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SATURDAY AUGUST 3, 1895
*~~ THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The pool-sellers must go.
By constant hammering any evil can be
crushed out.
The new police captains have a chance
to distinguish themselves.
Electricity is making the gold glitter in
the deep mines of Placerville.
The lottery is hiding for a time, but the
pool-sellers are still in the open.
El Dorado County has reawakened to
the duty of making itself worthy of its
name.
California ought to send a very hand
some exhibit to go marching through
Georgia.
It would be the correct thing for the
police force to practice its new vigor on the
pool-sellers. _
All of us will want to die when Dan
O'Connell becomes superintendent of the
City Cemetery.
There seems to be a fatal newspaper
affinity between sensationalism and lottery
advertisements.
The time was when the merchant who
dared to complain aloud of railroad charges
could be punished.
Democracy is so divided that it not only
cannot stand, but cannot even lie without
fighting with itself.
Next year the presence of the Valley road
in the San Joaquin will be seen in the in
creased valuations of its real estate.
The third-term movement for Cleveland
has about stopped, but there is no visible
movement for any other Democrat.
The success of the underground trolley
in New York makes the overhead wires of
San Francisco look wild and woolly.
New York farmers complain that the
nimble grasshopper has skipped the grass
and eaten nearly all the buckwheat in the
State.
The invited guests of whom the Bible
tells that "one and all began to make ex
cuses" must have thought they were in
vited to sit on a jury.
It is encouraging to the progress of the
State to see merchants have the courage
to stand up and say what they think of
extortionate railroad charges.
The counties should not forget that the
work of getting up a good exhibit for the
Atlanta Exposition affords an opportunity
for showing harmony in action as well as
in talk.
From the vigor with which the fight for
bimetallism is being made in England it
appears that if the United States would
lead the way that country would be forced
to follow suit.
The opponents of the Sunday liquor law
in New York have become so desperate
that some of them are talking of getting
np a kind of a Horr and Harvey debate
on the subject.
Gorman's defeat of the free-trade Demo
crats would have been more satisfactory if
he were a true protectionist for all Ameri
can industries instead of merely a pro
tector of trusts.
It is really distressing to learn that the
thrilling stories of filibusters organizing on
the Pacific Coast to invade the Hawaiian
Islands were merely "fakes" by sensa
tional newspapers.
In the wild alarum of decisions declaring
laws unconstitutional it is refreshing to
observe that the Supreme Court has found
that a Los Angeles ordinance prohibiting
nuisances is constitutional.
With Los Angeles County adding $5,000,
--000 to her property valuations and San
Francisco adding only $3,000,000, it is clear
that "Solid Eights" and cobblestones are
accomplishing their ambition.
While we have been amusing ourselves
with carnivals in imitation of medieval
Venice, old Venice herself has been run
ning an international exposition of fine
arts, and amusing her visitors with up-to
date pleasures.
Now that the horseless carriage is com
ing into use, considerable interest is shown
in selecting a name for it, and while some
favor "motocycle," the general sentiment
seems inclined to "autocycle," though per-
haps for the English-speaking world "self
wheeler" would be best.
Because the sale of books and pamphlets
on the silver question is diminishing in St.
.Louis, the Globe-Democrat draws the con-
elusion that popular sentiment in favor of
silver is falling away; but it would be just
as rational to conclude . that , the people
nave made up their minds for bimetallism <
and need no more books.
The first reports of the elections in Eng
land attributed the success of the Con
servatives to a combination of "beer and
Bible," but it seems to be conceded now
that the main issue was the attitude of the
House of Lords toward the home-rule bill
and the disestablishment of the Welsh
church, and the Conservative victory,
therefore, is regarded as a triumph of the
SHAMEFUL DERELICTION.
There can be no doubt that the two Dem
ocratic members cf the Board of Railroad
Commissioners were elected because of the
very strong pledge which they took before
the Democratic State Convention about ten
months ago. This pledge was as follows :
"Whereas, The State of California pays
80 per cent of the gross earnings of the
Southern Pacific system, said gross earn
ings aggregating $45,000,000 annually;
therefore be it
"Resolved, That the cti„i*. C? for the trans
portation of freights in California by the
Southern Pacific . Company of Kentucky
and its leased lines in California should
be subjected to an average reduction of not
less than 25 per cent, and we pledge our
nominees for Railroad Commissioners to
make this reduction so demanded by the
people.
"We pledge our candidates for the Rail
road Commission to reduce the number of
freight classifications one-half, and that
during their term of office they shall
pursue their official labor unhampered
by any other business or avocation and
we further pledge them to initiate other
needed reforms in the freight schedules
and classifications without a formal com-
plaint being filed."
Nothing could be more specific or bind
ing, and yet the commission does not ap
pear to be prepared to make a showing of
what it has done in the direction of carry
ing out this pledge. The agents of the
Southern Pacific, when questioned by The
Call's representative as to certain reduc
tions which it was reported they had made,
had a good deal to say about reductions of
overland charges, but that happens to have
no bearing whatever on the tariffs within
this State, which the Railroad Commis
sioners are charged with regulating and
pledged to reduce. That some such reduc
tion is needed for the wholesome progress
of this State, and that the two Democratic
members of the board were elected on the
strength of these pledges and with the
belief that they would carry them out,
may be inferred from tbe following re
marks made to The Call by a representa
tive of the firm of Holbrook, Merrill & Co. :
"No general reduction in rates has been
made nor is likely to be made, and the
present unsatisfactory conditions will in
all probability exist until we have compe
tition. In the new road lies our only hope
of release from the clutches of a greedy
monopoly. The Railroad Commission
amounts to nothing. From its inception
it has been a farce. Though its duties
have been clearly defined by the constitu
tion, it still insists upon sitting as a judicial
body. The Commissioners are always
waiting for complaints. "Why don't they
go ahead and exercise the prerogative
granted them by the highest law of the
State? It is clearly their duty to regulate
rates and fares over all lines in the State.
