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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-10
PERSONAL.

Fl. Kessler of Grants Pass, Or, is in the City.
Western.
here yesterday.
arrival in the City.
A. Nelson, owner of large foundry at Sac
ramento is in town.
B. W. Noyes, a wealthy resident of Everett
Mass, is at the Palace.
DR.. IL. A. Forest of Santa Cruz County is
registered at the Baldwin.
J. Hart, dry-goods dealer of San Jose. is
here on q brief business trip.
s. F. Thompson, mining and business man
OF Aspen, Colo, is at the Palace.
j. B. Peakes, proprietor of the Yosemite
Hotel, stockton, is at the Palace.
Harrison Griswold OF La Crosse, Wis.,, arrived
here yesterday and is at the Grand
John F. Boyd, the capitalist, of San Rafael, is
at the Palace accompanied by Mrs. Boyd
Charles s. Derby of Bruce, Warning & Co., a
big shipping firm OF Honolulu, arrived here
yesterday.
C. Padget, a wealthy resident of San SAL
vador, arrived here yesterday and is at the
Occidental.
8
at Mott, on the California and Oregon Rail-
road, is on visit here.
J. FL. Lee, secretary and treasurer of the
Chino Beet Sugar Company at Chino, San Ber-
nard1no County, is ut the Occidental.
Senator William Johnson of CORTLAND, ac-
companied by his wife and daughter, is at the
Grand. They came down to visit the horse
show.
Sheriff T. A. Burnes and Deputy Sheriff D. S.
Wilbur of San Diego County are at the Russ
They brought up some prisoners, whom they
lodged at San Quentin.
Mrs. Newton Booth, wife of the late United
States Senator Booth, has sent TO County Sup
erintendent Davis of Sonoma, for the county
teachers library, handsome volume on the
lie of her husband.
E. Jacobs, the m illionaire landowner and
grain grower of Visalia, who settled at that
place when it was a mere hamlet among the
oak trees is up here on vacation and regis
tered at the Occidental
A. R. Hall of Milwaukee, superintendent OF
the Wisconsin Central Railroad, is at the
Grand, accompanied by his wife and daughter
He has been visiting Monterey and other
places in California and will leave for home
in day or two.
John NJ. Whitman, hardware dealer of
4uHAtH -"NuAtoAAij 1uolulllhI SOuhby, AIMING
The arrivals at the Grand. He says it is very
lively in Tuolumne many properties changing
hands. The hills are covered with miners all
along the mother lode.
f. W. Bradley, Superintendent of the great
silver and lead mines ct Wardner in the Occur
d'Alene country, Idaho, Known as the Bunker
Hill and Sullivan, of which John Hays Ham
mond was at one time general manager, arrived
here yesterday. These mines are producing
enormous quantities of lead.
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THE EXAMINER UNMASKED.

braga journalism
last
hideou public
the opposite of everything has pretended to be-
d,
people California
publisher of
folly 1t embarked the food tide
which
individuals
with blanche ba ckmai everything
the State seeking position
boldly fehods
nnendo and de which 1t within the reach
publisher to
newspaper
morals
When
indulgence
disrepute
however people California
Journalism as other forms
violation
society
The honest reputable
whip profession
departed
lead guide
welfare
should be saved the pollution OF he journalism which
Heas the
believes the homes families California
the foul and infectious suh and slime OF
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-10
THE HORSE SHOW.

