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The morning call., 1893-10-29
THE POPULISTS IN VIRGINIA.

The story comes from Richmond, Va,
that the P0pulists are likely to carry the
State next month. There would be moth
ing surprising in this. Politics in Virginia
has been for some time in a transition not
to say chaotic state With the close of
the war the Democratic party lost its only
live principle. which was adherence to
slavery; the Republican party tried to
gain foothold and failed; Malone and
Riddle berger were neither accepted as Re-
pubiicans nor tolerated as Democrats: they
wobbled between the two parties with
out gaining the respect of either. In the
Fiftieth Congress a majority of The delega-
tion to the House was Republican, but it
obtained no recognition from President
Harrison or the leaders of the Repu bican
party. Browne, Bowden and company
were regarded as recruits who would bear
a good deal of watching. Under tine lead
of Wise the Democrats have fought stall
wartly to regain their ancient predom-
nance, though the rank and file of the
people of the Old Dominion do not cherish
a profound respect for the party which has
brought them to poverty, insolvency and
political insigniicance. They are quite
capable of indulging in Irritation with
the Populists.
In casting up the account of the Popu-
list party Mr.. Frank B. Tracy insists
that they shall have credit for provoking
inquiry into economical questions regard
ing which Americans have been imper-
fectly informed Therein they have un-
doubtedly rendered good service. For
thirty years, that is to say from 1850 to
1880, the slavery question, with its sequels,
so overtopDed all other political contro-
versies in this country that people grew up
in ignorance of the general principles of
political economy and popular govern
ment OF these principles the average
fairly educated American knew less in
1880 than his father had known in 1885,
Yet the conduct Of public affairs by the
people absolutely required that these prin-
ciples should be understood and that the
reasons for them should be mastered.
That education it has been the mission of
the Popuists unconsciously to stimulate
The morning call., 1893-10-29
A ROUGH DRAFT.

The Ways and Means Committee keeps
up showing of being engaged in revising
the tariff. It is now said that a rough
draft of the bill to be presented is COM
pleted. The rough draft reads very much
like the tariff bill Edward Atkinson, in
his capacity of chairman of Tariff Com
mission, outlined some months ago. The
articles that Mr.. Atkinson had on his free
list are the came that appear on the free
list Of the rough draft recently announced.
In point of fact, the construction of tariff
bill on revenue principles is not much of a
task. The fundamental idea is to raise
certain amount OF money. Any schoolboy
can tell about what the rate would be if
made uniform. If there Is to be free list,
which, however, is not consistent with the
principle of revenue tariff. it would not be
difficult to ascertain about how much rev.
enue would be sacrificed in this way.
That amount, whatever it may be. should
be con nsidered in making the uniform rate
on dutiable goods. The Ways and Means
Committee has gone through the dumb
show of hearing from industries that de-
mand protection, but there is no reason to
believe that the bill to be reported will
bear traces of any such hearings.
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THE BAcK-DooR ROUTE.

1t is little odd that Canadian journal
should object to the use the Canadian Pa
cifc Railroad has made of the Dominion
as baek-door route for the immigration
of paupers into the United States. The
United States might object to being the
ultimate destination of paupers. but so
long as their fares are paid over Canadian
with Canada. II appears from the articles
to which reference is made that the oh.
lection is based largely on the inspection
immigrants are subjected to On the border
line between Canada and the United
States. The concern is not for the pauper
who is permitted to pass, but for the one
that is turned back. Canada does not so
much mind being back-door route as it
does to having the route blocked at the
point of discharge. For some years Can
ada has admitted Chinese laboreTs at $50
head and dumped them into the United
States. But in rare cases the immigrant
who has paid Canadian authorities $50 for
permission to land has been turned back at
the border. The discovery is now made
that it does not comport with the dignity
of Canada to permit United States officials
to inspect immigrants On Canadian soil.
The meaning of this is that the United
States is bound to receive from Canada
any immigrant Canada permits to enter
within its limits. There is chance now
or at least chance may soon occur to hear
from CleVe land on this subject.
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WHAT SANE MEN KNOW.

