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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-03
NAPA SODA SPRINGS,
HAVE You BEE, THERE LATELY,

1000 feet above Mana Valley. Climate unsur.
passed. Views magnificent Table supplied from
orchard and ocean, field and farm Hot and cold
Napa Soda water baths Telephone and Postofice
Burros TO ride. Bowling alleys, tennis, croquet
swings and hammocks. New improvements every
year Gas and running water in every room Re
lief for estimates. WARM WATER SWIM
MING TANK. An ideal summer resort. Chill
oren's paradise; mothers delight; husbands rest
Address ANDREW JACKSON, NRpa Soda Springs
p. o.
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ASTORG SPRING MINERAL WATER.

FOUNTAIN OF PERPETUAL YOUTH: FROM
II Cobb Valley, Lake County; greatest medicinal
and curative water earth. Hundreds cured ;
thousands recommend IL in san Francisco. Unlim-
tied supply at the depot, lO8 Fifth street. Selling
hundreds of gallons daily.
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HIGHLAND SPRINGS.
THE BEST PLACE ON EARTH To
SPEND THE FALL MONTHS.

Good Climate and the Greatest Va
riety and Finest Mineral Springs
in the World.
Fall season opens August 15. Finest
dining-room and table north of San Fran
cisco. Good hunting, bathing. boating
and fishing.
RATES $40 TO SIP PER WEEK.
For full particulars address
LEE ID. CRAIG,
SIC Montgomery ST., S. f.
Or j. CRAIG,
Highland Springs, Like Co. Gal.
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DOCTOR SWEANY

i ne aDleSG ana most successful SDeclalSC
of the age IN the treatment of all Chronic.
Nervous and Special Diseases of both Men
and Women.
Diseases of young. middle
aged and old men which weaken
the body and the brain. causing ner-
vous debility in all its distressing
forms, such as drains which sap the vital
ity, weak and failing manhood, aching
back and diseased kidneys, infamed
glands, varicocele, hydrocele and in many
cases degradation and untimely death.
positively, permanently and forever cured
| by DR.. Sweany with his new treatment
which is the result OF years of study,
practice and experience.
Heart. Brain. Nerves and
Blood. II you have dizziness of the
head and palpitation of the heart, difficult
breathing and suffocating feeling, a tired,
irritable, discontinued feeling and fear OF
impending danger or death, a dread OF
being alone or the reverse; if your mem.
DRY is failing and you are gloomy and de-
spondent and feel an aversion to society,
you are suffering from serious disease OF
the nerves, brain, heart and blood. You
have no time 10 lose. Call at once and
CONSULT DIR. SWEANY. Diseases
of Women scientifically treated and
invariably cured.
THE POOR of this city who call at his
Office on Friday afternoons of each week
are welcome to his professional services
free.
You can be cured at home.
Write your troubles ii living away from
the city and are unable to call. Letters
are answered in English, German. French,
Italian, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish.
Correspondence strictly confidential.
Book, Guide to Health, " sent free on APP
plication. Address
DR.. F. |. SWEANY, ss ss7 r Ms St s. Cal
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RAILROAD TRAVEL

SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY,
(PACIFIo sYsTEM)
Trains leave and are due To arrive at
SAN FRANCISCO.
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THE GEYSERS,
Sonoma County, Cal.
UNDER n h W MANA CEMENT
Dates 50 TO 81 so PER DAY, SIS no Sl4 PER
LII week; all baths free.
w. II. HARRON, Proprietor
OVERSIZE RANCH-ON THE BANKS OF
Ii Eel River, 6 miles from Potter Valley Men
docino County; round trip, So rs from San Fran
cisco; fishing hunting bathing and boating I'M
surpassed. Terms, 81 per week. Excellent table.
milk. fruit vegetables raised on the ranch. Il. T.
GILLESPIE, Potter Valley, Mendocino County.
A T BELMONT. SAN MATED COUNTY
n board for summer months private family;
beautiful grounds; large rooms; 5 minutes from
station; hour I'm city. MRS. HANSEN, Belmont
HOTEL DE REDWOOD, SANTA CRUZ
IL Mountains; board 81 to $40 a week: also
camping facilities, tents, etc. Address NJ. S. COX,
Laurel.
~ NJ cunt aims fine family resort. ]. HAES-
TERS proprietor.
The herald., 1896-12-19
REPUBLIC OF CUBA

