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SUNDAY-. .'•..,.: AUGUST 18, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
•' The world is a mass-meeting.
.To-morrow .we welcome the silver men.
Life is. largely a matter of sticking to the
main issues.
The fair season has come, but the carni
vals stay with us.
Actions do hot always speak louder than
words,' but they mean more. '
•' It is only by the path of competition that
we can get tothe end of monopoly.
If Eastern people hai nothing else to do
they might keep busy watching California
grow. ..". v " : ■ •■
. The silver convention along -with, the
exposition- will make the coming week
■ lively. • ■
Monopoly cares little about public in
dignation, but the enforcement of the law
makes it squirm,
We may believe that Cubaji independ
ence is coming, but it is a little too far on
yet to be recognized. •
Electric probabilities have now become
bo great that we hardly have time to con
sider its possibilities.
As Mr. Fitzsiramons has decided to be
come an American citizen the great inter
national fisticuff is off.
There is a chance for San Francisco to
distinguish herself in the carnival line by
giving a California fete.
It is a dull California town that has not
made, or does not intend to make, some
kind of a show this year. . .
Whatever- may be the offenses of the
Southern Pacific of, Kentucky the people
of California are in favor of railroads.
Study The Call this morning and see
what Western writers can do to make a
Sunday nev.spaper for critical readers.
The task before the bimetallic league is
not so much a tight against the goldbugs
as a course of education for the people
generally.
The new building of The Call will be
the monumental structure of the new era
and stand as an evidence of the enterprise
of the day. •
The Republican party, which was pow
erful enough to save the Nation, ought to
make its representatives in office behave
themselves.
Mass-meetings may generate a powerful
public sentiment, but unless it be rightly
directed it will pass as an idle wind and
never turn a wheel of civic machinery.
The old belief that cow's milk is an ideal
human fooii has been assailed by a new
theory that the milk is fit only for calves
and that no human stomach can digest it.
It is said .that since the introduction of
foreign miners into the coal regions of Vir
ginia, it has cost that State about $180,000 a
year to keep down mobs and prevent riots.
The latest thing in ttie way of newspaper
reform in the East is the appearance of a
"Man's Page." in the Syracuse Post in
•place of-the conventional ""Woman's Page,"
and the feature is hailed as an evidence of
the new era.; .;
It is said, that when Great Britain has
completed -the reconstruction of her navy,
according to. the .plans adopted, the total
edit. will exceed ■$500,000,000 ; and still we
live in an era of peace and England is not"
a war' ike nation.
The Fresno raisin-growers who have sent
to the City- for "white help instead of em
ploying Chinese have certainly acted for
the .best interests of the State and there is
reason to- believe that they will find it to
their own interest also.
The effort of the Democratic leaders to
throw all the blame of the misgovernment
of the last two-years on Cleveland is in
genious but futile. A political party is
always .responsible for the acts of its
official representatives.
Short as. has been the tim.e since the
treaty .with Japan compelled China to ad
mit the importation of foreign machinery,
it is announced that under -the treaty a
British firm has already begun the erection
of a cotton factory at Shanghai.
;Accordrn'K to a writer in Blackwood,
woman in Burmah has thoroughly eman
cipated, herself; every career is open to
her, and, as. a. consequence, the men have
abandoned .all. business occupations and
eiruply sit around and let the women work.
It is claimed in Chicago that, the con-
Btruction of high buildings has, rendered it
necessary to abandon the present system
of fighting fires with steam engines, and to
Bu-bstitnte sonic electric system that will
do the work better. It is asserted, more
over, that thechange may be expected in
side of a year;
One of the difficulties that confronts the
Salisbury Cabinet is the selectio-n of a com
mander-in-chief of the army. The fight is
between the friends of l^ord Wolseley
and those of. General Roberts, with the
chances that Salisbury, may split the differ
ence by the appointment of his royal null
ity, the Duke of Counau^ht.
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
The Republican party of California haß
the history of a third of a century to look
back upon with mingled pride and regret
and a far greater future to look forward
to with hope and high resolve. It was
born as the party of the people of
California, who loved liberty ana
union, and who believed that beneath
the broad folds of the Federal constitution
lay the best assurances of public tranquil
lity and of opportunity in the pursuit of
happiness for themselves and for their
posterity. There are men still living who
love to gather their grandchildren about
their knees to tell, with glowing hearts
and glistening eyes, of their proud portion
in the formation of the Republican party
of the State of California.
During the first twenty years of its his
tory the Republican party of California
justified the hope of its founders and the
faith of its members as the party of con
sistency to principles and honesty in Poli
tics. It prouuced leaders and nominated
candidates who were a credit to it and
to the State. It elected legislators to
enact, Judges to construe and offi
cials to enforce laws for the benefit
of the entire people, and without sub
servience to powers or interests whose
purposes were selfish, whose methods were
discreditable and whose theory of politics
was reliance upon the purchasable quality
in men. During that first score of years
the history of the Republican party was a
record of stainless honor, of great accom
plishment and of almost uniform success.
