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FRIDAY AUGUST 23,1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The phylloxera is not seeking attention,
tut he must have it.
After this we may expect to hear a great
deal about Campbell of Ohio as Presi
dential candidate.
If the reports are correct Olney's foreign
policy will be something quite sensational
as soon as it gets started.
"Look out for the phylloxera" will be a
timely text for the rural press to preach on
in all the vineyard counti^.
Ohio Democrats succeeded in getting a
Candidate for Governor, but they had to rob
p political graveyard to do it.
• . Senator Brice says Cleveland is the great
est of living statesmen, so now we know
the words of the cuckoo's song.
The convention is over, but the silver
men should stay with us for the rest of the
jveek and study the exposition.
The money question occupies the high
way of politics, and those who wish to
evaae it must get out of the road.
Republican success in Maryland is now
accounted as one of the most probable of
all the political probabilities of the season.
After all the clatter about "the bicycle
face" it is now said the whole thing was
started simply to make summer time
talk.
As a general rule in all Eastern conven
tions, so far, the gold men have drawn up
tne platforms and the silver men have
named the candidates.
If the Beard of Equalization had as
sessed railroad property at its true value
there would have been no necessity to in
crease the taxes on the people.
In calling upon the police to enforce the
ordinance against sidewalk obstructions
the Grand Jury can Hardly be said to have
criticized anybody, but it sounds like it.
The gold men won a partial victory in
the Democratic convention in Ohio, but
the success of the silver convention in
this City will more than offset the trick.
Visitors from Europe, after one experi
ence with a dry Sunday, declare that there
is no European city in which there is so
little individual liberty as in New York.
It is to be regretted that the State ex
hibit at Atlanta is not to be better sup
ported ; however, it is better to be there
with one foot than not to be there at all.
The Miners' Association is to be con
gratulated on having brought the Southern
Pacific land office to a point where it is
willing to negotiate and suggests arbitra
tion.
According to ex-Senator Reagan the
Democracy of Texas will not have Cleve
land for a third term, and moreover will
toot support for a first term any one who
advocates his policy.
The Democratic convention in Ohio was
forced to give Cleveland a formal indorse
ment, bu*-inTjbemanding the enforcement
of the Monroe doctrine it got in a heart
felt side wipe at him.
The outrages in Armenia and the at
tacks on missionaries at Kucheng have
Called attention to the fact that Turkey
Bud China are now the only considerable
portions of the earth not under Caucasian
government or supervision.
Although the total assessed value of all
property in Illinois has been increased this
year by over $0,000,000 the assessment of
railroad property has been diminished by
$300,000, and the people are now trying to
figure out how such things can be.
As the Defender is said to be built on
British models and the Valkyrie on Amer
ican models the success of either will prob
ably be claimed as a victory by both na
tions, and nobody will feel beaten but the
fellows who bet on the wrong boat.
According to recent compilations of
vital statistics in New England, the chances
©f getting sufficient food are best in the
cities, but the chances of long life are best
in the country, so it seems that short ra
tions are rather wholesome than other
wise.
It is claimed that the State census now
being taken in Minnesota will show a
marked movement of the population from
the cities back to the country, and that
with the exception of Duluth none of the
larger towns will show any considerable
increase.
All summer long we have been hearing
from the East of the coming overthrow of
two Republican bosses, Quay and Platt,
and two Democratic bosses, Gorman and
Brice, but up to date all of them are still in
the saddle, and the broncos seem weary
of bucking.
That the progress of one enterprise in
variably leads to others is well illustrated
by the fact that the provision for a com
peting railroad at Stockton has led to re
newed energy there in the way of manu
facturing; and the prospects are that sev
eral large establishments will be getting
their machinery in motion before a year
passes.
THE STATE TAX LEVY.
It is reported that the State Board of
Equalization will find it necessary to fix
the State tax levy at or about 66 cents on
each ?100 in order to meet the current ex
penses of the State Government for the
present fiscal year. This figure is so far in
advance of the expectations of the people,
and so much in excess of the rate to which
each of the political parties pledged Itself
to confine the limit of State taxation, as to
warrant an inquiry into the reason for the
increase. This reason it is not necessary
to go far to lind.
"When the Legislature was in session
only a few months ago the constant and
increasing scandal of its entire career was
its reckless and wasteful expenditure of
the public funds. Early in the session
The Call directed attention to this waste
and to the means by which it was accom
plished and throughout its entire course
continued to oppose its extravagance.
This opposition, however, availed but
little and down to the very last days of the
session the Legislature continued to em
ploy useless clerks, to pay high
salaries to needless employes and to
equip expensive junketing expeditions
over the State which were as costly
as they were useless and unnecessary, in
spite of the fact that the members of both
of the political parties were expressly
pledged to keep the State tax levy within
the limit of 50 cents on each $100. The
members of the Legislature, without re
gpect to party or to party pledges, threw
this limit to the winds. The consequence
is to be seen and to be borne by the people
of the State in and by the rate of taxation
which the Board of Equalization rinds it
necessary to affix.
There is a needful though expensive
lesson to the people of California to be
found in this experience. So long as the
Senate and Assembly districts continue to
send to the Legislature obscure and un
worthy men; so long as the two political
parties are dominated by elements which
find such legislators useful for the accom
plishment of their sordid purposes; so
long as the State treasury is deemed to con
tain the proper funds upon which to draw
for the necessary means to reward political
henchmen and heelers, just so long will
the people of the State of California be
punished by excessive tax levies, and by
the wanton and willful breach of party
pledges to keep the rate of taxation within
reasonable bounds.
It is not intended to assert hereby that
the last Legislature is solely responsible for
the excessive tax levy of the present year.
The State Board of Equalization is itself
to be held liable for a portion of this in
crease. But that's another story.
A GOOD EXAMPLE.
The owners of the Safe Deposit buildine,
corner of California and Montgomery
streets, are giving an illustration of what
might be done with many of the old
houses in the business area of the City.
