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The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
TWO STATES COMPARED.

W. S. Melick, editor of the Lancaster
(Cal.) Gazette, has published in his paper
a long and exhaustive Study of Florida
based on thorough personal knowledge
OF his subject. Apart from his recitation
of the familiar fact that most of the orange
trees of that State were killed by frost
eleven years ago, and that this Leading in
dustry of the State suffered permanent
check, he furnishes some valuable data
upon which we may make comparison
between Florida and California.
He shows that during two months in
winter the climate of Florida is as pleas
ant as that of Southern California, and
that because. of this and of the easy access
ibility OF the State to the people of the
Northern States it has become and will
continue to be favorite winter resort for
persons of means. But he firmly declares
that as State for home makers and
bread-winners it cannot compare with
California. That assertion will 20 un-
questioned. The winter climate Is Flo
rida's great attraction. In California
climate is only one of the many attrac-
tions. Mr.. Melick ably contrasts the topo-
graphical differences between the two
States and points out briefly the superb
| ority of California on the score of the
| splendid mountains.
| He further speaks of the luxuriant semi
tropical vegetation of Florida. That in
deed is an exceedingly beautiful feature OF
the State, and as it has proved SO delusive
1t Is we'll for THE CALL to analyze it.
Nothing could be more inviting than
groves of palms ana cocoanut trees, the
| rich autumnal coloring of abundant foli-
age or the cool summer shade of level
forests. The broad plains of California,
verdureless and brown, cannot compare
in beauty with these arboreal glories oi
Florida. AS the winters temperature of
the TWO States is very much alike (Flo-
rida being somewhat colder, as is wit
messed by the freezing of its orange trees
| fifty years old and foot in diameter) we
must look for an explanation of this re-
markable difference in natural vegetation,
for within that question lies the whole
story of Californias superiority.
| 1t is largely matter of rainfall. Where
we have inches of rain in California blo-
| rida has feet. As the face OF Florida is
| low, level and sandy, most of the heavy
| precipitation is retained. It is this that
| supports the luxuriant vegetation. But
with an excess of vegetation and with i'll
drained land under hot summers and
| bland winters there must inevitably be a
great deal OF malaria, to say nothing of
annoying insect pests.
The most wonderful thing about Cali
| fornia is the fact that although it
has semi-tropical temperature it has
not semi-tropical rainfall. AS a con-
| sequence there is hardly any natural
tree-growth in the great valleys, and hence
no swamps, insects or malaria. 1t is a
curious fact that although it has extensive
marshes they are swept by tidewater, and
| hence cannot be breeders of disease Still
more wonderful than all this is the fact
| not only that by means of artificial irriga.
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PERSONAL.