During tne past twenty years of its his
tory the Republican party of California
has been under the shadow of a malign
presence and influence in its organization
and affairs. Against the will of its masses
and despite the protests of its best brains
and bravest hearts, it has been dominated
by the members and the creatures of a
srreat corporation which has deemed the
ownership of a political party essential to
the success of its business projects and self
ish sxime. When the creators of the Cen
tral Pacific Railroad Company first saw
the possibility of enormous wealth loom
above the horizon of their enterprise and
resolved to grasp it they adopted one fatal
error in procedure. »
This was the error of imagining that their
success depended upon the manipulation
of politics and the control of public officials
and that in securing and maintaining this
political dominance the end justified the
means. Out of persistence in this error
has come a curse to the politics of the Pa
ciric Coast, and particularly has arisen the
cloud which has darkened the history of
the Republican party of California during
the last twenty years.
The time has come for the declaration
of independence by the Republican party
of this State from the influence and domi
nance of the Southern Pacific Company
over its counsels-, policies and affairs.
The dark shadow and slimy band
of this selfish interest must be removed
from this great party if it is to longer ex
pect and deserve popular confidence and
support. "When treachery and bribery
and shameless official malfeasance
run riot through public places;
when Republican conventions are at
tended by their delegates through
the grace of railroad passes; when Re
publican legislators ride to and from the
capital and junket up and down the State
on railroad tickets furnished free while
regularly drawing their allotted mileage
from the public till; when Republican
Railroad Commissioners openly obey
and serve the corporations which
they were elected to control and
regulate; when Republican members of
the State Board of Equalization notori
ously refuse and neglect to assess railroad
properties at values at all proportionate to
those upon which private citizens are
taxed; when members of the Board
of Supervisors of San Francisco
brazenly violate a beneficent statute
in order to give valuable public
privileges to a greedy corporation; when
Republican officials from the Governor of
the State down to the constable of its most
remote country cross-roads must crook
the pregnant hinges of their knees to this
arrogant and self-seeking organism in
order to get and hold their offices — it is
high time for a bill of rights and a declara
tion of independence on behalf of the Re
publican party of the State of California.
Thf. Call undertakes to-day to make
this declaration and proposes to bend all
its energies to give it entire effect. It
raises high the standard of its firm resolve
to achieve independence for the Repub
lican party of California from the
power of the Southern Pacific Com
pany as a political agency. It calls
aloud to the Republicans of California to
co-operate with it in bringing this result
to pass. It invites every citizen who be
lieves in party honesty, in official in
tegrity, in equal justice between corpora
tions and men, in freedom of politi
cal action, in equality of taxation, in
the absolute cessation of corporate inter
ference with political affairs— in a word, it
urges every Republican who thinks
that it is time to make the declara
tion of the highest railroad official,
tLat "The railroad is out of politics,"
a iiving and eternal truth to unite with it,
and such a verity the phrase will straight
way be. Of a disenthralled and regenera-
ted Republican party made up of such
men, The Call assumes henceforth to be
the organ, and through a. nobler future to
remain and be its constant guide, philoso
pher and friend.
OAKLAND'S DILEMMA.
Our charming neighbor across the bay
finds itself in danger of being punished for
neglect of ordinary business principles in
the conduct of its municipal finances.
Bonds to the amount of $140,000 fall due in
February, and as no sinking fund has been
provided for their redemption a heavy tax
will have to be imposed should a majority
of the voters in the special election soon
to be held decide that the bonds shall not
be refunded. In order to defeat the re
funding proposition an organized and
earnest fight is. being made, the capitalists,
of course, arraying themselves on the side
of refunding. The heavy special tax re
quired for the redemption would prove a
hardship in more ways than one.
The whole situation is very instructive
and is deserving of study by other cities.
It is likely that when the bonds were orig
inally proposed they were opposed by cap
italists and large property-owners and
favored by the working classes. Now the
situation is completely reversed; the work
ing classes, having received the benefit of
the issue, want the property-owners to ex
tinguish the debt. Under ordinary cir
cumstances there could be no question
that they should be made to do so, but
property values have shrunk, revenues
have decreased ana times are hard,
the point of view of self-interest the work
ing classes could gain no advantage from
defeating the refunding measure, and
hence then* opposition has the appearance
of antagonism to property.
The imposition of the tax to extinguish
the debt would not only bear heavily on
the property-owners, but would operate to
the checking of improvement and a reduc
tion of expenditures of which the working
classes would receive the benefit. If the
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 18, 1895.
working classes cannot understand this
proposition and are willing to cripple their
own prospects in order to punish the
capitalists for something not explained, it
shows that a deplorable feeling is abroad
between capital and labor. If so. and it
finds many opportunities for exercise, the
prosperity of California is threatened.
