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The morning call., 1890-11-10
AFTER THE ELECTION.

The election in this city promises to be
beneficial to the public, however serious 1t
may prove 10 some of the parties concerned.
1t is said that between three and four hun
bred individuals, who have hitherto lived on
the proceeds of simecures at the City Hall or
on the crumbs that fell from Buckley's table,
are now stared IN the face by the appalling
prospect Of having to 60 to work for living.
\ catastrophe so heartrending fills the be-
neyolent soul with anguish, and rouses its
victims to paroXysms of rage. On every side
q cry rises for a scapegoat.
In some quarters the disaster is charged
10 the account of the party newspaper, the
Examiner. which is accused of having been
lukewarm and treacherous. 1t is proposed
that the State Central Committee shall follow
the cue given at San jose, and read it out of
the party. The proprietor Of the Examiner,
who is always ready to apologize for his
freaks, and whose normal attitude is on his
knees, begs for mercy, and offers 10 placate
an outraged party by the usual sacrifice OF
his managing editor. The latter gentleman,
who has no hankering to become burnt
Offering, defies his aSsailants. If be is driven
to the wall it is whispered that the full de-
tails of the Hearst compact will be given to
the world. This would be such entertaining
reading that the public hope that it will see
the light.
Among the rank and file Of the Democracy
the talk is that the State Central Committee
ought to resign. The members Of that body
are not accused Of treachery, but they stand
convicted Of such incapacity that they can
scarcely be trusted with the conduct of an
other campaign.
As to Buckley, the feeling among Demo-
Gratis is that he has reached that stage in his
career when the accumulated weight of his
unnumtered sins ought to overwhelm him.
That he is charged with having betrayed his
party only concerns its members He must
settle that with them. But he is likewise
charged with having, for long series of
years, perverted the administration OF JUS
tee, and levied toll On municipal office-hold-
ers, including school teachers: these are
offenses against the entire community, which
ought to be abolished. The law makes it a
penal offense to sell appointments to office,
or to influence Judges or juries. 1t is possible
in the present condition of the public mind that
evidence of Buckley's having done these
things-which it has heretofore been impos-
sible to obEain-could be got, and that if
properly presented to court of justice it
would be followed by righteous verdict.
In a word, the public believe that San Fran
cisco should now deal with Buckley as New
York dealt with Tweed when he had reached
the end of his tether; should make an ex-
ample of him, to the end that all future
bosses should beware of presuming upon the
forbearance of this most long suffering COM
munity,
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COMMON SCHOOL BOYS.

A Chicago journal interviewed number
Of merchants to get their ideas as to the
kind of school education boy Should have
as the foundation of business education.
Most of these successful merchants thought
it sufficient if boys were well grounded in
the rudiments. One thought the three RS
enough TO start with. Several of them dwelt
upon the importance Of accuracy in figures
and fuency in penmanshp. They want
boys who can write with reasonable rapidly
and in legibIe handwriting. All of them
thought good common school education
sufii Gent, but in making this response they
LEFT the question unanswered. What is
good common school education? The jour
nal which published these interviews said
editorially that thanks to the manner in
which primary grade studies are multiplied
and protracted, rs per cent oil the youth of
the city leave school without chance to ac-
quire the qualifications demanded for be-
ginning business. In other words, they are
not well grounded in the rudiments. They
are not quick and accurate in figures, nor
rapid and legibie in penmansiip. The time
which should have been devoted to these es-
sential studies has been frttered away in
acquiring superficial knowledge of things
that do not help in the work of earning a
living. The theoretical educator likes tu
cover as much ground as possible He likes
to make show at the end Of term in sew
eral branches of study. In his opinion chill
dren were made for the schools, not schools
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THE FARMaKs, ALLIANCE.

