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The morning call., 1891-09-14
THE STRIKE AT SAN QUENTIN.

The strike business is being reduced to an
extreme when the convicts in penltentlaTy
knock off work because the dietary Of the
prison is not dainty enough for them. ana
because seven prisoners who entered into a
conspiracy TO break Jail have been placed
in solitary confinement. These convietS
seem to fancy that they have the same
rights as men who are at large and that be-
tween them and the Warden and Directors
there is q social contract which they can
compel the latter to observe, under penalty
Of a general Jail delivery.
1t is satisfactory to notice that Warden
Hale and President SOnntag are not con-
verts to this new philosophy. These gen.
tlemen seem to understand that the prison.
ers in the penitentiary have forfeited good
many of their rights and that the Directors
and Warden have no duty toward them ex-
cept the duty of feeding, lodging and keep
ing them within the prison walls. HUI
manty, and a due regard for sound admin
istratIon, dictate periodical visits by Direc-
tors 10 prisoners, during which the latter
may state lheir grievances, If they have any
But the prisoners have no right to engage
in controversies with the Directors over the
management of the prison, much less TO
hold mass-n,eetings and deliver oratlons
over their wrongs. If the prison is badly
managed aud the convcts harShly treated 1t
is something for the public to look into, but
it does not lie in the mouth of the prisoners
to correct matters. They forfeited all right
to do that when they committed the crime
which sent them to Jail. Nothing is left
for them now but 10 suffer in silence and
patieEce. Their wrongs, if .they have any,
must lie redreSSed by other hands.
The general idea of the public is that II
there are any faults in the administration
Of San Quentin and Folsom they are in the
main Oh the side Of lenity, not 10 say laXily.
Last weeks incidents reveal a totally er-
roneous view among the convicts OF the for
mer prison as to their rights, view which
could hardly have prevailed if the Institu-
ton had been run with the ri gid discipline
which a penitentarv requires. 1t seems
out of place that a gang of convicts should
strike work at their pleasure to demand an
interview with the Directors. What more
could a crew of honest w0Tkmen laboring
for a contractor have done? Every one Of
the men who struck committed an offense
for which there Is a severe penalty in all
well regulated prisons. There is no other
system on which prison can be conducted
or 1900 prisoners kept under control by a
couple OF dozen wardens and guards.
There is every probability that the at
tempted escape of week before last was
planned with the couniyance of nfeder-
ates from outside. 1t is the business of the
Directors to find out who those confeder
ates were, The public viii sustain them in
pursuing the most energetic course to at
tain that end, even though, in the measures
they ind necessary, they should hurt the
feelings and infict Inconvenience on the
Jail l-breakers.
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ACROSS THE BAY.
John G. Howell to Be Arraigned
for Murder.

The arraignment of John G. Howell,
charged in an information with the murder
Of Rene S. Colvin, will not take place until
9 40 o'clock tomorrow morning, by agree
ment of counsel.
An old nan named w. j. Bostick has
been arrested for the embezzlement Of a
guitar borrowed from R. o. Bailey of 679
Seventeenth street in MAY last.
Mrs NJ. d. Wilson, NJ D. (now Mrs NJ.
D. Stockham) has answered the attachment
suit of Attorney f. C. Robinson and filed a
complaint. asking $500 damages and
500 per month interest during the pendency
of the action.
The semi-annual meeting Of the Oakland
Young Women's Christian Association will
be held tomorrow afternoon in the chapel
Of the First congregational Church.
Mrs. Mary Stevens Of San Francisco has
sworn to complaint accusing Thomas Will
son OF picking her pocket on the local train.
Wilson was arrested several DAYS ago and
put on the small book until Mrs Stevens
could be found.
Mrs Emma BarZOn, the widow OF the late
Peter BaIzion, the inventor OF the compound
steel rail for railroads, has petitioned for
letters of administration upon the estate,
consisting of 10000 shares Of stock in the
BarZion Compound Rail Company. OF un-
known value, and other property valued at
about Sl20O.
L. McNally has been arrested for stealing
$3.50 from a gardener named Larsen at Sixth
and jackson streets. McNally, who is only
10. was taken in by the gardener and given
bed. He stole the $3.50 out Of trunk,
went and bought new salt of clothes and
laid around the gardeners with them on,
then went to Sacramento. After he was
gone the gardener missed his cash. Nc
Nally was ARE PSted in Sacramento.
Robert a. hughes, the expert who eX-
amined the books of the Oakland city Off
cialS. and who presented the report out of
which the charges in the City Council against
City Auditor Il. ". Snow grew, has returned
10 Oakland from San Luis 0bispo County,
where he was on business, and efforts are
complaint against the Auditor.
The morning call., 1891-09-14
WHAT WOMEN READ.

