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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22
POLITICAL REFORM.

Linton Satterthwait publishes in the
August issue of the american Magazine Of
Civics newly dressed appeal to intelligent
voters to. take party management out of
the hands of the bosses. He is encouraged
to do this from his discovery that spirit
is moving the people to cut loose from
place-hunters and spells manipulators.
The boss system is a perversion of the
sensible idea that party machinery is nee
essary to party efficiency. By machinery
we mean organization and its corollary,
central working bodies. Such machinery
is perfectly legitimate. and its cleanness
and proper use may always be taken as an
indication of the character and patriotism
OF the party which it represents.
Although Mr.. Satterthwait fails to show
how the boss is an evolution of the ma
chine (which is here considered IN its
higher and proper sense OF organization),
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where political ability is so much desired
quantity, and where the personal equation
as represented by facile use of the voice
is so valuable in expounding politics to
those with whom a voice is weightier than
a pen, the man trained to speak, as the
lawyer is, has every advantage. He may
not be so learned, able or clear as the
anonymous writer for the press who sup
plies him with all the ideas to which his
mellow throat gives expression, but he has
the tongue and the personal impression,
and they are sufficient in this country to
make man conspicuous and candidate
for such honors as the Government can
bestow.
These considerations are submitted to
those young men who may be lowering
between personal inclinations and certain
rewards which their excellence may COM
mand.
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A CHOICE OF PROFESSIONS.

The death of Justice Jackson of the Su-
preme Court of the United States has
raised the question of his successor. Neces.
sarily lawyer must fill the vacancy. II
is not necessary that he may have served
as Judge. The conclusion is that the
profession of the law offers the best oppor.
tunities for occupying the highest posi-.
tons that the American people are able to
offer; for no political Office can be higher
than seat on the Supreme Bench OF the
United States.
This is setting a premium on one OF
many honorable professions. 1t has hap
pened now and then that person who
has achieved distinction in literature
(never in music, painting, architecture OF
sculpture) has been rewarded by our Gov.
eminent with a consulate. Bret Harte is a
conspicuous example. Comparing the re-
wards of literary effort with those achiev-
able at the bar, it is clear that even the
art of writing, which carries with it pos
sible element of intimidation, cannot com
pete with that of the law in those forms OF
appreciation which the people can bestow
on merit.
The subject has been made the more in
teresting by reason of an able article pub
lished few months ago in one OF the lead
ing magazines, in which it was shown that
on an average the writer receives better
income than the lawyer. This may be
true enough, but its misfortune is that ii
places the reward of labor on financial
basis only, and takes no account OF another
form of recompense which professional
men and artists of the finer sort regard
above all others-an honorable recognition
of their merit. Under the American sys-
tenn there are only two classes of profess
sional men that can receive Government
recognition. First come the lawyers, who
may hope to be appointed to some honor
able Federal position as Judges, and next
authors, very small proportion of whom
may dream of a consulate in some remote
corner of the world. In both cases, how
ever, there must be a strong political
"pull, " and as lawyers are closer, or make
themselves closer, to politics than do
literary workers, and by reason of the
manifest utility of their profession are
more conspicuous and valuable in politi-
cal sense, they have the preference over
writer's. As for sculptors, poets, painters
and the like, they are lost and forgotten in
the scramble.
1t is different in European countries, and
this difference may be taken to measure
existing variations of those evidences
which mark the phases of higher devel-
opment. This is not to complain that the
American standard is inferior to that oil
Europe, but merely to show that in this
country higher reward for excellence in
a certain profession is offered than is OBJ
servable in Europe The close alliance Of
the legal profession to politics in this
country may explain the situation. Here
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PERSONAL.