President Polk of the National Farmers
Alliance is quite certain that the Alliance
has come to stay. He claims thirty-eight
Alliance men in the Congress just elected.
and says that twelve or fifteen Others will
act with the new party. ''The principles upon
which the Alliance is founded" President
Polk says, "are solid and correct" Precisely
what those principles are the President does
not state. In n general way it is understood
to demand legislation for the producing
classes and a larger volume of money. 1t is
a little odd that the first political movement
of the Alliance should be to cast discredit
upon a tariff act which more than any
other tariff ever established, protects the
products of the farm. Its we'll known that
the Republican Ways and Means Com
mittee incurred the opposition of New Eng
land manufacturers by refusing to put raw
material on the free list The New England
manufacturers wanted free wool, free iron
and free coal, but all these articles are made
subject to duties. President Polk says,
financial reform is a necessity aud must
come" Financial reform" is vague eX-
preston. What reforms are needed? We
have a currency that is good for its face the
world over. a man in any financial center
in Europe with roll of United States legal
tenders in his pocket can, for slight rate of
exchange, obtain the money of the country
in which he may be- The character of our
money cannot he improved. 1t is generally
understood that one of the measures of
financial reform proposed is in the way of
adding to the volume of money in circulation.
Whether the reformers will 90 to the extent
OF issuing Government notes on real estate
and farmers products is not as yet known.
But party which has fifty members of
Congress in its service will not long keep its
light under buShel. 1t will soon make a
definite statement of IFS principles, and will
stand or fall as the practical common sense
of the country shall determine.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

The Chicago packers announcement OF an In
crease in the prices of canned meats In conse-
quence OF the Increased duty on tin plate must
be a little premature. for ii is Improbable that they
will pay Il cent of duty on the next years supply
Tie London Economist recently eptOmZed the
situation thus: LAS the Increased duty on tin
plates does not come into operation until July /,
1891, The shipments during the Interval
likely 10 be large, but after that date there
would be q serious falling off, not only on &C
count of the large stocks laid in by the Ameri-
cans but also In consequent ce of the manufacture
of tin plates on the other side OF the Atlantic.
IL has already been announced that some OF the
largest manufacturers in America are increasing
their capital very considerably with view to
the production OF tin plates" II will be well for
the fruit growers to bear these facts in mind.
A remarkable feature about the last election
was the fact that forty four States elected Con-
gressmen. the number at the election of 1888
having been but thlrtyeIght. The six new
States contain an area of 54SS79 square miles,
domain as large as all the States on the Allan
tic seaboard from Maine TO Florida, with Penn
sylvania Ohio, Vermont and West Virginia
thrown in. Just think OF Montana being larger
than New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
Ohio put together, her domain embracing 143,
776 square miles. Wyoming has 81 1888, Idaho
S6,294, South Dakota 76.610, North Dakota
1892, Washington 69994.
The West Point military cadets must have
very noOr opinion of their superlors who fur
nlshed them with their sea coast ana siege bat
teries, three of the old guns having burst during
the past year, fortunately without serious
suits. Inasmuch as the naval cadets are to be
supplied with a small cruiser with a suitable
armament OF modern guns the recommendation
OF Superintendent Wilson OF West Point that
new 5-inch breech-loadug steel guns be fur
nished the military academy is reasonable one.
France desires another extension to her
African possessions. England suggests a
pecunlary indemnity for a surrender by France
OF her rights over the French shore of New
fOundland, out while a pecuniary indemnity is
regarded an insufficient compensation, IL Is
believed territorial concession on the West
Coast OF Africa would bring about transfer.
Professor koch's remedy for consumption is
now being given an extensive trial and the
suit VIII be watched with intense interest. 1t is
hoped, for the sake OF humanity. that the declara
tlon sit is pronounced success" Will be verified.
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are probably small, but enough OF them
could perhaps be found to furnish supply
of fuel for winters consumption.
Last summer the United States Govern
meni established at Point Barrow relief
station for whaiers wrecked in the Arctic,
and supplied it with a stock of provisions
That was a wise step and may prove the
means of saving many lives. Why should
not the same thing be done at the NOUN OF
the Mackenzie? There is no means OF re-
plenishing the stores at Point Barrow from
any source nearer than San Francisco or
perhaps, Sitka But the keeper of post on
the Mackenzie could for very small sum
induce the Indians to bring down in sum
mer considerable supplies of food, and thus,
in a measure. the relief station would be
self-supporting. If such station were es-
tablished the Arctic whaling fleet would not
return home until all the ships were full,
and no sailors would come back with empty
pockets, as has been the case with several
crews this year.
The idea would seem to be worth the at
tention of the Government and of the
owners of whaling vessels in this port
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RELIEF STATIONS IN THE ARCTIC.

