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The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01
JOAQUIN MILLER.

Joaquin Miller, poet of the Sierras, miner, mes
senger. traveller, lawyer, judge, dramatist, ed
itor, teacher, sweet singer, is native OF Indiana
General Burnside, his cousin, always told the
poet that he was born in the same house in
Liberty, Union County, in which the General
saw the light. great deal wholly fanciful
and fictitious has been written about Mr.. Mil
ler by those who have taken his lines literally,
and he confesses that he has often led sensa-
tonal scribblers on, but denies that he ever
was the renegade of the romances. His father
one of the gentlest OF human beings, lived sew
enty years among savages, and yet never had
occasion to fire gun or utter q harsh word.
The poet takes more after his paternal grand
father, who, fighting, fell with Tecumseh at the
battle of the Thames, under Harrison. The
grandson took to arms and rowing and as
early as 1855 was shot down in battle, and
when but II lost the use of an arm from in
juries received in the Pitt River expedition.
1t must suffice to say that the poet, now and
for so many years Californian, is not the
less an Indianian, and recalls the days of his
boyhood in the Hoosier State in fascinating
recital. That he had hardy Hoosier- Caifor
mans in mind is not improbable when he read
at the last Pioneer reunion in San Francisco
the poem from which / select this apos-
trophe-
My brave world-builders Of a world
That tops the keystone star OF States,
All hail Your battle-tiags are furled
In fruitful peace. The golden gates
Are The jasper wall be yours
Your sun sinks down yon soundless shores;
Night falls. But 10! your lifted eyes
Greet gold outcroppings in the skies.
J. A. WooDsoN in August Overland.
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PERSONAL.

DR.. Fl. L. Pace of Tulare is at the Palace.
Rev. Samuel Hirst of Vallejo is a guest at the
Grand.
Ex-Sheriff and Mrs. w. P. Harvey of Yuba
are at the Russ.
Professor E. Barnard OF the Lick Observa-
tory is at the Lick.
s. G. Little, banker of Dixon, registered yes
terday at the Russ
W. T. Jameson, big rancher of Bakersfield,
is staying al the Russ.
Rev. Caleb Ben-Ham of Napa registered at
the Occidental yesterday.
T. L. Reed, a big rancher from Reedley, regis
tered at the Grand yesterday.
General T. W. Sheehan of the Sacramento
Record Union is at the Occidental.
J. P. Houseman, one of the managers of the
Vina ranch, is guest at the Russ. @
William Gillette, the playwright, returned to
the Palace yesterday from Monterey.
W. H. Clary, prominent mining man OF
Sheep Ranch and his son, William II. Clary,
are at the Lick.
n. A. Covarrubias of Los Angeles, United
States Marshal of the Southern District of Cal
ifornia, is at the Palace.
Isaac Sierra, prominent merchant of Guate-
mala, came in on the San Juan yesterday and
went to the Occidental.
John NJ. Vance, one of the leading capitalists
of Humboldt County, and Mrs Vance registered
yesterday at the Grand.
NJ. Hunsaker of Pittsburg, Pa, q lieutenant
colonel on the staff of the Governor of that
State, is guest at the Palace.
H. NJ. La Rue, president OF the Railroad Com
mission, came down from Sacramento yester-
day and put up at the Occidental.
Samuel MeMurtrie of Denver, who is inter
ested with his brother in cutting tunnels on
the line of the coast road in San Luis Obispo
County, is at the Palace.
Louis Dussand, son of the French engineer
who is building the big drydock ietty for the
Chilean Government at the harbor of Talca-
huano, arrived by the San Juan yesterday and
went to the Occidental
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AMERICAN FAIRNESS.

