious and destructive of the best inter
ests of the home and the community.
It is possible that by pursuing this
course we may lose the sale of some papers
on the streets, as we have lost some by re
fusing to tolerate fakes and lotteries. We
are prepared to meet sucn loss without re
gret. The Call goes to the homes
of the best people, far and wide,
throughout the City and the State, and
it is the intention to keep it always
worthy of a welcome there. As a news
paper engaged in recording the events of
the day, it must, of course, report crimes
when they occur, but it will not make
vicious sensations of them. It will be al
ways for clean journalism, legitimate jour
nalism and honest journalism, defiling no
home into which it goes nor seeking any
approval save that of intelligent, pure
minded men and women.
A MARKED CONTRAST.
Although the Farmers' Camp of In
struction, which, under the patronage of
the State Grange, is to be opened at Camp
Roache, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, to
day, is as yet an untested experiment, it
has already attracted considerable atten
tion in the East, and in several States
there is more or less public discussion con
cerning the advisability of following the
California example.
It is curious to note that in some parts
of the East and the South fears are ex
pressed that if such assemblies were at
tempted in those sections they would de
generate into a species of political camp
meetings. The Galveston News, for ex
ample, after reviewing what The Call has
said about the prospects for good at Camp
Roache, says: "Schools of this kind are
badly needed in Texas and in other States;
but if a meeting were called to discuss the
economics of the farm it is quite probable,
judging the future by the past, that the
whole shooting match would be captured
by wild-eyed political apostles, each in
tent to convince and scorning to learn,
and so turned over to unprofitable and un
timely campaign wailing and trancing."
That no such "wailing and trancing"
has for a moment ever been thougnt of in
connection with Camp Roache is another
evidence of the superior conditions of rural
life in California when compared with that
in other States. In this golden land the
politician does not bo3s the farmer. He is
never permitted to jump a farmers' meet
ing and run it to suit liis notion. Camp
Roache will be a genuine school of instruc
tion in agriculture and economics. Those
who give the instruction will be acknowl
edged authorities on the subjects they deal
with— men holding high rank as educators
and scientists — fully capable of making
their lectures in a high degree profitable to
every earnest listener and student in the
camp.
The contrast in this regard between Cali
fornia and some if not most of her sister
States may well be noted among her ad
vantages. It can result only from one of
two things. Either our farmers are more
intelligent than those of the East, and
therefore moie capable of distinguishing
between a philosophical discussion of
economic topics and a political harangue,
or else they are more prosperous, and
therefore better able to study conditions
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1895.
scientifically instead of complaining of
them as grievances. Perhaps both of
these causes have combined to produce the
contrast so favorable to us. It is one, at
any rate, we can regard with satisfaction
and a just pride when during the next two
weeks we note day by day the proceedings
at the camp.
THE SOUTHERN OUTLET.
The efforts which the Southern Heights
Improvement Club is making to introduce
an adequate water service at the Potrero
and otherwise to make that part of the
City more important than it is call to mind
a long series of very interesting matters.
A good many years ago a sharp land
scheme worked up a boom for that section,
and many thousands of lots were soJd to
confiding purchasers. • Many of these lots
have been since sold under the hammer;
and while that miserable speculation
ruined the progress of the section for nearly
two decades, and went to the long account
of the evils which booms create, matters
are going forward there now at a rate and
in a spirit which deeply concern the entire
City.
Other causes have operated against the
advancement of the Potrcro. One was the
unattractive name of Butohertown, which
is situated therein, and the other was the
execrable condition of Kentucky street,
the direct route from that section to the
downtown part of the mam City. Within
the last year Kentucky street has been
paved with basalt blocks, the wretched
horsecar line has been changed to an elec
tric road and extended more than a mile
beyond its former terminus, the Six
teenth-street electric road has been con
structed, and the whole region has been
opened comfortably to all~parts of the
South Side and the City at large. More
than that, China Basin has been leased to
the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley
Railroad, and the Southern Pacific is re
ported to be ready to construct its long
promised "cut-off," which will divert the
main line of the Coast Division from the
Ocean View route to the Potrero. An en
largement of school facilities, an extension
of the street-lighting system and a more
cenerous police and fire protection are
among the more recent acquisitions.
It has been many years since the famous
old San Bruno road was practically for
gotten for the San Jose road, and yet the
San Bruno road, which is the southern
outlet for the Potrero, is by long odds the
most interesting and picturesque drive on
the peninsula. Had Railroad avenue and
Kentucky street long ago been made
decent highways the San Bruno road would
never have lost its popularity. A vast
amount of improvement between the
southern terminus of the Railroad-avenue
electric line and that part of the San Bruno
road which begins at the bay shore will
have to be done before the influence of the
Potrero can be felt toward the south. There
exists a noble opportunity for making this
old road the handsomest drive that San
Mateo and San Francisco counties can
foster.