The whalers from the Arctic seas are now
arriving daily, and their logs, which tell the
story of their varied fortunes, are interest
ing reading. Most of them have made some
thing for their crews; three have come back
clean. But all have seen death face to face
among the icy gales of the Arctic, and en-
dured hardships which make landsmen
shudder.
The whaling ground in the Arctic is mar
row strip of water which circles the north
western corner of the continent of north
America, spreading from Behring Straits
to near the mouth of the Mackenzie. In
this strip the ice is melted, and during the
summer season is kept comparatively open
by the Kuro-siwo current, one branch of
which flows north at the extremity of the
Aleutian chain, while the other follows the
trend of the continent, and sweeps past
San Francisco Whalers sailing from this
port in the spring for the whaling grounds
have got to work their way through Behr-
ing Sea, which at that season is not easily
nayigated, owing TO the prevalence of fogs
and the abundancy of ice foes thus it often
happens that the ships reach the S pot where
they are to 90 TO work late in the season, and
lose some weeks of valuable time.
This seas on two small steamers Of about
ZJO TONS DUlue1, Resolved, III lIlelr own
words, to stick it out all winter" and have
made an anchorage near the mouth of the
Mackenzie. They are pTovisioned for two
years, ard their n ention is to weigh an
chor with the first melting of the ice next
spring, and be on the ground off Cape Bar
row long before the fleet from San Fran
cisco can reach there. The experiment rests
on plausible grounds and ought to succeed.
If 1t does. II will revolutionize the methods
of the Arctic whale fishery.
The Mack NJ r yer takes its rise in the
CIR at Slave Lake, and flows northwest
until it empties into the Arctic Ocean in
in 100 north latitude. It is navigable for
small craft and is used every summer by
hunters. 1t teens with fish, especially
salmon, and its valley is in places suscept-
ible of cultivation. We have read in Cana
dian lapeTs that crops of wheat and pota.
toes have been raised in many spots. 1t is
evident that there would be no difficulty in
establishing pert of refuge for whalers at
or near IFS mouth and accommodating there a
store of provisions, consisting of frozen or
dried fish and vegetables, which would be
adequate to supply whole feet for one or
mere seasons. The trees in that latitude
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for the children. If he limit the number OF

for the children. If he limit the number OF
studies TO the three RS with perhaps the adj
dition of spelling, geography, English gram
mar and history, the closing examination as
a show is not great success. The aim of
educators should be to make the public
schools in the primary and grammar grades
as practical as possible. The things which
children are sure to need to know on leaving
school should be taught thoroughly. The
public school system may be carried up to
the threshold of the university, but the
grades at which nine tenths of our children
drop out should not be incumbent or
uamental branches of study, no matter how
desirable the teaching there impaired may
ba ~, iteoIF
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FATAL ILLUMINATE.
a. c. Hobbs, the Yankee Lock Picker, lex.
plains George Bakers Death.