In my opinion local rates need looking
into more than anything else at the pres
ent time. Take valley rates, for example.
On freight of the first class the rate to Los
Angeles is 60 cents, while to Fresno, a
third of the distance. 68 cents is charged.
The company is hauling second-class freight
to Fresno for 63 cents, while on the same
class to Los Angeles only 43>_ cents is
charged. On third-class Los Angeles gets
42% cents and Fresno 68 cents, while on
first-class the haul to Los Angeles costs 37
cents and to Fresno 54 cents. The same
difference exists in all towns of the San
Joaquin Valley notwithstanding the dis
tinct prohibitions of the State consti
tution."
EXEECISING DISCRETION.
The Solid Eight claim that they are jus
tified in their attempt to transfer a valu
able franchise to the Market-street Rail-
way Company for the small sum of $500,
because it was an "exercise of discretion"
for the welfare of the City. Because they
were "discreet" they assume they were not
bound by the law, and they have asked the
courts to acquit them of the commission of
a misdemeanor in office as a vindication of
their excellent discretion.
To the intelligent citizen there will not
seem any very great exercise of discretion
on behalf of the City and the taxpayers in
an action which not only violates a statute
of the State, but also aims to dispose of a
franchise worth thousands of dollars for
the small sum of $500. That is not the
sort of discretion that any of the Solid
Eight would exercise in disposing of his
own property, or perhaps even of his offi
cial vote if he could be induced to sell that
privilege of his office. It is a discretion
indeed not found among any class of peo
ple outside of a lunatic asylum, and if the
intelligent citizen concludes that there
was any discretion exercised* in the
matter he will be sure to regard it as a
discretion on behalf of the Market-street
Company and not on behalf of the City or
the taxpayers.
lore peculiar inasmuch
i allow the Supervisors
that kind at all. The
The plea is the n
a3 the law dees no
any discretion of
people had seen too much of the exercise
of such discretion, and the statute was en
acted expressly to put an end to it. The
terms of the law are very clear. The Su
pervisors are required to advertise every
petition for a franchise . which it is in
tended to grant, and the franchise is to be
sold to the highest bidder. It is the right
and in fact the duty of the Supervisors to
require all bidders to - furnish ; bonds or
certified checks as : guarantees of good
faith and of the fulfillment of the
contract so that franchises may not
fall into the hands of incompetent persons
or mere speculators. Such guarantees are
necessary in all cases, and when they have
been furnished there is never any danger
to the City in selling franchises to the
highest bidder any more than in letting
contracts.
In the present case the Solid Eight could
have kept the law and exercised a discre
tion that would have been of benefit to the
City by advertising the proposed franchise
for sale under terms that would have pre
vented it from falling into the hands of
improper parties, while at the same time
leaving the sale free for competitive bids.
The Solid Eight, however, did not do that.
They have advertised to sell it as an ad
junct of the Market-street Company, so
that no one can bid except that company.
They have also fixed the price at $500.
This :is the kind of discretion that the
people got tired of long ago, and that is
the reason why the Legislature enacted a
law making it a misdemeanor that would
subject every Supervisor who exercised it
to removal from office.
A HAWAIIAN PIOTURE.
Congressman-elect Samuel G. Hilborn
has presented, through an interview pub
lished in - yesterday's Call, an entirely
new picture of the Hawaiian situation. It
is in brief that the natives are no longer
making any effort to restore their Queen
to the throne, as they clearly see - that • the
Constitutional Government is rapidly pro
ducing its own ruin and that its downfall
from internal causes is inevitable. "."No
one," says Mr. Hilborn, "knows how weak
the Constitutional ;_ Government is better
than the royalists, and they, know also
that . force would only prolong the time
when th ' present Government will : step
down and out. perfectly satisfied that there
THE SAIS FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1895.
is nothing there upon which to establish
a substantial government."
These declarations are so radical and so
entirely different from the accounts which
we have been accustomed to receive that
were it not for Mr. Hilborn's superior in
telligence and sound judgment a good
many persons might be inclined to regard
them as idle sensationalism. But these
are the conclusions of a shrewd and wise
observer, and th. cannot be dismissed
with a shrug of the shoulders. The out
side moral influences which have sup
ported ' the Constitutional Government
have come largely from a sentiment of re
publicanism to the exclusion of considera
tions of real liberty or inherent rights.
That the original inhabitants want their
Government brick is the most natural
thing in the world, and that dissatisfaction
injurious to the material welfare of the
islands permeates a majority of the popula
tion is an evident fact. A republican form ;
of government represents liberty only
when it is founded in right and exercised
in the interest of liberty and justice.
The first emotional wave has passed,
and the present Government is now under
trial and approaching the judgment of
civilization. According to Mr. Hilborn, its
future is dreary, for it is falling into a pit
of its own digging.
THE AFRO-AMERICANS.
The Afro-American Congress which has
been held during the week in this City has
disclosed many interesting and important
things. An observer at any of the meet
ings would have seen a deep comprehen
sion of the position which the colored race
holds among the dominating whites of the
country, a determination to improve and
elevate the colored race, a high sense of
patriotism and a strong desire to share in
the benefits of our Government and civili
zation. It has been exceedingly gratifying
to note that no bitterness for the white
race is cherished and that the colored race
wants nothing more in a political way than
the simple enjoyment of those rights which
the Nation is pledged to secure.