The first day of the horse show was
sufficiently brilliant TO assure the success
of the enterprise. Public interest has in
creased even over that of last year, and
the display will be successful not only as
an exhibit OF fine horses and good driY-
ing. but also as social function.
1t is not easy to overrate the benefits to
be derived from this and similar exhibit
tons. In New York, where they have
been held for more years than in any
other place in the Union, they have come
to be looked upon as the most popular
and among the most important of all in
dustrial expositions. The success and
value of such shows in that city have
ceased to be matters of doubt, and each
successive one is an improvement on its
predecessor.
Nature has fitted California to be the
elysium of horses. The climate is favor
able to him at all seasons of the year.
There is never month when riding, driv-
Ing and racing cannot be practiced with
comfort both to the horse and his owner.
The Californians of the old Spanish days
were race OF accomplished horsemen,
and the native sons of to-day are rapidly
acquiring an equal fondness and mastery
in the same pursuit.
The control of horses has ever been re-
garded as one of the best accomplishments
of man. The modern world with its many
mechanisms for locomotion does not pay
so much attention to this art as was once
accorded it, but it is still held in high
esteem by all nations. The bold rider,
the skillfM driver and the able trainer of
horses are objects OF admiration i'll every
com munity'. and it is not to be doubted
that this will always be so.
Among the great nations of Europe the
breeding of fine horses is a care OF the
Government. The value of such animals
both in peace and in war is so well known
that the improvement of the breeds is not
LETT wholly 10 private enterprise. In this
country, however, we have trusted 10 in
dividual citizens to promote our breed of
horses and the trust has not been in vain.
We have, in fact, beaten Europe The de-
gree Of our success is bic al the presen
show and moreover in the large attend
ance there of men and women of means
and fashion We nave every assurarc e that
the good work will be continued and that
private wealth will in the future, as in the
past, provide California with horses
second 10 none in the world.
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THE VALLEY ROAD.

Work on the Valley road continues to
go forward with an energy gratifying to
all who take an interest in the develop
ment and the welfare of the State. While
the extension of the line southwark from
Fresno has been temporarily suspended,
owing to difficulties encountered in OBJ
tanning rights OF way the task of equip
ping the line between Stockton and
Fresno and providing the road with &C
commodations for handling freight shows
no cessation of activity.
1t is believed the work of extension
southwark will begin again not later than
the early part of February. The one OBJ
stacle in the way of advance is the lack of
a continuous right of way to Bakersfield.
AS soon as the route has been secured the
work of construction will be pushed for
ward with as much vim and energy as was
employed in constructing that portion of
the line already completed. Material for
the southwark extension has been already
obtained and all preparations made for a
speedy completion OF the work as soon as
the right of way has been secured.
Two lines of road are to run southwark
from Fresno. One of these will go by way
Vi A4d4l4O1O dLlA bAlS .lOQtCfO1 IAc OSnSI ID
to be determined by the concessions made
by landowners in the. matters OF rights of
way and depot sites. The advantages to
be derived from the road are so great that
It is not likely the desired concessions will
be long withheld, and before the time
comes for moving the next grain crop
there are good reasons for believing that
all the country as far south as Bakersfield
will have the full advantage of a COM
peting line.
The success which has attended the con-
struction of the road ever since the project
was undertaken is one of the most graft
flying evidences we have of the awakening
of new spirit of energy and enterprise
among the people OF California. The
work is the result of the cooperation of
San Francisco with the San Joaquin
and attests what can be done when the
City and the interior work together for
the good of the State. This line, watch
will break,the monopoly in wide region
of California, has within it the potency OF
breaking it down in every porti on OF the
State. The work therefore is essentially
one for the welfare of the people and
there will be a universal qualification in
the knowledge that it is SO rapidly and
| successfully going forward.
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TARIFF CONSIDERATIONS.

