The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-12-31

juice of the grape. not the compounded
rubbish from raisin squeeZiDgs or chem
lcalS which Is quite innocent OF any vlnous
qualify, yet is preferred by the French at
meals to water The vineyard proprietors
are aghast at their success. They are now
clamorlng TO have all vinous limitations
suppressed. Why should people drink
spurious potable when the genuine terment
is almost as cheap as water? Foreigners
who have long been getting bad, concocted
wine from France may retalate Dy asking /
why adulteratiOn should have been en- |
:c0uraged as a business when the vines
were diseased? Should this prosperity In
the wine districts continue France must
soon recover all her lost ground IN the
market. The best chance for California
lies in producing the very best wine she
can in defiance of competition, and ID
keeping as FAR as possible the nome mar
kei.
The great McCallum More, the Duke OF
Argyle, seems to have been caught In
what resembles very vulgar plagiarism
He has produced book entitled The
Unseen Foundations of Society,". The
portion of this on economics is boldly de-
clared by +. w. Balm, Fellow of Oxford,
now holding a position in Poonah, to be
borrowed from work of his called The
Principles of Wealth Creation" The
citations in parallel columns are very close
in some instances, and 1t is hard to see
how the Duke could have penned the pas
sages without having read and absorbed
MIR. BaiD's book. The memory plays
tricks occasionally, causing writer 10
appropriate uDconscOuSly that which an
other has produced. To test the matter
cOnclusvely Mr.. Balm asks the Duke to
go ahead and finish his work. lie himself
has not issued his concluding volume, and
1-zt, lah Q mi
indicate nothing of similarity 1t Will be
fair 10 hold that his first volume should
have been equally exempt from suspicion.
The Dukes pride is at stake, and he Is
very proud.
Conan Doyle, the novelist, comes to the
rescue of the prize fighter as hero. man
of good deeds and high courage. But he;
selects his instances from the mellow past.
He mentions Shaw, the Life Guardsman,
at W aterlO o.: standing back to back with
Colonel Kelly and hewng. dow q. ten lane:
.ers and cuirassiers before he was shot.
He also mentions John Sufly, who became
.a-member of Parliament: and thinks there
might have been. occasion for bis services:
on. a recent: occasion when the. House OF
Commons suggested Denny brook fair. He
|: declares that 1.-THE old prize fighters were
as a rule men. :Of steady. lawabldipg
habits, if only for the fact that they kept.
or: hoped TO. keep a saloon and their license.
/: depended on good behavior. Fewer men
lost their. lives in the ring during a whole:
generation .thanin. one season offOntbaH.
MIR: Doyle fercibly points. out that as all,
/ EuTope:lS, a. fighting camp. the encourage:
/ lment of tile fighting instinct Is necessary.
/ Modern :pugllism. in gloves Will not be
F*slo to. avail itself of this quasi indorse-
/. 1nent.by a writer of emiDence. But the
l-0I1 N n "
F changed on the:heroics.o of The prize ring.
T.; Attorney Trude thinks that the convlc--
.%tiou of Prendereast will operate as a de-
tefrent- against the comm ssiOn of assas-.
snation crimes by nOtoriety- slowing cranks.
That depends a little on how soon the
sentenceis carried out, The jury has pro-.
nounced the penalty of death. and the
verdict gives great satisfaction TO all but
Tie friends of The convict, who viii invoke
ali the arts. and :strategems of law 10 pro-
cure a new trial, lin which they; have. ac-
+ cOrding. To- precedent, many chances of
success. There wilt certainly be long
interval BET ween the sentence and execu-
*tion." or Prendergasrs sanity there can
not be much question:. even among mad
doctors. He. is only. an example of de-
PRAYED man<with a.vile temper and eyre
gious self-esteem. 49, ..:'s>>: =
= The subscriptions for the relief of the
unemployed have begun most credi,ably,
and there is now good reason 10 hope that
work WIFI be found for the deserving and
willing. Ii will help the movement to a
wonderful extent if the work 10 which the
men are putis of a kind to elicit general
+ approval for The city's benefit. Subscrp-
tons will not lag for useful expenditure,
but mere dealing out Of the subscriDtinns
IN dOles without result in labor would soon
produce encouragement. II: p:
The death is announced of Sir Samuel
Baker, the African explorer. at the age of
/ 70. He has Otlong survived Sir Richard
| Burton, who was a some what earlier pio-
|. neer in the same field of travel. though
they never worked in the same expedi-
tions. Burton made known Lake Tan
ganyika, and Baker followed up the explo-
/ ratiOnS at other sources of the Nile by
| Spoke and Grant, and had the credit Of
discovering the Albert Nyanza in 1864.
l. His labOrs in the suppression of the Gen.
| trail African slave trade were courageous
/ and partly successful. He is well known
as an author and many learned societies
| have: henored his works as a geographer.
s III Russia set of self-mutilators exist.
The care that most people naturally Ia Ike
of thei bodies is an obstacle TO much sue
cess in proselyting. but Russia is the
| land of wonders in new beliefs. A
| banker and his daughter were recently
+ convicted on some sort of evidence of be-
/ longing to the self-mutiiators, or skOptZl
! Injuries thus inflicted only assume the
/ character of offeDseS when religious mo-
! tiyes are involved. In the case OF the
banker he had tattOoed cross on his