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MUSPAyT. PECEMBEK 8, 1595
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The jingo tune keeps time to the music
of America.
Civilization cries, "Peace! peace!" and
keeps on fighting.
Salisbury must wait for an answer— our
Grover wishes to shoot ducks.
Fine boulevards are not pleasure roads
only but highways to prosperity.
The horse show is a memory, but the
lovely clothes will bloom another day.
No dilemma will ever fret the Sultan as
long as he can keep his grip on the Golden
Horn.
California novelties for your Eastern
friends will give them a new joy in the
holidays.
If San Francisco was not so noted as the
Golden City it would be famous as the City
Beautiful.
The holiday season promises to be extra
lively, for even the moon will be full
twice this month.
After the display of loveliness at the Pa
viiicm San Francisco society has certainly
a right to be proud of itself.
A mass-meeting does not always speak
with a massive voice, but that of last night
will be heard across the continent.
The Sultan would like to have the world
believe that Armenians are killing them
selves just to give the Turks a bad name.
In Tom Reed's statement, "There must
always be a tail to the procession." the De
mocracy can find a reason for its existence.
The immigration restriction bill should
be so amended as to protect our home
cranks from the competition of such aliens
as Ahlwardt.
Since Ingersoll was not converted by the
fact that Kentucky went Republican it
was hardly worth while for a convention
to pray for him.
Many of the Christmas novelties are so
familiar the shop windows in the evenings
look as if they were illuminated by the
light of other days.
In the five months that have expired of
the current fiscal year the deficit in the
revenues amounted to $17,601,541, but
Cleveland never mentioned it.
Pittsburg hotel-keepers claim that they
can accommodate 35,000 guests in their
hotels without raising the regular prices,
but can they do it without raising the
roofs ?
Those people who remember that there
was once in the Senate a certain Philetus
Sawyer of Oshkosh may be pleased to
learn that he will probably be re-elected
next year-
It is not easy to predict what kind of
weather is coming in California, but fortu
nately that which visits us is generally so
genial we have no occasion to object to the
surprise party.
New York has an idea that by consolida
tion with Brooklyn she would be bigger
and better, but Brooklyn sees the other
side of the shield and thinks she would be
bigger and worse.
As a rule blizzards start in the north and
drift southward, weakening as they go.
but the one that swept the East and nearly
blew Chicago into the lake the other day
started in Texas and was a stemwinder
that tightened with every twist.
It was once said our leading rival for the
convention was Pittsburg, but when we
passed her we found Chicago in the way
and now St. Louis looms up; so it seems
we will have to face the tackling of all the
cities in the East before we reach the goal.
Some of the conservative women in the
East have organized what is intended to
be a National association called the
'•Home Maker?," with the object of ac
complishing the reforms advanced women
are talking about, but through home in
fluences instead of platform oratory.
It looked at one time as if the trustees of
the big Brooklyn bridge could escape in
dictment by the New York Grand Jury
only by jumping off the bridge, but they
have managed to get ashore all right, and
now there is a suspicion that the jury took
water.
Police Commissioner Roosevelt is a wag.
One of his policemen got into trouble
through having soiled linen on his dormi
tory cot, his sheet being spattered with
tobacco juice. "You have condemned
yodirself out of your own mouth," said the
Commissioner, as he fined the culprit ten
days' pay. »____
It would seem that the modesty of St.
Louis is not widely different from the gall
of Chicago, for she now asks the country
to make her the established seat of Na
tional Conventions, and proposes to erect
a building designed expressly for such
purposes as soon as the two great parties
agree to make arrangements for meeting
there regularly.
The rivalry of quick trans-Atlantic voy
ages is made sharper by the new plan of
having a fixed hour for sailing from New
York. The American line was the first to
announce the sailing of their vessels every
Wednesday at 10 a. m.; the White Star
line followed suit, and with the new year
the Cunard and North German Lloyd will
have fixed hours of departure.
THE MASS-MEETING.
That Metropolitan Temple was crowded
to overflowing at the anti-funding-bill
mass-meeting last evening counts for little.
San Francisco, from her teeming popula
tion, could send audiences large enough
to fill a hall of that size on al
most any occasion. But the char
acter and intelligence of the audience,
the eminence and influence of the speakers
and the earnestness that marked every
stage of the proceedings do count for some
thing. It was a representative meeting.
It spoke the voice of San Francisco, de
manding the rights of California and the
maintenance of the claims of the Nation
against the cunning schemes of a corporate
monopoly seeking to defraud the Govern
ment and plunder the people.
