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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23
PAN-AMERICANISM.

None of the many diplomatic questions
now pressing for solution upon the State
Department at Washington, are likely to
result in war or even in any strained re-
lations with other nations. None of the
issues directly involved are important
enough to justify such results, and if we
had strong, resolute, clear-headed man
in the State Office instead OF the weak,
irresolute and laundering Gresham there
would be no doubt of the prompt disposal
of all the complications on the basis of
peace with honor.
While the existing issues are slight,
however, they furnish evidences of con-
dition of things that may at any time
produce the most serious complications.
Our relations to the States of Central
America have been only half worked out
in diplomacy. We have asserted the
Monroe doctrine as a principle, but we
have not fully established the extent of its
application to every issue that may arise.
These issues, so far as Nicaragua is con-
cerned, are growing every year more
serious and important, and the present
complication there emphasizes the neces-
sity of the immediate establishment of
some well-defned and strongly enforced
policy.
The condition of affairs is this. Mica
ragua, like all the Central American States,
is in continual disorder, and as result of
her lawlessness, is with growing frequency
embroiled with foreign powers. She is
now involved in a controversy with Great
Britain, and has been called upon by that
nation to pay an indemnity of SIS, 900
under threat of war. The claim of the
British seems to be just one. The issue
before our Government, therefore, is to de-
termine how far we can permit England to
coerce Nicaragua and how far we can our
selves exert the force needed to compel
the Nlcaraguans to respect the rights, the
persons and the property of foreigners who
are residing there and engaged in legiti-
mate business.
In the case of other Central American
States the solution of the problem might
be difficult, put in the case of Nicaragua it
seems to be simple enough. We propose
to open a canal through that country for
the commerce of the world. That COM
MERGE must have protection from the law
lessness of incessant revolutions. As
Nicaragua cannot assure the supremacy
OF law and justice, the United States must.
The establishment of firm protectorate
over that country would be in accordance
with the part Mr.. Blaine intended the
United States to play in his policy of PAN
Amerlcanism. What American at this
juncture does not regret the death of that
great man whose broad craftsmanship in
Guided IN its scope North, Central and
South America and all their islands, and
whose far-seeing wisdom and sterling pa
triotism would have solved for us every
problem Of our relations to foreign coun-
tries and placed the United States fairly
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23
A BRITISH VIEW.

Some of the best humor of the time is to
be found in the grave and serious attempts
of English editors to explain American
affairs to their readers. Not infrequently
these sober attempts result in burlesque
hardly inferior to the efforts of Mark
Twain and Max O'Rell to take themselves
seriously as wits and duellists; and while
the sincere efforts of an editor to enlighten
the public are not to be fiippantly ridi-
culed, it is permissible to pass some of the
worst, or best, blunders around as part of
the service which the press owes to the
gayety of nations.
An example, rich to the verge of raci-
ness, OF this Kind of humor occurs in the
Manchester (England) Herald as result
of an effort of the editor to explain to his
readers the recent attempt to prevent
Robert Ingersoll from delivering lecture
on the Bible in New Jersey. The Herald
gave the facts in this way:
Ex-senator Ingersoll of Kansas, who, it will
be remembered, ran against Mr.. Blaine for
President in 1884 and derisively bestowed
upon him the title of "Plumed knight" has
recently been experiencing great trouble in de-
hyering his lecture on the Bible. Mr.. Inger-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23
WHY WAIT2