Many thoughtful and scholarly papers
on a wide variety of matters affecting the
interests of the race were read, some of the
ablest, brightest and most practical being
those by women. Among them was a paper
by Mrs. Thomas Pearson of Oakland on the
aims of the home association for aged and
infirm negroes, which was organized in 1892
and now has $800 on hand, besides a lot
given by George Montgomery at Beulah,
near Mills College. This is an enterprise
eminently worthy of assistance from per
sons of whatever color who have means
and a sense of humanity.
Among the salient political propositions
advanced have been these: The first is
that as the negroes hold the balance of
power between the two major parties they
are in a position to use it for their benefit;
the second, either that the laws guarantee
ing full political rights to the negro be en
forced in the South or that he be disfran
chised and the representation of the South
in Congress thus reduced* third, that the
hard times which have overtaken the coun
try and fallen with peculiar force upon
the colored race are the result of Demo
cratic misrule and free trade. .
With regard to the second of these prop
ositions it is altogether unlikely that the
negroes as a body will consent to disfran
chisement, as there is a danger that such
consent would be construed into a confes
sion of their inability to solve the problem
in the end. During the last few years a
great wave of energy in the task of edu
cating the children of the race has been
spreading over the country, for the edu
cated negro knows what independence and
power knowledge secures to its possessor.
Education, and that alone, will eventually
solve the problem peacefully and forever.
In this country education, wealth and good
behavior, enjoyed either separately or to
gether, constitute the real causes which ac
count for the presence of classes.
The negro, UDlike the Oriental, is not an
alien. Not only is he politically equal
to the white man, but when he is either
educated, wealthy or well behaved, he
commands respect and wields an influence.
More than that, he is thoroughly assimil
able and assimilated, knows no life or cus
tom different from that of the white race,
and, best of all, has a sweetness of temper,
a kindliness, a geniality, an unselfishness,
a devotion to friends unequaled in any
Other race of the world.
Therefore, negroes should not be regarded
belonging to a class for racial reasons.
They certainly do not either in a political
or an alien sense. This brings up the great
question as to whether or not they should
regard themselves as a class, whether that
is the highest expression of citizenship and
patriotism, whether it would not be
best for them to depend solely, as all citi
zens should, on individual merit, and ac
cept the right and expediency of discour
aging any tendency to constitute them a
class. The existence ,of classes means a
separation of tastes and pursuits, and ex
clusion is its manifestation. As the ne
groes constitute only a twelfth of the
country's population, it might be well for
them to consider seriously the wisdom of
recognizing any principle that would bring
exclusion to operate against them.
A FOOLISH REACTION.
In a strong editorial commending the
Atlanta Exposition to the favor of North
ern people the New York World, after point
ing out that the object of the enterprise is
to draw immigration to the Southern
States, says: "The chance of success is
increased by the reaction which is now re
tarding the further growth of the West.
The arable land of the West being virtu
ally all occupied the Southeast hopes to
attract to its cheap lands the stream which
has so long flowed westward."
The World is not the only Eastern paper
of note which has urged immigration to
the South on the ground that all the arable
land in the West has been occupied. Over
and over again we have seen similar state
ments in our leading exchanges. It is only
a short time . ago that the Tribune de
scribed the unfavorable climatic conditions
of Western ' Kansas and Nebraska, and,
after depicting ■ the snowstorms, the sand
storms, the droughts, blizzards, cyclones
and cloudbursts, drew the conclusion that
home-seekers hereafter must ;go > ' south
ward. The impression seems in fact to be
widespread throughout the East that; the*
West has no longer any advantages to offer
home-seekers, and that the growth in this
direction is to be retarded for many years.
It would seem, that these; people know
not California and the Pacific Coast. ' "Be
cause the droughts of summer and blizzards
of winter render the treeless plains on ; the
eastern ; slopes ' of the , Rocky. Mountains
almost uninhabitable and certainly un -
profitable to farmers, therefore emigration
westward must cease," they say. Never is
there any suggestion that on this side of j
the mountains there is another West, large
as ; the" Atlantic Coast, with a population
less than that of the Atlantic Coast at the
time of the Revolution, and with a climate
and soil as much superior to those of the
most favored; Atlantic sections as their
own are superior to those of the : blizzard
regions. 7" '.'" ,
It will avail us. nothing to rail against
the misconceptions ;of the Eastern ..press.*
We '• must i show 4 them where they .are
wrong. We must convince them by an
actual display of our advantages in a way
which even the careless cannot overlook
nor the dullest mistake. An opportunity
to' do this is afforded by that very Atlanta
Exposition which is intended to draw
home-seekers away from the West to the
South. We should make an exhibit there
which will catch the eye of every intend
ing settler or investor and convince them
of the advisability of at least seeing Cali
fornia before they settle. The first steps
toward such an exhibit have been taken,
a good display of our products : is already
on hand, and if the counties only act
promptly in accordance With plans devised
at the Supervisors' Convention, the cost
will be little and the success will be great.
No reflecting man can doubt that the
issue is an urgent one. The "reaction
which is now retarding the further growth
of the West," of which the World speaks,
is liable to become even stronger than at
present, unless it is at once met and
counteracted. It is a foolish reaction, but
it cannot be overcome by foolishness.
We must meet it with energy and sagacity
and overcome it by going to the Atlanta
Exposition and illustrating the resources,
industries, advantages and superiorities of
California and the Pacific Coast.
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POOL-SELLING.
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It is so short a time since we published
in our local columns a complete exposure
of the practice of illegal , pool-selling in
this City that it is not necessary for us to
go over that ground again. Suffice it that
while some steps have been taken to sup
press this open violation of the law, it still
continues in many places, and might well
be taken by the police as an opportunity
for exercising some of the vigor supDOsed
to have been derived from ' reorganization.