It follows the base of the steep, dnn
slopes of the San Bruno hills, keeping
some fifteen feet above the high water of
the bay, and pursuing the shore contour in
all its bewildering windings to Baden. At
intervals in the trip southward from Rail-
road avenue an ancient and all but aban
doned wayside inn is passed — not such
hard, mean and dreary resorts as are found
along the newer suburban thoroughfares,
but quaint and rambling old houses set in
parks of cypress and eucalyptus, all shel
tered from wind and sun, and looking rest
ful and inviting. Their nlory has been
gone these many years, but their charm
has only been heightened by time and
neglect, and there is many an enterprising
wheelman who knows of the quiet and re
pose which they are still able to extend.
That is the southern outlet of the Po
trero. On the north the sappers of progress
are building roads and street 3, and in the
heart of the Potrero itself formidable hill
barriers are fading away to meet the de
mand for room. The wonderful stone dry
dock, perched away ou on the extremity
of Hunters Point, is as yet approached only
by the meanest and poorest of roads, and
not the slightest effort has been made to
extend this drive southwardly around the
point to rejoin Railroad avenue or the San
Bruno road.
The heights of the Potrero are exceed
ingly picturesque, for the hills of San
Bruno have a charm and character not
possessed by the other hilly regions of the
City, and now that the City has at last
discovered how valuable a section this is
the hammer and saw are giving clamorous
evidence of development.
THE NEWSPAPER IN THE FAMILY.
Few men or women would wittingly allow
acquaintances of impure mind to invade the
sanctity of their homes, to seat themselves by
the fireside and converse with them and their
children on subjects unfitting in character and
degrading in tendency, cays the New York
Mail and Express, and yet how many of these
people who are most careful in their friend
ships allow publications to enter their homes,
the influence of which is vastly more insidious
and demoralizing than is that ol any in
dividual.
The ordinary objectionable publication can
be guarded against, but with the average daily
sensational newspaper the good and the bad
are so interwoven, so inextricably mixed, that
it seems almost impossible to find in these
days a paper which can without fear be intro
duced into households where young girls and
boys are a component part of the family life.
The rapidly developing tendency to treat of
all matters, no matter what their nature, on a
news basis has had, and is having, a serious
effect, not perhaps as yet so much on actual
morality as on the public sentiment toward It.
It takes very little familiarity to accustom the
average man or woman, young or old, to a
contemplation of vice, and familiarity with it
quickly results in a passiveness in viewing it
which destroys that feeling of disgust and an
tagonism toward it which is the safeguard of
society.
When a scoffing and sneering influence is
brought into the lives of the young the effect is
especially disastrous, for it appeals to an un
formed and eager imagination, willing to see
in such authority a worldly wisdom and
knowledge.
Vulgar jokes, personal abuse of political
rivals, unpatriotic views of patriotic events,
the distortion and criticism of the motives and
endeavors of honest men, all combine to make
the reader a more undesirable neighbor and
citizen and to lower the standard of public
morality.
There is only one method of remedying this
evil of plain speech on unsavory subjects and
disingenuous criticism on current events; it is
for the public to discountenance it by ceasing
to read or bring into the family the papers
i which give it circulation. This can be done,
and should be done. There are decent papers;
papers into the columns of which sensational
news and scandalous matters are never ad
mitted. These should be supported.
Generally speaking a newspaper is what the
mass of its readers wan^ it to be. The law of
supply and demand is almost universal, and
yet the right exerts a strong influence. It Has
a potential power of its own. Editors, as a
rule, debire to cater to what is good rather than
to what is evil.
The trouble is that it is the wrong kind of
influence which is apt to be most ;in evidence,
and it is this which has had much to do in 'de
veloping the sensational features •of modern
journalism. This has been so, but a reaction is
inevitable, and signs, of rit are already appar
ent." Men who are interested in this end of the
century's social development can do no greater
good than by bringing direct pressure to bear
on the editorial; sanctums of the great news
papexa. 9 ■ ' .' '. '. ;; : f,* J *
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
It Is a safe speculation that if the Fish Com
missioners ever want to confer with a reliable
authority on the piscatorial art they will
never po to Tom Burns, cashier of the United
States Treasury. The only objection is that
Mr. Burns has generated some original meth
ods in the matter of fishing and they are not,
as a rule, accepted by the better class of legiti
mate anglers.
To illustrate Tom's peculiarities: One day
last week he decked himself out in a complete
fisherman's costume— British hat, laced boots,
wicker basket and all— and proceeded to leave
his house ior a few hours' sport in the deep,
'deep sea. Toward evening he came straggling
back to the City with a weary look and met
some friends coming out of the Occidental
Hotel. "Hello, Tom. What luck?" wan the
first inquiry.
"Luck?" queried Tom. "Plenty of it. Just
come out in the annex of this institution and
I'll show you. Stand back there, Doc Hughes,
while I hold this big one up in front of your
eyes." With that he plunged his hands down
to the bottom of his basket and felt around
for a moment with an earnest expression on
his face.
"Where did you catch them, Tom?"
"Off the point by the old fort above Sausa
lito," answered Burns, still searching for the
"big one." "Oh, here it is. How's that, Doc?"
he remarked as he brought a three-pound Lake
Tahoe trout into view. "Ain't she a dandy?"