Commenting upon the course of the
CALL, in urging the immediate beginning
of public improvements, the Examiner of
yesterday commended the policy itself, but
suggested that it is not advisable to under
take it at this time, and said, $50 long as
there is no assurance that the money spent
in public improvements will procure the
things for which it is laid out the taxpav-
| ers will prefer to keep it in their own
pockets. But when the public is once con-
WINGED that dollar appropriated for sew
ers will pay for q dollars worth of drain
age, and that dollar spent on streets will
bring dollars worth of paving, it will
open its pockets"
There is no gainsaying the accuracy of
that statement. Even the most progressive
men will not vote money for public i'm
provements if they believe the money
would be stolen or wasted. To object to
public improvements on that ground how
! ever, is to assume that our present officials
are dishonest and such an assumption
ought not to go unchallenged. We are
| aware there have been many charges of
dishonesty and corruption in official life
made at different times by different per-
sons, but we are not aware that anything
wrong has been proven against our present
officials, or that any person has ever been
found who was willing under oath to make
specific charge against single one of
them.
Suppose instead of assailing, attacking,
denouncing and maligning the officials of
the City, a hearty, generous, public-spirited
support should be given to them by the
people and by the press. Suppose instead
of faction fighting we try year or two OF
harmony and cooperation; is it not likely
under those circumstances that our officials
would be able to carry out economically
| the municipal Improvements that are so
much needed? 1t requires no elaborate
| civil service reform, no extensive imitation
of British or Australian official methods.
to take up the cobblestones and put down
| on the streets solid concrete foundation
with an asphalt covering. That is simple
work. The cost of it can be easily esti-
mated in advance. The processes of con-
struction can be readily supervised. What,
then, is the reason why it cannot be done?
Within less than fifty miles of US, San Jose.
with similar system of city government,
raised $500, 600 for public improvements by
issuing bonds and expended every dollar
of it with that high economy which in
creases wealth. Why could not San Fran
cisco do the same with S. 900 600?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23
SPIRIT oF THE PRESS.

Even lawyers get more or less tangled up
when put on the witness-stand, and yet men
and women who have never attended court are
expected to come out of hours land sometimes
days of badgering without having any fault
found with the testimony or the manner of its
giving. The next Legislature should try its
hand at a law requiring Judges to protect wit
nesses In fact it would not be bad idea to
have the Judge ask all the questions the law
yers suggest. The Judge could put the question
in q manner that would not intimidate wit
ness A reformation of some kind is impera-
tive.-Colusa Sun.
China invented gunpowder and she has been
numerically licked. She invented the COM
pass and her feet is at the bottom of the sea in
charge of McGinty. She invented the printing
press and the managing editors of her news
papers have not had an opportunity to double
lead single article during the progress OF the
war with Japan. She didn't invent legs, and
they have been the only things that have been
OF service to her.-Albuquerque Citizen.
Cuban annexationists are becoming as
numerous as frogs in swamp and about as
logical. They want to annex Cuba for glory,
Tor profit or for strategic reasons. They all
avoid talking about the mass of ignorant and
otherwise unfit people who would be made
citizens of the United States at one plunge.
~-%N~N
tons to the eontrary.-Stockton Independent.
Keep the School Department out of politics.
Keep the Superintendent, principals and teech-
ers out of politics. No person connected with
the schools should depend upon his ability to
logroll to keep his place. No instructor can do
his duty in the School Department or achieve
the best results if he owes his position to polit-
ical manipulation.-Alameda Argus.
Just why the people OF California should pay
1886 for the funeral of the late Secretary OF
State Waite is not apparent to the average tax
payer. Mr.. Waite was good man and good
ofhcer, but he drew his salary regularly, and
when the people elected him it was not part
OF the contract that they should also bury him.
San Jose Mercury.
John L. Sullivan is reported to be preparing
his memoirs for publication. They will prob.
ably be issued in the form of a scrapbook.-Los
Angeles Record.
An Ohio doctor has invented a deadly rapid
firing gun. Arizona doctors are contented with
what they can do in their own profession
Phoenix Gazette.
A Democratic writer says there is gratifying
evidence that free wool has come to stay in this
countryP But what about the sheep?-Marys-
vile ApDeal
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soil is known as an authority on theological
matters, but owing to the fact that he would
take no part in the Worlds Fair festivities
upon the ground that the entire affair had an
immoral tendency, the American people have
turned against him, and now no opportunity
to prosecute him is neglected.
This statement of the case ought to be
satisfactory to IngersolL 1t gives him a
reputation as an ex-senator, a citizen of
Kansas. candidate for the Presidency, an
authority on theology and a Worlds Fair
purifier What more in the way of pro-
motion could any man expect from a for
eign critic?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23
THE QUEEN OF THE FIESTA.
HER NAME, SO LONG A SECRET, Is
MADE KNOWN IN THIS
CITY.
MRS. MAMIE WOOD. WHO Is THUS
HoNoRED, Is HERE BUYING
HER COSTUME.

