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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-25
CALIFORNIA MANUFACTURES.

The call for meeting in this city of the
! manufacturers of California should be the
| beginning of a new order of things Our
| people have been paying Eastern manu-
facturers for goods which they should have
| made themselves. We have been raising
raw material, paying freight and commits
| sions for sending it East, and wages, profits
and freight again for bringing back the
finished products. We have been ship
| ping grain round Cape Horn at prices that
| have hardly paid for raising it, and buying
! Eastern hams and bacon. We export
wool, hides and leather and import cloth
| ing, blankets, boots, shoes and harness.
We produce the best fruit in the world and
buy English jams and preserves. In
scores of cases that might be indica ted we
follow a similar policy.
!. This is simply suicidal. No community
grows rich by such methods. Diversified
labor is the way to wealth. The exhcange
of home products is the most profitable
| trade. Transportation is a necessity that
should be minimized. We are about en-
tering upon an era of cheapened local
transportation, and local manufacture and
exchange should come with it. When we
do our work and keep our wages at home
VIC shall get the largest benefit from our
Industry.
One object of this convention will be to
begin the education of our people to
patronize the products of home industry.
Concerning this it must be realized at the
outset that there is no friendship in bust
ness. The cheapest and best goods will
capture the market. Nature is kind in
California and living is easy. Judicious
protection gives US the advantage in COM
peting with European imports Freights
add to the cost of Eastern products We
only need industrial organization, enter
prise, good judgment and hard work to
make good our manufacturing COMPETE
ton.
Capital and labor must heartily CO.
operate to this end. The trades unions
should be represented at this convention
| by their ablest leaders. A close investiga-
ton of the relations of Eastern and Pacific
wages and prices in connection with rates
of transportation should be one feature of
the meeting. Employers and employees
should come armed with facts and figures
that will afford business basis for CO.
operation in the work OF putting California
industries on a new footing.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-25
PERSONAL.

L. Goldfish, merchant of HOLSTER, is at the
Grand.
Judge q. N Goldsby of Santa Cruz is at the
Occidental.
w. F. George, the attorney, of Sacramento, is
al the Grand.
Dr. Lang W. Chapman of Yokohama is
guest at the Occidental
Prison Director Robert T. Devlin came down
from Sacramento last night and registered at
the Grand.
Y. Minota and K. Matsui, two officials of the
Japanese Government, arrived on the steamer
Gaelic, and are at the Occidental. The two
came direct from Toxic and are on their way
to Washington, where they will join the Jap
anese legation. While not inclined to discuss
the various phases of the war now in progress
in the Orient, they are satisfied that China has
as good as capitulated, and that the end of the
war is not far off.
f. d. Walker, prominent citizen of Homo
lulu came up on the Gaelic. He is at the Russ
House, and says he will remain away from
Honolulu for some time to come. He did not
take any active part in the revolutionary strug-
gle. Mr.. Walker has had an adventurous
career in the South Seas. Many years ago he
embarked from Yokohama with his family in
q schooner bound for Hawaii. The vessel was
wrecked and he and his family lived Crusoe
existence on small island for several years
They were finally rescued by passing ship and
carried to their destination
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-25
SCHEMES OF TRAIN-BOYS.
A PHILADELPHIA MANS EXPERT
ENCE WITH A NOVEL AND
A LOTTERY TICKET.
He WAS Nor THE ONLY VICTIM
OF A SHREWD YOUNG
STER'S DEVICE.