Few evils are more pernicious than that
of illegitimate pool-selling. It has become
so offensive that nearly every city of any
note in the Union has found it necessary
to enact laws against it. Into the places
where it is carried on, hosts of young men,
some of whom are scarcely more than boys,
are induced to congregate and ••play the
races." There many a youth of good op
portunities and excellent prospects has
made those evil acquaintances and ac
quired those corrupting habits which so
insidiously but so surely lead to ruin.
Persons who have neither the leisure nor
perhaps the inclination to attend the races
go to these places to gamble. Thus amid
sharpers they waste the earnings that
might have laid the foundations of a com
petence and dissipate a character that
might have ripened into a sterling man
hood.
The ordinance against the pool-sellers
was not enacted without cause. Public
sentiment recognizes the justice of the
law and gives it a full support. In spite,
however, of the law and of the sentiment
of the better element of the people, the
pool-sellers continue to run their places
openly and insolently. It is time to teach
them that the ordinances of the City are
not idle formulas and that the moral, law
abiding sentiment is not a false pretense.
THE SUNDAY "CALL."
Prominent among the special features of
to-morrow's Call will be a delicious story,
"Colonel Short a Little Longer," by Joa
quin Miller, in which the gifted author
will bring to a close the queer adventures
of this remarkable character, who was in
troduced in last Sunday's Call. Robert
Stevenson, the daring local scientist, who
has already startled the scientists with his
theories on kinetic stability, will present
the first of a series of popular articles on
this subject, in which the ' Newtonian
theory of gravitation will be boldly assailed.
A queer story of improbabilities, entitled
"The Reduction of Alexander Morgan,
M.D.," by Robert H. Davis, will indicate
one of the dangers attending a too daring
inquiry into scientific problems. "In the
Midst of Death We Are in Life" is the title
of one of Miss Adeline Knapp's' popular
scientific sketches. W. B. Farwell, a his
torian of pioneer efforts, will present an
exceedingly interesting paper on "How
Honolulu Was Taken: A Stoiy of the
Voyage of the American Clipper Ship
Game Cock." In "Microbes in Us; Why?"
Will Carleton, the popular poet and ath
lete, will give some very instructive hints
on health. The drama will be discussed
at length by Miss Miriam Michelson, Miss
Rose O'Halloran will have another paper
on "The Marvels of Modern Astronomy,"
Mrs. M. C. Johnson will be instructive and
pleasing in "Children's - Realm,'* "Mar
cella'' will have her usual page for women,
and there will be several other interesting
features. •■•* 7.
The special dispatches from Europe will
be comprehensive, the recently acquired
telegraphic news service of The Call pre
senting unapproachable facilities for this
valuable feature.
PERSONAL. .
Charles E. Fox of the navy is at the Occi
dental. X 7
Dr. "W. A. ; Hendry of Los Angeles is at the
Baldwin. '-."
Dr. Philip Leach of the navy is a guest at
the Palace.
M. C. Zumwait, an attorney of Tulare, is a
guest at the Grand. /;. : "'7>
Thomas :H. Thompson, a real estate man of
Tulare, is at the Lick. .
P. Mcßae, a railroad contractor of Hanford,
Ib a guest at the Lick. ..
W. J. Scrutton, a mining man of Laporte, is
staying at the Grand.
A. C. Cushing, a railroad contractor from
Omaha, is at the Palace.
J. 11. Tray ncr, a big fruitman of Marysville,
registered at the Grand yesterday.
Jules Levy, the cornetist, returned from the
south yesterday ard is staying at the Lick.
R. H. Beamer of Oakland, & member of the
State Board of Equalization, is at the Lick.
I. L. ; Delano, a big quarryman of Rocklin,
was one of yesterday's arrivals at the Lick.
W. S. Leare, Postmaster of Sacramento, and
Mrs. Leare registered at the Palace yesterday.
A. C. Hil man, . manager ] of , the Briggs ranch
at Davisville, registered at the Lick yesterday.
. Andrew Markham of Santo Rosa, a capitalist
and a railroad man, registered yesterday at the
Lick.
L. W. Bllnn, a wealthy capitalist of Los An
geles, was one of yesterday's arrivals at the
Palace.
i P. A. Buell, a big lumberman and contractor
of Stockton, came down yesterday and regis
tered at the Grand. .
• H. J. Small, superintendent of motive power
and machinery of the ; Southern Pacific, came
down from Sacramento yesterday and put up
at the Grand. r 7-77-7;
Among the passengers to sail by the Umatilla
this morning is the following party bound | for
Alaska: Deputy Surveyor of the Port Sam Rud
dell,*' Mrs. Ruddell and : her sister, ~ Miss Jen
nings, Miss M. E. Lister of The Call's stall and
George Schultz. At Port Townsend they will
take the Queen, : for > which are booked Vice-
President Stevenson and John W. Mackay. .
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, N. V., Aug. 2.— Californians
registered at hotels ; . to-day: _ San Francisco — J.
W. Reed, , Gilsey; H. Babcock, ; St. James H.
Hughes and family, Fifth Avenue; •L. A. Mai
son, Captain A. L. Soule," : C. B. Tomson, Astor;
E. "C. . Seavey,' St. ' Dennis; j Mrs. C. L.Watson,
Imperial; T. J. Steck, Metropole; J. R. Forrest,
Broadway. Los Angeles— T.T. Lidstone, Grand
Union : VB. Ludlow, ' St. Cloud; .- 17 Marstutz,
Warwick :. p. :T. ; Anderson, St. Dennis. San
Diego— W. S. Murray. Broadway Central.