E. E, Briggs, the banker OF Stockton, is in the
City.
Ex-Mayor B. q. Steinman of Sacramento is In
town.
Judge S. solon Hall OF Sacramento is at the
Grand.
D. L. Morrison of St. Louis is at the Cosmo-
politan.
Joseph D. Radford, wealthy resident OF
Montana, is in town.
B. R. KIttredge, a wealthy business man OF
New York, is at the Palace.
w. J. Dowley, the hotel man of Los Banos, is
a guest at the Cosmopolitan.
D. NJ. Griffith, commercial traveller from
Boston, is at the Cosmopolitan.
A. N Fitch, an attorney of Tacoma is among
the recent arrivals at the Palace.
E. w. Waldron, one of the owners OF the
Santa Cruz Sentinel, is at the Grand.
E. G. Keppler and J. c. Utter of San Diego
arrived here yesterday. They are at the Grand.
Robert P. Penneil, Superintendent of the
State Normal School at Chico, is at the Grand.
A. B. Jones, the general goods dealer and
banker of Fort Jones, Siskiyou County, is in
town.
party consisting of James Davidson and
wife, J. Ophshet and wife and Miss Fisher all
OF Michigan, are at the Occidental.
H. C. Geisler of Reading, Pa, one bf Pennsyl.
vania's weather. foundrymen, is guest at the
Cosmopolitan, accompanied by his wife and
family
G. w. Carson OF Eureka, Humboldt County,
who is extensively interested in the redwood
lumber industry, owning large acres of timber
land and mills, is in the city.
Mayor Elmore of Green Bay, Wis, the town
in the northern part of the Badger State with
about Is 600 Inhabitants, is at the Occidental.
He Is accompanied by his family.
Joseph II. Coates of Philadelphia, the million.
a1re who few years ago was a very extensive
manufacturer of thread and who yet is en-
gagged In it to considerable extent. as well as
in the expectation of cotton, has arrived here
He will probly stay In the State several weeks.
THE CALL is to be represented in New York
as we'll as its competitors, and Bob Davis, ac-
companied by F. A. Nankiyell, goes to the me-
tropolis in its cause. He is to interview the
National celebrities, while F. A. n. will make
pictures OF them, and together they should get
up some attractive matter. Davis best work
has been done under the head of "Corridor
Stories" for The CALL. These yarns have be-
come quite feature of the mother of the
dailies and have been copied all over the East.
The supply is by no means exhausted, and It
may be said that Bob is an interviewer of such
resource and imagination that neither fact
nor fiction holds terror for his pen.-The Wit.
ness in yesterdays Wave.
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Venezuelan dispute: 'If England is wrong,
fighting won't make it any better; IL England
is right, arbitration will not make it any
worse
Portugal will celebrate next year the four
hundredth anniversary of Vasco da Gama's
setting out on his voyage round the Cape of
Good Hope to India.
There has been only one royal clockmaker,
Louis XVI. The Rothschild family have in
their possession clock made by him, for
which $165,000 was paid.
statistician computes that Queen Victoria
is now sovereign over one continent, 100
peninsulas, 500 promontories, 1000 lakes.
1000 rivers and 10000 islands.
AT forthcoming wedding in Portland, Me-.
the groom will promise to love, honor and
obey his wife, who is q woman suffragist and
made her affianced agree to this.
Speaker Reed of the House; Senator Frye,
chairman pro tenn. of the Senate, and Chief
Justice Fuller are all graduates of Bowdoin
Thus Bowdoin holds the gavel over three
bodies at the National capital.
1t was about 1776. in Massachusetts,. that the
first woman, Mrs. Abigail Adams, asked for the
right OF suffrage. Miss Mabel E. Adams of
Quincy in that State, who has Just been elected
TO the school board, and who is one of the
leading orators in the political equality cause.
is said to be one of her descendants.
The Duchess of Northumberland Is the nos
SCISSOR OF a shawl which was presented by King
Charles y of France, and which cost 500 900
francs. 1t is manufactured from the fur of a
species OF Persian cat The hair of this cat is
so extremely fine and elastic that single hair
is scarcely perce ptible to the naked eye.
London society loses well-known and popu-
lar figure by the death of Sir Henry Calcraft,
who was the leading spirit of the Board of
Trade. He began life in the department as
boy, and acquired a mastery of the intricacies
and technicalities- OF its work which made his
service as permanent secretary of Aeat value
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Among the picturesque figures at the Grand
Hotel is Sheriff S. D. Ballou of San Luis obispo
county. Mr., Ballou came here in the early
TALL OF 1868 from New York just after the close
OF the war. in which he had served.
IL was the time of the bonanza excitement
on the Comstock, and Mr.. Ballou concluded to
go up to Virginia City. He went and remained
year, mining on the Comstock lode He
made some money, but no great stake. Tiring
at length OF delving in the mines, he returned
to California and went to San Luis Obispo
County.
He engaged in farming and stockraising
there, and was quite contented till the boom
at Tombstone, Tucson and various other places
IN Arizona and Mexico broke out This was in
1879. He speedily got prospecting outft and
went south. He visited most of the big min
ing districts and made several locations
In 1881 he returned to San Luis Obispo
County and engaged in farming and the live
stock business.
Mr. Ballou had shown pluck during some
trying experiences in his varied career. He
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
BILL NYE.