ut is no wonder to me that in reading
over the records of rich men, we find that
many OF them started in life as train boys
that IS the so-called peanut butchers
who with the colored porters on the over
land trains, make the ordinary tourist
miserable or comfortable as the case may
be, said J. H. Ardemus, a prominent
manufacturer of Philadelphia, who is visit
ing this city, as he sat in the Palace Hotel
yesterday.
"They are really the thriftiest lot of
shrewd youngsters 1 ever saw. As we
were crossing the southern desert coming
out one of these shrill voiced embryo Jay
Goulds came and laid stack of books in
my lap, and said that he expected me to
buy at least two of them. L assured him
that 1 had several newspapers and 1
thought l could worry through with them.
whispered in my ear that with every fifty
cent book he sold a lottery ticket. -
cat last to get rid of him | purchased
one of his novels, and sure enough there
was lottery ticket inside. l only glanced
at it, though, and put it in my pocket. I
read the book until 1 fell asleep. When
woke up the book was gone. CHANGING
around l saw an elderly gentleman reading
it, and | spoke to him about it. He
answered me that he had paid so cents for
the book.
"'And lottery ticketP' Iqueried. Yes
he responded, producing the ticket. At
this iuncture another passenger across the
way leaned over, and with a smile asked
us if we had looked at the date on the
tickets. We did so, and found that they
were for drawing which had come off a
year before.
when that innocent looking youth
came around again with some glucose gum
drops | stood him up at once but he did
not quail. OF course it isn't good ticket
he said, unabashed; it's against the law
to sell them. Many passengers like them
in the books because they make good mark
ers if you want to stop reading for awhile.
Gumdrops? Yes. SIR and then he darted
off toward a customer. There was broad
grin went around the car and l subsidized.
l learned that the boy had sold that book
and ticket to six different passengers on
that train in two days and got 80 cents each
time. How many more times it had been
sold don't know, but if all his volumes
represented that much money, it is no
wonder if that boy becomes a millionaire.
But then [ suppose he loses book now
and then by purchaser keeping it. Next
I'll see that keep my book"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-25
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
The "MonthIy Bulletin A Convenience
for the Patrons.

LOT Tic IdbTOHSs
The second monthly bulletin of the San
Francisco Free Public Library, prepared
under the superintendent of Librarian
George I. Clark, has Just been issued and
1t is valuable paper for those who have
occasion to visit the library. This issue
contains list of the recent accessions to
the library, which includes works on
religion, social science science and mis-
cellany, literature, history, fiction, the list
OF books by Robert Louis Stevenson that
are IN the library, articles on this writer
and number of articles about him
published since his DEATH The bull
ietln also contains a long list of good
books for young readers. The librarian
notes that the trustees have ordered addi-
tlonal copies of the books recommended
IN the Revised Course of Study" for
reading IN the grammar grades of the pub
lie schools and that in future list of these
will appear in the "Monthly Bulletin"
The following from the publication
named will be of interest to the patrons of
the library.
From the opening of the Library, in 1879, to
the adoption OF the indeXer system, besides the
nctlon catalogue, four catalogues have been
!ssued-ln 1880, 1882, 1884 and 1888, respect
lively. To relieve the public from the neces-
SHY OF searching through so many alphabets TO
nnd a particular book, it is proposed to include
these four catalogues in the one continuous
lndexer alphabet, and the entries of the 1883
catalogue and parts of the other three are
already inserted. 1t is hoped that the work
VIII be accomplished in about four months.
Untll then II will be necessary to look through
the bound volume containing the three cata-
logues OF 1880, 1882 and 1884 for any book
not found in the indeXerS.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-25
THE COTTON TRADE.

The report of the Senate Committee on
Agriculture and Forestry confirms the re-
ports of a depression in the cotton growing
industry of the South. The product is
large but prices are unsatisfactory.
The causes of this result are manifold.
and so must be the remedies. OF late
years Egypt has increased its cotton out
put under the impulse given by British ad-
ministration of the affairs of that country.
Egyptian long staple is even being i'm
ported in competition with our Sea Island
cotton. In India the English capital and
machinery, with cheap native labor and
raw material, have cut into Manchester's
trade in the Orient to the detriment of the
demand for American cotton in England.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-25

