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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1895-02-28

Mr.. Harvey Miller, who 10 employed on the
Markell farm, near Frederick, drove . six.
horse team, containing load ofwood across
the Monocacy at Reich's ford near that city,
one day last week, on the ice.-QNidt.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

working classes cannot understand this
proposition and are willing to cripple their
own prospects in order to punish the
capitalists for something not explained, it
shows that a deplorable feeling is abroad
between capital and labor. If so, and it
finds many opportunities for exercise, the
prosperity of California is threatened.
Undoubtedly the property owners are at
fault for permitting the finances of Oak
land to be managed with SO little regard
for business principles. The city has placed
itself in the position of borrower who
makes no provision for paying his debt
when it falls due, but depends on some
fortunate circumstance to secure an extern
sion. Such policy induces thriftlessness
and extravaganza and is incompatible
with success in private affairs. All this
means to say that the very citizens most
heavily charged with the responsibility of
seeing that the business of the city was
conducted on sound principles have neg
lected to do so, and are in fair way to
be punished for their indifference.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18
A NOBLE THOROUGHFARE.

The two great ornaments of Market
street which are under way-THE CALL S
fifteen-story marble building and the ferry
structure-are tremendous strides toward
the conversion of this noble highway into
one of the most splendid thoroughfares in
the world. The ferry building will be
either in marble or sandstone, will be 900
feet long and will be surmounted by a
tower of imposing height. THE CALL S
building will be striking for its vastly su-
perior height above any other building in
the City, for the striking beauty of its
tower effect and for the dazzling whiteness
of its marble.
Upon the exercise of wisdom, taste and
enterprise in the building up of Market
street will depend much that concerns the
City at large, and its aspect and manage
ment will be the key to whatever OF refine
ment and prosperity the City can possess.
1t will be the center upon which all that
makes the City desirable will be concen-
trated to the extent that whatever is good
in other parts of the City must be better
on Market street. Hence every shabby
structure thereon will be just as sure an in
dication of its owners lack of value as a
l.
be of the superior enterprise and worth OF
Claus Spreekels.
AT present Market street is not inviting.
Instead of having sunken tramways and a
smooth pavement, two cable lines and
two horsecar lines crowd its surface and
the most wretched of block pavements
completes the discomforts and dangers
which the surface cars begin. Besides
these drawbacks it is lined extensively
with the most wretched wooden shanties
that q total lack of pride and energy could
permit. But these are steadily making
way for houses built by men who are of
value to the community. The Parrot
building is palace, and Claus Spreckels,
besides having just finished one handsome
stone structure, IS preparing to build four
or five others of even greater beauty and
size.
There is an abundance of rich men in
the City and there are many millions of
dollars that might be protitably employed
in valuable improvements. Every such
house as that which THE CALL is to have,
instead of merely increasing the number
of buildings and offices to rent, adds to the
attractiveness and prosperity of the City,
induces the coming of population and
wealth, encourages business and urges the
City onward in all the ways that make it
pleasant, beautiful, inviting and prosper
Gus. Inferior buildings and poor streets
will be taken as the measure both of our
intelligence and prosperity, and will stand
as barrier to our progress. Every man
of means who moves forward is public
benefactor, and every one who Tags behind
sits like an incubus upon the town.
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a REMARKABLE SPEECH.