The New York Times says concerning
the much-talked-of silver compromise:
There is no sane Democrat, whose opinion Is
worth taking. who does not know that II this
issue is thrust on the country in lS9o-and IL
will be. if it be not decided Dow-one OF Two
things VIII happen; the party Will be hopeiessiy
split. and thus beaten, or hopelessly Deaten
without being openly divided.
To this the Portland Oregonidn, gold
paper, responds: "Sane Republicans know
this as we'll as sane Democrats" The
inference to be drawn from the two ad-
m issions is that il the silver issue is al
lowed TO go to the people Wall street Will
lose. Its only chance is to clinch the busi-
ness while it has a representative in the
White House, whose power through the
unscrnpulous use of patronage enables
him to bend Congress to his will
Both The New York Times and the Port
land OregonidB are reputed to be sane.
Both are able and honest newspapers.
They conceive it wise policy on the part
of the United States, debtor nation, to
adopt the single standard. in imitation OF
England. creditor nation. They both say
that we must keep in line with the great
commercial nations of the world. II these
nations become stranded on the rock OF
Liquidation, placed in their way by the
destruction of one-half the worlds money,
tie United States, too, must dash upon
the rock. Ii wed do not we will be out of line
with the great commercial nations OF the
world. But neither the Times nor the
Oreq0njdn is too wise TO sit at the feet Of
Senator Sherman.
If they had got at the great Republican
gold Senator's feet in 1869, they would
have the following graphic description of
the evils which must follow contraction
of the currency. In aspeech in the United
States Senate in that year, Mr.. Sherman
said:
The contraction OF the currency is a far more
distressing operation than Senators suppose.
Our own aud other nations have gone throu gh
that operation before. 1t is not possible TO
take that voyage without the sorest distress.
To every person, except capitalist out of
debt or a salaried offieer or accountant, it is a
period of loss, danger lassitude of trade. fall of
wages, suspension OF enterprises, bankruptcy
and disaster. 1t means the ruin OF all dealers
whose debts are twice their business capital
though one-thlid less than their actual prop
erty. II means the fall OF all agricultural pro-
duetions without any great reductions OF taxes.
What prudent man would dare build a house,
railroad, factory or barn with this certain
fact before him?
Thus spoke Sherman when Sherman
spoke tor the people. 1t does not much
after what he says now. No one. we
think. will deny now that he has de-
scribed the consequences of contraction
correctly, and certainly no one will con-
tend that the decentralization of oDe-half
the worlds money will not cause contrac-
ton Of the curren"y.
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FARMERS CROPS.

The Stockton Independent calls atten-
tion TO danger that threatens the farmers
of California. Wheat-growing, it says, is
not really profitable at present, and is not
likely to improve. The Independent
wisely concludes that "the best road to
emancipation is through the reduction OF
competition by reducing the product and
by resorting TO other crops with which the
unskilled and half-barbarous labor of
India, Russia and South America cannot
compete" At about the same time the
independent made these suggestions the
San Diego Union gave the public some
facts about the beet sugar industry. The
Union says: "Phe beet sugar industry
offers even greater inducements to the
tiIlers of the soil than does the raising of
fruit. The profits are more speedily real.
lied and surer." We do not know that the
soil In the San Joaquin Valley is especially
adapted to the production of sugar beets.
but even if the bottom lands of the valley
should prove too rich, the culture of beets
on soil that is adapted TO that purpose
will relieve wheat lands from measure Of
competition. Farmers who rely upon one
crop work under many disadvantages.
The secret of successful farming lies in the
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Senator Morgan's favorite beverage, it is
remarked, is buttermilk.
+. j. Dreer of Philadelphia is said to
possess one of the finest collections of Viii.
liam Penn autographs and manuscripts in
existence.
Persons who have seen President Carnot
of France recently give assurances that
the head of the great republic has entirely
regained his health.
Archbishop Redwood Of New Zealand,
who has been In this country several
weeks, having attended the Catholic Con-
gress in Chicago. is now the guest of Car
dinal Gibbons in Baltimore.
Rothley Temple. an ivy-clad. picturesque
mansion, not far from Leicester, England,
will soon be put up at auction. 1t is the
birthplace of Lord Macaulay, and the
great historian spent much of his life there
Ivan Ottlik of the Royal Hungarian Min
istry of Agriculture, who is now in Wash
ington, thinks our farmers are overpro-
ducing wheat, and that in this wheat. by
and by, the farmers will find their soil ex-
hauSted.
The last representative of the famous
Russian family of Mentschikoff died a
short time ago in Baden Baden. The
founder Of the family was Prince Alex
ander Daniloviich Mentschikoff, who was
the son of a stabeman and the apprentice
of baker.
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THE LETTERS ] AND w.
They Were Added to Our Alphabet
Few Hundred Years Ago.
st, Louis Republic