In an interview with a New York re-
porter the other day Governor Oates of
Alabama made very interesting remark.
Speaking of the reopening of factories and
q general revival of business, he said:
''The best of it all is that manufacturers
and employers generally are voluntarily
increasing the wages of their men. 1t is
indicative of the spirit of true American
fairness, and presages an amicable and
equitable adjustment OF the differences be-
tween labor and capital
In spite of many instances TO the con-
trary, we are all aware that there is such
q thing as spirit of true American fair
ness" and that it is constantly manifest
ing itself on generous scale. This refers
to the spirit of the whole people and must
be regarded as an averaged product of in
dividual sentiment. In other words, it
expresses a kind of balance. Hence, what
ever individual instances of meanness and
selfshness occur must be regarded as abb
normal and sporadic, antagonistic to the
prevalent spirit moving the whole mass,
weaker than the power which this general
spirit exercises and therefore compelled
sooner or later to submit to the discipline
exercised by the mass.
1t is in a wise comprehension of this idea
and an intelligent effort to foster it that
the hope of the country lies. If we should
depend entirely upon the laws to compel
fairness among the people our Government
would not hold together fortnight. The
weakness Of a spirit of fairness among
people can be generally measured by the
stringency of its laws and the centralized
strength of its Government. Where force
takes the place of fairness this admirable
principle no longer is motive of conduct.
Enforced fairness means the absence of
conscience, and the enforcing of fairness
blunts the conscience. In judicious cul-
tivatlon of individual accountability the
highest human types are produced. This
principle has made itself so evident within
recent years that it has been adopted as
one of the fundamental ideas in the con-
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there will be surplus over what will be con-
sumed on the place, and the surplus, under
proper regulations, could be distributed to the
families of men working there; or, for that
matter, the family could be lodged on the
farm, each one doing all he or she was able 10
do toward the common support. think all
this would come easy, and that it is simply
matter of detail, the best way to do which
would develop itself as the work progressed.
There is another mistake about competition
1t would not relieve the married man of COM
petition In the great struggle Tor employ
ment the principle of the survival of the fittest
must obtain. The farm would be the very
place to which any one seeking help would
go, and hence if the single man is to be found
there and the married man out of sight some
where, the single man will have the advan-
tage.
All these difficulties, however, will vanish
before such details of management and dis
cipline as could be established.
WILL s. GREEN.
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Music and
Musicians.

, of his movements The composer of 'Hansel
and Gretep does not like being Honized,
and therefore sent no herald to announce his
arrival. When he did come he went quietly TO
the home OF his sister, Frau Wette, for whose
children Humperdinck's fairy opera was writ
ten, and what interested him most when he
sat down to join the family coffee party were
some photographs of his charming little nieces
taken in 'Hansel and Gretel' costume. Hum
perdinck's wife, by the way, is bright, ener-
getic little woman, and it is quite evident that
she is her husbands man OF business"
Preparations are going forward for next
years performances at Bayreuth, when the
twentieth anniversary of the foundation of the
Festspiele is to be marked by the resumption
of the "Nibelungen Tetralogy." DR.. Hans
Richter, who conducted the original perform
ance under Wagner's personal direction, is to
be again the conductor
The gifted barytone, Herr Gura, has received
notice from the authorities Of the Munich Hof-
theater that his services Will not be required
after the present year, on the pretsxt mat he
is no longer in his first youth. But Gura feels
that his vocal powers are not exhausted, and
he intends to continue singing.
Haydn's opera 'sDer Apotheker" was re-
Gently presented at Dresden. The perform
ance, which was the first that ever took place
in Germany, is said to have been highly sue
cessful. The musical writer, DR.. Hirschfeld of
Vienna, shortened and arranged the opera
with great skill.
Gemma Bellincioni, the Italian prima donna,
suggested the plot for the four-act opera,
"Eros,'' which was recently brough. out in
Florence. The score was by Nicolo Massa,
who did not live to see the work produced.
The late Carl Won suppe left the nearly COM
pleted score OF an operetta, which is to be
finished by a competent hand and will be
mounted for the opening performance of the
new Carl Theater in Vienna.
Richard Strauss has just completed at
Munich a new symphonic poem entitled
''Till Eulenspiegel" The work was originally
conceived as comic opera.
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

