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SATURDAY OCXOBKR 5. 1895,
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
This is the day to leave orders for The i
Sunday Call.
If Datrtrett does not keep cool in this
crisis he will lose his head.
Local Democracy has just about enough
energy left to fight itself out of politics.
There is a prospect that Europe may get
its turkey cooked by spontaneous com
bustion.
One faction of Democracy cries "rats,"
but the other takes notice ihat the cat has
come back.
One objection to the short campaign dis
cussion in the East are that the arguments
are too long.
It seems that Corbett and Fitzsimmons
may meet in Indian Territory and have a
ghost dance.
Buckley may take up the town again,
but he cannot carry it any more; things
have changed.
Public satisfaction with the work of the
Railroad Commission should be given a
public expression.
The fight of reform Democracy against
the ex-boss is an evident attempt to put a
stale crow in the soup.
The trolley-cars are not more necessary
for public convenience than are proper
fenders for public safety.
Spain has at least learned enough to
know that the rebellion in Cuba is some
thing more than a bull-fight.
At the present time if there is anything
Cleveland wishes that Gorman has, he can
get it in return for a single smile.
Perhaps Mr. Huniington will now admit
that the toy works well and the people
have a right to be pleased with it.
Terras has done herself so much credit
by stopping the prize-fight that even Dallas
need not regret the cash she loses.
In the record of reviving prosperity up
to date no one has made any big profitß
except Mr. Cleveland's gold syndicate.
The return of Huntington and Buckley
to town at the same time is, perhaps,
nothing more than a casual coincidence.
Now that the Armenians are no longer
waiting for other folks to help them the
Sultan is prepared to consider the situa
tion.
The Market-street Railway Company
wishes another franchise on the old terms,
of course. There is nothing in it for the
people.
It will not take much observation on the
part of Mr. Huntington to see that Califor
nia has changed a good deal since he was
here last.
Up to date the Brooklyn trolley-cars hold
the record for a high death rate, but our
cars are pushing them very close and gain
ing on them.
The prospect of a gold mining boom at
Vancouver is encouraging. Whatever
helps any part of the Pacific Coast in that
way helps us.
Whether considered in respect to home
industries or foreign policies, this will be
known in history as the un-American
administration.
There is every reason to believe that the
bigge st thing in National politico for the
next ten years will be public improvements
on a great scale.
To bring the next Republican convention
to San Francisco is the best way -to bring
the needs of the Pacific Coast to the atten
tion of statesmen.
The country looks for news of the begin
ning of that vigorous foreign policy and it
gets the information that Cleveland has
had a good fishing trip.
The fact that Campbell of Ohio has con
sented to enter upon a joint debate with
such a manaa Coxey shows how eager the
Democrats of that State are to capture the
Populist vote.
It can hardly be credited that the Pitts
burg Denrocrats are preparing a grand
celebration of the prosperity produced by
the Gorman tariff, but we must remember
the silly season has been very hot in the
•East this year.
The reappearance of Buckley in the
Democratic camp has had the good effect
of clearing up the situation, and the people
now know exactly what the return to
power of the Democratic party in this
City would mean.
According to the estimate of Mint Di
rector Preston the gold output of the world
this year will eiceod $^00,000,000, but even
that sum will not balance th« growing
business of the world and the increased
demand for money.
As Senator Brice has predicted that for
the next ten years '-this country will see a
business prosperity unequaled in its his
tory or in the history of the world, ".he
evidently foresees the restoration of the
Republican party to power. ,
Commenting on the recent appearance
of numerous fakes in the 2>ew York papers
the Buffalo Commercial says "it is one of
the results of the infusion of Western en
terprise into journalism in that city."
The slur in this statement is utterly un
justifiable. In the West, faking aHd enter
prise are regarded as contradictory terms.
CUBAN INJjEPBpEITpE.
Thecity of Chicago has given ntteranee
to that sympathy which the American
people feel and should extend to Cuba in
her desperate struggle to throw off the
yoke of an Old "World monarchy. It may
bt> that the f uli-voiced protest of the Windy
City is a trifle too vigorous fqr consistency
with our treaty relations toward Spain, but
leaving this aside, there can be no doubt
that Chicago has given expression to the
sentiment of the Nation, that Cuba should
be free.
The condition of the revolution in Cuba
is such as to amply warrant the extension
of such sympathy and the expression of
such a sentiment. For several months the
struggle has been going on between the
insurgents and the Spanish troops. The
tenacity and success of the insurrection, as
well as its spread over the whole island,
entitles it to the name of revolution and
the insurgents to the more dignified but
none less dangerous term of belligerents.
The first step toward the official admission
of insurgents to the rights of belligerents on
the part of neighboring nations is taken
in the unofficial expression of National
sympathy for their cause. Mexico and the
Argentine Republic have already offered
Cuba this encouragement, and it would
not speak well for our countrymen to be
far behind their fellow-Americans in this
respect. Whenever it shall appear that
the Cuban insurgents embody a general
aspiration of the Cuban people for Na
tional independence under republican
forms of government the people of the
United States should be first in their offer
of cheer.
It may be argued that between .the
United States and Spain there are treaties
which may be violated by an expression of
sympathy for Cuba. It must be apparent,
however, that this cannot be true. A treaty
may bind the United States as a govern
ment against me extension of official aid to
the Cubans in revolt, and may even go so
far as to" require the swift checking of fili
bustering expeditions attempted to be or
ganized upon our soil. Beyond this, how
ever, no treaty can ever go. The people's
heart cantiot be chilled, nor their lips
sealed by treaty regulations from the ex
pression of their aspirations for the more
perfect liberty either of themselves or their
fellow men.
