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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-16

BROWN IRON BITTERS
cures Dyspepsia, In
d ige il on 6 Debility.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-16

With Ely's Cream Balm a child eau be
treated without pain and with perfect
safety. 1t cures catarrh, hay fever and
colds in the head. IL is easily applied
into the nostrils and gives immediate
relief. Price so cents.
My catarrh was very bad. FJr thirty
years l have been troubled with :t-have
tried a number of remedies with relief.
A druggist advised Ey's Cream Balm
l have US ed only one bottle and | can
sy f. 81 ike a new man. | make this
voluntary statement that others may
know of the Balm. w, Mathewson,
Q,awyer), Pawtucket r. |.
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10 stone raisins pour boiling water
over them and let them stand in it five
or ten minutes. Drain and rub each
raisin between the thumb aud fiuger
until the seeds come out clean; then
cut or tear apart or chop if wanted very
fire
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1893-09-16
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Or you are all worn ont, really good for nothing
it is general UcA ity. Try
iSEGT "" IEJ ETTTERS.
1t will cure you, and give q good appetite. Sold
by all dealers in medicine
The morning call., 1893-12-08

fruit land as fine as any TO be found in the
Mediterranean countries is allowed to re-
main idle. The American farmer is handi-
capped by the embarrassment of his naIu-
raj resources. The old Adage, that if you
tickle the prairie with a hoe it laughs with
harvest, was true enough. but the har-
vest was small of its kind. Providence
will not raise bountiful crops unless man
helps in the work. They are the fruit of
patient scientific toll. and above all of util-
lzing the water which nature has placed at
our hand for the purpose and which we
neglect too often.
The future OF land in this State con-
Germs every man in it. And the problem
involved is not easily solved. How TO
bring to the knowledge of Easterners and
Europeans of small means the fact that
they would better their lot to an extent
undreamed of by pitching their tent in this
State and in places where al artificial
supply of water iDsures them against
droughts is q matter of considerable time
and trouble. which will surely pay for it.
self in the long run.
The morning call., 1893-12-08
A BAD HALF HOUR.

President Cleveland without much doubt
passed bad half hour on Wednesday.
The body of which he has given so many
evidences of his contempt was in turn
teaching him lesson. 1t would not have
been SO bad if the schOolmasters bad been
all of the other party. but the seyerest dis
cipline was administered by members of
his own party. 1t was also notifying
that the two or three thick-and-thin party
friends who desired to say something in
his behalf could find nothing to say.
While the American people will feel a
certain chagrin in the tact that their Presi-
dent has been rebuked, yet it is their gain
that the rebuke was administered. If
eternal vigilance is the price of liberty 1t is
no less essential that abuses of power shall
be punished when discovered There is a
constant temptation for the President to
usurp power that belongs to the law-mak-
lug branch of our Government. The fact
that Senators and Representatives in Con-
gress have to go to the President for favors
In the way of patronage tends to magnify
In the Presidents estimation the impor-
tance of his office. In business and do
meslic affairs the one who carries the purse
has certain advantage. 1t may not en-
able him to run away with all the prop.
erty OF bis partners, but it certainly gives
him leadership tina. be would not other
wise possess. During the silver discussion
there was thinly disguised purpose to
hold patronage subject to the docility with
which Congressmen executed orders en-
anating from the White House. How
many votes were thus controlled is known
only to the mem bers who surrendered their
convictions. The Presidents pet measure
was passed, and his success seemed to
assure him that he was master of Con-
gress. He has never learned that he is
not. 1t is probable that the fool advisers
of the President are lot so certain as they
were few weeks ago that the Senate is a
superfuous body.
The morning call., 1893-12-08
PREACHING ECONOMY.