Judge J. P. Abbott of Antioch is guest at
the Lick.
R. C. Minor, an attorney of Stockton, is at
the Lick.
W. F. George, an attorney of Sacramento, is
at the Grand.
A. F. HIM, the local miller, has returned
from Europe.
Rev. C. s. Fackenthal of Pacific Grove is at
the Occidental
DR.. and Mrs. D. c.. Lazier of Guerneville are
at the Occidental
Colonel Sam Norris, a capitalist of Honolulu,
is at the Occidental
A. B. La Motto, a landowner of Glen Ellen, is
guest at the Grand.
George C. Goodman Jr,, banker of Napa.
and his family, are at the Palace.
Howell Kinds. wealthy mine-owner of Mex
leo, arrived at the Palace yesterday.
L. c. Treat, mining man of Salt Lake. was
one OF yesterdays arrivals at the Palace.
6. w. Nicol, Superior Judge of Tuolumne,
came in from Sonora yesterday and is guest
at the Occidental
=. +. Horner, sugar planter, and his wife
came yesterday from Honolulu on the Aus
tralla, and are at the Occidental.
H. b. Price OF the navy is at the Occidental
j. 2. Morton and E. H. Campbell of the Phi1a-
delphia are guests at the Occidental.
W. R. Kelly, an attorney of the Union PACT
fic, with his wife and daughter, returned yes
terday from trip to the Hawaiian Islands, and
they are staying at the Occidental.
q. s. Spalding of New York, who is interested
in plan for laying q cable to the Hawaiian
Islands, came in on yesterdays steamer from
Honolulu and is staying at the Palace.
j. ". Midgley of Chicago, president Of the
Western Traffic Association, has arrived here
in special car, accompanied by his family, on
visit. His daughter, Mrs. E. D. Moore, who
is of the party, is the wife of the president of
the Western Car Service Association.
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land, is lake apparently entirely shut on
from the sea. The water rises and falls with
the tide, it is fresh on top, coming from the
brooks in the valley, but at the bottom IL is
sea water, and must come in by underground
passages.
joaquin Miller's grandfather was soldier
under William Henry Harrison, but his father
was SO much man of peace that he lived for
seventy years with the Indians and never fired
gun or used harsh word. The military
strain came out in the poet, who, as early as
1855, was shot in skirmish Miller is a
native of Indiana. though for years past Cali
fornfa has been his home.
Mrs. Harmon, the wife of the new Attorney
General, is said to be an unusually fine con-
versatiolist and woman of rare intellec-
tual powers. She has three daughters, one of
whom, Miss Elizabeth, who made her debut
last winter, will be among the few young
women in Cabinet circles, as most of the chill
dren of the other officers are still in their teens.
Mrs. Harmon met her husband at her home in
Hamilton, Ohio, where the Attorney-General,
then young law student, had gone to visit
her brother
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SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

Ada-Do you think the word "obey" should
be omitted from the marriage service?
Ida = Omitted? Certainly not 1t should
merely be transferred to the other party to the
contract.-Truth.
Minnie-I do believe that Maud's new hus-
band is little bit jealous.
Mamie-Rather. They do say that the last
time they went to the seashore she had to pay
excess baggage on the trunk that had her bath
ing suit in it.-Indianapolis Journal
A month after the elopement.-She-I got a
letter from papa to-day, saying that he had
made his will.
He-Do we come in anywhere?
She-Not directly, but he has left all his
money to an asylum for idiots. indianapolis
Journal.
Service had commenced, and the minister
paced wildly up and down, struggling with a
tight cravat. To cover his embarrassment he
finally gasped, brethren, let us sing three
stanzas on page 3d." which was, unfortunately,
"Blest Be the Tie That Judge
Mrs. de Style-where are your stables?
Mrs Highupp-We have not room for stables.
We board our horses; but the boarding-stables
are very exclusive. very exclusive. indeed
New York Weekly.
Miss Ethel (bidding her bosom friend good
by)-And wouldn't it be grand If i should
catch Lord over there?
Miss Bosomfriend-Yes; then you would be a
lady.-Elite.
"But why have you thrown George over?''
"Oh, hate himl The other evening he
asked me II he might give me kiss, and be-
cause said mo- he idn't."-Sketch.
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EASTERN EDITORS.
New york,s Trade in Dance

New York's Trade in Danger.
The fictitious and in principle. fraudulent
port charges exacted at the port OF New York
on the countrys produce will have to be lifted.
Along with them must go the identical charges
tribute imposed at Buffalo. The elevator
charges at both of these ports are as pure a
piece of blackmail as was ever laid by German
robber knight. And, finally, the Erie canal
must needs be enlarged. If these changes be
put off too long it does not follow that the
trade must needs be finally lost to New York.
1t is, however, as sure as that night follows
day that part of it will for time be diverted
recoverable later only by those identical
means, but after much loss and with doubled
difficulty. Once diverted to the ST. Lawrence
Chicago becomessthe shipping port, and the
recovery from Chicago of a trade she has once
grasped will prove proposition very different
from that of recovering il from Boston or Bal
timore or Philadelphia.-New York Evening
SIM
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Governor AltreId,s Versatility.