In the case of Cuba her struggling pat
riots deserve the ready band and cordial
voice of sympathy and hope from every
other people of the New World which
has already shaken Old World shackles
from its limbs. First among these
should be the people of the United States.
For this there are two reasons, of which
the first, and perhaps least important, is
that the trade benefits of the United States
arising out of Cuban independence from
Spain would be very great. The proof of
this lies in the recent record of reciprocity
with Cuba.
The second, more sentimental and more
important reason lies, however, in our
own National history. We were the first
people on this side the Atlantic to receive
a iike sympathy in a similar struggle for
freedom. We have set ourselves up as an
example to New World nations of the
righteousness of resistance to Old World
dominion and of the advantages of inde
pendence under republican rule. We have
raised monuments and inscribed tablets in
honor of our heroes of the Revolution.
We have received from our sister republic
of Europe a statue of "Liberty Enlighten
ing the World,"' and have lighted its torch
upon our shores which look toward Cuba.
Her sons' have caught its gleaming and
have thought they road its meaning and
have formed the resolution to be free.
And shall we observe their boldness with
mmc reserve and coldness and refuse to
voice a message of good cheer and sym
pathy ? If we do it would be better to blot
out each letter and word which the friends
of freedom sent us in our struggling in
fancy; to erase those lines of. glory on
which is writ the story of our fathers'
high resolve for. liberty, and our Nation's
emblem lower from its place of pride and
power and quench Bartholdi's beacon in
the sea.
THE EETURN Of BUCKLEY.
Ordinarily The Call would refrain from
the .sucming impertinence of interfering
by suggestions with the management of
Democratic politics in San Francisco, but
it has a' duty higher than mere political
considerations. Whether or not the De
mocracy under any circumstances, judging
by its local history, should develop that
conception of right conduct which would
entitle it to a hand in the conduct of the
City government is not so important a
matter as the dominating influence which
directs it. This power is Mr. Christopher
Buckley, whose history and affiliations are
perfectly familiar to every intelligent cit
izen.
- Under his skillful leadership the Democ
racy has practically controlled the govern
ment of the City for many years, and from
the public officers under his direction have
come most of the scandals which have
made the City a byword in the West. He
cannot be- regarded as a Democrat in the
proper' sense, and no Democrat who is both
a responsible man and a good citizen can
acknowledge him as a leader. Every voter
who assists him proclaims himself an en
emy of San Francisco and the member of
a league organized for plunder. No such
voter can be regarded as ha.ving the good
of the City or even of the Democratic party
at heart. There is not a shadow of a prin
ciple in the kind of politics which Buckley
represents. Every victory which he wins
in the name of the Democracy is a sneer
at the pretensions of the party to respecta
bility, integrity and patriotism.
Mr. Buckley has boldly entered the poli
tical field and is striving to gather up the
loose ends which he dropped when he fled
to Canada to escape the operation of our
laws. His first dash for victory was a
failure, but it ie merely a matter of time
when his extraordinary skill will win. and
he will have his . formidable gang at the
City's throat. His power is well known
and cannot be gainsaid. So far as we are
able to judge, the respectable, dignified,
patriotic elements of the local Democracy
are not at all dismayed by the threat of
Buckley's re-entrance into local "politics."
We have heard nothing as yet of an indig
nant Democratic repudiation of him and
his methods. So far as we can see there
seems to be only a suppressed sort of ad
miration of the man's audacity and shrewd
ness.
And yet the local Democracy is directly
responsible for him and therefore for the
methods which he practices and the harm
which he does to San Francisco. It is the
duty of that party to take the first step
toward his suppression. That failing, the
struggle of self-protection on the part of
the respectable citizens outside of that
party will be all the harder, but for all that
there is not a good citizen who will hesi
tate to assail the task. It is incredible that
Pan Francisco would be content to fall
back into th« old evil waye after making
so brave a start toward decency and prog
ress.
DISHONEST BTBEET WOEX.
As both the Grand Jury and the Street
Committee of the Board of Supervisors are
getting sharply after Street Superintendent
THE SAN FRANCISCO CAJLI,, SATUKDAI, OCTOBER 5, 1895.
Ashworth's management of street work a
Wholesome overhauling of the methods
which for so long have disgraced the City
seems imminent. Mr. Ashworth is' unfor
tunate also in having lost the confidence of
the Merchants' Association, through whose
efforts lie was checked in h;s desire to con
tinue the work of sweeping the streets. Iti
this matter he ghoweti the Street Commit
tee that he could do the sweeping at a cost
of 65 cents a thousand square yards and
insisted that it could not be done for less.
Still the Street Committee has recom
mended that the contract be let to a pri
vate bidder for 49J£ cents. This is a dif
ference of nearly -20 per cent and jet
the contractor must expect to make a pro
fit out of the work.
The scandalous inadequacy of the con
tract paving of Guerrero street was of too
recent occurrence to have been forgotten
by this time, but now comes another
equally as bad. It is the pavement of
Twelfth street, which both the Grand Jury
and the Street Committee of the Board of
Supervisors have inspected and found to
be utterly worthless. In the latter case
one of Siuierintendent Ash worth's deputies
was standing idly by and if he had any in
telligence must have seen that the work
was not being properly done. Mr. Ash
wot th irresponsible for the acts of his dep
uties.
