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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

his own good sense, but the wisdom of the
law. 1t is presumed that every public Of
ficer does his duty. If he is found neglect
ing or betraying it, he should be punished,
and the law directs the Grand Jury to pro-
coed to that end. 1t has been the custom
for grand iuries to make elaborate reports
on the condition and conduct of the County
institutions, to give praise where it is due
and to point out shortcomings that were
not sufficiently grave to warrant action to
GUST or punish. 1t has been presumed
that the public had right to this infor-
nation and that the moral effect of the re-
port was beneficial. AT any event, while
the law does not authorize such reports,
they have been accepted as proper.
Now and then, however, a Grand Jury
grossly abuses the privilege of the custom,
and in doing so works grievous wrongs for
which there is no redress. An instance Of
this was the recent report of our Grand
Jury on the Supreme Court, which Chief
Justice Beatty exposed for its unfounded
statements. 1t was shown by him that
the jury had made no investigation what
ever into the subject matter of its charges,
and hence that this part of the report had
no value. The natural presumption is
that all the rest of the report was as care
lessly made.
1t was this outrage that has opened the
eyes of the public to the abuse of power
and privilege on the part of grand juries,
and Judge Sanderson has dropped a hint
that may prove of service to the
Judges of the Superior Court in future.
In the case of the report to which we have
referred the Judge was not aware of its
character until it had been filed and made
part of the public records. 1t is SO in all
cases. Even if the custom of filing reports
be not abandoned it would certainly be
well for Judges hereafter to scrutinize
them before permitting them to go on
file and to exercise discretion with regard
to accepting them, otherwise they cannot
claim exemption from participation in the
wrongs which the reports are likely to in
flict.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08
A BRITISH OPINION.

Alfred Ross Colquhoun, the well-known
explorer and first Governor of Mashona-
land, who has just returned to London
after making an inspection of the Nicara-
qua and Panama canal routes, has, in a
recent interview, confirmed the hopes of
those who have had the most sanguine ex-
pectations OF the Nicaragua project.
Mr.. Colquhoun says the Nicaragua route
IS, from our engineering point of view, a
hne one. vi the 1891 miles, total length
from Greytown on The Atlantic to Brito
on the Pacific, the river ways and easilv
constructed basins will form a total dis
lance OF 1927 miles, in which ships can
travel with little or no restriction. Thus
there will be only twenty-six and three
quarters miles of actual digging to be done.
These statements in certain sense are
not news, for the facts relating to the pro-
posed route have been repeatedly pub
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08
THE RAILS ARRIVE.

There is cause for general rejoicing in
the fact that the steamship Washtenaw ar
rived in port yesterday with 1000 tons Of
rails, spikes, fishbars and bolts for the San
Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Rail
road. The vessel was greatly delayed by
stormy weather at Cape Horn, and at one
time her loss was reported. But she is
now safe and sound in port with her
precious cargo. which will be at once for
warded to Stockton. This is the first con-
signment under the contract by which the
Valley road is to receive a similar cargo of
iron every month. The ships to follow
will bring the material as it will be needed
for construction purposes.
Already there have been sent to Stock
ton two schooner loads of ties which ar
rived in this City from the northern coast.
Bridge timbers are in preparation for minor
bridges, and the contract has been let for
the steel bridge over the Stanislaus River
Everything, therefore, is in readiness for
beginning at once the work of actual con-
struction.
Meanwhile, the company's surveying
parties are at work in the valley and rights
of way are being rapidly secured. The
first spike will be driven in few days, and
that will be one of the most important
events in the history of the State. 1t will
mean the beginning of q movement to de-
liver California from bondage which has
operated SO effectively against her progress
and development, and will be an invitation
to public-spirited citizens to show their
pride in the State and their willingness to
advance her interests and their own.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08
Love, LABOR AND NOVELS.
A Brave Japanese Student
Who Is Making and Writ
ing Romance.
GLIMPSES OF HIS NEW BOOK.
Shigal Morikubo Spurns Family and
Wealth for His Love and His
Ambition.