The action Of the senate committee on
foreign relations yesterday upon the
Cameron resolution is likely to precipi-
tate a crisis in our relations with Spain
The significant thing about the action
of the committee is that the resolution
was changed from concurrent" to
Joint" and from the independence CT
Cuba" to the Independence of the re-
public of Cuba" The resolution will
have the right of way next Monday
and unless the custom is changed 1t will
be sent to the house Immediately for it
to act upon. The lower house will GER
tainly pass the resolution as the senti-
ment for such action has always been
stronger there than in the senate.
1t may not be generally known, but
a. concurrent resolution is more OF an
expression of Individual opinion than CT
voicing the sentiments of the country
through representatives in congress, and
it is in nowise binding upon the de-
partments. But Joint" resolution is
more of the nature of law, and 1t has 10
be sent to the president for his approval
or disapproval. If he returns it with his
veto 1t may be passed over his veto and
be made operative independent of the
executive. A joint resolution is, in fact.
an act Of congress.
If. then, a Joint resolution is passed It
is safe to say that before week from TO-
day the United States will be in for it
with Spain. No doubt the president will
veto the resolution, as perhaps he
should for, as matter Of fact, If there
is a. civil government in Cuba it is 10
Gated in a wagon where it can conform
to the movements of the army. And,
again, it is the custom of nations to not
recognize a country until it shall have
established a capital and is able to
maintain a highway between its capital
ard an ocean harbor so that foreign
representatives may have reasonably
safe ingress and egress. The Cubans
have no harbor, no city, no public trans
portation facilities, and hence they
could not receive and entertain official
agents from other countries. In short
there is no republic of Cuba" except
on paper.
But for all that t,congresswould be justi-
fed in passing joint resolution recog-
nizng the Independence of the republic
! of Cuba" over the presidents objections
agents and representatives of the people
and the people are practically of ono
mind that such a resolution should be
| passed Next week therefore, is likely
to be crowded with stirring events.
The herald., 1896-12-19
IN THE PUBLIC EYE

John p. Feeney, mayor-elect of Wo-
burn. Mass, and probably the youngest
mayor in the nation. for he is only "a.
gained his education after he had
learned to support himself as leather
finisher. He was graduated from the
Boston University law school and was
admitted to the bar when only two weeks
past his majority.
Miss Mathilde Blind died Nov. 9th. A
daughter of Karl Blind the friend of
Kossuth and Mazzini her life was close
ly associated with the group of English
sympathizers with the revolutionary
movement on the continent. She was a
woman of much intellectual force, and
wrote well in several departments of lit
erature. She died at the age of 49.
Boxes of tin soldiers play a most i'm
portant part in the life of the young
Hohenzollerns, and the battles they hear
of in their history lessons are all fought
over again with great zest and vigor.
Waterloo is their favorite conflict. be
cause. they are told, England would
never have won the day If Blucher and
the Prussians had not come to their
help"
Governor Upham denies the report
that he has decided to pardon Rose Zol-
doski, now serving a life sentence in
the state prison for the murder of Ella
Maly. The governor says that he has
not gone over all the testimony and
papers relating to the case. and that ii
is doubtful If he will have time to do this
before the expiration of his term.
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani has lived in
Honolulu since her pardon on mod
crate income of her own. Contrary to
general belief. she is a woman of con-
siderable education, speaking German
fiuently and being talented in musical
composition. She lives in some state,
with about twenty-five natives as SER
wants and personal retainers. The de-
posed queens chief. if not only, public
diversion Is driving.
Prince Bismarck is reported as en-
joying the political commotion he has
caused by his revelations. To a visitor
the other day he said: Il certainly
thought the stone which the Hamburger
Nachrchten threw into the duck pond
would cause good deal of quacking, but
that the noise would be so dreadful is a
great surprise to me-" Then he added:
You overrate my political passion. Be
sides, I have as little responsibility as in
nuence, and l shall scarcely live to see
the consequences of what is now being
done or left undone. l regret that after
being thirty years on the rise we are
now going backward. l shall not. it is
true. live to see the end, but pity my
| sons"
| During the last session of congress
| many members were anXiously await
ing an expression of opinion from Sena.
to Hill on certain matter. A congress.
man from New York at this time obtain
ed some notoriety by exhibiting an en-
velope addressed to him in the we'll
known handwriting of Mr.. Hill. He alst
showed the senator's signature at tn,
bottom of the enclosed note. Many
thought it must be communicable o.
| Importance until one day the letter slip
| ped from the congressman fingers ant
opened out as it fell to the sidewalk The
man who picked it up read the contents
at glance: Albany. N. Y. Oct. 21.-
Sir: Yours of the 18th received and con
| tents noted. D. b. HILL"
The herald., 1896-12-19
TO LOS ANGELES.