Although the owners oi that building were
presumably receiving a good rental, they
observed that under the new spirit of ad
vancement which has come over our peo-
pie office-renters demand the best accom
modation which modern scientific skill
can produce, and that successful men who
rent offices have become dissatisfied with
the accommodations which the old build
ings furnish. This has been made all
tbemore prominent by the fact that the
perfectly equipped modern buildings,
charging, as they do, a rental greatly in
excess of that demanded in the old houses,
are kept well filled. Indeed, an office
renter's position in the world, with regard
to his ability among the leading forces
which determine the course of vital events,
has come to be measured by the kind of
quarters which he seeks and the amount
of rental which he i 3 able or willing to
pay.
It is not altogether a matter of a tenant's
ability to pay a high rental. There are
many wealthy and prosperous office
renters who feel themselves above all con
siderations of appearances. At the same
time it may be noticed that as a rule the
most prosperous renters seek the best
quarters. They may do this for one or
more or several reasons. Clearly oue of
them is that they want to be comfortably
and elegantly housed, another is that they
have a regard for the comfort of their
clients or customers, still another is that
they appreciate the value of the showing
that they make, and above all there is the
influence which their conduct exerts as an
encouragement of improvement and a
stimulus to progress.
A most instructive coincidence is ob
servable between the unpopularity and
inadequacy of the good old-fashioned
buildings of the City and the condition of
the streets which they face. While it
is true that the finest buildings are
now seeking Market street, and that
this thoroughfare is as to its pavements
one of the worst streets in the City, it
is evident that the builders are looking
forward to the time when Market street
will be made the most attractive as well as
the most important highway in town. We
cannot imagine such structures as The
Call and Parrott buildings being erected
on any thoroughfare other than Market
street. This makes it none the less de
plorable that the eastern terminus of
Montgomery avenue has given no sign of
appreciation of the extraordinary advan
tages which it enjoys. In that vicinity are
many oi the most substantial old houses
which were built many years ago and
which are now nearly empty because they
have not been modernized.
The owners of the Safe Deposit building
are setting an example for all such cases.
This house is to have swift elevators and
all other recently devised conveniences.
But what can be expected of the owners
of houses to whom this example has been
set when we see that they are doing noth
ing to make their streets passable?
The streets and the houses go together
and in combination express all that is
necessary to explain the tenantless condi
tion of the buildings and the eagerness
with which the accommodations of the
modern houses are sought.
BETTER SCHOOLHOUSES.
The recent troubles in the City School
Department have been profitable in show
ing that the money of the department is
unwisely employed, and that this is the
result of politics in the management of
school affairs. There is another phase of
the subject that should receive attention
while the general matter is under review.
This is the inadequacy and inferiority of
the public schoolhouses of the City. Not
only are they crowded beyond the point of
comfort and health, but they are at best
inferior wooden buildings and are con
stantly in need of repairs which they do
not receive. In many cases the lots on
which they stand were never provided
with proper drainage, with the result that
in the rainy season the cellars are flooded
and injurious dampness and decay ensue.
In a hilly city where drainage is so easily
secured this fault amounts to a scandal.
We are all familiar with the disgraceful
wrangles which arise out of any propo
sition to repair the buildings or erect new
ones. In nearly every board of trustees
are intelligent and conscientious members
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1895.
who are desirous of doing their duty in
such cases, but generally the majority is
composed of men who are moved solely by
the desire to employ all the funds a 9 sal
aries to friends and dependents without
reference to the real needs of the depart
ment. It is not in the amount of salary
paid to any teacher that the fault is to be
found, but in the creation of unnecessary
positions and the consumption of the fund
in this way to the injury of the teachers
themselves and of the department as a
whole.
This matter is mentioned because it is
largely a consequence of a fault which the
State law commits. In framing the school
law the Legislature committed the stupid
blunder of failing to set aside a fixed per
centage of the revenues for building pur
poses. This is the sole and simple expla
nation of the fact that our school buildings
are so inferior and so wretchedly cared for.
The thrifty majorities of the school board
who secure their own election are urged
thereto largely by a consideration of the
fact that such a restriction does not exist
and that they are therefore unhampered in
their desire to divert the funds to the
pockets of their friends and dependents.
It would be difficult to find in the United
States a city half the size of San Francisco
that is not provided with handsome and
commodious brick or stone schoolhouses,
which appear as palaces in comparison
with the poor shanties which do service
here. True enough, when we reflect on
the ancient local folly which regarded
wooden houses as being safer than brick
or stone, and see it manifested in the
wooden shanties which our older million
aires erected on Nob Hill and which with
xlelicious guilelessnesswe call "mansions,"
some excuse for wooden schoolhouses may
be found.
That excuse is not permissible in these
enlightened days. The main fight which
tne progressive spirit of the time is mak
ing is against silurianism, of which the
wooden shanty is an able exponent. It
will be becoming in the people to see that
the next Legislature sets apart a fixed per
centage of the school revenues for build
ing purposes, and that out of it shall grow
schoolhouses adequate to our needs.
THOSE MINEEAL LANDS.
In response to the letter written by the
Miners' Association to the Southern Pacific
Company asking for a fuller statement of
the suggestion which Mr. William H. Mills
of the Southern Pacific made to State
Mineralogist Crawford, Mr. Mills has set
forth his proposition at length. In effect
it is that the Central Pacilic, the California
and Oregon and the Oregon and California
lines have been trying for thirty years to
secure Government patents to lands within
the granted belt; that the issuance of
patents has been delayed by numerous
causes, principal among them being a lack
of knowledge on the part of the Govern
ment concerning the character of the lands
and contests brought by persons whose
right to bring them is questionable; that
the companies are anxious to have the
whole matter settled in order that they
may be enabled to enjoy the benefits of the
grant, and that they are willing to have
the subject disposed of on the following
plan: The Miners' Association and the
railroad company each are to employ an
efficient engineer, whose decision with re
gard to any question as to whether a tract
is mineral or agricultural land shall be
final, and all pending contests are to be
withdrawn.