San Francisco is full of Japanese stu
dents, and many of them are bright and
promising, but not one of them is as inter-
esting as young Shigal Morikubo.
Morikubo has romantic personal his
tory and, what is more interesting, he is
writing novels portraying japanese life
mixed up with the American style of ex-
istence.
Morikubo is a high-born little fellow who
is fighting with desperate resolve hard
way toward fame and he is in love with a
pretty and cultured young American girl
who makes every minute of his life season
of rapture and spur to high ambition.
This is part of the story of Shigal Mort
kubo. He was born in valley ten miles
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carries its own sprinkler-the rear part of the
tank holding water; that instead of sprinkling
the street in order to keep the dust down the
revolving brush is kept dampened all the
time, thus avoiding the mud and water on the
streets necessary in the old methods; and the
most important OF all that the dirt taken up is
thrown directly upon the endless carrier,
which takes it up and empties it into the tank
composing the front of the machine This
tank is removable, and when filed is lifted out
and an empty one substituted, while the filed
one is carted away, dispensing with all shovel
ing and dust. The machine weighs but 1900
pounds, and in its trials has demonstrated its
merits in way very gratifying to those inter-
eSted.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08
SAID IN REPARTEE.

ooh, my'' cried the woman who was reading
the paper. "Here's the ship Golden Eagle ar
rives at New York from Africa and they find
several large snakes in her hold. How
strange"
"Pd like to know what you'd expect" re-
torted the president of the temperance So
cfety. Isn't that the ship that sailed for
Africa last season with cargo of m?"-New
York Recorder.
"Did you hear that the daughter of the late
Hon. Friendtoall, one of the founders of this
The people ought to subscribe fund for her
support"
"Well, that's too bad, but the town has just
built $4,000 monument to her father. l
should think that ought to satisfy her."-Buf-
falo Express.
II am very much afraid that Van Daub is
never going to make a success of painting"
"Why?"
"None of his brother artists have any but the
kindest things to say about him. They don't
seem to be bit envious "-Washington Star.
"Hello, JONES' buying bicycle?"
eyes,
"But you're not going to ride it, are your
ooh, no, merely wanted the earth, and 1
thought the easiest way to get it was to own q
bicycle. detroit Tribune.
she-Don't you think my new hat is as pretty
as picture?
He-oh, no; the hat is pretty frame for the
more beautiful picture that goes with it.-New
York Tribune.
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PERSONAL.