In these days of selfishness, avarice and
an endless struggle for wealth it is refresh
ing to read the manly declaration made
by Mark Twain in an interview at Van
couver. He Celebrates his former declara-
ton that he has undertaken his lecturing
tour round the world for the sole purpose
of raising money with which to pay the
debts arising from the failure of his pub
clearinghouse; that at his time of life he
would not have undertaken so arduous a
work for his own financial benefit. Here
is wonderful passage in his interview:
1.-THE law recognizes no mortgage on a
mans brain, and a merchant who has given
up all he has may take advantage of the
rules of insolvency and start free again for
himself; but / am not a business man, and
honor is harder master than the law. 1t
cannot compromise for less than hun
dred cents on the dollar. and it's debts never
outlaw"
The force of this is better appreciated
when We reflect that he is 60 years old,
and that he thinks it will be necessary for
him to lecture four years before he tan ex-
tinguish the debt. These are precious
years for man at his time of life, and he
cannot hope after the completion of his
task to earn sufficient for his perfect ease
and comfort in his very last years. when
rest and comfort will be so much needed.
More valuable than those considerations
which affect his personal interests is the
stern rebuke which he administers to men
who have no sense of honor except that
which the law compels them to entertain.
The very existence of insolvency laws is a
confession of weakness that casts nearly
the deepest of all the shadows resting on
civilization. They are even harsher re-
buke than the penal laws, for crime is gen.
orally symptom of disease peculiar to
the individual rather than the expression
of a community fault, while insolvency
laws have broader origin. 1t is true that
these laws work great benefit. While they
place no burden upon conscience they do
not in the least relax that which right
moral sense imposes, and thus it is that
they encourage rascality by favoring the
tricky man.
Still, they are necessity. Laws are not
intended to govern the morality of men,
but only their onduct. The three princi-
pal things which affect conduct are the
laws, d uesIIe W nave TIE IeSpeCt anu con-
fidence of a community and the dictates OF
the individual conscience. Laws neither
relieve society of its obligations to the in
dividual nor the individual from the moral
pressure which society can exercise. And
it is altogether unfair to complain of in
solvency laws when we observe that as a
rule they are adopted by the community
as a standard by which to Judge the hon.
esty of an Insolvent.
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PERSONAL.
life.