"A deep sea harbor and railway to
Salt Lake City are two things which Los
Angeles wants. and wants right away
and all Southern California wants the
same things" says the Los Angeles Her.
aid. 1t is to be hoped that the city of Los
Angeles will get both, but the people of
Utah are more deeply interested in the
railway project
Last spring things looked very favor
able for the construction of a railroad
from this city to Los Angeles. The gen.
tlemen who were at the head of the en-
terpriSe had every assurance that the
money for the roads construction would
be forthcoming when needed. the cap
italists who were to furnish it having
satisfied themselves of the feasibility
and profitableness of the proposed un-
dertaking. But the presidential cam
paign came on and the money centers of
the country became greatly alarmed and
the alarm spread to all sections of the
country. The capitalists who were to
furnish thS bulk Of the money for the
proposed road We're also seized with this
alarm and refused to go on with the pro-
iect. This refusal put stop to the
whole business. The gentlemen who
first undertook the enterprise are again
bestirring themselves in the matter and
trying to induce capitalists to assist
them. Everyone in the state will wish
them success
This city needs a direct outlet to
Southern California fully as much as
Los Angeles needs another outlet to the
east 1t is also needed for the develop
| ment of the state. The southern part of
! the state is exceedingly rich in resources
of all kinds which are sadly in need of
| development. This development will
| not be possible until railroad facilities
are provided. The iron and coal depos-
| its in some of the southern counties are
| so great that they cannot fail to become
i a source of immense wealth to Utah and
her people. When that southern coal
| can find its market in California and
| Arizona the fortune of the southern por-
tion of the state is made. Following that
will come the development of the iron
| mines and the establishment of mills for
| preparing the iron for commercial pur-
| poses. Then all along railroad from
here to Los Angeles will start up mining
camps. which will in turn bring about
a greater development of agriculture
| and grazing interests of all kinds.
| If it is possible to have railroad built
| from here to Los Angeles it should be
| done. 1t would mean more to the people
of the state. would do more to induce
people to come to the state and settle
| than any other enterprise that could be
| undertaken.-Salt Lake Herald.
The herald., 1896-12-19
SILVER FOR INDIA

The expectation of silver to India has
fallen off as was expected, on account of
the famine there, but still there is a de-
mand, although a diminished one, IN
that country for the white metal. mainly
for what is commercially known as
bazaar buying for trade purposes Low
er exchange has allowed India to buy at
the present price, and it is likely that
the existing small trade in the metal
will continue even under adverse cir
cumstances. The Indian government is
not in the market at present. We note
that simultaneously with the lessened
expectation of silverto India the demand
for Mexican dollars in China and Japan
has grown smaller, the expectation of
these coins from San Francisco in the
three months ending with October be-
ing only $347 900 whereas in February
last it was s574354 and in March $425. .1I5.
The total expectation of Mexican dollars
to the orient. via San Francisco, for the
first ten months of this year was $685.
sol. Taking bullion and dollars together
the expectation via that port fell off in
the ten months mentioned nearly $4. 000,-
600 as compared with the first ten months
of 1S9o.-MeXican Herald.
The herald., 1896-12-19

goes eastward except at rates that are
arbitrarily fixed by an agreement which
forbids competition. The roads in inter-
est simply meet and in the most cold
blooded way agree how much squeezing
and then formulate their schedule of
rates and the producer must pay them
or not ship his produce. But IL the at
torney-general shall succeed in having
all such combinations declared a con-
spiracy against the people, with few
years in the penitentiary as the penalty
for thus conspiring, competition be-
tween the roads would soon bring rates
down to fair and reasonable charge.
The herald., 1896-12-19
ALL SORTS.