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
"California is not without honor abroad,""
said Dr. R. Beverly Cole yesterday. "A
student from the medical department of our
State University can enter the Royal College
of Surgeons of Lohdon or that of Edinburgh or
Glasgow, receiving full credit for whatever
years of work he has done here, and beginning
with the senior class next September, for four
full years of work. California was the second
university in the United States to obtain this
recognition, Harvard being the first. To
graduate from the British colleges five years
of work are necessary, while in the United
States but three years" is the rule. Measures
are being taken to increase our curriculum to
five years to equal that of the best colleges of
trie old world and surpass all of the new. The
life of the professional man Is made harder,
to be sure, out Califoruia is moving rapidly to
the front as an educational center."
"San Francisco should have its flower-girls
instead of those men and boys _ who crowd
the principal corners of the City," said Amedee
Joullin up at the Hopkins Art Institute the
other day. "This State is the flower garden of
the world, and this City ought to be its finest
flower mart. The florists should unite and
have a perpetual flower , show, a world-famous
market, and along Kearny street and Market
and by Lotta's fountain the City should main
tain Its stands as on the quays at Paris, where
flower-girls could sell their wares."
"THE CALL'S" REPORTS OF THE
DURRANT CASE.
Right you are, Mr. San Jose Herald editor:
"The reports of the Durrant trial in the San
Francisco newspapers, with their absurd Illus
trations and brutally sensational headlines,
are enough to disgust any intelligent person."
The Call is a marked exception.—
Encinal. "7
The declaration of The Call to report the
Durrant case without pruriency is commenda
ble. There is virtue in the protest against the
revival of sensational orgies over the Durrant
case.— -Alameda Telegram. •_'•■*-
The San Francisco Call struck the right chord
last week in regard to the Durrant trial how
going on at that City. It will publish in a con
cise manner, the main facts in the case and
nothing more. Too much notoriety has already
been given to that fellow, whether guilty or
innocent. . People would now like as much of
a rest as possible in that sickening case.—
gan Hill Sun.
The San Francisco Call has adopted the only
rational method of dealing with Durrant's
trial. Its readers are spared the usual nause
ous or trifling details and the main features of
the case are presented clearly and with the
utmost brevity consistent with comprehensive-
Berkeley Dispatch. *- ?:
IMPORTANT PERSONAL.
Bliss Carmen has retired from the editorial
management of the Chap Book. .
Walter H. Page, after seven years of service,
has resigned the editorship of the Forum.
A Cottonwood Falls (Kans.) minister usurped
the functions of the weather clerk the other
day and united Mr. SOmers and Miss Winters.
A Scotch newspaper refers to Mrs. Lease of
Kansas, as "one of those strange men found
frequently in America, who write under a fem
inine norn de plume!"
Professor Zuspitka, who died the other day,
was professor of English at the University of
; Berlin. It has been said of him that, although
a German," he was the greatest authority on
j early English.
One of the two Afro-Americans in this year's
Yale graduating class was Ulysses Simpson
Grant Bassett, the son of M. E. D. Bassett of
Philadelphia, the first Afro-American Minister
; Resident and Consul-General to Hayti. He was
appointed by President Grant. Young Bassett
was born In Hayti. :
• Marina, Mrs. P. T. Barnum's handsome resi
dence at Bridgeport, Conn., is to be sold. This
is thought to give some color of truth to the
report that she is to marry a rich Englishman.
-Mrs. Barnum looks to be hardly 30. Besides*
Marina, which cost 300,000, and an annuity
of $40,000, she has $1,000,000.
In his ode to the memory of Frederick Doug
lass, Theodore Tilton writes:
My country, hark to me;
Let us, in yonder capital of ours,
Mold him a statue of enduring brass
Out of the broken chains of slaves set free.
'. When Zeroh Colburn, the Vermont mathe
matical "prodigy," visited Harvard College, he
told in four seconds the exact number of
seconas in eleven years, and answered other
similar questions with equal facility. He could
no more tell how he did it than a child in
singing can tell the laws of melody, but it Ib
certain that it was done under natural law,
and not in opposition to it.
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.
Just think of it 1 One hundred millions of
pounds of wool have been imported into the
United States this year. It is no wonder that
our own wool is so cheap that it hardly pays
the sheep-owner to shear his flocks, but it is
wonderful that many of these hard-working
men still vote the Democratic ticket and blame
the Republicans for the decrease of their for
tunes.—Stockton Record..
American politics may contain raw spots,
but it is impossible to imagine even our tough
est electors slugging women* in the jaw, pelt
ing candidates and their wives with filth, and
doing the many other disgraceful things that
occurred in England during the recent elec
tion over there. That country has a good big
contract on its hands to civilize its own bar
barians before sending missionaries to other
lands or passing criticism upon the methods of
its neighbors.— Los Angeles Times.
After all that iB said and done, the wealth of
all great countries comes from the intelligent
tilling of the soil, and the - sooner our people
realize that fact and govern themselves ac
cordingly, by going to work, the sooner pros
perity will come to us, and the arrival of free
silver legislation will not be at all delayed
thereby. Standing on the street corners and
talking about it will not hurry free coinage.—
Reno (Nev.) Gazette. . • 71:1
The curse of cooly labor in this State was
long ago demonstrated. The State is flooded
.with white labor that cries . for employment.
