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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

conveniences of city. At Palm Springs
there is large hotel equipped for the care
of every manner of invalid, with an able
resident physician at hand, and at Inyo
are adequate accommodations.
All this means to say that those con-
sumptives who come to California for the
benefit Of the climate and choose any spot
outside the Colorado Desert, whether In
California or Arizona, most likely do SO
through ignorance of what is best for them.
This should serve as sufficient suggestion
to the State Board of Health and the SAM
tary League as to the work of education
that it is certainly their privilege, if not
their duty, to perform. a part of this
work might be the promotion of isolated
sanitariums on the desert for the care OF
these unfortunates. A most excellent
ground for such a movement would be the
familiar knowledge that such institutions,
equipped with able specialists and esta5-
lished in a climate which has been known
to work almost miraculous cures, would be
far more efficacious in the treatment of
such cases than the open hazard which any
California city would present.
The altrurian phase of the matter hardly
Aeeu pe COuSluereu. Leu, While oil Id
tons, States and municipalities erect I'M
questioned safeguards against the intro
duction of malignant contagious and in
fictitious diseases it has never been the rule
to exclude diseases, the spreading of which
can be prevented by simple hygienic
means. Consumption belongs to this class
of ailments, and hence, that civilization
which would quarantine it must, by so
doing, confess its inability to understand
and apply the simple preventives against
its communication which are known.
Apart from this feature of the case is the
larger one of a common duty to help others
where we may do so with reasonable safety
to..ourselves All these considerations are
weighty and deserve the most generous
attention
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
TBLBGRAPHING PICTURES.

In this issue OF the CALL appears an
illustration which was transmitted by tele-
graph from Los Angeles. 1t depicts the
reception of the Queen of the Fiesta. In
another part of this issue the method of
transmission is infinitely described. In a
word, the plan consists in drawing the
original picture on sheet divided into
minute squares, which are numbered per-
pendiculaTly and lettered horizontally
and these figures and letters are sent by
telegraph, and when received are worked
out on a corresponding sheet in the hands
of the receiver This necessarily gives an
accurate reproduction of the original draw
ing.
The principle is very simple, and is
strictly analogous to the making of plat
from field notes and the telegraphic trans
mission of moves on chessboard. Evil
IDENTIFY it is a perfect scheme for the tele-
graphing of pictures done in outline, and
it has no limitations of line or hatch shad-
ing, except those imposed by time.
A few years ago very delicate and in
tricate machine was devised for this pur-
pose. Its plan was to trace with a needle
the lines of a drawing laid on board
crossed infinitely by wires, each wire hav-
ing such distinctive resistance or trans
hitting power as would serve to influence
an ink-bearing needle at the other end of
the line to follow the course taken by the
needle at the sending end, thus reproduc-
ing the picture as rapidly as it was traced.
But the mechanism was too delicate and
intricate to be reliable, and SO the contriv-
ance was abandoned.
Mr.. Willoughby's invention, used in the
CALL to-day for the first time in a newspa-
per, is evidently infallible, and is so simple
and so utterly independent of electrical
engineering that it is bound to be success
full. That the inventor is San Francis
can, and that his invention appears first in
San Francisco paper, is matter of par
tic ular interest
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THE SOUTHERN FIESTA.

1t is altogether becoming and whole
some that even in the most substantial
concerns of life we should now and then
indulge in that sort of levity which lifts us
over and above sordidness. Thus, the
pleasant farce of the city of Los Angeles
turning over her keys" and surrender
ing her authority to some agreeable fic-
ton of power born of the Fiesta dynasty"
is iustas welcome to the hearts of grown-up
men and women as the Maypole dance is
to children. At New Orleans every year,
on the occasion of the Mardi Gras
festival, there is pompous parade
of the Mayor and Aldermen to the
Eastern Gate" or something like that, in
which is borne ridiculous gilded key of
prodigious size. At the eastern Gate"
the solemn cavalcade is met by the King
of the Carnival on the Field of the Cloth
of Gold; and although the King is gener-
ally dreadfully masked and stuffed, he re-
ceives the "key" and the official freedom
of the city, with excruciating JUNCTION and
condescension. Then begins the most
wonderful of American festivals-the only
American festival worthy of the name.
Los Angeles has made an admirable be-
ginning in the Introduction of her Fiesta"
which is fairly good Spanish rendering
OF Carnival" If this charming city of
the south had the time and courage to re-
sumo its original Spanish name, and trans
late it literally into "The Pueblo of the
Queen of the Angels" it might be spared
the trouble of explaining the beauty of its
women, the glory of its flowers and the
genial splendor of the sunshine that
floods it.
And so the great festival-an event which
will serve as the beginning of future carni-
walls that shall rival in time the Mardi
Gras of Rome-has come into swing; and
further up the coast, at Santa Barbara, the
same spirit is abroad, throwing roses and
kisses instead of confetti and serpentines,
and all the warmer and sweeter for that.
The solemn gray ghosts of the old padres
lowering mayhap about the bells in the
tower of the ancient mission will not
grieYe to see the present generation honor
ing their God by rejoicing in His bounties;
and in the tolling of the chimes away up
above the city which is rioting in its own
loveliness there may be mingled benedic-
ton that has been waiting for a century to
find voice
Some of us belonging to San Francisco
are now at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara
enjoying these exquisite pleasures. Many
who did not go will regret their staying
away, for this is great event-greater
even than many of those who are en-
joying it can understand. 1t has not
only local value, but it has been accepted
as an occasion for the cementing of the
separated interests and aspirations of the
people of California; and let Us hope that
the benediction OF the gray ghosts in the
towers of Santa Barbara Mission, and the
gracious spirit of a hopeful past that must
hover over the soil of the Pueblo of the
Queen of the Angels. may fall upon the
hearts OF living men and lead them to base
the work of the future upon the hopes of
the past.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
AN UNUSUAL QUARANTINE.