Dan O'Connell, who happened to be present,
looked sideways at Jim Flynn and Flynn
looked inquiringly at Hughes, ♦who In turn
was eying Mr. Burns with a suspicious look on
his face. Burns was absolutely indifferent to
the silence, for no one said a word. All eyes
were riveted on the fish. Presently the man
who went down to the sea in a boat broke out :
"No wonder you're knocked speechless. I
should think you would also lose your sight.
Hid you ever see anything to approach that.
Here's another." He tnen proceeded to drai?
out a two-pounder and followed it with a doMO
brook trout. The silence was almost visible to
the naked eye, and O'Connell was compelled
to approach the nickel-in-the-slot machine for
fear he would break out in such tremendous
applause that he would be put out of the place.
Presently Mr. Flynn, who has known Burns
since childhood, threw off his dazed condition
and inquired of Thomas how he caught them.
"Weli, I don't like to give up the rudiments
of angling to immature sportsmen like you,
Jim, but if O'Connell will quit moping over
there and acknowledge that he is not the only
angler in this county I will tell you how it is
done."
Dau straightened his face out, extracted a
caviar sandwich from the lunch table and
bowed gracefully.
"All right, Dan. Never be jealous of a good
angler. It happened this way. I caught the
small trout in the surf with a fly, and in the
afternoon I floated out a little from land and
sneaked these big ones out with a trolling line.
Always bait with worms, Dan. By the wuy,
it's a wonder you never got onto that place.
Well, I've got to get home. See you to-mor
row."
Mr. Burns moved away, and the worthy
Daniel O'Connell, poet, playwright, bard and
Bohemian, muttered, "Great guns, Tom Burns
has a prolific imagination."
JUDGE ROSS' DECISION.
Heretofore it has been almost the invariable
rule for United States Judges to conform their
decisions to those of Stales in Stfcte matters,
but the "new man" is on the bench now. The
States can hardly do anything nowadays but
what United States Judges may be induced to
see some Federal question involved and act
accordingly. Judge-made Jaw is the more
alarming because it passcth the understanding
of men to foresee it. To use a Scriptural
simile, it often "comes like & thief in the
night." This decision of Judge Ross unsettles
investments from $30,000,000 to $50,000,000,
investments made under a law that had stood
the test of our State Supreme Judges and of as
able and careful attorneys as there are in
Europe and America. It also casts a blight
over many settlements founded on the Wright
law. But we understand Noah and his family
survived the flood; the United States, the Civil
War; the railroads, the Debs rebellion, and the
country is likely to survive the second admin
istration of Grover Cleveland, and California
may prosper despite the decision of Judge
Ross. — Pomona Times.
But Judge Ross' judgment is not infallible,
and to the common-sense mind of one not
versed in law intricacies there are evidences of
weakness in his conclusions. We have only a
short time to wait for the ruling of the United
States Supreme Court on a similar case, which,
of course, applies to the Fallbrook issue, and
there seems a reasonable probability that the
Wright irrigation act will be sustained.— San
Diego Sun.
Judge Ross of the United States District
Court has decided that the Wright law is un
constitutional. This is an unfortunate decision
for California as it affects the irrigation dis
tricts formed under its provisions. If the law
is in conflict with mandatory provisions of the
constitution, and the Supreme* Court affirms
this view, then it will affect the bonds.—Ma
rysville Democrat.
If Judge Ross' law is less sound than his loy
alty; if the taking and selling of property
under the Wright irrigation act be really for a
"public use"— then the Supreme Court of the
United States can be trusted to so declare. In
fact, that tribunal has always given the benefit
of every doubt in favor of great public enter
prises and improvements.— Sacramento Bee.
In these days of stupendous enterprises, con
ducted by enormous aggregations of capital,
we are gradually drifting away from the an
cient moorings of constitutional regard for
individual rights, and if we are ever to return
to them it will be through the application of
some such heroic remedy as that prescribed by
Judge Ross.— San Luis Obispo Breeze.
The Ross decision will injuriously affect
many, while the State decisions damaged few,
but this does not decide the question of right
and wrong involved. If the Ross decision is
sustained the regret will be that in the enact
ment of the Wright law the Legislature in try
ing to do too much defeated itself by doing
nothing.— Stockton Independent.
The result is likely to be so serious that it
suggests the query whether the law might not
be amended so as to secure investors from loss
and provide a way by which improvements
now in progress can continue. The expense of
a special session of the Legislature would seem
to be warranted by the existing conditions.—
Riverside Press.
Irrigation is the great question in California,
but the courts have made small headway in
solving the legal status of water. The riparian
question has not been solved, and the water
used by thousands of people in producing mil
lions of dollars' worth of products is so used by
sufferance or by shotgun law.— Colusa Sun.
The irrigation question is so important for
California that it cannot be allowed to sleep,
and some way of keeping within the constitu
tion and yet building Irrigation ditches will
have to be discovered, and no doubt will be.—
Los Angeles Express. *
If Judge Ross is sustained in the position he
has taken then it will be necessary for the
friends of irrigation to frame a new law. It is
not for a moment to be imagined that the
desert wastes are to remain unsubdued.—River
side Enterprise.
