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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

him, and tells an interesting story of the life
the island potentate leads out in the South
Pacific.
King Georges realm comprises $50 islands
the largest OF which is Tonga having for its
capital Mukualofa, the seat of the imperial
palace. Tonga is but twelve by twenty-one
miles in extent, and all the islands have col
lective area of some 400 square miles
When the King gets tired in the shade of the
cocoanuts and at gazing at the mountain tops
OF Tonga he sails away in his boat TO visit 9th
ers OF his subjects, attended by platoons o.
canoes, from which wild music is discoursed
Altogether he has good time OF it, though
the total number of his subjects reaches but
about %, 900. The King is happy individ-
ual, according to Mr.. PEARS. He worries ovel
nothing, dimes frequently and drinks such po-
lions as the traders bring him or of those
made at home that are deemed worthy of the
royal favor.
Captain John S. Layton of the schooner Cape
Horn Pigeon, who arrived here recently with q
big catch of whales and who has been staying
at the Russ, will leave again for the whaling
grounds to-day.
ave made big catch and got lot of money
by our last cruise" said be. at is rare that @
vessel gets SO many whales, especially one SC
small as the Cape Horn Pigeon, sailing craft
OF but 210 tons register.
"All our catch came from the Okhotsk Sea,
near the Japan coast. We captured six right
whales and thirty sperm whales, from which
we got 5000 pounds of bone and 900 barrels OF
oil. For the bone we will receive at least 81 so
pound. Our crew consisted of 33 men, and
as they all get an interest in the catch, they
have been put in easy circumstances.
1.-The Cape Horn Pigeon will sail for the
Okhotsk again to-day, going by way OF the
Penope and Ladrone Islands. By July next we
Will have reached Hackodate with another
CATCH"
George Stearns, general merchant OF Oak
land, Or, north OF Roseburg, on the California
and Oregon Railroad. has arrived here with
something over $500 turkeys, which were sold
in advance to local dealers for the Thanksgiv-
ing trade. He says that region is one of the
best for producing turkeys on the coast.
81 shall bring down about 5000 more for the
Christmas and New Years holidays he said.
81 raise none myself. but buy them from the
farmers about Oakland. The turkeys are very
fine.
"a few miles away from the tow on the Co.
guile elk can be had, and there are plenty OF
deer and some bears. 1t is first-rate game
country"
Mr.. Stearns is brother of Judge Stearns OF
Portland, one of the best-known men of Oregon
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

would be raging forest of fire. consuming not
only the small, but the giant pines and frs,
leaving In It's wake charred and dead forest.
Where would John Muir's "Lilies which
ring. their bells around the margin of the
meadows" "get off att? Mr.. Muir writes:
"The Commissioners differ all around as to
what to do and how to do it." I understand
there is no difference of opinion of "what to
90" and have had one of the best engineers
and landscape gardeners in this State en-
ployed to survey and map the floor of the
valley and indicate just where underground
ana second-growth trees should be cleared
For that purpose there should be special
appropriation made at the next session of the
Legislature.
Mr. Muir is delighted that there is great in
crease OF campers this year to the valley and
mountains, and to add to that increase from
year to year is the main object of the "Sierra
Cub" Yet the "Sierra Club would not al
low those campers to picket their horses upon
the meadows, when they are compelled to pay
$40 to $50 per ton for hay. Should the views
expressed by Mr.. Muir in this respect be
adopted then 1.-THE sparkle exhalations of
mountains" in their eyes would vanish and
lnelr faces would express anger and contempt
Tor the management
), inns Is the garden of the gods and belongs to
the people, rich and poor alike.
H. J. OsTRANDER.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
FOR A FREE MARKET.