A c. Swaine of MERGED is staying at the Russ.
w. F. Dickson of Eureka is guest at the
Russ.
Henry Lindley, a Los Angeles politician, is at
the Palace.
] d. Wadworth of Santa Rosa registered at
the Russ yesterday.
W. H. Hatton, one of Modesto's lawyers, is
no used at the Lick.
Hon. Lawrence Archer OF San Jose was in
this City yesterday.
Rev. George w. Pierce is up from Eureka, a
guest at the Grand.
o. Smith, an ore buyer from Arizona, is a
guest at the Palace.
R. Miller and family of Tifin, Ohio, are recent
arrivals at the Russ.
F. NJ. Fitzgerald, Stockton dry-goods man, is
is guest at the California.
j.. II. Smith, Placerville mining man, is
housed at the Grand Hotel.
Miss l.. ]. Werrick, a missionary from Toxic,
Japan, is guest at the Occidental.
Mrs. j. A. Foster, missionary from Khan
gaan, India, is at the Occidental Hotel.
Lieutenant w. S. Hughes of the United
States navy is new arrival at the Grand
Bernard Murphy, the Santa Clara capitalist,
is al the Palace Hotel, spending few days.
f. d. Nicoll, a lawyer, who visits San Fran
cisco frequently from Stockton, is at the Lick.
James Mcneil, Santa Cruz capitalist is up
from the coast, and is stopping at the Palace
Hotel.
T. Espanosia and Vicinti Espanosia Cuervas
of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, are guests at tho
Russ.
r. A. Long, one of willows barristers, is
down from the farming country, at the Grand
Hotel.
J. M. Mannan, secretary of the Stockton In
sane Asylum, is visiting the City, and is at the
Grand Hotel.
navy arrived from China yesterday and is q
guest at the California.
NJ. Duke Darnen of the United States navy
| is at the California, having arrived in the City
yesterday from Japan on the Belgc.
Judge J. G. Grubb one of the judiciary of
Delaware, is at the Palace Hotel. He is on
visit to this coast to get slice of California
weather.
Miss Lu Wheat, who has been handling the
woman's correspondence of the Kansas Sun in
Japan. arrived in San Francisco last night on
the Belgic and is guest at the Occidental.
Theodore Vogelgesang, who is at present en-
joying three months leave of absence from
the cruiser Mohican, now lying in Puget
Sound, is in the City on a visit to his brother
Alexander. This young man. who ranks as
ensign, has been on the water for five years.
and is a Pacific Coast graduate from Anna
polls He has crufsed around the Hawaiian
Islands, Boring Sea, South Seas, South Amer
lea, China and Japan, and is full of admiratio
for Uncle Sans new navy and the immediate
prospects OF better one even than proud Eng
land ever dared hoist the Queens flag over.
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Mexico of the missions they once founded
here and of the religion they taught.
Having great reverence for the cypress
tree IN their native land it is not wonder
full that they should have brought some OF
the seed with them, nor is it over strange
that all others planted here should have
persisted in forest fires, Or by the disasters
OF time and chance and left only this one
grove surviving at Cypress Point.
1t is to this legend-or shall we call it
history ?-to which Mr.. Richards poem re-
fers. This is the sweet tradition treasured
to this day which they keep in their somber
glory as they guard a sacred shrine. 1t is
one of the traditions that adds q human
interest to the manifold charms of Mon
terey Peninsula and invests so much of its
beauty with the enhancing charm of mys-
terry.
In all ages of the world whereof man has
any knowledge, ard among all people that
have attained to any clear conception OF
the spiritual significance made manifest
through material forms, the cypress tree
has always been an emblem of mourning
and has been held filter to bend above the
graves of the dead than to adorn the
pleasure gardens of the living. Always it
has had for man meaning full of sadness.
When the old Greek singer wrote his mem
orable verse, 1.-THE rose lives but day and
the cypress thousand years." he meant
to imply the swift decay of joy and the
endless duration of grief. The world so
understood him then and understands him
now, for the symbols of men have not
changed though all else has changed. 1t
is not easy to comprehend, however, why
so stately tree should have for the heart
ard the brain so mournful significance.
1t stands so tall, so fair and so strong, and
meets the sunshine and the storm with
such an equal front of calm defiance, fear
ing neither to be withered by the one nor
blasted by the other, that men ought to
find in it something quite different from
sorrow. like to believe that when Adam
planted the cypress tree by the grave of
Eve, he saw in its evergreen branches and
its ime-enduring trunk, not an emblem of
death, but of immortality. The Buddhists
may also in their esoteric circles have
taught something of the same thing, see
ing life in what to the outer world was
death itself. At any rate if the poet was
right in saying that the trees at Cypress
Point seem to be waiting for something it
can hardly be supposed that it is for death
of those who planted them, for they were
dead long since. They can be waiting for
nothing now save the resurrection and the
life
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CAL1FoRN1ANs IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Aug. 1.-THE really
typical Eastern summer weather has delayed
it's coming somewhat this season. but it is APP
parently here at last. The Californian is nat
uraliy least of all adapted to enduring this
peculiar variation of the Eastern climate and
the summer resorts and watering places are
full of them: Henry Burden Mcdowell has es-
tabllshed himself and his family at Orange, N.
J. John Vance Cheney, who was formerly at
the head of the San Francisco public library,
and now holds similar position in Chicago,
has gone to Vermont for the summer. Mr.. W.
o. Powell and Mr.. F. Sturgis OF San Francisco
have been at Long Branch during the week.
D. NJ. Burns of San Francisco is at Saratoga.
Mr.. G. Gumpertz also of Frisco is now at Man
haitian Beach. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Mcclure of
San Francisco are among the sojourners at the
Ocean House, Newport, while Mr.. and Mrs E.
G. Graham, two more well-known San Fran
ciscans, are at the Rodick at Bar Harbor. The
list OF Californians registered at the New York
hotels to-day includes: From San Francisco
r. W. Campbell, Hoffman; S. Dannenbaum and
NJ. s. Cohen, Imperial; J. Grange, st. Cloud; C.
G; Hansen St; Stephens; 7; Heimken, Mr. and
Mrs j. E. Tibbetts, Bartholdi; A. C. Stephens,
ST. Denis; w. H. Hall, Murray Hill; A. D. Levy
Continental; Mrs. E. A. Bosch, Broadway Cen,
troll
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forms have been made from time to time, as
occasion demanded, during the last 500 years
at least. No good reason exists for thinking.
further reforms impossible. (Wash.r
Times.
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1t would not be surprising if the Vice-Presi-
dental candidate on the Republican ticket for
1896 was chosen from the South. The idea is
favored by many party leaders In the Con-
gressional elections last year the Republicans
carried more districts in the South than the
Democrats did in the North, and this is taken
as an indication that geographical lines in
politics have disappeared at last. 1t might be-
well to celebrate this change in conditions by
selecting Southern man for second place on
the Republican National ticket-San Diego
IIninn
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18
0AKLAND'S DILEMMA.