The trouble with the Superintendent
seems to be that he desires to make his
ofnce as useful as possible in a political
way, and that the interests of the City are
a secondary consideration. This is the
ola way of conducting the public business
of San Francisco. It is the necessary out
come and sole aim of boss politics of the
kind which has disgraced the City for so
many years. Many citizens had hoped
better things of Mr. Asuworth. He was
known to be intelligent and courageous,
and believed to be possessed of a high sense
of official responsibility. His recent con
duct in many particulars has been r direct
challenge to the reform sentiment which
prevails among the people, and his conduct
comes at a time when it will serve a most
useful end in strengthening that sentiment
and ultimately hastening the day when
methods of the kind pursued by Mr. Ash
v.'orth will be swept out of existence.
"THE SUNDAY CALL"
The Sunday Call which is to appear to
morrow will be a paper of unusual interest.
Joaquin Miller treats in a poetic manner
the question of the "Color of California."
In bis eyes the Golden State has a dom
inant hue which ought to be respected and
reverenced by all.
W. C. Morrow has an entertaining chap
ter under the heading "What I Would Do
for San Francisco Were I a Millionaire."
Some of the great money-makers of the
State are offered hints which would be of
value to themselves and to the community
if properly accepted and acted upon.
John Me Naught's "Random Notes" are
unusually bright and entertaining. He
takes a philosophic view of the every -day
affairs oi life ana instructs while he
amuses.
Charles A. Keeler ha 3 another chapter
in his history of "Bird Life in California."
In this department Mr. Keeler lias few
rivals. It is probable that no one else has
given so much study to this question as
the writer of these articles.
Dan de tjuilie, who was a contemporary
of Mark Twain on the ComstoCk lode in
the early sixties, and who still maititains
his home on the sloping side of old Mount
Davidson, in Virginia City, Nev., has
written a tale of early life in California
entitled "Little Turn Turn of Bartons Bar,"
which is one of the best stories over pro
duced b\* this veteran writer. Ernest C.
Stock gives another installment of Colon«l'
Strong's reminiscences. Mary G. Johnson
has an entertaining chapter for boys and
girls, Marcella tells of the newest dictates
of fashion, and an excellent department
for book-readers will be found in to-mor
row's issue.
Particular attention is drawn to the fact
that the San Francisco Call has a tele
graphic news service different from and
better than that of any other journal pub
lished in San Francisco. This service is
furnished by the United Press, which is
distinctive from all other news-gathering
organizations of the country. Whether
you take any other paper or not, you must
read The Call in order that you may get
all of the news of the world.
IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS.
In all human pioDability Nevada will at some
not far distant time again become the center of
amining excitement that will carry develop
ment far beyond the point it has ever
reached, and give a market as well as an
actual value to Nevada properties that
are now but partially developed and
lying idle for want of capital to push
on the worit. It would be a curious phase of
justice should Nevada, which has been so
largely the sufferer from the effects of the
financial conspiracy set on foot in London, be
come through odd changes of time and the
strange juxtaposition of tveins beneficiary of
the very same class that through adverse silver
legislation aimed such a heavy blow at her
prosperity and financial well-being.— Virginia
(Nev.) Enterprise.
The next census of San Joaquin County will
not mark a decrease in the rural population,
and will mark a great increase in that of the
towns, and there will be more towns to count.
Han Joaquin County was a long time asleep
but seems now .to be thoroughly awake, and to
be gathering its energies for great deeds.
When to the three new railroads are added the
Blue Lakes electric power and the waters from
three irrigation systems, Han Joaquin County
should be a veritable Eden.— Stockton Inde
pendent.
The teacher who is intrusted with the duty
of lifting the minds of the coming generation
of men and women higher, should not enter
upon that duty without the most exacting
preparation. The standard cannot be set too
high. The first requisite i.« individuality; the
next is an acquaintance with educational
principles, and the third is a combination of
intelligence and industry. — Fresno Repub
lican.
The poor old veterans who draw pensions
onght to be satisfied now, for in addition to the
woman notary next door to the clerk's office,
who will administer the oath upon their afli
davita free of charge, .the nocexsarv swearing
may be done gratis in the Township court.
There are plenty of ways of evading; an uniust
and obnoxious law, even while com plying
with the letter of it.— Los Angeles Times.
Professor Barnard hns gone and the Lick Ob
servatory will not.be all that itwasvhen he
was there. The Regents of the University of
California have continuously pursued a policy
of crippling the greatest observatory in the
world by indifferently permitting its ablest and
most renowned astronomers to be driven away,
— Sau Jose Mercury.
San Francisco has never sneered at the North
west or disputed the fact that there are great
possibilities on Puget Sound. The awarding of
the tornedo-boat contract to a Seattle concern
will only confirm their opinion of the bright
■future before this section.— Seattle Post-Intel
ligencer.
Eastern Oregon business houses which have
weathered the financial Btorm are in better
shape than ever before. The reason is that the
cash system has been introduced, and it has
proved to !>e better than credit for both buyer
and f-eller.— Pundleton Ea&t-Oregonian.
It is the systematic, persistent effort that
paya in advertising as in everything else. In
taking medicine the regularity of the dose is
annostas important as the druu itself.— Santa
J3arbura, Press.
Lord Windsor, who presided at the recent
librarians' congress, is enormously rich. He
owes his wealth to mines in Glamorganshire,
Shropshire and Worcestershire au<l the devel
opment of Swansea and Cardiff. His income
must amount to little under $500,000 per
annum.
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
A WAKING FROM FRESNO.
A CORRESPONDENT SAYS RAISIN-PACKERg ARE NOT
NEEDED.
