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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-20
No More Games With Harvard

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Feb. 19.-The
Harvard faculty have voted to abolish
Intercollegiate football.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-20
Mothers

have never found a preparation
so well adapted to the needs of
thin, delicate children, as SCOTS
Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil, with
Hypophosphites.
Children almost universally
like the taste Of it, which makes
its administration easy, and it
supplies their blood with the
food properties that overcome
wasting tendencies.
SCOTS Emulsion enriches the
blood, promotes the making of
healthy flesh, and aids in a
healthy formation Of the bones.
D0nf be persuaded TO accept a
substitute.
Scott & Bovine, MY, All Druggists SOC. and ST.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-20
BUILDING SOCIETIES.

Senator W. E. Johnson introduced a
bill to authorize the incorporation and
regulation Of mutual building, saw
ings and loan associations, doing a
local business. This bill is a revision
Of the several old laws upon the same
subject and places them upon the
same basis as other banking or finan-
ciaI associations. 1t is a bill agreed
upon by the league association and
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-20

ga dollar seems a good deal of money
in these hard times" Yes, but if you
have a Cough, Cold, Asthma, Bron-
chitis, or incipient Consumption, a dol
lar spent for bottle of DR.. D. Jayne's
EXpectorant may prove your cheapest
outlay, for you will then have the
surest remedy ever known for such dis
eases.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-20
for Infants and Children.

"Castoria isso well adapted to children that
recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me'' H A ARCHER, NJ. D.,
III So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, n. Y.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-20

The house bill to prohibit the sale
of intoxicating liquors near the state
fair grounds passed the senate I'M
der suspension of the rules upon mo-
ton of Senator Stevens.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-02-20

provides for the investment and loan.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-02
UP TO DATE IDEAS.

communication dated from the Sullivan
County Club, Wurtsboro, N. Y, received at the
New York Herald office recently, stated that
began to fall, continuing until there was a
depth OF twelve inches on the ground. There
was no mud. About / o'clock 1t was observed
that the snow about the clubhouse looked black
on top, and, on examination, it proved to be
covered with millions of minute insects, black
in color, and lively as ieas
AT first it was suggested that these leaping
specks were grip microbes and pneumonia
germs holding levee, but it was finally de-
c1ded to catch some OF the jumping mites and
mail them in an envelope to the Herald.
warning accompanied them in regard to OPEN
ing the envelope, as it was suspected from the
jumping propensities they displayed that they
were new species of flea.
But they were quite dead when they arrived
and to the naked eye looked like pinch of
black powder. They were formless and had no
more substance apparently than so much pow
dered charcoal or coal dust. A reporter OF the
paper says:
took them to Professor William Beuten-
muller, curator of the department of ento-
mology at the American Museum of Natural
History, and he placed some of them under o
powerful microscope for my inspection. AL
ney by mail they looked under the glass like
fierce and pugilistic beetles, armed with six
legs and covered with short stubble of silvery
bristles. The eyes were prominent and the
two long horns which projected from the head
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-02
THE RAILROAD COMMISSION.