The one doctrine from which the
message does not deviate is the inculca-
ton of the virtue of economy. Expenses
should be cut down. The Postoffice De-
partment. the Naval Department and the
War Department are to be put In a finan-
cial strailj jacket. Now, while 1t will be
readily admitted that economy is virtue,
like many other virtues it may be made
vice by excess. True economy requires
nation TO keep within its means. 1t
should not impose burdensome taxes ex-
cept In emergencies which threaten the
existence or efficiency of the Government.
1t should not waste money at any time.
but, on the other hand, it should not stint
expenditures unnecessarily and especially
in time Of industrial depression. The
time when a rich Government or a rich
man should be the most liberal in ex-
pendiIures is when general business is
dull. The effect of adding to the army of
the unemployed is disastrous. Even cor
porations sometimes 90 out of their way
to provide work for willing but idle hands.
But the urgent advice of the President of
this great republic is to turn every man
adrift that can be spared.
The morning call., 1893-12-08
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

A hands ONE mausoleum intended for all
the family of Charles Hoyr, the farce
writer, has BEEN erected at Charleston,
n. ii.
Certain old ladies in England are shocked
because Queen Victoria witnessed the
opera. Era Diavola" at Balmoral. They
object TO the nane.
Attorney General A. G. Smith of Indian a
receives fees. it is said, to the amount of
$40. 900 a year. 1t is one of the most lu-
craive State offices in Indiana.
Ashbel p Fitch, in his speech at Del.
monicn's before the Sons of the Revolu-
tion, referred to the fact that Washington
and his generals were hard drinkers.
The death OF Patience StapletoD is much
to be regretted. Her novel, "Kady.'' -
was a strong and clever piece of work, and
she had given abundant promise Of taking
high place in literature had she lived.
Rufus Williams. who died a few days
ago in Rhode Island at the aga of 95, was
a direct descendant of Roger Williams. in
the sixth generation. Five generations OF
his family were present at his funeral.
Miss Gertrude Mitchell of LIVERPOOL. 1S
years OF age, has achieved the first place in
all England and Wales in the examina.
;lons for the Queens scholarship. Her Do
sltion was gained over 1850 competitors.
Max Meyer, a noted Berlin student.
who. though blind from birth, has kept
the head of the class in every school he
attended. received the degree OF Doctor of
philosophy in that city a short time ago.
The morning call., 1893-12-08
TWO OBJECT LESSONS.

Referring the other day to the purchase
of the Croker H huffman property in Merced
County by the Crocker estate, THE CALL
mentioned the extensive Irrigation works
which have been constructed to render the
estate independent of the rainfall. The
irrigation canal taps the Merced River
at point far above any other sources of
irrigating supply; it is carried through
ranges of hills in tunnels. 1t uiilizes the
bed of several small streams; when ii
emerges upon ;he arabic land it car
ries body of water sufficient to fertiize
the whole estate of $4,000 acres, with some
thing to spare for the property of the
Mitchell estate. If that should be added.
Another great estate which has been
brought into fertility by the artificial use
of water is the property of the Hawaiian
Commercial Company, and is situate
at Spreckelsvile In the Hawaiian island
of Maui. 1t is ne arly as large as the
Crocker estate. being 10000 acres in extent.
1t Is irrigated by two canals, one of which
is forty miles long and the other twenty
one miles. On the former there are
twenty-eight tunnels through solid rock,
and a large number of gulches are crossed
which are veritable rivers. The delivery
capacity of the two canals is 5000. GOO cubic
feet per day. With this aid the 10000
acres, which were a barren desert a few
years ago. ale now becoming highly pro-
ductive; tract of IL 500 acres has been
planted in cane, and the average yield is
five tons per acre. Another tract of equal
extent will gradually be planted. and will
probably prove as productive. When it
does the output of the plantation will be
125,000 tons of sugar per year, which is
nearly three-fourihs the production of
Louisiana.
1t will be interesting to compare the for
tunes OF these two properties as they de-
velop. One difference between the two
estates is that the one on the islands will
grow little that is commercially valuable
except sugar, while the Merced estate can
grow everything from wheat to the finest
grapes in the world. Another and YET
more important difference is that the Ha-
waiian estate is owned by a company and
worked by contract foreign labor, while
the purpose of the owners of the Merced
estate is to parcel 1t out 10 small farms to
be owned by the men who work them.
These differences apart the two properties
are alike In serving as object lessons.
The United States will fail to attain its
normal measure of prosperity SO long as
the average yield of its wheatfields is only
fourteen bushels to the acre and SO long as
The morning call., 1893-12-08
VETERANS HOME INMATES.
Pensioners Must Aid Their Depend
ent Wives and Children.