To the Editor of ike San Francisco " Call "^Sir :
Hearing that the Free Labor Bureau has re
ceived an order to send 150 or 200 girls or
women to Fresno to pack raisins, and knowing,
as I do, that the very best and most experi
enced raisin-packer can make but 90 cents or
$1 per day at most, out of which he or she has
to pay for board and lodging, I send this note
in the hopes of preveuting these poor girls
from the useless expenditure of their money iv
railroad fares. I am at present working at
raisin-packing myself, as I desire to acquire a
knowledge oi the manner in which this branch
of California industry is carried on.
There are at present in the employ of the
firm for which i work about twenty-five or
thirty women and ten or fifteen men. A num
ber of the women have worked steadily for the
last three weekH and few if any (make) pack
sixty boxes per day. The pay is l's cents per
box. It requires little calculation to ascertain
that these women and men are working for
starvation wages— i. c., about 90 cents per day.
There are at present many idle men and
women— in fact, enough men alone to overrun
tbe packing-houses were the wages sufficient
to live on and dres.s liko a white man should.
This is not a letter from one who is prejudiced
in any way against any house or firm in this
place, but from one who has a mother, sister
tfial lurge number of lady acquaintances in
San Francisco, a native of Van Francisco, who
has a feeling of kinship toward the working
girls and men of his native town.
Should you put this letter in your patter 1
sincerely hope it will be the means of prevent
ing at least some of the working girls, women
and men from uselessly spending their little
remaining hard-earned" savings in railroad
inn.'.
By referring my name to Mr. Meyer, in con
nection with the Angel Island Postoffice, ho
will perhaps remember me.
The Call has always been tbe workingman'3
friend. Will it now use its influence in behalf
of the deserving working girl*? Trusting you
will kindly give this matter the consideration
it merits, 1 am, respectfully. - E.Watson.
Fresno, Cal., Oct. 2, 1895.
EXCELLENT REPORTS.
COMMENDATION FOE "THK CALL'S 1 ' ACCOUNTS OF
THE EPI3COPAL CONVENTION.' ':.'.
. The following; letter was received at The
Call office yesterday. The appreciation ex
pressed iB an indication that The Call's tele
graphic service,' supplied by The United Press,
is superior. to that of any other paper in San
Francisco. -Here is the letter: ; '■'■■',-\\U^
Thk Pacific-Oihtkchmak,
Key. Hobart CUetwood, Editor,
731 California street. -
San Francisco, October 4, 1895.
C. .V. Shortridge Esq., Editor Call— MY Dear
Sir: Allow me io thank you for the admirable
report so far in The Call of the proceedings
of our General Convention |at Minneapolis.
This I do in a somewhat representative
capacity,' having already approached you in
behalf of oiir Bishop; clergy and people, asking
for a bettor showing than* the San Francisco
papers gave us three years ago. They must be
quite satisfied with the good beginning your
paper has made in the matter, which doubtless
indicates what we may expect to the end of the
session. (Signed) HQBABT I'hetwood.
PORTRAIT OF EHET HARTE.
fßy E. C Xurlino in J\V '• }-<?»•* Chipi.]
PERSONAL.
D. 0. Lewis of the navy is at the California.
I. Pannenbaum, a merchant of Vallejo, is at
the Lick.
D. W. Mullnn of the navy is a guest at the
California.
R. C. Sargent, a big landowner of Stockton, in
*t the Kuss.
E. M. Williams, a mining man of Gold Hill,
Or., [s et the Russ.
J. C. Deiano, a quarry-owner of Rocklin, is
I staying at the Lick.
P. Sweet, a merchant of Petaluma, registered
' at the Grand yest>.
T. J. Field, a capitalist of Monterey, registered
at the Palace yesterday.
Senator B. F. LangfoTd of Stockton registered
at the Palace yesterday.
L. W. Blinn, a wealthy lumberman of Los
AngeKs, i.s at the Palace.
O.K. Jones, a lumberman of Truckee, and his
i wife are guests at the Kuss.
A. B. Glasacock, a hotel man from Yosemite,
is a guest at the Occidental.
Theodore Allen, n mmmc: man of Angels
Camp, is a guest at the- Grand.
William James, a rancher and cattleman of
Cherokee Flat, is at the Grand.
Barney T>. Murphy came up from San Jose
; yesterday and registered at the Palace.
Ex-Congressman James A. Louttit, a leading
attorney of Stockton, la a guest at the Lick.
Senator E. C. Hart came down from Sacrn
mento yesterday, and is registered at the Grand.
F. H. Lefavor of the navy came down from
j Mare Island yesterday and registered at the
i Palace.
General Russell A. Alger of Michigan arrived
in this City yesterday and is stopping at the
Palace.
George Ferguson, an extensive landowner
of Mendocino County, registered at the Russ
yesterday.
H. R. Winslow of Keswick, Eng., one of the
purchasers of the Iron Mountain mine, in
Shasta County, is at the Palace.
Jesse IX Carr of Salinas and his son, John P.
i Carr of the WalDridge-Carr Company of Yreka,
which has several branches in Siskiyou County,
! are at the Occidental.
The Stuyvesant Fishes left for California last
week In their private car. TheyAave had the
Thompson Spencer house at Ochre Point.
Next year they expect to spend the summer
abroad.— New York Vanity.
At a meetincr of the California Hotel Associa
i tion, held Wednesday evening?, S. F. Thorn
' presided, and appointed the following commit
! tee to arrange for receiving and entertaining
the delegates to the National Hotel Associa
tion's convention to bo held next May: B. K.
Soule of the Lick, General Warfield of the Cali
fornia, Charles Montgomery of the Brooklyn,
Colonel John T. Sullivan of the Sea Beach at
i Santa Cruz, Manager Snell of the Vendome and
Colonel Young of the Rubs.