Governor Altgeld does not confne his atten-
ton to executive duties and politics. His
brain is too active to be kept on thesothings.
He is many-sided genius, as was shown when
he was on the bench in Chicago. He could
then sit as Judge appear as advocate for either
side and find time to hold up the city for a
judgment for damages. He also combined the
study of architecture with that of law and pol
new way of putting thing into sky-scrapers,
and demonstrated that in the Altgeld style OF
building it was just easy to build the wall
for the top story first as it was to begin at the
basement.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22
A FRENCH SHOWER BATH.

The difficulties which the average Partisan
faces in obtaining bath in his private resi-
dence has led to many inventions in the last
few years. 1t should be promised that, as a
rule, a bathroom is not considered necessary
adjunct to well-itted house, and as most
Frenchmen live in an apartment house run by
a concierge so also he takes his bath at the
same place where he gets his hair cut or
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22

shaves. This will explain why q French doc
tor has invented new home bath, designed
for those who have no bathrooms at home. 1t
is very simple and complete and its inventor,
Dr. Madeuf, says that it is meant to facilitate
the administrations to ones self of "une
.douche ecossaise," or "a Scotch shower bath. !"
The apparatus consists of a vessel in which
sembling watering-pot. This is used in con-
nection with a trough of about two meters in
circumference. 1t is possible, of course, to
employ two of the watering vessels, the one
containing warm and the other cold water.
The illustration is self-explanatory.
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As the Administration PIeases.

Everything depends upon the pleasure of the
administration. 1t can sell bonds or it can
refuse to sell them, just as it chooses. If il
does not sell them its gold reserve will decrease
as it did in 1894, and If it does the public
debt will be increased by the amount of bonds
sold. If the gold reserve is allowed to de
crease nervous people may take fright, and Il
the bonded debt increases the opposition to
the Government will exult. The case is like
that of the old-fashioned Calvinists who de-
MED free will and stoutly maintained the doc
trine of predestination-
You can and you can't
You will and you won't;
You'll be damned if you do
Youth be damned If you don't.
New York SIM
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22
Grover Draws His Pay.

While the poor laborers who are at work
upon the lake Improvements are unable to get
their daily wages we notice that President
Cleveland continues to draw his salary with
regularity and that all the other 'reformers
in Office are doing the same. Moreover, they
are all taking long and pleasant vacations at
public expense.
There is no doubt of the efficacy of economy
and reform as office-getters, but they are fail
ures when applied to the administration of the
Government in practical way.-Cleveland
Z dar
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New York Police Methods.

Though the courts fail to recognize the exist
ence of confirmed and incurable criminals, but
pretend to believe that acertain term in prison
cures men of their criminal habits, the police
believe that there are crooks who are never re-
formed. While the courts provide for the re-
lease of crooks after q term in prison, the
police do not allow them to invade the lower
part of town. Every known crook found below
Fulton street is arrested whether there is any
charge against him or not. 1t is assumed that
he has no honest business anywhere near the
chief banking district.-New York Commercial
Advertiser.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22
why the Gold Goes.

The truth of the matter is that our import
trade has increased so greatly under the new
tariff that we are buying abroad instead OF at
home, and the gold is needed Tor shipment to
pay for our European goods Instead of de-
creasing after October the demand for our gold
will increase, because the import trade will in
crease. Moreover, If Europe wants TO be paid
in gold instead of wheat or corn, as she will
after certain point has been reached, out will
go the gold beyond the ability of any syndi-
Gates to prevent it.-New York Commercial
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22

/ THE J. F. CUTTER BOURBON is one of the best
Kentucky brands of whisky. Itispopular with
the trade, and is the purest to be found in the
market. The welI-known firm, E. Martin & Co.,
All Market street, to which place they have re-
Gently moved, are the Pacific Coast agents
They also are agents for and keep the Argonaut
brand Of Kentucky Bourbon.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22
Knnte NeIson,s Beard.

