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The morning call., 1893-11-03

gil HOO PAINT, OIL AND WALL PAPER
.SLl OVp. store for sale; good paying business:
sptendi ID stand; disagreement of partners OF
:aals McLAsGHLIN q Co. 261a kearny. 2 rs
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: I'INE GROCERY AND BAR WITH LIVING
I..r0oms and stable. Apply Call Branch mol 7tE
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GOE0O WHOLESALE AND RETAIL WINE
63AOOU. and liquor business. with a good bar
trade: no agents. HOLTUM BROS, 2O5 Market
n, bet. and NJ. no3 3tF
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GOS0O BAKER-ST. LOTS. BET. GOLDEN
u ZOOO. Gate ave. and McAllister st we have
choice lots Baker st offered at a low price
to close partnership property Apply to BALD
WIN & HAMMOND, 10 Montgomery ST.
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&16 6OO RENTS $500 PER ANNUM:
u tO. .CUU. frst-class Investment within 200
feet of Market ST. not far from Baldwin otel
must be sold under order of court. For par
ticulars apply to BALDWIN Il HAMMOND, 10
MOntpomerv
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: II ODGING-HOUSE AND SALOON; Is ROOMS
:. 81 all occupied. Apply 20l3 Folsom ST. next TO
'ErIeIpri>e Brewery. Hermann House no2 3t~
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IETANTED-MAN WITH SMALL CAPITAL AS
~ partner on poultry-ranch to take fun charge
For particulars call at 116l Market ST., bet IL
nDd (
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oeTEO INCOME $50; CALIFORNIA ST.
UOI ~. near Baker; handsome house. con
tainS . flats and rooms and bath each; always
rented: lot 25xl57 :6 Apply WILL L. FISHER
& CO. il Post ST. nos st
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THE FUTURE OF SEALS.

When Mr.. Blaine advanced the idea that
promiscuous seal-huntiDg was contrary to
the public good and should be outlawed
by civilized nations he furnished an argu-
ment in favor OF American jurisdiction
over Bering Sea that has never been
answered. but has fallen to the ground
through conditions not at that time fore
seen. The report from the Pribtlof
Islands that the seal-poachers took 10000
seals last season at the EXPENSE of 100000
lives shows that Mr.. BlaiDe's idea was cor
rect. So destructive method of taking
seals should be onsidered a violation of
natural laws, and as such subject to inter
national agreement. TIE conclusion
reached by the recent international Court
of Arbitration provides no remedy for the
evil complained of. The simple fact that
the seals are theoretically protected within
sixty miles of the islands does not prevent
their slaughter when they get beyond that
d stance. Under the decision of the court
the practical extermination 1f seals is but
q question OF three or four years.
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Daniel Appleton, colonel of the famous
Seventh Regiment of New York, is also
the head Of the publishing house bearing
his name.
Stephen Langton, Archbishop af Canter.
bury, first divided the Bible In chapters
and verses, this about the close of the
twelfth century.
The Chinese Emperor, who is % years
DID, is studying the French and English
languages. and the heir presumptive to
throne Of China attends the Mobiles
School.
The Princess Won Bismarck has been
very i'll and the family at Friedrichsruhe
were troubled and anxious for time. but,
fortunately, she may now be called con-
valescent woman.
Edward T. Bartlett, the Republican can
didate for Judge of the Court of Appeals OF
New York, who is running against Tam
many's candidate. Judge Maynard. pos
sesses remarkable qualities as debater and
orator.
Dormap 8. Eaton is more prominently
connected with civil-service reform since
the death of George w llliam Curtis than
any other American. He is now leading
corporation lawyer in New FORK. where
he began practicing f0rty-three years ago.
The coming marriage of the Grand Duke
Nicholas. heir-apparent to the Cars
throne. and Princess Victoria. second
daughter of the Prince of Wales, will make
triple matrim onial connection between
the royal families Of Russia and Great
Britain.
Miss May Yates, who had charge of the
Vegetarian Federal Union of Great Britain
at the Worlds Fair up to the time Of her
departure for England some time ago. has
decided to return to America to enter the
lecture field in behalf of the cause OF Vege-
tarianism
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THE INSANITY PLEA.