That humor-fowing from native fount,
A cease!ess spring so long as beat the brain
In that bald skull-to him who slipped thereof
Was tonic to his being, fnasmuch
AS it provoked a healthful mirth that drove
Away the darksome clouds Of carking care.
And they who slipped that rare intoxicant-
The wine of wit and humor-they shall mourn
One mirthful revel's close Aye, nevermore
Shall flow that spirit-wine. The cask is dry.
The skull Of large dimensions Is no more;
The royal house OF wit that bore no Ill
Is vacant ana we mourn-the king is dead.
The king is dead and hath not left an heir
To WELD the scepter Of his modest sway.
CHARLES d. SOUTH.
San Francisco. Feb. %, 1896.
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tion any vegetable product which -four
ishes in Florida will grow equally well in
California but that an inexhaustible sup
ply OF water for that purpose is stored by
nature in lofty mountains standing I'M
mediately contiguous to every arabic Sec
ton OF the State. Thus we can enjoy all
the benefits of water without any of its
disadvantages, and can produce semi
tropical verdure where it is wanted and of
the exact kind desired.
The only draw back that California has
1or winter dwellers is its distance from the
crowded centers of the country's popula-
ton, but it is an instructive fact that
many OF those who come for health or
comfort remain to make their homes.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
AN IMPoUNDING SCHEME.

California's Representatives at Wash
ington. official and unofficial, are reported
as having revived the old IDEA of leading
the debris-carrying water from the hy-
drauiic mines into the American River
basin and there impounding it in great
shallow reservoir, where it may deposit its
detritus, and thus leave the river free.
TREY L. Ford, attorney for the California
Miners Association, thinks the idea an
excellent one, but believes that the whole
matter of impounding debris should be
left to the Government engineers. For the
purpose of securing a sufficiently large
body of land it is proposed to condemn it.
Some Of the leading members of the Anti
Debris Association are said to be in favor
of the scheme.
The idea has advantages and disad-
vantages, though the former greatly out
weigh the latter. The water used for
hydraulic mining and carried to the set
Ting basin could be diverted temporarily
from the river, into which it would go in
the absence of any hydraulic mining, but,
after settling. could be returned to the
stream. Tint temporary diversion is
about the only drawback. The advantages
would be manifold. AS the water i'm
pounded in the basin would be undis-
turbed, except at the point where it re-
ceives its supply, the debris, even the
lightest, would settle quickly, and the
water would then be available for irriga-
ton. The process of settlement would
constantly raise the floor of the basin and
require corresponding increase in the
height of the dam, but this would serve to
widen the area over which the clarified
water might be spread for irrigation pur-
poses. Other uses, including the genera
ton OF electrical power, would offer them
selves, and by all these means revenue
could be derived which would more than
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

cepted and the model sent to. Rome to be cut
In Italian marble, represents the Archangel In
q sitting posture, with face upturned awaiting
the Divine behest to summon the dead from
their last sleep. The expression OF the lace is
one of intense expectancy, befitting the event
In which the celestial being is to become par
ueipant. The conception is new and has been
worked out in detail with great care.
Mr.. Conrad is the sculptor who designed the
sarcophagus that has recently been completed
in memory of Samuel ]. Tilden. HIS work is
widely known throughout the country. Mr..
Conrad is native of Germany, but served in a
New York regiment during the Civil War. At
the conclusion of hostilities he complet tied his
education as sculptor abroad.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
HUMOR OF THE HOUR.

Willie-I know sister would be glad to go
skating with you.
Ringway-What makes you think so?
''she says she has been dying all winter to
have you break the ce."-Life
''That man." said the cannibal warrior. "b ad
the most argumentative nature ever encoun-
tered"
"Do you mean the one that you just ate?o
Eyes. We had dispute on certain points of
ethics, and the result was that had him far
dinner"
"well, that gave you the best of the cont,o-
versy."
ayes. But he never gives in. He doesn't
agree with me yet."-Washington Star.
"Papa," said Bobbie, pointing to the iron dog
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that stood on the lawn, "does dogs like that
ever bite?'
"No," said the father "but that one barked
once"
"Really?" cried Bobbie.
'Yes," said his father, az stumbled over him
one night and he barked my shins."-Harper's
Bazaar.
Reuben Jay = That there's funny sign,
Mandy: "Boots blacked inside
Mandy-What do you see about 1t that's
funny?
Reuben Jay-Ef they black 'em inside,
wouldn't you think the blackin' would rub off
on their socks?-Philadelphi Item.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