Put these two j facts together, and then pro
nounce judgment upon the fruit-growers of
Yolo I County. The punishment of the men
who have destroyed property at Putah Creek
should be heavy; but an outraged public sen
timent should be no less prompt to impress
Upon the minds of the Yolo orchardists that
they, too, have committed a crime, none the
less grave because it does not happen to come
within the jurisdiction of the law.— San Jose
Mercury. .____
Where will the Democracy get. off? Their
party platform is likely to mean gold only for
money, and they ; are already bound by ; pre
vious declarations to destroy the national bank
system. But the national banks constitute the
bulwark of the gold mondtnetal lists. That
party is having a whole lot of trouble trying to
spread itself all over all sides of every ques
tion.—Phoenix (Ariz.) Herald.
The Valley road people saw wood and say
little, i This is far • better than much •■ bluster
and little work. .At Stockton they are employ
ing at grading all the men with teams they can
secure. They have the rails, fish plates and
other necessaries there, and the first two loco
motives have just : been received. . When the
road gets into the country 'to '■. the south of
Stockton ? better progress will be made. 7As
each mile of j road is completed Tulare County
will be one mile nearer emancipation.— Visalia
D6ltft --__-_fffif_____fflfl^
The American laborer has been wronged,
deeply 7 wronged. The 7 body 7 politic 7 has
been defiled and : the peace < of the' country
greatly disturbed by the practically unchecked
deluge of laborers -who are . unfit to become
citizens. The laborer who ': feels ~. the ; wrong
makes the great mistake of violently contend
ing with the effect and only feebly opposing
the _ cause,' unchecked? immigration. This
feebleness is caused ■■ by < the presence among
the organized ; laborers of so many of the im
ported class, who. while professing to believe
this country to be sunk to the depths of misery,
are all the time trying to induce and aid more
of their fellows ; to come here and share their
misery.— Stockton Independent.
THE FUEL OF THE SUN.
■ The theory almost universally held and ac
cepted as true is that the light, heat and at
traction of the sun, ;as manifested ,on our
planet, is due to the combustion of oxygen that
envelopes the sun to a great depth, and is con
tinually - supplied from some inexhaustible
but unknown source. Others claim that there
are vast deposits of coal in the sun, in the state
of continual combustion. That there is matter
in the state of combustion in the sun, giving
off the light, heat and attraction we receive,
and that is distributed to other planets in pro
portion, .to their, size and relative position, is
not only improbable, but inconsistent with the
laws of matter. We are forced to look for this
supply of light, heat and attractive force from
somo other source, and to us the electrical
theory is the only reasonable theory that can
be presented. Our planet is not only endowed
with life, but also, to a most wonderful extent,
with life-giving power. But at present we shall
only speak of the electrical condition of our
planet and its relation to the sun.
We have what is called factional electricity,
which is very' generally known. By rubbing
a piece of glass or amber on a woolen substance
you generate electricity and the glass or am
ber becomes charged, and will attract and
repel light subst.nces. like paper and pith.
How simple is the Levden jar, and how easy it
is, too, by a little friction, to charge it so that
a spark may be drawn therefrom or a shock
sent through the body. This should lead us to
consider the friction going on continually on
our planet. Every manifestation of it develops
electricity. The wing of every bird that beats
the air, the workshops with their vast machin
ery, the swiftly moving train of cars, the winds
that sweep the plains or mountain crest, the
waving forests, the dashing waves of the
ocean, the mighty cataract, all generate elec
tricity. Then descend to the great mineral de
posits and geological formations/ even to the
earth's center. There are great laboratories,
Where electricity is generated, until the earth
and air become so charged that electrical
storms occur which shake the earth and fringe
the clouds with fire. The volume becomes so
great that the earth and atmosphere cannot
contain it, and it flows off at the north pole,
producing the brilliant aurora borealis lights.
This electricity is negative, while the great
Volume generated by the sun is positive.
If we are correct in our hypothesis, all the
other planets belonging to our system generate
electricity in proportion to their size and vital
relation to the sup. How vast must be the
amount from such planets as Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus, Neptune and to lesser plants. These
all are negative to the sun's positive, which at
tracts the negative electricity from all the
planets, and in return gives off the positive to
each planet in accordance wiih a law of exact
equivalence. For instance, our planet receives
an exact equivalent from the sun for what it
gives off. The light and heat sent to the earth
from the sun travel on the wings of the posi
tive electricity, and the attractive force of this
positive electricity is such as to hold the plan
ets of the system in their orbits around the
central sun. The unstable flow of electricity
from the various planets is the probable cause
of the sun's spots. The distance of a planet
from the sun has but little to do with it ; all de
ends upon the amount of electricity generated
by the planet and mutkally exchanged with
the sun for his light and heat. This reciprocal
action, so universal, is divine and just, and
governed and regulated according to mathe
matical and geometrical laws.
It is not strange that the electricity from all
tne planets in our system, being focalized in
the sun, with the vast fountain of the sun's
electricity, should produce an incandescent
equal to "all the demands of our planets, to
endow them with all the life and life-giving
principles that they possess. Neptune may and
may not be the outer sentinel of our planetary
system, while the fact that it is 2,746 ,000,000
miles from the sun cuts no figure so far as its
light, heat and solar attraction is concerned;
it is but the flight of the divine thought from
the center to the circumference of all his
works. -
Our planetary system is young, is a colony
but of yesterday's planting, as compared with
the eternity of the past, situated as it were,
an outward sentinel in God's great electrical
universe, yet under his immediate control.
Without the electrical currents there could
be no attraction -to hold the planets ;in
their orbits, as they with such wonderful ex
actness and velocity move around the sun. It
is also this same reciprocal law that moves
them in their diurnal motion, called by some
the law of compensation. It is not strange
that the spiritually organized Pythagoras
should have said that man, by abstaining
from meats, living on a vegetable diet and
keeping his body clean and pure, could hear
the music of the spheres as they rolled har
moniously through space. Man is in the great
electrical current between the negative and
positive, which causes his spiritual nature to
be in harmony with the music of the spheres.