u.
1t is a fact not so we'll known but that 1t may
be said to be curious that the letters and W
are modern additions to our alphabet The
use OF the may be said to have become gen.
eral during the lime of the commonwealth, say
between 1649 and 1868. From 1850 TO 1916 It's
use is exceedingly rare, and / have never as
yet seen book printed prior TO 1862 In which
1t appeared. In the century Immediately pre-
ceding the seventeenth it became the fash
lon 10 tail the last when Roman
8, or xii in place of H. This fashion still lin
gers, but only In physicians prescriptions, /
believe. Where the French use ] 1t has the
power of as we use it in the word "visiOn."
What nation was the first to use 1t as new
letter is an interesting but perhaps unanswer-
able query.
In a like manner the printers and language
makers OF the latter part OF the sixteenth GEN.
tury began TO recognize the fact that there was
a sound in spoken English which was without a
representative In the shape of an alphabetical
"wet." Prior to that time it had always been
spelled as "vet" the having the long sound
OF u or of two UPS together. In order
to convey an idea OF the new sound
they began to spell such words as weather"
"wet," "web," etc., with two us, and as the u
OF that date was typical v. the three words IN
quotations above l0oked like this: "Vveather."
| "vvet," "vveD." After awhile the type-f0unders
recognized the fact that the double had come
to stay, so they Joined the TWO VS. together and
made the character now so well known as the
w. have one book In which three forms OF
W are given. The first Is the old double v (vv),
the next is one In which the last stroke OF the
first crosses the first stroke Of the second and
the tnlro Is the common as used to-day.
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production of as many articles OF common
use as the location is suited to. A kitchen
garden covers the profits of many acres Of
wheat. Fruit. milk, eggs, butter and
cheese absorb more dollars than one
thinks who does not keep accounts.
Under present conditions wheat-gr0wer
is fortunate if he realizes five dollars an
acre after all expenses are paid. More
often he does not net two. and sometimes
there is no net profit. But he pays from
$500 TO $500 year for products of the
earth that he might take from his own
ground if he would take the trouble. The
trouble is that wheat is crop which
leaves the farmer a good deal of leisure.
1t is also with us as cotton is to the South,
the crop upon which money may be the
most readily realized.
The morning call., 1893-10-29

Another wofnl thing has been discov-
cred at the new City Hall. The boilers
are ready to burst. This dreadful calamity
is only STAYED off by the prudence of the
engineer In charge. He Is we'll aware the
boilers will not blow up without steam in
them and he gives one of them no encour-
agement, as its fires have not been lighted
for a whole year. The other three are only
doing donkey duty, with a pressure OF
thirty-fve pounds, and even this is risky fol-
the unsuSrecting officials overhead. The
amount of promotion thus in prospect
without salary Is appalling. Two boilers
are needed to work the elevators and are
sorely tried when fat men are in the as
cendant. To add to the complication the
con sumption of fuel is about as great as
for much higher pressure. To explain the
true inwarduess OF these boilers, and con-
sequently their impending outwardness, il
is necessary to state that they are eighteen
years old-about as old as an old dOg-and
were not intended by boiler-making nature
to last quite so long. Their room is better
than their company in the opinion of the
engineer, who ought to have his life W ell
insured for the benefit of his family.
Pilot Johnson, who was in charge OF
the City of New York when she went
ashore, will no doubt explain everything
as best he can when the inquiry is held
He already indicates the cause. however
The tide swung the vessel in toward the
rocks. The rate at which the vessel was
going was four knots at least, he thinks,
but about the precise rate he is not sure.
Much will turn upon this point, as well
as The precision of the steering. In a foe
such as prevailed there are dangers of col
lisinn, but there is channel enough for q
wide perth to rocks in going to sea. As 10
the f0ghorn. 1t is unfortunate that varia.
tions in the weather cause variations in
the transmission of sound, and the best
trained ears may be deceived; but If the
steamers speed were known and the
course were kept carefully this should not
have caused EN- mbarrassment. Commanders
of steamers shonld know precisely what
their vessels can do under given number
of revolutions. according to the tide.
Thomas Magee raises his voice against
the indiscrminate destruction of oul
forests now unfortunately permitted as il
it were of no more consequence thar
carrying off sandhilI. In Europe the
conservation of forests is made stric
concern of the state. and very little loss
by fires occurs because The causes are alb
sent. In California the shepherd and
hunter work much mischief The reason
why the AK has Dot cut down more in the
Sierras and foothills is the simple one thai
railroads are not yet constructed. WheI
ransportation Is available 1t will be cast
OF farewell to the forest" but not in
Mendelssohn's sense. Mr.. Magee points
out that in all of the two mountain ranges
of the State up TO an elevation of 60O0 oil
$500 feet, every acre OF good available
tim ber land has been pre-empted or pur.
chased. The pre-em ptions are mostly
fraudulent by the use Of dummy pre-
The morning call., 1893-10-29
The 0uarland EIxer