To the Editor of the San Francisco CaH-SIR:
l hope you will give space in your valuable
paper for the other side to Mr.. Thomas Lang
hams free market project objection. He bases
his conclusions OH the allegation that the
prominent housekeeper rarely, if ever, pur-
chases anything at the free vegetable market.
II that is his style to measure our market de-
mand by he certainly is right; that house
Keepers need not worry about prices and go to
md the best bargain. But the majority-the
laborlng class-has TO be taken into conSidera-
ton, and these people on one side and the
farmer o n the other will reap the differ ence of
the commission, and each party is so much
ahead. While the rich housewife would not
care whether the price of meat is 2 or cents
a pound, potatoes % or 40 cents a sack -four
30 or 30 cents per 100 pounds higher or
lower, the wife OF the laboring man has to
count the lew cents in her small purse
very carefully to make both ends meet
Have the markets conveniently situated, and
DO not close early in the morning, but give
them time to go there, and we will see the
housewife, who has to do all the shopping her
self and cannot call in the butcher baker or
vegetable boy, take advantage of the benefit
created for her interest OF course nobody can
expect any one from Ninth or Twenty-second
streets to go down TO Pacific and Davis streets
10 buy vegetables SO early in the morning,
the time when most wives prepare breakfast
for the husband to go to his daily work Be-
SIDES, great many would object to leaving
the little ones unguarded at home. These peo-
pie, although only buying in small quantities.
are the CHIEF consumers, which Mr.. l.. will adj
nit; that, III Work Is scarce his grocers will not
purchase as in Flush" times
Mr.. LIS assertion looks too much commission
business like. w M
San Francisco Nov o6 1903
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
MUSIC AND MUSICIANS.

opened at the Grand Opera-house and New
York has bowed before g California prima
donna. Her stage name is Frances Saville and
her European triumphs have been won at the
Paris Opera Comique. She appeared on the
opening night as Juliet in Gounod's "Romeo
and Juliet" and before she had opened her lips
she was, for some mysterious reason. declared
great singer. The Herald says: "Her first
ford passage, delivered in fresh crystalline
tones, with certain facility, but with rather
uncertain intonation, brought her storm of
applause. She is nervous, DIRE adful]y ner-
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
MR. NIMMO FINISHED.

THE CALL has already exposed the alb
surdities contained in the pamphlet issued
some weeks ago by Joseph Nimmo Jr.,
who, as friend of the transcontinental
railroads, an enemy Of the interstate COM
merce law and an advocate OF any scheme
10 relieve the transcontinentaI aided lines
of the obligations which they owe to the
Government, has bent his energies against
the project OF the Nicaragua canal. This
paper had so thoroughly disposed OF the
arguments" which Mr.. Nimmo presented
against the reasonableness OF the canal
project that it had not thought it neces-
sary to notice an addendum which he re-
Gently issued. purporting to give revised
statistics OF isthmian traffic.
We observe, however, that the San Fran
cisco Cham Der of Commerce has deemed
these effusions of Mr.. Nimmo's pen worthy
of refutation. 1t has issued a circular
written by Captain William L. Merry,
which seems 20 regard these emanations of
the friend of the subsidized overland lines
as having weight, truth and value. Cap
tain Merry hardly needed to GO further
than announce that Mr.. Nimmo's PAM
phlet is dated from some Long Island place
bearing the interesting name of Hunting
ton. The town seems not TO have any
initials.
Captain Merry's able refutation of Mr..
Nimmo's railroad monopoly arguments
does not contain much that is new to San
Francisco, but as he is evidently writing
for the information of those in the East
upon whom Mr.. Nimmo's representations
may appeal on the score of ignorance and
credulity, his effort carries a measure OF
prudence.
Against Mr.. Nimmo's estimate of prac-
tlcally no tonnage through the canal, Cap
tain Merry shows that De Lesseps esti-
mated $500, 000 to 100000 tons annually,
and that the committee appointed by the
Board OF Trade of San Francisco in 1880
to investigate the matter estimated
5000, GOO tons annually at the lowest. He
shows that Mr.. Nimmo, in quoting the
Panama Railway tonnage of 1890, ignored
the fact that in that year the overland
railways were paying the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company and the Panama
Railway Company $4,000 per annum to
hold down the isthmian traffic to 1900
tons. These are notorious facts, but they
are not useful to Mr.. Nimmo's purposes.
1t follows easily that Mr.. Nimmo's dec
laration that the reduction in transcon-
tinental rates has not been the result of
Panama Railway competition has no
foundation in view of the arrangement
which restricted isthmian traffic.
Captain Merry hardly needed to show
that the distance of 1854 miles which must
be covered to round the Horn is factor
in transportation rates, Mr.. Nimmo to the
contrary Notwithstanding. And every
navigator knows that the distance from
the Orient to the Atlantic Coast via the
Nicaragua route would be $40 miles shorter
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
Philadelphia Inquirer.