The space between our planet and the sun,
after leaving the earth's atmosphere, is filled
with ether, which is a better conductor of elec
tricity than the atmosphere. This ether fills
the space between all planets.— W. Murphy,
M.D., in the California Christian Advocate.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Homestead— Reader, City. In this
State a homestead consists of the dwelling
house in which the claimant resides and the
land on which. the same stands. The home
stead cannot be selected from the separate
property of the wife without her consent shown
by her making or joining in making the declar
ation of homestead. A homestead is not ex
empt from debts secured by mortgage on the
premises executed and recorded before the
declaration of homestead was filed for record.
Our Theaters— P. and M. G., City. The
seating capacity of the theaters of this City is
as follows: Alcazar, 1300; Auditorium, 1500;
Baldwin, 1400; Bella Union, 600; California,
1300; Grove-street, 2000; Grand Opera-house,
2500: Mowrv's Opera-house, 1000; New Bush
street, 1200; Standard, 1000; Union Hall,
2000; Orpheum, 2050; Potrero Opera-house,
700; Columbia, 1200; Temple (Turk street),
800; Tivoli Opera-hoUse, 1700, and Wigwam,
1000. -
Moles— McG.. Golden Gate, Alameda
County, Cal. It is said fine shreds of lean beef,
poisoned with either strychnine or arsenlc,wlll
be eaten by moles and that the poison kills them
quickly. It is also said that traps are effective,
but that the best way to destroy the Under
ground workers is to watch during light show
ers in summers, when the moles are most ac
tive, and when one is found moving the soil
to dig it out and kill it. -
Hangman's Day— H. W., City. Murderers are
hanged in this State on Friday, because it has
been customary to select that day of the week;
there is no law that requires that day to he se
lected, the matter being left to the "discretion
of the judge passing sentence. In some States
of the Union other days have been chosen. The
selection -of Friday for/ an execution arose
from a superstition that that day was an un
lucky one. . .-7■ -• > 7 7 .
Thk Largest Warship— H. D. M., City. The
British ship Swiftsure is probably the largest
war-vessel that has ever . entered the port of
San Francisco. She was built 1870. Her
tonnage is 0910 tons, length 280 feet, breadth
55 feet, depth 25:2, indicated horsepower
3500, coal capacity 540. Her principal arma
ment is ten 9 to 12 ton muzzle-loaders, eight
4- ton breech-loaders and eight 6 and 3
pounders.
A Wife's Signature— E. J. S., City. The sig
nature of a wife is . not necessary to a bill of
sale of personal property, for the law of Cali
fornia says the husband has the management
and control of the community property, with
like absolute power of distribution (other than
testamentary) as he has of his separate estate.
Mexico and Central America— L. G. G., Bel
mont, San Mateo County, Cal. To obtain re
liable information in regard to Mexico or the
Central American country write to the Consul
in this City who represents the particular ter
ritory you wish information about and state
what the information desired is.
Diamonds— Reader of The Call, City. To
keep diamonds bright wash them daily in cold
water with a soft toothbrush that has been
rubbed on a piece of white castile soap. The
diamonds should then be rinsed in clean, cold
water. It is the accumulation of dust on the
under surface of a set diamond that dims it.
Degeneration— Disease, City. "Fatty degen
eration of the heart" is the correct term used.
It means the /conversion of protein elements
into a granular fatty matter. As a morbid pro
cess this occurs most frequently in the muscles
of the heart, but it may affect any part of the
body. .._-: /-. :■ .
; Windsor— C.N., City. Windsor, in Cali
fornia, is • situated in Sonoma County and is
reached by the San Francisco and Nortn Pacific
Railway. ''_SB__fi
One of 1840— S. X., Santa Cruz, Cal. Deal
ers do not offer any premium for a $10 piece of
1840, but for such a: coin they charge from
$13 50 to $16. : : : ' ■■' ■-■ *-.
Azote's Record— T. M., City. In 1892 Azote
trotted a heat in 2:l4J_, while in 1893 the
fastest heat he put in was in 2:ls}_. in 1894
Salisbury had the horse.
Dynamite— L. W., City. According to the
latest authorities tbe word dynamite is pro
nounced di-ua-mit, the letter i being sounded
as it is in the words pine, file and fight.
Oilt Hands— G. A., City. Borax is said to be
good to cleanse hands that are oily.
A Back Date— W. B. H., City. The 26 th of
September, 1879, fell on a Friday.
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.
• iiv- *. :— : -7 : - , .: 7;
--' Mr. Trotter— here! didn't you guar
antee that you would train that kicking horse
of mine so that I could drive him as well as
you could ?
.. Celebrated Horse-trainer— Certainly.
Mr. Trotter— he kicked my buggy to
pieces as soon as I got him home.
Celebrated Horse-trainer— he kicked
mine to pieces about five minutes before.—
Harper's Bazar. _7.': . -
"Are you perfectly happy, dearest?" said Al
fredo, snuggling Ethei's head a little closer on
his shoulder and gazing out upon the moonlit
sea.
"Yes; n— no; not quite," whispered Ethel,
"my hat isn't on straight."— York Re
corder.
"Some of the world's finest literature is out
of print," remarked the bibliophile.
"That's right," replied the poet. "I can't get
an editor to touch my productions."—
' ington Star. ~7 ;*
First Citizen— trolley demon seems in
satiable. ' 7:_7.
