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The morning call., 1890-12-29

roads secure their annual dividends, and they
have 10 do this TO hold their Jobs" ut is a no
torious fact" he adds, sflat the roads in Ne.
braska are now openly violating the plain pro
vision OF our fundamental law embodied in Sec
tion OF Article of the Constitution, which
provides that no corporation shall issue any
bonds or stock, except for money, labor or prop-
erty actually received aud applied TO the pur-
pose for which the corporation was created, and
all stock. dividends and other fictitious Increase
OF capital stock or Indebtedness Of any such cor
poration shall be void" He therefore recon-
the railroads comply with this provision Of the
Constitution.
.no squaop,e oVol .he eontioi Vi the Leeisla-
=. n .si Involves we'gnty inter-
sa ". apon .he uec,s,ou u the supreme Court
uepehua 'iio choice VI tne 1ofeIhor ana UniteQ
The morning call., 1890-12-29

riors with faces of the Oriental type, and
arrow-heads of obsidiaB, evidently of ex-
IRENE antiquity. From these finds Schlie-
mann reasoned that under ihe historical cities
of Tiryns and Mycen@ there lay the ruins
of prehistoric cities which had fiourished
and reached high degree of civilization
centuries before the oldest records of Greek
life began, and which had been destroyed
by man or earthquake. His conclusions
were yehemently disputed at the time, but
the general opinion at the present day is
that the preponderance of probabilities is on
his side. In Egypt and Baby onla archRol-
ogists have felt their way back TO periods
antedating Christ by several thousand
years. Greek history may tie said to begin
with the Battle of Marathon in 400 B. C. In
the intervening period Greece must have
been peopled. and the matchless works of
the historic Greeks imply SOME civilization
among their prehistoric ancestors. The
critical student may dismiss the story OF
Atlantis as a fable, and may smile at the
chronological records of the priests Of Sais;
but if Memphis was founded in 1904 B. c.,
surely Greece was not at that time a desert.
and it may have been the home of vigor-
Gus and intelligent people.
The work of such men rs Schliemann is
paving the way for an extension of history
into periods which are now hidden in OBJ
scurity and darkness. Men Of learning can
tell the story of an extinct people by a
study of the remains they left behind. Their
tools, their weapons. their ornaments, the
bones they gnawed, remnant of half
burned clothing. the ashes of their fires. with
here and there a tooth or a tibia, paint to
the trained eye tire manner of men they
were and how they lived. So many of these
relics of the dark past are being accumu-
lated in museums that we are getting to
know a good deal about our ancestors, the
troglodytes and the cave-dwellers. 1t is thus
that we shall arrive some day at an ac-
quaintance with the early development of
the race to which we belong.
The morning call., 1890-12-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Like Sophie Gunzburg the name Of Mile. .Ol.
ga IvaDovsky has become prominently identi.
fed with the prosecution OF the Nhlists at ST.
Petersburg. Since leaving school she. like her
companion who Is now under sentence of death,
devoted her time 10 studying medicine. Recently,
so late advices state the police owing to the re-
ceipt Of an anonymous communication, visited a
house belonging TO the Holy Synod on the Eilet.
nala Prospect where lu an apartment occupied
by Pfiyy Councillor Illnsky they found pr0cla-
nations, manuscripts In cipher, some dynamite
and many letters belonging 10 his niece. Mile.
Ivanovsky. The correspondence furnished the
names and residences of Nlhlists for whom the
police bad long been searching and they were not
slow In making use Of 1t in arrestIng and prose.
cutting the charges against the terTorists In the
tolls OF the authorities.
The Attorney General OF Nebraska, In bis re-
port TO the Governor, In speaking OF the Board of
Transportation. which Is composed OF live State
officers. including himself, declares the present
system IL complete failure, experience demon
strating that the railroads are too powerful I'm
their Influence for the people to expect much re-
li0i under the present eystem. He believes the
railroads should be made 10 understand that IL
Is 10 their interests to tighten the burdens OF the
people and not me rely make as large Der cent
as possible for the Eastern investor. "Tbe rates
charged to-day" lie declares, faro large enough
TO yield dividend amounting In some cases to
per cent on stock that cost the stockholders
nothing whatever but for the printing, aud the
officers OF these roads use every effort aud STRAIN
every point to have the stockholders OF their
The morning call., 1890-12-29
HOUSE WARMING.