Good as was the effect of the meeting last
night it will be of little avail in the strug
gle against the funding bill uniess fol
lowed by immediate and continuous ac
tion. The monopoly is fighting for its
life and will fight hard. It has many able
men at work for it and, moreover, it has
the advantage of the field of battie. Wash
ington is on the other side of the
continent, and the Eastern people
have felt little of the blighting effects
of the Southern Pacific Company. They
do not see that the funding bill would be
an injury to them. They are ignorant of
the dangers and evils that lurk within it.
A campaign of education, therefore, is
necessary in order to win. We must make
clear to Congress that the people of the
whole country are interested in the ques
tion and that whoever votes for the fund
ing bill will have to answer for it to his
constituents at the next election.
To carry on the campaign of education
throughout the country and strengthen
the hands of our delegation at Washing
ton, men and money are needed. San
Francisco must do her share in providing
them. There is no time to be lost and
there should be no lagging. Let all who
believe that honest debts should be hon
estly paid join the movement to enforce
that principle against rich corporations as
well as against the poor.
A GEE AT IMPEOVEMENT.
It is sincerely to be hoped that nothing
will intervene to prevent the proposed im
provement of the Blythe property, which
is bounded by Geary, Market and O'Far
rell streets and Grant avenue. This hope
does not concern the merits of the new liti
iration which has been sprung in the matter
of the Blythe estate, but goes to the gen
eral proposition that such improvement
as has been contemplated would be of in
calculable benefit to the City.
It is a remarkable fact that, with few
exceptions, administration upon the es
tates of dead millionaires owning valuable
properties in San Francisco has been com
plicated in the most extraordinary ways
and the improvement of the City delayed
in consequence. The Crocker estate passed
through the ordeul without a shadow.
The Colton estate, although its settlement
gave birth to litigious wrangles, did not
affect the material interests of the City.
The Phelan properties escaped all trouble.
The Parrott estate difhculties were of a
minor character and were easily adjusted;
the residuary legatees have developed into
important factors in the progress of the
City. The Hopkins estate troubles were
settled, but they were of no great concern
to the public, and that result of their set
tlement which gave the Hopkins Insti
tute of Art to California was a public
benefaction. The Stanford estate gave
trouble that the United States courts
deemed it proper to settle in a certain way.
The Fair and Blvthe estates are now the
great bones of contention, and, excepting
few, they bear tne most important relation
to the material interests of the City. The
Fair estate seems now in a fair way of
settlement. The improvements projected
by Senator Fair were among the moet im
portant ever undertaken in San Francisco.
Unless the new litigation begun in the
Blythe case immediately on the heels of
what seemed to be a linal determination
of the case by the courts puts a check upon
the improvement of the very valuable
property belonging to the estate, Market
street within a few years will have a splen
did block to face the elegant new Home
which is beingconstructed for The Call.
Perhaps one of these days a writing
philosopher will appear who will present
an intelligent history of the litigation
which has pursued the settlement of rich
estates in San Francisco, and will be able
to deduce from it some conclusions, a wise
appreciation of whose basis might prove a
valuable lesson to mankind. Such a his
tory would embody an amazing array of
human weaknesses, whose power for evil
was given efticiency by a prevalent laxity
of morals and a small regard for the neces
sity of enforcing just. laws. The whole
story would constitute a romance with in
cidents as inevitable to the founding of a
new civilization as they would be obnox
ious to a regime which time had tested and
experience rendered stable.
All of these grotesque departures from
the rormal belong to and were produced
by primitive conditions which no longer
eaist in this community, but which still
are potent to cast their shadow upon the
hopes and achievements of the present
time. A lingering relic of the old days of
a barbaric disregard of common rights and
upright personal conduct exists in the
form of corrupt politics, but even that
towering structure of infamy is tottering
under the assaults of a roused public con
science and an enlightened popular in
telligence.
SELECTION OP LAND.
A member of a colony which recently
came to California says that before he Jeft
the East his banker warned him to be
ware of land sharks, as worthless Jand
in California had been sold to ignorant
persons at Jarge prices. It is a fact that
this impression is somewhat general and
that there is some foundation for it. It is
also a fact that when the colony industry
was at its height in California from eight
to twelve years ago the projectors of
colonies sent out printed matter giving
glowing accounts of profits which had
been secured. It is time that an exam
ination of these matters be made.