Among the commissions which the Leg
islature will abolish, if it means well by
the State, is the Railroad Commission.
This body has never served the purpose for
which it was intended and has often been
public disgrace. 1t was the offspring of
that unhonored body, the constitutional
convention of 1879, which in its innocent
ignorance of practical politics conceived
the droll notion that Railroad Commits
sion would stand between the people and
the railroad company and would prevent
the adoption of exorbitant tariffs. A SINH
lar notion has prevailed at some time or
other in twenty seven or eight other States
of the Union, and there have been cases,
as in New York and Massachusetts, where
the commission rendered useful service.
But in by far the greater number of cases
the commission has either been utterly
useless, as in California, or has defeated its
own object by preventing necessary rail,
road extension, as in some of the grain
States.
In California the railroad commissions
have always been divided between the rail-
road and the people, the former taking two
of the three members, the latter one. The
majority ruled, of course, and the commits
sion became a nonentity SO far as restraint
upon railroad policy was concerned. Some
times the railroad company took hand in
the election, had it's own two men NOM
mated and saw to their election. Some
times it allowed the people to choose all
three and dealt with two OF them after
election. They were generally found
amenable to reason.
There are no two opinions among the
people of this State as to the utter useless
ness of the commission for the purpose for
which it was created. 1t has not sue
ceeded in reducing freights; the schedules
which it has put forth from time to time
have been. impostures. It has merely
served the purpose of the corporation in
registering its DEGREES that rates should be
governed by the time-honored rule that
freights should be all the traffic will bear
and competition will permit
When a mistake has been made the
thing to do is to correct it. We made
blunder when we created the Railroad
Commission. Let us reverse our action
and try some new plan. In the course of
the next four years the status of the main
lines Of road in this State will probably be
revolutionized. If they pass into the hands
of the Government or lessees under it, the
power of a State Railroad Commission to
interfere with them will at least be doubt
full. Let us clear the ground so as to avoid
conflicts of jurisdiction hereafter.
The conclusion of the whole matter is
that the railroad company has made every
schedule of rates that has been in vogue.
The commissioners are not only incapable
of making a schedule of rates, but they do
not even know what they are. The only
way to regulate rates is by the construc-
ton of competing roads.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-02
WARD MeALLISTER.

The passing away of Ward McAllister
will put stop to the jibes which 1t has
been common to aim at him, and to the
ridicule which he attracted. The man
himself was genial and kindly, fairly well
educated and not without intelligence; 1t
was his misfortune that he chose for his
vocation the calling of social leader,
which lowered him to the level of master
of ceremonies. Society must have some
one who will take charge OF public fune-
tions, arrange the order of dances, provide
suppers, and decide who belong to the
elect and who do not. Mr.. McAllister
took this ungrateful duty on his shoulders
and he actually seemed to like it. People
laughed at him and cracked jokes about
him, but he went on with his work, SEEM
ingly persuading himself that he was
very important wheel in the social ma
chine, and serenely indifferent to the criti-
cisms of the vulgar.
In the nature of things he antagonized
many people. He represented choice
circle which, though its members did not
actually claim superiority to the mass OF
mankind, yet were supposed to do so by
those who could not obtain access to their
world; and as the thin skim milk is
always more abundant than the creme de
la creme, there were far more people who
regarded McAllister as a snob than there
were who realized his real worth
or the utility of the services he
rendered. He explained the reason
for his existence at the time the
phrase "The Four Hundred" obtained
general circulation. The largest room, he
said, will only contain certain number of
people, and thus limit is set to the size
of the largest gathering of cultured per-
sons who know each other like each other
and are accustomed to meet and dine and
dance and chat together about their COM
mon interests. The question then arises
who shall pick out the elect and separate
those for whom there is not room from
those who cannot be excluded? With a
self-devotion which creates wonder Nc
Allister devoted himself to that task.
1t cannot be said that in losing him soci-
ety's loss is irreparable. An arbiter of
fashion is necessary; but SO is the footman
who opens the door, and, at bottom, the
difference between the two is one of de-
gree New York will experience no diff
Guilty in replacing the inventor of the
Four Hundred. The striking point in the
dead leader of the cotillon is that he took
himself so seriously. In the book he wrote
on "People l Have Net he reveals his con-
viction that dining and winning and dane
ing are very grave matters, to be under
taken with formal deliberation and carried
out with earnest purpose. He thought
more of the bouquet of an old Madeira or
the sauce of dish of stewed terrapin
than of the most important problems in
politics, science, letters or art and though,
as the poet Lytton says, civilized man can
not live without dining, the world has
never raised statues to Brillat Savarin or
even Lucullus.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-02
FRENCH OPINION ON GALIF0R-
MA WINES.

