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The San Francisco call., 1896-03-09
PERSONAL.

Antoine Watten of Pasadena is at the Cosmo.
politan.
H. A. Jastro Of Bakersfield Is here on legal
business
0. L. Henderson, q prominent business man
OF Vallejo is at the Baldwin.
William S. Jack, an extensive property-owner
OF Peoria, ILL.,, is at the Russ.
Supervisor w.'P. McFaull Of Ukiah, Mendo.
cino County, is at the Grand.
Frank H. Webster, wine and raisin grower Of
Minturn, is stopping at the Grand.
Henry Housely, wealthy mining man Of
Denver, registered at the Cosmopolitan.
E. NJ, Hadley, the well-known railroad ma n
of Ogden, is stopping at the Cosmopolitan.
D. McC. French, chief engineer of the revenue
cutter Rush, is registered at the Cosmopolitan.
HJohn w. Lehman, the we'll known artist CT
Dubuque. Iowa. is stopping at the Cosmopoli
tan.
w. J. Doherty, one of Bake rsheld's landed
proprietors, is stopping at the Baldwin for a
few days.
Alfred Williams, . merchant of Seattl Q, is
here with his family on vacation. They are
at the California.
Allen Towle of Towle's station, Cal, after
whom the station was named, is here on busi-
ness. He is stopping at the Grand.
]. c. Savery, merchant of Des Moines, Iowa,
is visiting San Francisco, partly on business
and partly on pleasure. He is at the Occi-
dental.
Maurice Parker of Alaska, who has just re-
turned from trip to Ireland, where he has
been reviewing tha scenes of his youth, is q
guest at the Cosmopolitan en- route to Alaska.
DR.. Fl. II. Thrall, the well-known dentist, is
seriously i'll at his residence, 619 Pine street.
Last Thursday evening he slipped and fell in
front OF his home, and the fall resulted in con-
cuss1on OF the brain, which brought on partial
paralysis OF the right side of his body. DR..
George 1errill is in attendance upon him five
times day, but has no hopes of his ultimate
recovery. DR.. Thrall is an old resident Of this
City, one of its pioneers, and has very large
circle Of acquaintances. He IS a prominent
Knight Templar and ex-lieutenant-colonel OF
the National Guard.
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AN INSPIRING EXAMPLE.

After making himself famous in an
Eastern State as the originator Of the Bur
bank potato, and after realizing that the
harsh climate of the East placed a limit on
his ambition to produce improved flowers
and food plants by hybridization, Luther
Burbank came to California in order to
find climate under which he could work
unhampered by cold, and has become the
most successful aud famous hybrldizer in
the world. Simply because California is
not sufficiently old to realize the value of
his work Mr.. Burbank lives with US COM
paratively unknown and obscure, but in
the great centers of Europe and the East
ern States he is called the wizard of hor-
ticulture, and is regarded as the greatest
genius in his speciality that the world has
known. His Insignificant little farms at
Santa Rosa-trifiing patches of ground
which would invite the scorn OF the aver
age horticulturist-are the central point of
every enlightened corner of the earth
The wonderful story of his achievements
was told in part in THE SUNDAY CALL, but
nothing short of several volumes would be
able to set forth completely the narrative
of his struggles and achievements.
1t is suggestive fact that when this ex-
traordinary man produces by patient hy-
bridization a distinctive flower, fruit or
berry, and by long tests has made it per-
manent variety having some salient fea-
ture of superiority over any other of its
kind hitherto known, he never thinks OF
offering It to a California propagation. The
sfamp of HE approval JDop ~ ;s erH;o;aot
for shrewd and wealthy propagators in the
East and Europe, and his price for a
single new plant, whether it be hun
dreds or thousands of dollars, is
paid without question. In the course Of
years these plants, by increase from sue
cessive propagations, fall in price to fig
ure which California grower is willing
to pay, and thus finally become estab-
lished in our gardens or orchards. In the
meantime California has received vague
credit for their origin. but that does not
occur in shape to make known suffi-
ciently well those valuable climatic pc
culiarities which made the Burbank
achievement possible; and California is
the last section in the world to derive di-
rect benefit from the immeasurably valua-
bic work of one of its citizens.
This single fact indicates the almost un.
limited field for improvement in our hor-
tlculture. This is not meant to detract
from the brilliant progress which our peo-
pie have already made and are constantly
making, but merely to show, first, that
California at large is not working to Sc
cure that credit for its climate to which
MI. Burpank's achievements entitle it,
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RAILROADS HAMPERED.