Hebrew Home of Aged Disabled in Its
New Quarters.
About 1000 people responded yesterday to
invitations sen t out by the managers of the
Hebrew Home of Aged Disabled to attend a
house-warming at 5O7 Lombard street. They
were shown through the pro erty recently
acquired by the officers and Directors. while
the lady friends dispensed refreshments
During the evening an impromptu pro-
gramme of speeches and songs was carried
out.
The home was incorporated October I6
1889. Since then there have been enrolled
1I21 members 1874 of whom have dropped.
leaving an actual membership of 1885, From
these there have been $3.50 collected in dues
to date.
Fifteen inmates have been admitted dur
ing the fifteen months OF the homes his
tory. OF these, three have died, one has
been expelled, and two left voluntarily,
leaving niue still at the home,
Temporary quarters were provided at 1904
Lyon street, but the prOsperitytof the under
taking was such as to warrant the purchase
Of the Lombard-street house, which was a
private residence. The sum paid was
$4,000. 1t still bears a $4250 mortgage
The Board of Directors comprises: p. II.
Livingston, II. Goldstein, Thomas Cohn,
Samuel Polack, L. Blodes. S. j. Levy, Mrs.
q. Fischer, Mrs. III. Berliner aud NJ Buch-
man..
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THE. BALANCE OF. TRADE.

The Bureau of the American Republics
has received a dispatch from the Argentine
Republic from which the statement is taken
that the imports fer the year ending June
50th were S175 955,0Oe. against exports
amounting to Sl59627, 900, The excess Of
imports, over exports was in round numbers
S16000,000. According to the theory that
country grows rich by an excess of imports
over exports the Argentine Republic is do
ing very we'll. But, according to. the OPP
posing theory, that the excess of imports
over. exports has to be paid in gold or its
equivalent, tits not doing so WE'LL II would
have been much better for the young repub-
lie If the goods representing the $4,000, 600
excess of imports had been made at home.
Foreign trade enriches people when it en-
ables them to turn their labor into cash at
remuneratiye prices. England profted i'm
mensely by its trade with India For this
reason. :. Prices were more than remunera-
tive in the absence of competition with
nations that POSSESSED similar advantages
with England in the manufacture of goods
But large foreign trade does not imply
profitable exchange for the people. A coun-
try which exchanges raw material for fin
ished goods seldom or never finds its foreign
trade profitable. 1t may for o tins be a
necessity, but the sooner the country utilities
its labor force in the. production of finished
goods the sooner its condition will improve,
even though there may be some falling off
in its foreign trade, California is an exam
pie of the truth of this statement: In re-
spect to agricultural resourcesit is the first
State in the Union. 1t can produce a
greater variety of valuable products, and at
less cost. than any other State in the Union.
But still California does not grow rapidly in
population. With improved land held at
from 5000 to $500 an acre, there is MO large
drift Of population upon unimproved land.
Almost as many people. leave the State as
come to it, When asked the reason for their
return to the older States, the answer is
that steady work is more certain in. manu.
featuring centers than in this State, where
We sell the products of the earth and buy
most Of the things we wear. If there were
manufactures here which gave wage.
workers steady employment, they would at
tract more people than carloads of samples
OF our agricultural products. The inesti-
mable advantage of our soil and climate are
freely admitted. but the question which
large majority of people, ask when change
Of residence is proposed, is as to. the means
Of earning q living.
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PREHISTORIC DISCOVERY.