When Jones was at the theater the other
evening he sat down by mistake on his neigh
boris hat and reduced 1t 70 hopeless mass of
silk and pasteboard. The owner was madder
than half a dozen March hares.
"Well" calmly observed the culprit, "I was
awkward, and no mistake! But" he added,
with. self-complacent pity, "when think that
it might have been mine 1t makes me fairly
shudder."-Pick-Me-Up.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
THE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL.

The conventional idea Of the Archangel Ga
brel on the morning of the Resurrection has
been abandoned by the Hartford sculptor, Carl
Conrad, in designing the figure for the monu-
ment that is to be erected at Troy, n. Y, in
memory of George II. Thacher of that city.
The design of Mr.. Conrad which has been ac-
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

cred by fancy design, which tapered al the
waist. and then spread gradually to the foot of
the skirt where 1t was eight inches wide. This
braid being sewed on endwise so the gilt ed OF
was uppermost. The collar was braided 10
match. w
materials as satin ana silk brocades made nn
IN this shape. The collar may be of black
ehinon d1,3 with design in. white applique lace.
=, = auil green warp-printed silk, with lines OF
DlacK ana hounoes in matched colors, had
sueh sue collar, with folded collar of the silk
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
Don't Forget to Saw Wood.

The way the voters of the country have been
rushing from one extreme to the other during
the last four or five years makes it prudent for
every man in politics to keep right on saving
WOOD. great big majority one year doesn't
mean any sure thing the next year.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

WHAT Hoods Sarsaparilla has done for others It
can and will do for you fair trial of Hoods sar
sapariIla will convince you Of the entire truth Of
the above statement. Take only Hoods.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

Huntington, Fitzsimmons and Kaiser
William will have to fight it out to decide
which owns the earth.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

There is a growing suspicion that the
rain is waiting for the festivals to begin
before it drops in.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

In the glory OF the celebrations let u
hope that no one overlooked the memorl
of George Washington.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

Last week brought US many good things,
but none better than the decision of Judge
Wallace sustaining the poolroom ordi-
nance. The City is becoming purified.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

Music hath charms to soothe the savage
breast, but the gentle sex RACES over il
when PadeTewski is around.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

Between the Board of Health and Board
OF Education there is prospect of wal
that will be neither healthy for the one
nor instructive for the other
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

Politics are lively and war is threaten
Ing, but somehow science manages to fur
nish all the sensational news.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

Huntington forgot much during the
week, but he will remember the rest to- day.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

The only things that are going alon
steadily in Congress are talk, time and sal
aries.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

1t is now charged that the Buckleyites
intend not only to ruin the City but to
spoil the Iroquois banquet, and thus does
inlquity increase at a fearful rate.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

Washington's farewell address warning
the people against party spirit comes ap-
propriately at the beginning of Lent, and
OF course society will give up parties.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

Duzbey-I hear that Razley is a candidate
fox $4,000 position in the City Hall.
Doobey-Is he able to fill it?
Duzbey-No, but he's able to get it.-Roxbury
Gazette.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

The celebrations of yesterday were good
but we should make them more genera
next time.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

Some scientist had better turn Roent
gems ray on itself and find out all there
in il at once.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
A PRINCESS SHAPE FOR GOWN OR
WRAPPER.