When the colony projectors were send
ing out their circulars it is true that won
derful profits were being made. These
ran all the way from $100 to $1000 and over
to the acre, and numberless authentic in
stances of such returns were collected and
published by boards of trade and cham
bers of commerce in various parts of the
State. That these reports were true was
an absolute fact. These profits did not by
any .means represent the average returns
throughout the State, but they did make
an accurate showing of what could be
accomplished in California at that time
under a combination of favorable condi-
tions. These were a great demand for
special products, prevailing good time?,
perfect adaptation of place to the article
grown and the most scientific cultivation.
The large profits were made principally
on raisins, olive oil, berries, apricots,
prune?, oranges and almonds.
It will be noted that these are all luxu
ries and that hence the demand for them
had to fall when hard times came. Further
than that, the enormous protits which had
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1895.
been made caused a large extension of the
area of production. The available market
was soon crowded, and in that sense over
production exerted its influence. The
catastrophe was completed by the advent
of hard times throughout the world. As
it is a fact that the market has been vastly
extended since that time ; that California
does not produce sufficient to supply even
the present depressed demand of the
United States for the special articles of
luxury produced here and nowhere eRe in
the country; that our products are even
finding a market in the densely populated
countries over seas, and that as the won
derful profits secured a few years ago were
from a market much smaller in proportion
to the producing area than now, we are in
a better condition now, other things being
equal, to make large profits than we were
when the profits were really much larger.
When hard time 9 pass, therefore, we may
expect to enjoy something Use a resump
tion of the large profits of a few years ago.
Every intelligent person to whose atten
tion these large returns were called was
simply being shown what he could accom
plish by employing the means adopted by
the successful ones. What was possible
with one man might be possible with all
men. This is not strictly true, but it is
useful in stimulating all to do as well as
the best by showing what the best is. Cali
fornia has received far more benefit than
harm by the publication of phenomenal
returns from farming. And the hard
times, by compelling farmers to be more
economical and diligent, have raise 1 the
standard of farming in this State far above
that of the flush times.
The Eastern people who were really bit
ten by California land sharks were those
whose avarice and greed made them feed
with their money the disastrous boom
that raged from San Diego to San Jose in
1885-87. In this foolish use of their money
they had no idea of cultivating the soil
and making an honest living. Of course
they were stripped of their pelf, as they
deserved to be, and ever since that time
have been denouncing California as a
fraud, its lands as worthless and its land
dealers as knaves. A gambler who
"squeals" when he loses is contemptible.
Intelligent people of the East should
know that the present depressed prices of
land in California, taken in connection
with the past history of wondorful profits
and their inevitable restoration on the re
turn of good times, make this the best op
portunity that has ever come for investing
in a home here and proceeding wisely to
develop its highest value.
COUNTY MONEY.
Judge Dougherty of Santa Rosa has ren
dered a decision that will serve as a valu
able precedent for controlling the discre
tion of every County Treasurer in the
Stat<\ The decision is that although
country treasurers may deposit public
money under certain conditions imposed
by the code, the funds, wherever they may
be, must be ready to the hands of tne Au
ditor, the District Attorney and the chair
man of the Board of Supervisors when
ever, in the pursuit of their duty, they
demand an accounting of the money which
the reports of the treasury show should be
on hand.
There is probably not a Judge in the
State, whether he be on the Superior or
Supreme bench, wno will question the wis
dom of this decision. The history of
county and municipal government on this
coast has f urnisned us with abundant proof
that custodians of public moneys may
abuse their opportunities for placing out
of their actual possession the money
entrusted to their care. The disgrace
ful revelations from Tacnma show that
the City Treasurer used in the most shame
ful manner the banking privilege which he
assumed, and that certain banks connived
with him in the swindles to which that
practice gave rise. Similar troubles, of a
less ignominious kind, have been known
in California, it is the rule here that
banks refuse to connive in the crooked
schemes which are evolved from tlie
cupidity or rascality of public treasurers.
All the same, Judge Dougherty's decis
ion will prove useful. It is not likely that
an appeal will be taken from his ruling,
but should that happen, we may depend
on the Supreme Court to uphold it. No
treasurer can claim the right to say that
the local government of whose money he
has been made the custodian has not pro
vided him with a safe means of keeping
it, and that in consequence he must seek a
safe deposit in some bank. He accepts his
office with a full knowledge of the
responsibilities which he assumes.
