The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-06-18

There Is nothing on earth like adver-
Using. if you wish to make your mark on
earth as a millionaire Scott wrote up the
m0orlands, the mountains, the streams and
valleys of Scotland, and gave them ANNA
ton from personal adventures Of romance
characters and the prOweSs and strife Of
Highlanders. His Tomances eaptiyated the
world Of readers, and his realm of fancy
proved a legacy Of thousands OF pounds
day to his financially CONSTRUCTED country
men. AS a patriot, Scott far surpasseS
Wallace. The one repealed the Southron.
and did as much as he could TO conquer him.
The other attracted the SouthroD, and did
conquer him by the music Of his lays and
the spirit-stiTrlng characteristics Of his
novels. Burns helped in the same direc-
ton. A Scotsman who knows not Burns
has been born out Of his own country
SCOTS spirit has travelled on the wings
of fancy so far as the English language has
yOyaged. There is DO reason to conjecture
that The English language has reached the
moon or has visited Saturn, but undeniably
it has gone around the earth, and is the
most commercial OF all tongues. Were
Scott to get up in his grave and scan the
newspapers Of to-day he would perhaps
recognize his method Of laying the keel Of
a new lugger" in the descriptions of natural
his haunts and entice him into the paradise
Of rural existence. In California there is
DO deception in the artifce. The country is
lovely south, north, east and west. Hence,
without dispaTagement to other sections
Of attractive tourist or residential area the
following comments ON Redwood Canyon,
in the vicinity Of Mill Valley, are not want
ing in camera truth: ut is indeed very
fairyland. 1t has trees almost as large as
those Of Calaveras; 1t has shade so deep
that the sun never strikes the ground; it
has a foaming, dashiug mountain torrent
tumbling over the falls and cAuTning down
rapids; it has sides so steep as to be IN
imbable; it has ferns and flowers and
foliage in such profusiOn as TO bewider the
explorer. Everything is as nature lett il,
and nature was not stingY when she gave
this region birth" Happy Mill Valley.
SIN the midst Of wealth we are in poverty
may be the exelamat ton of not few victims
of the robber methods of the present hour.
The robbery on the Berkeley train has
hardly passed out of recollection, even in
the Tetentive memory OF detectives. These
guardian angels of justice have now another
affair on hand almost as audacious and i'm
pudeni, but, as they have made the. arrests
appropriate TO the circumstances, they are
not in danger Of obloquy or guessing for
want OF success. a Japanese, at Z o'clock
in the morning. was waylaid by a couple Of
observant footpads and beaten and robbed
His assailants are presumed to be in custody
and if found gullty-a modification which
will be resisted with the traditional stTenu-
BUSINESS and plethora OF artifice-they win
lament their temerity in daylight.
The satire of animal domestication can
hardly be carried far beyond the more polite
point it has attained In England. A rabbit
has been sold in England for $780, 1t bore
the name Of Gladstone. This patronymic,
conjoined with the fact that bunny had ears
271A inches long and 712 inches wide, seems
to have stimulated buyers into positively
earnest competition. Probably a Liberal
Unionist or a duke-whO, whatever his
party, is loyal 10 dukery-b0ught the patri-
otto rodent, and when served I'D at table il
will have vindictive but appetizing sauce.
Ii is a mean way of showing spite. Soon
we may hear OF donkey being sold as Lord
SalisbnTy-almost as soon as length Of ears
or tail can be found cOnsonant with the name.
People here were almost prepared to be-
lieye that the Government experts were
ready to order new postoffice on the sum-
NIT OF Lone Mountain. There was at least
a drift of opinion that it would not be
located at Seventh and Mission. A tele-
gram from Washington gives the informa-
ton. however, that this is the very site
which has been selected. No site could have