One of the arrivals by the San Juan yesterday
from the South was Louis Dussand, son of the
French builder of the great dock and etty at
the harbor of Calcahuano, Chile. Mr. Dussand
yesterday at the Occidental, in speaking of this
work said: "Calcahuano is the largest and
best port on the coast of Chile, with an island
at the entrance and good facilities for defense
1t is expected to be more war harbor than a
commercial port The work now being done is
only the beginning of what the Government
proposes to do. A drydock 600 meters long
and jetty costing 1900 900 francs is the
work that my father has been doing"
Asked about the political outlook in Chile he
said: "It looked, when left very much as if
the Conservatives and the Government were
losing strength, and that the Liberals or Radi-
Gals, the old Balmacedists, would come back to
p0weru
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as to catch the wind when in the line of the
axle it would give sufficient power even in that
direction.
This wind engine can be constructed with
wind-pressure balance shutters, so that it
would work automatically. AS any one may
see, the San Francisco wind engine is station
ary, SO that it differs from all others in that
particular. 1t can be made in compartments,
of any height and of any length, with as few
bearings as would be necessary, and by using
r. w. Hent frictionless roller bearings any
power could be obtained, from l horse to 500
horse power. My son and have looked over
the patent reports for twenty years, and find
that it has not been patented.
This can be used for raising sand or water
for overshot-wheel, whereby it would double
its power capacity, and also for COMPRISING
air. 1t may also run an electric motor, and
can, in fact, be made serviceable wherever
power is needed. / have given this informa-
ton to the public SO that no one can have the
machine patented. ana for the good of man
kind. A. W. MANNING.
San Francisco, July 81, 1885,
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UP-TO-DATE IDEAS.

To the Editor Of the Cdll-SIR: This is the end
view which is left open so the paddles and in
terror may be seen. This machine may be any
height and OF any reasonable length. 1t can
be constructed with galvanized sheet and
angle iron. Any handy man can construct it,
as it is very simple.
The wind in this city and on the coast blows
in one direction as a rule for about ten months
in the year, therefore the machine is made
fixed firm and solid facing the winds. If the
wind should change in the opposite direction
the wheel viii run in the same direction.
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1t is difficult to say whether Arrigo Boito
shines most as poet or composer. OF late years
he has been heard OF most frequently in the
former capacity, as his magnifcently dramatic
ibrettos for "Othello'' and "Falstaff" have
caused his name to be bracketed with Verd1's
in all the glories arising from those WORKS.
His translations are worthy OF Shakespeare.
Years ago Boito produced "Mefstofele," the
opera on which his fame as a composer rests.
The work was strongly tinged with the modern
spirit, and was considered such an innovation
in Italy at the time of its production that when
Boito conducted its first representation at the
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SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

Sure of HiIn-"Isn't he rather fast?" asked
the anxious mother.
eyes, mamma, in one sense of the word I
don't think he can get away."-Indianapoli
Journal.
"Isn't that Colonel Jones with his shotgun?n
asked the editor.
''It is" replied the foreman.
'I think you are right said the editor.
Suppose you crawl in the stove there and I'll
just step upstairs and see if the roof doesn't
need repairing. g.''-Atlanta Constitution.
NO. said the microbe, "traveling is not
what it used to be. hequick, fin de steele kiss
keeps one constantly on the qui vive.'
His very air betrayed the shattered nerve
Detroit Tribune.
Old Bullion-It gals me to think that INV
money goes into your spendthrift hands when
I die.
Young Bullion-Never mind, governors; it
won't stay there long.-Indlanapoli Journal.
Huggins-Isnt Miss Bosting rather cold?
Kissam-Cold? All she needs is some penn
mican and relief expedition to be regular
Arctic xploration.-Puck.
Mamma don't think the baby is nearly as
cross as she used to be. He scarcely cried at
all last night.
Papa-No; think he's getting blase-Puek.
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GREEN AND McFEE.
THE EDITOR INDoRsEs THE sALvATIoNIsT's FARM
SCHEME.