Undoubtedly the property-owners are at
fault for permitting the finances of Oak
land to be managed with bo little regard
for business principles. The city has placed
itself in the position of a borrower who
makes no provision for paying his debt
when it falls due, but depends on some
fortunate circumstance to secure an exten
sion. Such a policy induces thriftlessness
and extravagance and is incompatible
with success in private affairs. All this
means to say that the very citize'is most
heavily charged with the responsibility of
seeing that the business of the city was
conducted on sound principles have neg
lected to do so, and are in a fair way to
be punished for their indifference.
A NOBLE THOROUGHFARE.
The two great ornaments of Market
street which are under way — The Call's
fifteen-story marble building and the ferry
structure — are tremendous strides toward
the conversion of this noble highway into
one of the most splendid thoroughfares in
the world. The ferry building will be
either in marble or sandstone, will be 600
feet long and will be surmounted by a
tower of imposing height. Tu£ Call's
building will be striking for its vastly su
perior height above any other building in
the City, for the striking beauty of its
tower effect and for the dazzling whiteness
of its marble.
Upon the exercise of wisdom, taste and
enterprise in the building up of Market
street will depend much that concerns the
City at large, and its aspect and manage
ment will be the key to whatever of refine
ment and prosperity the City can possess.
It will be the center upon which all that
makes the City desirable will be concen
trated to the extent that whatever is good
in other parts of the City must be better
on Market street. Henca every shabby
structure thereon will be just as sure an in
dication of its owner's lack of value as a
citizen as will The Call's marble building
be of the superior enterprise and worth of
Claus Spreckels.
At present Market street is not inviting.
Instead of having sunken tramways and a
smooth pavement, two cable lines and
two horsecar lines crowd its surface, and
the most wretched of block pavements
completes the discomforts and dangers
which the surface cars begin. Besides
these drawbacks it is lined extensively
with the most wretched wooden shanties
that a total lack of pride and energy could
permit. But these are steadily making
way for houses built by men who are of
value to the community. The Parrott
building is a palace, and Claus Spreckels,
besides having just finished one handsome
stone structure, is preparing to build four
or five others of even greater beauty and
size.
There is an abundance of rich men in
the City and there are many millions of
dollars that might be profitably employed
in valuable improvements. Every such
house as that which The Call is to have,
instead of merely increasing the number
of buildings and offices to rent, adds to the
attractiveness and prosperity of the City,
induces the coming of population and
wealth, encourages business and urges the
City onward in all the ways that make it
pleasant, beautiful, inviting and prosper
ous. Inferior buildings and poor streets
will be taken as the measure both of our
intelligence and prosperity, and will stand
as a barrier to our progress. Every man
of means who moves forward is a public
benefactor, and every one who lags behind
sits like an incubus upon the town.
A REMARKABLE SPEECH.
In these days of selfishness, avarice and
an endless struggle for wealth it is refresh
ing to read the manly declaration made
by Mark Twain in an interview at Van
couver. He elaborates his former declara
tion that he ha 3 undertaken his lecturing
tour round the world for the sole purpose
of raising money with which to pay the
debts arising from the failure of his pub
lishing-house; that at his time of life he
would not have undertaken so arduous a
work for his own financial benelit. Here
is a wonderful passage in his interview:
"The law recognizes no mortgage on a
man's brain, and a merchant who has given
up all he bas may take advantage of the
rules of insolvency and start free again for
himself; but I am not a business man, and
honor is a harder master than the law. It
cannot compromise for less than a hun
dred cents on the dollar, and its debts never
outlaw."
The force of this is better appreciated
when we reflect that he is 60 years old,
and that he thinks it will be necessary for
him to lecture four years before he tan ex
tinguish the debt. These are precious
years for a man at hia time of life, and he
cannot hope after the completion of his
task to earn sufficient for his perfect ease
and comfort in his very last years, when
rest and comfort will be so much needed.
More valuable than those considerations
which affect his personal interests is the
stern rebuke which he administers to men
who have no sense of honor except that
which the law compels them to entertain.
The very existence of insolvency laws is a
confession of weakness that casts nearly
the deepest of all the shadows resting on
civilization. They are even a harsher re
buke than the penal laws, for crime is gen-
erally a symptom of disease peculiar to
the individual rather than the expression
of a community fault, while insolvency
laws have a broader origin. It is true that
these laws work great benefit. While they
place no burden upon conscience they do
not in the least relax that which a right
moral sense imposes, and thus it is that
they encourage rascality by favoring the
tricky man.
Still, they are a necessity. Laws are not
intended to govern the morality of men,
but only their conduct. The three princi
pal things which affect conduct are the
laws, a desire to have the respect and con
fidence of a community and the dictates of
the individual conscience. Laws neither
relieve society of its obligations to the in
dividual nor the individual from the moral
pressure which society can exercise. And
it is altogether unfair to compiain of in
solvency laws when we observe that as a
rule they are adopted by the community
as a standard by which to judge the hon
esty of an Insolvent.
