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The morning call., 1891-07-03
a BLOW TO FREE-TRADERs.

The CALL stated some DAYS ago that the
great free-trade journals Of New York and
New England were largely sustained by i'm
poIt-Ts, whose interests lie rather in Europe
than In America. The New York importing
houses are but branches of European firms
which find their profit in the importation Of
goods into the United States. The New
! OTk free trade Journals are in cloSa SYM
patty with this European interest ConSe-
Quenlly they lose no opportunity to assert
that the protective tariff retards rather than
assists the development OF AIIeriean in
dusiries. But unfortunately Tor these free
trade journals, evidence from impartial
quarters Is dead against them. Consul Gen
eral Booker is the highest commercial rep
Tesentative OF Great Britain in the United
States. Ii IS his official duty to collect in
formation as to the industrial conditions
prevailing in the United States and tOtrans-
init 1t to the proper authorities in London.
He is not expect d TO color facts TO suit the
views Of his Government. II writing an
editorial for the Herald Times or Post, he
might be expected TO take the free-trade side
of the question, but as a gatherer and trans
mitter of facts Mr.. Booker is required to be
impartial A dispatch has recently come
from London which gives the result of Mr..
BOoker'S observations since the new tariff
came into operation. He says that newer
and higher duties have afforded benefit TO
American manufacturing interests and i'm
parted new life TO the wooden and cotton
industry everywhere, and especially in the
Southern States. He excerpts the silk in
dustry in the general revival, fact which
does not much harm the tariff advocates.
since the duties on silk manufacture were
not changed By the new tariff We trust our
fTee-tTade contemporaries will not attempt
to discredit Consul-General Booker as au-
thority. lie did not create the facts which
it became his mo doub0 painful duty to dis
close. He did not contribute his deductions
from them to an American journal In the
form of high protective tariff argument
He simply saw with honest eyes and re-
ported things as he found them. 1t is fair
to presume that Consul General Booker
would have preferred TO represent conditions
more pleasing to the British public if he
could have done so in the strict performance
OF his duty. We find, therefore. this British
official giving his Government information
in direct conflict with the representations of
certain so-cslled American journals and on
the side of American interests. In other
words, Consul-General Booker, an English
man through and through, is less English
than clique of free-trade writer's who claim
to be Americans.
The morning call., 1891-07-03
KNEW HIS BUSINESS.
The Way Detroit Grocer Induced VIC
tn

The Way a Detroit Grocer Induced Wo-
man to Run Up Bill.
She came into Woodward avenue grocery
store and slapped her basket down on the lid
OF sugar barrel with crash.
" got three pounds of lard here yester-
day." she said, land paid cash for it at
credit prices"
Yes, ma'am," suffered the clerk ''No,
ma'am; we always make a discount for
cash." he said in correction.
Well, whatever you did," she went on,
Il want to say it was short half a pound,
and if it happens that way again fll quit
buying here
BY this time the proprietor had come for
ward and took the matter IN charge.
Did you say half a pound short, mad
amp he politely inquired,
"Of course | did. Are you deaf?"
mo. madam, but | was up on the third
lioor, and the speaklng-tube from this floor
has got wad OF nice, fresh butter fast in it.
Butter is going up. ycu know"
rs it?' she exclaimed: ''Well, give me
five pounds right away"
'As to the lard, madam" continued the
suaYe and pertly proprietor, as he noted
down the order. II am glad that it showed
up. so well. That lard is warranted to
make pie cruSts, biscuits. pastry and every
thing you put IL IN shorter 10 the quantity
used than any lard ever put on the mar ket,
but | had no idea, madam, that il was equal
to making its own weight shorIa half pound
In every three. Really, madam, III gladly
give you the extra half pound for your dis
interested, unsolicited testimonial OF its ex-
eelience. 'John'-to the clerk-'wrap up an
extra half pound of lard and put it with the
five pounds of butter for Mrs. Blank Any
thing else to-day, madam?f'
And before she knew what she was doing
she bad run up bill of SO and left the
store in good humor, with four or five pretty
advertising cards for the childreD.-Detroit
Eraa prasc
The morning call., 1891-07-03
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STEAM TO CHILE.