The most serious question affecting the irri
gation sections locally is how to adjust matters
so as to keep up the water service established
under the district system, or what to substitute
for that form of organization or co-operation. —
San Bernardino Times-Index.
The decision, if sustained, paves the way for
interminable litigation, for the millions of dol
lars of indebtedness that exists, and the owner
ship of the water rights, will all have to be set
tled by proceedings in equity.— Los Angeles
Journal.
If the decision of Judge Ross is good law,
then the credit of California ought to and will
suffer very materially in the estimation of the
capitalists of the world.— Visalia Times.
ON THE SIDE OF REFORM.
With all their faults, newspapers are indis
pensable, and life would lose half its charms
without them. Let it be said to their credit
that in time of great popular outcry against
abuses their voice is generally on the Bide of
reform.— Justice Brown of the United States
Supreme Court before the Yale law graduates.
THE LAST MAN.
A LEGEND OF A LAW-ABIDIKG PEOPLE.
Undertaking to make my way on foot across
a piece of desert in Arizona, I was overtaken
by a sandstorm, and there began in good earn
est a battle for life. My course was with the
wind. I would fall occasionally and sometimes
I would think of resting, but the danger of
being covered with sand gave me nerve to
move on.
Finally I gave up the struggle and was happy
in the thought that death would boon end all.
But a man bent over me and whispered "Cour
age." He took me by the hand and led me on,
for how long I know not, but we were finally
seated in the shelter of one of the old Aztec
ruins.
He took from his pocket a small vial and
poured a few drops of the liquid on my tongue.
I felt a renewed energy sureing through my
every nerve. I asked him what it was.
"That," he said, "is an elixir made of the
fruit of thin valley four thousand years ago."
I looked incredulous, and he continued:
"I will tell you a story, for when you leave
here you cannot tell whether you have been
THE JUDGES SAT UPON THE BENCH, HOLLOW-EYED AND PALE.
[From a sketch made for "The Call."]
dreaming, or whether you really met a man
responsible for the deoth of a nation; a man
who has been doomed to wander over this re
gion until a people shall come capable of mak
ing laws for their own government and preser
vation. Shall I tell you the story?"
Wondering if I had not been thrown in with
a lunatic or whether I was not really in a
dream, I nodded assent, and he continued:
"I'll is country was inhabited by a people civil
ized to a high degree. Comparing dates with
your chronology, I think the occurrence I am
about to state took place about the time Moses
.was leading the children of Israel out of
Egypt. The ownership of the land wns abso
lutely in the individual. I was an ambitious
man and sought to be the ruler of my people,
but I did not succeed and became morose. The
people lived by taking the water out over the
laud through the caniils, the ruins of which you
see here. I owned the land at the very mouth
of tne stream. Reading one day the musty
volumes of antiquity, I found that it was a law
of the people from whence our ancestors came
that any man owning land on a stream had a
right to have the water flow on past his land
undiminished in quantity. I said that the
people should no longer take the water
out of the stream to water their lands.
I took the musty volume to our court,
and the court said I had a right to enforce the
demand. By order of the court every irrigat
ing ditch was closed. A drought came to help
me on in my punishment of the people. Vines
and trees died and crops did not reach the
harvest. They passed a law to pay me for the
use of the water, but the court said that water
for irrigation was not a public use and my
right could not thus be condemned ; that I had
a right to see that water flow past my door un-
impaired in quality, undiminished in quantity.
Death by starvation began to come. Some
people said they would take it by force, but the
soldiers, starving themselves for want of food,
shot the excited and unreasoning down. The
Judges sat upon the bench hollow-eyed and
pale.
"They appealed to me, but I knew no re
morse until every living creature was dead,
and then I heard a voice as from the clouds
pronounce my doom. Then I found that I had
been crazy, but it was all too late! yes, too late,
too late."
"Will your wanderings cease," I asked,
"when water may be taken from the stream
without the consent of the lowest man down
the stream; in other words, when taking
water for irrigation shall be declared a public
use?"
"Yes, but that I fear me is a long, long way
off."
"No," I said, and I said it with some pride,
"we of California have such a law and our
courts have declared that such taking is a
public use. You may soon be at rest. You
may order your coffin as soon as you please."
"I had some hope in that decision," he said,
"but you will find that my hope was not well
founded. In the meantime let me pour another
drop or so of this elixir on your tongue; you
need rest. * * *
When I awoke I felt refreshed and I thought
that it had not been all a dream. I made my
way to a small railroad station and took the
train. From the newsboy I purchased a copy
of The Call, and the first thing that attracted
my attention was a telegraphic account of the
decision of Judge Ross, declaring the Wright
act unconstitutional; declaring that water
for irrigation was not a public use; that there
could be no legal diversion of water. And then
the picture of those ancient Judges, "hollow
eyed and pale," still upholding the law, re
turned to my mental view. I thought of that
unhappy wanderer still longing for his coffin.
Will S. Green.
San Francisco, July 2G, iS9D.
OUT-OF-TOWN PERSONALS.
Santa Cruz, July 25.— Arrivals at Sea Beach
Hotel for the past week were: Mr. and Mrs. M.