Our charming neighbor across the bay
finds itself in danger of being punished for
neglect of ordinary business principles in
the conduct of its municipal finances.
Bonds to the amount of 81 40, 900 fall due in
February, and as no sinking fund has been
provided for their redemption heavy tax
will have to be imposed should majority
OF the voters in the special election soon
to be held decide that the bonds shall not
be refunded. In order to defeat the re-
funding proposition an organized and
earnest fight is being made, the capitalists,
OF course, arraying themselves On the side
of refunding. The heavy special tax re-
qulred for the redemption would prove a
hardship IN more ways than one.
The whole situation is very instructive
and is deserving of study by other cities.
1t is likely that when the bonds were orig
inally proposed they were opposed by cap
italists and large property-owners and
favored by the working classes. Now the
situation is completely reversed; the work
ing classes. having received the benefit of
the issue, want the property-owners to ex-
tinguish the debt. Under ordinary cir
cumstances there could be no question
that they should be made to do SO, but
property values have shrunk, revenues
have decreased ana times are hard. From
the point of view of self-interest the work
ing classes could gain no advantage from
defeating. the refunding measure, and
hence their opposition has the appearance
OF antagonism to property.
The imposition of the tax to extinguish
the debt would not only bear heavily on
the property-owners, but would operate to
the checking of improvement and reduc-
ton OF expenditures of which the working
classes would receive the benefit If the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18
KIND WORDS FOR THE CALL"

The San Francisco CALL, under the manage
ment of Charles NJ. Shortridge, is fast taking
the lead as champion of the peoples rights.
1t is pursuing a course that If followed out,
will soon make it the leading paper on the
coast. 1t is fearless in exposing rottenness
that exists in the Police Department of that
City, and is showing up the vice that is al
lowed to be carried on openly by the guardians
of the peace. 1t is also making strenuous ef-
forts to compel the State Board of Equaliza-
ton to investigate the rascality of the South
ern Pacific Company in regard to the valuation
of its property, and to make that company pay
its just taxes.-Millville Tidings.
The San Francisco CALL will publish only the
legal developments of the Durrant case, taking
care to eliminate all that sensationalism to
which the other big dailies give so much space.
Now all those people who are continually cry
ing against the sensationalism of the modern
newspaper have IN opportunity to show how
strong they are and how sincere they are in
their kick.-W Woodland Mail.
The San Francisco CALL is to have new
building of its own, built expressly for the
accommodation of a great modern newspaper
Office. The location is at the southeast corner
OF Phird and Market streets. THE CALL is one
of the best and most prosperous newspapers
not only of the coast, but of the United States
Tacoma (Wash.) Union.
The San Francisco CALL has become the
leading paper of that City, and has made
itself so by the hitherto untried policy of fair
ness. cleanliness and honesty. 1t may fall
from grace next year, but, so far. The CALL
leads them all.-Lemoore Radical.
California has also Board of Railroad Com
missioners drawing pay from the people and
doing nothing for it. The San Francisco CALL
is after them with t'sharp stick'-an editorial
pencil vigorously showed. - Pendleton East
Oregonian.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Associate United States Justice Stephen j..
Field, one of the Oldest and best-informed
jurists in America, when asked by young
man yesterday whether or not successful
jurist should give up his legal practice and go
into an all-round political life, replied:
81 think every young man should go to the
Legislature whenever it is possible, so that ne
may become familiar with the manner OF max
ing laws, but do not think it is always good
idea to give up good legal practice to become
politician. Politicians are plentiful enough
as it is but the law is not overcrowded with
frst-class men. 1 believe that every citizen
should at some time do jury duty. 1t familiar
ICES him with the process of conducting cases
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18
NOTES ABOUT STOCKS.
Stocks create a ferment wild;