The. death Of Henry Schliemann will be
likely to revive the controversies which con-
vulsed the scientific world fifteen years ago.
twill be remembered that his archaeological
discoveries covered two localities-Troy, in
Asia Minor, and the ancient cities of Greece
and that the results at which he arrived in
the case OF one rest on a very different basis
from those which he claimed to have reached
in the other. 1t is quite possible to acqui-
esce in the conclusions which he formed
from an observation Of the ruins of Mycena
wi thout admitting the truth of his theories
regarding Troy.
When he began his excavations at Troy,
just twenty-five years ago. he was as deyout
believer in the historic character Of the
Homerlc narrative as an American is in the
history of the Revolutionary War. Accord:
ingly WHEN he dug down and found, first
ruins of Greek city, in which coins of the
time Of Constantine were discovered, ana be-
meath these other RUNE, which looked to
him to be the ruins of a palace. with objects
of art, which were Oriental in style, and
skeletons with helmets on. he felt satisfied
that he had reached the remains of tile real
city OF Troy, over which, after an interval
Of thousand years. Greeks had built new
city of their own. The trouble with this
reasoning is that it took for granted much
which the world doubts. Was there ever a
city named Troy? Was 1t ever besieged and
taken by the Greeks? Or is Homer's story
a mere fairy tale, like the history Of the
Holy Grail? There are numbers Of WE'LL
informed and level-headed persons who in
cline to the latter belief, and who hold that
there is no more evidence of the existence in
the flesh of Priam and Hector and Agamem-
non and Achilles than there is OF Enid and
Elaine. These critics laughed when Schie-
mann said he had discovered Troy. and asked
waggishly if he would next discover the
golden fleece Of Colchis, whose meaning has
only been found out In our day.
With respect to his excavations at Tiryns
and Mycen4 the case is different. Under
the ruins of these dead cities Schliemann un-
doubleday found. as De Cesnola had found
IN Cyprus, remains of other cities which
antedated the cities of Greek history by hun
dreds, perhaps thousands Of years. He
found ruts worn by chariot wheels and
stones in Getaways worn by bolts; bas-
reliefs Of men and animals executed in the
Oriental style; ornaments of gold, vases,
idols, knives. hatchets, rings, hair-pins and
other objects used In domestic life and at
church festivals; likewise paintings of war
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WHAT FREE COINAGE MEANS.

The New York Tribune has an article on
Tree coinage. from which we make the fol-
lowing extract: 1t is the fixed belief of adj
vocaies Of silver coinage that nobody will
Withdraw gold from use or hold il for a pre-
MUM, and that if anybody does it will do no
harm" The POSITION of free silver coinage
advocates is not accurately stated. No one
contends that under free coinage gold will
not be held at premium, D. or that no harm
will resnit if it is. The position of free
coinage advocates is that the use of both
gold and silver as money is an absolute ne
cessltF. and, consequently, that any disturb
ance that may result from free silver coin
age is preferable TO a continued adherence
to the single gold standard. Perceiyfng
that silver must be restored to its old place
IN the worlds system of finance, they saw
that the sooner we make the change the
better. 1t is not reasonable to assume that
so long as there is considerable difference
between the commercial value of the two
metals on the legal ratio there will be no
difference in their value as money. Under
the present system tie silver dollar is main
tihned at a par with gold on the same prin-
.cipie that lightweight small coin are circu-
lated at par with the heavier full dollar.
There is a limited number in circulation, and
the government receives the less valuable
coin at the same valuation as the coin which
possesses the greater intrinsic value The
only thing which can prevent gold being
held at premium under free coinage will
be an approximation of the market value
a OF the two metals. This will probably come
IN time, but not ia day, m onth. and per-
maps not In year. But it is held by intelli-
gent free-coinage advocates that there is
less harm In temporary premium on gold
than in tue single gold standard. The
greater use of silver in consequence of free
coinage will almost certainly cause its ap
probation to the ratio of 16 to / to gold.
When that even commercial value is arrived
at, with money of both metals a full legal
tender. whichever may be temporarily
cheaper than the other will be used in set
thing balances With broad metallic basis
paper currency in the form of checks or
bank-bills Will do the actual work of trade.
The metallic money will be stored and only
paid out when expressly called for. But
the fact that there was reasonable proper
non OF coin to eurrefcy would have the
same effect on the public mind as the fact
that Sf00, 100000 Of gold is held in reserve to
redeem greenbacks with. There would be
little call for coin when it was known that
there was coin for all who might call for it.
The morning call., 1890-12-29
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COMMITTED AN ERROR.