The carelessness of some mothers in the
education of their daughters is shown by
the fact that a Chicago woman recently
sent her daughter to the lowa Reform
School under the impression that it was a
State seminary for girls. The girl has
since been "pardoned" and set free, but
the ignorance of the mother can hardly be
pardoned.
The latest Philadelphia ambition is to
make the University of Pennsylvania the
greatest institution of learning in the
United States, and to carry out the plan
the millionaires of the city are now en
gaged in the task of raising an endowment
of $5,000,000.
RANDOM NOTES.
By John McNaught.
The success of the carnivals held in dif
ferent parts of the State, the brilliancy of our
own festival at Belvedere, and the fact that
the Half-million Club favors the project,
are sufficient reasons why the social leaders
of San Francisco should give at least a
holiday consideration to the idea of mak
ing this City the^cene of some of the most
gorgeous and gayest artistic revels known
to the Western world. The popularity of
the carnivals elsewhere proves that the
people are ready to furnish fit actors and
spectators for the fetes, the glory of the
Venetian night at Belvedere attests the
wealth and the taste equal to the best ac
complishment, while the force inherent in
such an organization as the Half-million
Club assures the energy necessary to carry
out any plan that may be devised. What
more do we need then than the will to
make our City a theater where the comedy
of life can be presented at times in its most
joyous form, amid its fairest surroundings
and under its brightest aspects?
The subject is referred to the social
leaders of the City because they have bad
sufficient training and experience in the
management of festal affairs on a large
scale to lift the proposed fete to the height
of a true festival. The carnival which we
hold should be no mere gaudy show de
vised to draw crowds and bring money to
town. It should be designed on that high
plane where life becomes a fine art and
where art commands money because it
does not surrender to it. We should make
a joyous season social in every aspect, not
regardless of cost, of course, but certainly
regardless of pecuniary profit.
Whether we have a carnival or not, it
may be possible for San Francisco next
year to present a spectacle that will en
gage the attention of the whole Nation
and largely increase our fame. If, as now
seems probable, we succeed in obtaining
the Republican National Convention we
would enrapture every delegate and fill
every visitor with admiration by locating
the convention in the magnificent amphi
theater of the Sutro baths. It would be
by far the most beautiful, the grandest and
the most inspiring hall in which a Presi
dential convention ever assembled, and
the scene presented by such a gathering in
such a place would be at once brilliant to
the eye and filled with suggestions both
patriotic and poetic.
With the exception of its remoteness
from the center of the City, which in some
important respects would be an advantage,
the fitness of the Sutro baths for a Presi
dential convention is beyond question. A
flooring over the swimming-pool would
afford ample room for seating all the dele
gates and alternates, while in the spacious
amphitheater which rises with tier above
tier of seats around it, there would be space
for many thousands of spectators. These
conveniences for the accommodation of
great crowds, however, are but a small
part of the fitness of the place for such an
assembly. Those features which render it
most fit are the stately dignity of the
building itself, the romantic beauty of the
surroundings and the fact that the Pacific
Ocean is not only visible from its windows
and audible in its corridors, but is, in fact,
an essential part of it, flowing up into it
and furnishing the wAter for its baths.
What an inspiration for the orators of
the convention would be found in the
nomination on the very shores of the
Pacific of a President who is to reside on
the coast of the Atlantic. The scene would
bring home to the imagination of every
spectator all the grandeur embodied in the
phrase, "The ocean-girt Republic." An
orator and an audience equally impressed
by a sentiment so capable of awakening
the enthusiasm of an exalted patriotism
could hardly fail to produce an eloquence
that would be forever memorable in our
history. The greatness of the occasion,
the splendor of the scene, the magnificence
of the surroundings, the geographical re
lation of the site of the convention to that
of the capital of the Nation, the conscious
ness of the approaching end of the century
with all that the closing age implies, be
ing borne in the minds of spectators whose
eyes overlook the far-reaching Pacific, and
in whose ears the mysterious music of that
mighty sea pulsated always, would surely
furnish to the ablest orators and statesmen
of the Union the inspiration that would
rouse them to the expression of the noblest
thoughts in the noblest language.
In the "Legend of the Cypress Trees,"
J. E. Richards furnishes to The Call this
morning a poem that will be a delight to
all who are susceptible to the line influ
ences of poesy, but its highest charm and
truest meaning will be for those only who
have stood beneath those mysterious old
cypress trec3 on the promontory*at Mon
terey and who. while admiring the grace
of their rugged forms and hoary age, have
been sufficiently moved by them to wonder
whence they came, and in the absence of
any sufficient knowledge on the subject
to seek the solution in the vague realms of
legends and guesses and dreams.
In all great immemorial trees there is al
ways more or less suggestion of a mystery
and a hint of a wonderful historical past.