The consular reports which are issued by
the State Department constitute a valuable
addition to commercial literature, but as it
would be unreasonable to expect that all
American COnsuls would be men of judg-
ment, some of the reports challenge criti-
cism. Here is gentleman named William
B. McCreery. who is Consul at Valparaiso,
and writes home TO urge the establishment
of line of steamers TO ply between New
York and Callao by way of Rio de Janeiro,
Buenos Ayres, the Straits of Magellan and
Valparaiso. This is like the San Francis
can who having t., visit Sacramento went
by way of Los Angeles.
Some day or other there will be an active
interchange of goods between the United
States and the; Spanish American countries
on the Pacifc-Bolvia, Peru and Guile.
The people of those countries want our
hardware, our textiles, our manufactured
goods of all kinds, and especially our ma
chinery, and We can use their nitratas,
guano, copper. dyes, wool and hides. But
the exchange, when it comes, will be eff
fected along the shortest lines. No Eastern
merchant in the full possession of his senses
will send gnods around the Horn to Valpa--
raise if he can send them directly in steam
ers from San Francisco unless the goods
are required for consumption on the Allan
tic coast, nor will a South American pro-
Queer ship his produce round the capes if he
can reach as good a market at the end of
40o0-mile steam voyage up the coast. Unless
pr0digious efforts are made in the East and
no effort at all made here the trade of the
PaciIic coast Of South America must come
to San Francisco in preference to New York.
The Fifty-first Congress granted a subsidy
to ocean steamers plying between American
and foreign ports, but it was so small that
no ship-cwner was tempted by it to estab-
fish new lines. 1t was far too small to COM
pensate a steamer for the inevitable loss
which she would incur in inaugurating in
tercourse between such ports as Valparaiso
and San Francisco. Three vessels of suit
able size were ready to take their places on
such line if their owners could have fig-
ured out that they could make both ends
meet Unfortunately, the advocates of sub
sides to ocean steamers compromised with
the opponents to subsidies by making the
money allowance so small that it was not
worth considering, and so the line was never
established, and it looks now as though it
might never be. In the Filty-secOnd Con-
gress there is not much chance of the
passage Of any subsidy bill.
The morning call., 1891-07-03
THE BOSS AND THE ORGAN.

The apparent split in the Democr attic
party which is evidenced by the Examiners
war upon Buckley would attract more at
tention if people believed in the newspapers
sincerity. No one doubts the truth of the
charges which it brings against the Demo-
cratic boss, but every one who is familiar
with the political history of the State during
the past ten years knows that these
charges might, one and all of them, be
brought with equal justice against the news
paper itself For nearly ten years the Ell
dnliReT and Buckley have been hand and
glOye-accUmplices and fello " cons piratorS
In the deeds which have made he name of
Buckley odious. 1t was Buckley who con-
Quoted the canvass OF the proprietor of the
Examiner at San Jose in 1882. 1t was Buck
10y who prevented the same proprietor
from attending the Stockton. convention in
1884. 1t was Buckley who commanded his
forces at Sacramento. when he was made
Senator in 1856. 1t was through the in
Huence of the Examiner that Buckley was
enabled to pack the clubs in this city, to
sell nominations and to control Judges. The
two men-the boss aud the newspaper pro-
pretor-Seemed to be partners; they slept
in the same political trundle bed both were
jointly and Seyeraly responsible for the
acts of each. That the newspaper should
now turn upon its pal and berate him for
ylllainieS, in every one of which it partici-
patPd, is really ludicrous.
The Interpretation which the public put
upon the performance is that it is trick de-
signed to fool voters. They believe that
Buckley will be formally retired by reason of
his sins, and that in his place man OF his
choosing and under his thumb will be nomi-
mated to I'LL the Office of boss. They are
rather inclined to fancy that Buckley HIM
self inspires the articles in which he is
abused. He is known to be pachyderm,
and it is observed that nothing is said of
him in the Examiner which has not been
said many times before. There are unknown
dark spots in his career with which the
Examiner is well acquainted; these it does
bot probe. Ii merely rehashes some of the
points made in Lynch's pamphlet on Buck
ieyisn, so that when its diatribe is done
Buckley cuts no worse figure in public opin-
ion than he did before. But the Examiner
can raise its eyes and declare that it is ever
ready to sacrifice party to prime 1le, and
protest that is not like unto that publican.
Ingenious citizens. innocent of political
guile, are consolidating themselves on the
break Of the Examiner, and chuckling over
the prospect that when rogues fall Out
honest men come by their dues. But this
only happens when the r8gueS really do fall
out When the quarrel is simulated, honest
mel are no near getting their dues than they
we're before. If the seeming feud between
the boss and the organ is sham discussion,
and both are preparing to play into each
other hands at the appropriate time, the
outlook for honest men is chilly.
The morning call., 1891-07-03
LAURA BRIDGMAN'S BRAIN.
1t Has just Been Examined by DIR. Do,