Reports from Washington tend to the
conclusion that while there is no POSSIBLE
1ty OF passing the Dingley bill in the form
in which it was presented at the last ses-
sion, there will still be an earnest effort
made at some form of tariff legislation. The
statement of Mr.. Cleveland in his message
that the present tariff Is good enough and
that the deficit should not disturb us
finds no more favor with the Repu bIicans
in Congress than with the country at
large, and consequently they will make an
earnest and patriotic attempt to provide
as speedily as possible revenue adequate
to the expenditures of the Governments.
The objections to the Dingley bill are
so numerous it can hardly have much
support. In its essence the bill simply
raises the rate of duties fixed by the
present tariff. 1t is, therefore, subject to
all the objections which are inherent in
the nature of the Democratic Law. The
German tariff makes offensive discrimina-
tons in favor of some industries against
others. A Republican tariff, therefore,
cannot be constructed on these lines. 1t
must be radically different measure.
and provide for fair and honest protection
to all industries alike.
While the Dingley bill has found favor
with the wool-growers because it promises
something of protection to their industry,
it by no means does justice to other indus
tries no less important. Among the in
dustries thus Disseminated against is that
of the production of sugar. and yet that
industry, by reason of competition with
cheap labor and the bounty systems of
other nations, has a peculiar need oil sup
port and encouragement on the part of the
Government.
We have fhe soil and climate suitable
for the production of sugar and the cap
ital necessary to carry on the industry.
With such protection as would be suffi-
cient to counterbalance the low wages
paid in other countries and the bounties
given by other nations we could soon
build up in the United States a sugar in
dustry equal to all the demands of the
population. There are good reasons for
believing that California alone could pro-
duce all the sugar needed in America at
the present rate of demand. Whenever,
therefore, We set about devising tariff
We should revise it in the direction of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-10

The Nordica- Melba-De Reszke dispute at
the Metropolitan opera-house has been inten-
sif1ed b. the engagement of Nine Felia Lit
vinne, to take the place left vacant by Nor
dica. Nine. Litvinne is Edouard de Reszke's
sister-in-law, and people who take Nordica's
part In the quarrel are more persistent than
ever in affirming that there was great De
Reszke combine against the American prima
donna, and that Jean de Reszke' advice to
Melba to study the role of Brunhilde, which
Nordica coveted, was only n part of the De
Reszke machina lions for busting Nordica. A
large portion of the public seems to have
espo used Nordica's side of the quarrel, for
Jean de Reszke's reception. on his first ap-
pearance this season. was marked by such
GOODNESS that some critics alluded to it as q
frost. Jeans recent marriage has no doubt
taken away his charms, as matinee girls
idol, but that would scarcely account entirely
for the sudden change OF attitude toward
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-10
KILL ING FROsTs.

1t is reported that great damage has
been done 10 orchards all round the Puget
Sound territory and throughout the
MOI thern Pacific States generally by the
heavy frosts of the recent cold snap. 1t is
to be hoped that the worst OF these reports
are exaggerations, and that the loss may
not be so heavy as al this time is feared.
Nevertheless it appears certain that the
fruit industry has been pushed too far
northward, and that Oregon and Wash
ington cannot hope to compete with Cali
fornia in the cultivation of such fruits as
require mild climate.
The large profits obtained by California
orchardists in growing prunes led the
people of Washington and Oregon to
make extensive plantations of such trees
in those States. For some years past
these have done fairly well, but the heavy
frosts of this winter make it clear that the
prune industry there is a hazardous ex-
pertinent. 1t requires six years to bring a
prune tree into full bearing, and in a
climate where it is able to be killed by a
sudden frost the industry cannot be prof.
tably carried on.
The prune orchardists OF the States to
the north OF US are IN ABOUT the same
position as the orange growers in middle
Florida. Tee area of orange planting in
that State was carried further and further
north with considerable success for some
years, but the end came with severe
frost. which not only destroyed the crops,
but killed the trees. This meant loss of
many years work, and the orange growers
in that section of Florida have been COM
PEELED to turn their attention to other
forms of industry.
For semi-tropical fruits there is scarcely
a safe area for cultivation in the United
States outside of California. In this State
the orchardists occasionally lose a crop by
the frosts, but they do not lose their trees
The loss here is merely temporary. In
other States the loss in such cultivation is
not inirequently so disastrous as to com.
pletely destroy entire orchards. This fact
seems to assure to California an easy SUI
premacy in the growing OF semi-tropical
fruits, and removes from our orchardists
any fear of extensive competition in other
localities.
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THE INVINClBLE PRESS.
TACITLY RECOGNIZED as A NECESSARY PART OF
MODERN CIVILIZATION.

