The morning call., 1893-10-04

Religions is not the least of the good
works by which the Worlds Fair will be
rememb bered
The piles driven into the bay between
the Oakland mole ana the harbor training
wall are so close together that they are
positive danger 20 navigation. During
breeze schooners would have to be well
handled to dodge the 0bstructions. and In
working into or out of harbor at night ves-
sells may easily get fouled. What is meant
has not yet transpired. Perhaps they are
intended as mooring piles for lawyers! J!
Were a dam constructed across Of suffi-
cient soidity and breadth it would not
even be necessary to pump out the tide
water. Evaporation by this suns heat
would leave the flats bare within fort
night, and then the company could level
up at it's leisure. To see what might be
done with site so valuable people should
look ahead twenty years. by that time
there may actually be bridge across the
bay, with high spans and Goat island used
for buttresses. The feat is entirely feasl-
BILE to-day, and perhaps not at greater cost
than 100000.
A fruit-grower complains OF the method
by which California fruit is disposed OF In
the Chicago market He has studied the
process, and he describes it as something
very like knock out auction. Only men,
bers of the association attend the sales. as
bids are not received from non-members.
Consequently the members do nos bid
against each other with any keenness,
and the fruit is knocked down at very
low price. When the fruit is traced, now
ever, into the stores 1t is found tnat the
- hnr hnr
sumer gets no benefit from the cheapness
in the auction-room. Perhaps there is
just one way in which this can be rectl-
ned. Ii all the fruit-growers who snip
East would combine, very small per-
centage of the profits they are letting slip
out of their fingers would defray the cost
of maintaining an aucti0n-room and de-
vsrtise the sales and invite all. But 1t
needs systematic organization. Tor no
doubt the Chicago dealers would fight
such action.
The breach of promise action against the
Sultan of Johore is likely to accentuate
the very remarkable differences OF opinion
on the marriage state which enter into
the minds of Orientals and Europeans.
The Sultan is known to De very rich IN the
treasures of the Orient, and could possibly
load wheelbarrow with diamonds, emer-
aids and sapphires. A present Of hand.
ful OF these gems might have so pleased
the young woman who wants him as nus
band and protector that she would nave
abandoned her claim and contented her
self with some native Of the British Isles
instead. She may be thankful that the
Sultan has ot espoused her. as ner lot as
one of {, flock of wives would have been
far from enviable. English society Is
somewhat jaded by the whirligig excite
ments of the year. but the spicy and per-
haps comical incidents OF this oreach Oh
promise action are certain to wake 1t into
a renewed interest OF life.
The education missionary enterprise OF
Americans in Turkey seems likely TO be
stopped by the Sublime Porte. This is
regretable as there were 10000 to 10000
children and youths under tuition. The
Porte is jealous of any foreign interference
with the training of the population. and is
ncurably narrow-minded on the subjects
of both education and religion. But the
American Minister. by showing hrmness
as we'll as tact, may arrest the prescribing
almost any extent. because the whole
official system is rotten. Some day the
empire will fall to pieces and then there
will be liberty enough for proselytng.
Intrigue seems to be at work in Nicar-
aqua to stop work on the canal and, II pos
sible, cancel the concession. After what
has passed it is impossible that the United
States Government could stand idly by
while the concession is revoked and the
franchise transferred to Europeans. There
was enough of that sort of menace at Pan
anna, but that canal never can be con-
structed. while the one in Nicaragua Will.
If the silver question were out OF the way
in Congress the question OF going ahead
with the waterway might be forced to an
issue.
The report of a silver hill in Mexico 300
feet high and six miles long is discovery
pitched in much too low key to he true.
At the very least it should have been as
big as Mount Orizaba, and then people
would have pronounced the fall of silver
into the baseness of pewter imminent.
There never has been any very consider
able quantity of either gold or silver taken
out OF the earth in virgin state like stone
in quarry. Nature has very sparingly
scattered these metals through the strata
so as to be visible to tbs unassisted eye or
picked out. Their scarcity renders them
valuable as money standards.
A commandant down in San Salvador
has shown fiendish amount of ferocity In
floggiug poems who had stolen few trfiing
articles. He beat them into insensibility
with canes laid on by soldiers and then
sentenced them to imprisonment. Such
barbarous acts are indications of why the
Spaniards or Spanish stock fail to coloniZe
well. Tyranny and arbitrary acts OF or
preston drive the population into perpetual
plotting and peace has no fOotnold.
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
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