The Union Pacific is the only lire running new
Pullman double drawing-room seepers and din
ing cars, San Francisco to Chicago. without
change, in three and one-half days. All tickets
good via Salt Lake City and Denver.
Select tourist excursions every Tuesday and
Thursday in charge OF managers.
Steamship tickets on sale to and from all points
in Europe.
For sleeping-car accomm odations and tickets
call on ID. w. Hitchcock. general agent. Mont
gomery street. San Francisco; F. r. Ellsworth.
agent 9lS Broadway, OAK land. CAL: or g. f. Herr,
229 South Spring street. Los Angeles, Cal.
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odious. The authorities took two Chinese
at Philadelphia and sent them across the
continent in charge of Deputy Marshal.
From New Orleans to San Francisco there
were assistant deputies to see that the boss
deputy was not taken advantage of. At
San Francisco they were turned over to
the Collector of the Port, who assumed the
responsibility of shipping them to China.
A law may sometimes be beaten by the
method of its enforcement
The morning call., 1893-10-29
+" The Reason Why f"

The firm of Cummings Sons. jewellers,
closed on last Friday was owing to the de-
pressed state of the money market and
being unable to raise the required sum OF
money due their creditors. They have
agreed or come to the conclusion to Sell at
public auction enough goods, consisting of
diamonds. watches. jewelry and silver
ware, to satisfy the demands Of their cred
itors. The sale will begin on the prem
ises. 327 Kearny street, Monday, October
30, at 2 o'clock p NJ, and continued eunti
further notice.
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PUBLICATION oFFICE

525 Montgomery street, near Clay, open until IL
o'clock P. NJ. BRANCH OFFICES: 71o Market
street near Kearny. open until 10 o'clock midnight;
SS9 Hayes street. open until 80 o'clock 603 Larkin
street open until 300 clock SW. corner Sixteenth
and Mission streets, oren until o'clock; 251S
Mission street. open until clock; and 116 Ninth
street, open until Q 30 o'clock.
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TO slide off one wheel on to another and pre-
cisely at The maximum pressure the seam blast
is shut off. the stokers stop dead and the fires
begin to die down; then the driving band begins
to reverse its mOvem mt, and presently the
steam blast is turned on and the fires begin to
be fed again, the vast and magnificent driving
whe eel OF thirty feet in diameter, in the center
OF the building, all the while revolving with the
utmost possible steadiness and regularity. The
self-regulating character of the different parts
is pronounced one of the typical wonders OF
modern machinery.
The morning call., 1893-10-29
MAKING THE LAW oDIOUs.

A Pacific Coast newspaper that does not
lie awake nights devising ways and means
by which the coming of Chinese laborers
may be stopped greatly enjoys the fact
that the ''frst deportation of Chinese from
the East cost the Government about $500
for each Cliinaman." OF course, the fault
lies with the law. 1t would be treason to
intimate that the Federal officials piled up
expenses with a view to make the law
The morning call., 1893-10-29

u- VISITORS TO THE WORLDS FAIR will
End TIE CALL sale at the newsstands in the fol-
lowing hotels: Palmer House, Auditorium Hotel,
Briggs House. Clifton House. Commercial House,
Gault House. Grand Pacific Hotel. Sherman House,
Leland House, Northern Hotel, Richeieu Hotel,
fremont House, Virginia Hotel and Wellington
Hotel.
AT WASHINGTON. D. C.-The Willard Arling-
ton, Ebbitt and Shoreham Hotels.
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SInsCRIPTION RATES:

DAILY CALL dncluding Sundays), &c per year by
mail postpaid Is cents per week, or 65 cents per
calendar month, through carriers. DAILY CALL,
fve comics three months. SO 25. SUNDAY CALL,
81 10 per year postpaid. SUNDAY CALL and
WEEKLY CALL, 1850 per year, postpaid. WEEKLY
CALL, 81 per year, postpaid.
THE CALL cannot return rejected manuscripts,
nor will the editor enter into correspondence re-
s1,ecrfpp tbarn
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Another Great Reduction in Rates via tn,
Shasta Route and Northern Pacific z. z.