At the third annual California State San
itary Convention, held in this City Mon
day afternoon, one or two speakers urged
that quarantine be created which shall
keep consumptiyes out Of California. The
two objections urged against these unfort-
unates were that they imposed a burden
on local taxpayers, and that they consti-
tuted menace to the health of sound resi-
dents. One of the speakers made the decla-
ration that "in the County Hospital of Los
Angeles nine-tenths of the patients are
nonresident consumptives from the East
1t was further urged that the presence on
trains of persons SO afflicted was dangerous
to other travellers.
These assertions all may be accepted as
true, for they have been made by gentle
men belonging to one of the noblest of pro-
fessions. But the whole subject is very
broad, and to its consideration all possible
wisdom and patience should be brought.
As major premise, it is conceded that
some parts of California offer an approx
mate natural cure for consumption and
other tuberculous or inhammatory dis
orders of the respiratory organs. But the
areas in which the best results may be ex-
GSCbS0 o4N hoAAOhAy 0CAAtlCOs IEC1 CCI-
tainly are not to be found anywhere near
the coast; and though the climate of Los
Angeles is more beneficial in such cases
than that of places nearer the coast, still
Los Angeles is by no means the best place
in California for consumptives. The
temptation for them to live there is the
beauty Of the city and the medical, social,
business and other superior advantages
which may there be found. 1t is hard to
understand, however, how pauper con-
sumptiyes, who become q charge on the
residents, could have found the means of
coming from the Eastern States for the
purpose of living at Los Angeles.
Far better than Los Angeles for con-
sumptives, and far better than any other
part OF the State, is the Colorado Desert
which stretches from San Gregorio Pass in
California far to the eastward of the Colo
RADIO River in Arizona In that region lie
Palm Springs, Inyo, Yuma and other
settled communities, Yuma particularly
being town enjoying all the necessary
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all analyses have to be let to persons who
are not City officers and therefore not
bound by the oath and bond of Office.
Worse still, it was ascertained that the
appropriation for this year for chemical
analyses was only $500, and that the fixed
price for single analysis is $25.
This all seems so absurd, childish and
primitive that it is published with much
hesitation. To say that such condition
of affairs is absolutely disgraceful would
be Identifying the shame. 1t is conceivable
that such Morgue SO equipped might be
suitable for village, and that unofficial
and inexperienced chemists might be will
ing to analyze the viscera of any corpse
for SIS, and might have the courage to
swear that the analysis had been thorough;
but certainly, as an adjunct of the ma
chinery organized to examine into the
obscure and complicated crimes of great
city, the Morgue of San Francisco is
shameful burlesque, and the City is more
disgraced by its presence than it could
possibly be by the absence of any sort of a
MOrpue
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
STEWART ON CLEVELAND.

