The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-28

ton. He accuses a number of the members
of looking too much on the wine when it
is red, and as might be expected his criti-
cisms are prolific of protest and resent
ment To belong to a club celebrated for
bibu lousness. if not rellickfng inebriety. is
an honor which might cost many men bad
turn in life, both at home and among
friends. But it would be absurd TO con-
clude that clubs have any inherent and all
prevailing tendency to encourage drinking
habits. In numbers Of clubs member falls
into bad odor who shows the least ten
dency to vinous propensities, and when he
oVersteps the limits OF decorum he is ex-
PEELED. ClubableneSs Is no longer asso-
ciaied with booty hilariOusness or imbe-
cillty.
A Texas woman has inflicted biting chas-
tisement upon man who spoke disrespect-
fully of her. She got her husband to hold
a revolver at the iraducer's head and then
cracked whip about him 10 furious style
until he had received hundred lashes.
The poor man must have said something
awfuliy wicked about her.
A queer story is told by NJ. de BIowitz.
newspaper cores pendent at Paris, showing
that the morals of Maccbiaveli in further
ing the aims and policy of statecraIt are
still operative in diplomacy. Eighteen
years ago the Journal deS Debdts was
making things SO lively for Baron Holstein
that it seemed probable Germany would
have to recall him. Blowi;z was appealed
10 by a friend of Holstein to silence the
hostile battery. and on the strength Of GER
tain correspondence he opened fire success
fully and saved the Baron. Now comes
gratitude. which, says Blowilz is a feeling
unknown 10 dipiOmatlsts, who simply study
how to attain their ends. HolsteIn called
and personally thanked the correspondent,
almost with tears In his eyes. But soon
afterward BlowIiZ received from an intimate
friend OF Delane a letter which bad been for
warded by HOlstein at the very moment he
appeared so grateful. giving very weighty
reasons why BlowitZ should cease TO be
correspondent in Paris and he succeeded by
one who would comprehend the true aspects
of the situation. OF course DelaDe paid no
attention to this insidous exhibition of
baseness. 1t was one of the usual tricks of
diplomacy. HGlsiein is still useful aud in
huential.
Homes for the inebriate may not cure,
but they restrain. A woman in Detroit
should be consigned to one of them, but if
not it would be humane TO immune her in
prison for the rest of her life. Her weak
ness for getting drunk cannot be broken.
During the last twenty years she has passed
fifteen years and half in jail under sem
fences for inebriety. She has often been
arrested and discharged without sentence
being passed, but the commitments against
her name are no less than 100 When sober
she is peaceable. modest and industrious.
Drink transforms her into wreck. What
is the use of turning such woman loose to
sink deeper and deeper into the mire Of
degradation?
The game season is practically over so far
as duck and quail are concerned. Hunters
have TO go further afeld each year for
sport. but except aronDd San Francisco
game IS still abundant ana. with the excep-
ton of canvas back. is never a costly dish In
the restaurants. With or without stringent
license for spOrtsrneD. the danger of game
determination is remote In California.
As the dominator OF the fortunes Of the
Pacific Mail Mr.. Huntington has encouraged
the idea that he will get hold Of the Tehuan-
tepec Railroad and set up in rivalry to the
Panama Railroad. He must think the men,
CRY of San Francisco merchants very short
if he imsgines this b.ufing will take effect.
In July last year the San Francisco Cham
Der of Commerce received letter from Pres
ident DaZ conveying the explicit assurance
that the road will remain Mexican property.
He stated THAT IN order that the Tehuante-
interbceanic commerce the Mexican Govern
ment is conducting ii for its own account,
with the end that its administration will
serve no other purpose than the benefit of
interoceanic commerce." The information
was also given that the contracts would be
finished by July this year. With the rail-
road free to all commerce on equal terms
this coast cannot fail TO be benefited en0r-
mousy. When the Nicaragua canal is open
on equal conditions commerce between the
two oceans will be set free TO an illimitable
extent, beyond the rover OF monopolies to
control it in the small est degree.
An absurd warning is issued In Panama
paper against letting the United States ac-
qure control of the isthmus canal and its
property. the management afterward pass
ing into the hands of millionaire monopo-
lists. OF all the improbable things con-
ceivabe that is one of the least likely
to happen. The United States Government
has no more notion OF acquiring the Panama
canal than OF buying up the Suez canal. 1t
is dead. weed-overgrown ditch for perhaps
a century 10 come. Even the once valuable
machinery rustiDg there is not likely to be
removed. Most of it is now so damaged as
to be useless. What waste of plantl
A shipbuilding exhibit Is expected at
Chicago from the LaIrds of Brkenhead,
who will Illustrate the progress of steam
ship-bulding On the Liverpool and New
York route. The firm is not qualified for
this role, as it has constructed none of the
very fast vessels. But 1t has some notorety
In another role of shipbuilding not yet for
gotten In America, and the English people,
who paid the bill of damages, also know it
to their cost
British agriculture, as represented by the
value of land, has had an awful fall; bit it
has not crushed the thrifty farmer. who
now has lower rents. and the laborer is at
least as well off as ever he was. The land
owners are pinched. but they have a remedy
in undertaking the cultivation of the soil
themselves. While a site 10 the heart of
London recently sold at the rate of about
S5.000,000 per acre. agricultural land in
Essex, an hour or so OF railway journey
from The metropolis. has been offered at $50
per acre. "Squireing" is becoming uIl-
profitable.