The proposition seems to be fair so far as
it goes, but it does not appear complete as
a scheme of adjustment. It is the sub
mission of an important question to oppos
ing forces of equal strength. There is
neither assurance nor likelihood that the
two engineers will agree, in all cases, and
no determining agency is provided in case
of a disagreement. That is to say the two
arbitrators are not to have a third one to
cast the deciding vote. This may prove an
important consideration in view of the
fact that in many cases the geological in
dications are obscure and that each engi
neer's decision in such a case may be in
fluenced by the interests of his employer.
Hence there is a possibility that many
uncertain cases will remain undetermined.
Meanwhile all contests will have been
abandoned and the railroad company will
be free to demand patents. This offers an
opening for injustice.
All parties are anxious that the whole
matter should be settled as soon as pos
sible. An experience of thirty years has
shown that the antagonistic relations of
the mining interests to the claims of the
railroad will probably prevent a settlement
till the end of time on the present basis.
Even should the opposing engineers agree
that this or the other piece of land
is non-mineral and should be
patented to the company, the Gov
ernment -will still have the right to
exercise its own discretion and make its
own determination. In other words, while
the scheme proposed by Mr. Mills might
effect an adjustment of the relations be
tween the miners and the railroad com
pany in some instances of disputed lands,
it would affect the Government's interfer
ence only to the extent of its excuse for the
issuing of patents to all lands from which
the right of protest had been removed by
the miners' acceptance of the railroad
company's proposition.
If some way of making the Government
a responsible party to the arbitration could
be devised the equities would seem easier
of adjustment. If, for instance, the Gov
ernment should add to the engineers ap
pointed by the miners and the railroad
company an engineer of its own, who
should cast the deciding vote in all dis
puted cases, the settlement might be
greatly simplified. In the absence of efli
cient work on the part of the Government
to determine the character of the disputed
lands, the three engineers operating to
gether could greatly reduce the Govern
ment's labors and time in arriving at an
intelligent conclusion. In any event the
suggestion that all contests be dropped
does not seem right or practicable.
The Citizens' Municipal Association of
Philadelphia evidently means business, for
it has guaranteed $20,000 to defray tne ex
penses of the Senate committee to investi
gate the city, and has placarded the streets
with offers of rewards of $500 for evidence
of violations of law in the approaching
primaries.
It is reported that at the Old Orchard
camp meeting in Maine the sum of $60,000
has been raised this summer for foreign
missions, and it would seem therefore that
the missionaries might send a little gun
boat of their own to China to keep the
peace while they are converting the
heathen.
The story that Cleveland intended to
capture Havana as a means of compelling
Spain to pay the Mora claim is the first
intimation we have bad of the enforce
ment of the long promised vigorous foreign
policy, and even in this case the vigor
seems strangely like the tale of a sea
serpent.
As the steamer St. Louis has carried the
American flag through the English channel
at greater speed than any flag was ever
carried before, we can begin to look forward
to the time when our flag will outetrip
those of all nations on every sea.
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
At the State Board of Trade rooms is a regis
ter in which visitors are asked to write their
names. After the place for names is a space
for remarks and there the visitors make a won
derful display of their inability to express
themselves in writing.
"It seems strange that our visitors, many of
them well educated, too, are so utterly unable
to express themselves with a pen," said Secre
tary Filcher the other day. "I suppose it is be
cause the public schools do not give enough at
tention to English composition."
About half the visitors make some remark
after their signature. One page differs very
little from another. The following is a sam
ple: "Fine," twice "Very fine," "Out of sight,"
"Excellent," "Extra fine," "Good," "The best
of its kind," "Magnificent," "Pretty good,"
"Remarkable," "Slick itself," "Pretty good."
In the whole book very few additional adjec
tives will be found. A sweet young girl from
Fresno wrote "Simply lovely." An English
man put down "Not bad." One admiring vis
itor whose education had been neglected wrote,
"Without a pear." The place is full of pears.
A late visitor was poetical and wrote, "The as
sertion I now boldly make, that this exhibit at
Atlanta will get the cake." '-Muy bien," wrote
a man from Guaymas, and "Belly good" wrote
You Xi Yun of Canton. D. R. Corey of Lan
sing, Mich., wrote, "Left here Apr. 1, '94.
Have visited all the country south of this place.
All fine, but who will pay the mortgages?"
Possibly the man who wrote "Inexpressible"
explained why the "remarks" are generally not
more satisfactory to Mr. Filcher.
Eugene Howell, the Secretary of State of
Nevada, thinks that State has a great future.
"All that is needed to develop a great deal of
valuable agricultural country is cheaper trans
portation," he said yesterday at the Occidental
"With that we could reach a market, and with
a market 100 acres could be cultivated to one
that is now. Down in Lincoln County they
can grow all sorts of semi-tropical fruits. You
know the first settlers there were Mormons,
who built up some flourishing settlements.
When the county was organized most of them,
rather then pay tribute to the State, left their
homes. They deserted their comfortable
houses and cultivated fields, in which theij
plows were afterward found rusting. However,
some of them remained. At Bunkerville there
is a settlement of about 200 Mormons, and
they make good citizens, are thrifty and the
most orderly we have. Along the Muddy River
and Rio Vista in Lincoln are grown cotton,
tobacco and most of the semi-tropical fruits.
There is plenty of land and an abundance of
water, and, as I said, all that is necessary to
make a rich agricultural country is the means
ot reaching a market. The people have hopes
that the Salt Lake and Los Angeles road will
be built, and it looks very much as if it will, in
the near future. A number of San Francisco
and Salt Lake people have been taking up land
in that part of Nevada lately, and that is a
good sign."
Jesse Frick, who has lately returned from a
visit to Indian Territory, was talking yesterday
about the character of the civilized Indians.
"The Indians are much more honest in many
ways than the average white man,' r.aid he.