Last June q committee of wine experts
made report to the Agricultural lnstl-
tute OF Paris on California wines. A few
points made in the report found their way
into the papers; now full summary OF
the document has been forwarded TO the
State Department Considering that the
committee consisted of gentlemen who
were interested in French viticulture, the
opinions expressed are quite favorable to
our product.
The committee find that the best wine
made in this State belongs to the class of
wins ordinaires and compares not unfavor-
ably with the French wine of the same
class. The committee notes that it does
not improve with age and is at it's best at
two years old. The red wine is better than
the white. AS to the higher grades of
wine grown from vines imported from
Burgundy and the Bordeaux region, the
verdict is that while they are generally
good and not lacking in aroma and clear
ness" they do not possess the bouquet
of the French wines and are harsh and
rasp the throat. As to the port, Heres,
Malaga and Muscat grown in Southern
California, the committee considers them
equal to the product of Spain and Portugal.
Judging from the samples laid before
them by M. +. Cos, the committee suggests
that the region north of San Francisco
that is, Napa and Sonoma valleys-is the
best for fine wines, the middle region for
ordinary wines, and Southern California
for sweet wines and brandies.
The committee, while thus gently damn
ing our wine industry with faint praise,
makes allowance for our alleged backward
ness by explaining that wine-drinkers are
rare in this country the consumption of
wine per capita being only Las quarts per
year, while that of distilled liquors is 6.34
quarts. 1t says that Americans drink ice
water, tea, coffee, milk and alcohol, but
seldom wine" 1t has evidently never
heard of our consumption of lager beer,
which amounts to about eighteen gallons
per head of the total population.
The truth is that our wine industry is in
its infancy and is struggling against for
midable obstacles. There is no reason
why we should not make as fine wines in
this State as they do in Burgundy or the
Gironde, and we shall do SO some day, but
it will take time.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-02

cultivating them without an outlet to a
market. A State mileage of 5000 miles can
be traced on the map without building a
mile of line which would not command a
fair prospect of business or mile which
would not carry business to existing lines.
The experience of the East has been that
where the new roads ran through a fairly
good country, they doubled the value of
land. In some States it has been reckoned
that the people could have afforded to
build the lines and give them away when
they were built, SO long as they continued
to perform their duties as carriers. That
would probably be the case in some of Our
counties. The capital sunk in building the
lines would cut no figure in comparison
with the increased value they impaired to
the country they traversed. A railroad
makes an unstable farm worth 500 an
acre. 1t plants towns and villages all
along its path, and these towns become IN
time seats of manufacturing industry and
brisk trade. OF the %, 900 men who will pres
emily find employment in building the San
Joaquin road, and of the equally large
number who will be set to work on It's
feeders, large proportion will settle on
the line of the roads, as they did in Kan
sas and Nebraska, and thus the problem OF
inducing Eastern immigration will be
solved.
If the railroad mileage of this State were
doubled the grave evil of large land-hold-
ings would disappear. The owners OF these
vast domains found it impossible to sell the
small farms into which they parceled
their great estates. That difficulty would
be overcome if every productive region
were placed within reach of market, and
a few thousand Eastern men who had
come here to grade new lines and lay rails
were tempted to settle on twenty-acre
farms capable of growing fruit for Eastern
consumption.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-02
A BLIGHTED REGION.