Mrs. Mamie Wood, daughter of w. H,
Perry, who is to be the queen OF the Los
Angeles flower fiesta, is in the city. Mrs.
Wood and her father who is one of the
wealthiest lumber-dealers in California,
are guests at the Baldwin, and while they
have been visited by number OF personal
friends they have endeavored to keep
secret the fact of the honor which Mrs.
Wood will enjoy in the fiesta. Indeed, the
name of the queen is not publicly known
in Los Angeles, Not even one of the thirty
ladies selected as maids OF honor has been
let into the secret, and some of them have
declared that they will not serve as maids
to an unknown queen.
But the secret is out, "by these presents"
and there will be no occasion for any Of
them to withdraw, for Mrs. Wood stands
among the foremost society ladies of that
city. Indeed majority of the maids OF
honor would have chosen Mrs, Wood if
their voices could have been heard in the
selection.
The Queen is tall, handsomely formed
woman, whose appearance in the costume
being made at Maison Truffert, 600 Taylor
street, will form striking picture in the
grand festival of flowers.
The dress is made of white brocade
satin, trimmed with real gold lace and
braid. The waist is of ballroom pattern,
cut deco llete, with double pull sleeves
that will be met at the elbow by sixteen
button gloves. This is surmounted by
cut-point gold-trimmed court collar. The
skirt is gored, with bias satin cord run
ming the length of the front. On either
side of the cord the front of the skirt is
ornamented with a design in gold and
vari-colored tinsel, representing two vines
meeting at an angle at the bottom corner
and united by a lovers knot. The court
train is cream satin, trimmed similarly to
the skirt front.
Mrs. Wood will wear gold crown set
with diamonds and rubies, and a costly
and handsome necklace and girdle of
diamonds and other precious stones. These
Jewels were purchased in Paris five years
ago and are valued at small fortune. The
trimming of the ball dress was also i'm
ported from Paris and more than doubles
the value of the dress.
Mr.. Perry and Mrs. Wood will return to
Los Angeles tomorrow.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23
PERSONAL.

W. D. Upper of Fresno is a guest at the
Palace.
Dr. T. M. Todd of Auburn was at the Lick
yesterday.
Caleb Dorsey, stock-raiser of eakdale, is at
the Grand
F. R. Harris of Los Angeles is registered at
the Palace.
T. ]. Field the mining man, of Monterey is
at the Palace.
VS.. McClatchy of the Sacramento Bee is at
the California.
F. G. Ostrander, an attorney of MERGED, is a
guest at the Lick.
H. A. Stansfeld, a rancher of Nevada City, is
at the Occidental.
w. F. George, an attorney of Sacramento, is q
guest at the Grand.
A. L. Hart an attorney of Sacramento, was at
the Grand yesterday.
Thomas H. Thompson, real-estate man of
Tulare, is at the Lick.
f. D. Nicol, an attorney of Stockton, arrived
at the Lick last night.
Alex White fruit-grower of Los Angeles, is
registered at the Lick.
Melvin G. Winstock, merchant of Seattle, is
registered at the Grand.
George NJ Radford, fruit-grower of Weaver
vile, is now at the Lick.
Clifford J. owen, business manager of the San
Jose Mercury, is in the city.
Ex-Mayor Charles F. Bishop of Buffalo, N. Y,
registered at the Palace yesterday.
John NJ. Thurston, one of Nebraskas most
prominent legal lights, is at the Palace.
Thomas r. Bard of Hueneme, one of Southern
California's most prominent citizens, is at the
Occidental.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