SCHEME.
To the Editor Of the Call: 1 noticed some days
ago that some workingmen's organization had
resolved against the farm plan of relief for the
unemployed because, as they say, it would
afford no reliet to married men. Captain Nc
Fee, OF the Salvation Army, is disposed to
admit that it will not afford relief to them, ex-
cept that it will take the single men out of
competition.
Now there is no reason in the world why it
should not benefit men with families. There
would have to be some sort of support for the
cannot 60 out without something to eat until
that something grows, although the time will
be short. After plenty is once established
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Lord Salisbury, the new British Premier,
weighs about 2SO pounds.
William Strong is the only retired Justice of
the Supreme Court of the United States now
living. He is So years old.
Professor Cesare Lombroso. the noted Italian
criminologist, has discovered that one of the
most striking characteristics OF criminals is the
absence OF wisdom teeth
The Richmond Dispatch says that Captain
George w. Couch OF the steamer Old Dominion
is the Oldest steamship captain in the world,
not in point of years, but in length of service,
having been in commission forty-nine years,
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

E. MARTIN & Co.. the liquor merchants, are
at AL Market street The fact that their re-
moval has not resulted in the loss of any of
their old patrons is the best evidence of fair
ana honest dealing. The high standard of
their wines and liquors has long been estab-
liShed.
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

The Republican party is a party of the people
and for the people. The Prohibition party is a
one idea party. The Democratic party is a
party of no ideas at all and the Populist party
lis dead.-Salt Lake Star.
The world has no more use for the girly-boy
who parts his hair in the middle and wears
corsets than it has for the woman who expects
to conquer the world by wearing trousers,
but it does admire and does need manly men
and womanly women.-Colusa Herald.
One of the fruits of the Democratic admins
tration is the putting OF the United States army
upon half pay on account OF lack OF funds in
the treasury. Its only fair to say, however,
that the special deficit in the army appropria-
ton is due to the extraordinary expense of put
ting down riots in various parts of the country
caused by the Democratic panic.--Portland
Oregonian.
Stockton has not a vast amount of water
front and should guard it most carefully, for in
it lies the chief wealth of that city. 1t may be
that the Southern Pacific is not behind the
Corral Hollow Company's demands, but
whether it is or not, that water front-and the
interests of the Valley road as we'll should be
most carefully guarded in whatever is DONE
Fresno Republican.
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Just as The lottery evil was about to be
crushed some Of our contemporaries are
irving TO revive it.
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

If the Defender should be beaten all the
centerboard cranks in the country would
say, II told you So"
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Henry" she cooed, shave you ever been
engaged before?"
"Why?" he asked, surprised; "you don't
think that this is the first vacation ever had,
do you?'-Puck
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itics on MS hands just now than anybody
else IN the Union.
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CLEANSE the vitated blood whenever YOU find
its impurities bursting through your skin in the
form of pimples, eruptions and sores. Hoods
Sarsaparilla is the best blood purifier
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James, are you cooking dinner?"
Eyes, sir; the cabbage is boiling in the mill
pond, the eggs frying in the sand, and the beef
roasting on the roof!''-Atlanta Constitution.
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

The ''Crime of the Century" Company
are evidently in doubt whether to call this
thing frost or q roast.
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Ocean Excursions. .

Steamship Pomona, to Santa Cruz and Mon
terey, leaves Saturdays, P. NJ, due back Mon.
days, A. NJ. Ticket office, 4 New Montgomery
street.
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

The European war cloud in Bulgaria is
getting so thin anybody can see daylight
through it.
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

The eve of the annual fair is an awk-
ward time for the directors OF the Mechan-
les institute to fall out.
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OPINIONS OF EDITORS.