He is privileged, if the safeguards
provided by his governing body are in his
judgment insufficient, to make special de
posits in safe banks, but such deposits are
returnable on demand and are made at the
treasurer's risk; they can never be term
deposits and can never draw interest. This
does not relieve counties, cities and towns
of the duty of providing adequate safes and
vaults, but the absence of such precautions
does not relieve the treasurer of the
smallest part of responsibility.
PECULIAE COMPENSATIONS.
A very singular thing to be noted in
California is the peculiar fitness of each
strange natural condition to all others.
Let us analyze those appertaining to Kan
Francisco as an exemplification of the gen
eral fact, and observe how harmonious
these relations are and how vitally they
affect and contribute to the necessities and
comfort of the people.
It might be supposed, segregating one
fact from the others, that the absence of
summer rains would produce here the dis
agreeable conditions attending a drouth in
the Eastern States, and that as the rains
are confined to four months of the year we
would have floods and a continuous suc
cession of dismal days in winter. To
counteract the absence of rain in summer
we have fogs and moist winds, and floods
are avoided in the rainy season by the fact
that the precipitation, compared with that
in the East, is very small. Thus, while
the Atlantic seaboard has from sixty to
eighty inches of rain during the year we
have only twenty-live to thirty inches
here. That is to say, we have eight
monthsof weather without any rain, during
which time the people may pursue their
pleasures and businesses without its
hindering and damaging presence, and
four months with a greater number of fair
days than are enjoyed in the East during
the same time. We have no gray days in
winter. They come in summer, when they
are welcome.
That, to begin with, is an extraordinary
fitness of conditions. Another is found in
the seemingly providential relation be
tween the winter climate and the topog
raphy of San Francisco. If, instead of the
soft, warm rains that wo have we should
get snow, sleet and ice, the hilly parts of
the City would be uninhabitable, and they
happen to be the most desirable. The
views which they command are unequaled
for variety, breadth and grandeur by any
other city in the world. That is a very
happy fitness of conditions.
In a place from whose winter all harsh
conditions are absent and in which a biand
sunshine invites to outdoor recreation, the
people, not forced to remain in stuffy
houses, are impelled to exercise the free
dom which they are permitted to enjoy.
They would not be content with the sim
ple blessing of sunshine and physical lux
ury—the higher senses must be gratified.
From every quarter of the globe the most
alluring and luxurious flowering and
ornamental plants have been assembled
here and they are cultivated in gorgeous
profusion. As though nature was not
satisfied with a prodigality so rich as to
make it possible for us to adorn our gar
dens and parks with flowering plants
which bring to us the winter-blooming
habit of sub-tropical regions, she has given
us a singularly picturesque topography,
which we have had the wisdom to utilize
by means of splendid drives traversing the
view-commanding eminences which adorn
the City.
With a condition which produces out
door bloom in winter come other vegetable
products equally grateful to the senses.
What could be more welcome than the
midwinter crops of strawberries and
oranges which, with roses, callas and heli
otrope, are so graceful adornments of the
midwinter table? Added to these are the
later and more luscious grapes of autumn
and their genial product, pure and whole
some wine.
And so go these strangely welded, ad
mirably fitted conditions which bring com
fort to life and zest to its aims. There is
not a lack without its compensation, not a
single misadjustment in all this intricate
machinery, not a natural condition but
that is pleasant in itself and that aspires
to its highest utilization for physical, men
tal and spiritual needs. That Californian
who, in the enjoyment of these advan
tages, falls short of the highest standard
of human intelligence and worth, arms
the cynic with a reason for declaring that
there is nothing good in humanity.
OALIfOENIA BEIC-A-BEAO.
While all generous and prosperous
people are seeking Christmas gifts there
will be many among us desirous of finding
something essentially Californian in ma
terial and workmanship to send to their
far-off friends. When later on the host of
tourists comes to enjoy the winter sunshine
of the Pacific Coast there will be not a few
who will seek to find some dainty of treas
ure of beauty or utility to serve them as a
souvenir of scenes in this fair land when
they are far away.
Where will the Christmas-seeker find
the Californian gift for his friend? What
will the tourist be able to obtain as a sou
venir? There are things made in Cali
fornia to supply the double demand.
There are shells and photographs and a
considerable variety of articles made of
orange, olive or manzanita wood. There
are also, no doubt, some other things.
But all these are as trifles to the innumera
ble articles of beauty, utility or perhaps of
decoration that might be fashioned by our
art and taste out of the wide variety of
material which a profuse nature has given
us for employment in just such uses.