Manuel had the rope in hand, and in q second
1t went whistling in the air, whizzing along
like a snake, the moose dropping down exactly
over the big fin just as he had sent it over the
post.
But there was this difference: the moment
the flsh felt the rope, which the old man jerked
tast, 1t made rush drst along the surface OF
the water, nearly hauling the old fellow over
board, then down like an arrow, and scarcely
before l knew what had happened Manuel was
lying back in the boat holding on to the lariat
with all his strength, while the boat rushed
through the water as though it were being
towed by tug. jerked in the oars and laid
hold OF the rope with the Mexican and for a
while it was all we could do to hold our own
THE fish headed directly out of the little
harbor and made for the open water, and l
don't know how long it would have towed us if
we had not taken it in. That was no easy mat
ter. We took it in hand over hand, and would
gain ten feet when the fish would make a
rush and down it would CO. taking the rope
Kissing through our hands One of these ex-
curslons gave me the scars on my hands.
"After nearly half an hour of this work we
had the fish in sight, but it didn't like our
looks, and, making terrific plunge, took the
rope over the side, and the first knew we were
knee deep in water pouring over the side like a
waterfall. To right the boat we had to let go
and then had all the work over again, but
finally we had the fish alongside and a whop-
per he was
The moment we got him on short rope he
seemed to give up, and looked for all the world
IKE big wheel with all the spokes gone. How
such hsh could get up such pace was a mys-
terry, as 1t was almost circular, and the tail
looked as though it had been chopped off We
dashed 1t alongside and towed it ashore and
when II was set up found that it was almost ten
feet high-as curious looking a creature as you
aup
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-25
R0PING A RUNAWAY.
A Sheep-Herder Checks Frightened
Team of Horses.

"A Sheep-derder Checks a frightened
Team of Horses.
A serious accident was narrowly averted
on Mission wharf Saturday by the skill of
man with rope. The driver of four
horse team had taken the brides from the
heads of his animals and having buckled
on their feedbags had left them quietly en-
joylng their midday meal.
a band of sheep, frightened by the
noises around them and budding against
one another, came down the water front
and startled the horses. They shook the
feedbags from their heads and bridIeless,
rushed wildly away toward the ferry land
ing. AT the head of Mission pier No. /
they turned toward the end of the wharf
and 1T seemed as if nothing could prevent
the flying team from leaping into the bav.
However, the man in charge of the sheen
left his straying flock and hurried after the
runaways. Uncoiling his RATA from the
pummel of his saddle he swung the trustv
bit of rope as he rode and in one throw
caught the near leader of the team lust as
they neared the edge of the dock. His
welI-tralned steed braced itself for a strong.
quick pull and the four horses were ierked
from their course and tangled up with a
pile of lumber.
Without waiting for the driver the skill
ful vaquero galloped hurriedly away in
search OF his runaway sheep
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-25
sWEDBNBORG IN HISTORY.
The Rev. f. L. Higgins Places Him
Among the Greatest.

"Swedenborg's Place in History" was
the title of Rev. F. L. Higgins lecture on
Swedenborg and what he has done for the
world, given last evening at the First New
Jerusalem or Swedenborgian Church on
O'Farreu street.
Mr.. Higgins said: Having seen last
Sunday evening that in the estimation of
Emerson, Carlyle, Coleridge, Julian Haw-
thorn and others Swedenborg was the
most profound and colossal intellect. as
well as the purest and noblest man that
the modern world has seen, we come to-
night to consider the parentage and place
in history of this man, of whom Hiram
Powers, the sculptor, said All other
writers In comparison seem moving in the
dark, with tapers in hand, cropping their
way, while he moves in the broad light of
the sun; the man through whom, as we
hope in future to demonstrate, the truths
of new dispensation have been given to
the world.
''Swedenborg was son of Sweden. All
of the world s great religions have hitherto
come from the Orient. Buddha, Zoroaster,
Confucius and Mohammed, as we'll as our
Lord Jesus Christ, were Asiatics. 1t was
thus reserved for the truths of the new
Christianity, which is, however, only the
resurrection and re-establishment of the
Christianity of the Christ and the Apos-
tolic Fathers to come to us from the west
of Europe and through one of Scandinavian
ramily-a sober, intellectual and energetic
face of people"
Mr. Higgins then dwelt at length on
Swedenborg's parentage and the great
piety of his parents and grandparents,
showing also that his father was a man of
the highest culture and one of the twelve
Lutheran Bishops in the state church of
Sweden. He then turned to the place in
history of SWedenborg, who was born in
1858 and died in 1772. This period was
shown to contain in its first part the dark
est outlook for the Christian religion to be
found in the whole history of Christianity.
'In the midst of this corruption and in
fidelity, which, by all church historians, is
declared to have reached its fullness at the
middle of the eighteenth century, Sweden
borg appears. His voice is as one crying
in the wilderness. He came not only
teaching that God is personal being, but
that he is God of love, and that
that God is the Lord Jesus Christ in one
divine person. He also taught that the
Bible is Gods word, having a spiritual
significance within its literal sense which
makes it a divine book. He taught the ex-
istence of mans spirit and it is owing to
the influence of these his teachings, as
Emerson, Beecher and others admit, that
a change has since slowly come over the
world"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-25
RETURNED FROM ABROAD.
THREE MISSIONARIES WHO La
BORED IN RELIGIONS CAUSE
IN THE ORIENT.
EXPERIENCES OF Rev. j. A. OTTE
FERoCIoUs TIGERS IN THE
Annoy DISTRICT.