An interesting condition, which explains
in part the serious financial difficulties
which have overtaken so many railroads
in the Eastern States, has just been
brought to light. 1t should be said at the
start that railroad business under ordi-
nary competition is a sure index OF the in
dustrial condition OF the people, and that
as rule combinations are formed only
when business falls to low ebb. These
combinations, effected to maintain a
fictitious schedule of charges, attempt to
accomplish by sheer force, and in oppo-
sition to the friendly and cooperative
relation which should exist between pro-
duction and transportation, result which
shah secure railroad prosperity without
reference to the prosperity of the country.
The most injurious results must neces-
sarily follow, not the least of which is the
dangerous political power which railroad
combinations might be able to WELD
Elisha K. Kane, president Of an Eastern
railroad, has come forward With an ex-
PLANTATION of the hard times which have
fallen upon the roads and forced some into
bankruptcy and many into combinations.
1t is simply that the low prices inevitably
accompanying low import tariff prevent
shippers from utilizing all their available
resources for producing articles for trans
port. Besides this, many articles which
are produced must be treated as waste
products, as they cannot be shipped to
market except at a loss. at the same
time it is clear that any extension of the
producing area is impossible. and this
nAt~ IAv- Al e l.
Again, high tariff stimulates industries
and at the same time induces an immigra-
ton OF foreign laborers to secure the bet
ter wages prevailing under such tariff,
and that means an increase of travel aside
from that which our own people would
furnish if prosperous. All industries
along line of road make traffic both ways,
and if they are crippled the traffic is in
jured. AS a rule an increase in the amount
OF travel on given train is clear profit
and a decrease is direct loss. While a
high tariff would mean higher transporta-
tion charges as we'll as higher prices for
else, nevertheless the margin
between railroad receipts and expendi-
lures must be at least proportionately
large. Out of this margin the railroads
pay their fixed charges. When the mar
gin becomes insufficient for that purpose
equipment and construction cannot be in
creased, business is curtailed and opera
tives are discharged.
These evident facts have no great local
interest in California. in view of the fact
that its transportation is monopoly, but
they constitute strong argument for FORE
closure of the railroad debt to the Govern
ment as well as for protective tariff.
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PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.

PM, the champion fencer Of France, is a
great parsonage at present. He is a short
thick-set man, with arms extremely long for
his size and chest deep enough for man six
feet tall.
Lord Wolseley, addressing the brigade al
guards strongly recommended every soldier to
learn how to box. There is nothing, he said.
that required more pluck and nothing SO
likely to bring out the fine qualities Of an
athlete.
Five Congressmen affect the boutnnoiere.
Johnson of California wears pink carnation
Pickler OF Dakota a small rose: Quieg OF New
York violet; Richardson of Tennessee some
times a rosebud. Nearly all the Congressmen
wear some sort OF a military button or decora-
ton.
Floquet was very much OF lady's mana
delightful firt as he was sometimes called
He was proficient in complimentary small
talk and deft latterer. His sense or smell
was 80 delicate that if blindfolded he couId
identity any lady who came to his wife's recep.
tions by the perfume she used
For the nineteenth year In succession a bank
OF England note for $500 has been placed in
the ofertory box at St Mary's< Church. Kill
burn. England, By a benevolent person un.
known. The note has on each. occasion been
accompanied by small slip Of paper, signed
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SAN DIEGO'S CARNIVAL.