Mrs. HaberKorn, better known to the
world through her stage name of Margaret
Mather, writes as follows in explanation of
her separation from her husband:
There is nothing discreditable In the differ
ences that have arisen between us-not even the
semblance OF anything approaching scandal.
Ii Is simple question of incompatIblty, and
nothing moie. We have found that 1t will be
better TO make a final and complete separation.
long ago discovered that i had made an error
10 being married.
At the time OF her marriage Margaret
Mather had the reputation of being good
woman. The world knows no reason to
doubt that her life as wife has been as
blameless as her life as girl. She does not
intimate that she has any particular fault to
find with her husband, except that she does
not regard husband as an agreeable ap-
pendage. In other words. she thinks herself
better off without one. The explanation of
the Indifference Of Miss Mather to the value
Of a husband is that she is the money-maker
of the matrimonial firm. Mr.. Haberkorn
was e member of Mr.. J. NJ. Hills orchestra
when he attracted the eye of Mr.. Hills star,
and his salary did not appear to advantage
beside that the star was receiving. But the
question which concerns the public is if
the marriage state may be put on and taken
off in this loose sort of way? Is it really
condition of convenience which may be held
subordinate TO woman's whim ? Much may
be said in favor of legal separation OF mar
ried people when either party is false, brutal
or otherwise unfit for companions hip. But
what can be said in favor Of separation
when neither party is at fault-when one
party to the marriage imagines that single
life would be pleasanter or more profitable
than married life2 The caprice Of Margaret
Mather, so far as it is not personal to herself.
would suggest the idea that the pecunary
independence of women would tend to make
them less patient under the ordinary lmita-
ton of the married relation. 1t will be urged
that women have. continued to be wives be-
living. Are women who can take care
Of themselves to walk away from fairly good
husbands when the marriage bonds begin
to be irksome? In The tolerance with
which divorce without cause is regarded by
society, there is a conflict against the teach
ings of the church, whose influence over
women is assumed to be their greatest safe
guard. The fact of divorce has ceased to be
urged against woman even when the justifi-
cation is no better than that which Margaret
Mather offers In fact, women who are pecu-
niarly Independent by inheritance are quite
as much in the habit Of dispensing with hus-
bands when they see that they had made an
error in being married as women who have
discovered that they can earn their own iiy-
The morning call., 1890-12-29
NUMEROUS PARDoNS.

1t is notable circumstance that one Cali
fornia newspaper speaks pleasantly of the
outgoing ad ADMINISTRATION in this State, ro.
speeding its paTdoning proclivities. Of
course The CALL has not examined the
different cases in which the Governor has
exercised his power, for there are hundreds
= Of them. 1t seems quite certain, however,
that the criminal element would not have
much To fear il the State could have a Gov.
einor Waterman in office continually to
supervise the action of the courts. Perhaps
-sifTe Governor believes, as it has been con-
sideled difficult TO convict criminals-exeept
those belonging to what is termed the ''vag-
a0ond clasS"-that it was right to turn a
goOdiy number of these poor fellows loose
Here is what the Post says of W aierman's
paTdonS, which we suppose are satisfactory
to that paper:
II all lie cases in which lie (Ihe Governor has
glanied pardens OF combinations were Inquired
mo as thoroughly as the Governor has invesii-
gated them the cautious and rash critics would
change their opinions on the subject. And il
scne Of lie critics would ever have The i'll luck
TO be sent 10 the penitenuary because the Jury
shall refuse 10 believe their testimony, they Will
have different opinion on The subject Of execu-
tive pardons.
Possibly our neighbors of the Post may
have It tiected seriously in relation to the
possible ill luck" of some of their contem-
porarles, and for this reason favors the ex-
tenslye use Of the pardoning power.
The morning call., 1890-12-29
PERSONAL NOTES.

DR.. w. a. Oliver of New York is at the
Palace.
Nathan Lante of Healdsburg is at the
Baldwin.
w. L. Duncan of Oroviile is registered at
the Lick.
G. N. Pond of Santa Cruz is guest at
the Lick.
w. II. Kelly of the Willows Journal is at
the Grand.
A. Schroeder, a San Jose fruit-packer, is
at the Grand.
Norman Rideout, Marysville banker, is
at tile Palace.
=! G. w Smith Of Los Angeles is staying at
the Palace.
c: A.: Campbell, Stockton merchant, is
at the Grand.
State Senator-eleet ]. II. Seawell of Ukiah
is at the Grand,
Or. Edward n. Crooks of Santa Barbara
is at the Palace. .
e. s. Gill. mining man from Phoenix.
AriZ, is at the Palace.
Robert Brady. a leading Portland lumber
dealer, is at the Baldwin.
Professor James Z. Keller of the Lick.
Observatory is stayin G at the Palace.
George A. Wiley, Superintendent of the
Cook farm at Danville. is at the Grand.
State Senator +. ii. Heacock and wife ar
rived yesterday on the steamer Santa Rosa
from San Diego.
A: r. Johnston, prominent merchant of
Nanamo, B. c., and large real estate
owner in Port Angeles, Wash, who is ON his
way to Australia, arrived on the steamer
CITY OF Puebia yesterday, and is'staying at
the Lick.
The morning call., 1890-12-29
WEATHER PRED CTIONS.
SIGNAL SERVICE, u. S. ABMY,)
DIVISION OF THE PACIFIC,
- E..>r-rurso Uoa % rlQn-6 n NJ |