"In the Choctaw Nation, at Fort Smith, where
Indians are tried for murder, it has been the
custom for thirty years, after a murderer is
convicted and sentenced, to turn him loose on
his own agreement to show up on the day set
for his execution. Only oue Indian ever failed
to keep his appointment. They tell of a case
where a newly uppointed Deputy Marshal met
a convicted man on his way to the place of his
execution and stopped him to a=k some ques
tions. Soon the doomed man excused himself,
saying that he had to hurry on down to the
'Commons,' where he had an engagement to
be shot at 2 o'clock. The deputy resigned next
day. He said that he didn't care to taKe the
risk of getting into trouble with people as fear
less of death hs that.
"The bandits it is almost impossible to cap
ture in that country. The only way to manage
them is to offer them a full pardon and throw
iv a deputy marshalship to boot if they will
agree to reform. Many have accepted the
terms, and they always keep their word and
mate good officers."
PERSONAL.
Silas Carle, a contractor of Sacramento, is at
the Lick.
Rev. Samuel Hirst of Vallejo is a guest at the
Occidental.
C. H. Dwindle, a horticulturist of Fulton, is
at the Grand.
F. S. Wickersham, a banker of Fresno, Is stay
ing at the Lick.
Yates Stirling Jr. of the U. S. ship Thetis is
at the Occidental.
J. B. de Jarnatt, an attorney of Colusa, is
staying at the Grand.
L. P. Brant of the army registered at the
Occidental yesterday.
W. W. Gillett, a big fruit man of Paleftno, la
a guest at the Occidental.
George L. Turner, a banker of Los Gatos, reg
istered at the Grand yesterday.
George L. Anderson U. S. A., from Fortress
Monroe, is staying at the Grand.
F. G. Ostrander, District Attorney of Merced,
registered yesterday at the Lick.
William L. Gill, an attorney of San Jose, and
Mrs. Gill are guests at the Palace.
Captain W. G. Dougherty of the army and
his family are guests at the Occidental.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Goldsmith of Fresno are
visiting the City and are at the Lick House.
Andrew Rocca, one of the owners of the Great
Western Quicksilver Mine, is a guest at the
Lick.
E. McLaughlin of San Jose passed through
this City yesterday on his way from Los
Angeles.
A. 8. Crowder, a big lemon-grower of La
Mesa, Los Angeles County, is a guest at the
Occidental.
W. R. Clarke, a member of the Railroad Com
mission, came down from Stockton yesterday
and registered at the Baldwin.
C.C.Duncan, a treasury agent from Wash
ington, bound for the seal fisheries in Alaska,
with his wife, is at the Occidental.
Lieutenant-Colonel William 11. Bell, assistant
commifsary-general of the Department of Cali
fornia, has been granted a leave of absence for
two months, which he will spend at Denver.
Lieutenant Herbert J. Slocum of the Seventh
United States Cavalry, who was ordered before
the examining board here for promotion, has
been called to New York by the sickness of his
mother.
First Lieutenant Harry C. Benson of the
Fourth United States Cavalry, now with his
troop in the Yosemite Park, has been ordered
to report at the Presidio for duty as recorder of
the examining board.
Frank W. Dudley of Stockton, who gradu
ated from the taedicai department of the State
University last month, has been engaged as
ship's physician on the steamer Belgic of the
Occidental and Oriental Company's line to
Japan. Dr. Dudley is a nephew of Harbor
Commissioner Colnon.
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, N. V., Aug. 22.— Californians
registered at hotels to-day: Ban Francisco—
F. O. Young, Grand Union; Y. C. Lawson,
Everett; G. Greenzweig, Astor; Miss Aronson,
Imperial. San Diego— H. R. Wildreth, St.
Denis.
EASTERN EDITORS.
The Aldermen's Flag.
The New York Board of Aldermen, after much
deep cogitation and expenditure of brain, have
adopted a flag, and now that they have it they
don't know what to do with it. It's a very
pretty flag, according to all accounts. The
body of the flag is white, like the consecrated
flag of the Bourbons— a fact which should
commend it alike to the Fenian members of
the board and to those of Blue Grass proclivi
ties. Then there is a circle of stars, a star for
every Alderman. Inside the starry circle, and
deriving luster from its serene light, are
blazoned the arms of the city of New York.
It's a great flag and the Aldermen are very
proud of it.— Brooklyn Times.
Too Elegant for Politics.
It Is an incontestible fact that many persons
have become too elegant to soil thoir hands
with anything so vulgar aa practical politics.
People have learned to believe that the Govern
ment is a great organism quite apart and dis
tinct from themselves and thai it can easily
get along without their participation. Ma
chine rule has come in and taken the place of
personal influence. Democracy is ceasing to
be a masß in which the individual citizen is
the unit. There is but one way to remedy this
evil. The people must go back immediately
and earnestly to the simpler, wiser, better
ways of their fathers.— Philadelphia Times.
The Bicycle Face.
The current talk about the alleged "bicycle
face" has little basis in fact, but it has served
to enliven a dull season. The supposedly set
look on the faces of men and women riding
bicycles is largely mythical, though if it exists
it ought not to awaken surprise in view of the
condition of many of our pavements and of the
numerous cars and vehicles which the bicycler
has to look out for. But it is no more charac
teristic of the man or woman on a wheel than
of most men and women when they enter a
crowded railway car, or even when they walk
down the aisle to their pew in church.— New
York Tribune.
Big Doings in Korea.
Korea is progressing and may soon be able to
give us points. An independence day haa been
established and a law for the strict observance
of Sunday adopted, there being no Korea Tam
many to prevent. New Year's is to be observed
by a continuous holiday of eleven days, but
this is not a positive departure from our
system, for many of our citizens after celebrat
ing voluntarily for one day are accustomed to
celebrate involuntarily for ten more. Korea
will be a great country some day.— New York
Mail and Express.
Politics in lowa.
lowa's coming State elections are rendered
doubly problematic as to results in the threat
ened revolt of the free-silver Democracy
against the Marshalltown platform. There is
no certainty as to the exact extent of the dis
affection, but it is sufficiently widespread to
hint at the defeat of the Democratic ticket.