Mr. and Mrs. o. F. Griffin Jr. of MERGED, are
at the Grand
Commander ]. ]. Read of the Olympia is at
the Occidental
II. Hirschfeld capitalist of Bakersfield, is a
guest at the Lick.
A. B. Glasscock of Yosemite Valley is a guest
at the Occidental
5. +, Wiles, mining man of Hermosillo,
Mexico, is al the Russ.
S. G. King, merchant of Marysville, regis
tered yesterday at the Grand
j. H. Martin, stockman from Woodland,
was one OF yesterdays arrivals at the Russ.
Thomas R. Vernon editor of the Delaware
County American, published at Media, Pa, is
here.
William F. Coffman, proprietor of the Yo-
semitic stage line, registered yesterday at the
Lick.
H. Jevne, merchant of Los Angeles, and
Mrs, Jevne registered yesterday at the Occi-
dental.
Adjutant-General Barrett came down from
Sacramento yesterday, and is at the Cali
fornia.
N. B. Wiley, Ex-Governor of Idaho, who has
been staying in town several days, left for
home yesterday
E. D. McCabe, the Governors private secre-
tary, came to town with his chief yesterday
and put up at the California.
George L. Arnold OF Los Angeles, member
OF the State Board of Equalization, was one of
yesterdays arrivals at the Lick.
Jesse NJ. Baker, q State Senator of Pennsyl-
vania and resident of Media, was one of yes
terday's arrivals at the Occidental.
Alfred Daggett, an attorney of Fresno, who
was a candidate on the Populist ticket for
member of the Supreme bench last fall, is at
the Lick.
Captain z. w. Holmes of the steamer Wash
tenaw, which came into port yesterday with
load of rails for the Valley railroad registered
at the Lick.
Commander George W.Pigman of the navy
arrived here yesterday and registered at the
Occidental. He sails for the Hawaiian Islands
on the Australia on the 9th to relieve Com
mander Thomas of the Bennington.
H. w. Van Sender, private secretary to the
Secretary of the Treasury, and Mrs. Van
Sender, arrived here yesterday from Wash
ington, and are staying at the Palace. Mr..
Van Sender has come out to join Mr. Wilder
of the Treasury Department. who has been
here some days, making the annual count of
bullion at the Mint.
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llshed, but it must be remembered there
was sufficient doubt raised on the subject
IN the last Congress to induce the Govern
ment to appoint a commission to make an
inspection of the route to satisfy Congress
OF the advisability of passing the canal
Dill. The commission is now in Nicaragua.
Mr.. Colquhoun, while there, met the mem
bers of 1t and speaks of them very highly.
1t would seem that he must have drawn
his information largely from the sources
whence they will obtain theirs, and 1t is
llkely therefore that the report of the COM
mission will be about as favorable as that
which Mr.. Colquhoun has made public.
VI the benefits to be derived from the
canal the British investigator has no
doubts. The climate of Nicaragua he
found to be healthful, pleasant and tit to
enable European to work during the hot
test season of the year. The canal, when
completed, will be, he says, universally
greater than the Suez canal and will largely
revolutionize the shipping routes OF the
world. The Southern States and the Pa
CHIC viii, in his judgment, derive the most
proft from it, but all the great region OF
the Mississippi will be benefited.
The greatest interest in this report from
competent expert is the promise it gives
OF favorable report from the Government
commission to Congress. Public opinion
is ready to support the Government In I'M
dertaklng the great work, and as Congress
is now in the hands of the Republican
party-always favorable to American de-
Velopment and progressive may reason
ably look forward to the passage OF the
canal bill next winter, and after that the
prompt prosecution of the vast enterprise
to completion
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08
A REOEDING EVIL.