Among the passengers on the steamer
Gaelic, which arrived from the Orient on
Saturday evening, was party of missiona-
rles who are enjoying temporary respite
from their evangelistic labors, and after
years OF absence abroad they are returning
to spend short while in their former
homes.
Those in the party are Rev. and Mr.. ].
A. Otte OF the Reformed Church, and their
four children, NJ. NJ Haines of Philadel-
phia and Miss G. T. LANDER of Sevenoaks,
England. The Cites, who came from
Grand Rapids, Michigan, have spent seven
years i'll Annoy, China where in addition
to his gospel labors, Mr.. Otte had charge
of hospital.
''We saw nothing of the war where we
were located, z said Mr.. Otte Yesterday,
land in fact heard nothing. 1 really be-
heve that it is only in that part of China
where hostilities are in progress that the
people know anything concerning the con-
tiiet. Around Annoy is a vast farming dis
trlct, and the people follow their agricul-
turai pursuits in a primitive way, only
thinking of Government affairs when they
have to pay taxes.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-25
UP TO DATE IDEAS.

catchlng fish by means OF lsrlat Is GER
oainly novelty in piscatorial sport. The
panent small boy has been known to snare
nsh, ana spearing fish is a method that goes
pack TO aboriginal times.
Inc enormous sunfsh whose picture accom-
pahleS TINS articles was captured recently by
means OF rope lariat Off Santa Catalina
island, on the Southern California coast. Just
now nov II was accomplished is told by veracious
fisherman IN those parts, who sends the follow
ing account to the New York World:
was out last week with old Manuel, the
apaione hunter, who lives up toward Little
HarpoF, and saw him round up sunfish with
larlat as We'll as you would a steer.
wouldn't have believed it if hadn't seen it. L
hao taken the old man with me to look at the
WIG goats. We were on our way down the
mountain just above Catalina Harbor, when
the old man suddenly stopped and pointed to
the entrance of the harbor Looking down, I
saw what took to be the fins OF several sharks
lazlly moving up and down.
W went down narrow trail or short cut
TO MS shanty, where from an ancient trunk he
pulled an old lariat. He gave it fling and
landed 1t over post some distance off, just to
snow that he had not lost the trick, then pick
ing up mis- oars, led the way down to the boat
The harbor sets in half q mile there, and
supposed By the time we got out the sunfish
would be gone; but not so. AS soon as we
rounded the sand bar saw them, their fins
standing out of the water like stakes.
1.-The Mexican now gave the souls tc me and
took his place in the bow with the rope and
with one eye over my shoulder | rowed slowly
along. The nearer we came to the fish the big
ger the fms looked one especially standing
nigh out of the water and shining in the sun
light with a peculiar iridiscence. The old man
gave me directions how to pull and after few
moments turned the boat little and stopped.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-25