The news from Nebraska is so sad that
it is almost heartrending. There has been
no rain to speak of in Western Nebraska
for five years, and a region which was once
a picture of happiness and fertility is a
desert in which neither man nor cattle
can live.
When the old schoolbooks were printed
they informed the pupil that the limit of
cultivation westward was the hundredth
parallel. West of that crops would not
grow for want of rain. Nevertheless, when
the great tide of western migration filled
up the eastern counties of Kansas and Ne
braska, after the war, hardy Adventures
pushed on westward and broke the sod on
the North Fork of the Platte and along the
Republican River. 1t happened, curiously
enough, that their arrival was accom-
panied by unusual falls of rain. The years
from 1875 to 1883 were almost all wet years.
The rivers were brimful, the streams did
not dry UP, the sloughs always contained
water, and the soil was always moist and
prepared to grow corn. Scores of little
towns sprang up by the side of the rail-
road, every train brought new settlers, and
there was no part of the United States
more prosperous than the region which
the biographies had pronounced unin-
habitable.
This happy era lasted till the opening of
the present decade. Then there came a
summer without rain, and OF course with
out crops. This was followed by another
and yet another until the climax was
capped in 1894, when the Republican ran
dry and the corn made no pretense of
growing at all. Then the settlers, who had
run deeply into debt in the years of plenty
to increase the size of their farms, not only
gave up all hope of saving their holdings,
but actually lay down to starve, A traveller
who has just passed through Nebraska
says that the early corn never came up at
all. There is no grass, not even buffalo
grass, for the little patches which survived
last summer have been gnawed down by
the furnishing herds. The country is a
dead baked brown, like some of our south
ern plateaus before the rainy season.
Farmers have killed their stock to eat, and
are abandoning their farms in search of
more hospitable homes. Others, who do
not know where to go, are living on the
weeds which grow around the mouths of
their wells and their garden spots; some
of them have actually died of starvation.
A few are dispatching piteous letters to
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-02
FEEDERS TO THE SAN JOAQUIN.

The remark of Bernard Murphy of San
Jose that he would like to see feeder to
the San Joaquin road built along the west
shore of the bay through San Mateo, Santa
Clara and San Benito counties, to join the
the people are waking up to the necessity
main line through Pacheco Pass, shows that
of increasing their railroad facilities. 1t
looks as though in every locality a fever of
railroad building is likely to break out.
1t is none too soon. In the matter of
railroad facilities this State is shamefuIly
behind its sister States. 1t has fewer miles
of railroad than Georgia, about half the
mileage of Wisconsin and Texas, one-third
the mileage of Ohio and Minnesota, less
than one-fourth the mileage of Illinois. 1t
may almost be said that in no State are
such extensive areas lying undeyeloped for
want of railroad facilities as can be found
in California. Tracts which would support
twice the present population of the State
are empty, because there is no object in
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-02
THE SEAL CATCH FOR 1894.

Mr. A. r. Milne, Collector of Customs at
Victoria, B. c., has just forwarded to OF
tawa detailed report of the fur seal catch
by Canadian fishermen during the season
of 1894. The catch is the largest on record,
and the proportion of males is much larger
than was expected by opponents OF the
pelagic fishery.
The total number of seals taken was "a,
474, as against 1882 in 1893. Of these,
about half, or 1888, were taken off the
Japanese coast, and something over a
quarter, or 6,341, in Boring Sea. All were
taken with the spear, the use of the gun
being forbidden by the new international
regulations. The fishermen profess to
have adhered vigorously to the provisions
of international law forbidding inshore
sealing. In Bering Sea they state that
they took no seals inside of the protected
sixty mile zone, and in the sea which
washes the Russian coast they affirm that
they respected the thirty mile zone. These
statements must go for what they are
worth. In those foggy regions it must be
hard work for sailor to find out how
many miles he is off shore.
The operations of the North American
Company are involved in mystery, and ii
is not easy to ascertain how many skins
are taken on the Prybiloff Islands. The
market price of skins does not indicate an
apprehension of coming scarcity. There
may possibly be some truth in the rumor
that substitute for sealskin has been in
vented by an ingenious silk-worker at
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-02

Congress and the President pleading that
the universally of their misfortunes makes
it a national concern, and that the nation
ought to relieve them.
1t is hard to see where relief is to come
from. Without irrigation agriculture IN
Southwestern Nebraska depends on the
caprice of the weather, and a State irrlga-
ton system would cost far more than any
Western State can afford. This work
should be undertaken by the national
Government. The condition of Nebraska
is an unanswerable argument for the lrrl-
cation bill. The great West, if developed
by the proper diverting of its streams and
lakes through the arid regions, will more
than repay the cost, and the work should
not be delayed. Certainly it is a melan-
choly sign of the times that the prairie
schooners which are now seen from the
car window are all steering eastward; not
one of them heads for the setting sun.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-02
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