Concerning the mental condition of the
assassin of Mayor Harrison the Chicago
Herald says:
Neither science nor law is required to estab-
lish the Insanity of Prendergast, who assass-
mated Mayor Harrison. The fact that a man
without legal education should have repeatedly
seriously and Of the Mayor himself, OF bis sons
and of the corporation counsel asked appoint
ment to that Office is enough.
The assumption is that Prendergasts
manifest unitness for the position he
sought is conclusive evidence Of his
insanity. OF course, the application OF
Prendergast for an office for which he bad
no qualifications is evidence that he was
not a cons ientious, well-balanced man.
But there are many stepping-stones to the
mental condition he thereby betrayed.
How many men there are in public life
who have no considerable degree Of fitness
for the office they hold? How often do we
see competent but obscure deputy doing
the work of an incompetent chiefP When a
man is nominated for an Office no one asks
if he has made the duties that will devolve
upon him in the event of an election
special study. Aspirants for Office fit from
one department to another according as
there seems TO be an opening In one or
another. The assassin of Mayor Harrison
was not lawyer, yet he aspired to place
lawyer only could fill.
But this Is fimsy evidence on which to
base a plea of insanity. Could not Prem
dergast employ a legal adviser? Would
he not find precedent for holding an Office
and employing an assistant to do the
work? The fact that he sought this
especial Office shows that he was un-
reasonable, that he had no proper sense of
the fitness of things, that ne knew little or
nothing about himself in his relation to
society, but not that he was insane. Our
Chicago contemporary sagely remarks that
sit is not easy to draw the line between
reason and Iunacy." This is true, but it
is equally true that person who has
reason enough to plan a murder as Prem
dergast did has reason enough 20 be sub
jected to ordinary methods of trial. With
out provOcation men do not take sudden
leave of their senses. The sight of a man
who has Inflicted great wrong upon
person may madden an excitable tem-
perament to the verge of insanity, but no
such cause is apparent in this case. Prem
dergast was inceDsed because the Mayor
would not give him an Office he coveted,
but there is not the slightest doubt of his
entire responsibility for his act at any
stage of the crime.
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TARIFF REVISION.

The New York Sun is kept busy killing
off what it terms unconstitutional tariff re-
vision. All the Democrats who have any,
thing to say about revision are, in the
Suns opinion. following protectionist
lines. Edward Atkinson recently got a
rap over the knuckles for intimatng that
political ruin would follow a reincoTpora-
ton of duties on coffee and tea. Later
Senator Hill was called sharply to ac-
count for a speech in which he advocated
in cidental protection, and now Congress-
man Coombs of Brooklyn, described as
another honest and sincere man, is read
out of the party for proposing tariff bill
which the Sun declares to be a protection
ist measure in all its essential features.
The Sun is literally correct in its descrip-
tiou of what revenue tariff should be.
The object is to obtain revenue from the
sources most available for that purpose.
Such a tariff should have no free list un-
less 1t could be shown that revenue de-
rived from that source would cost more
than it come TO. Nothing could be ad-
mitted free unless that some American in
dustry would be benefited by free raw
material. No article of import should be
allowed to escape taxation for the reason
that the tax would be unpopular. The
Democratic party in convention was fool
ish enough to demand straight tariff for
revenue. Protection was declared uncon-
stitutionaL But now that the Democratic
leaders are confronted with the work of
preparing tariff bill on these lines they
find that such tariff is impracticable.
The recognition OF the principle Of pro-
lection is indispensable to a bill which
would stand the slightest show in Con-
gress. Congressman COombs has labored
long over his bill. He is able and honest
and sincere, but these qualities incapaci-
tate him for his work. He has divided all
articles Of import into four classes, in all
OF which the principle of protection is
recognized. BE would have free raw ma
terial for the benefit OF American manu-
facturers. He would impose duty on
wines. spirits and tobacco sufficient TO
protect manufacturers who pay tax
under our internal revenue laws. But the
clause which most arouses the Suns ire is
one which proposes specific duty on
foreign manufactured goods to cover the
American manufacturers greater outlay
in the item of labor. The Sun practically
asks Coombs If he knows what he is
doing? Is he awake or asleep?
To most people Mr.. C0Ombs seems to be
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THE CALAMITY AT SANTANDER.

