The morning call., 1893-06-14

lenders would be afraid that the treasury
might be driven to pay bonds in part with
silver. Congress may authorize an issue
OIL gold bonds. or 1t may provide that Gov
ernment dues shall be paid in gold. Either
measure would be recognition by Con-
gress of the gold standard, which has beer
maintained by the treasury for the past
thirteen years.
10 whom will the reward go for the cap
ture of Evans and Sontag? The officers
nave worked hard, but without the very
direct assistance of information they
might as well have searched for needle
IN haystack. In coursiug hares it is not
tne dog which kills that always wins.
me one that makes most points is entitled
to the credit. Whoever gave the informa-
ton which led 10 the posse lying in wait
ST the cabin where the fight occurred has
claim. The arrest of Evans would prob
ably have been effected some time without
notification from the Perkins family, but
lt Is clear the deputies were spared the
exercise of their inventive faculties by
That visit of young Perkins to Visalia.
ferhaps Evans himself. downhearted and
desparng, was consenting party to his
own arrest, and in equity might assert
title to slice of the reward. The two
parties OF officers almost fell over one
another in rushing upstairs for possession
OF tne outlaw, and they are sure to have
arDttratlon or something stronger over the
reward. Conviction of the outlaws will
probably play no part in the settlement.
The State Viticultural Commissioners
have resolved to give up the cafe. where
unlmpea chable brands of California wines
could be slipped and tested. In the main
the reason Is sufficient. Slipping and test
ing proceed elsewhere in numerous bars,
restaurants and hotels. AS far as Cali
fornians are concerned the wines of our
vineyards have an established reputation
or they never will acquire it. The wine
needs no bush to recommend it. Native
champagne is not now secuted as a shabby,
inferior tipple either at the dinner table or
In complimentary bumpers, but there was
time when 1t was only palatable with
foreign label and an outrageous foreign
price. But the commissioners have still
much uphill work to convince the Eastern
States and Europe that California wines
should have the preference over all others
not OF supereXcellent quality This they
might promote by persstently spreading
information on the subject. a little light
on the adulterationS so common In foreign
wines and brandles would also be useful.
samples and make fun of them.
Who would imagine there is fashion
in flowers? City people who cannot
grow them. but will pay high prices for
those they consider lovely or fragrant,
have preference for varieties apparently
quite as changeable as women have for
dresses and hats. Poor people with bit
of garden sometimes cultivate flowers with
a view to sell them. One thrifty cottager
who took a quantity of sweet peas Of ex-
Quisite Dolly Warden spottiness to GER
tain flower establishment was told that
this year the taste runs toward shades of
uniform delicate tints and not toward
speckled varieties or spots. The only con-
ISOLATION is that the good woman may be in
the fashion next spring. Rare orchids are
always in demand. This year ladies are
stylish with genuine orchid flowers in
their hats. They do not scruple to throw
away 81 for day of spicuousness in
fragile and eccentric blooms.
A mean and vindictive species of bur-
glar appears to be at work in San Fran
cisco. When the spoil is disappointing
these miscreants are showing their temper
by setting fire to the premises. Such is
the opinion of Fire Marshal Towe with
reference to fire on Octavia street. The
occupier is in Chicago with his family,
the house is in charge of a servant and the
servant was out when the crooks rum
mayed all over the place from room to
room and found nothing to their taste.
This is a danger so diabolical that 10 prob
ably has not entered into the calculations
of the householder who stores his valu-
ables in the vaults of deposit or furniture
company. When such burglar is caught
Nal b.. 1,.1 I'D l.
iniquHy by as much punishment as the law
permits.
Now. that the official report has cliuched
the seaworthness and efficiency of the coast
defense vessel Monterey, discreet silence
will prevail as 10 the fearful number of
flaws discovered with the eye OF malice in
her machinery aid design. Can it be
that there was any set intention to dis
credit the Pacific Coast as naval construc-
tion base? 1t looks as if Mare Island
were to be MADE more actively useful in
ship p-building, and there has been ample
proof that the Union Iron Works Com
pany can undertake any work in naval
construction in style that cannot be sur
passed by the Cramps or In any yard in
The East. Some of the vessels built here
have not their equal in the navy. San
Francisco has done so we'll that few
the plans are ready.
The Daily Columbian, published at Chi
cago as the official bulletin of the Worlds
Fair. has hit upon novel plan to add in
terest to its columns. Five out of eight
pages are devoted to a reproduction from
stereotype plates of the first page of each
Of the five principal papers of Chicago.
day by day. AS far as possible the papers
have variety of news on the front pages
not likely to be duplicated. and thus there
is diversity in this journalistic scrap work
entertaining to the reader. One fault such
a programme has-it is too bulky for the
pocket and is nuisance if thrown away.
Homing pigeons as an aid to the news
paper editor are very unreliable for scoop"
feats. and for great distances on land they
are superseded by the telegraph. In the
districts OF a city for events that are de-
scribed in few words they may be useful.
Also for yacht races not too far from land
they serve the evening-paper editor well.
But a pigeon cannot De put In flight at