A peculiar feature of the income tax is
pointed out. An unmarried woman with an
estate worth $4,000 year would be allowed
the exemption of $4,000, but If she marries she
will have TO pay the income tax on all, which
is equivalent to taxing her $50 year for get
ting married. Grove (or.l Echo.
That part of the Wright law which makes it
possible to make complete change in the
dictatorship of irrigation districts every two
years should be amended so as to provide for
the election of a part of the board every two
years in the same manner as Boards of Super
visors are elected.-Escondido Times.
The election law is defective in one important
respect. 1t makes it felony for candidate to
make promise of position or other consid-
Grafton pending an election. The law ought to
be amended so that the man who importunes
candidate is guilty of q felony.--Woodland
Democrat.
Dick Mcdonald of Pacific Bank notoriety
wants change of venue. Says he can't get
fair trial in San Francisco The general opiu-
ion is that Richard don't want fair trial.-San
Luis Obispo Breeze.
The advance backward which the Democrats
have made in Congress on the two absorbing
questions of tariff and silver might be little
more amusing if it were a little less disastrous.
-Redlands Leader.
Now that Santa Barbara has rock pile for
the tramps it appears to have difficulty in get
ting tramps for the rock pile.-Pasadena Star
A lot of heathens built the pyramids, but
America hesitates about little canal.--San
Diego Vidette
How can town be progressive when it is
stuck in the mud?-Woodland Mall
The key to the tramp problem is work.
Chino Champion.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-02
PERSONALS.

DR.. w. s. George OF Antioch is at the Grand.
J. H. Henry, the San Jose capitalist, is at the
Palace.
G. May, Portland cattle-buyer, is a guest at
the Lick.
Colusa, is at the Grand.
Frank A. Miller, hotel man of Riverside, is
registered at the Palace.
J. H. McChrystal mining man Of Oroville,
is registered at the Lick.
Senator ]. NJ Gleaves OF Redding is staying
over Sunday at the Grand
Colonel ]. NJ Moorehead, a capitalist of Santa
Clara, is at the California.
w. +. George, an attorney of Sacramento, ar
rived at the Grand yesterday.
S. A. Knapp, merchant of hawthorne, New,
is registered at the Occidental.
W. X, Hotchkiss, a fruit-canner of Heads
burg, is registered at the Russ
G. NJ. Wooster, q director of the San Jose
Board OF Trade, is at the Palace
l.. Castillo Trigaros, Spanish Minister to
japan, is a guest at the California
Captain W. Z. Dougherty, U. 8. n, stationed
at Round Valley, is at the Occidental.
Commander Ed p. Ashe, R. N, of England,
was among the Palace arrivals yesterday.
L. t. Hatfield, Sacramento attorney, was
among the arrivals at the Lick yesterday.
Governor James H. Budd came down from
the capital yesterday and is at the California.
W. D. Duke, manager of Haggin & Tevis cat
Tie ranch in Mexico, is guest at the California.
NJ. Garlic, the new Consul from Guatemala,
is at the Palace with his wife and two children.
W. stairley collector of internal revenue for
the northern district OF California, is at the
Grand.
George KEENAN,, the lecturer on life in Siberia
ana other topics, arrived from the south last
night and is at the Palace.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-02
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.


The announcement made by the Khediye of
Egypt to Nubar Pasha that slave of his harem
is about to become mother, and that the child
if a boy, will be heir to the hhediviate, causes
great discussion; yet this course is strictly in
accordance with Mohammedan law and has
many presidents, one being that OF the Khe-
dives father, Tewfk Pasha.
The Rev. Anna Howard Shaw, DID,, of PhfIa-
delphia has received diplomas for the ministry,
law and medicine. She is vice-president OF the
National Woman Suffragists, has an orotund
speaking voice and is one OF the most aggres-
sive takers of her sex.
Princess Linguaglossa, daughter of the Italian
Prime Minister, Crispi, whose marriage has
just taken place, has received from her father
an annuity of $4,000, as well as an estate near
Rome which brings in about $4,000 year more
In Germany the law does not recognize the
obligation of correspondent to ''perjure him.