The most casual observer of Christmas
shopping who notes the toys and bric-a
-brac sent to us from Europe and the East
ern States can hardly fail to perceive that
their attractiveness or excellence is due al
most wholly to the work put upon them ;
the material itself in most cases having
little beauty or value of any kind. He
who knows anything of California needs
but little reflection upon what he has seen
of these imported goods to reach the con
clusion that in the material for making
such articles California is far richer than
the countries that supply them. We need
but art and energy to turn our advantages
of this kind into sources of great profit.
Indeed, in some instances not much art is
needed. Some of the wood of this State
requires no more than a mere polishlne to
become an object of beauty not inferior to
anything that handicraft can do.
Articles of a nature to serve the demand
for gifts and souvenirs have a double
value. They are not only directly profita
ble to the producer, but the}' are among
the most effective advertisements that a
country can send forth. The popular de
sire to see Paris springs largely from the
delight given by all the beautiful work
Parisian artisans furnish for such pur
poses. Almost every American home has
something in its decoration or its orna
ments that suggests Europe and is a con
tinual enticement to us to go abroad. Cal
ifornia should have just such pleasing ad
vertisements of her beauty all over this
country at least, if not all over the world.
The only way to stimulate decorative art
in California is to create, a demand for it.
If every Christmas shopper during the
holidays should at least ask to see what
the merchants have in the way of Cali
fornia products the merchants would soon
begin to give orders for them. Such in
dustries as we have of the kind would be
expanded and new ones created during the
coming year. We must not wait for tour
ists to start the demand. We must start it
ourseives by sending lovely gifts to the
East, and thus interesting the people there,
so that those who visit California will look
for such articles when they arrive here.
California, we must remember, is ours, and
upon us depends her welfare.
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, N. V., Dec. 7.— Mrs. W. It.
Quinn will remain here till next April at the
Bartnoldi. Charles Jost Jr. of the California
Wine and Distilling Company Is at the Bar
tholdi. He brought his mother on with him,
and he will renew college friendships for a
few weeks. Mrs. W. P. Morgan is at the Hol
land with her daughter, whom she is seeing off
to school. Miss Julia Crocker is at the Nether
land, with Mrs. J. L. Requa and the Misses
Rcqua of Los Angeles. They will remain here
for two months. Among recent arrivals are:
F. W. Lawrence, Coleman; E. Samuels, St.
Denis; C. Bertheau, Murray Hill; H. J. Kil
gariff, St. Cloud. Mr. ai d Mrs. M. H. de Young
and Mrs. George Hearst of San Francisco are
at the Waldorf.
BEST PAPER ON THE COAST.
Summerland Advocate.
The San Francisco Call has taken a position
in the field oi journalism very much neglect
ed, especially on the Pacific Coast. It has
placed honor, honesty and worth at the head,
and upon that line acts fearlessly. It is with
out doubt the most reliable daily on the coast,
an<l aa such the people are fast learning to ap
preciate it. Many papers please their readers
with sensational matter which at the time is
very interesting, but unsatisfactory in the end.
The Call confines itself to facts and gives all
the news.
CHRISTMAS IN TOWN.
This is the magic month of all the year,
Holding; the children's golden precious day;
Of which, with eager eyes, «f hear them say
"In three weeks, two weeks, one week, 'twill be
here!"
The sparkliiiK windows of the shops appear
Iv fascinating wonder-bright array;
With holly and with tokens th« streets are gay;
Tbe busthnu sown begins its Christmas cheer.
Sow secret plots *re whispered in the hall.
Mysterious parcels to the door are brought,
And busy nands are half-done gifts concealing.
The eve is here, with lighted tree and a 1 !
And Santa Clam, with merry marvels fraught,
Before the dawn, across the roofs comes steal
ing: —The Lark.
That stah.rrom the Government.
Hanford Democrat.
If Lawyer Foote of San Francisco is right in
his opinion that it is the duty of the Govern
ment to intervene in the matter between the
Southern Pacific and the Railroad Commis
sioners as regards freight rates, because It
affects the debt of the railroad to the Govern
ment, then the Government can put a stop to
the railroad voluntarily reducing rates, for the
game reason. Et tv, Brute.
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
"If one will stop to consider," said Henry J.
Crocker of the equine show in the Palace
Hotel yesterday morning, "it will be recalled
that the horse has always been accorded more
protection than any other animal known in
the history of America. A person who stole
a horse in early days was hanged for it, as his
value to civilization was above price.