San Diego has at last given its promised
naval parade, and the scene-a nocturnal
one, in which lsntern effects were pictur-
esquely employed-is described as being
surprisingly handsome and impre ssive.
The exhibition is worthy OF special consid-
Grafton, in view of the fact that it was a
novel and spectacular departure from the
usual forms.o of fetes and carniyals given by
the cities of California.
More important than that, however, is
the attention which this display has drawn
to the harbor of San Diego. This is one Of
the very few landlocked harbors indenting
the formidable western coast of the United
States. The dangerous character of the
rocky shore in the absence of bays is
heightened by the prevailing winds from
the sea, and these conditions combine to
secure ample protection against the in
vasion of points where bays do not exist.
The points where.i it is possible for hostile
fleet to make attacks are providentially
few. and this means comparatively small
outlay necessary to establish armed de-
lenses. The Bay of San Diego is one OF
the most important of these.
1t is the Bay of San Francisco in minia-
ture. Each is body of water lying
parallel with the coast line, each is sep
arated from the ocean by a narrow tongue
of land and each is perfectly landlocked
and safe. Every advantage that the Bay
OF San Francisco enjoys appertalns to the
Bay of San Diego on a smaller scale, with
the exception of navigabie rivers emptying
into it. For all its smaller size, however,
the Bay of San Diego has ample accom-
mediation for all the shipping that COM
pact settlement of the region would re-
quire.
The value of these bays will become
more and more apparent as the years pass.
The time must inevitably come when the
Pacific Ocean will oe intelligently utilized
iDforwarding the commercial and indus
trial prosperity Of all that great region
lying west of the Rocky Mountains, and
then the few secure harbors through which
the ocean is accessible will be centers of
activity. Their adequate protection and
Improvement should receive the most in
teiligent and patriotic attention. 1t is
discouraging to contemplate the utterly
unprotected condition of San Diego Bay
and appalling to imagine the harm which
its seizure by en- enemy would infict.
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SHOOTING STARS.

Across the strings OF memory
zephyr breathes from out the past,
When youth believed the shooting stars
That might athwart the heavens cast.
They told him that the soufelt wish
Asked, while still glowed the flashing brand
Were sure to fall-a wondrous gift
Within faiths supplicaring hand.
How many dreams of love and wealth.
How many hopes of name and fame
With boyish trust-sO soon outgrown-
Were loaded on each fitting fame.
Say twas the credence OF the fool,
A farce wher folly played chief part
It had what too much after lacks.
The earnest service OF the heart.
And 40 Of all those radiant ships
That one time sped DER seas Of air
And piled up high with golden dreams.
Struck Ages rock and foundered there.
Hung in the sanctum of the soul,
Where death can only force the bar,
Alone remains that Joy we knew
And lived when dreaming OF the star.
Philadelphia Times.
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GALL THE COMMITTEE.

That the Republican State Central Com
mittee should be reassembled without loss
of time has become settled conviction.
Its work has not been finished. The pre-
liminary steps of the coming campaign
must be taken with a certainty that shall
breed confidence.
From all over the State come express
sions calling for the reconvenlng OF the
committee and the completion of its i'm
perfected work.
The vacancy caused by the death of Mr..
Boruck is in itself reason sufficient for
the calling of the committee together and
the election of member to the vacant
chair.
There are, however, many reasons not
necessary to be enumerated why the COM
mittee should be convened and the lines
for the preliminary steps in the campaign
Strengthened and doubt dispelled.
To take the first step properly only
means to make great er the victory that is
already certain. Call the committee.
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Sheriff j. r. Brown, the white-bearded ofi-
cial of Humboldt County, is at the Russ. He
is one of the earliest pioneers Of the coast, and
has in his time arrested some OF the most no.
torious stage-robbers and cattle-thieves that
have infested the mountain regions OF Cali
fornia.
Mr.. Brown has been Sheriff great many
years From 1861 to 1874 he served as Sheriff
in klamath County, and when that county
disorganIzed he became Sheriff OF humboldt.
He has held the latter position eighteen years,
and has been Sheriff for the entire time OF
81 years. The veteran Sheriff comes to San
Francisco every once in awhile. He is known
to many thousands of people.
The Sheriff is q firm believer In the future OF
Humboldt. Yesterday he told how things
were moving on there.
LAUNDERING is our most important indus
try he said, sand next to that ia dairying we
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and, second, that the horticultural condi-
tion of the State is losing splendid op-
portunity for improvement by failing to
take prompt advantage of Mr.. Burbank 8
discoveries. The value of this may be ap-
preciated when it is reflected that a new
variety will yield far more generous re-
turns unuer cultivation in California than
in any other part of the world.
But the greatest value of Mr.. Burbank S
work is its inspiring example to others
who may have the intelligence and perse-
verance to take up the work and emulate
his victories. There is no danger Of ruin
Gus competition" in this exquisite art for
California is the one place in the world
where it may be pursued under perfectly
favorable conditions, and the demand for
improved varieties must always be in
satiable
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-09