From all parts of the State and from repre
sentative people in the free-silver wing of the
party the cry has gone up against the platform
and against the alleged meddling of Federal
office-holders in the recent convention.—
Chicago Record.
Silver and Ozone.
A good and easy way to discover the presence
of ozone in a place is to wear silver trinkets.
If they grow black, as if near hot sulphur
springs, you have it in a large proportion.
Silver jewelry keeps while in the low-lying
towns of Norway, but gets black in the hillside
pine woods. If one walks in a meadow after a
thunderstorm one will find the silver money
in one's purse discolored.— New York Times.
Ohio Knocked Out.
Six hundred thousand tons of Ohio coal
which should have been shipped from Lake
Erie ports last year was replaced by Pennsyl
vania coal as a result of the tierce war of prices
which the Pennsylvania operators started. Not
only that, but Ohio miners lost hundreds of
thousands of dollars in wages as a result of
that business contest.— Cleveland News and
Herald.
Bijj Crops but Little Money.
Our legislation of late has been of such a
character that the people will not get as much
benefit from the big crops as they Avould if leg
islation had been wise. The tariff has been so
changed as to throw many men out of work;
and while the necessaries of life are generally
cheap, that does not help those who want the
dollars to buy them.— Colorado Springs Ga
zette.
Cleveland Is tl 11111:111.
And so Grover Cleveland is like other or
dinary everyday people after all— people who
spend the summer in the country and find the
time hang heavily upon their hands. He goes
to the village postoffice daily and Inquires
whether there is any mail forhim. Well who
would have thought ii? Cleveland, human!—
New York Tribune.
No "Win <> Laugh.
On one account it was beneficial to hold a
silver couference at Washington. The East
will be taught that the coinage question Is no
mere incident of commercial depression but a
great political problem which will endure
until it is settled by order of the majority of
American voters. — St. Louis Republic,
"What the People Should Do.
When corporations buy Aldermen and Alder
men betray their trusts and violate their
pledges there seems to be but one thing left
for the people to do, and that is to follow the
suggestion of a member of Denver's City Coun
cil and confiscate the property of the corpora
tiou.—lowa State Journal.
The Same Old Tammany.
Tammany has "reorganized" Itself, but not
reformed or changed for the better. The "re
organization" consists in putting the same old
leaders forward and retaiuing the same old
methods.— New York Herald.
Omaha Not Flattered.
Jim Corbett, the champion bruiser, has mar
ried an Omaha girl. However, Omaha does
not feel particularly flattered.— Omaha Bee.
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.
The Attorney-General of the United States
has placed Collis P. Huntington on the free
list. That official declares Huntington to be
above the law, and that no charge for any in
fraction of it can hold against his nibs. This
declaration affords solid basis for the expecta
tion that the next move of the Attorney-Gen
eral will be to indict the members of the United
States Grand Jury that bad the temerity to in
dict and thereby annoy the august magnate.
The letters "S. P.," which usually follow the
name of Huntington, must hereafter be con
strued as meaning, Supreme Power.— Alameda
Criterion.
County Clerk Condee is in receipt of a letter
from George H. Maxwell, the San Francisco at
torney, who is out in the Perris irrigation dis
trict working up financial support for the fund
to engage Judge Choate of New York to appear
before the Supreme Court of the United States
in October, to represent those who desire to see
the iccent decision of Judge Ross sustained, to
which it is stated that the people under the
irrigation systems receiving their supply of
water from the Bear Valley Company are all
subscribing liberally. The full amount neces
sary will, doubtless, be subscribed within a
short time.— San Bernardino Sun.
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Bismark's head was measured by Schaper,
the sculptor, who made his statue at Cologne,
and from the measurements the French ecien-
tific journals are trying to calculate the size of
his brain. Tiie head is enormous, being 212
millimeters from forehead to occiput and 170
millimeters between the temples: the average
figures for German heads are 195 by 155 milli
meters. The volume of the skull is 1965 cubic
centimeters, the average being 1478 and the
greatest recorded 1860; from this the inference
is that the brain weighs 1397 grammes, 35 per
cent above the average weight.
J. Howard Moore is known as the champion
Prohibition orator of the United States. He is
studying in the University of Chicago, and is
the president of the University Vegetarian
Club. He thinks it is as wicked to eat meat as
to drink liquor. He believes in woman suf
frage, has curly hair and soulful eyes, declares
that this country is the lanu of the boss and
the home of the sot, but nopes to change all
that by a frequent delivery of his prize oration,
"The Scourge of the Republic." He Is full of
youthful enthusiasm.
Since Bishop Potter of New York has taken
up his residence in the slums of that city he
has had some very interesting and amusing ex
periences with the street urchins that swarm
around the Cathedral Mission. According to
the New York World one of these arabs re
cently approached the eminent divine and re
spectfully inquired: "Say, Bishop, be you any
relation to Mr. Potter of Texas."
All the personal memorials of Carlyle con
tained in the Chelsea house, lately turned into
a museum, consist, according to Truth, of a
battered trunk, a walking stick, a wretched
tin bath, a marble-top washstand and a stove
pipe hat under a glass case.
Mile. Jeanne Bennben, who took her bach
elor's degree when only 16, two years ago, has
just passed a brilliant examination for the
licentiate of philosophy at the Paris Sorbonne.
Archduke Robert S&lvator of Austria, the
ninth child ot the ex-Grand Duke of Tuscany,
died recently from the effects of a cold bath in
the lake of Constance. He was 10 years old.
Antonio Maceo, the Cuban revolutionary
leader, is a mulatto, and a man of great culture
and refinement. He is well educated, and is
said to be scrupulously neat in his dress.
Rob Roy McGregor, who is said to be a lineal
descendant of the famous Scottish chieftain,
Rob Roy. lives in Washington. His houso con
tainß many relics of the great warrior.
Ex-Justice Strong, It is said, gave up an in
come of $50,000 a year from his law practice to
accept the place on the Supreme Court bench
offered him by President Grant.
OUT OF TOWN PERSONALS.