plains George Bakers Death.
During the quarter of century that the
Metallic Cartridge Company have conducted
manufacturing operations in this city there
have been not less than ten deaths resulting
from the accidental explosion of illuminate,
says a Bridgeport Comm dispatch to the
New York Herald. The exact manner in
which death in each instance was caused
has never been described, for the reason that
the victim, who alone knew of it, could not
be present to speak for himself. Theory
and speculation as 10 what the facts might
be have been all hitherto that could supply
the place of fair explanation.
Renewed interest in this matter has been
excited by the recent death of George Baker
at this factory, and in response to The desire
of large number Commodore A. c. Hobbs,
the veteran superintendent, speaks as fol-
lows:
in the manufacture of the particular
grade of explosive that last week demolished
a building and killed one man. consider
able proportion of common glass, finely
ground, is used. This glass is sent through
sieve of the finest fiber upon the other in
gradients, the compound being ready for use
the moment the glass has been thoroughly
mixed in. The sieve is used to prevent any
but the minutest particles of glass from
mingling with the other material, as an ex-
plosOn would surely result il any piece
larger than the smallest grain of powder
should happen TO drop upon the dangerous
compound.
''By some oversight a small piece of this
glass passed through or fell out of the sieve,
and in the mixing that followed caused the
terrific and fatal explosion. The worst fea-
ture in the matter is the fact that an acct
dent of this kind is liable to occur at any
moment, and that it can only imperfectIy be
guarded against. An accident may not oc-
cur again in many years, but SO soon as a
piece of glass any larger than a grain of
powder described falls into the composition
an explosion must result"
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AN ELECTRIFIED TREE.
Strange Phenomenon Which Can Only Be
ExpInined by a Live Wire.


Explained by Live Wire.
There was strange sight at the corner OF
Washington and Hunter streets last night,
says the Atlanta Constitution.
A large water oak tree. growing on the
Capitol grounds, was the center of the SEN
sation, which attracted the attention of cit
liens in the neighbOrhood and passers-by.
About two feet from the base Of the tree,
the exterior of which was blackened and
the leaves and branches dropping and wilt
ing, in sunken-in place shaped like a
needles eye, the center of the eye extending
almost to the heart of the tree, was an open
ing.
From this aperture volume of hot steam
belched forth, and the sound of Boiling sap
could be heard distinctly. In places the hot
sap oozed through the bark in long seams.
1t was strange sight, and for a coed
while its cause was unaccountable. To the
touch the tree WAS unbearab,y hot.
The only cause that could be assigned for
the freak was a stray wire. which was tied
from the tree to an electric light pole on the
corner becoming crossed with main-cur.
rent wire imperfectly insulated.
The eectric-light works was notified, but
nothing could be done until the morni ng,
when the current is cut off.
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Reverses of French NobIemen.

Sad have been the reyerses of the old
French nobility since Edmund Burke penned
his splendid auogv. According to NJ. Les
cure, a grandson of that same Marquis
d 'Hauteroche who chivalrously requested
the English troops at the battle Of Fontenoy
to fire first I" ended his days common
policeman. Sadder still, from the point of
of the noble family of Babou de la Bourda-
siere is now washerwoman. Representa-
tives OF other noble families equally famous
in their time are, or were, according TO the
same authority. occupying the humble posi-
tons OF samekeeper, carpenters apprentice,
house painter, cab-driver, miler's assistant,
nn-keeper, conductor of an omnibus, box
opener at a theater, gasman, bathingman,
maker of mOuse-traps, chorus-sDger at the
opera, and woodman, while one who is a
great-grandcousin Of The illustri0us Cardinal
de RetZ unites in his own person the lowly
Offices of grave-digger and village fiddler
London Daily News.
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PREDICTIONS.
SreNAL SERVICE, L. s. Army.
DIVISION OF THE PACIFIC, :
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SIGNAL SERVICE, Z. :. Army
DIVISION OF THE PACIFIC,
SAN FRANCIsco, Nov. 9, 1885, P. MI
Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours.
The barometer has risen in all districts, especially
Washington II is highest in Northern Nevada, and
lowest In Western Arizona. The temperature has
risen in Eastern Washington Eastern oregon, West
ern Nevada and Southern California; elsewhere has
remained nearly stationary. Rain has fallen in
oregon and Washington; elsewhere fair weather
has prevailed. The following rainfals have been
reported in the past twenty-four hours: Portland
.04 OF an inch, Fort Candy .02, olympia .Ol.
Forecast Till L. Nj. Nonday.
For Northern Calirornia-Fair weather, variable
winds, generally westerly; nearly stationary tenn
peTature; frostS in exposed places and in Western
Nevada
For southern California-Fair weather; north to
west winds; warmer.
For oregon-Fair weather; variable winds, gene
rally westerly nearly stationary temperature;
frosts ia exposed places.
For wssdington-Fair weather; variable winds
generally westerly; nearly stationary temperature;
IrOSts in exposed places joins +. FINLEY,
Lieutenant Signal Corps dn charged.
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NOTICE.!