Louis, Miss Jessie Louis, Mr. and Mrs. C. B.
Wamdorff, A. M. Barker, M, S. de Quadros, Mrs.
L. D. Brown, Miss L. M. Boynton, Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Hodgkin and family, Miss Macdonald,
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Armstrong, E. N. Snitzer,
Mr. and Mrs. E. Schrader, Mr. and Mrs. M. Wolf
and family, H. L. Martin, James C. Martin, Mr.
and Mrs. S. B. Livingston, Mrs. Joseph R. Ry
land, Mrs. A. G. Ehrenberg and children, A. N.
Ramsay, C. S. Wallis, Mrs. G. W. Baylay, A. N.
Baylay.E. M.Arthur, Mrs. G. H. Wheaton, Miss
Street, \V. R. Wheaton, 11. T. Lally and family,
F. P. Spiers, Mrs. E. Butler, William
McNett, A. P. Hayne, E. C. Bedell and
son, Miss H. F. Willey, Miss N. T. Bennett,
George H. Pippy, D. W. Kirkland, L. N. Baker,
Mrs. Hague, Miss Lillian Hague, Mr. and Mrs.
H. Hart, Mrs. H. C. SymoTids and son, Mrs. H.
J. Slocura, Mr. and Mrs. K. E. Vander Veer,
Mrs. N. P. Chipman, Miss Alice Chipman, Mrs.
James Finnoll, Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Bowcien,
J. 8. Janes, Ernest Lion, Mr. and Mrs. C. J.
Church, E. W. Williams, John N. Featherston,
A. S. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Weber, Mrs.
F. W. Moore, A. M. Sharp, Charles Hunt, Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Fuller, Mrs. George Jones, Mr.
and Mrs. A. G. Smith, Joseph Bernard. E. H.
Garrett, Alice Garreti, Henry Garrett, Mrs. H.
Brown, Master Hubert Brown, Eva Roff, C. H.
Gordan, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hill and family,
Miss Grace Taylor, Miss A. Taylor, G. W.
Kramer, Mrs. C. Dunn, Miss Dunn, J. L.
Posadas, M. W. Posadas, Mrs. Charles A.
Hibbard, Mrs. J. L. Daniels, W. A. Buckhart,
Mr. and Mrs. James Bithel, Mr. and Mrs. C.
Muller, Gus Lion, C. A. Hibbard, J. L. Daniels,
Mrs. O. M. Ladd and children, Mr. and Mrs. J.
P. Dorsey, Mrs. P. Davis, Miss Rose Davis, J. H.
Garrett, P. J. Donohue, W. P. Thompson, Na
thaniel Symonds, Mrs. Teresa Crosson, Miss
Mary Crosson, Miss Charity Crosson, G. G. Kim
ball, Henry W. Gardes, W. L. Helke, Mrs. D.
Rothenbush, Miss Louise Rothenbush, J. L.
Harris, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Coope and daughter,
Samuel Bibo, William N. Kitchenu, Miss
Trimble, R. S. Hunkins, A. P. Frazer,
J. C. Frazer, Mrs. J. Campoell Harris,
S. Powers Harris, H. F. Harris, Ed
mund Bliss, Mrs. Louis Lieb, Miss Morse, Miss
K. Morse, Mr. and Mrs. McD. R. Veuable,
Joseph Steele, Mrs. A. Heiderheimer, Miss C.
Rosenblatt, E. S. Rosenblatt, Mr. and Mrs. E.
D. Moore, H. F. Gould, Miss Anna Wainright,
Miss Carrie Gould, Miss Leekly, Miss Davison,
Miss May Lowell.
Monterey, July 25.— The following are the
San Franciscans registered here during the
past week ; Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Henecken, Mr.
and Mrs. G. M. Stevens, Lieutenant Treat and
family, R. B. Hoyne, J. Glover Smith, A. D.
Cutler, Dr. G. F. Winslow and family, H. E.
Huntingdon, William F. Herrne, E. S. Pills
bury, E. S. Pillsbury Jr., F. R. AVebster, Mr. and
Mrs. Malcolm Thomas. Mrs. Bliss, W. F. Bas
sett, Mr. and Mrs. Witcher, A. M. Ramsey, G.
H. Benton, Misses M. and L. Burton, M. Ca
rilla, C. Johnson, John Hammond, Mr. and
Mrs. F. A. Whitelaw. E. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. C.
Rosenblatt, E. S. Rosenblatt, H. C. Bush,
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Bruse, Mrs. George H.
Mendell, Miss L. Mendell, J. A. Mendell,
Clarence Mendell, Marlon P. Maus, W. H. Tay
lor Jr., H. G. Howell, H. M. Stetson, A. J.
Dibblee, L. E. Van Winkle, H. R. Teyis, James
H. Burline-, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Beveridge. Mrs.
H. Judas, Miss Hersthman, Mrs. S. H. Learv,
Miss L. Leary, Mrs. S. F. Sandford, R. L.
Fleirthal, Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, Alyce Gates,
Gertrude Gates, Horace Hili, Miss C. Meyer,
Miss Meyer, Mrs. C. L. Ackerman, Master Acker
man, P. C. Meyer.