Second Citizen— Yes; the new cars have an
arrangement on the front to hold a man down
until the wheels can get onto him.— Detroit
News. -' - '
Broken, mixed candies, lOclb, Townsend's.*
— . , • — ♦ ■*
Bacon Printing Company, 503 Clay street. *
■ » — * — ■
California Glace fruits, 50c lb, Townsend's*
— — . » ■■■♦ ■♦ ~
Ocean Excursions.
Steamship Pomona, to Santa Cruz and Mon
terev. leaves Saturdays, _ p. m., due back Mon
days, SA. M. Ticket office, _ New Montgomery
street. * t
Jimson-Doctor, I am getting too stout for
comfort and I want your advice.
Doctor— reduce* flesh like worry.
Spend two hours a day thinking of the unpaid
bill you Owe me.— Moments.
Tibbd women should stop and consider the dan
ger. which real en them because of their weak
nesses and lack of ambition. Hood's Sarsaparilla
will purify the blood and give strength.
-_. — ,. . ■■_■■ a — — ■ — ■ —
No well regulated household should be without
a bottle of Dr. Siegert'. Angostura Bitters, the
celebrated appetizer. . .
(V)
"From the Lowest Level,"
A Story of Mining Life in
California.
By J. H. Wythe Jr.
Thk Call has secured the right to pub-
lish this charming story in serial form, and
the first chapter will appear next Saturday.
The author has conscientious scruples
against having any of his productions pub-
lished in the Sunday edition of any paper,
and in deference to his convictions The
Call has agreed to print this story in the
Saturday issues only, beginning next Sat-
urday^ - '
( -k \
JOAQUIN
MILLER
•".■-'■.- • -
POET of the sierras,
Will have a
Brilliant Story
IN THE SUNDAY CALL,
TO-MORROW,"
ENTITLED
"COLONEL SHORT
A LITTLE LONGER."
Those who enjoyed the exquisite humor
of last Sunday's chapter will appreciate
this sequel of the story.
REAL ESTATE
FOR SALE BY
Ties. lap & Sods,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
And Publishers "Real Estate Circular."
4 Montgomery Street,
Mm TRUST BUILDIVfi, COMER MARKET.
INVESTMENTS.
Ninth, between Market and Mission: 50x100;
rents about $100; with old frame: $30,000.
Fine investment on Geary st.; 60 feet front and
building; 3*V_ blocks from Market st.
Third St.; rents $886: $70,000; solid building in
stores and rooms. . . — ,
Sutter-st. Investment— North side, near Taylor*
22:6 feet front and very fine dwelling; would rent
tor $100; $18,000; make offer. -
Eddy St.; downtown: new 3-story house; 3 new
modern flats: rents $140: light and sunny; $18,000.
WAREHOUSE AND FACTORY SITES,
EASY, TERMS.
Cor Fourth and Brannan sts.; 137:6x187:6;
$50 000: all strict work done: very easy terms
and long term with right to pay on account any
A bargain; 45*_sx240j Channel, between Fifth
ana Sixth, back to Berry St.: double front; only
$14,000; very, very cheap; pays a little now.
Cor Ninth, Brannan and Channel sts: 163 on
Ninth 137:6 on Brannan and 167 On Channel;
275 deep; only $30,000; terms to suit buyer; low
Brannan St., bet. Eighth and Ninth; 108x275;
$17,600 only; easy, long terms: low interest rate
of _'*A per cent. - *.•*»____ lilt"* 1 Ml. *■ • .
Brannan and Sixth sts. corner; 137:6x137:6; only
$30,000: easy terms. *
HOUSES AND LOTS, 87000 TO »1»,-
--500, FINE VIEW OF BAY.
Besidenee Just finished; Presidio Heights: Jack-
son St., near Central aye. and the cars: magnificent
marine view not to be shut off; all modern con-
veniences; house finished in natural wood; Inlaid
floors; $12,500.
Make offer: Vallejo and Octavia: corner; 25x
112:6, and very comfortable residence of 9 rooms
and every convenience: fine view : $10,000.
Fine residence and lot 30x137:6; N. side Va-
llejo, bet. Gough and Octavia: fine view, unob-
structed, from 2 upper stories: 11 rooms and
modern conveniences: house cost $8600; leased at
$75 a month; only $10,250. - '&tt~QO*xKttira
Reduced to $9000: new residence: fine marine
view; SW. cor.Green and. Buchanan; 9 rooms;
saloon parlors, electric bells, attic and basement;
very sunny and cozy; very easy terms.
Washlngton-st. residence, near Central aye.;
32x106; N. side; fine residence: 12rooms: finished
basement, attic: all modern conveniences: excel-
lent Interior finish; owner, selling to leave town;
$12,500. —
■ $7000; new houses, Just finished 9 rooms and
all modern conveniences: fine view of bay; only
$500 cosh and terms as rent if desired: Buchanan
st., near Green, 8 short blocks from Pacific aye., 1
block from Union-st. cars and 2 blocks from new
line on Fillmore st. ___
Pacific Heights— Lou $100 to $220 a front foot;
easy terms. „- 77:,-* .
South side Broadway, bet. Fillmore and Pierce;
$100 to $125 afoot. . • . <
West side Steiner, below Pacific: $110 a foot.
North side Broadway, west of Fillmore; $170 to
$220 a foot. ■"••'•" -
NE. cor. . Broadway and Steiner, 34:4x137:6;
$7860. . -*■•.
Steiner, below Broadway: $100 a foot.
, COr.ValleiO and Steiner. 37:6x137:6; $4250.
I Lots north side Vallejo, _e_**Flllmore and Stein-
er, 25x137:6: $2375.'* 7
60- vara NW. cor. Green and Steiner; $9000.