& SIGNAL SERVICE. u. S. ARMY
DIVISION THE PACIFIC,
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. %. 1905 p. NJ
Synopsis for the Past Twenty-four Hours.
The barometer has fallen In ali districts especially
in Washington and Northern Oregon. II is highest
in Northern Nevada and lowest in Western Wash
ington Another cyclone has appeared off Van
couver Island and is moving slowly eastward. The
winds have shifted to the south and east with in
creasins force in Northwestern Oregon aud Wash
.ington. Rain is falling in this region and
Storm signals have been ordered for the North Pa
cIhc Coast The temperature has fallen in Western
oregon, Western Washington, southern Nevada
and Northwestern California: elsewhere has risen,
especially in Central California. Kahn has fallen in
Western Washington, Northwestern Oregon and on
the southwest coast of California: elsewhere fair
weather has prevailed Light rain, which has fallen
the southwest coast of Cali loruia. is due to differ
ences of temperature between the land and the
water, the winds shifting from warm northerly to
cool sontheriy. The following rainfall has been re-
ported in the past twenty-four hours: Fort Candy
10 inches olympia trace. Los Angeles :0l.
Forecast till s p. NJ. Monday.
For Northern California-Fair weather: variable
winds, generally westerly; nearly stationary tenn
perature.
For Southern Caifornia-Fair weather: variable
Winds cooler. except nearly stationary temperature
in the northeast portion.
For Oregon and washIngton-Light rains, except
fair weather in Southern Oregon; variable Winds
generally souIherly; warmer, except nearly station
airy temperature in Southern oregon and cooler at
Baker City and Spokane Falls.
JOHN P. FINLEY,
Lieutenant Signal Corps an charged.
The morning call., 1890-12-29
CHANCE FOR A CONFLICT,

The Philadelphia Press has intimated
that the railroad combine on the Morgan
plan is illegal. To this railroad organ re-
plies that when the railroads are once
united the notion may occur to the man.
ayers 10 test the legality of the Interstate
Commerce Commission and the constitutions
ality of the law itself. The organ expresses
the opinion that one of the results of the
legal test will'be the disappearance of the
Commission. This kind Of talk from rail-
road organs is. not pleasant to hear. Itseems
to .foreshadow a struggle which can only end
with tho disappearance not of the railroads,
but of some OF their present managers. The
railroad combine isa power, but when the
people are aroused they are still greater
power.
The morning call., 1890-12-29

Court Inter Nos, No. 1858, A. o. F. A.,
has elected: A. ]. Newton, C. R.; j. F..
GeerkIn, S. c. R j. F. Hallet, F.S.; j. HI.
Dever, r. s.; John Peterson, T.; C. j.,
Shannon, S. W.; Frank Milton, j. W.; w.
II. Sharp, S. b.; j. j. Mcclure, J.. B. !;
Alexander Sieberi, T., and I, j. MbDonald,
NJ. D., p. and S.
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DECEMBER, 1890.

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= .25 Montgomery street.. Clay, open until IL
O'Clock p. M. BRANCH OFFICES: 10 Market
street. near Kearny, open until - O'Clock midnight
3S9 Hayes street, open until 80 O'Clock; sos
Iarkin street. open until 80 o'clock 25lS Mission
street, Open until O'Clock p. NJ, and ll6 Ninth
street omen until @ IA p NJ
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AUCTION SALES TO-DAY.

.FrRNrTURE.-By Nathan Jonas, at 1907 Minna
St, at IL O'Clock.
FuRN1TuRE.-By M. j. Simmons. at 1857 Market
St., al IL o clock
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mrs. winslow's Soothing syrupn

Mrs. w ihsIOw's Soothing Syrup"
Has been used fifty years byIniIlIons of moth
ers for their children while teethihg with perfect
success 1t soothes the child softens the gums all
lays pain. cures wind colic regulates the bowels and
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The morning call., 1890-12-29

BE sure to get Hoods sars apariIa If you want an
honest. reliable medicine. Do not take any other
which is alleged to be about the same" or jsst as
good" Be sure t get Hoods
The morning call., 1890-12-29

J.F.CUTTEKs OLD BoURBoN.--This celebrated
whisky Is for sale by all first class druggists aud
gEOesrs. Trade mark-star Within a shield.