Vichy Springs, July 25.— Among the late
arrivals here from San Francisco are: W. S.
Fitch, E. Berge, Seth Mann, L. S. Vassault, F.
T. Vassault, E. Knowlton, Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Capelle, General and Mrs. John A. Dickinson,
Major and Mrs. D. O. Miles, J. Simpson and
family, H. L. Van Wyck and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Asa R. Wells, Joseph Clark, Mrs. B. W.
Day, Miss Mollie Day, J. J. B. Argent!, H. C.
Owens, Charles Albert Adams, Mr. and Mr?.
John L. Colter, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hosmer and
family, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. M. Lange, Miss M.
Lange", Miss Myra Jeffers, Mrs. M. A. Becker,
Miss Etta Bennes, Mr. and Mrs. W. I). O'Kane,
Mrs. C. F. Doyle, Thomas \V. Doyle, George
Goodman, Miss Kate Meanasses, Consul-gen
eral Adolph Rosenthal and family, Mr. and
Mrs. F. K. Shattuck, Miss Blanch Morse, Mrs.
T. G. Gruenhagen, Miss Clara Lauterwas'er,
Miss Dennis, Mi«s Heiiderson, Miss Hongs
berger, Miss Castlehun, George Jones, Mrs. A.
W. Mouiten, Mrs. A. A. Martin. Mrs. Alex
Warner, Miss Eleanor Warner, Miss Alysse
Warner. Mrs. L. Goodfriend and children, Dr.
L. Pawiicki, Captain Bidlawski, Mrs. J. G.
Granuis. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Berg
ham, Mrs. W. J. Lowry, Miss Lowry,
Mis-s Isabell Lowry, F. Washington, Mr. find
Mrs. J. B. Mclntyre, Mr. and Mrs. William
Brodcrirk, Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Sparrowe, H.
Skelly, Miss Sadie Skelly, Alameda; Harry Jt.
Allen, Miss Margaret Wales, Mrs. R. E. Co'! by,
Miss IS. E. Colby, Alex B. Watson, C. A. Bond
and family, San Rafael; Andrew Marktim and
family, Mr. ana Mrs. J. B. Davis, Miss Ethel
Davis', Santa liosa; J. George Gardiner, (ink
land; Volney V. Ashford, Honolulu; Charles
Huk, Eureka.
Howard Springs, Lake County, July 25.— The
latest arrivals here are: Mr. and Mrs. 1).
Knabbe, Mr. and Mrs. John Lutzec, Miss A.
Lutzen, Mrs. D. Megowan, Miss M. Megowan,
Mr. and Mrs. I. Townsend, Mr. and Mrs. John
Niehlson, D. Dunker, Charles Jonas, Miss L.
Mahoney, M. Sol Ileyman, 11. A. Wuhrman, J.
Seedorf, Martin Uencken, Nicholas Fick, Au
gu.~t I.rune, Mis*s A. Brune, A. J. Barkley. Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas Martin, Miss M. Kennedy,
William Kennedy, H. F. Suhr, James Taylor,
William Foster, Mr. and Mrs. James Badger, X
F GiH, Mr. Stalker, Miss Gorman, Mrs. L. E. de
Urunnela, Miss Lucy de UrhnueJa, N. E. de
Uruuuela, A. C. de urundela, P. de TTrnnuela,
Ben de Urunuela, Mrs. H. K. Zeimer, Hon.J.
V. Coffey, J. C'offey, Father Scanlan, Father
Lagan, Robert Sanderson, P. T. Duncan, Mr.
and Mrs. B. Carbon, Ben Eriekson.
Pkaggs Hot Springs, July 24.— Amonsr the
late arrivals here are: \V. F. Connolly, George
Murison, J. W. Carmany, L. F. Olsen, E. C. Bal
lard, Miss Sadie Skelly, M. Skelly, S. 11. Parker,
Ralph Givin, Mr. and Mrs. Byron Mauzy, J. J.
Crowe, G. Crowe, Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Oakley, A.
Hutchison, 11. Roinig, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Pe
hay, V. Aravin, T. J. Dehay, F. Vadon, Miss E.
I)i hay, T. Dehay, P. Dehay, J. P. Thomas, A. L.
Fisher, J. C. Xealon, J. Nealon, J. C. Cuuning
ham, Charles H. Meyer, C. A. Meyer, J. H.
Meyer, H. H. Pabst, Mrs. H. Schmidt and son,
Mrs. C. Peltier, W. P.. Cluff, Mrs. A. McLaugh
lin, Miss Jennie McLaughlin, Dr. C. W. Weaver,
Miss A. Baker, William Leist, Miss K. Porter
field, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Sharon, Miss M.
Phelps.
Gllroy Springs, Santa Clara County, July 23.
Following are the latest arrivals at the
springs: J. B. Lanigan, E. S. Gilbert, Nat De
martini, Miss Nannie McNally, Mr. and Mrs.
Ed M. Grancy, John C. Coyle Humphrey, O. J.