These in the grove at Cypress Point, of
which Mr. Richards writes, however, are
more than suggestions or hints. They are
dominant and dominating influences. No
man or woman knowing anything of the
trees can escape the influence. In all the
wide confines of the United States there
are no cypress trees of this variety save
these only, that stand on the furthermost
ledge of the Monterey peninsula. They
are alone, and seem conscious of it, hold
ing aloof as if of a higher caste than the
other trees of the forest. No Brahmin
among Pariahs is more lordly than they
among the common pines among them.
They crowd out to the very edges of the
rocks as if eager to escape from the land
where the common trees grow.
There are many legends concerning
these trees, and no man knows the truth of
them. It is narrated that when the rest
less foot of American adventure first came
to Monterey, there were living some neo
phytes at Carmel Mission who said that
when they were young they had heard old
people say that their parents had told
them that long before their time a vessel
of strange people had landed at the point,
and, after dwelling there for a time, had
passed away, either dying or journeying
to other lands, and that after they were
gone the cypress trees grew upon the
place where they now stand. Whence
came these strange people that brought
these unfamiliar trees to Monterey?
Tradition gives no answer, but science,
carefully studying leaf and twig and bark,
finds that the trees, having no alliance
with any in America, are of the same
variety as grow in Asia and from the earli
est ages have been regarded with peculiar
veneration by the Buddhists. There is,
therefore, a presumptive evidence that
the trees came from Asia. Archieology
confirms the conclusions of botany. The
Buddhists were in their day the most
active of propagandists. Their mission
ary zeal accepted no limitations by moun
tain or ocean, and there are found not a
few traces along the Pacific Coast and in
Mexico of the missions they once founded
here and of the religion they taught.
Having a great reverence for the cypress
tree in their native land it is not wonder
ful that they should have brought some of
the seed with them, nor is it over strange
tnat all others planted here should have
perished in forest fires, or by the disasters
of time and chance and left only this one
grove surviving at Cypress Point.
It is to this legend— or shall we call it
history? — to which Mr. Richards' poem re
fers. This is the sweet tradition treasured
to this day which they keep in their somber
glory as they guard a sacred shrine. It is
one of the traditions that adds a human
interest to the manifold charms of Mon
terey Peninsula and invests so much of its
beauty with the enhancing charm of mys
tery.
In all ages of the world whereof man has
any knowledge, and among all people that
have attained to any clear conception of
the spiritual significance made manifest
through material forms, the cypress tree
has always been an emblem of mourning
and has been held litter to bend above the
graves of the dead than to adorn the
pleasure-gardens of the living. Always it
has had for man a meaning full of sadness.
When the old Greek singer wrote his mem
orable verse, "The rose lives but a day and
the cypress a thousand years," he meant
to imply the swift decay of joy and the
endless duration of grief. The world so
understood him then and understands him
now, for the symbols of men have not
changed though all else has changed. It
is not easy to comprehend, however, why
so stately a tree should have for the heart
and the brain so mournful a significance.
It stands so tall, so fair and so strong, and
meets the sunshine and the storm with
such an equal front of calm defiance, fear
ing neither to be withered by the one nor
blasted by the other, that men ought to
find in it something quite different from
sorrow. I like to believe that when Adam
planted the cypress tree by the grave of
Eve, he saw in its evergreen branches and
its time-enduring trunk, not an emblem of
death, but of immortality. The Buddhists
may also in their esoteric circles have
taught something of the same thing, see
ing life in what to the outer world was
death itself. At any rate if the poet was
right in saying that the trees at Cypress
Point seem to be waiting for something it
can hardly be supposed that it is for death
of those who planted them, for they were
dead long since. They can be waiting for
nothing now save the resurrection and the
life.
PERSONAL.
A. C. Swaine of Merced is staying at the Russ.
W. F. Dickson of Eureka is a guest at the
Russ.
Henry Lindley, a Los Angeles politician, is at
the Palace.
J D. Wadworth of Santa Rosa registered at
the Kuss yesterday.
W. H. Hatton, one of Modesto's lawyers, is
housed at the Lick.
Hon. Lawrence Archer of San Jose was in
this City yesterday.
Rev. George W. Pierce is up from Eureka, a
guest at the Grand.
O. J. Smith, an ore buyer from Arizona, is a
guest at the Palace.
R. Miller and family of Tiffin, Ohio, are recent
arrivals at the Kuss.
F. M. Fitzgerald, a Stockton dry-goods man, is
is a guest at the California.
J. T. Smith, a Plucerville mining man, is
housed at the Grand Hotel.
Wat L. J. Werrick, a missionary from Tokio,
Juj un, is a guest at the Occidental.
Mrs. J. A. Foster, a missionary from Kliam
gaan, India, is at the Occidental Hotel.
Lieutenant W. S. Hughes of the United
Slates navy is a new arrival at the Grand.
Bernard Murphy, the Santa Clara capitalise,
is at the Palace Hotel, spending a few days.
F. D. Nicoll, a lawyer, who visits San Fran-
Cisco frequently from Stockton, is at the Lick.