The Hon. Lewis Baker is under no obligations
to be in love with the climate in Nicaragua,
but a seemly regard for the decencies of life
should make him steer clear of picturing the
Hon. Knute Nelson as he is or should not be.
Mr.. Nelson has noble Danish chin beard as
BELTS an American statesman, but there are
ways of spreading that beard upon the record
that insult the record and make the beard al
most crime.-New York Sun.
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each day.
Sir Frank Lockwood is the last survivor OF
the Rosebery administration. He is still
northumberland, third party, as it were, in
the coalition Government.
President Diaz of Mexico is as fond of hunt
ing as our own chief magistrate, and for years
he has never failed to make an annual ex-
petition against wild ducks.
Francisque Sarcey, the dramatic critic, has
begun his campaign for the French Academy.
He positively declines to be considered a can
didate, giving his reasons at great length.
Sir Robert Ball, the great astronomer, says
that if the project of waving signal to the
supposed inhabitants of Mars is to be carried
out the flag must be as large as Ireland and the
pole 500 miles long.
Senator Rowmski, who died recently in Will
dungen, was one of the best art writer's in
Russia. He published a number of works, in
Guiding one on Rembrandt and "Russian Folk
Pictures"
The famous suit of the brothers, Counts de
Ciyry, for half the estate left by the last Duke
of Brunswick has again been decided in their
favor. The other claimant is the city OF Geneva.
The estate Is worth millions.
Cigar, cigarette and pipe are alike popular
with the Prince of Wales, who is an inveterate
smoker. In private he smokes pipe, and in
public puffs cigars, while with his after-dinner
coffee he inhales cigarette smoke.
Toole, the English actor, sitting at a table
next to gentleman who had helped himself to
a large piece of bread, took it up and began to
cut slice from it. "Sr," said the gentleman,
ethat is my bread" "a thousand pardons, "
replied Toole. 81 mistook it for the loaf"
The Balfour family is certainly one of the
most talented in England. Besides the two
distinguished brothers there is q sister, Mrs.
Eleanor Sedgwick, dean of Newman, the lead
ing womens college in the United Kingdom,
who is q celebrated mathematician and edu-
Gator.
Mrs. Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson, wife OF Fl.
n. Kitson, the well-known Boston sculptor.
has completed with her own hands number
of statues statuettes and busts, several OF
which have been exhibited in European salons
with great credit She is under 20 years OF
age, and first exhibited her work in the Paris
salon of 1888.
1t is said the Due d'Aumale is in NEGOTIATION
with his nephew, the Due d'Orlesns, for the
acquisition by purchase of the Chateau DAM
broise, which he intends to restore and make
q sort of retreat for some Of his old companions
in arms in the African campaign, to be later
transformed into q museum to be given by
him to the town of Ambrose.
Kipling's "sea cow tunnel has been discov.
cred by M. Wenakow, q Russian traveller. On
Kildin Island, off the Kola peninsula, IN Lap
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22
GIadstone,s Drowning Feat.

It is not often that an important part of the
policy of triumphant new government is
framed and forced upon them by the leader OF
But this is the situation in England. Lord
Salisbury's projected Armenian policy is as
surely the policy of Mr.. Gladstone as If the
Queens speech had been framed by Glad
stones own mighty hands.-Chicago Times
Herald.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22

PetaIuma is doing her best to prove that
there is as much fun at fair as there is at
a carnival.
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Bicycles and Temperance.

A wheeler must keep clear head to preserve
his balance, and thus the use of the machine
deserves to be encouraged as an Indictment to
temperance. A special paper devoted to the
tobacco trade sayE, too, that it is decreasing
the use of cigars and cigarettes, and it gives
statistics to support the assertion The
wheeler is usually too intent on his course to
smoke, but he seems to be able to chew gum
without interfering with his progress.-New
York SIM
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22
A Case of Bad Breaks.

The truth is that Chicago, with all its lapses
into Democracy, is at bottom a Republican
city. The Republicans had only themselves to
blame for Mayors Colvin, Harrison and Cregier.
The political instability is due to the fact that
the Republicans have made some very bad
breaks-Chicago Inter Ocean.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22

Visits to the exposition are most profit
able to those who give most study to the
products of home labor.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22

The syndicate has protected the treasury
once more, and there is another little bill
for the people to settle.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22

SEE to 1t that your blood is purified and enriched
by the use Of Hoods Sarsaparilla Then you will
not be troubled with nervousness sleepessness and
loss Of appetite. Try it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22
CALIFoRNIANs IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Aug. Embellishments
registered at the hotels to-day: San Francisco
Charles Main, Fifth avenue; g. Hart, I'm
perial; p. Butler, Morton.
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Kansas Products.

Kansas is no agricultural State. Conventions
and Populists and whiskers cannot be classed
ns agricultural products by discriminating
public.-New York Sun.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22

1t is certainly better for the workingmen
of this country to work for silver than tc
stick to boarded gold and have no work.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-22

Mr.. Gusher Ia would-be suitor)--what lovely
teeth Miss Smiler has, Ell, old man?
Mp. Forceps-H'm, er-really-modesty for
bids my expressing an opinion, you know
New York Herald