Phillips, Mrs. H. C. Tobin, Mrs. Henry Mayock,
Miss Ama Mayock, Dan Miller, V. Milasich, A.
E. VVeith. Adam Miller, E. A. Hermann, H.
Atkinson, Pierre Carrere, J. Ilenry Dibbern,
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rainey, Mr. and Mrs.
Denis Sullivan, L. G. Dolliver, John Rainsburg,
Mrs. Snell, S. S. Powers, Mr. and Mrs. Ruther
ford, Mrs. Thompson, James H. Doran, Mrs.
Breeze, Mrs. Charles Augustus and family, T.
B. Neil.
SANTA CRUZ, Cal., July 25.— The late ar
rivals at the Hotel del Mar ore: Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Lauxen, Miss Lita Lauxen, Mr. and
Mrs. J. D Gall, Master J. Gall, M. A. Ryan,
Stockton; Miss Carrie Buckley, Napa; Mrs. J.
P. Montague, Miss Montague, Miss Josephine
McGregor, M. Silverbenr. Oakland; Miss Mary
Connelly, E. Hayns, Philip Bannon, L. F. Ban
non, W. H. Looker, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Creigh
ton, Master Walter Creighton, Mrs. A. J. Mar
tin and son, Miss Virginia Martin, Miss Irene
Pendergast, Mr. and Mrs. J. Mahoney, Master
Fred Mahoney, San Francisco.
Madrone Mineral Springs, July 25.— Among
the late arrivals here are: J. Bender and son,
Miss M. Bender. Miss E. Bender, Ohio; E.
Bender, Morgan Hill; A. J. Stalded, J. S.
Turner, E. 11. Benmson, San Jose; George
Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Ciprico, Mrs. G.
ftorn. F. H. Hyde, S. K. Snyder, San Francisco;
L. J. Pinard, Madrone; Mr. and Mrs. Nathan
Abbott, Miss Dorthy Abbott, Miss Phyllis
Abbott, Mrs. Jessie K. Jordan, Stanford Univer
sity; Miss E. Dyer, Oakland.
Hopland. Mendocino County, July 24.—
Among the late arrivals at Duncan Springs are:
Albert Getz, Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Mosebach, Mrs.
Ellis, James M. Keliey, James F. Brown, John
Sroufe, San Francisco; C. Temple, Santa Rosa-
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Brown, Mrs. A. J. Brown
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Dresser, Elmira ; Mrs. Greene
and son, Cloverdale; Mrs. L. W. Burris and
Master Earl Burris, W. J. Eardley. Santa Rosa
NEW YORK, N. V., July 26.— Californians reg
istered at hot-els to-day were : San Francisco—
J. Mcßobie, G. Simmons, Broadway Central-
Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Stovel, Brunswick- H s'
Dutton, Bartholdi; E. Newman, Union Sauare-
W. S. Risteu, Park Imperial: M. Shelden F m'
Vail, Grand. California— Mr. and Mrs. A. Mo
nolli, Astor.
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.
The American people are not worrying so
much about the possibility of a third term for
Cleveland as they are about the fact that there
is stiil a good deal of his second term to be en
dured.—Astorian (Oregon).
.The true newspaper man devotes more time
to the benefit of the community than any other
person, because he sees that the upbuilding of
his neighbor redounds to his own benefits as
well as theirs. He perceives that the interest of
each is mutual.— Roseburg (Or.) Plain Dealer.
If local water companies can get out of taxa
tion of their franchises in this county by hav
ing their principal places of business (that is,
their officei) in San Francisco it would be a
good idea for the Assessor over there to make
sure that he gets them on bi3 list.— Oakland
Enquirer.
Democratic jouVnals say the Republicans
will not venture to restore their old tariff sys
tem nor to make the campaign of 1896 upon a
demand for its restoration. Perhaps Demo
cratic journals will tell us how the treasury is
to get money enough for current expenses un
less the Republican tariff system is restored.
By continuing to sell bonds?— Portland Ore
gon! an.
PERSONAL.
J. M. McPike of Napa is at the Baldwin.
Robert Effey, Mayor of Santa Cruz, is at the
Palace.
I). S. Cone, a capitalist of Red Bluff, is a guest
at the Palace.
W. F. Peterson, a merchant of Sacramento, is
at the Grand.
L. Gerlach, a big cattle man of Stockton, is
staying at the Grand.
John Brenner, a merchant of Sacramento, is
a guest at the Grand.
Frank 11. Buca, a bie fruit-grower of Vnca
ville, is staying at the I'alp.ce.
G. McGettigan, a Government contractor and
politician of Vallejo, is at the Kuss.
F. L. Erickion, a railroad contractor on the
coast line near Guadalupe, is at the Grand.
W. S. Leane, Postmaster at Sacramento, and
Mrs. Leane registered yesterday at the Palace.
Barney D. Murphy, capitalist and ex-Mayor
of San Jose, was one ot yesterday's arrivals at
the Palace.
Carter H. Harrison Jr. will return to Chicago
the latter part of July after Biz months spent
in Asiatic and European travel, says the New
York Newspaper Maker. William Preston Har
ison is sojourning in the South Sea Islands
and has succeeded in reaching the interior of
the largest of the Fiji Islands, something no
other American has attempted. He is furnish
ing a series of letters descriptive of his travels
to a number of prominent newspapers in the
United States.