Sir Charles Rivers Wilson was prominent
among the railroad presidents who met nere
last week to form a new association. Sir
Charles won his knighthood by the services he
rendered the British Government as financier.
His executive ability and mastery of business
affairs is such that the stockholders of the
Grand Trunk Railway o*l Canada, who mostly
all reside in London, made him president of
the company. His mustache and imperial are
white, "but his intellect U keen and his manner
affable. The Grand Trunk having become
practically an American railroad, Sir Charles
felt quite at home among the magnates repre
senting the other great lines. —New York
Vanity.
CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 4.— .Sain L. Walker
and If. H. McClaughey of San Francisco ar
rived to-day.
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Christine Nilsson, who lately left Paris to
visit her old home in Sweden, after eight years
of absence, was received upon her Rrrival in
her native town with most joyful and affec
tionate demonstrations by her former peasant
neighbors. They showered her with tiowers,
and she on her part kissed all the little folk,
and the guest of honor and every one el6e were
happy over the home-coming, all of which she
writes to Mrs. Waldon-Pell, whose salon in
Paris is the most popular of the American
colony, and who herself is a most intimate
friend of Chri6tine Nilsson.
The aged Queen of Hanover has forgiven her
daughter. Princess Prederica, for her marriage
with Uaron. Pawle yon Rammingen, a love
match actively favored by Queen Victoria.
The Princess is now with her mother, who is
suffering from cataract. At her age (over 80)
it is feared that the consequent loss of sight
may be permanent.
Mrs. Gabrielle Greeley Clendenin, youngest
daughter of the late Horace Greeley, is de
scribed aa & young matron of medium" height,
with dark-brown hair, hazel eyes, a pretty
mouth, perfect teeth and excellent taste in
dress. She is a clever talker, arid while she
lives largely for others she is not ostenta
tiouily serious in her mode of life.
The Duke of Marlborough, before starting for
New York, purchased in Regent street jewelry
costing over $100,000. The announcement of
his engagement to Miss Consuelo Vanderbllt
sufficiently explains the expenditure.
Cecil Rhodes, the South African magnate, is
an omnivorous reader. A native chief de
scribed him. as "a man who eats a country for
his breakfast and sits amid clouds of paper."
The Princess of Wales once confessed that her
favorite dish was "Yorkshire pudding," her
favorite art "millinery," and her favorite oc
cupation "minding my own business."
Max O'Rell, Dr. Lyman Abbott, Eugene Field,
Bob Burdette, James Whitcomb Riley and
Remenyi are among the celebrities expected at
the Atlanta Exposition.
Prince George of England, by smoking from
forty to fifty cigarettes a day, shows a dispo
sition to give his little son a chance for the
British crown. -
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.
"Oh, dear!" sighed a little girl, "I've only got
a thousand of my million postage stamps. I
guess 1 shall have to leave them to my ances
tors to ilnish."
"Stryker seems to be working pretty hard in
his campaign. I never saw a man look so pale."
"It is from loss of blood. Since he started to
run for office his heart has been bleeding for
the workingman every time he makes a
speech."— lndianapolis Journal.
According to Gail Hamilton, when hercousin,
S. Pickering Dodge, went to Germany, a native
whom he asked ' for informarfon, said,
"Sprechen sic Deutch?" "Yes," answered Mr.
Dodge, "that's my name; but how did you
know it?"
A teacher of a Virginia district school re
cently asked one of her little colored pupils to
go to the blackboard and writ-i a sentence
thereon containing the word "delight." George
Washington Jackson went pompously to the
front of the room and wrote, in a large, scrawl
inghand, these words: "De wind blowcd so
hard dat it put out de light."— Harper's Round
Table.
"Gentlemen, what is your verdict?" asked
his Honor in n Western courtroom. "Wall,"
responded the foreman of the jury, " 'leven of
us wants to hang the prisoner, but the twelfth
man sticks to it he ain't guilty, spite of all we
can B&y— «o, bein' a.« the twelfth man is a no
account feller, anyway, iv order to make the
verdict unanimous we've concluded to hang
'em both."— Mun.-ey'b Weekly.
A gentleman once asked a lawyer what ho
would do provided he had loaned a man $500
and the man left the country wltnout sending
any acknowledgment. "Why, that's simple;
just write him to send an acknowledgment of
the $5000 you lent him, and he will doubtleas
reply stating that it was only ,*.300. That will
raffice for a receipt, and you can proceed
against him ll' necessary."— Harper's Round
Table.
JOHN DAGGETT'S SOLILOQUY.
An 1 go, conspiracy lavs bnre Its brow, •.
. An.l h.e, the would-be Jion of the hmir < •a] /■-■-,'
In slnscU\ tax ond other Lhiaiw. dueuis now • ..■
Tl^e Unye lull 'ripe to smite John Dacpeit's power.
Xerfi I in measure swords with brusque- Ma^uire?
-And.sliould i tremble wh«n BUI Kn«lish spouts?
Mot whilo this hand controls the White Houoe wire
And U rover's whims elect the Ins ana outs!
They've found a maie's nest in my oftice dickering,
And for their find will take their pay In bickering.
What value, pray, my patronasre unless
The distribution tend to my drsijrn?
And all ihe ends 1 aim at, I confess,
Are mine and Grover's— although chiefiy mine.
What recks i . If the job of washing towels
For pa.-sn«ii'a Mint to Bigiry's brother fell?
'T.was polltlcn! No need of more avowals;
While EUggy stayed by t>agK«tt nil was well.
