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The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
there yet if a haggage.smasher had not told

there yet ii a baggage-smasher had not told
him thar the hotel was across the street.
'fNext he went into barber-shop and looked
all over the place for q messenger-call and
telephone but finding none he got shaved and
offered the tonsorialist 15 centsi / suppose
you know that Carson is two-bit town. he
paid his bill just as though somebody was
sandbagging him. After he left the barber
shop, where he failed to get an egg shampoo,
he walked into bar-oom and called for
mixed drink such as people buy in the Palace
Hotel Next he inquired for imported Turkish
cigarettes, and concluded the evening by pay
ing boy 10 cents to conduct him to the Ham
nam Baths.
"The youngster directed him to slingerlands
Hot Springs. two miles from town, and the San
Franciscan finally concluded to go to bed and
sleep over his diseomforts. He arrived at the
foot of the stairs and stood in front of door
leading to the office, under the impression that
it was the elevator entrance. He remained
there about ten minutes, and finally walked
up.
'fOn the following day, very late, however,
owing to the fact that he had been able to
enjoy long refreshing sleep in the high
mountain air, he went out back of the billiard
room and sat down at a poker table, where
he fingered nearly half an hour waiting for
waiter to come and ask him what he wished
for breakfast. That was his crowning act of
cityfcation, and fell heavily upon him when
the barkeeper sent deck OF cards and in
quired is he wished to play solitaire.
SIN the afternoon he called on some State
officials. and was amazed when he inquired
tor any of them to find that they were gener-
ally the ones to let him in instead of having to
wade through a phalanx of porters. office boys
and private secretaries. He was permitted to
run at large all over the city, and no one dis
turped him in the least
HE has found that he cannot buy ell the
daily papers in Carson for nickel, and that
when you want anything you have to call for
1t. He has taken fancy to the place, how
ever, and can be found any afternoon with his
feet on table enjoying himself and acting as
though he liked the people"
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
JUST PUNISHMENT.

The great indignation of the Southern
Pacific Company against the Secretary of
the Interior for his refusal to issue patents
Tor granted lands until the railroad debt is
settled will not fnd much sympathy in
California. 1t has never been the policy
of the company to apply for patents until
1T had made contracts with purchasers for
its granted lands and until these contracts
had been performed and the land was
ready to transfer. So long as no patent
was in existence the company held no title
and therefore was not compelled to pay
taxes to the State of California and the
various counties in which the lands lay.
Thus the company had distinct advan-
tage over all other landowners in the
State. It enjoyed all the advantages OF
the ownership of land without any of its
burdens or risks. 1t held millions of land
which it could sell, but for which it could
not be taxed. Its privileges were extraor-.
binary and exclusive and its policy selfish.
injurious and unpatriotic.
This was only one of the ways In which
the company evaded payment of its taxes.
The most scandalous chapters in the his
tory OF California concern transactions in
tax-paylng matters. Besides current ru-
mors of corruption the State and counties
have suffered enormous expense in fight
ing the company through all the courts in
endeavors to make it pay taxes on prop
erty which it owned; the public schools
have suffered and other property-owners
have borne unjust burdens in conse-
quence.
All this seems to be coming home at
last. Had the company long ago secured
patents to its granted lands and paid its
share OF taxes these recent dangers would
not have arisen. The Miners Association
is clamoring for an inspection of 1,000 900
acres of granted lands, in the belief that
such an inspection would discover them
to be mineral, and not patentable to the
company. The association is safe for the
present, for the Secretary of the Interior is
determined not to issue any patents until
the railroad debt problem is solved, and
there is no way to compel him. The most
formidable danger of all is that the Gov
ernment may foreclose its mortgage and
take all the lands
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
MONDAY MORNING HUMoR.

What did you buy this piece of music for? ?''
asked Mr.. barley, GROSSLY, as he took up q
sheet from the piano.
II bought it for song" replied Mrs. Darley,
sweetly.-Detroit Free Press.
dearest girl of ALL" was the way the letter
began. In those few words he ''queered" him
self.
"Of ALL" she said softly to herself. "Then
there are Observation-Disclosures Enquirer.
IAN the good things have been said"
Staylate murmured with sigh;
Mabel yawned and shook her head
Wei, suppose you try 'good-by."
Louisville Confessional.
Alberta-He must be in earnest, and those
places where his letter sticks together must be
tears.
Alethea-They're not tears, but they prove
positively that he loves me-they are where he
dipped his pen in the mucilage.
Old Friend-You were poor boy in college
weren't you?"
Worker-Yes; had to work my way through
by teaching.
Old Friend-what did you teach7
Worker = Billiards, principally. Spare Mo-
ments.
young man had been talking to bored
editor for quarter of an hour. and at last OBJ
served:
"There are some things in this world that 60
without saying"
Yes" said the editor, "and there are still
more persons in the world who say a good deal
without going ."-Tit-Bits.
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PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.