Only $50 to Chicago and return. Good sixty
days. Two through trims leaving Portland
morning and evening. Finest equipped trains
IN The world. Composed OF Pullman palace,
Pullman upholstered tourist and dining cars
with IFS before purchasing elsewhere. I. X.
STATELER, General Agent, 638 Market ST.,
San Francisco
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Automatic Machinery.
New Y ork Sun,

A new London steam plant has been con-
structed OF character so largely automatic in
its various mechanisms as to appear almost
independent OF human attention. This is par
ticularly marked in The case of the huge boilers.
in the management OF which. so long as the
steam pressure is under 100 pounds, the auto
matte stokers keep steadily ut their work feed.
the fires roaring. AS, however, the indica OF
on the pressure gauge creeps up toward
The 100 pounds, driving belt begins
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THE MORNING CALL

Has a larger Circu alton than any
other newspaper published in San
Francisco.
The morning call., 1893-10-29

LANGLEY's San Francisco Directory for 894
will commence It's canvass on Monday, October
30, and every authorized canvasser will here
after wear badgr of red ribbon with the
words, "Canvasser LaDgley's 1894 San Fran
cisco Directory" 1t has been found necessary
to adopt this plan In order TO protect the public
from impOstors.
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Phillips Rock island Excursions

Leave San Francisco every Wednesday and sarur-
day via RIO GRANDE AND Rock ISLAND RVS
Through tourist sleeping cars to Chicago and Bos-
ton. Manager and porter accompany these excur
sions through to Boston. For tickets. sleepingcar
accommodations and further Information address
CLINTON JONES. General Agent Rock Island Ry,
30 Montgomery street. San Francisco.
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The Sultan of Turkey is a monomaniac
on the subject of carriages. He has been
steadily engaged in making a collection of
such vehicles for the past twenty years
and now has nearly 500 of all makes and
kinds.
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THE DAILY MORNING CALL

FOR SALE AT
New York .BRENTANO BROS Union Square
Chicago............W.B W. B. SIZER, 1S9 State street
New Orleans. .GALLoT &JoUBERT,11 115x Common
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THOSE who give Hoods Sarsaparll la n fair trial
are soon convinced that 1t is a peculiar and an
honest medicine. Its positive merit is manifested
by the many remarkable cures accomplished
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WEATHER PREDICTIONS.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,
WEATHER BUREAU,
SAN FRANCISCO, october 90, 1881
Official Forecast for Twenty-four Hours
Ending Midnight Sunday.
San Francisco and vicinity - Fair weather;
nearly stationary temperature Sunday; southwest
erly winds JAMES j. GRAY.
Acting Local Forecast Oficial.
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ANeosruRA Bitters, says long time sufferer from
indigestion, thoroughly cured me. Sole manufac-
turers, DR.. j. g. b. Siegert d Sons
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NOTICE
OCTOBER, 1893.

-Ang of our patrons acho fail to find THE
M0RNLNG CALL for sale by trdinboys
ggiu confer a faror By notifying this Office
ef the fact. naming tie date and train.
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Great Britain got two of her possessions
from pirates, the Leward Islands in Bor-
neo and Sarawak in the northwest Of
BOrneo.
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SPRING VALLEY WATER WORKS,

SIC California ST., San Francisco,
October 10, 1892.
Sealed bids will be received at the office
of the SPRING VALLEY WATER WORKS,
516 California street, up to ii A. NJ, on
WEDNESDAY, the 1st of November, next,
for any part of 1000 shares of the stock
ofthe company, in lots of not less than lo
shares. All stock allotted on the said BIDS
will be ready for delivery on the oth oay
of November next. and must be taken and
paid for on or before the 1lth OF Novem-
ber next. All bids must be accompanied
by deposit of So per share in coin or
certified checks.
The company reserves the right to re-
ject any and all bids.
BY order of the Board of Directors,
WIN. NORRIS, Secretary.
oc21 I'd
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PALACE baths, 713 Fibert; warm sea water
Cures rheumatism, neuralgia, many ailments. =
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If pint of water be added to pint of
proof spirit the mixture will not make a
quart A chemical change is the explana-
ton.
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If afiicted with sore eyes nse DR.. Isaac Thomp-
son 8 EA Water druggists sell it at 25 cents