Terhapa they think I'd give that laundry pack
To some one who would rip me up the buck!
They siy my gold mines up In Slskiyou
■ Are somehow mixed up with the Mint affairs,
That lam strictly in -mr revenue"— *■•
Our party's platform for tiie game declares!
And n>iv they claim r got my '•pull" ontnlda
The party rnn*s. and won despite protest! ■
What i f it? 1 got in. und here I'll bide . .
T; time of change that threatens Kugt and West.
Kick hard, but y«t I'll brave the ■■state machine-
My '-pull" wculd make you turn with envy green.
You'll tire John Daggett? Well, the secret's out !
A memnn»to Yhh Linden Htrai?ht I'll wir»»!
Linden's my friend ! Carlisle, without a doubt ■
Iti thinjcs like Uiohp will yli-M to Van's desire.
Fire Daggett? lyet them wa?e their little battle;
1 snap my tinkers at the toe In scorn! . •
Ira Grover's choice! Xone can old UacKett rattle!
.While G rover run* the ranch I'll not be shorn:
Come forth, mbortlinuujs, stand tirni for me!
Your jobs depend on Dagp'ett's victory:
CLEVELAND'S DEBT.
Its Heavy Increase for the Ten Weeks of
the New Fiscal Year.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Popular Names of States— J. L. C, Mendo
cino, Cal. There are some of the States that
are not distinguished by a popular name. The
following list includes all of those which are
best known and whicn are applied to the sev
eral States named: Arkansas, Bear; California,
Golden; Colorado, Centennial; Connecticut'
Nutmeg, also Freestone; Delaware, Blue Hen[
also Diamond; Florida, Peninsula; Georgia"
Empire of the South; Illinois, Sucker, also
Prairie; Indiana, Hoo<ier; lowa, Hawkeyef
Kansas, Jayhawker, also Warden of the West;
Kentucky, Bluegrass, also Dark and Bloody
Ground; Louisiana, Creole; Maine, Lumber,
also Pine Tree: Massachusetts, Bay, also Old
Colony; Michigan, Wolverine; Minnesota,
Gopher, also North Star; Mississippi, Bayou;
Nevada, Silver; New Hampshire, Granite; New
York, Empire, also Excelsior; North Carolina,
Old North, also Turpentine; Ohio, Buckeye;
Pennsylvania, Keystone; Rhode Island, Little
Rhoda, also Rhody; South Carolina, Palmetto;
Tennessee, Bij* Be"nd; Texas, Lone Star; Ver
mont, Green Mountain; Virginia, Old Virginia,
also Mother; West Virginia, Panhandle; Wis
consin, Badger.
The Fields— F. C, City. Kate Field and
Eugene Field are not brother and sister. Kate
Field was born in St. Louis, Mo., about 1840,
and is the daughter of Joseph M. Field, an
English actor, dramatist and writer for the
press. At one time he wrote for the New Or
leans Tribune over the nom-de-plume of
"Straws." Miss Field received a seminary edu
cation in Boston, Mass., and then studied
music in Europe. She spent several years
traveling on t^e Continent, during which time
she wrote letters to the New York Tribune and
other Eastern journals. She returned to the
United States, located in New York City and
there, in 1874, appeared as J'eg Woflington at
Booth's Theater. In 1880 she wu president of
n woman's co-operative society, and started a
co-operative store in the Empire City, but it
did not prove a successful venture. In 1889
she went to Washington, JD. C, where sh« es
tablished Kate Field's Washington. She never
was married. Eugene Field was born in St.
Louis, Mo., September 2, 1850, of Now England
ancestry. His father was Roswrll M. Field, a
prominent attorney and one of tho counsel in
the famous Dred Scott case.
TSoldiers' Home— P. 8., St. Paul. Soldiers or
sailors of the United States, whose pensions ex
ceed $16 ptr month, are not eligible to the
branch of the Soldiers' National Home at Santa
Monica, in this State, unless the reasons are
peculiar, and are explained to the satisfaction
of tUe manager. A soldier, who is receiving a
pension off $17, desiring to enter the home,
should write to the manager, giving a fall
history of his case and reasons for applying lor
admission.
BHOMESTEAD Entry —S. W., City. A single
woman who makes an entry under the home
stead laws does not forfeit her rights by mar
riage, provided the requirements as to resi
dence, settlement and cultivation are com
plied with. If a man and woman marry, aft.*r
each has made an entry, one entry must bo
surrendered. A married "woman canno*, make
a homestead entry uuder the act of March 2,
1889.
Scalp Bounty— Admirer of The Call, San
Luis Obispo, Cal. The coyote scalp bounty
act was repealed on the 24th of last January.
Nothing is being done at this time in the mat
ter of claims presented for scalps taken before
the law was repealed.. Any one having claims
should communicate with the Controller at
Sacramento.
Asylum for Insane— C. V. R., City. There
are five asylums for the insane in the State of
California. One, the oldest, at Stockton. The
others are at Napa, Agnews, Santa Clara
County, San Bernardino and Meuducino.
A Half-Dime— R. E., Alaroeda. There is no
special demand for half-dimes of 1883 with
X I'luribua Unum under the wreath, conse
quently there is no uremium offered on nuch
coins.
PORTRAIT OF HALL CAINE.
[ By James Brevoort Onx in Xaa York Chips.]
THE SILVER QUESTION.
One of the "demands" the free-coinage peo
ple always put in their platforms is that silver
be accorded a treatment equal to that given
trold. The fact is that silver money ia aow
much more tenderly cared -for than the coin?
of the yellow metal. A Bilver dollar is ac
cepted by the Government at its face valuation
and made a legal tender for that sum, but gold
goes by weight alone in Government trans
actions, and the minted mark is of no signifi
cance whatever. — Nashville Banner.