The cigar trade of Russia has been almost
completely ruined since the coronation of the
young Gear. He is devoted to smoking meer-
schaum pipe and all his loyal subjects have,
as in duty bound, discarded their fragrant
Havanas for pipes, and the larger they are the
more highly they are priced. The streets of St.
Petersburg are now said to resemble German
country town, for more than half the men one
meets are putting gigantic meerschaums.
Mrs. Sarah Thomas, centenarian, of BURY
port, Llanelly, who last year received check
of IS 6s from the Princess of Wales, or a shil-
ling for each natal anniversary has Just cele-
brated her one hundred and seventh birthday.
She is very fond of well-seasoned clay pipe
filled with strong tobacco.
Gladstone has become very sensitive to the
odor of tobacco in his old age. He dislikes it
intensely, and the surest way to obtain his an
tagonism is to go into his presence with the
odor of cigar or pipe on your person.
Prince Bismarck recently said to q visitor
that he had only one serious complaint to
make against old age, and that was that he had
been obliged of late to abstain almost entirely
from tobacco.
Mrs Hannah Chard of Vineland N. J., will
be 1O7 years old on April 20. She can still do
her own housekeeping and chores, and is rarely
unable to enjoy quiet smoke.
The Japanese Mikado is a man of much en-
ergy and endurance, in spite of the fact that
he is great cigarette-smoker.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23
!
THE ESTATE OF THE LATE
MRS. KATE JOHNSON.
ADVANCE BIDS
WANTED
First-CIasS Realty
NOW IN PROBATE.

CAPITALISTS, CORPORATIONS, TRUSTEES
" agents and all other persons seeking bargains t
well located inside San Francisco real estate and
two outside blocks requested 10 make an offer
at once upon the following described propertyI
to w.t. 80
FIRST-The 5O-vara lot situate on the nortbvves.
corner of Golden Gate avenue and Leayenwortfi
street.
SECoND-The 5o-vara lot situate on thu soutA
west corner OF Leayenworth and OiFarreu streets
intending the magnificent mansion built thereon
THIRD-All of outside block No 799, 24Ox6OO
feet, bounded by Thirty-frst and Thirtv-second
from Golden Gate Fark comprising so CITY lots
FOURTH-The east half of block No 92B helms
12Ox6OO feet, bounded by Thirty-second avenue.
and streets, containing "a city lots
The above described property was aDnraised
eight months ago by John Hinkle. Michael Flood
ana Edward Bosqui as follows: First piece SI9O-
900; second piece So, 500; third piece $500,
fourth piece, $3.50. : petition is now pending he.
fore the Hon. j. V. Coffey of Department 3 1pro-
bate or the Superior Court of this city and county
Tor the confirmation of the sale of the 5O-vara lei
on the corner OF Golden Gate avenue and Leaven.
worth street at $S1 400, and for the confrmatia =
or the sale OF the b0-yara lot on the corner a.
Leavenworth and o'Farrell streets at $40, 300 ana
Tor the confirmation of the sale Of outside block No
7S9, $5225, and for the confirmation of the sale n;
half Of outside block No. 925 for $3.50.
Advance bids are desired and may be submittaa
&c the undersigned or rendered in open court ON
MONDAY, March 25, 1895, at 2 P. ". Department
8, probate).
This property is being sold for less than its real
value, thereby giving investors rare Opportunity
to secure bargain,
Title good or sale. For particulars applv IN
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

in position as the arbiter of the destinies
OF the Western World? Sooner or later
we must take some decided action in these
matters. and it would be better to have
taken it with Blaine than with Gresham.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23
Went Down with the EIbe.