Santa Rosa, Cal., Aug. 21.— Mrs. J. M. Roney
is In San Francisco. Postmaster Lewis has
gone to Capitola on a visit. J. Q. Graves of Los
Angeles is here. Mrs. George Hall has re
turned from Capitola. J. T. Rutherford of Oro
vllle is a gu«st at the Occidental. Miss Alena
Roberts left for Oakland Monday. Hon.
R. A. Poppe of Sonoma is in town.
Mrs. Haigh and Miss Bessie Goodwin have
gone on a visit to San Francisco.
Professor and Mrs. Alfred Kelleher of San
Francisco, who have been here on a visit to
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Crooks, returned home
Tuesday. W. T. Cottier of San Francisco is
here superintending the ventilation of the
new High School. Miss Lena Chapman, who
has been visiting Miss Belle Ross, returned
home Tuesday. Mrs. M. S. Pickett left on a
two weeks' visit to San Francisco Monday.
Key. William Massie, rector of the Kenwood
Episcopal Church, is registered at the
Occidental. Grant O. Richards, city
editor of the Republican has gone
on a week's vacation down South.
Misses Jennie Miller, Jessie Mailer, Louise
Wirt and Mary McLeod will leave in a few days
for Stanford. Miss Rock and Miss Swain, of
San Francisco, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. K. L.
Crooks at their beautiful country residence
here. Hon. and Mrs. T. J. Geary came up iroon
Inverness Monday. Mrs. M. L. McDonald and
daughter returned from San Francisco Satur
day night. Rev. Mr. Edmonson, chaplain of
the United States cruiser Philadelphia, is
in town. Mrs. and Miss Edwards have
returned from their visit to Inverness.
0. B. Renshaw, a big lumber man of San Fran
cisco, is at the Occidental. D. C. Bone of San
Francisco is here on business. Frank H. Jew
ell of San Francisco has been here on a visit to
his sister, Mrs. M. G. Hall. Miss Ethel Murphy
of San Francisco is the guest of Mrs. Frank
Brophy. Or. C. W. Savage and wife have gone
on an Eastern trip. Miss K. A. Estep ana Mis 3
Mary McAuliffe, who have "been visiting Mrs.
Guy Grosse at Rincon Heights, returned to
San Francisco on Tuesday. The Misses Mc-
Minn left this morning "for San Francisco.
Attorneys Rollo and Frank Leppo and Judge
Dougherty have returned from their camping
trip to Shelter Cove, Humboldt County. Dis
trict Attorney Seawell is recreating at Capi
tola. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Burrls are in San
Francisco. Dr. M. M. Shearer has gone to
Santa Cruz. Edward F. Adams, the wealthy
rancher of Santa Cruz, is visiting Santa Rosa.
J. M. Miller left for Lytton Springs Tuesday.
Mrs. W. G. Oldhain has gone on a two weeks'
visit to Ukiah. Mrs. Grant of Napa is visiting
Rev. and Mrs. J. T. Shurtleff. Captain -Brush
is expected home this week from Osage, lowa.
Avalon, Catalina Island, Aug. 22.— John L.
Truslow, general western passenger agent for
the Santa Fe at Santa Barbara, arrived at the
Metropole last evening accompanied by his
young son. F. B. Henderson of the Santa Fe
also arrived to spend a week or ten days re
cuperating from a recent illness. Mrs. M. Ran
dolph of San Francisco is the guest of Mrs. M.
S. Tyler, who is camping at Avalon. L. W. Mc-
Glaufiin of Alameda, the gentleman who han
dled the remarkable wheat deal with which
the late Senator Fair was connected, is at the
Metropcle. D. A. Helbing, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Campbell of San Francisco, George L. Fish,
Miss L. Stewart of Oakland arrived with the
Saturday nignt throng at the Metropole. Mrs.
J. W. Gass and L. A. Gass of San Jose are at the
Grand View House. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E.
Hanley and Newton M. Bell of San Francisco
are at the Metropole. Alice E. Brown of
Bakersfteld, H. W. Decker of Sacramen
to, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Miil2r, William
Blaisdell of San Francisco are at the
Island Villa. Mr. and Mrs. John McCallum of
Oakland are enjoying camp life at Avalon.
Among the prominent Los Angeles people now
at Avalon are Wesley Clarke and family.
George S. Patton and family, Misses Edith and
Ethel Shorb and Master Norbert Shorb, Mrs.
Wilson and Miss Wilson of Lake Vineyard, O.
T. Johnson of Hotel Westminster, wife and
daughter, E. P. Bryan and family and J. M.
Tiernan, business manager of the Capital,
Major Ben Truman's paper.
A party of prominent Arizonans spent Sun
day here, including G. A. Houshell, general
manager of the Maricopa and Phoenix Rail
road, Hon. W. A. FrPezo of the Arizona Legis
lature, Hon. Frank Cox, attorney for the South
ern Pacific, Major R. A. Lewis, member of the
Phcenix City Council, and Hon. M. Greenleaf,
Sheriff of Yuma County. Mr. Lewis is linger
ing for some days. P. M. Green, president of
the First National Bank in Pasadena is at the
Metropole, accompanied by his wife and
daughter.
Cloverdale, Cal., Aug. 22.— Mrs. H. W. Chase
returned from San Francisco Thursday even
ing. Mrs. C. A. Gerkhardt, after a three
months' visit with her sister, Mrs. A. Stein
meyer, in Los Angeles, returned home Thurs
day evening. A. N. Richards ana wife of Santa
Rosa are now residents in Cloverdale, expect
ing to make this their home. Much wheat is
being hauled from Lake County to Cloverdale,
some teamsters coming a distance of forty
miles. Lake County farmers claim that in
Cloverdale they find a better market for their
wheat this year than anywhere else. Mrs. H.
F. Wamboldj wife of a noted musician in Eu
reka, after a two weeks' visit in Cloverdale.
started for her home Monday, via San Francisco,
accompanied by her sister, Mrs. L. 8. Otis. S.
I'inschower, the well-known merchant and
wool-buyer, is in the metropolis on business.