Russia is also pushing the production of
cotton in Central Asia for use in her own
mills. The low price of silver is an i'm
portant factor, and also the present gen
eral depression in prices.
Foreign competition cannot be avoided,
but otherwise we may mend the situation.
The restoration of silver will do much.
The increase of cotton manufacturing in
the South, the Introduction sof diversified
industries, and less dependence upon a
single crop, will help out the situation. The
world has been in the dumps lately, but
there is good time coming, and the South
will share therein.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-25
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS,

Little Miss Brickrow-With all your airs, l
don't believe your folks has any family heir
looms.
Little Miss D'Avnoo-We haven't, ehl NV
mamma has breastpin that my grandmother
bought at the Paris Exposition and smuggled
in herself-Good News.
FULL understand that you were held UP
coming home from the club last night
Fuller-Your understanding is 0 K, and it
kept two of the boys from the club busy all the
way holding me up.-Philadelphia Inquirer
Strawber-The idea of Castleton teaching a
class of boys in Sunday-schooI, when he swears
like trooper.
Singerly-If you taught class of BOYS in Sun
day-school you would swear like trooper also
New York Herald.
Anything new to be seen at the theaters
now?"
"Great Scott, no! The spring bonnets won't
be out before Easter, man."-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
pious old lady recently sent as a silver
wedding present a pair of flatirons, rolling
pin, and motto worked on cardboard reading
Fright On '-Tit-Bits
Wife lat breakfast)-I didn't hear you when
you came in last night.
Husband guess that's the reason l didn't
hear you.-Cineinnati Inquirer.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-25
THINK NO EVIL.
The Rector of st. Lule's breaches on
Christian Charity.

The Rector of st. Luke's breaches on
Christian Charity.
Rev. William H. Moreland preached at
ST. Luke's Church yesterday from the text
CHARITY thinketh no evil
He said: Gle who has charity does not
impute bad motives to mems conduct. No
one should dare to Judge another's motive.
Between the hands of watch and the
handspring are many wheels, so there are
often mixed and complicated motives to a
single act Only God can read mems
hearts. So only God can pass Judgment.
Make the best of every one. The Ital-
ian diplomat Cayour said more mistakes
are made from not trusting men than from
believing in them. We lose sometimes by
trustful disposition, but are more than
repaid by the sweetening and charging of
our natures by the exercise of charity.
They that put the best Interpretation on
others draw out wonderfully the good in
people. 1t would be a shame if all we re-
membered of St. Peter was that he denied
his Lord
''Avoid a touchy and vindictive spirit
which is always taking offense and stores
up sights in the memory with the hope of
paying them back. Charity is tender of
the feelings of others aud is careless about
its own rights"
Mr.. Moreland told some striking Incl
dents to illustrate the text and made many
practical applications of it. He claimed
that newspapers were apt from political
bias to impute unworthy motives to public
men, and that especially at election time
1t was necessary to think no evil.
Love-" he continued, "as Christ and
st. Paul describe it, seems impossible it is
so glorious and sublime. Think of loving
your enemies, blessing and doing good to
them that hate you. This is impossible to
the natural affections. But what men
cannot do by nature they can accomplish
by union with Christ. Christian charity is
Christ's own love impaired to those who
are abiding in him.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-25
PARK AND BEACH,
The Cold Did Not Keep Lovers of
Music Away.

There was chill in the air yesterday,
but that did not prevent thousands of
lovers of music visiting Golden Gate Park
to listen to ScheeIs band. There are some
who have declared that the people of San
Francisco are Jays, who do not care for
music, but the crowd that collected in front
OF the bandstand in the park to listen to
the flow OF sweet sounds proved that San
Franclscans love music and never miss an
opportunity to show their approval of it.
The wind 1t blew and the dust it flew on
the ocean beach so that the MANY who
were there did not enjoy the outing. The
number of visitors was large, but they
did not tarry to watch the seals, nor sit on
the sands to gaze at the angry waves that
chased one another shoreward They did
not require the order of the police to 'ikeep
movin."