letter that went down with the steame,
Elbe, and found its way back to Bremen, Ger.
many, whence it was originally posted to Con.
rad Feeker, 11o1a Stockton street. San Fran.
cisco, was received here by that gentleman
yesterday. The letter was one of a number
saved from two floating pouches found by !
fishing-smack two days after the sinking of the
ship. The envelope was badly water soaked
and crumpled and worn on the edges. The
stamp was substituted by the postoffice At
Bremen. The envelope bears also the state.
ment OF the postofice that it "was saved out
OF the post cargo of the steamer Elbe" MT
Fecker had not heard from his niece. who
wrote the letter, for eleven years.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

We would have better City officials if we
helped them more and abused them less.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

The coming of British capital to develop
the resources of California ought to be suf-
ficient to make our silurians realize how
eminent they are as blanks.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

The snarl into which Gresham has got
our foreign relations has become so tangled
we may have to cut it with sword.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

The heavy increase IN the gross earnings
of the Santa Fe system indicates that rail.
way traffic between California and the East
is growing in volume.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

Wherever Progress puts a foot in Cali
fornia it finds something solid to stand on.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

Public improvements need not wait for a
change in the City government. All that
is needed is a change in public sentiment
from silurianism to enterprise.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

Now that the manufacturers have organ
lied the machinery, we may expect to see
the wheels moving before long.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

Pan-Americanism is rapidly becoming a
live issue in the field of diplomacy.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

Governor Budd is in no hurry about
scalping the coyote bill.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

If diplomatic language" does not
cease to be SO common everybody will
be falling into the ugly habit of talking
Latin.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

If you wish to brighten your leisure with
a daisy tomorrow, remember to get the
Sunday CALL.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

The officers of the Carson Mint are as shy
about discussing the robbery of the Mint
as is real nice girl over appearing on the
stage for the first time in tights.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

II becomes more and more evident that
we shall have to extend a protectorate over
Nicaragua and make her behave herself
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

The Cars new yacht, the Standard was
launched at Copenhagen recently in the
presence of the Danish royal family and
the corps diplomatique. She is $500 tons
burden, is AS feet long, and her total Cost
will reach $2,000,000 Her lines were laid
down in accordance with the personal in.
dications of the late Emperor Alexander.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

Those who have any leisure to-day can
employ it we'll in attending the opening
services OF the Memorial Museum.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

Herr Scheel struck our musicians and
music-loyers a pretty hard blow when he
declared that we need a kindergarten more
than a conservatory.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

What could be happier occurrence than
for San Jose and Stockton both to have a
valley road?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

Just sufficient oppositions have been de
veloped in the Manufacturers Convention
TO show that the members are men of ideas,
individuality and earnest purpose.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

Whenever you write to an Eastern friend
remind him that the next Republican
National Convention must be held in San
Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

The convention can point to its work
with pride. but the silurian will view il
with alarm.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

If the little Iberian King is not careful
Uncle Sam will be after making him walk
Spanish.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

''Now here is a furnace that we guarantee to
be simple enough for the average servant to
run"
"Uml What you need is one that will run in
spite of the average servant" smith, Gray &
Co.'s Monthly.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

GENUINE eyeglasses 15e, s11< Fourth, mr.. bar.
Der. Sundays 736 Market (Kast's shoestore).
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

TowNsEND's Cal. Glace Fruits, four make, !" SOC
ID. in Japanese baskets 627 Market street.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

The path of duty leads to the competing
road.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

Sir Thomas More was very proud of tho
''Life of Edward W. and left no mention
of his estimate OF the ethiopia"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

CUR-IT-UP; heals wounds, burns and sores as
If by magic; one application cures poison oak;
it relieves pain and abates Inflammation.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

The rivers, the winds, the sunshine, the
tides and the waves of California might all
be utilized to solve the fuel problem.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

Good business men are always good citi-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-23

PEOPLE who are very nervous viii not find q
permanent cure in opiates and sedative prepara-
lions. Nervousness is caused by impure blood,
Hoods sarsaparila cures nervousness by making
pure blood.