A steamer with dynamite as part of her
cargo has caused a frightful disaster at
Santander, in Spain. The vessel caught
fire and the flames spread to the hold.
where besides the boxes of dynamite In
cartridges there were doubtless fuse de-
tonators of illuminate Of mercury. Most of
the people, panic stricken, appear to have
fed from the dock when they learned that
this high explosive was on board, but
few remained TO fight the flames, and they
have paid for their courage with their
lives. The explosion carried fire to the
town, and there has evidently been great
destruction, and no fewer than a thousand
lives. il is said, have ben sacrifcede
Dynamite ships, as rule. carry their
cargo safely from the very areful precau-
tions taken, and during more than twenty
years of traffic there have been very few
fires.
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PERHAPS.

A Democratic paper has the following ::
Our Government has proclaimed its policy
toward Brazil. II has done so in a most i'm
pressive and suggestive manner. The policy is
American. There is note Of warning in it.
The significance of the act OF President CleVe-
land in relieving from duty the rear admiral
in command of the squadron lying before Rio
viii most tainly be understood by those Eu-
ropean powers which are menacing the indie
pendence of the Brazilian republic.
No declaration of policy can be seen in
the act of the Government in relieving
Rear-Admiral Stanton from duty. He was
relieved for salutng flag that had not
been recognized by our Government as a
flag. The explanation of the offending
admiral that the flag be saluted was the
Brazilian flag could have no bearing in
the case since there can be no contention
that he did not know that the power he
saluted was opposed to the Brazilian Gov
ernment. II an admiral commanding an
Anne rican fleet in any foreign port had
saluted a flag the American Government
had not recognized, even if he regarded
the cause the saluted flag represented with
friendly eyes. the result would neces-
sarlly have been the same. Admirals are
not supposed to dictate Our policy in
recognizing an uprising against govern
ment as belligerent power. The admiral
should wait for the Government to take
the lead. That the American people en-
tertain friendly feelings for the republican
Government Of Brazil will readily be ad-
mitted. but so far the Government has not
committed itself. When Grover Cleve-
land makes up his mind to pursue an
American policy, either in respect to home
or foreign affairs, he will let people know
1t. He might begin with message con-
Cerning the annexation of Hawaii.
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TREATMENT OF TRAMPS.

The increase in the volume of tramps is
directing attention 10 the necessity of
adopting new economics in the plans for
feeding paupers. Within the past two
mon tbs San Francisco, Fresno and other
cities had to feed large bodies of unem-
ployed men. The law of humanity is
clear that whether the tramps will not
work or whether they cannot get work,
they must be fed. 1t thus becomes a seri-
Gus question how they shall be supplied
with food at the least expense.
This problem, like others which puzzle
us, has been worked out to a solution in
Europe. On that continent the tramp has
flourished from time immemoria. Able
minds long ago studied him from every
point of view, and they have reduced to a
system the way to feed him at the least
expense without impairing bis health or
his vital energy. They do not approve of
gratuitous feeding, save in exceptional
C ases. Every tramp is expected to do some
little work, which is provided by the city
or by public-spirited citizens. and for the
small pittance paid him for this be gets
food and shelter. One of the best mana aged
of these tramp homes is at the great manu-
featuring city of ChemniiZ, in Germany
This establishment published month ago
a report Of its proceedings for the year
ending June 80. 1893 1t is interesting
reading.
During the year it supplied 435. .760 din
ners. the most expensive of which cost
less than 10 cents. The total expense OF
the institution was S15.557. the total In
come S1750 and the profit to the city was
S1944. Al these meals the following
among other articles were consumed
II, 9S2 pounds of beef, 14,716 pounds of
sausage, 1867 pounds of Bologna sau-
sage, 1878 pounds of potatoes, 1904
pounds of wheaton -four, 23.S20 pounds of
bread. besides pork. corned beef, butter.
sugar. peas, beans. rice, barley, garden
veget tables and fruit. The prices charged
for each dish were very moderate: her
rings and potatoes, 31a cents; potatoes and
buttermilk. 2h cents; quart of soup, 211z
cents, cup of coffee, 11a cents; bread from
&c TO Nc.
1t would seem that Americans might
learn a lesson from the Germans. In
st ates of the Union which farm out their
prison labor 1t is reckoned that 1t costs
from 30 cents to so cents to feed conv vict,
about twice what the Germans charge to
feed a tramp. Our extravaganza arises
from ignorance of scientific dietetics. We
supply our tramps and convicts with more
food than they can digest; the surplusage
is wasted. but costs just the same as the
portion which is benefcally used.
The tramp case is pressing. but no legis-
lation that can reach the subject is now
possible with us. Whatever is done by
way CT relief will have TO be undertaken
directly by our public-s spirited and charita-
Bile citizens. The next Legislature is more
than year off, Meanwhile the pro blem
may largely solve itself. The opportuni.
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MASLIN SELECTED.
The New Expert for Examining City
PayementS.