James McNeil, a Santa Cruz capitalist, is up
from the coast, and is stopping at the Palace
Hotel.
T. Espanosia and Vicinti Espanosia y Cuervas
of San Luis i'otosi, Mexico, are guests at tha
Russ.
R. A. Long, one of Willows' barristers, is
down from the farming country, at the Grand
Hotel.
J. M. Mannan, secretary of the Stockton In
sane Asylum, is visiting the City, and is at the
Grand Hotel.
Dr. H. J. Ziegemeier of the United States
navy arrived from China yesterday, and is a
guest at the California.
M. Duke Darnell of the United States navy
is at the California, having arrived in the City
yesterday from Japan on the Belgic.
Judge J. G. Grubb, one of the judiciary of
Delaware, is at the Palace Hotel. He is on a
visit to this coast to get a slice of California
weather.
Miss Lv Wheat, who has been handling the
woman's correspondence of the Kansas Sun in
Japan, arrived in San Francisco last night on
the Bclgic, and is a guest at the Occidental.
Theodore Vogelgesang, who is at present en
joying a three months' leave of absence from
the cruiser Mohican, now lying in Pugat
Sound, is in the City on a visit to his brother
Alexander. This young man, wbo ranks as
ensign, has been on the water for five years,
and is a Pacific Coast graduate from Anna
polis. He has cruised around the Hawaiian
Islands, Bering Sea, South Seas, South Amer
ica, China and Japan, and is full of admiration
for Uncle Sam's new navy and the immediate
prospects of a better one even than proud Eng
land ever dared hoist the Queen's flag over.
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.
NEW Y£RK, N. V., Aug. 17.-The really
typical Eastern summei weather has delayed
its coming somewhat this season, but it is ap
parently here at last. The Californian is nat
urally least of all adapted to enduring this
peculiar variation of the Eastern climate and
the summer resorts and watering places are
full of them : Henry Burden McDowell has es
tablished himself and his family at Orange, N.
J. John Vance ChoneVt who was formerly at
the head of the San Francisco public library,
and now holds a similar position in Chicago,
has gone to Vermont for the summer. Mr. VV.
O. Powell and Mr. F. Sturgis ot San Francisco
have been at Long Branch during the week.
D.M.Burns of San Francisco is at Saratoga.
Mr. G. Gumpertz also of Frisco is now at Man
hattan Beach. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McClure of
San Francisco are among the sojourners at the
Ocean House, Newport, while Mr. and Mrs. E.
G. Graham, two more well-known San Fran
ciscans, are at the Rodick at Bar Harbor. The
list of Californians registered at the New York
hotels to-day Includes: From San Francisco —
R. w. Campbell, Hoffman; S. Dannenbaum and
M. S.Cohen, Imperial; J. Grange, St. Cloud; C.
C. Hansen, St. Stephens; F. Heimken, Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Tibbetrs, Bartholdi; A. C. Stephens
St. Denis; W. H. Hall, Murray Hill; A. D. Levy'
Continental; Mrs. E. A. Dosch, Broadway Cen
tral.
CALIF ORNIANS IN UTAH,
SALT LAKE, Utah, Aug. 17.— Among the
recent arrivals from California are: At the
Knutsford— John H. Mlllsener, T. J. Kelly, San
Francisco; at the Walker, C. Lazelle, San Fran
cisco: at the Cullen, Wager Bradford, San
Francisco; at the Templeton— J. H. Beechcr,
K. D. Bemiss, San Francisco. The Misses Mc-
Donald leave for their home in San Francisco
to-morrow.
SUFPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.
Mrs. Slam— l understand that your husband
has gone into real estate of late.
Mrs. Hamm— Yes; six feet of it— in Green
wood. He's dead.
Bank Cashier— Sorry, sir, but you will have
to be identified.
Casey— Thot's all right, young mon; just wait
till you come to the side dureof my saloon of a
Sunday.
Mrs. Treetop— l believe I'll let you get me a
bottle of this medicine.
Uncle Treetop (looking over the testimonials)
—Not much! One of these criters says after
she took a bottle she felt like a .New Worn j.n.
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
Associate United States Justice Stephen J.
Field, one of the oldest and best-informed
jurists in America, when asked by a young
man yesterday whether or not a successful
jurist should give up his legal practice and go
into an all-round political life, replied:
"I think every young man should go to the
Legislature whenever it is possible, so that he
may become familiar with the manner of mak
ing laws, but I do not think it is always a good
idea to give up a good legal practice to become
a politician. Politicians are plentiful enough
as it is, but the law is not overcrowded with
first-class men. I believe that every citizen
should at some time do jury duty. It familiar
izes him with the process of conducting cases
ASSOCIATE JUSTICE FIELD TELL 3OF HIS JUDICIAL EXPEDI
ENCE IN MARYSVILLE IN 1850.
[Sketched from life for the "Call " by Nankivell.]
and he acquaints himself with the value and
weight of evidence; to £how him that hearsay
testimony cannot be received; that the jury
passes on facts and the Judge on evidence.