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.
Student (to professor)— Has it ever been dis
covered who was the man in the iron mask?
Professor Oldsport— He was the original um
pire.—Harlem Life.
She— So there are the Alps at lastl
He— Must be. You don't suppose a first-class
tourist company like this would work off any
substitutions or imitations on its patrons?—
Life.
"What a good time young Dummins seems to
be having to-night."
"Yes; he doesn't know enough to realize
how miserable such a blamed fool as he is
ought to be."— New York Recorder.
"Ah," remarked Mr. Quilp, "but women
haven't the play of intellect that men have."
"No, of course not," snapped Mrs. Quilp.
"Woman's intellect works."— Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
HAD HIS HEAD TURNED BY AX ACTRESS.
[From Truth.]
Broken, mixed candies, 10c lb, Townsend's.*
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Bacon Printing Company, 503 Clay streat '
•-■ '£'-■;* ' ♦ — -> — • ■
Ocean Excursions.
Steamship Pomona, to Santa Cruz and Mon-
terey, leaves Saturdays, 4 p. m., due back Mon-
days, sa. m. Ticket office, 4 New Montgomery
street. *
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Golden Gate Dramatic Association, under
the auspices of the senior members of the
Young People's Christian Endeavor, A. M. E.
Zion's Church, will render the popular tem-
perance pplaty t "Ten Nights in a Barroom," at
Union-square Hall, '421 Ppst street, Monday
evening, July 29. Admission 25c; children '
half price; reserved seats 25c extra. *
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The word hoyden, now applied ex-
clusivply to a noisy young woman, for-
merly denoted a person of like character,
but of either sex.
Health for the year is to be had by taking
Hood's Sarsdparilla. It sustains the strength and
prevents Illness by toning and Invigorating all the
organs of the body. Take only Hood's.
> ♦ » — ■
If yon suffer irom looseness of the bowels, Dr. '
Siegert's A ngostura Bitters will surely cure yon.
•— .#. — • .
Adieu formerly signified To God. It was
an abbreviation of a benediction used by
friends when parting.
IT A 1!""TE> h"H it U "Hf"^
LABELLE
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CIGARS
. MANUFACTURED BY
S. HERNSHEIM BROS. & CO.,
NEW ORLEANS, LA.
EINALDO BROS. & CO.,
PACIFIC COAST AGENTS,
300-302 BATTERY ST., S. F.
Branch 29-31-33
South First St., San Jose, Cal.
FOR SALE BY
los. lap I Sons,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
And Publishers "Keal Estate Circular."
4 Montgomery Street,
Mil TRUST BUILDHG, COMER MARKET.
TBRI FINE INVESTMENTS.
Ninth, between Market and Mission; 50x100;
tents about $100 a month with old frame: $30,000.
A bargain; 45y8^' ; Channel, between Fifth
ana .Sixth, back to Berry St.: double front; only
$14,000; very, very cheap: pays ft little now.
■ Sutter-st. investment — North side, near Taylor;
22-6 feet front and very line dwelling; would rent
for $100; $18,000.
Fourtli-st. business lot, bet. Bryant and Brannan;
25x80: 35150. ~
. Kents $100: $12,500; store property; Howard
St.. near Tenth. ■
Brannan St.; .137:6 feet front, 250 feet deep to
Bluxome St., and 137:6 on Uiuxorne: near railroad
freightsheds : only $35,000. -
Brick warehouse and lot, 187:6x188,00 Bluxome ••■>
Rt.. bet. Fifth and Sixth, only ; 5,000: 0r '275 on
Brannan by "250 to Bluxome, and 275 on Bluxome
and warehouse, $83,000.
„ Pacific aye., N. side : any size, 25, 50 or 75 feet
front: price reduced to $200 a foot; marine view.
Pacific Heights: magnificent view: residence and
large lot on Washington st. ; $37,500.
Devisadero st., nr. Washington; 25x110; reduced
to $3760; street paved; electric-cars pass; fine lot '
and neighborhood. ,
Reduced to $9000; new residence: fine marine
view: SW. cor. Green and Buchanan st».; 9 rooms
saloon parlors, electric bells, attic and basement ;
very sunny and cozy very easy terms.'
$8500— Geary st., north side, near Hyde; 25x
87 and very good 2-story. - • . .
:Pine-st. house and lot; downtown, near Stockton
St.; lot 34 :6x77 :« and 2-story house; la rooms •
reduced to $5250; c'nenp. . , *
Cheap; 85000: 15 flats and lot 41 :3x137:6- "flats
have 5 rooms each; north sido Post st., bet. Brod-
ertck. and Baker sts.; bituminized and accepted-
rents $40. „ / < . ■•.. ■-.'.■ -
o Reduced to $13,000; Ninth St.; near Mission;
25x70 and two fine Cats; should be raised and
store put In; good business block now. ' - :
Cor. Second and Minna; 40 feet front and build-*
Ings renting for $130: price $23,600. v uu "«