The "sound money" crowd claims to have
made a poll of the next House of
tives and to have ascertained that a ia: -
jority of the members are against »iiver. The
people will be content to wait and sea what
the lentlment of the House is on thesilver
question, and if it proved to be as indicated by
the "sound money" people they will see to it
that the Hous« which shall be elected- next
year is different.— Topeka State Journal.
How absurd it is that we should be continu
ally reading that gold is going out, or that the
reserve will be maintained, or that the bankers
are doing this or that. But such things must
be so long as we I'tinjr to the single gold stand
ard and are incapable of managing our own
financial affairs.— St. Loui* Post-Dispatch.
Thirty out of the 244 Republicans in the
House which meets in December are Hi to 1
men, but as fifty-one Democrats out of the 104 in
that body stand with the>e thirty the Republi
cans show up well by contrast.— St. Louis
Globe- Democrat.
A man who has been in Mexico draws a ter
rible picture of things in that country, and at
tributes the distress to silver money. He says
that when he paid out United States bill? the
merchants would kiss the paper and exclaim:
"Oh, that is money." These bills were prob
ably silver certificates.— Cincinnati Enquirer.
The money-brokers of Europe rule the
masses through their sovereigns. They are
the power behind the throne, and they insist
upon the right to rule the freemen of this
grand Republic through the Belmonts, the
Monr&ns, the Depews, the Clews and other
pentlemen who do business at the sign of the
three brass balls on Wall street. The financial
system of this country should be an American
system and not a European slave-making sys
tem.—Fort Worth Gazette.
If an increase of the volume of money is all
that the country needs, then this can be more
effectually secured by moans of the Populistic
Government warehouse scheme than by the
free coinage of our entire silver product. Afore
over, the Government is under ju»t as much
obligation to fix an artificial and arbitrary
price on agricultural products for the benefit
of the farmers as it is to place a theoretical
valuation, twice as great as its actual value,
upon the silver product in behalf of the silver
miners.— New York Mail and Express.
MES. SHAPTER IMPEOVING.
She Was Stricken With Paralysis, but Is
Now Recovering.
The wife of Colonel Shatter of Angel
Island is improving. She was stricken
with paralysis over a month ago and has
been unable to move or speak ever since.
She was attending a celebration of the
thirty-third anniversary of her wedding,
and was being conducted into the supper
room by one of the officers when she was
taken suddenly ill. The servants carried
her to the colonel's quarter-, but it was
found that her right side was paralysed.
Up to yesterday she never spoke a word,
and when the attendants found she was
conscious they at once spread the news,
and the joy in the garrison was great.
Mrs. Shatter is now very much better, and
the post surgnon things that she will re
cover the use of her hoibs in time.
A monster chain forty kilometers
(twenty-five miles long) is brine made for
Germany at the Wattelar works, Jr.rnet,
Belgium, the total weight being tkSu tons,
bo that sixty weight ten-ton wagons, or a
whole train, will be required for its
carriage.
The leek: is indigenous to Switzerland,
whence it waa introduced into England,
CONTESTED CHURCH SITES
Comity Committee Decision
Favors Howard Presbyte
rian Church.
DE. CRUZAN IS THE PLAINTIFF.
Question of Priority of Claim by
Congregatlonallsts and
Presbyterians.
The comity committee, composed of an
equal representation from the Congrega
tional and Presbyterian churches of Cali
fornia, has decided that Howard Presbyte
rian Church bas a claim prior to that of
Park Congregational Church to erect a
place of worship at the panhandle.
For the purpose of amicably adjusting
difficulties between Congregational and
Presbyterian churches desiring to pain a
foothold in territory previously unoccu
pied by Protestant denominations; should
both denominations wish to build up mis
sions wtiere it is manifest that only O"e
may be supported, the divines who com
pose this committee arc called upon to
adjudicate. Heretofore its powers have
been exercised chiefly if not soleiy in ref
erence to the establishment of missions in
country places, but Rev. J. A. Cruzan, pas
tor of Park Congregational Church, asked
its intervention in behaU of his church,
with the result Btated.
Park Congregational Church was organ
ized in February, 18&4. Prior to that time
a Congregational mission Sunday-school,
had, in a sense, occupied the territory now
claimed by the Park Church, which is wor
shiping in a hall at the corner of Fell and
Baker streets. These facts formed the ,
basis for Mr. Crazan'a claim that the How
ard Church people were interlopers —
Christian and cultured interlopers — but
interlopers nevertheless;
' Howard Church, represented by its pas-,
tor, Rev. F. B. Farrand, showed that the
San Franmco ■ presbytery had, in April,.
1893, purchased lots at Page and Clayton '
streets, for the purpose of holdingtbat
district as a field f.>r the followers of Cal
vin. Howard Church, Mr. Farrand told
the comity committee, had announced its
intention of moving to the panhandle four
months a^o, ar.il the presbytery had con
cluded to sell its lots, thus relinquishing
the iieid to Howard Church as its repre
sentative.' In view of these statements,
the committee rendere ! a unanimous de
cision as to Howard Church having the
stronger claim. ~
It was an amicable settlement, and in all
probability both churches will proceed
with thcir'plans for building as before.