Ellen Terry is passionately fond OF children,
and delights in telling them fairy stories
The King of Korea has ordered the use OF the
Gregorian calendar, beginning with this year.
Miss Estelle Reel, State Superintendent of
Education in Wyoming, is seriously talked OF
for Governor.
While he was in Richmond. Ind, the other
day, General o. o. Howard spoke of his alleged
Presidential boom in such a way as to indicate
that he is not losing much sleep over 1t.
Dimmick, the great elephant catcher, says
that it is declared on good authority that but
twenty-four white elephants have been caught
since the commencement of the Christian era.
Miss Jennie Young of Scotland has been in
Mexico for some time arranging for the pur-
chase OF land for large Scotch colony which
she intends to bring over soon. She is greatly
impressed with Mexico, and believes that i'm
migrants from Europe will soon flock to it.
Chauncey NJ. Depew never takes anything
stronger than glass of champagne, and that
only after long and exhausting speech. In
former years he smoked necessarily. Five
years ago he came to the conclusion that
cigars were q tax upon the stomach and he
quit them.
General Valeriano Weyler of the Spanish
army, the new captain-general of Cuba, is said
to be of Irish extraction, is go years old and
extremely energetic. He distinguished him.
self during the Carlist war. and attracted at
tention during the Spanish war against the
Moors in Africa.
General Bourbaki of France is now nearly 80
years of age and in precarious health. He was
born at Pau the year following the battle of
Waterloo. Bourbaki, while retreating before
Manteuffeps army toward Switzerland, tried to
blow out his brains, and for weeks lowered
between life and death.
Mrs. Fannie NJ. Merryfeld has one Of the
best telegrap hing records In the country. For
thirty years she has been an expert. For the
last twelve years Mrs. Merryfeld has been in
Cheyenne, holding the position OF night wire
chief and having in charge eight duplex and
two quad sets, besides the Wheatstone repeat
ers and Morse repeaters.
NJ. Diebler, the famous executtoner Of Paris,
was recently sent to Corsica 10 guillotine bri-
gand. Upon arriving there he was all but
mobbed, and owed his life to the strong guard
ofsoldiers which accompanied him. The Cor
sicans followed him about with jeers and exc
crations, and he was informed that an expert
u:arksman had been selected to put q bullet
through his head at the first opportunity.
Booker T. Washington, the famous Southern
negro Ieduer, at recent social gathering, told
how he acquired his last name, as follows:
"BefoIe the war the slaves all went by the
name OF their master, but as soon as freed they
almost invariably wished to change it, feeling
that they were his property no longer. My
mother called me Booker Taliferro, after two
old Virginia families. When entered school
at Hampton and one after another was called
on to give his name to the teacher, IT suddenly
occurred to me that had no surname, and
as suddenly decided to take that of Wash.
ington."
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
THE EUROPEAN EXODUS.

An English paper so bold as FTeir's Co
lontdl and Foreign Register (London) is a
very uncommon thing. Just what is its
standing with the English Government we
are not informed, but it is difficult to i'm
agine British paper urging Englishmen
TO settle in British colonies that has not
the sanction of the Government. But the
Register does not stop at that. While evil
IDENTIFY preferring that Englishmen should
emigrate to British colonies, it would
rather see them come to the United States
than remain in England. It's reasons for
this are very strongly stated.
"Are you satisfied with living in Great
Britain it asks, "where you spend your
life drudging in some occupation for q
mere pittance, perhaps? Why not go
abroad, where you are wanted and where
you can make good income, and with
every possibility of your building up a
fortune for yourself and your successors
In densely oyerpopulated Great Britain
your remaining here is a detriment to
yourself and to the whole nation at large.
Every day it is becoming increasingly diff
hcult TO make living in this country. In
all new countries this is reversed. Good
incomes await energetic men in various
colonies and some foreign countries, and
for those possessed with good intelligence
and powers of steady hard work there are
fortunes to be made"
After further pursuing the distressing
condition in England and lauding the
colonies the Register turns it's attention to
the United States: "The United States
century ago was scarcely known coun-
try, given up, save in the extreme east, to
Indians and wild nature generally. To-
day the United States is settled from the
Atlantic to the Pacific with the largest in
telligent collection OF people in the world.
Its citizens are per capita perhaps the
richest and most independent of all the
nations of the globe. The settlers whose
energy has caused this phenomenal de-
velopment made large fortunes, now being
enjoyed by their lucky descendants" And
more of that sort.
We have heard intelligent men in San
Francisco declare that the good lands of
the country have all been taken, and that
this is sufficient reason not only for
checking immigration, but also for turn
ing Europe's poverty-stricken hordes to
still newer countries. As matter of fact
we have not yet learned in this country
the rudiments of agriculture. A Portu-
guese or Italian can make money on
land that we would not deign to cultivate,
and German can transform desert into
a garden. The agricultural resources of
this country have hardly been touched, and
when properly developed nigh. be made
to support in comfort arhundred times
as many people as we have. California
alone, with irrigation and intelligent farm
ing, could support fourth Of all the in
habitants of the United States. Unhap-
PLY England has not sent US its farmers,
for as rule they are very poor and do not
own their land; but there is room here for
them, and he is very dull American who
is unwilling or unable to learn agriculture
from the skilled farmers of Europe
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
A HANDSOME GIFT.