Senator Stewards answer to Cleveland g
letter differs widely from the document
that called it forth. The Senator has made
use of none of those sonorous words of I'M
certain import with which the President
letter was filled. He has written not with
vigor only, but with clearness also, and
meets Cleveland svague defamation about
'sound money and safe currency with
directness of statement that, to say the
least of it, is refreshing by the contrast.
The Senator very appropriately chal-
lenges that vagueness in the Presidents
letter which the CALL alluded to yesterday,
and, addressing him directly, says: you
have excited the curiosity of the people by
your frequent use of such phrases as sound
money and safe currency but you have
never condescended to satisfy that curl
osity by stating what these terms mean.
What is sound money or safe currency Z
The people would like definite answer,
as they do not understand what you
mean"
These words addressed to the President
might be addressed to the gold-standard
advocates generally. For long time now
the gold men have been endeavorlng to
prejudice the minds of the unwary against
bimetallism by denouncing it as debased
currency, an unsound money and dis
honest dollar. They have also claimed
superiority of morals and of knowledge for
themselves by loudly asserting their cham
pionship of honesty and solidity in tinan-
cial affairs These lofty assumptions can
not be allowed to pass unchallenged, and
the Senator very justly calls attention to
them as part of the Presidents letter
which merits the severest condemnation.
If either of the two great parties on the
money issue has right to claim for itself
the exclusive honor of being the champion
of integrity and honesty, it would be the
bimetallists. Certainly they have not
sought to debase any part of the money of
the constitution as the gods standard men
have by demonetizing silver; nor have
they sought to enrich one class at the ex-
pense of another by increasing the value
of the coin in which all debts must be
paid. As Senator Stewart forcibly says the
gold men have disregarded not only the
teachings of the fathers of the Republic,
but have reversed the usages and customs
OF the civilized world which have existed
for thousands of years previous to 1873.
They have destroyed one-half the worlds
metallic money and enhanced the value of
the other half fully 100 per cent. They
have compelled the debtor to surrender
more than double the amount Of property
to hquidate his debts that the money he
borrowed would have purchased at the
time he incurred the obligation.
This being the record of the two parties,
it is certainly an impudent assumption on
the part of any advocate OF the gold stan
dard to refer to bimetallism as scheme of
financial debasement and dishonor; and
even if the man who does it holds the high
Office of President of the United States, he
should not be allowed to go unrebuked for
his attempt to assist his own party by de-
flaming his opponents.
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NOT EQUIPPED FOR WORK.

The recent frightfui murders in this City
have revealed the fact that the Morgue has
no adequate mechanical and chemical ap-
planes needful in such institutions
When CALL representative inquired the
weight of Blanche Lamont's body he was
amazed to discover that the Morgue had
not even a pair of scales. AS the girls
weight, in view of the question as to
whether her assassin had carried her up to
the tower of a church, was an important
matter in the case, it would seem that
some provision for weighing the body
ought to have been at hand. It's absence
may prove serious obstacle to justice.
Further inquiry revealed the fact that
the Morgue has no microscope, the need of
which was urgently required in the case of
Minnie Williams. 1t was learned also that
there is no chemical laboratory, and that
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
AROUND TEE coRR1poRs.

"In all my experience had but one criminal
threaten me for the sentence / passed upon
him." said Judge Rising in the Palace Hotel
yesterday, in answer to a question bearing
on that point. at was in Nevada in the early
days. and I had sentenced a rascal named
'Rattlesnake Dick to thirteen years at hard
labor for beating companion on the head
with bottle. When he left the courtroom he
remarked that he would kill me as soon as he
got out. Do you see the animus of the fellow,
huh?' an expression which is characteristic of
the Judge.
'Well, to shorten the story, the Board Of
Pardons released him after few years of his
term had been served, and some friends in
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

In demanding that British shipping
shall be on a par with that of other nations
in the matter of the Nicaragua canal,
England is displaying the solicitude of
sealskinned woman who fears that the
weather is going to be cold.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

China will undoubtedly be large purchaser
of silver alter the war ends. This is one of the
reasons why that metal Is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
vile Appeal.
Itrequires thirty-two janitors and costs over
$27, 900 year to keep the San Francisco CITY
Hall clean, and it isn't kept very clean at
that.-Stockton Record.
With the successful man time is never reck
oned. limited number of hours work
each day may bring comfort and even com
petence, but never success. keeping ever
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

a Paris doctor who has been studying
the effect of liquors on the voice states
that none OF the great singers have ever
been teetotalers. Wine, taken in modera-
ton, he believes is useful for the voice, but
peer thlckens it and makes it cultural.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
UP TO DATE IDEAS.