The trustees of Howard Church. have
selected the plans of two of the competing
architects from ainon? the work of all
competitors and have asked for furtueT de
tails of the speciiications. When these
are completed the choice will be oi the
cheaper, and it ia expected that work will
commence before tiie close of the month
on the site at the southwest corner of Oak
and Baker streats;
The matter of consolidation of Park with
I Olivet Congregational Church is still be
ing apitated. . There is Blrong sentiment
on both sides of the cmestion. If this i 3
not effected ParkChurcn will erect a build
ing, althoujib. the site has not been deJ^r
mined. % ;-: •;-.;•-■
- The Zoological Society, London, have
| added recently among other numerous
specimens the following to their collec
tion: One Australian frilled lizard, one
white-necked stork, two long-nosed croco
diles, one white-horned' lizard, two noisy
frogs, two, Robin Ijsland 'snakes, one De
Phillips .meadow" -starling; ti'i-ce - South
American rat snakes and two anguiar
spotted pigeons.
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Townsend's broken and mixed candies 10c lb.*
•■ « ' ■ ■ • — r-* •—
■ "Cards by the Million. " Roberts, 220 Sutter.*
T-» — »
French Almond Nougat 25ebar,Townsend'3*
• v .-". ; — — ; « — 'm — —
Tp.kat your friend 3 to Townsend's candies. •
— — « — .
Bacon* Printing Company, soß Clay street.*
' • — ■» .
Nice present for Eastern friends — California
Glace Fruit:-. 50c U>., Jap. baskets. Townsend'a*
'.V.i -. r • ♦ •
Gemjihk eyeglasses, 15c to 40c. Sl! ' Fourth,
barber. Sundays, 738 Market (Kast shoe3tore).*
When some one to!d ex-Senator Evartg that
the length of nis oratorical sentences v.-.-is a
frequent subject of criticism, he replied, "Yes,
I know there are two cltuises of people who are
very much opposed to long sentences; tele
' graph operators and criminals." ,
,' '. %.• ' * — ♦ ■» — ' . •
Hood's SaroHparilhi lms power to klvc to tUo
blood richness and parley, awl upon tre neaithj
condition of the blood depends tbi health of the
whole system. Tnke Hood's and only Hood's.
■ •— — », — i
The fashionable ladies' corrpctive tonic is Dr.
Siegext's Angostura Bitters, the renowned South
j American tonic. ' ; .'-
REAL ESTATE
FOB SALE BY
Tlios. lape I Sons,
REAL ESTATE AGENTS
And Publlghrrs "Real Estate Circular."
4 Montgomery 1 Street,
El'ft] TRUST BUILDUG, COR\EIi IllUf.
Kearny Bt.: rents $555; reduced rents: good
brick building: large lot: two fronts: $110,000.
Ninth, bet. Mxrk-et and Mi.-sion:"60xl00; rents
about $100, with old frame: 000. •'-• : f ;■■'
$32,750— Rents $250: -YE. cor. on Pine St.; cov-
ered with nearly new buildings. ■ • ■
Polk-st. corner: 30 feet front: good store and
business corner; new building; rent* $160; two
tenants: S2»,«00. -~"V»-« : *. _
Warehouse: 50 vara;-41'2:6 feet from snips and
water front; Lombard st.. near Bansome: level lot
and grade; 137:6x137:6;;513,500; has rear fro at
also.
HOUSES AND LOTS— ALL PRICES.
House and lot on Franklin st.. near Washington ;
911,000.
Octavla st., west sine, bet. Broadway and Vallejo:
25x112:6 and 2-story, 8 rooms; in very good
order/ flne view of bay; street bituminizea; only
$6000: easy terms. ■
Washington and Steiner— NE. cor., faclntr pub-
lic square, 25x102, and very sunny 2-story, 8
rooms, bath and modern conveniences; $9250.
Sacramento st., bet. Broderick and Baker: 27:6 x
127 and very fine 2-story, well finished in nat-
ural wood, finely papered and frescoed house: 8
rooms and modern conveniences; only $7175;
street in order: cable-cars pass.
$7000: 3 left; new houses: just finished: 9room«
and all modern conveniences: fine view of b»y: .
only $500 cash and terras as rent if desired; Bu-
chanan si., uearlireen, 3 stiort blocks from Pacific
aye.. 1 block from Union-st. cars and 2 blocks
from new line on yillmora s:.
Fine residence and lot: 80x137:6; north side
Vallejo St.. bet. Cough and Octavia: flne view,
unobstructed from 2 upper stories: 11 rooms and
modern conveniences; boose coat $8600; leased at
$75 a month; only $10,250. i'
$5250: Washington st.-, north side, bet. Fillmore
ana Steiner; .comfortable two-story bay-window
house: 6 rooms, bath and modern conveniences.
WESTERN ADDITION LOTS. •
Pine and Buchanan sts., northwest corner; 55x
81:3: both stnsets sewered and Pine bit uminlzed;
910.000.
Clay st., bot. Polk and Nan Xessave.; 00x127:8;
fair house: reduced to $12,500.
Southwest oorner Broadway and Steiner st.;
27:6x110, $4.">UO. or 55x110, $7500; good view;
streets Id order. --•- •
$3000— Steiner St.. W. side, bet. Pacific and
Broadway: 27:6x110; streetwork done: flne view.
Pacific aye. «ud Walnut St., 1 block from Central
*ye., facing the Presidio; corner; 30x100; $-1000;
or any size larger. .
Keduced to. $4100: Grove and Lyon corner;
37:6x100: for business or residence.
Devisadero at., near Washington;, 25x110: re-
dnced to $3750; street paved: eiectric-cars pass;
flne lot aiid neighborhood.' ■ • ■
Veil St.. facing the park; 'i lots. 25x137:6; 32800
i eaebj will be a liuo resideo.ee street.