It is instructive, and I believe it is a man's
duty to serve the people as a juryman. There
is, however," said the Judge, stroking his
beard and looking thoughtfully across his
room in the Palace, "a vast difference between
the process of conducting the courts to-day
and the system in vogue when I enjoyed the
distinction of being elected Alcalde in Marys
ville in 1850.
"I had come overland from tne East and
landed at the town site before it was occupied
by houses. The settlers there threw up a rude
building and I had the pleasure of sleeping on
the one remaining board left after the house
was completed. It was said at the time that I
had my board and lodging free.
"Finally we decided to form a town and had
a meeting for the purpose of formulating a
plan of government and the election of offi
cials. It occurred to me that the only salaried
position within the gift of the people was that
of Chief Magistrate or Alcalde, so I suggested
that I be selected for the place. Suddenly there
sprung up an opponent and it was said of me
that I had not been in the camp long enough
aud that I was a carpet-bagger. As a matter of
fact I had been there six days and my oppo
nent had been there nine days. At the elec
tion I beat him a few votes, nevertheless, and
was properly installed, with the assistance of
myself, as I drew up the certificate of my elec
tion with all the formality at my command.
"I had entire charge of the justice of the
settlement, adjusted all disputes, decided all
questions of claim and legality, and soon found
myself at the judicial head of a prosperous
commonwealth. I must not forgewto tell you,
however, how we named the town. At a meet
ing called for that purpose I made a speech,
and said, among other things, that we were
surrounded by gold. This was a cue for some
inventive fellow, and he suggested that we
call the town Circundar Oro, which means sur
rounded by gold. This almpst carried, but
another settler got up and said that there was
a woman in the camp, whose name was Mary,
and he thought it would be best to give her
some recognition for a first appearance, and it
was decided with a hurrah to call the town
Marysville. That's how it happened, and it so
remains to-day.
"I am reminded of a funny incident that
happened there. I was walking along the
main street one day, and a follow rushed ud to
me with the information that a certain indi
vidual near by nad stolen his horse, and he
wished me to decide the case on the spot. I
swore them both, put each under cross-exam
ination about the brands on the animal, and
went through a rigid investigation, after
which I decided that the fellow in possession
of the animal had stolen it. I ordered him to
turn it over to the rightful owner, and then
the thief wanted to know if he could have his
bridle. I told him to take it, and he then said
that he desired to purchase the horse. A bill
of sale was drawn up on the spot, and a sale
was made right there. They both wanted to
know what my fee was. I said one ounce
apiece. They paid it, and were so delighted
with that method of dispensing law that both
went off and had a drink, in which I was in
vited to'join/^
KIND WORDS FOR "THE CALL."
The San Francisco Call, under the manage
ment of Charles M. Shortridge, is fast taking
the lead as a champion of the people's rights.
It is pursuing a course that, if followed out,
will soon make it the leading paper on the
coast. It is fearless iv exposing rottenness
that exists in the Police Department of that
City, and is showing up the vice that is al
lowed to be carried on openly by the guardians
of the peace. It is also making strenuous ef
forts to compel the State Board of Equaliza
tion to investigate the rascality of the South
ern Pacific Company in regard to the valuation
of its property, and to make that company pay
its just taxes.— Millville Tidings.
The San Francisco Call will publish only the
legal developments of the Durrant case, taking
care to eliminate all that sensationalism to
which the other bie dailies give so much space.
Now all those people who are continually cry
ing against the sensationalism of the modern
newspaper have un opportunity to show how
strong they are and how sincere they are in
their kick.— Woodland Mail.
The San Francisco Call is to have a new
building of its own, built expressly for the
accommodation of a great modern newspaper
office. The location is at the southeast corner
of Third and Market streets. The Call is one
of the best and most prosperous newspapers
not only of the coast, but of the United States,—
Tacoma (Wash.) Union.
The San Francisco Call has become the
leading paper of that City, and has made
itself so by the hitherto untried policy of fair
ness, cleanliness and honesty. It may fall
from grace next year, but, so. far, The Call
leads them all.— Lemoore Radical.
California has also a Board of Railroad Com
irifisioners drawing pay from the people and
doing: nothing for it. The San Francisco Call
is after them with a "sharp stick"— an editorial
pencil vigorously shoved. — Pendleton East
Oregonian.
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.
The motor foad connecting Riverside and San
Bernardino has been absorbed by the Southern
Pacific As an absorber of the life blood of
coast enterprises and coast progress the "octo
pus" has been well named.— Visalia Times.
Some of our young men have become very
proficient in the use of the wheel, but up to
the hour of going to press none of them have
been seen hoeing the weeds out of the back
yard on a "silent steed."— Kern County Echo.