Capital is splendid thing to be equipped
with for the battle of life, but foresight energy
snd good habits are the best capital young
man can start with.-Oceanside Blade.
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

Every man summoned as a juror in the
Durrant case wants change Of venue.
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will display sunshine, gold and climate in
their most alluring forms.
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Fellows who wish to have pudding in
betting on the international yacht race are
as much at sea as the Vaikyrie
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

] he New Y York Sun says if no man is a
candidate for the Presidency until he
avows himself then Cleveland is not can
didate for third term, but if a man be-
comes a candidate as soon as he begins to
scheme for a nomination then Cleveland
is a candidate
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No well regulated household should be without
a bottle of DR.. Siegert's Angostura Bitters, the
celebrated appetizer.
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

Adopting the new charter would prob
ably rid us of the acts Of the Solid Eight by
superseding the consolidation act.
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

Two murder cases now before the local
courts make queer disclosure Of some
mems conception of citizens duty.
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THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

The rumble OF the Valley road grows
more lusty every day.
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Belvedere's "Night in Venice" arranged
for next Saturday evening, Will throw a
sickly hue DER the splendor of the stars.
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

General Schofelds demand for more
troops at Sitka makes us fear that Presi-
dent Dole is about TO invade that Territory
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BACON Printing Company, sos Clay street.

5000 patrons attest that DR.. Eddy's method
OF extracting teeth has no equal. No pain, no
danger, no after effect. S22 GearY street.
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

The San Francisco company organized
to explore Guatemala for petroleum might
find it more convenient and profitable to
ascertain what California might be able
to offer them in that line.
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We observe that our City contempo-
raries, needless of the awakening of public
pride and conscience against lotteries, are
publishing lists of the drawings and thus
encouraging the swindle.
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

If the methods adopted by veniremen to
escape jury duty are fair indication of
the community pride, conscience and sense
of citizenship it is no wonder that "solid
eights'' are elected to the Board of Super
VisOrs
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Afro-Americans have reason to be proud
Of their representatives in the League con-
vention, for the body is an able one in
every way.
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1t is not likely that the throbbing e1-
citement i'll Chinatown can be allayed ex-
cept by highbinder war and dead Chi
naman for breakfast every morning.
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

The intention of the Southern Pacific
Company to secure from the State Board
of Equalization valuation based on the
earnings rather than on the physical value
of the property makes it proper to inquire
if the California Legislature has ever
passd an income tax law.
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

Round the world pedestrians and round
the world cyclers il these days may walk
little and wheel little, but they do most
OF their travelling on their gall.
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

The agreement between the Valley road
directors and the Postal Telegraph Com
pany for telegraph line along the road
shows that the equipment for business is
to be complete.
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1t is disheartening TO observe that some
newspapers which have so much power
for good, are exercising it for harm in
advertising lotteries.
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

While the most patriotic, earnest and
progressive forces of the State are inducing
the people to keep their money at home,
some of the daily papers are attempting
to break down the movement by adver-
tising swindling lotteries which take
money away and give nothing in return.
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

The expression OF American patriotism
made by Senator Mitchell of Oregon is one
of the most suggestive definitions that we
have ever heard. "In my judgment this
country is great enough, powerful enough,
resourceful enough to maintain its own
monetary policy, irrespective of the wishes
or dictation of Great Britain, or any other
foreign power on EARTH"
The San Francisco call., 1895-08-01

A number of New York newspaper men
and women propose to make a trip to the
Atlanta Exposition in boat by going up
the Hudson River, through the Erie canal
TO the lakes, thence through the Ports
mouth canal to the Ohio, then to the
Mississippi and up the Tennessee to the
point nearest to Atlanta.
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Gemma Bellincioni, the Italian prima donna,
suggested the plot for the four-act opera,
"Eros," which was recently brough. out in
Florence. The score was by Nicolo Massa,
who did not live to see the work produced.
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EDITORIAL ROOMS:
SIT Clay Street.
ephone Main-1S74
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SUBSCRIPTION RATEs-Postage Free:

BUSINESS OFFICE:
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The late Carl Won suppe left the nearly COM
pleted score OF an operetta, which is to be
finished by a competent hand and will be
mounted for the opening performance of the
new Carl Theater in Vienna