1t Has just Been Examined by DIR. Dom
aldson-The Result.
DR.. II. III. Donaldson, formerly Of the
psychological laboratory of the Johns Hop
kins University, has just finished an exam
inatiOn of the brain Of Laura Bird gman,
who died in 1899 at the age of GO. She had
lived contentedIy, and with quite good
knowledge of the world around her and of
the higher things of life, although a mute
and from her second year devoid of the
senses of sight, hearing and smell, and
nearly all sense of taste. Yet, in the most
marvellous manner, she became highly edu-
Gated while under DR.. Howe's care, and
furnished the world with one of the few
evidences that religion is intuitiye by dis
paying without previous suggestion feel-
ing that there was higher being, and that
He was prnvidential Professor q. Stanley
Hall, late Of the Johns Hopkins University
secured in 1878 from her some data of the
highest interest to psychologists and psy-
biologists. Her tactile sense, on which
she depended almost entirely to establish
connection between her mind and that
OF others, was nearly three times more acute
Than that of others. She was mentally ec-
centric, but not defective. She lacked GER
tain data of thought, but not the ability to
use what data she possessed. Her brain,
contrary t. all expectations, though exam
lned with the greatest care, was found to
weigh not quite three ounces less than that
OF an ordinary Ango-Saxon woman, al
though she was small in stature. Probably
the most Interesting information is that her
brain has served a good purpose in locating
somewhat more exactly than had been done
which of its lobes and convolutions are
gwen up TO the several human organs of
sense. Unless further microscopic exam
lnation reveals something additional, the
scientists will lie somewhat nouplused for
reason for her defective sense of smell.
After all, however. more Of interest is to be
learned by the physicians in their expert
ments with the brains of lower animals, and
by watching the cure OF human brain s
which have been injured. Baltimore Amer
lean.
The morning call., 1891-07-03
THE NEW SOUTHERN LAKE.

At latest accounts the new lake near Sal
ton in the Colorado Desert was thirty miles
long, twelve miles wide and from fifteen to
twenty-one inches deep in the deepest parts.
Water was flowing into 1t at the rate of four
and half miles an hour, and though the
surface Of the lake was still some twelve or
fifteen feet below the railroad tracks, the
prospect of their being overlooked was so
imminent that the company sent out party
of engineers yesterday from Yuma to re-
port on the situation.
Parties who are running salt works in the
desert are urgently demanding that the west
bank of the Colorado should be leveed in
order TO cut off the supply of water. Their
idea is that the possible reclamation of tile
desert is matter of secondary importance
to the prosecution of salt gathering. The
public take a different view. In their opin-
ion, it would be wise policy to keep the
crevaSses open, even at some considerable
expense, in the hope Of making the lake
permanent If a body of water twelve
miles wide by thirty miles long existed in
the heart Of the desert, its borders would
soon pass under cultivation, and might be-
come one of the most fertile spots in the
State, while the climate OF San Bernardiuo
and San Diego counties, which now closes
them against immigration, would imme-
diately be altered. That would be a benefit
which would fully Offset the droyning-out
of a salt-wOrks establishment
The chances are, at present, that no such
change will be made in the geography of
Southern California. There rs no fund any
where available for paving the expense of
digging a ditch orditches ito serve as new
outlets for the waters Of the Colorado, an d
unless the present creyasses are deepened,
the prospect is that they will fill up, as they
have done in the past The water of the
Colorado. though still many feet above high
water mark, is falling and by August it will
probably have gone back to its usual level
Il broke loose from its normal bed in Feb
ruary; since then the discharge of the fluid
must have been large. The moment the
source of supply is shut off, the new lake
will begin to dry up from evaporation. In
a.temperature of 1150 in the shade, staguant
water is very quickly yaporized.
The experiment Of trying to restore fer
tility to an arid desert by tho creation of an
artificial lake Will some day probably be
made by the French in Africa. Some ten
years ago, NJ. Roldare devised n scheme
for flooding part of the desert of Sahara, by
cutting canal from the Mediterranean. A
favorable report was made by a Govern
ment Commission; it was reckoned that in
five years, at a cost of S2S, 800, COO. a canal
could be dug which would feed an inland sea
with an area of 300 square miles and an
average depth of 7S feet. The subject has
been under consideration fever ssince, and
some dav it will probably be taken up. No
inland sea of such magnitude would be re-
qnited in the Colorado Desert; body of
water covering an area Of 500 square miles,
and costing not over two or three millions,
would probably redeem aportion of South
ern California which has never commende d
itself to immigrants.
The morning call., 1891-07-03
A SILVER LUSATIC.