The board OF directors of the Veterans
Home Association is formulating a plan
for devoting portion at least If the
pensions allowed inmates of the home to
the dependent relatives-wiveS and chill
dren. The authority under which the
board will act is found in the rules for ad-
mission t. tho home and is as follows:
II United States pensiOner he (he applicant
for admission) must file with his application his
pension certificate and a consent or agreement
10 transfer 10 the association the amounts re-
ceived by him as pensiOner while member
OF the home.
A number of cases of inmates of the
home who have dependent wives or chill
dren and who make no provisions for them
out of pension moneys received have been
called to the attention of the board. A
specific instance was mentioned by one OF
that body's members yesterday in the case
Of an inmate of the home named Hutchins,
whose wife secured divorce and an al
lowance of alimOny five years ago. The
wife is sicklv and has the care of the chill
dren, but has been unable to secure any
portion Of her former husbands pension.
He has been for the past year an inmate
of the home and although he only draws
S12 month it is thought by some men,
ners of the board that as all his living ex-
penses are met by the home he should sur
render portion of the amount for the
benefit of his children.
But there are said to be more f1agraDt
cases than the one mentioned, which will
be brought up when the matter comes be-
fore the board.
The morning call., 1893-12-08
LIVE CHAMELEONS
Sweet Girl Undergradu-
ates Wear Them.
Fashions Latest Fad Is to Wear
Chained Reptiles for Pins-They
Are Pretty and Harmless.
"What a lovely pin.

"What lovely PIN"
''How well they get up those things
now. The little reptile looks so perfectly
natural one would almost swearing"
"Ah, it's alive. HOrrid little beast"
"Oh, don't come near me. How can you
wear such creepy, Gravity things?"
The Stanford University girl. to whom
these remarks were addressed by couple
of less strongmnded companions smiled
calmly and even stroked the soft, silky
skin of the creature that was struggling
wildly in the folds of her dress. 1t is the
latest fad to wear a live chameleon in lieu
OF pin, and she knew il and was happy.
Now what is there to be afraid Of"
she asked, as the two frightened girls
paused in the doorway and looked with
round eyes at the chameleon as though it
was a rattlesnake at least. 'All the uni
versity girls are getting them and they are
just as harmless as flies. See here" and
as she spoke the girl from the classic
shades of Stanford loosened a tiny gold
pin. which was attached to chain around
the ehameleon's neck, threw the little reptile
bodily onto the table and pricked the pin
in the cloth.
why, it's green, and it was brown a
moment ago." said one of the other two
girls, drawing step nearer.
T 'Wh hat cute little thing" added the
other. Isn't its bite venomous?'
ut can't bite" replied the young lady
from Stanford. There is not anything
more harmless than chameleons. They
just live on flies and soft candy-fieas, too.
if they can get them. Why, [ just keep
this chained to my pincushion when l am
not wearing it. and the little thing sleeps
most of the time. 1t changes color too"
Poor creatara," said one of the other
girls pityingly. "How different the pin
cushion must be from its native grass.
| am sorry for the little beast, partlcu-
larly if it be so gentle"
"Ah, but it is the fashion to wear them,"
replied the other.
And the little lizard-shaped reptile said
nothing, for the good reason that the
powers of speech are denied it. The
probability is. however, that 1t finds its
gold chain just about as pleasant bauble
TO carry as some kings are said to have
found their golden crowns. The dignity
is great, but the ha ppinessi However, no
one asks the chameleons what they think.
1t is the latest fad to wear them, ami con-
sequently they are worn.
The morning call., 1893-12-08
THE POLICY OF SILENCE.