While it is gratifying 10 learn from Chief
Crowley that ''since THE CALLS crusade
against the lottery traffic began the sale OF
tickets has fallen off 90 per cent in this
City" we are as yet unable to say that the
evil has been suppressed. Chief Crowley
explains the partial reform by saying that
THE CALL has awakened self-respect and a
regard for the laws, but that the greater
effect has been produced by THE CALLS ex-
posure of the swindling operations ofthese
outlawed concerns. An excellent point
made by the Chief is in these words
''Now, if the other daily papers would only
follow THE CALLS example in this matter,
or at least refrain from advertising these
Illegal fake lotteries, we could get the bust
ness under our heel in this City" He
adds: 'If THE CALL will only keep up its
fight little longer | am in great hopes
that every intelligent man and woman in
the City will soon become aware of the fact
that the best lottery ticket ever sold in this
City is a very questionable coupon, to say
the very least, and that nine tenths of all
the other tickets are palpable, transparent
frauds
If the efforts of one paper have proved
so benefcent, it is easy to imagine what
the combined efforts of all the dailies
might accomplish. Regarding the matter
from strictly business point of view,
without reference to its moral side, the
newspapers which advertise the lotteries
and induce their readers to buy tickets are
depriving the community and themselves
of considerable amount of money. We
put it in this light in order to appeal
directly to that manifest sense which In
duces the other papers to encourage the
swindleS. This can be only the desire to
secure the money which the lottery COM
panies so generously spend ON newspapers
which support them. THE CALL is in a
position to make just as much money as
any of them out of the lotteries, and its
prosperity in spite of the fact that it re-
Trains from doing SO, seems to prove that
lottery money (Which is only species of
bribery is not necessarily essential to a
newspapers success.
We give the conduct of our contempora-
ries in this matter SO much prominence
for the evident reason that without their
support the lotteries could do but very
little business, and that newspaper sup
port is the leading factor in their sue
cessful operation. Cupidity is naturally
aroused by these fraudulent announce
ments of fabulous prizes won, and SO the
evil thrives. Such advertising Will have
to be stopped sooner or later, unless news
paper influence prove sufficiently strong
to prevent the enactment of q law to sup
press the evil, and it would certainly be
more graceful and dignified for our con-
temporaries to abandon their practice
before being forced through fear of fines
and IMPRISONMENT to do so.
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named Transient Tears" that would
seem commonplace at their best on pages
written by some men, but which are at
least surprising when found in the manu-
script OF an untutored japanese boy. Scat
Iered through the pages, that of course are
out the monument to raise boyish hopes,
are such things as these:
Strange is the human conception that in it
they make Light dark and Dark darker. Error
begins It's start at curiocity and ends in lllu-
SION while no one can see in the dark every
one would step into it and after trultlesS
search they return and pretend that they haQ
religion.
A Japanese proverb says: Even the rustling
OF the sleeves has some consequence, so our
incidental conversation with strangers brings
US warm friends and cold enmity.
Poverty and hunger are ever LIES concomi-
tants, sighed the fisherman. The blood is ever
SO cheap and the bread so dear.
In hardwood and in poverty struggle my
way to the giver of all good.
Advices are better to the ear as medicine is
to the tongue
She trembled from limb to limb
virtue is indeed like the sun to rejoice the
heart.
My conscience smarts me.
sinners, mother, are long-lived, and so 1 can
not die.
Transient Tears is chuck full of
death, love, Joy, tragedy, and brings in
beggars, Buddhist priests, Buddhist tenn
pies Catholic temple" the Salvation
Army, beggars, a rich Jewess, refuge in a
convent, a footsore, distracted girl in a
graveyard on a moonlight night, weeping
willows, murders in temples and few
score more OF just such things, and if Shigal
Morikubo keeps practicing that way a
few years more he may some day see his
name printed after "By" on title-page
1t won't be his fault if he does not. But
he is in an awful hurry to sell book and
get money. One of the works that he has
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

planned is history of Japan for English
people.
Poor Morikubo's energy and ambition
are marvellous, and maybe some day he
will take with him to Japan the white
skinned girl who has intoxicated him,
drive those fine horses at home, and be a
nice novel himself.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

In 1880, according to the returns of the
tenth census, the United States was the
wealthiest of all nations, Great Britain be-
ing second; and there is no doubt that the
last fifteen years have greatly widened the
gap between US and the English.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

The difference in valuation of property
at the last census was very remarkable. In
some States the assessment was no more
than % per cent of the real value of the
property, while in other cases it is believed
to have been as high as the selling price
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

The pieces of furniture which surround
you in your home-these are your constant
companions. You abide with them; thew
are continuously in your sight. If they be
artistic and refined in style your home is
made attractive, your life pleasanter. We
sell artistically designed. we'll made and
properly finished furniture at really low
prices. We don't want you to THINK so.
we want you TO REALLY KNOW it-you
must see it to do that.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

According to the eleventh census the
wealth of the country was distributed very
unevenly, the Northern and Western States
being far heavier in proportion to popula-
ton than the Southern.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08
UP-TO-DATE IDEAS,

novel street-sweeping machine was put
into actual work last Monday night, says the
Philadelphia Times
1t is called the Philadelphia Sweeper. The
decided novelties of the machine are that it
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

Queen Victoria detests the odor of tobacco
and smoking is therefore forbidden al Windsor
Castle, Balmoral and at Osborne.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08
al Mrs. Winslow,s Soothing svrur,.

Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth.
ers for their children while Teething with perfec.
success 1t soothes the child. softeus the gums al
laws Pain cures Wind Collie, regulates the Bowels
and is the best remedy for Diarrhoas whether
arising from teething or other causes For sale bv
Druggists in every part OF the world Be sure and
ask for Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup 25c a
bottle
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

THE aged find needed strength in Hoods Sarsa
parilla. 1t vitalzes the blood, invigorates the
liver and keeps all the organs of the body in good
condition and insures healthy action.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

As Dunraven says he is satisfied with his
new yacht, we have no right to kick.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

San Francisco ought to hold a civic fes-
tival Just to celebrate her harmony.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

Enterprise in California no longer takes
the shape of booms.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

Castle,
Lillian Russell, who is spending the summer
on Long I5land, has rented yacht named
Take Me. According to the matrimonial
record, Lillian has already been "taken" pretty
often.
Rev. Father Field, a young Oxford-bred
ritualistic clergyman, is devoting his life to
work in the negro Sums of Boston. He is going
to celebrate his birthday, July 10, by giving a
gigantic picnic to the colored children of
Boston.
J. Sterling Morton is the most approachable
member of the Cleveland Cabinet, just as his
predecessor in the agricultural department
was the most approachable of Harrison's Secre-
taries. Morton likes to talk and is also good
listener, caring little with whom he carries on
@ conversation.
King Oscar is said to be the only European
monarch who possesses the ideal kingly dig
nifty. He is a very tall and handsome man,
with graceful and easy carriage, striking
courtliness of manner and possesses a most i'm
pressive appearance of dignity.
People call Rev. DIR. f. Z. Clark, who orig
mated the Christian Endeavor movement,
"Father Endeavor' Clark, greatly to his dis
gust, for it gives people the impression that he
is an old and withered patriarch, while as
matter of fact he is only Al and is in the prime
of his strength and vigor.
The late Lord Alcester OF the British navy
was noted for the serupulous care and neatness
with which he dressed. In later years he was
known as ''the ocean swell" So punctilious
was he about uniform regulations that on one
occasion he chased along the whole length of
the Strada Reale, at Valetta a luekless mid
shipman who was smoking in the streets in
uniform.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

A good honest home market will make
industry begin to hum.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

The summer thus far has well fulfilled
the promise of the spring.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

The Monroe doctrine fits the Nicaragua
Canal project as if it were made to order.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

Keep your eye on the lottery game and
your hands off it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

The more hopeless the prospects of
Democracy become, the brighter grow those
OF the country.
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MEN AND WOMEN.

$S5O0O0.
Mignon, the eight-year-old daughter of Nine.
Emma Nevada, is said TO have wonderful
voice and to be a marvellous dancer.
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BACON Printing Company, sos Clay street.

W1NE-DR1NKING people are healthy. NJ *.
Wines SC glass Mohns & Kaltenbach. 20 Mkt
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

If you intend to make a living out of
California you should reciprocate by help
inc her industries
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

In substituting moIasses for tar in the
time-honored tar-and-feathers form of ex-
pressing a personal dislike the whitecaps
of Canterbury, N. H., have made distinct
advance in civilization.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

Trade will soon be picking up for the
fall.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

The farmers wife can help solve the
tramp problem by giving preference to
California-made articles when she goes
shopping at the village store.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

The Southern Pacific Railroad has its
spurs in the park and evidently intends to
ride it for all it is worth.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

The frightfuI cyclones and cloudbursts
that are destroying life and property in
the East remind US forcibly that we are
living in California and the people Of the
East that they are not.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

If we buy goods made in our neighbours
factory we put him in position to do
likewise by the home institution which we
manage and which gives us sustenance.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-08

Don't forget that the State Fair is COM
ing and every producer ought to meet it
with a good exhibit.