Edward r. Holden of Colorado has caused
to be printed something which he probably
thinks is an argument in favor of free silver
coinage fram which we make the following
extract:
There is virtually free coinage of silver In
the United States to-day, as the Government is
taking ali the silver We produce and coming it
or using its authority to issue certificates at the
rate OF 37lM grains for each dollar. BY these
means the Government Is reaping profit OF 20
per cent on each dollar and is performing the
very act you monometaliists are crying about.
" hat we demand is that the Government pay US
dollar for what they issue to you for dollar
The gentleman from Colorado is frank in
his demands. He wants the Government to
pay silver owners 100 cents for an amount
Of silver that is sold to other parties for
from rs TO 80 cents. He wants the Govern
ment 70 buy silver at its topmost possible
price and take ali the chances of raising
the market price T. that figure. At 81 20
per ounce silver is at par with gold. That
is the rate at which the Government issues
silver to the people. Its purpose is to
eventually bring the commercial value of
The morning call., 1891-07-03
FATAL IGNORANCE.
n Man Warns Himself on BoiIer-It
EXpIodes and Ki.Is Him.


Contractor Christopher Henry is laying
water mains through the Southern boule-
ward. He employed Michael Orsini to watch
the big portable boiler, and to see that
thieves did not run away with tools at
night, says a New York special to the
Globe Democrat. Orsini was good watch
man, but knew nothing ABOUT boilers except
that they dispensed considerable heat even
in the open air. This tcifing knowledge
cost him his life to-day. The boiler had
been moved 800 feet south Of Horne street
on the Southern boulevard. 1t is lonely
road, Sparsely built up, and the wind whiS-
tied keeniy across it after midnight Wedaes-
day. The engineer had carefully banked
the fires, and the boiler was pretty nearly
as cold as the surrounding atmosphere.
Orsini was chilled through. He stirred
up the fire in the boiler, and when it began
burning briskly he climbed on top of the
boiler to warm himself. Steam generated
rapidly, and al $50 o'clock the boiler ex-
ploded with report which shook the neigh
boring houses. The shell of the boiler re-
manned intact, but both ends and the fire.
box blew out. The boiler is about twenty
feet long. The force of the explosion
turned 1t over endways. The weight at
tached to the safety-valve was hurled 800
feet up the boulevard, and a heavy plank
used to brace up the boiler fol-
lowed it, but neither did any dam
age. Tie neighbors focked into the
street in great numbers, and one of them
found Orsin lying twenty feet away from
the wrecked boiler. His body was q mass
OF bruises. He was injured internally and
steam. He was sent TO the Harlem Hospital
where he died at IL o'clock
The morning call., 1891-07-03
The Governors Three Wives.

Governor jackson CT Missouri was q great
fayorite among the fair sex, says the St
Louis Republican. His first wife was
Miss Sappington. His second wife was a
Miss Sappington, sister Of his first wife.
His third wife was also Miss Sappington.
sister of his first and Secund wife. When
lie came the third time to ask old Colonel
Sappington for his daughter, the Colonel
said:
jackson. you have been here three times
now, and L havn't anything left but the
old woman. | suppose yeu will come for
ner next, put give you due notice that she
is my own private property and you can't
have her."
Governor Jackson laughed immoderately
at the ColonePS joke, but he never had oc-
casion to make q fourth call upon the Sap
pDgton farm.
The morning call., 1891-07-03

The Superintendent of Streets was in
structed by the Street Committee of the
Supervisors Yesterday to remove obstruc-
tionS from Williams avenue to Railroad
avenue to San Bruno road.
A deed was received from George w. Dean
conveying to the city piece of land for use
as public thoroughfare and as an extern
sion of Bartlett street, south OF Army.
The protests against the confirmation of
the report of the Commissioners for the
opening of Post street was set for hearing
on July 18th before the board
The morning call., 1891-07-03
SUBSCRIPTION RATES

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The morning call., 1891-07-03

b2S Montgomery Street, near Clay. open until IL
O'clock P. BRANCH OFFICES no Markei
street, near Kearny open until L. O'Clock midnight
SS9 Hayes street, open until $3.50 O'Clock; sos
Larkin street open until 80 O'CLOCK; 1918 Mission
street. open until o'clock p NJ; and us Ninth
street. open until $50 P NJ
The morning call., 1891-07-03
SPECIAL NOTICE FOR THE SUM-
MER MONTHS.