A Minnesota girl with two suitors,
named Mann and Mouse, very properly
decided to be a Mann.
A Kansas City woman is satisfying
secret grudge against her husband by
making him lot of shirts.
A rabid dog recently bit eight boys in
Hogan's alley in New York It is un-
necessary to add that the animal died.
The ice cream men of Kansas City
wish that Mark Hanna would diffuse a
little of the kind of prosperity that freez-
es water.
A cable about 1900 miles long is to be
laid in the Amazon river. 1t will con-
meet Para and Manaos and will have
sixteen stations.
The worm will turn after awhile A
Pennsylvania citizen by the name of
Stamp has licked the mailing clerk of a
large manufacturing concern.
1t was hardly necessary for the Chi
cago Record to divulge the fact that
| nine-tenths of the women IL public life
are thirty-siX inches around the waist.
Sgnor Tosti, the composer of Forever
| and Forever whose first manuscripts
| were declined with thanks" can now
| command $1250 for a song.
| A serious arraignment of the pie habit
| is found in the circumstance that the av-
| bled the day after Thanksg giving.
| An Arizona editor has been found who
| is sincere and honest. He hangs this
| sign on his office door: Gone out to take
drink: will be back tomorrow"
Mr.. Moody believes that the 100 prs-
| oners converted in the Texas peniten-
tiary will stick about as we'll as the
| New Workers whom he is snatching as
brands from the burning
The Georgia man who sold his wife for
2S cents wants to know if this is sam
| pie of the prosperity promised by the
| Republicans in the event of Mckinley S
election.
A smart Snowman is exhibiting what
he calls a duplicate of Boston's Bac-
chante, and the impression that the sta
tue is immodest has become SO preva-
lent that he is making money.
The decision of a Pennsylvania court
that a man has right to hug his wife.
even if she objects, is unimpOrtant as
long as so few husbands are inclined to
indulge in such outbreaks of affection.
A Pasadena man attended the funera
of his mother-in-law in San Francisco
and then collected a note before he re-
turned home. 1t is always, where it is
possible. wise to combine pleasure witt
| business.
The Wisconsin grangers. having giver
the keeley cure, as a state institution
a fair trial. have decided that they don
like it. They don't say whether it Is be-
cause they don't want to be cured Of
because they are beyond help.
There is woman in New York VIII
claims that she has been the wife o
Adam ever since the days of the Gar
den of Eden. OF course, nothing but til
most violent form of insanity coul
cause any woman to own UP to GOO
| years.
, Mrs. Catherine Christine Mcdonald q
Brooklyn is one of the very few, If no
the only blind woman in this cOuntr
large mercantile business sthe Is
l dealer in pianos, organs and other mu
steal instruments, owns her stock an
+ ! il her own business manager. In ap
The herald., 1896-12-19
FIRST BLOOD FOR REED

1t is reported that Major Mckinley is
very much put out because special
committee of the present congress has
been detailed by Speaker Reed to have
a tariff bill all ready for debate and
vote when the next congress shall meet
in extra session, and he is quite right
in feeling provoked. Major Mckinley
realizes, and has all along, that he has
some very bitter enemies in his party,
and he is we'll aware that Speaker Reed
is one of them, but it is doubtful if it
ever occurred to him that a scheme
would be worked to handicap him right
at the start and take all the thunder out
of the opportunity which the inaugura-
ton will give him to do the great patri-
otic act.
Every sane man knows that Major
Mckinley would naturally make the
tariff question the burden of his inaugu-
raj address, and of his message to the
congress when it meets in special ses-
sion. In fact, if deprived of the right
| to not only urge a revision of the tariff
| but to outline the kind of a tariff sched-
| ule the country needs, he would have no
| fireworks at all to touch off. Neverthe-
| less, he is to be confronted by a bill all
cut and dried and known as the Ding
| ley bill" when he reaches Washington,
and if he discusses the tariff question
| It will have to be in the nature of an
unqualified approval of measure al
ready prepared by his enemies. Ger
tainly spirited man could not be sub
jected to greater humiliation.
Before his nomination and ali during
the campaign Major Mckinley was
called the apostle of sound economics
ard the father of the true tariff policy.
if schedules than any other man in his
party, and common politeness should
have suggested to even his worst enc
mics that opportunity should be given
him to spread his tariff views in his in
augural address. but he will find his
wings clipped and ali the vim and spread
eagle squeezed out of the oppor-
tunity that is supposed to be in an occa-
sion of that kind. 1t is unknd of Reet
to put the new president in such hole
but he has the chance and he is not the
kind of a man to let 1t slip. In the Ian.
guage of the prize ring, Reed can claim
first blood.
The herald., 1896-12-19
pearance Mrs Mcdonald is we'll pre-