and doorway and loopholes cut in them. They
were then carried to the tops of knolls and set
up on end and braced in place with railroad
iron. Three floors were put in each, and a lad
der was hung against the inside of the shell as
means of communication from top to bottom.
These novel forts are so secure when the steel
door is once closed upon the garrison that some
OF the planters have lost confidence in them
for outposts. They believe that the men of their
garrisons feel such confidence tnat they go to
sleep as soon as they get inside.
Notwithstanding all these preparations the
insurgents keep the guards of the plantations
busy, and some one gets killed on one side or
the other every few days, and but one factory
in the region is grinding cane.
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COAST EX0HA NGES.

The Los Angeles Herald publishes some
interesting facts concerning the develop
ment of the petroleum industry in that
section. Quoting the Oil City (Pa.) Der
rick it shows that the product of the East
ern oil fields is $1,000 barrels day, and
that the yield of the Southeastern oil dis
trict is IS, 600 barrels a month. This last
named amount was exactly the product of
the Los Angeles district in February.
Eastern prices, however, are somewhat
better than ours. The local consumption
of oil in Southern California is growing
rapidly. During the month Il, 0UO barrels
were shipped away and 800 barrels were
hauled away in wagons for local consump-
ton. The Hotel Green at Pasadena uses
400 barrels month.
The Los Angeles Record says: ssThe
Lacy oil refinery at Chino will be open for
business on the 10th inst. This will give
the oil industry great impetus, as it will
afford q market for all that can be pro-
duced in the south here for some time to
come. Mr.. Lacy has some req oil that is
unquestionably better than any similar
product made in this country. This may
explain why the Standard Oil Company is
buying so he aviiy for fuel purposes In
about two week the product of the Puente
company's refinery will pe upon the mar
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-09
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.

Maud-Are you bachelor, Mr.. Grumpy
Old Grumpy (decidedly)-Yes, I am, and al
ways have been.-Princeton Tiger.
He-I love you more than myself. darling.
She-Thats not saying much. You are al
giving yourself away.-Pick-Me-Up.
Mrs. Brown-How would you define "tact"
Mrs. Jones-I should say tact is the ability to
make your husband believe that he IS having
his own way.-Puck.
"I took out $40, 900 insurance on my life to-
day." SAID the meek man.
~ suppose you will live for sixty or seventy
years now" said his wife in an agkrieved Tone
indianapolis Journal.
Uncle Josh-There's lots OF money dropped In
Wall street, amt there?
Nephew-Lots of it.
Uncle Josh-And it's all dropped BY folks
that's tryin' to pick it up.-Puck.
"Talk OF man." roared the female emanci.
pator. "What has man ever done for womeu?"
Furnished q model for her to initiate" said
q voice in the rear of the hall, and then an
awful quiet reigned.-Adams Freeman.
Shelf you never meet me, would You
have loved some other girl as much a. you do
me7
He-My darltng,'n had never met you,
believe I would have committed suicide
Truth.
The Pastor 10 dyspeptic, taking dinner with
the family Thank you, Mrs. Brown. I'd like to
have another piece of pie, butI will have to
say no.
Willie Brown un great surprise)- )-Goodness
mel DID your mother tell you not to take Z
second piece, too?-Boston journal.
San Antonio bridal couple were travelling
in Mexico. She was very romantic and being
at the hotel in Monterey, she said:
How lovely and romantic it is here. Do you
hear the sound of the castanets?"
'That's not castanets. A man In the next
room has chills and fever, and you hear his
teeth chattering."-TexasS Siftings
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A CUBAN FORT.