Stocks create ferment wild,
Stocks have many men beguiled.
Stocks excite both rich and poor,
Stocks the cautious ones allure.
Stocks cause many sleepless night,
Stocks send many men home tight.
Stocks disease the troubled brain.
Stocks oft cause "trip to SPAIN"
Stocks make men to yell till hoarse, "
Stocks bring Joy and more remorse.
Stocks spread sorrow far and wide,.
Stocks bring men to suicide.
Stocks force men to leave high station,
Stocks encourage litigation.
Stocks bring riches to the few,
Stocks for many troubles brew.
Stocks cause men TO fret and fume,
Stocks send many s'up the flume."
Stocks affect the working classes,
Stocks attract the bonnie lasses.
AS we, in life, they smile and frown,
Sometimes up and sometimes down. P. NJ
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SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

Mrs. Slam understand that your husband
has gone into real estate of late
Mrs. Hamm-Yes; six feet of it-in Green
wood. He's dead
Bank Cashier-Sorry, sir, but you will have
to be identified.
Casey-Thot's all right, young mon; justwait
till you come to the side dure of my saloon of a
Sunday.
Mrs. Treetop-I believe I'll let you get me q
bottle of this medicine.
Uncle Treetop docking over the testimonials)
Not much! One of these critters says after
she took bottle she felt like New Woman.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18
CALIFORNIANS IN UTAH.

SALT LAKE, UTAH, Aug. 17.-Among the
recent arrivals from California are: At the
Knutsford-John H. Millsener, T. ]. Kelly. San
Francisco; at the Walker, C. Lazelle San Fran
cisco; at the Cullen. Wager Bradford. San
Francisco; at the Templeton-J. H. Beecher,
4. u, Bemlss, san francisco. The Misses Nc
Donald leave for their home in San francisco
to- morrow
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

We may believe that Cuban independ-
ence is coming, but it is a little too far Off
yet to be recognized.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

=: 1t is only by. the path of competition that
we can get to:the end of monopoly.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

Electric probabilities have now become
SO great that we hardly have time to con-
slider its possibilities.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

Monopoly cares little about public in
dignation; but the enforcement of the law
makes it squirm.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

If Eastern people hal nothing else to do
they might Keep busy watching California
grow. =. T.;
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

The silver convention along with the
exposition. will make the coming week
lively.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

AS Mr. Fitzsimmons has decided to be-
come an American citizen the great inter-
national fisticuff is off.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

The Countess of Dudley is the only Countess
in England who can claim the distinction of
having been a bona-fde shopgirl before she
assumed the title
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

Actions do not always speak louder than
words, bat they mean more.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

1t is a dull California town that has not
made, or does not intend to make, some
kind of show this year.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

The fair season has come: but the carni-
walls stay with US.
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OPINIONS OF EDITORS.

The motor foad connecting Riverside and San
Bernardino has been absorbed by the Southern
Pacific. AS an absorber of the life blood of
coast enterprises and coast progress the "octo-
pus'' has been well named.-Visalia Times.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

We ought not lightly to contemplate the
abolition of the jury system, but should rather.
endeavor to see that it is reformed and made
more in keeping with modern social condi-
tons than it is. Jury REFORM not the anohtlon
of iuries. is what is needed aud the student OF
history does not need to be told that such re-;
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

There is chance for San Francisco to
distinguish herself in the carnival line by
giving California fete.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

Whatever may be- the offenses of the
Southern Pacific Of Kentucky the people
of California are in favor OF railroads.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18

Life is largely matter of sticking to the
main issues.
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Study THE CALL this morning and see
what Western writer's can do to make a
Sunday newspaper for critical readers.