Miss H. M. Dodge of Sau Francisco is a guest
at the residence of Mrs, L. J. Cooke. Miss Mag
gie Armstrong of Los Angeles is a guest at the
Lambert home, five miles north of Cloverdale.
Mrs. A. P. Klint left Tuesday morning for an
extended visit with friends and relatives in
San Leandro and Portland, Or. Captain John
Field, ex-Supervisor and ex-Assemblyman in
Sonoma County, took a business trip to St.
Helena on -Monday, returning Wednesday.
James F. Smith of San Francisco was in clover
dale Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, at
tending to matters of law. R. H. Curry, pro
prietor of the Geyser Water-bottling Works,
arrived in Cloverdale Tuesday evening to look,
after the interests of the concern. Mrs. W. T.
Brush is spending the week in Santa Rosa, vis
iting her sister, Mrs. D. Simpson. Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Ward of Hermitage are visiting friends
and relatives in l'etaluma. Dr. G. W. Kleisir is
home from an extended trip through the San
Joaquin Valley. Miss Lyle McCray is a guest
at Duncans Springs.
Chico, Cal., Aug. 22.— Mrs. L. H. Burket,
Miss Nelly Mead and Miss Robina Loy went to
San Francisco this morning. W. R. Coggeshall,
representing the Canadian Entertainment Bu
reau of Toronto, is in this city. Ed Potter of
San Francisco is in town. Mrs. Colonel Royce
left for Chico this morning. Adolph Newbart
went down to the City this morning. M. Oser
has returned from the City. W. T. Hitchcock
of San Francisco and W. F. Rawlins of Sacra
mento are in Chico. Dr. Carl Murry has gone
to Santa Cruz on a visit. Mrs. F. C. Williams
and Dee Hall returned from the mountains
yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. John Shannon and
Maggie Shannon and Dr. Mack have returned
from tho mountains. W. W. Wilson went to
the City this morning. Trustee Bartiett left
for the But to-day; he will visit his old home
in the State of Maine. Adolph Wahl of Hol
lister is in town. Air. and Mrs. H. P. Brisco
have returned from Klamath Springs. Miss
Biverly came up from San Francisco
last evening. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Faulk
ner have returned from San Francisco.
Miss Dora Walker of Oroville is visiting in
Chico. Miss Mattie Thorn of Stockton is on a
visit here. George Young of Redding is in
town. E. C. Robinson is over from the Wil
lows. Mrs. Lena Wiseman of San Jose is visit
ing friends in Chico. Mrs. Scoggins and her
daughter Mattie are over from Colusa. Miss
Austin of Winters and Miss Gan of Wheatland
is visiting in Chico. John Driscoll of Shasta
County is in town. Redgley Pilden, formerly
a newspaper editor here, is visiting old friends.
Orrin Taber of Oakland Is in town. E. S.
Warren went to Oroville yesterday. C. W.
Reed is up from Sacramento. Rev. J. George
Gibson, accompanied by his private secretary,
Robert N. Lynch, is visiting his sister here,
Mrs. D. M. Hooper. Craig Montgomery of San
Francisco is in town. C. A. Page of Stockton is
in Chico. Mrs. Charles P. Low and Miss Low
of Santa Barbara are stopping in Chico.
Monterey, Aug. 21.— Following are San Fran
cisco arrivals for the past week: Mrs. A. J.
Kinsey, G. J. Kinsey, John If. Barnes, 11. Du
verby, Lloyd Breckenridge, John C. Brecken
ridge, H. G. Platt, Horace D. Pillsbury, J. J.
Brice, W. P. Pence, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Herrin,
Miss C. Herrin, John B. Casserley, Mr. and Mrs.
Timothy Hopkins, Miss Kohl, Mrs. A. A. Park,
Mrs. George Crocker. Miss Rutherford, Miss B.
Rutherford, Mrs. James Carolan, Miss Carolan,
Miss G. Carolan, Miss Mcßean, Mrs.
W. H. Cunningham and family, C.
F- Kohl, H. M. Atmiller, Miss Hill,
J. R. Hillman, Guy Francis, L. T. Queen and
wife, , W. H. King, J. H. Hunter, J. J. Groom, A.
H. Wilcox, H. R. Simpkins, A. Taylor, Walter
McCreary, W. H. Taylor Jr., G. W. Lewis. H. M.
Stetson, C. A. Blank and wife, A. B. Thompson.
W. H. Taylor aud wife, W. H. Keefer. Dr. S.
Trask, J. X Kennison, D. E. O'Conuoll, Mrs. 1.
S. Van Winkle, Perry Eyre and wife, L. E. Van
WinKle. Norman ilutchinson, Ida M. Forsyth,
H. L. Dodge and wife. Miss Patton, Mrs. G. L.
Lansing, It. Morgan Hill, Miss J. Blair, Eugene
Lent, \V. B. Tubbs and family, W. E. Dora and
wile, Mrs. R. H. Warfleld, Mrs. I. Gro«. Mrs. B.
Paxton, Miss M. a. Cody, J. J. Crooks and wife,
Miss Harrington, W. E. Adams, J. B. Clark,
Mrs. Moses Hopkins, J. H. Benedict and wife,
Mrs. Bliss, E. S. Benedict.
GILROY, Cal., Aug. 22.— Miss Ella Alderson
left for Oakland to visit friends before return
ing to her home in Placerville. Miss Millie
Hostetter and Miss Coralie Montgomery have
returned to San Jose. Mrs. G. E. Res, and chil
dren will stay with relatives in San Francisco for
six weeks. Miss Agnes Sargent is home from
Santa Cruz. Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Partridge have
returned trom Lake Tahoe and are visiting
relatives here. Miss Nancy Place with four ■
young lady friends from' San Francisco
are enjoying the hospitalities of Mrs.
Henry Miller's camp at Monnt Ma
donna. A danca was given there on Wednes
day evening. Mr. Flannagan and daugnter
of San Francisco are rusticating at the Oilroy
Hot Springs. ISert Stone has returned to
Golden Gate. Miss Mattie Burnell and Miss
Cora Brown of Hollister visited here Tuesday.