a Boston correspondent las taken the
trouble TO fHd ou. what kind of books the
shop-giIis Of that city read. He finds that
they are not only fond of novels, but that
as a rule, the novels they prefer are of an
inferior kind. IN other words. he found
they were addicted TO trash. The names of
the authors they mentioned as favorites
were. with here and ihere an exception, of
the second, third or fourth class. or. in many
cases, Of no class at all While the tastes
Of women improve with age, the fondness
for light literature remains with them all
their lives. At foTTY they do not care for
tie authors that they preferred at twenty,
Iut they still feed their minds with works
OF Imagination. Our public libraries and
cur bookstores tell the sane steTy-wOmen,
as A rule. read for the pleasuTeit gives them,
rather than ta increase their stores of
know ledge One consequence is that few
women are we'll informed in respect 10 cur
rent affairs. They seldom have accurate
knowledge of questions attracting public
attention. It is greatly to the disadvantage
Of women as bread winners that this is so.
Employers get an idea that woman is fit
only ior technical work to which she has
given special attention. Il has often been
said that az ordinarily intelligent woman
reads the portions of newspaper which a
busy man skips. Most men have observed
that. wi!h three n four daily papers on tbelr
tables, the news that most interests him aas
not attracted their attention.
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EDITORIAL NOTES.

jay Cook. whose financial achievements In
connection with the floating Of the national debt
gave him worldwide reputation, looks forward
TO long term of immense prosperity for the
United States. believe" says he, THAT we
are now at the beginning Of an era which VIII
mark the advance OF our country 10 The rank OF
the foremost commercial and financial nation of
the world. For years the United States has
been drained annually of millions OF gold. which
was sent abroad 10 redeem or repurchase the Sc
eurities, both public and private, which were
sold to foreign capitalists In the times OF our
financial depressiOns. Ever since the beginning
Of the war this has been going on. II Is now
about ended. The United States Indebtedness
to Europe has neatly all been paid. and the cur
rent OF money Income has set the other way.
Hereafter the gold Will come 10 US"
1t is expected that President Harrison viii
shortly announce his judicial appointments, and
it Is nlimated that there will be some surprises.
The President has been overwhelmed with politi-
cal Endorsements of aspirants, but he has deter
mined all along TO let capacity, ability aud in-
territy weigh more strongly in making up his
list.
Pension Commissioner Raum says that Instead
of asking Congress for deficiency pension ap-
preparation lie Will report surplus OF something
like IS 100000 This is accounted for by the
last Congressional appropriation having been
based on overestimates OF the cost OF the general
dependent pension law.
The morning call., 1891-09-14
a GENERAL CLEARINGHOUSE.


