The morning call., 1893-12-14

uc Dhy UdS dlWugc boSh
for whales, and now 1t has got reputation
Tor the baskiDg shark. one OF wbicn mon
sters OF The deep has just been offered to
the Daturaists of the faculty. This speci-
men was doubtless caught well at sea, and
oathers need not be under alarm. Ihey
are more likely TO be troubled with bask-
Ing rays or devil fish.
One OF the St. Louis papers has actually
taken the trouble TO explain that the title
Midwinter Fair is misn omer and should
be understood as midsummer. That, in
deed. would more correctly indicate to the
Eastern mind the kind of season which
December, January and February brings.
The very suggestion of midwinter has
chilling effect everywhere from Maine to
the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada.
Bup Instead Of snow and frost we have
occasional days of rain. and oy no means
too much OF il. The hills and valleys are
green with the uDsprnging grass or cereal
erops, trawberries are in The markets aud
tho gardens are full of bloom. 1t is really
the pleasantest time of year, and in the
hne weather seslskins are less seen than
during the actual summer.
New York had its panic this year, when
money could hardly be borrowed on any
terms save absolute security. The rest of
the country also felt the pinch of strln-
gency. or lack of confidence. most acutely.
Now 1t Is the other way. Money-lenders
are advertising or bowling for customers
with piles In their vaults that do NOT
diminish. In New York yesterday there
were millions available at per cent, and
broker who had 81. 100000 to lend.
The Matabele war is over, but the cap
ture of Lo Bengula, the King. is not yet
accomplished. Ii is also over without any
material assistance from the British i'm
perial forces. and Rhodes chartered com.
pany will now proceed to divide the spoils
OF lands and open up this frontier Of the
DARK Continent TO an Influx of miners.
spectators. traders and cultiyators. Pre-
mier Rhodes Is very Tesolute man and far
seeing IN his enterprises. He manages 10
have MS own way IN South Africa TO a
surprising extent, and the Africanders
have confidence In him. While he has no
exalted opinion about The natives in con-
tact with the whites. he recognizes that Ibe
labor question centers In them, and he
protects them in their contracts and sees
that they are not robbed. AS dictator in
Africa Rhodes has nobbled The press. 1t
Is said that only TWO papers are not in bis
pay.
One Of the most sensational trials for
murder that has ever taken place in Scot
land Is now proceeding-the Ardlamont
case. A young lieutenant of wealthy coa-
nections was shot dead while hunting rab-
bits, and the prosecution charge the crime
against M0nsun. the gentleman with whom
he was living, and an employe, who has
escaped. 1t 10 also charged that previously
an attempt was made to drown the man.
The motive suspected is the recovery Of
heavy lie insurance.
Phenix, Ariz, is taking a practical
method. Iuuch to be commended, of pro-
vlding work and food for the unemployed,
OF whom there is doubtless q considerable
number coming and going. Itis proposed
10 grade about seventy miles of railroad
out from the city, to defray the cost of
which subserIDtions are asked from the
Iubllc. Under any circumstances charity
you'd have 10 be invoked 10 aid the deslI-
tute, ana 1t is Infinitely preferable that
ihose VINO are relieved should perform
work, earn wages aud have some honest
feeling Of Independence. Systematic in
discriminate giving to the able bodied
only results In generalization and per-
manent degradation.
1t is devoutly to be hoped thar there Is
no truth in the allegations Of cowardly de-
sertion now preferred agsinst the surviv-
ors Of the Carlin party. and in particular
against young CsrliD. who is said by the
trapper, Kelley, 70, have left Colgate abso-
Iutely without any food. At the time
Colgate. be declares, was able to walk,
although slowly. keeley is not disinter-
esIed in making out case against the
party. he has brought suit to recover the
reward offered. He could have stayed by
Colgate himself.