The Governments not going into bankruptcy
just because it is running behind few mil
lions every month, for there is a way ont of it..
Fortunately, it is very simple matter to raise
revenue enough to meet all demands. When
we get on a pay as-you-go basis once more and
have something left over with which to pay off
the debt that has been accommodating under
Cleveland and Carlisle, there will be no more
talk about the legal tenders. That time will
come just as soon as the Republicans are able
to add g few amendments to the destructive
tariff ''reform" bill thatwas notradieal enough
to suit the President.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
NATIONAL FINANCES.
st. Louis Globe Democrat.

IL is said the President viii give large space
in his message at the opening of Congress to
the advocacy of the retirement of the green
backs, and that he will use all the influence
which he possesses to put that policy through
Congress Perhaps there is truth in the re-
port. Undoubtedly he will, in his message,
urge this policy. He has favored it for the past
year or two, and the TACT that Secretary Car
isle advocated it in his recent speech in Bos-
ministration. Yet 1t is safe to say that this
project can get very little support from Demo-
Gratis. Moreover, it is likely to secure small
favor among the Republicans. Without power
full Republican aid the policy hasno chance to
DravaiI
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
Sage Advice to the New Settlers.

word to the new settlers on the Nez Perces
lands: Start in the old way, so successful in
the early times Don't mortgage your lands
for farm machinery, carpets and parlor organs.
Live within your means, no matter how linn
tied they may be. Don't pout over hardships
or repine about your fate. Work hard and
keep out OF debt, and in few years you will
find easy going. But you never will find easy
going if you expect it now and run in debt to
get its luxuries. That loaf viii turn sour be-
fore you get half through it. To run in debt
on farm is to cut off the hope of the future.
OF this the whole country is so full of object
lessons, written in broadcast character, that he
who runs NAV read
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
THE JAPANESE INCUBUS.
Alameda Argus.

THE CALL is showing what the practical re-
moyal of the tariff from some articles is doing
for California. Japanese artisans, such as
those who make furniture, work for 10 cents a
day. Furniture comes in with q low duty.
Furniture-dealers are stimulating the Japa-
nese TO make furniture and are bringing it
here to sell. 1t is as good or better than Ameri-
can-made furniture-for the Japanese are cum
ming craftsmen--and can be sold away under
it, No American workmen can begin to conn.,
pete with Japanese. We need law not only
to keep out goods made by foreign paupers but
the paupers themselves.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
Collecting Press Pictures.

H. g. Otis, general manager of the Los Ange-
les (Cal.) Times, has begun collection of pic
lures showing printing-presses of all kinds.
He will endeavor to get together pictures OF as
many different styles of presses, and the col.
the history of the progress in print
ing machinery. As soon obtained the
pictures are framed and hung In room
specially devoted to them. Mr.. Otis Is enthu-
siastic over the matter and will go to Europe
in order to make the collection as complete as
possible. 1t will be an excellent thing to have
such collection, and any one having pictures
OF presses should forward them to Mr.. OTIS
New York Newspaper Maker.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

King George of the Tonga or Friendly
Islands. is robust potentate who wears a
British uniform and assesses his subjects a
poll-tax each of 81 year. He is descended
from the powerful Toubo family, along whose
line there have been many kings and queens,
and he feels the blood of royalty in his veins.
w. A. Peairs of Ohio who recently visited
Tonga and is now at the Grand, found the
King arrayed with giittering uniform and q
Stanley hat. He brought back picture OF
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
coIN1NGs FROM EDITORIAL MINIS
Need of Branch Railroads Exemplified.