"I think the funniest story I ever heard
touching on the horse was told me by an old
minister who wem out on the plains of Ne
braska to establish a few missions among the
Indians and settlers. It appears that after he
had been in the State a few weeks he was
waited upon by a long, gaunt fellow who
wanted to know if the gospel leader wanted to
join the Brownsville Horsethief Club. He
was a little surprised at the suggestion at first,
but upon being Informed that the objects of
HENRY J. CROCKER TELLS HOW THE HORSE USED TO STAND WITH THE
PIONEERS OF NEBRASKA.
[Sketched from life for "The Call" by NankivelL]
ihe club were not exactly what the title sug
gested and that it was an organization for the
purpose of protecting members' horses from
thieves, concluded to join and put up his $5
admission fee. In a few days he received a
notification that there would be a meeting of
the club at a place named and that his pres
ence was wanted.
"He was on hand, and ar, he was the last one
to enter the door was closed behind him and
locked. The president of the club banged his
fist on the desk and rising said: 'Members of
the Horsethief Club. Si Barton's brown mare
has been stolen. I hereby appoint Jack Thomas
and Jim Bowers to go on the trail and report
next Saturday. The meetin' is hereby ad
journed. 1
"With as little ceremony as it was opened
the meeting broke up and the members de
parted without further comment. The minis
ter was prone to make inquiries regarding the
method of dealing with the issue before the
house, but received no satisfactory informa
tion. On the morning of the following Satur
day he was notitied to be present again and
complied. Upon arriving at the meeting place
he found the same men there again. Jack
Thomas and Jim Bowers were there also, hav
ing come back the night before. Again the
Dresident put his fist on the table with a bang
an<l called the meeting to order with, 'We are
now ready to hear the report of the commit
tee of two.' Bowers got up, threw a cud of to
bacco behind him and answered, 'We met the
horsethieves two miles this side of the Kansas
line, alt of which is respectfully submitted.'
•The meeting is adjourned,' howled the presi
dent with another smash at the desk, and the
members filed out perfectly contented.
"The minister this time was thunderstruck.
'Did Mr. Barton get his horse back?' he asked.
" 'Certainly,' responded a big fellow.
" 'Well, what did they do with the thieves?'
" •Xothin'.'
" 'Can it be possible that they will not be
brought to justice?'
" 'Oh, that'll be all right, parson.'
" Well, what did the committee of two do
after they came up with the offenders?'
" 'Left 'em where they fell, for the coyotes.'
"This, gent— lemen," concluded Mr. Crocker,
"snows how the norse used to stand In early
days."
Ex-Congressman J. A. Louttit of Stockton,
the builder of the Lodi road from that city, is
at the Lick. He gives the condition of railroad
building around the slough city as follows:
"The Valley road now has thirty-one miles
of track laid and the cars running. Billed
freight has already been sent out over it.
"The Corral Hollow road has over six miles
finished, and has obtained the last right of
way to the coal mines, a total distance from
Stockton of thirty-two miles. The cars arc
running on the six miles now. The road is bo
ing pushed on at the rate of more than a mile
a day. There is considerable speculation as to
where the other terminus will be. Ot course
one will be in Stockton.
"My line, known as the Lodi road, is pro
gressing rapidly. The men are now at work
putting the grade up from 12 inches to 4 feet
higher. Sixteen miles were finished on the
original grade. It is being finished up at the
rate of a half mile a day."
GOOD BY TO COUPONS.
Missouri Editor.
Guessing matches, coupons, special pre
miums, lotteries and such like have about had
their day. Let us be thankful. Fake journal
ism is a fraud. A newspaper, like everything
else, must win upon its merits. It cannot, like
the mountebank, stand upon the street cor
ners, with monkey and hand-organ, trying to
hoodwink the public. Whenever a newspaper
takes on an outside accessory to catch patron
age it that far depreciates its own value—con
fesses that it is not worth what it asks tor
itseli. Then it must keep it up year nfter yenr.
for when it quits it will lose more than it has
ever made. Big booms, large circulations, se
cured by these methods are so much sham and
humbug, and the country is full of wrecks as a
result. Never try it, or, if you have, never do
so again.
OPINIONS OF WESTERN EDITORS.
Chance for Some Inventive Genius.
■ Stockton Independent.
A small fortune awaits the inventor who will
devise a means of rapidly getting the sand out
of the Calaveras River and Mormon Channel.
The chief cost of the sand for filling streets and
lots is the labor of getting it out of tho beds <>i
those streams. The inventor who will dcviso
a digger to fill cars la.d on temporary tracks
and a means of rapidly hauling them to tlx>
banks will make money and do much MM.