Mrs. C. J. Clifton is at the West. Miss Jessie
Emlay has returned from Pacific Grove. Miss
Grace'Willey is in San Francisco. Miss Norra
Lahifi of Hollister was In town this week. Mr.
and Mrs. F. H. Thorpe are taking a two weeks'
outing at Boulder Creek. Miss Chapman of
Oakland ha? been the guest of Miss Grace
Hokclaw. Mrs. B. A. Wardell is visiting friends
in San Francisco.
Santa Cruz, Cal., Aug. 20.— Among the re
cent arrivals at the Hotel dol Mar are: Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Hotie, Mrs. M. L. Woy, Mrs. T. G.
Hart, Miss N. Nunan, C. M. Welter, Mr?. C. M.
Weber and nurse. Miss Helen Weber, Master
Charles Weber, Mrs. M. A. Heney, Mrs. C. Mc-
Cabe, Miss Nelly McCabe. J. McCarty. Miss M.
H. Atkinson, Rev. J. P. G. O'Mahony, Rev. P. J.
Quinn. ____________
TO STABLE A BICYCLE.
To obviate the necessity of taking the bicycle
into or out of the house when it is used an
inventor has patented a case for it, which is
shown in the accompanying illustration.
The case is intended to be securely locked or
otherwise fastened to a building, a posi or
other fixture so as to prevent its removal. It
CASE FOR BICYCLE.
is a sort of box with a bottom raised above the
ground to prevent dampness. In the bottom
are parallel guides, in which the wheels are
set, and nearly opposite to the handle bar, at
the top and sides, are straps by which the ma
chine may be held so as not to move in the
case.
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.
"Please mum," said the wanderer, "for a
little something to-eat I am willing to work at
anything I can turn my hand to."
The proposition seemed fair enough and a
generous feed was given to the wanderer.
"Now," said the lady, "i would like to have
you saw a little wood and rake the yard."
"I believe, mum, that the contract was that
I should do anything I could turn my hand to.
So far, 60 good. And I really can't turn my
hand to nothin' but my trade. lam a loco
motive repairer, mum, and if you got any old
locomotives about the house I'm willing to
tackle 'em right away."
Before she recovered her breath he was gone.
"How is this, colonel, about you people elect
ing a temperance candidate down your way?"
"Well, sah," said the colonel. "I'll tell you.
We did it out of pity. We thought that a man
who had never taken a drink in his life ought
to have something to make liie seem a little
less dreary to him, sah."
Willis— Was Brown on his way to church
when you saw him?
Wallace— l imagine not. He was ir a hurry.
Doctor— Excuse me, which of you gentlemen
has been waiting the longest?
Tailor — I believe I have. It is more than a
year since you ordered a suit of clothes and got
it, and you haven't paid me yet.
Nell— l wouldn't be in your shoes for any
thing.
Belle (sweetly)— You couldn't get into them,
my dear. — Somerville Journal.
Poet— Did you feel the force and directness
of that pointed article I left for you this morn
ing.
Editor (furiously)— So it was you who put
that bent pin in my chair, was it, you scoun
drel.—New York World.
"You want me to tell you what I think of
Thompson's manners, do you?" said Thomp
son's dearest friend. "I would hate to say any
thing about them myself, but I will say that in
London and Paris he was pointed out as a
typical American."
"I hear that you have been taking a flyer In
matrimonial bonds."
•'Well, yes. Second mortgage, though."
"How?"
"Married a widow."
"Wemust fly," said Murat to Napoleon, on one
occasion when the battle had gone sorely
against them. "It is impossible." replied the
latter. "The enemy has destroyed both wings
of the army." — Harper's Bazar.
Clara — If Mr. Castelton succeeds in kissing a
girl he tells all the rest of the men about it.
Maude— That accounts for it.
Clara— Fof what?
Maude— The crowd of fellows that have called
upon you lately.— York Herald.
Piano Tuner— Good-day, madam; I came to
tune your piano. '-'- . V'■
Pianiste— But I did not send for you.
Piano Tuner— l know, but your next-door
neighbor did.— Musical Weekly.
Bacon Printing Company, 503 Clay straat •
' -" • * m ■
Robercs, 220 Sutter— "Cards by the million."*
» ■«v ■»
"Say, guide, what does that memorial stone
commemorate?" "I put it there. It is upon
that spot where a tourist once gave five marks.' '
Fliegende Blatter.
: • — # — » —
, Genuine specs, 15c to 50c. 81}£ Fourth St., nr.
barber. Sundays, 738 Market (Kast's shoestore.)*
* » i
Peddler— That little book on "How to Pre
serve the Hair" is a key to the entire situation.
Baldy— l am very sorry, but I haven't a sin
gle lock that it would fit.
• — — :
' TntED women should stop and consider the dan
gers which threaten them because of their weak
nesses and lack of ambition. Hood's' Sarsaparilla
will purify the blood and give strength.
" Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrnp"
Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth
ers lor their children while Teething with perfect
success. It soothes the child, softeus the gums, al
lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Boweli
and is the best remedy for Diarrhuoas, whether
arising from teething or other causes. For sale by
Druggists in every P art of the world. Ec sure and
ask for Mrs. Wiusiow'a boothing Syrup, 4
bottle.
"From the Lowest Level"
A Story of Mining Life in
California.
By the Rev. J. H. Wythe Jr.
The Call has secured the right to pub-
lish this charming story in serial form, and
the first part appeared" Saturday, Aug. 11.
Readers of The Call declare the story to
be one of unusual interest. The next in-
stallment will be printed next Saturday,
Aug. 24. It is customary to publish such
contributions in the Sunday edition of The
Call, but the author has conscientious
scruples against having any of his produc-
tions published in the Sunday edition of
any paper and in deference to his convic-
tions The Call has agreed to print this
story in the iSaturday issues only.
The Call devotes a great deal of attention
to excellent articles on Western Themes by
I Western men and Western women.