1t is taken for granted that the Board of
Supervisors will accept James D. Phelan's
proffer of a monument to be erected at the
junction of Market, Turk and Mason
streets. His selection OF subject for
treatment--the Admission of California to
the Union-is eminently tit by reason not
only of the fact that Mr.. Phelan is native
of the State, but also because he is one of
the most enterprising of the younger
generation of Californians. 1t is fortunate
that he has abundant means with which
to make his good will effective. His choice
of Douglas Tilden, another native, as the
sculptor, was wise and appropriate.
There are good many other young men
in San Francisco, sons of wealthy men
who made their fortunes in California and
it would be an interesting study to inquire
into the extent to which they have applied
their wealth in adorning the City and
developing its natural beauties. The older
generation have done exceedingly well,
their public gifts and endowments running
far up into the millions. It is true that a
great deal OF this was placed outside of
San Francisco, but there is no complaint
on that score.
The millionaire pioneers who have
passed away left sons and daughters to
enjoy their parents bounty, and continue,
in some cases, the great work of develop
ment which they dropped. For the most
part these lead lives which would have
been strange to their fathers. The ad-
vancement of Western culture and the ia
cility with which wealthy young men can
find recreation and elevated companion
ship seem to have removed them from the
sphere OF broad human sympathy which
can be acquired only by contact with the
sterner conditions of existence and the
earnest, struggling masses Of lover and
middle life.
Again, the men who acquired great
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TO HAVE A NEW HOME.
BUILDING TO BE ERECTED FOR Mr.. HEARST.
NEW YORK PAPER.

A BUILDING TO BE ERECTED FOR Mr.. HEARsr's
NEW YORK PAPER.
1t was reported yesterday that William r,
Hearst, proprietor of the Journal, would build
large structure uptown for his paper. The
story runs that his mother, the widow of Senator
Hearst of California, had promised her son
that as soon as the Journals circulation had
reached q certain point she wonld erect
building for him. 1t is understood that the
circulation has reached this point, and that ar.
rangements have been made toward securing
another home tor the Journal. 1t is said that
Mr.. Hearst has practically secured the Victoria
hotel property, Twenty-seventh street, Fifth
avenue and Broadway.
Mr.. Hearst could not be seen last night. but
Mr.. Lawrence. the acting managing editor.
smiled when he heard the rumor, and said.
"Mr. Hearst has already announced in the
Journal his intention of moving into a new
building, but just when l can't tell. New
buildings cost money, and / really couldn't
enlighten you in the matter. We intend to
move, but when don't KNOW"
Inc Victoria was formerly well known
hotel, and President Cleveland, the British
Embassodor and other prominent men were
often its guests before it was closed. n il
owned by the Paran Stevens estate.--New York
Tribune, February 3.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
SAFETY AND SENTIMENT.