AT the last meeting Of the Board OF Su-
pervisors resolution was passed author
izing the Mayor and the Street Committee
to appoint competent gineer at salary
not to exceed $3.50 month to examine
into and report upon all concrete and bitu-
men used in laying sidewalks and pave
ments on the city streets.
Mayor Ellert asked to be relieved OF the
burden OF selecting man, and the reso-
luton was passed giving the Street Com
mittee that power. During the week the
Street Committee has been looking around
for good man, and yesterday Chairman
Day stated that it had been practically de-
cided to appoint Prentice Maslin. son OF
Il. T. Masin, who was for eight years
secretary of the State Board of Examiners.
Prentice Maslin is considered hrst-class
engineer. and has been superintendent OF
construction of many of the large public
buildings of the State. He is now In
Sacramento and 1t is not definitely kn own
whether he will accept the position OF not.
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BOON TO MINERS.
Benefits of a Revised
Mining Law.
A Saving Which Is Large i'm the Ag-
gregate Will Be Effected-The
Stir in Stocks.

The miners were glad to read in the
dispatches from Washington yesterday
that President Cleveland had signed the
bill amending section 1923 of the Revised
Statutes relating to mining claims.
According to this Lew law miners will
be temporarily relieved of what has been
considered a hardship. They will each be
500 richer at the END of the year, and as
this applies to every owner OF mining
claims great saving in the aggregate will
be efferted
The statute formerly required that 500
worth of work should be lone annually on
unpatented mining claims. As finally ap-
proved this requirement is suspended dur
ing the present year of 1898. except in
South Dakota, where the statute remains
in force.
ut is very good thing" said Herman
Sadig, the stock broker and miner. PAY
Ing 500 yearly was natural hardship on
miners who did not gain any profit from
their mines. Suppose a man got a claim,
he would have 10 expend 500 without any
return. Might as well compel rancher
on Governmen land TO cultivate so many
acres yearly. This will be a great benefit,
particularly to owners of silver claims, on
account OF the great depression in silver
mining and the depreciation of silver.
When money is none too plentiful the
saving of 500 means great deal, and
when you take into consideration all the
500 that will be saved through this amend
ment it Is not hard to appreciate its i'm
portance. Many miners feel that burden
has been raised from their backs by 1t.
The bill adds to the prospects of gUod
times which are pretty sure of coming this
winter. judge by present indications.
with this thing off the minds of miners
q mi n m r a
which has jumped up all of sudden.
Since the last yearly meeting of the Con.
Cal. e. Va. Company Con. Virginia stock
went from 81 65 to 81 10, and other stocks
have gone up In company with these. We
expect to see revival Of old times, aud if
that comes there will be good times in San
Francisco before long"
The morning call., 1893-11-05

AS LUCK WOULD HAVE 1T.

Lord Dunraven, the alleged sportsman,
is not winning golden opinions among
true British sportsmen by his talk sin ce
his return from the United States. he
tells his British friends that the Vigi-
liant won each race by luck. He does not
even except the race in which the VAL
kyre was only a nominal competitor.
There is some ground for the opinion that
luck had something to do with the last
race, but the other two were clearly won
on merit. The Valkyrie is admitted by
American yachtsmen to have been the
most skillfully handled. Dunraven pro-
poses to renew the challenge next year
But American yachtsmen may decline to
compete again with man who attributes
three straight races, one bad beat. to
luck.
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MRS. BELL OBJECTS.
She Thinks the Executors Too Law
ish in Disbursements.