To the Editor of the San Francisco Call In the
CALL of the I'd and 9Th inst. you published
cuts of sulkies and saddles for speeding horses.
Allow me to submit design more on the
humane plan, which is as follows:
The rig is to be cart with the axles bent so
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17
"Mrs. Winslow,s Soothing sxrnn,

Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth
ers for their children while Testhing with perfect
success. 1t soothes the child softens the gums al,
lays Pain, cures Wind Collie, regulates the Bowels
and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether
arising from teething or other causes. For sale by
Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and
ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 25c
bottle
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

AGE tends to kill the hair and turn it gray.
fARKERs HAIR BALsAM renews color and life
PARKER's GINGER Tonic the best cough cure.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

"Well,'' said Mr.. Sorkins, GIVE quit worryin'
| about the fate OF the country and the destiny
of our present social system, and things"
Have you solved all the problemsP' mo, 1
haven't solved any of 'em. But my daughter
Minerva Jane will be at work on her graduating
essay pretty soon, and 1 guess may well
make my mind easy and find out all about it
when she gets through. "-Washingto Star.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

BILIoUsNEss is caused by torpidity or inaction
of the liver. As liver regulator and stimulant
Hoods Pills are unequaled. They act without
gripping or causing pain, promptly and efficiently
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

One of the peoples needs is home rule in
taxation-the right to raise our share of taxes,
school, Government, State, county, city and
town, as we see fit. In possessing this right
better government would be possible.-Pendie-
ton Oregonian
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Sound money means both silver and
gold, and the people know it.
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A man who is hypnotized and kept
asleep for week in fun view of the public
is one of the attractions of the London
| Royal AQUARIUM
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good celebration OF the newly awak
eued harmony in the State is itself har-
monY.
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ONLY experienced men employed in our fur
niture-moving department. Morton Special
Delivery. Phone, main, 46.
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The CALL is urging the construction of a
boulevard to connect San Francisco and San
Jose, the building of railroad to tap the
Humboldt country, and of another railroad
along the coast from San Francisco to Santa
Cruz. Each of these schemes is an excellent
one, and win undoubtedly be carried to a sue
cessful conclusion in the future.-Santa Clara
Ip6ay
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The CALL advises people to fight the income
tax, but it would hardly be fair when the thing
is down and has most of the stuffing kicked out
of it-Fresno Republican
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Don't forget to look for California goods
on your shopping trips.
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BY next year San Francisco should be
ready to have a grand carnival OF her own.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

Read all about the beautiful fiestas and
relieve your mind from the strain of the
tragedies.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

Having no boom to bloom this year
California is booming her blooms.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

Argentina is offering field for the sale OF
California agricultural implements, and Stock
ton will supply the demand. The city by the
slough got the valley road because of its enter
prise, and the same spirit has set it at work
constructing harvesters for the farmers in the
South American republic.-San Jose Mercury.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

The shock of the tragedy is over, but the
trial is yet to come.
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"No," said the gentleman from Boomville,
III wouldn't like to brag about the invigorating
quality of the atmosphere out our way, but 1
will simply cite that teller in our town is
making good living by COMPRISING it, and
sending it East to bicycleriders to use in filing
their tires. 1t has such elastic and lively
qualities that the speed OF the machine is in
creased from 40 to so per cent."-Cincinnati
Tribune.
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GEORGE w. NJ oNTEITH, law offices, Croker
building.
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SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

$50 the insolent fellow refused to pay his
rent2" "He did not say so in words, but he in
timated it." "How so?" "He kicked me down
stairs.-Le Figaro.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-17

1t may as well be conceded that we never
had better things in spring bonnets than
at present.
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lastingly at it" is the secret of many mans
prominence in his business or professionalism
Diego Union.
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s'Mudge, don't you think it would be a good
thing for you to practice some economy
"Can't do it. No gentleman can go Juggling
bottle around all ay."-Indianapolis Journal.
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Old Subscriber-Do you have astronomer
to write those astronomical articles you're run
ming in your paper?
Editor-Why, certainly not. Why should we
when we have space writers of our own to do
it-Roxbury News.
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The fiestas illustrate the State.
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given a rest while the whole party coasts.
And the lifting machine comes into good use
if the horse tries to run away, as turn OF the
crank leaves him working his legs in the air to
no purpose whatever. Yours respectfully,
NJ. C. JONES.
Sacramento April Is 1898
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STRONG hoarhound candy ,15c lb. Townsend's..
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Wailing voices come from all parts of the
East complaining that the price OF spring
flowers is too high.
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Mrs. Toogood-I don't see why it is that men
find so much pleasure in such brutal bust
ness as prize-fghting. Broken-face Bill -
don't see how we can help it, lady; the women
is crowdin' us men out of all the professions,
and there amt nothing else fer US to do.
That's the only reason Pm in it, lady.-Rox-
bury (Mass.) Gazette
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that the horse is directly under it. The driver
sits in front, and other passengers sidewise on
seats running lengthwise over the horses
back. There is, of course, steering apparatus
and also an arrangement with wide band
under the horse, so that in going down hill
the animal can be lifted bodily off his feet and