The most invulnerable and curious of all the
forts erected in Cuba are made Of old steam
boilers. At every factory of any age there were
a number of worn-out boilers which had been
thrown aside. Each was about thirty feet long
and six feet in diameter, and made OF steel FIVE
eighths to three-quarters of an inch thick
These were taken in hand at the machine
shops, the braces and heads were knocked out
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"X. ;" requesting that the money should be
distributed among the various charitable or
panizations connected with the church.
Professor Petrie, the Egyptologist, has en-.
eaeed the services OF Miss Annie Pirte to copy
the frescoes in certain tombs he hopes to dis
cover near Thebes. Miss Pirie is half-sister
of Archibald Forbes, the well-known war cor
respondent.
Lady Aberdeen enjoys intensely listening to
the. Parliamentary debates in Ottawa. She
sits beside the Speaker, dressed in purple vel
vet, following the proceedings closeiY' Out,
l;ta a trne f1iplomat never disclosing by word
or look on which side her own sympathies may
be enlisted.
Mrs. Cleveland lives much quieter liie at
tho White House than she did during her hus-
bands first term of office. Her most intimate
friends have been Miss Letter (now Mrs. George
Curzon), Mrs Harriet Lane Johnson ana MISS
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than two years rent to do the work in q
thorough manner; but suppose it should
take four years. rent, would it not be a
paying business? It is great pity that
the scheme could not be so enlarged as to
take in the entire district above Butte
Slough on the east and knights Landing
on the west ~
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-09

The dispute between France and Brazil
on the dividing line between the latter
country and French Guiana has curious
origin. The line was fixed by the treaty OF
Utrecht in 17f5, and was declared to follow
the .."river of Yincinte Pizon." No such
river is now known to map-makers, and
there is no evidence what stream was
meant when the treaty was made. Hence
the diplomats have hard job in settling
the question.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-09

From the way the Eastern press writes
of the proposed visit of Ii Hung Chang, it
is probable that when the famous heather
gets through with the reception await ing
him in that section he will scorn a single
peacock feather and demand the whole
tail
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We shall soon know whether Olney is
capable Of really vigorous foreign policy
or only of diplomatic hyperbole.
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under waist Of silk, which form q blouse in
ront. The sleeves are laid in folds at the top.
Inc exquisite new velvets are used for such
waists, with fancy silks of the same tone
multi-colored velvet which is toned down
by royal blue pile. has silk with background
figures. --
A clotn gown Of green has blue and green
the throatlet 'oASs 40
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The coming Republican victory casts q
radiance before that brightens every pros
pect of trade and industry.
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California Will Soon Be Free.

Santa Cruz Penny Press.
Kentucky is wearing Southern Pacific col.
lar, but 1t does not fit. California has been for
years wearing the entire Huntington harness.
and pulling some big loads. But just now Cali.
fornia is making an endeavor 10 kick out of the
traces, and by the powers Of Congress hope
she viii succeed.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-09

There is now said to be "moonshine
trust" and even illicit whisky has lost its
independent spirit.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-09

Against oriental competition we need the
of protection.
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will never end until it drags the Cleveland
administration clear through to perditlon.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-09

1t is time for Senator Cullom's friends to
remember that, even if he does bear a close
resemblance to Lincoln, there is no in
stance on record of man getting into the
Presidency who travels on his face.
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Mr. Lard-Mr. Fresh, your latethi morning
Mr. fresh-Yes. sir; we've got new baby at
our house.
MI. Lard-Um-er-well, don't let It occur
agsin.-New York Herald.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-09

Now that Paderewski has gone lots o.
people will admit that his music is ar
acquired taste.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-09

There is growing belief thati in England
itself the next political campaign will be
very largely contest for protection and
bimetallism.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-09

If the report is true that the Rothschilds
paid S165,000 for q clock made by Louis
XVI the royalty on such things must be
unusually large.
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As majority of the Senators are in
favor OF silver coinage, Boston has raised
the question whether it would not be Just
as well to abolish the Senate, but some
day the Senators will vote according to
Massachusetts ideas and then Boston will
put the question by.
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1t is getting to be so that an agitation in
any part of the world produces a crisis in
Europe.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-09

The New York Chamber of Commerce
declares the silver issue is dead, but the
Manufacturers Club of Philadelphia
knows better and has joined the silver pro-
cessiOn
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Judging from recent occurrences in
Abyssinia, Cuba, Transvaal and Formosa
we have reached an age of the world when
liberty wins victory at every lick.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-09
LADY'S COAT BASQUE.

The Charming waist shown here is one OF the
new coat waists. 1t is made with fitted back,
the front being cut of at the top to reveal the
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The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

In the vocabulary of Abyssinia there i:
no such phrase as drawn battle.