The Princess dress Is always popular, and
with the fiaring skirt, the full sleeves and the
large collars OF the present mode, have an
added charm.
Fabrics of wool are used with finish of
machine stitching. Others are elaborately
braided. One of brown cloth had darts COW
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

Ii Nansen expects to be as big man a
Roentgen when he gets back he must no
only lind the north pole, but th
"Symmes hole'' as well.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

1t is easier for the average American to
seize two opportunities in spite of fate
than to take one holiday even when it is
offered to him.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

Civilization in this country can do al
most everything except clean street.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

When Paderewski was in the East we
made fun of the enthusiasm over his play
ing, but now that he is with us we have
learned something.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

Now as for those kinetoscope fellows who
went to Ell Paso to get the Fitzsim mons
and Maher fght-what do they think7
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

It would be good idea for Mrs. Grund
to abstain from the Brown trial durin
Lent.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

So long as our thoroughfares remain in
the present condition no one in San Fran
cisco can be accused of trampling on i'm
provements.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

The bicycle clubs are making a good
fight for better streets, but who is going
to make the fight to have them kept clean ?
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

We are going to have strictly proteo.
tive tariff campaign this year and free
trade won't be in it at any time from start
to finish.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

The British have at last made up their
minds that they would rather take the
Monroe doctrine as a pill than to get it in
the form of powder.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

1t seems to have been with the Roentgen
ray as with so many other great discover
les. Lots of people saw it before the man
who got the credit of it, but they didn't
know it.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

The Merchants Association certainly
cannot be expected to pay the cost of
street sprinkling forever. They have
shown how it should be done, and now
the City should do it.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

Through the general boasting over our
delightful weather there can be heard the
low murmur of the farmers praying for
rain
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

The French Senate has decided to leave
the dispute with the Chamber of Deputies
to the arbitration of the people, and our
Senate might proftably follow the ex-
amDIe
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.

Rev. J. A. Bull of Beloit, Kans., preached
800 sermons last year, and local paper says
they were oil good ones, too.
Lord Rosebery is reported to have said that
it took him fifteen hours day to get through
his work as Foreign Secretary.
John Burns the English labor leader and So
cialist, recently coined this epigram anent the
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

ELIXIR PApUAl At 60 years you feel like 20,
Permanent, infallible. DispeIsary, 11S Grant
avenue.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

SPECIAL Information daily to manufacturers
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau tAllen's), $40 Montgomery
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

The street-sprinkling problem is begin
ming to look dusty.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

IF your complaint is want of appetite try half q
wine glass Of DR.. Siegerts Angostura Bitters be-
fore meals
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

IF afflicted with eyes DR.. Isaac Thomp /.
| sons Eye Water. druggists sell It at IS cents.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

From the way the street railways are
working 1t would seem that when Mana
ger Vining is not enforcing some old way
OF annoying the people he is planning
some new way to do it.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

MoIAsszs crisp corn candy. Townsend. Z.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

The feature OF the season most surpris-
ing to the reformers of last season is the
fact that reform movements are progress
ing steadily without having any mass
meetings to whoop them up.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

If Ballington Booth, commander Of the
Salvation Army IN America, declares his
independence of British control he will
have not only good models to follow but
plenty of good men to follow him.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

FAMOUS broken candies, 1oc lb. Townsend.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

Venezuelan dispute: ''If England is wrong,
fighting won't make it any better; If England
is right, arbitration will not make it any
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

In asserting that Mr.. Huntington has
been accused of every thing under the sun
the railroad organs are in error. He has
been charged only with robbing Peter and
was never accused of paying Paul.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

E. H. BLACK, painter, 12o Eddy street
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statistician computes that Queen Victoria
is now sovereign over one continent, 100
peninsulas, 500 promontories, 1000 lakes.
1000 rivers and 10000 islands.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

There has been only one royal clockmaker,
Louis XVI. The Rothschild family have in
their possession a clock made by him, for
which $165, 900 was paid.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

Portugal will celebrate next year the four
hundredth anniversary of Vasco da Gama's
setting out on his voyage round the Cape of
Good Hope to India.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-23

AT a forthcoming wedding in Portland, Me-.
the groom will promise to love, honor and
obey his wife, who is woman suffragist and
made her affianced agree to this.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-23

The G. 81 l.. railroad connects at Hickory
and Newton with Western North Carolida
railroad; Lincolnton with Carolina Central
abroad; Gastonia with Southern railroad;
Yorkville with Q d G railroad; Chester
with Suutk1rn, c G & A, g. N and @
& o railroads. L. T. NICHOLS, Septic
Fl. r. BEARD, Chester, S.
g. II. and p. Ag't,
Yorkville. S. G