TACITLY RECOGNIZED as A NECESSARY PART OF
MODERN CIVILIZATION.
Springfield Republican.
Senator Edmunds was once asked how q
President-elect is to know that he has been
elected. "By reading the newspapers" was
the answer. 1t is a curious fact that no
provision OF law exists for the official notif-
cation of Major Mckinley, for example, of
his election. According to the law the Vice.
PRESIDENT, after the returns from the cleo
toral college have been canvassed, announces
TO the Congress in joint session the choice
OF the electors for President and Vice-Presi-
dent for the ensuing term. After reading
In the newspapers that he has been SO hon.
ored the President-elect goes to Washington
10 be sworn in. Meanwhile the President
still in Office is also dependent upon the
newspapers for Information as to the identity
OF his successor. And so President Cleveland.
having read in the papers or in the Con-
gressional Record that Major Mckinley is to
be the next President, will call at the. latter's
lodgings day or two before the end OF his
term 10 pay his respects. Finally, on the
inaugural day, Major Mckinley will happen
up 10 the Senate cnamber on the streng th OF
what the newspapers have told him and be
sworn In God is not officially recognized in
the constitution, but the American Govern
ments machinery taeitly recognizes the press
as necessary part of modern civilization.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-10
bABY'S LOGIC

She was ironing her dolly's new gown,
Maid Marian, years old,
With her brows puckered down
In a painstaking frown
Under her tresseS of gold.
Twas Sunday. and nurse coming in
Exclaimed, in tone of surprise,
"Don't you now It's sin
Any work to begin
ON the day that the Lord sanc.ifesf"
Then, lifting her face like q rose,
Thus answered this wise little tot:
"Now, don't you suppose
The coed Lord he knows
This little iron amt hot?"
New York Tribune.
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CALIFORNlANS IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, n. Y. Dec. 9.-At the Windsor
A. G. Booth; Park Avenue. E. Il. Merrill
NJ. H. de Young, Mrs de Young, Miss Phyllis
Mary de Young, Miss Mamie Deane and nurse
left the Plaza to sail on the steamer New York
for England
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-10
Phillips, Kock Island Excnrsiona

Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rio
Grande and Rock Island railways. Through
tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Man
ager and porters accompany these excursions to
Boston For tickets. sleeping-car accommodations
and further information. address Clinton Jones
General Agent Rock island Railway, 30 Mont
gomery street. san Francisco
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GIRLS NIGHTDRE S

A nightdress for little girls which is cut on
very simple lines, and yet is up to date,
itself to all mothers, for it is
easily made and will please the little miss by
its picturesqueness, which is the result of the
large collar and full sleeves. The gown may
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-10

The Austrian composer, Antoine Bruckner.
was not so much made of during his lifetime.
but his death has been the signal for all sorts
of post mortem honors. statue is to be
erected to his memory in Vienna, and in the
same city his grandioso Mass in D minor.
which he never had the pleasure of hearing
well performed, will be rendered next month,
in concert hall, with the best orchestra and
chorus procurabe.
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Low Rates to Phoenix, A. t.,
Randsburc. Cal.

The Atlantic and Pacific r. R., Santa Fe route
will sell on December IL, IL and IS round-trip
frs class tickets to Phoenix at the one-way rate.
golden opportunity to spend Christmas in balmy
Arizona Cheap rates also made to the won
derful Randsbur mining camp, which is a second
Cripple Creek, and to which people now flock
ing by the thousands Ticket office, 644 Market
street, Chronicle building. Telephone Main 1881.
See time table in advertising columns
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giving protection to such industries as
this. If We are to have any tariff legisla-
ton at all this winter it should be legis-
lation that will do justice to all sections
OF the Union and all the industries OF the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-10

One OF the first presents made by the Queen
OF Italy to her new daughter-in-law, the
Princess Helen of Montenegro, was a magnif-
cent bicycle with ivory handles and decorated
with the arms of Savoy and Montenegro in
enamel and gold.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-10
A YOUTHFUL SOLDIER