The sand that comes down those streams u> ob
struct them dan be profitably used to raise tin
grades of lots and streets, but the cost of get
ting it is so great that the work proceeds too
Blowly.
The British Commercial Sense.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Having pretty effectually killed off the seals
of Bering Sea it is now said the Canadians pro
pose to try and stock Hudson's Bay with the
animal, and these waters being wholly within
their jurisdiction they will have a monopoly of
the seal business. The trouDle with the scheme
is that it all lies with the seals as to whether
they will acquiesce in the change of their home
and" breeding grounds.
Arizona's Vast Pasture Region.
Phoenix (Ariz.) Republican.
The fact is not appreciated that in the Salt
River Valley lies the greatest pasture region of
the United States, in computing the acreage of
artificially planted feed. Hither now are com
ing thousands of cattle for fattening, a process
that uniformly is now accomplished to the full
satisfaction of grower and of butcher. No
meat can be liner, and yet the feeding in tne
open air, under genial" skies, is accomplished
at a fourth the cost necessary in Kansas.
The "Craze" Is Kapidly Spreading.
Palem (Or.) Post.
It is a common thing for gold-bug papers to
say that the "silver craze is dying out." But
if those who say so would only go out. among
the people— the bone and sinew of the country
— they would change their minds. Nearly
every man you meet is in favor of free silver.
Lamentable Errors Do Occur.
San Diego Tribune.
Wo wonder how often honest, but unfortu
nate, individuals are confounded with the
genus "hobo." Many of the former often suf
fer for the rascality and laziness of the latter
at the hands of those who are not quick to dis
tinguish the good from the bad.
Fresh Blackberries for December.
Bakersfield CaHfornian.
Ripe blackberries in December are a trifle
unusual, but just the same a fine cluster of
such iruit was brought to the Californian office
to-day from the Beardsley place, across the
river.
A PRETTY COLLARETTE.
The charming collarette shown here is suit
able for either fall or winter wear, as a sep
arate wrap or over a pla.in jacket or cape.
Made of fur or rough cloth, with a frill of silk,
it is warm and stylish; made of tan cloth,
with a shaded figure of black and edged with
black chiffon, it is very chic. A brilliant green
velvet, made after this model, was trimmed
with Tor : ?.n lamb fur along the edge of the
collaretti 1" li»- roJBa was of the velvet, also
ed«*d m 11 in r. Tbere was a soft muff to
iiR ilesipncd to wear with a
black ctvpon ilress for calling. A charming
collaretu- fur ttu'Rter or opera wear was made
ol rOM OOlOf«d velvet, with a frill of chiffon to
niati-li seam inside the collar. Sable tails hung
at intervals of three inches all around the col
larettt over the rutTle, which was of velvet. A
plain cloth cape of black may be made very
dressy by adding a too of this sort in green vel
vet, making the frill of black chiffon edged
with an inch band of Persian lamb. A top of
royal blue velvet edged with sable is also suit
able over a black, brown or blue cloth cape. A
nuMlnimsize requires about one and a half
yards of silk, with half a yard of cloth. It cuts
in three sizes— small, medium and large.
A COMING SINGER.
San Francisco Music and Drama.
Mrs. Emil Kehrlein, wite of the prospective
manager ana promoter of the proposed Kolir
lein Opera-house, is in Paris finishing her
musical education. She sang at the fum-rat of
the son of John \V. Mnckay in the Kngltsh
church on Avenue Hoche in the Fronoh oaHtnl
recently, and was hiprhly compUm«ate4 thcro
after by ihe Archbishop lor her reiulcriuii ol
the "Inttammatus." A new son«i enUttait
L If you want a sure relief for "urn* in the back, side, chest, or
9 limbs, use an
Allcock's £:
7 Bkak in MtNO—Not <m\<» of the »n>-.! oi counterfeits and unita-
P tions ia «s good «* the £iM\uin«v
"An Old Rhyme," which will be sung by Mme.
Melba for encores this season in concert, was
dedicated by the composer to Mrs. Kehrlem.
PERSONAL.
■ E. Schweibler of Paris is in the City.
Dr. B. G. Powell of Sacramento is here.
; John E. Budd of Stockton is at the Lick.
' J. M. Knowles of San Diego is at the Lick.
J. D. Hollin of . Wardner. Idaho, is at the Russ.
Dr. G. A. Danziger of San Jose is in the City.
Professor M. L. Driver of San Jose is at the
Lick. •
George F. Wilson of Portland Is at the Occi
dental.