The arrest OF two extraordinary young
criminals, Majors and Willmore, at Oak
land has reopened an old debate and COM
plicated it with sentiment. The boys are
respectively 16 and II years of age.
Majors father was a criminal of the most
vicious order and was hanged for murder.
The claim is now advanced in the sons
behalf that he possibly inherited his
criminal instinct and therefore, being in a
measure irresponsible. should be shown a
certain lenity. In Willmores defense it
is urged that he was led astray by Majors.
Hence it is insisted that they should not
be treated as common criminals, should
not be sent to the penitentiary and thus
forever disgraced and ruined, but should
be given chance in reformatory institu-
ton to realize their error and determine
upon better course in life.
he logicof such an argument is this: If
Majors is q congenital moral idiot it would
be impossible to instill moral competency
into him; the only thing that might
serve as restraint is fear OF severe pun
ishment and such fear could be better ac-
quired in penitentiary than in a. reform
school. As for Willmore, if he is so weak
as to become subject to any evil influence
which he may encounter he will always be
dangerous, as his weakness is manifestly
of a negatively vicious charaeter. The
main thing in his case is 10 keep him un-
der restraint.
But there is no evident right to assume
that Willmore is less moral idiot than
Majors. That both of them are extremely
dangerous young animals has been shown
by their daring and by their carrying pis-
tolls with which to kill if necessary. They
have asserted that if the arresting officers
had not covered them with pistols they
would have killed in defense of their lib
erty. That they have not committed nu-
merous murders may be ascribed to trick
of chance.
Very properly the criminal laws take no
cognizance of inherited vicious tenden-
cies. That is the point at which the law
and the doctors have been in conflict for
many years. The more advanced position
of alienists is that in cases of uncontrol-
liable tendency to criminal acts, the State
should go no further than keeping the
criminal in restraint. This is drawing
rather fine distinction between imprison-
ment in penitentiary and in prison
called by some other name. It is at cap
ital punishment in such cases that the op-
position of the alienists is aimed, and
hence their contention cannot be made to
fit the cases of Majors and Willmore.
1t is the duty and privilege of society to
protect itself. A moral idiot is far more
dangerous to the community than per-
son fully clothed with sense of re-
sponsibility for his acts, and hence his
treatment demands far severer methods.
This does not mean to say that these
methods need be plenary. Majors, not
only by his criminal acts, but also by his
treatment of his mother, has proclaimed
himself so lacking in material out OF
which good man might be made, and so
richly endowed with every criminal in
stinct, that lenity toward him would be a
menace to the public safety
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Eugene B. Rail. the man who built the first
hardware store in Carson City, the capital of
Nevada, is down from the mountains, and is at
the Palace Hotel, looking at the coast politics
and brea thing in large quantities of salt sea
breeze. Mr.. Rail, while q man of but few
words, and those well chosen and to the point,
has peculiar faculty OF observing things con-
tiguous to him.
''It makes me laugh said he to some friends
yesterday, Ito hear people talk about the
farmers from the country and the jays from
the cow hollows, but If you want to see some
thing real funny and at the same time some
thing unique would respectfully call your
attention to the fact that the city man in the
country is several times funnier than the coun-
try man In the city.
Gentlemen, give you my word that the
best thing l ever saw was San franciscan
trying to make himself appear familiar with
the customs of inhabitants OF the interior
towns He arrived in Carson some three weeks
ago, and the first break he made was to stand
around the depot for three hours waiting for a
cable-car to come along. He would have been
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PERSONAL.
R. J. Roberts OF Los Angeles is at the Russ.

RI. Roberts OF Los Angeles is at the Russ.
Thomas Keene, the actor, is at the Occidental
Captain r. Dickens. q. S. NJ. c., Is at the
Palace.
IF. Andrews and wife of Chicago are at the
Palace.
George h. Kraft, banker OF Red Bluff, is at
the Grand.
Louis James, the actor, and wife are at the
Occidental.
F. Brewster Highet and wife of New York
are at the Palace.
George Smith of Black Diamond Is at the
Russ with his wife.
wv Rose, the Healdsburg attorney, Is reg
istered at the Russ.
william Thomas, mining man from Doug
las Flat, is at the Russ.
Charles Kunze. the stockton brick manu-
faeturer, is at the Russ.
c. E. Mccain, San Diego business man, Is at
the Grand with his wife.
James Warburton, wealthy merchant OF
Fall River. Mass. who is en- route home from
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10
THE CAKES OF PAN.

Bards sing that Pan is dead,
That maidens mournful-eyed
Lament his spirit fed
From field and fair hillside:
] deem he doth abide
With nymphs like Betsy Ann,
Who turns, each morning tide,
The toothsome cakes of Pan.
By some, the bun-iike lead
Is with delight deserted;
BY some, the muffin, spread
With butter, amber-dyed:
But though ye wander wide,
Beersheba unto Dan,
Naught beats, at morning-tide.
The toothsome cakes Of Pan.
Forsooth, when all is said,
When every sigh is sighed
For all the kinds of bread
That man hath multiplied;
Joy doth most radiant ride
When, from the curving can,
Ye food with marle-tide
The toothsome cakes OF Pan.
Prince, though We may deride
Their steaming cream and tan,
Give me, each niorning-tide,
The toothsome CAKES of Pani
IRVING GILMoRE in New York Sun
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-10

we'll. ard for best suits the same style is fol-
lowed, though the fabric is usually smooth
faced cloth or dark diagonal.
The coat buttons moderately high, and the
sleeves should be finished with two or three
buttons at the cuff. Boys coats are easier to
make than many mothers imagine, II the cloth
is not too heavy. The pressing and neatly
stitched finish are the most difficult points for
the home dressmaker
to point below the knee, and finished very
square. Whole suits of the same goods are the
best STYLE and it is advisable to make or pnr-
chase an extra pair OF trousers 10 every suit,
especially for the youngest boy