Cotton and breadstaffs are flowing out
ward in such volume that the exchanges are
turning, and in a short while all the gold
which went abroad when the Russian scare
disturbed business will come back, and
more, 100. Tie cost and risk and trouble
of moving thirty or forty odd million dol
lars worth of gold back and forth have sug-
gested the idea that there should be a gen.
eral depository Of gold for the commercial
nations, and that, instead of transmitting
the actusl gold in bulk, parties desiring TO
ship coin from place to Place should simply
send certificates issued by this depository in
the form and shape of clearing GER
tifcates.
The system is already in partial and sue
cessful use in this country. On this Coast
we use the actual coin in business transac-
tons. but in the East gold Is taken to the
Treasury and exchanged for gold certii-
Gates, which pass current in business trans
actions as actual gold. So with silver The
bars.are taken to the Mint at Phiisdeiphia
and the owner receives their value In silver
certificates which answer every purpose
that actual silver would i'll. Al times it
becomes necessary 70 transfer large amounts
of real coin from one place to another. The
TQNEIII tul AA tl4cSt AucCS Has "a VII t'it1
tie services Of an express company, which
charges heavy fee for the transfer On
one occasion a ship Of war wentto New Or
leans to move quantity Of coin from that
point to New York.
The present proposition IS TO establish at
some financial center a depository for gold
aud silver coin, and to use its certificates in
lieu of the coin itself in International ex-
~ 81,
cial countries could be assembled together
to choose a point for the location of such
depository majority Of votes would proba-
bly, be cast for London. But France, Ger
many, Russia and tile United States would
not concede 10 London the safe-keeping of
their coin reserves without a good deal of
consideration and strong reasons for the
adoption OF such plan. War possibilities
| would indispose the nations to trust the Gus
! tody Of their money to any European couu-
try. They might perhaps, in view of the
extreme improbability OF the United States
| being involved in war, consent TO trying the
| experiment with a depository at Washing
| ton: bu. even this would meet with OppOsi-
| ti0n.
! The establishment Of general clearing
| house for metallic exchan ges would lead to
| the adoption of a uniform coinage among
the nations. This reform is coming slowly
| but surely from other causes. 1t would be
FASTENED should the present proposition
commend itself to public favor. An inter
national clearinghouse could not issue GER
| tifeates representing a variety of different
coins-sovereigns, eagles. twenty-frane,
pieces, Franz-Josefs. imperialS, and sc
forth. Its certificates would have to repre-
sent one single gold coin and one single
silver coin, which would be current
throughout the world at a uniform value
The advantages Of such system are toC
obvious TO need explanation. They are 81
great that they would constitute an arru
ment in fav or Of the general clearinghouse
The morning call., 1891-09-14
A MEDDING AT CAIRO.

Description of the Ceremony and the
Rich and Dazzling Presents.
We now returned to the lower hall, says
the Queen, where chair was placed for the
bride. Attendants fled in, carrying velvet
wrappers embroidered in gold, each con-
tanning a cashmere shawl. One BY one
they were handed to the brides nurse, and
in loud voice she proclaimed the donor.
She spread the shagls on the ground be-
fore the brides chair. About 30 were
thus laid out and then, on a silver tray.
were laid the presents of iewelIy. One was
a brooch in the form of a peacock, the body
one huge pearl, and the tail Quiyering with
diamonds. The bTidegrOom's gift was
gold belt, the clasp enriched with precious
stones.
Loud cries announced the arrival of the
bride, and, proceeded by eunnchs carrying
huge eandeIabra blazing with candles. and
singing girls with tam mbournes, she slowly
descended the stairs. Her dress and train
seemed glitteTing mass of white satin and
gold. Diamonds glittered on her corsage,
but from her head hung on each side veil
with long gold fringe. The only present
she glanced at was the diamond spray for
the hair, presented by beE highness the
EiceTeine. As she departed the ladies
present threw about little gold and silver
coins, which were eagerly picked up by tie
attendants. and we followed to see the bride
again enthroned in her state chair.
The morning call., 1891-09-14
wEArHtR FORECAST.
DEPAErMEST OF AGRICULTURE,
MI.aIHER ErEEAI.


WEATHER BUREAU.
SAN FEANcIsCO. September IS, 1915 P. M
yye-ther Conditions and General Forecast.
Unsettled weather prevails throughout the Pa
cifc Coast States, except In southern California
and Arizona. The 5arametric trough Of low pres
sure which has for Two days cove ed the Eastern
portion uf the Pacific Slope. has about passed be
voaa IL toward the Rocky Mouuta IS. There are
indications OF another disturbance moving east
ward near Vancouver Island the appearance OF
which would have the effect OF maintaining cloudy
and rainy weather north OF the fortieth pareieI In
the meantime. however. the weather will probably
eraaE eff temporarily IN Northern California aud
become cooler. The temperature has fallen in Sil
districts except Northern Washington. along the
California coas. and in Arizona, where It has been
slightly warmer. The winds have been generally
southerly in all districts. Light rains have oc-
Cured ln Washington, Oregon aud in California
from San Francisco northward, especially near the
coast.
Forecast Till s +. VI. Monday.
For Northern Ca!Ifornia-Fair weather, except
r.ht rains during the night the coast clearing
oil Tomorrow: south 70 west winds; generally
cooler. ez-ep- nearly stationary temperature at
EeI Bluff ana Fresno.
For southern Ca.ifornia-Fair weather; south 10
west wials; nearly stationary temperature; fog
aut clouds on southwest coast
For oregon and NsshingIon-Fa!r weather eH-
Cept preceded by IIsh, rains the coast; south
Z. nest winds; generally cooler except nearly sta
t4cn-ry temperature AZ Fort Candy and Portland.
JoHN p. FINLEY,
Lieutenant Ninth Infantry A 5. o. IN charge
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A NOTICEABLE FACT.