pearance Mrs. Mcdonald is a we'll pre-
served woman Of SO.
A Biddeford, Me-, pastor makes his
parish three propositions: He Will take
what he can get in the contribution box
and run things as he pleases, or they
may pay him a fixed salary and run
things as they please, or, thirdly, he
will resign.
Grover Cleveland will. if he lives un-
til the 4th of March, have one distinction
that no other president has enjoyed He
Will be the only occupant of the White
House that has ever ridden to the cap
itol with two different successors.
The burial casket manufacturers
claim that their business has materially
suffered on account of the hard times,
but since election business has been
picking up. People don't die any oftener
in flush times. but they are buried in
more expensive caskets.
A banker at Adrian, Mich, who is
troubled with an irritable temper. keeps
a barn full of cats. and when he gets out
of sorts he goes out, grabs up cat aud
cuts it's head off with an AK. His wife
doesn't approve of the habit, but is
afraid to break him of it.
A Chicago barber with an audacity
and ingenuity worthy of better cause,
has been fleeing transient customers by
new system. Located directly oppo-
site a large railway station, the patron
age of tourists has furnished him his
opportunity. His practice has been to
shave one side of the fact or cut one side
of the hair or dye the latter some abom-
Unable color. and then demand an exor-
bitant fee for completing his work or un-
doing the mischief. The anxious trav
eler. fearful of losing his train, too often
yields to the demand rather than in
cur a more serious embarrassment Nat
urally Signor Flera tried his experiment
once too many times, and has lately paid
the penalty which genius frequently
must pay to an unappreciative world.
The herald., 1896-12-19
TEACHERS PENSIONS AND PAY.

1t is said the proposition will be
brought UP at the next session of the leg
islature to pension school teachers who
are over SO years of age and have taught
continuously for twenty-five years.
For various reasons it is not likely 20
become law. The better policy is TO
pay capable teachers salaries commen-
surate with their work, and sufficient
therefore to enable them to provide for
the rainy days in their own way
Pittsburg (Penn) Commercial Gazette.
The herald., 1896-12-19
AGAINST RAILWAY TRUSTS

In proceeding against the Transmits
souri, Freight association under the
antitrust law Attorney general Har-
man undertakes a mighty work for the
people; but there is no reason to be-
l;eye that he will fail. The law plainly
and distinctly prohibits the combining
of naturally competitive enterprises for
the purrbse of exacting unjust prices of
the people, for articles of consumption or
convenience, but hitherto the supposl-
tion has been that the trainers of the
law had in mind only industrial or man
ufacturing establishments, and that an
agreement between railways to main
tain rates at a fixed schedule could not
be held as a violation of the antitrust
law. The attorney general takes quite
a different view of the purpose of the
law. and holds that an agreement be-
competition is in spirit, at least, trust
The attorney general holds that the
were chartered by the states authorizing
their construction for the purpose of Sc
curing to the people needed transporta-
ton facilities, and at the same time Gre
ate competition between the carriers SO
that the cost of car service would not be
unjustly high. The railways west of
s-
advantages to them of competition and
the consequent reduction of rates to
where they might not be satisfactorily
remunerative, organized an association
and adopted schedule of traffic tar
IFS which placed rates at "all the traffic
would bear.y The. association then ap-
pointed an agent to enforce and carry
out the provisions of the agreement
thus, as the attorney-general holds
forming a trust.
The purpose of the association was
to make all the roads in interest one cor
poration in the matter of freight rates
and passenger fares. but retaining theil
separate franchise anu organization. II
was the business of the joint or assccia-
ton agent to apportbon offerings oi
freight so that each road would get it,
proper percentage of the whole. Tha
gave him the right to divert tonnagi
from one road to another and do what
ever else might be necessary to equaliz
the distribution. During the life of tn
association the individuality of tn
roads in interest is destroyed, of course
1or can shipper route his merchandis
via any particular line. To all intent
and purposes the several railways, mem
bers of the association, are one road un
der one management, and therefore ther
Is no competition whatever.
It is this last feature of the workin
Of the association that the attorney
\ general basis his charges of mantainin
trust upon. If he shall succeed i
bringing the supreme court to interpre
the antitrust law as he understands i,
and the Transmissouri Freight associa
tion Is declared an unlawful organiza
tion, California as we'll as the Who'll
country will have reason to rejoice. Nc
e1Qund Of the products Of this stat