Any of our patrons who fail to find
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Kos Montgomery street, near Clay, open until II
o,cIork p NJ BRANCH OFFICES: ITO Market
street near Kearny. open until y O'Clock mdnght;
3Se Hayes street, open until ESQ O'Clock; COS
1arkin street open until 80 O'Clock: 25lS Mission
street. open until O'Clock p. NJ, and l16 Ninth
street. OMEN until 9: 80 ?. NJ
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STpSCrIpTTnN piTrS.

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calendar month through carriers. DAILY CALL.
five copies. three months, SIS %. SUN DAY CALL
twelve pageS). 81 so per year, postpaid SUNDAY
CALL and w EEKLY CALL, 81 80 per year, post
paid. WEEKLY CALL eight pages, 81 - per year.
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.rCTIoN saTxs TODAY.

FURNITURE.-By NJ. j. Simmons, at 1887 Market
ST.. Al 10 O clock.
FuHN1ruRE.-By Geo. F. Lamson at 53S Post
at IL o clock
FrRNlruRr.-By f S spear & Co.. at 1913 Mar
ket st al 10 o'clock.
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Val. Schmidt's Drugstore
Has removed to SW. cor. Polk and jackson stsi

Whitelaw Reid is collaborating with a
Frenchman in preparing the letters of Tai
leyrand for publication in English. This
work will be produced simultaneously with
the French edition, and it will be a notable
contribution to historic literature.
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Rochefort has fought twenty-three duels
during his career as pamphleteer and
editor, having been wounded on seven of
them and escaping unhurt in the remaining
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"MRs. WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP" has been
used over Fifty Years by mothers for their children
While Teething with perfect success. 1t soothes
tire child softens the Gums. allays all Pain cures
Wind Cole. regulates the bowels and is the best
remedy for Diarrh9a, whether arising from teeth
ing ether causes and is for sale by Druggists in
every part of the world. Be and ask for Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup twenty-five cents q
bottle
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Fresno and MERGED County Lands to Rent

$4,000 acres OF wheat aud sugar-beet land In the
above counties to rent for term OF years. Also
100000 acres OF fine raisin fruit alfalfa and sugar
beet land with water for irrigation, for sale In
tracts OF from 20 acres to large tracts suitable
colony purposes. For particulars apply to L. b.
Perrin, 402 Kearny street, San Francisco.
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prHYTCATIoN OFFICE !:

THE MORNING CALL
Has a larger circulation than any other
newspaper published in san Francisco
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NOTICE OF MEETINGS.

BEEcHAM's Pills cure bilious and nervous his
EXTRA mince nies SwAIN,s 21S Suffer- street
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SHOWCASES at Miller & Co.'s. Ala Market st. {.

VISIT Gettysburg Panorama. Market s. 10th. =.
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UCSO WANTED - SINGLE MAN PARTNER
tpAOO. for good clean cash business. Particulars
Golden Rule Business Agency. II Thirdst 10 SITS
C0AL MfNE-ONE-THIRD INTEREST IN $50
O.acres of fine coal lands, with 7-foot vein of
coal, will be given to party or parties who will
pend $l2 900 In grading track, machinery, ETC.;
one-sxth interest for S6000 party have position
of treasurer if desired; mine now shipping small
scale, but can get out 300 tons per day with above
outlay; output of the town over 1000 tons per day.
two present owners practical men, \ miner aud
the other an established coa-deaier: money can be
doubled in one year. Address 2. u, Box ST., Los
Angeles Cal.
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THE CALLS CALENDAR.

NOVEMBER, 1890.
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C,ITUATIoN WANTED -FIRST-CLASS GER
- man, French and American cook in American
private family; wages not less than $35; city or
country; reference. Address 5l31a Hyde ST., rear
house. Its