The Victoria COloniSt advises Canadians
to maintain policy Of silence In regard to
the revision of the American tariff. That
Journal is under the impression that the
American law-making body will not know
when 1t is giving Canada a trade opening
unless Canadians. through iDjudicious re-
proposed legislation. The ColoniSt then
communes with itself as follows:
1t is impossible to make many Americans
understand that trade between nations can be
mutually benefcial-that both countries can be
benefited by measure which makes CONNER
cial intercourse between them freer and more
easily carried on. This, then, being n0toriously
the case. we consider It unwise to unneces-
sarily awaken national jealousy and 10 raise
enemies TO changes IN the tariff which, If ef-
fected. would operate benefcially 10 the people
OF both countries.
In the Mckinley tariff the conditions
upon which trade between nations may be
mutually beneficial are pretty clearly de-
fined. More than oDe-half of our IMPORTS
under that law have been admitted free
under the rule that articles which a ma
tiOn does not produce may be advantage
ously imported; and the reciprocity
treaties with several nations show that a
market may be made for articles that we
produce in excess of our needs. Recip-
rOcity has not been extended to Canada for
the reason that Canada produces nothing
that the United States does not also pro-
duce. If Canada produced sugar, tea,
coffee, spices and other things. which the
Mckinley tariff placed upon the free list,
there would have been no objection to
reciprocity with Canada.
The leading statesmen Of England have
contended that freedom of trade which
would continue the United States as the
producer of raw material and the con-
sumer of European manu- factured products
would be mutually beneficial. "Let each
nation do what IL can do to the best ad-
vantage" has been the lesson constantly
repeated. The United States with its i'm
mense territory was best fitted for agricul-
ture. while Europe with its small territory
and large population could manufacture
more cheaply than the United States.
The kind of trade that was held to be
mutually advantageous was TO export
wheat and cotton and import European
finished goods. The exercise of the right
TO do little thinking on that subject on
our own account has been deprecated by
our foreign advisers. 1t would be so much
better. it was claimed. if the people of the
United States would accept policy from
older and more enlightened nations thar
to try TO form one for themselves. 1t is
quite natural that a nation should con-
elude that trade that was beneficial to
itself must also be beneficial to the other
party; but oD this point the other party
may fairly claim hearing. 1t is not wise
to let the other side do all the thinking
If we had continued to be nation of pro-
ducers of raw material and consumers of
foreign finished goods we might have been
lauded by Europe for our wise policy, but
we should hardly have become in the first
century of our national existence the rich
est nation on the globe.
The morning call., 1893-12-08
"Her Best Friend"
PROBATE SALE OF REAL
ESTATE.

NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN PUR-
~ suance of an order of the Superior Court of
the county OF Napa. State of California, made on
the 18th day of November. 1898, in the matter OF
the estate OF JOSEPH ID. ENAS, the undersigned.
the Administrative with the will annexed OF the
estate OF said JOSEPH d. ENAS deceased, will
sell at private sale to the highest bidder for cash
IN golo com OF the United States and subject to
connrmation by said Superior Court, on or after
SATURDAY, December 23, A. D., 1898 all tn
right tItle interest and estate OF the said
JOSEPH d. ENAS, deceased, at he time of his
death and all the right title and interest that the
SAID stat has by operation of law or otherwise
acquired, other than i'll addition to that of said
testator at the time of his death and to all that
certain block, piece oriparcel of land situate ly-
Ing and being in the city and county OF San Fran
cisco State of California. bounded and described
as follows, to-wt
Beginning at the western corner or Sickles
avenue and the Telegraph county road, rs laid
down on a certain map entitled West End Map
No. 2, and running thence northwesterly along
SAID SlckleS avenue one hundred and twenty-one
feet SIX inches to Huron avenue as laid down on
said map, thence souchwesterIy along said Huron
avenue three hundred and feet to said Tele-
graph or county road and thence easterIy along
said Telegraph or county road three hundred and
twenty-five feet Co the place or beginning and
known and designated upon said West End Map
No. 2 as Block 2l.
Bids and offers must be in writing and may be
LETT at the oftce OF c. S. CAPP & CO., AIS Mont
golnery St, san Francisco. Cal.
deo lot MARY +. EN- AS, Administrative
The morning call., 1893-12-08
WELLS-FARGO AND POLITICS.
How Democratic Doctrine Has Lost
the Party Votes