Cresceniode Varona, young Cuban, has just
entered the Westchester State Normal School,
near Philadelphia. Although only II years
of age he is an officer in the insurgent army.
On his right hand is huge scar to which this
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-10

be REINFORCED in yoke shape for extra strength
81 the top, where the wear and tear comes.
The collar may be neatly edged with mar
row band of Hamburg embroidery or frill OF
narrow lace, but is in itself very effective
when made OF plain white cotton cloth. ba-
tiste or lawn. The neatest trimming and the
least expen sive is tiny insertion of Valen-
ciennes let in, about its width from the edge OF
the collar, with an inch wide edge of the lace
to match, slightly gathered This entails
little more labor but repays one by its dainti-
ness. The sleeves may be finished by a little
ruffie with lace and insertion to match.
The gown without the collar is very pretty.
The tuIl sleeves relieving its pIainness
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-10

AT st. Ignatius Church on Hayes street next
Wednesday and Thursday evenings December
16 and II, will take place two grand organ
recitals and sacred concerts, on which occa-
sion will take place the inaugural of the new
and elegant organ lately presen ted to the
church. Clarence Eddy will officiate as or
on
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not have been pleasant to find oneself in the
center of that orchestra!-Le Menestrel.

Edgar Stillman Kelly has been engaged to
lecture on Oriental music before Columbia
University during the coming winter. His
practical experience in Oriental music was
chiefly acquired in Chinatown, San Francisco.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-10

The Chicago woman who has invented 8
machine for darning socks may yet live in
history as the emancipation of man.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-10

Cleveland's message will suit the Gu
bans about as well as the Spauiards, but
neither of them will call him statesman.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-10

The Dingley bill is an attempt to con-
struct Republican tariff on Democratic
lines, and it won't work.
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PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.

A bronze monument has been erected IN
Paris to the memory of Jean Leclaire, the man
who fifty-four years ago introduced among the
workmen OF his factory the system OF pront
sharing.
Governor Hogg of Texas denies the state
ment that he has children named Ina, IRA
and Shesa. He has a daughter who is named
Ina, and three boys named, respectively, VII
liam, Michael and Thomas.
Maurice de Bumsen, gazetted as secretary
OF the English emil assy at Washington, was an
attache there in 1873. He has since had quite
a distinguished diplomatic career in Berne,
Madrid, Paris, Japan and Siam.
hansen has sold the English rights of the
work in which he will describe his latest ex.
periences in the polar seas to Messrs. Consta-
BILE and the sum he will receive in considera.
ton thereof is unusually large-$50, 900 being
mentioned as the price of this hook. The
firm paying this price is a comparatively new
Que.
The place for the memorial to Sir Walter
Scott in Westminster Abbey has now been
finally selected by the dean of Westminster
The place chosen lies between the memorials
OF the Duke of Argyll and Oliver Goldsmith,
half-arch in the south wall or poets corner
transept. 1t is prominent place and the late
dean, DR.. Stanley, always had a desire that Sir
Walter Scotts bust should fill this niche.
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All who went to see the horses came
away asserting that we have the loveliest
and best-dressed ladies on earth.
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was four years ago is one of great significance:
is crowding out the old South ct gratifying
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Thirty unpublished melodies, as we'll as
completed mass, have just been found among
the .papers of the late Franz Won Suppe. These
posthumous works, of whose existence no one
was aware, win soon be published.
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Merritt-Man was made to mourn, you know.
Cora-And what was woman made for, pray?
Merritt-To make him do so, suppose.-New
York Truth
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Eugene Ysaye has abandoned his ambitions
as a conductor for the present and is creating
Juror in Spain with his violin playing A
Barcelona correspondent writes: HE has
aroused veritablc delirium."
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Cleveland has probably learned by this
time that the writing of such long mes
sage was labor in vain.
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Oscar Hammersteins opera, "Sauta Maria"
VIII leave his Olympia ana start on tour of
the principal cities OF the Union. Tomorrow is
the date announced for the beginning of the
tOur