A Campbell orchardist who owns only four
acres of land has refused $1000 for his fruit
crop this season, on the trees. One season his
crop was sold for $1100. Yet the average East
ern visitor would declare that $1000 an acre
for that little bit of orchard would be an exor
bitant price. As a matter of fact, it would be
dirt cheap.— San Jose Mercury.
It has been gravely suggested by an Illinois
man that the name of this State be changed (»
"Washingtona." This is an unpardonable- of
fense against good taste. If the people of thg;
East have become so intensely intereeted in
this State-as to insist upon a new name for it,
why let it be Skkokumchuck.orSwauk. or even
Squak, because these names, excruciating. a«
they are, have a natural and perhaps poetib
origin. But deliver us from "Washingtona."—
Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman-Review.
We ought not lightly to contemplate the.
abolition of the jury system, but should rather,
endeavor to see that it is reformed and made
more in keeping with modern social condi
tions than it is. Jnry reform, not the abolition
of juries, is what is yeeded, and the student of
history does not need to be told that such re\
forms have been made from time to time, as •
occasion demanded, during the last 800 years -
at least. Xo good reason exists for thinking,
further reforms impossible.— Seattle (Wash.;'
Times.
It would not be surprising if the Vice-Presi
dential candidate on the Republican ticket for
1890 was chosen from the South. The idea la
favored by many party leaders. In the Con-;
gressional elections last year the Republicans .
carried more districts in the South than the .
Democrats did in the North, and this is taken
as, an indication that geographical lines in
politics have disappeared at last. It might b&
well to celebrate this change in conditions by
selecting a Southern man for second place on.
the Republican National ticket.— San Diego
Union.
NOTES ABOUT STOCKS.
Stocks create a ferment wild,"
Stocks have many men beguiled. fg&ig.
Stocks excite both rich and poor,
Stocks the cautious ones allure.
Stocks cause many a sleepless night,
Stocks send many nun home tight.
Stocks disease the troubled brain.
Stocks oft cause a "trip to Spain."
Stocks make men to yell till hoarse,
Stocks "bring joy aud more remorse.
Stocks spread sorrow far and wide,.
Stocks bring men to suicide.
Stocks force men to leave high station,
Stocks encourage litigation.
Stocks bring riches to the' few, I
Stocks for many troubles brew. I
Stocks cause men to fret and fume,
Stocks send many "up the flume." ' ■ *'•'■
Stocks affect the working classes,
Stocks attract the bonnie lasses.
As we, In life, they smile and frown, - ' ',
Sometimes up and sometimes down. P. M.
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Max Nordau, in reply to the allegation that
his name is Simon Sudfield, rises to remark
that at the age of 15, at his father's behest, he
assumed the name of Nordau, and had that
name officially and legally conferred upon him
by decree of Karl yon Zeyk, then Royal Hunr?
garian Minister of the Interior, under No.
13,138, and the date of April 11, 1873. : : :
A writer of the critical kind once assured
Tennyson tl:at he could always tell what lines
wrote themselves from pure inspiration, and
what others had been labored. In response to.
Tennyson's ihvitation he quoted a famous
verse as an instance of poetic spontaneity.
"Ah, yes," drawled the poe.t, "I smoked a dozen
pipe's over that line."
Dr. Ernst Dryander is called the Phillips
Brooks of Berlin. His work greatly resembles
that of the famous American Episcopalian pre
late, and, strangely enough, his persons' ap
pearance is also very similar.
E. A. Sohultze, a young millionaire of Orange,
N. J., smokes cigarettes which cost him $75.. a
thousand. They are short and fat and em
bossed with his monogram.
The Countess of Dudley Is the only Countess
in England who can claim the distinction of
having been a bona-fide shopgirl before she
assumed the title.
Miss Llewelyn Davies, the leader of the
womon suffragists of Great Britain, Is a re-..
markably handsome woman. ■
Molasses Buttercups, 25c a lb. Townsend's.*'-
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E. H. Black, painter, 120 Eddy street. •
Rents collected. Ashton, 411 Montgomery.* -
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Geo. W. Monteitii, law 'offices, Crocker bldg * -:
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Dr. Agnew, rectal diseases. 1170 Market st. • .
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Bacon Printing Company, 503 Clay streoi • • .
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"Van Twerp— l hear your daughter has-'
reached a high place in the theatrical profes- "]
sion ? • ■
Yon Swipe— Yes; she's singing on a roof gar
den.—Brooklyn Eagle. .-,
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Hood's Barsaparilla has a record of remaFkahta ,
cures never equaled by any other preparation. In ,
the severest cases of scrofula it has been successful' *
after much other treatment failed. >. ' -• •
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All persons afflicted with dyspepsia will find ■".
immediate relief and sure cure by using Dr. ••-
Slegert'B Angostura Bitters. - "':
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If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Tbomp- .'
son's Eye Water. Druggists sell It at '25 cents. :
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"There are only two important epochs in a
woman's life," .said the observing bachelor.
"Name them," replied Miss Gidduy. • •
"Before she is married and after."— Detroit ■
Free Press.
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