eft is a noticeable fact" says the San
Bernardino Times-I -IHdeI, that the railroad
assessment in this county has fallen of s6o,-
Coo from last year." This noticeable fact is
noticeable in other counties than San Ber-
nardino. While increasing the assessments
Of private property in several Of the eoun-
ties, the State Board has been very tender
towaad the railroads. II lawyers decide that
fraud IS The only ground upOn which the
State Board assessment can be resisted, the
fact referred to by our San Bernardino con-
temporary may fguso in the cIty's case
Some limit must be placed on the power Of
officials % rob the public.
The morning call., 1891-09-14
ARE WE OUT or THE UNIoNP

The following from a Missouri paper in
dicaies the prevalence of the idea in the
East that California is not State in the
Union:
l. A. Goodman. Secretary OF the state Horti-
cultural Society, reports 5000 iruH farms in
Missouri employing 25,OOO persons. and es-
rmates the crop Al So. 100000. As a fruit-grow
ing 81 lie We excel all others except New York
and Michigan.
There are several counties in California
whose fruit crop exceeds the estimate Of the
entire fruit crop Of Missouri. Our fruit ex-
ports last year amounted to S19,O00.OO0. and
we kept a considerable share at home.
There was time when the relations Of
Missouri TO the Union were strained, bat for
more than forty years California has kept
step with any Union music that has been
played.
The morning call., 1891-09-14
A COSTLY HABIT.

The complaint that is made of oyercharg-
ing the city for supplies rests upon evidence
that cannot be explained away. The city is
generally charged all that the dealer thinks
il will stand. In some instances the dealers
have to wait for their money, and in others
the officials ordering supplies expect CON-
mission. This commission practice is more
common than the public generally knows. In
The morning call., 1891-09-14
Two Hats of Enormous Value.

Apart from the headdress OF the Shah of
Persia. which is one mass of diamonds and
other precious stones, and which hardly
comes within the definition of gentle
mans hat Mr.. Manderson Of Nebraska, an
American Senator, owns a hat received as a
present, the nominal cost OF which is 1900.
The hat is white one, weighing twenty
oun es, and is made of cancelled green
backs worth that sum in tile aggregate, and
looks almost exactly like the white hats
worn by many gentlemen in the summer
time.
The Chinese Minister at Washington
wears q hat in which there Is one of the
finest opals, as large as pigeons egg, and
surrounded by diamonds. The value OF the
hat is stated to be el0O0.-Boston Globe.
The morning call., 1891-09-14
ALIVE WITH A BROKEN NECK.
Terrible Injuries Sustained by a New
York Carpenter.

Terrible Injuries Sustained by a New
York Carpenter.
Joseph Gordon lies in Gouverneur Hos
pital, New York, more dead than alive, yet
with all his senses about him. His arms,
legs and body below the diaphragm are
completely paralyZed, while his brain, heart
and lungs are still active. The cause of the
paralysis Is broken neck that Gordeu re-
ceived by falling through fOur-story build
ing in course of erection at 7 Rutgers place.
Shortly after o'clock Gordon, wto
worked as 4 carpenter on this building, was
on the ground floor talking to the cOntrac-
tor. Then he went up to the fourth story
10 get his tools, and no one seems to know
how he fell over An ambulance was soon
at the spot, and Gordon was taken to Cow
erneur Hospital without unnecessary DELAY
At the hospital DIR. O'Donohue, the house
surgeon, found that his patient had sus-
tanned fractures of both bis torearms.
These were put 10 suitable spints. A
jagged scalp wound next received attention.
From its appearance it is c0njectured that
Gordon's head must have struck some
spike or nail during his fall.
DR.. O'DOnOhue was not long in discover
ing that something even more serious than
these fractures and the scalp wound had
happened to Gordon. He noticed the loss
of sensation and motion in the sufferers S
extremities and suspected that the spine
had received some injury. a closer exam
inat!0n enabled the house surgeon to say
positively that one or more of the vertebr8
had been fractured. The cracking feeling
of broken bones could be felt in the soft
str uctures at the back of the neck just be-
low the back of the skull.
His chances OF living are hardly worth
mentioning, but the fact that lie has sur
yived such serious spinal injury so long
makes his case very Interesting one for
the DOCTORS s.-Philadelphia Times.
CHoIcE cream mixed candles in 2, 4 and ID
The morning call., 1891-09-14

making ont bills for goods delivered to
either Federal, State or county officials a
good many firms add a certain per cent to
the ordinary charge, with the understand
ing that the difference shall be placed to
the credit of the official giving the order. 1t
may be added that firms which do not adopt
this practice are partially or entirely over
looked when there is patronage to be dis
tributpd
The morning call., 1891-09-14