Need of Branch Railroads Exemplified.
San Diego Union.
A steamer from the north brought to San
Diego day or two ago g very considerable
consignment of apples. At first thought this
would seem like carrying Goals to Newcastle,
for this county is heavy exporter of this
fruit. The incident however, simply empha-
sizes the need OF more branch railways to the
back country. If merchants can lay down
northern apples in this city cheaper and easier
than they can get that commodity from nearer
home, they will continue to do so. The back
country is being developed, but until there is
additional communication with 1t by rail-, the
city cannot expect TO benefit by the progress
that is being made.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
Pittsburg Dispatch.

If Secretary Carlisle had early in the history
of the presentation OF the legal tenders for re-
demption ordered every legal tender so re-
deemed to be kept in the reserve, for reissue in
its operation-that is, when gold was offered
in exchange for it--$100, 600 900 OF the subse-
quent increase of debt would have been I'M
necessary, and there would not have been the
slightest question of the maintenance OF the
reserve under such an administration.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
TRAvERTINE FOR THE CALL

Winnemucca (Ney.) Silver State.
Thirty tons OF travertine from an Inyo
County quarry, which arrived at Carson Satur-
day, was shipped to San Francisco Sunday for
THE CALL building. This rock has been care
fully selected from the finest of the calcium
production OF the quarry, and its handsome
crystalline appearance when polished will add
to the ornamentation of THE Gales new
home.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

For men whose natures have been expanded
by social pleasures Argonaut whisky is made,
and it is by these that Argonaut is used. 1t is
gentleman's drink, the conscientious product
of distillers who know that in order to main
tain high reputation for particular article
they cannot afford to turn out any but pure,
wholesome and beneficial whisky. The fact
that physicians prescribe it is sufficient to in
dictate its quality. E. Martin u Co., All Mar
bot cfr
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
Potency of the Unwritten Common Law.

The sentences that our courts pronounce
upon criminals vary in duration of time; but
the condemnation that public opinion puts
upon a man is for life. This is what society
calls public opinion, which, when analysed, is
nothing save the unwritten common law, and
which, fortunately for society, covers such
cases as elude the grasp of the regular legal
machinery Men who could buy Legislatures,
bride Judges, circumvent the devil, have been
obliged to bow to the DEGREES of this invisible
court which makes every man, without any
election of his, 6 Judge.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
Boston Herald.

Here is the financial situation in a nutshell.
The Government can reduce the supply OF cur
rency which is now forcing orr gold abroad by
absorbing the excess through a bond scale.
This would unlock the inner reservoir of the
treasury balance and turn the gold, or the
greenbacks that might be presented IN ex -
change for gold, into the treasury vaults,
where they would remain permanently locked
up, unless and until they found release through
the deficiency of the revenue.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
Novelty in Bear-Traps.
New Whatcom lWash.l Revellle

The latest novelty in bear-traps is made of
beer kegs. Drive strong, sharp spikes through,
pointing toward the center of the head. Put
some honey in the key, close to the he ad, and
lay it where bruin will find it. He will dive
i'll after the honey and the spikes keep him
from getting out or travelling off. Then kill
him at your leisure and set the trap again.
Near Hoquiam five bears were caught in one
week in single tran.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
HIGH-CLASS ORIGINAL MATTER

Lewiston Qdsho) Teller.
Modern daily newspapers are one of the won
ders of the age. The Pacific Coast dailies are
well up in the front row. The San Francisco
CALL is undoubtedly in the lead now in point
OF merit of all the great Western dailies. THE
SUNDAY CALL, from a literary point of view, is
prodigy. 1t carries more high-class original
matter than any other daily In the country.
California has more bright literary people than
any other State in The Union.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
CREDIT WHERE IT Is DUE.