iSh in Disbursements.
Mrs. Teresa Bell, widow of the late mil
lonaire, Thomas Bell, has filed with the
County Clerk a document wherein sne
objects, excepts to and contests the frs,
anDual account of George Staacke and j.
w. c. Maxwell. executors Of her late nus
bands will
The account in question was filed on the
21st ult., and Mrs. Bell takes execution 70
no less than thirty-six items in the account
as being unnecessary and improper d's-
bursements. The items objected to aggre.
gate the sum of S19,835 81. Sixteen oi
these represent certain sums paid as inter
est 10 Louisa j. Thompson, Mary Kelly,
Ellen Kelly and Kate Blaxland. and there
are seven items aggregating S3672 19, repre-
senting sums of money paid TO Wliiiain
Neely Thompson on account OF claihs lof
money loaned to Thomas Bell. Inere rs
also an item of S7946 IL, amount pald
Thomas Bell & Co.. in full payment OF
Thomas Bells indebtedness to the firm. as
shown by the books.
Mrs. Bell objects to these last-named
items on the ground that they were pre-
maturely paid and without an order OF tne
court and further upon the ground tnat
there are claims against her husband 5
estate fully secured by mortgage aud
pledge. which are still unpaid.
Following there are items aggregatiDg
S1260, representing cash paid to George
Staacke for office rent and clerks salary
for nine months at $40 month. w. h:
F. Deal is on the lis: as having received
$500 for legal services in the suit of
Thomas Bell VS.. the Bailey. Humboldt and
Alabama Mining companies, and there is
AIN item of S48 04 for subscriptions to for
eign papers. These last preceding dis
bursements Mrs. Bell objects to as being
neither necessary nor proper. and there
fore unlawful.
Lastly, as guardian of the persons and
estates of her minor children, Mas. Bell
objects to an item of $3.50 40. set down In
the list as cash paid to John w. c. Max
we'll for travelling expenses incurred in the
matter of the estate. She therefore asks
that all these items be disallOwei.
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pretty wide awake. He proposes to frame
tariff bill on the only principle that will!
stand. He has read history, and knows
that tariff for revenue acts have had short
lives and have gone down in chaos. Being
attracted to the Democratic party Oh other
issues, he does not propose to stand by and
permit political suicide. It is not Mr.
Coombs but the Sun who is asleep. A
newspaper that does not know that pure
tariff for revenue is utterly impracticable
in this country, and that dozen Demo
cratic conventions cannot make one prac-
ticable. can hardly be characterized as the
Sun characterizes Mr.. Coombs. as hon
est, able and sincere"
The morning call., 1893-11-05
The OverIand FLYER,

The Union Pacific is the only line 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 point.
in Europe.
For sleeping-car accommo odations and ticket.
call on ID. w. Hitchcock general agent. Mont
gomery street. San Francisco; T. X. Ellsworth
agent SlS Broadway, Oakland. CAL. or q. +. Herr
229 South Spring street, Los Angeles, Cal.
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Whaling has made a record this season
far beyond anything known in Scoresby's
day or among the Dutch. The superiority
of steam power over sails in making the
most of season has been amply demon
strated of late, but never so conspicuously
as this year. Four steam vessels are re-
ported with catch of no fewer than 217
whales. One of these has sixty-four and
a second almost equals it with sixty-two-
about twice as many as ScOresby ever
caught, and he had fortune in the fishery
far beyond others on the Greenland side of
the continent. The effert of catch which
may total nearly 400 whales must be to
lower prices for bone, which is now the
principal source Of profit. but at the rate
of slaughter now iDaugurated this will
soon be corrected, for 1t is very unlikely the
whale can persist against SO much destruc-
ton. Another effect of the catch must be
to drive sailing vessels out OF the enter
prise. A bark may lose numbers of
whales sighted. but steamer may capture
every spouter. and it can stay longer amid
the ice foes without danger of being
niDped.
Raiah Brooke OF Sarawak, an enligbt-
ened ruler over mixed population in his
little country, has been interviewed on the
Chinese question. There are nearly
30,0 Chinese In Sarawak. and he says
they require severe government He CON-
pares them to Europeans in the desire to
manage their own affairs, but with some
good qualities. they are very bigoted and
know they are the principal power in that
part of the world. He was asked whether
he believed the Chinese would one day
flood the world. To this the Rajah replied
Not in my day or in your day, perhaps.
but eventually the European element and
the Chinese must meet somewhere in the
world You cannot realize how fast they
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