For comfort take the Union Pacific Railway. the
only line running through Pullman sleepingcars
without change between san Francisco and Chicago,
with dining-cars the entire distance, arriving in
Chicago and all Eastern cities twenty-five hours In
advance of all other transcontinenta lines Tourist
excursions leave every Tuesday and Saturday with
through Pullman tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago
without change Ticket ofice, No. l Montgomery
street; d. w Hitchcock, General Agent
The morning call., 1891-09-14
AUCTION SALES TO-DAY,

FrHN1rURr.-Iiy NJ ]. simmons, at 1857 Market
ct - II clock.
FrnSITr RE.-By A. L Cresswell. at 73s Hayes
- at Il O'Clock
furNITurF-By Geo +. Lamson, at 1l16 Hyde
81. q II O'Clock
Art GooDs BY A. W. Louderback Il Co., at 10
Montgomery ST., AZ II O'Clock.
The morning call., 1891-09-14

The manufacture of glass bottles by ma
chinery, undertaken while ago by a New
Jersey manufacturer, has not only proved
success, but appears TO possess some de-
lar developed.
The morning call., 1891-09-14
s1-HsCRIrrIoN RATES :

DAILY CALL GnoIudiBg sundays, So per year by
mall postVaid. 10 cents per week, or 65 cents per
ca ender month, through carriers. DAILY CALL,
0ve copics three months, SIS 70. SUNDAY CALL
Is zteen pas. s., 81 so per year postpaid. SUNDAY
CALL and WEEKLY CALL, 81 50 per year, post
PAID. WEEKLY CALL eight paSes). 81 p per year'
postpaid. CIuls Of ten tsent one addressl, $40.
The morning call., 1891-09-14

SIS Montgomery street. near Clay, open until II
o'clock p NJ. BRANCH OFFICES: 40 Market
street nsar Kearny open until y o'clock midnight:
ssa HAYES street, open until $3.50 O'Clock; SOS
l.rkin street open until 80 O'Clock; 25ls Mission
street open until O'Clock p, NJ; and 1l6 Ninth
street. open until g 40 p. N.
The morning call., 1891-09-14
SPECIAL NOTICE FOR THE SUM-
NIEH MONTHS.

Subscribers who intend going to the
country during the summer months can
have THE DAILY CALL mailed to them
for week or longer at regular subscrip-
tiun rates, 15c. per week. Give order to
carrier OF send to business office.
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THE CALLS CALENDAR.
sn-.--..u--n Enl
NOTICEI

A,y q our patrons rio fail to md THE
MORNING Gall for sale By train-5oys
5au. CONFER q fcr0r By notifying this office OF
ucJQCt amfiag tie date aud tram.
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might have been her. and the same edu-
Gated people say, 'Between you and I, > or
For you and L. or To you and '' But
why do you call them educated?" asked the
grammatical member. Because" ALL
swered the purist, "they are college grad
yates, clergymen. school teachers and pub
lie educators The only man that / remem-
Der to have heard say 1t is L was a clerk
in a store on Columbia street in this city
and an Engishman at thati 1t wearies me
to listen to al the bad grammar that | hear
every day." concluded the purist.-Utica
ObSeryer.
The morning call., 1891-09-14

DIFFICULTIES with ithe liver and kidneys, causing
pains In the back lsssitude and general weakness
are readily cured by Hoods Sarsaparilla, the
great regulating medieine. Sold by all druggfsts
The morning call., 1891-09-14

FALL Observation-Disclosures in millinery goods,
French pattern bounets. fancy feathers, new
trimmings. etc. Wednesday, September 10th,
and following days. Adcock, 10 hearny street..
The morning call., 1891-09-14
Educated . Peoples Bad Grammar

III IS the most astounding fact" said the
purist, '.hOw often educated people get
mixed in their personal pronouns. For in
stance, / presume that nine-ienths Of the
educated persons in this city use such
phrases as Il is me. L WAS him. 1t