Subscribers who intend going to the
country during the summer months can
have tn Il DAILY CALI. mailed to them
for week or longer at regular subscrip-
lion rates, I5c. per week. Give order TO
Carrfer seEd to business office.
The morning call., 1891-07-03
A Demented Boys Freak.

Dennis Spillane, a demented boy, who
lives al the corner of Ninth and Folsom
streets. was taken to the Receiving Hospital
yesterday. There he wandered upstairs
and tried to jump out of IA second history win
dow, but was prevented by Martin Karr.
The morning call., 1891-07-03
Forecast Tiu sp. NJ Fridav

For Northern -Calfornia-Fair weather, except
light rain in Northern Nevada: winds generally
westerly; cooler, except nearly stationary temper
allure along tie coast; fog on southwest coast.
For Southern Caifornia-Fair weather; westerly
winds; ST ghtiy cooler.
For oregon and Neutrality-suspicious. weather,
except Light rains Washington coast; winds shift
ing to east and south cooler the eastern portion
nearly stationary temperature in the western pur-
ton. JOINS P FINLEY.
LLeutenanI NlneteenLh InlAntrE. in eharge.
The morning call., 1891-07-03

J.F.CUTTER'sOLD BoURBoN.-Thls celebrated
whisky is for sale by all firstclass druggists and
gfOeers. Trade mark-star within shield.
The morning call., 1891-07-03
WEATHER PREDICTIONS.
SIGNAL SERVICE U. S. ARMY,
DIVISION OF The PACIFIC.

DIVISION or THE TACTIC.
SAN Francisco, july >, lS9l-5 p. NJ.
synopsis for the Past TNer ty-fvur Hours.
The cyclonic disturbance OF Wednesday Is moving
slowly eastward, Vancouver Island. The
barometer has fallen in all districts. except 81 ghI
rise on the southwest coast OF California 1t is be-
low the normal IN all districts except Northern Ne
vada and Eastern Arizona The barometer is high
est on the Washington coast 900 and lowest in
Central California t29.66n. The barometer at Win
nemucca is % 81 or normal being fall of o 06 of
inch il both j. and - hours. The winds have
been generally north TO in ali districts except
scutherly in Southern California and The in terror
Of Northern California. The temperature has fallen
GU the Washington coast, throughout Northern Cal
nornia and n san Diego: elsewhere it has risen
slightly. It IS still above the normal all stations
especially in California and Washington. The fol
lowing high tenperatures have been reported :
Yuma, 40; Fort Grant. 81: Los Angeles, 90 San
Diego. u; Keeler, IS; Fresno, 10; Sacramento
100; Red Bluff. lO6; wnnemucca. e2; waiia
Walia. 50; spokane, 90; Portland, So; san Fran
cisco 66. Fair weather has prevailed in all dis
frf-r
The morning call., 1891-07-03

CONSOLIDATED SCHooLs.-St. Aloysius Sun.
School OF st. IgGatius Church has been consoId-
ated with st. Mary's School.
The morning call., 1891-07-03

The Syndicate Investment Company has
filed certificate in the County Clerks
office setting forth that its capital has been
increased from 100000 to Sl.0O0.0OO.
The morning call., 1891-07-03

ScRoFULA, boIls, pimples, hives and other humors
are liable to manifest themselves at this season
Hoods Sarsaparilla expels AL humors from the
blood aud vItaIlzes and enriches Il.
The morning call., 1891-07-03

ELECTRIC LIGHT CHANGEs.-A change from
the Brush arc-lightIng system 10 that Of the
Edison iBcandescent system Is talked Of.
The morning call., 1891-07-03
BROKEN horehound candy. Townsenp,.
CRYsTALLIzED ginger, 25c Id.

PARTIES leaving the city for the Fourth should
take a box OF Townsena's candles
The morning call., 1891-07-03

FuRNIrurE.-Dy a. w. Furst, at Il2i Market st.
a. ] O'Clock.
SALooN.-Ry 5. L. Peyser at corner Twenty-hfth
an1 Howard SIS. Al ! O'Clock.