How Democratic Doctrine Has Lost
the Party Votes.
That there is an affinity between mans
pocket book and his POLITICS seems to be
pretty well exemplifed in the case of the
employees of the Wells-Fargo Company.
An employe in one of the departments
of the big corporation was speaking yes
terday about the effect of the recent re-
duction In wages and other affairs of the
company, ana incidentally mentioned that
number of the employees had. for some
reason unknown to him. summarily
changed their political allegiance from
the Democratic TO the Republican party.
An old employe in the general office
when approached upon the subject had
this to say:
.'It is pretty we'll known fact that the
express company has Of late months
failed to do the business it had been ac-
cusoned to handle by from $4,000 to
$4,000 month. This was the primary
cause of the reduction in wages which FOL
low ed, and in which few Of the men es-
capped. AS a consequence the men were
naturally on the lookout for the cause
which led TO their decreased pay, and
whether justly or not the opinion seemed
to gain ground that politics was at the
bottom of the trouble. and that the policy
of the Democratic party was in great
measure if not entirely responsible Tor the
disaster.
However that may be. men who have
been recognized as Democrats Tor years
are no longer in the fold of the tariff
smashers. Hitherto the two parties have
about equally divided the men, but II q
canvass could be accurately made now IL
would be found that four-fifths of the
men at present employed are now adyo-
eating Republican principles"
The morning call., 1893-12-08
WHICH is THE FRAUD?

An Eastern free-trade paper thus de-
fines the character of a revenue tariff:
revenue tariff is tariff levied on articles
consumed by but not produced in any consId-
erable quantity In tie country collecting the
duties.
Under this rule duties should be laid
upon tea, coffee, spices. sugar and most of
the other articles the Mckinley tariff
places on the free list. But the tariff bill
now under consideration does not impose
duties on any of these articles. Instead
1t takes wool. lumber, iron ore, coal and
other articles produced largely in this
country and puts them on the free list.
The truth is that no party dares to give
the country revenue tariff. The people
The morning call., 1893-12-08
HARD ON THE TAXPAYERS.

The Riverside Enterprise hopes for good
results from the adoption of an ordinance
su5jecting abe-bodied tramps TO work. 1t
appears that certain officials have made
considerable money BY arresting uuem-
ployed men and subjecting them to some
kind of judicial examination, from which
they generally escaped unharmed. In
some cases the same person figured repeat
edly before the court with no other penalty
than a day or two in Jail. The officials,
however. charged fees for each appear
ance. OF course it may be said that if
arrests had not been made the streets
would have been unsafe. But il arrest
means thirty or sixty days work the
tramps will not be so willing to be arrested.
The morning call., 1893-12-08

The recent heavy rainfall did Its work
admirably In 0aklng the thirsty soil. AS
is generally the case with the first rains,
paratively little Of the downpour ran
down TO the bay or into the streams. The
soil absorbed the greater part, and was
softened far below the depth usually
reached by the plow. During the long
drcughts of summer a somewhat unjust
aspersion is cast upon adobe soil as of
hard quality for the agriculturist. 1t be-
comes baked like a brick in the kiln, and
is quite suitable in that condition for
building. But when the rains come adobe
of the most Obdurate nature assumes
another character. 1t becomes loose and
friable, and the plow is not hard driven to
turn over deep furr0w. AT present the
ground everywhere is soft and moist be-
'ow the surface, and the thrifty farmer is
not negleciing his opportunity. Were rri-
CATION available, the valley soil every
where in California would produce sew
eral magnificent crops year. The first
week OF the rains is really the beginning
of spring. not an indication of winter.
The first officer OF the steamship Amer
lea. on arriving at New York, relieved the
tedlum of life ashore by reporting that he
had seen sea serpent. Others during the
existence just as credibly. and yet some
how not single Datural history collection
in the world has one on view, and even
Barnum's museum was destitute OF this
essential of perfection in exhibitions
What the officer did behold was something
LIZ might have been calamary airing a
tentacle. or a swordfish, or ribbon fish.
or an attenuated twist of gulf weed, and
not having kodak ready nobody can say
what it was or was not. The hour was
propitious to hallucination. At z o'clnck
in the morning in latitude 43 the sun has
barely topped the horizon, and out of the
glamor of light flashing over the Quivering
waters much may be seen striking IN form
and thrilling to the imagination. The
world is bound to believe in that snake,
and instead Of being 100 yards ii should
have been a whole mile long with a head
the size of a church.
The honors of knighthood conferred
upon Sir Charles Russell and Sir Richard
Webster for their services IN the Bering
Sea arbitration do not add to their titles
very appreciably. They were knights
bachelor already, or 'sirs," the one hav-
ing been thus houored in 1886 and the
other in 1885. but they are now. as Knights
of the Grand Cross of the m ost distin-
guished Order OF st. Michael and St.