. Senator J. C. Lynch of Cucamonga is at the
.Baldwin.
E. P. Creighton, a business man of Montreal,
is in town.
Henry H. Tanner, a merchant of Salt Lake, is
at the Russ.
D. H. Baer, a railroad man of Sacramento, is
at the Grand. t
S. H. Rice, an attorney of Ukiah, is registered
at the Grand.
W. A. Anderson, an attorney of Sacramento,
is in the City.
F. A. Boole, a merchant ot Red Bluff, arrived
Here last night.
John Driscoll, owner of a large foundry at
Sacramento, is here.
John Scales, a mining man of De la Mar,
Idaho, is at the Grand.
J. B. McCullough, a business man of Reno,
Nev., is at the California.
Thomas Derby, a mining man of New Alma
den, arrived here yesterday.
W. J. Gillespie, a mining man of Redding, Is
here, accompanied by his wife.
Charles K. Lipman, the merchant of Sacra
mento, is spending Sunday here.
George B. Stevenson, a business man of Van
couver, Wash., is at the Baldwin.
Thomas P. Minturn, the extensive land
owner of Minturn, is at the Palace.
• Sheriff S. D. Ballou of San Luis Obispo County
" arrived here yesterday for a short stay.
; Theodore Springer of Chicago, one of the
best-known commercial men, is in the City.
Malcolm Thomas and Mrs. Thomas, of San
Mateo, came up last night and are at the
Palace.
Frank Short, editor and one of the principal
owners of the Fresno Republican, arrived here
yesterday. He is at the Palace.
W. S. Kinney of Astoria, who for Borne years
has been engaged in salmon canning on the
Columbia River, arrived yesterday.
George H. Rowe, president of the Brooklyn
Press Club, and Deputy Comptroller of the De
pariment of Finance at Brooklyn, is at the
Palace, accompanied by Mrs. Rowe. They will
probably remain in California for some time.
Frank C. Ross, one of the early residents of
Tacoma, who rose from selling newspapers on
the Kalama branch of the Northern Pacific to
be a large property-holder of Tacoma, and
finally a railroad builder, is at the Lick. He is
here on a business trip.
Among the arrivals here yesterday was A. J.
Fisk, editor ot the Helena Herald, the oldest
daily in Montana. Mr. Fisk is one of three
brothers who have long owned and conducted
that paper. It fills the evening field solely, as
it has always done, in the Montana motropolis,
and is recognized as one of the best paying
properties between St. Paul and the Pacific
Ocean. Mr. Fisk was here a year ago. He will
probably remain several weeks.
"Seavey's," 1382 Market, greatest of bar
gains in millinery this week. *
• — ♦ — •
E. H. Black, painter, 120 Eddy street •
• — • — »
Great bargain sale misses' and children*
hats. "Seavey'ts," 1352 Market •
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Special information daily to manufacturer?,
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Montgomery. *
. • — #> —
500 Misses' and children's trimmed hats hall
price week. "Seavey's," 1382 Market street. *
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Malicious.— author— Have you heard
that our chum, Smithers, has married?
Second author — wanted to double hii
circle of readers.— Fliesrende BlaetteA v.~ -
-'- :"■■■■ --^.. .. - -V.. «,.■■» . — —t.A' ■■
Malaria literally means bad air. ' "Bhose who
are exposed to malarial or other poisons should
keep the blood pure by taking Uood's Skrsaparilla.
i*are blood Is a foe to disease. ;\ff^- *
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CHICAGO LIMITED.
VIA SANTA FE ROUTE.
A new train throughout begins October 29.
Pullman's finest sleeping-cars, vestibule reclintn?
chair cars and dinlnsc-cars. Los Angeles to Chi
cago, via Kansas City, without change. Annex
cars on sharp connection for Denver and St.
Louis. Twenty-seven hours quicker than the
quickest competing train. The Santa Fe has been
put In fine physical condition and is now the best
transcontinental railway.
• — * — «
Apteb a sleepless night use Dr. Siegert's Angos
tura Bitters to tone up your system. All druggists.
• — ♦ — •
If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp
son's Eye Water. Druggists sell It at 25 cents.
• — ♦— •
The value of all property used for educational
purposes in the United States is placed at
$600,000,000. The public school property
alone is valued at $400,000,000.
NEW TO-DAY.
WIE 1 HENSHELWQQD
Have Just Opened
for the
HOLIDAY TRADE
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Feather Boas, Silk Umbrellas,
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