New Whatcom (Wash.) Blade.
The San Francisco CALL is swiftly growing
into recognition as one of the most Trustworthy
and reliable papers in the West Charles NJ.
Shortridge, the editor and proprietor, does not
seem to be partial to the prevailing San
francisco habit-sensational journalism and
uncredited borroWs
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
APPRECIATED IN ARIZONA
Kingman lAriz.l Miner.

The San Francisco CALL is now one OF the
best papers published on the Pacific Coast. Its
news columns are filled with the choicest and
best of everything, and then it is an earnest
advocate of the free coinage of silver. Our
people should subscribe for it and help along
the good cause.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
CHICAGO LIMITED.
VIA SANTA FE ROUTE.

new train throughout begins October %.
Pullman's finest seepingcars, vestbule reclining
chair cars and dining-cars. Los Angeles to Chi
cago via Kansas City, without change. Annex
cars ON sharp connection for Denver and st.
Louis. Twenty-seven hours quicker than the
quickest competing train. The Santa Fe has been
put in fine ply steal condition and is now the best
transcont mental railway.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

Phoenix (Ariz) Republican.

Phoenix (Ariz.) Republican.
Phoenix has risen to the point where her
weather is predicted for her with scientific ac-
curacy. The weather bureau service is of less
use here, however, than in almost any other
spot of the Union. 1t is safe card here to
hang up each night the prediction of ''Fair''
for the morrow
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
One of the Benefits of Hard Times.

STOCKTON independent
Callfornia's mining revival is the indirect re-
suit of the hard times. A large proportion of
the men engaged in the work are those who
found business in other lines Improbable and
turned TO the earth to dig out wealth. Most of
them will congratulate themselves that the
hard times drove them back to the mines.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
THE FOOTBALL GAME.

Berkeley University Occident.
II we should win that football game
Our mouths would wear this kink ~.
If Stanfords victor In the same
Into this curve they'll shrink -.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

This is the time for Democratic factions
to drop their crow and pick turkey to-
gether.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

Over IN the East they are giving thanks
that they survived the blizzard.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

From this time en- the holidays will set
in, and everybody viii be worked to death
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

USE PARRERs GINGER Toxic and gain good
digestion, better health and relief from pain
PARKER's HAIR BALsAM is life TO the hair
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers.
Clipping Bureau (Allen's), $40 Montgomery.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

IF you have catarrh you in danger, as the dis
ease is liable to become chronic and affect your
general health. Hoods Sars aparilla cures catarrh
by purifying and enriching the blood.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28
HOME PRODUCTS.
Alameda Telegram


THE CALL is right when it says: advertising
home products in home papers is the surest
way of manufacturing the market as well as
the goods,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

Lots of sport in town to-day, and you
can take your choice.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

No buffet should be without bottle of DIR.
Segert's Angostura Bitters, the South American
appetizer and invigorator.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

When you consider the poor to-day
don't consider them nuisance.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

Americans enjoy the best conditions on
earth, and we live in the best State of
them all.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

Don't give your neighbors a chance to
say that in seeking an appetite you ended
III happy tight.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

Happiness is the flower of Thanksgiv-
ing, but the fruit OF it is charity.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

Every session of the Mississippi
Congress shows a great deaf of push, but
not one OF them has shown any pull.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

Those who so to Ingieside Park to-day
will be in it at the start OF a new era for
the race on this coast.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

The question OF the day: "Will you
dine with me?"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

Ii selecting holiday gifts for your East
ern friends be sure to get something OF
California manufacture.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-28

This IS the festival of American homes
and in every home it should be celebrated.