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SAN RAFAEL PROTESTING.

A correspondent, writing in Sundays
CALL, makes an earnest plea for reduc-
tion of railroad charges between San Ra-
faeI and San Francisco, pointing out the
fact that the present rates are 300 per cent
higher than those between San francisco
and the cities of Alameda County. 1t
seems patent to all except railroad man.
ayers that, taking into account the superb
natural attractions of San Rafael ana its
environment and the radical difference be-
tween its climate and that of San Fran
cisco, its settlement would be rapidly in
creased by lowering the rates and that the
volume of business would quickly more
than compensate for the reduction in
rates. A curious point made by THE
CALLS correspondent is that the wealthy
residents of that section do not favor low
rates, preferring the exclusiveness which
high rates insure. But there is plenty of
room for all in this beautiful spot nesting
at the base of Tamalpais.
The case seems to be one eminently fit
for the consideration of the Railroad Com
mission-unless, indeed, its usefulness
might happen to be seriously crippled by
the determination of the pending suit to
restrain it from regulating the rates of the
Southern Pacific Company. 1t at least
seems due from the railroad companies
operated between San Rafael and San
Francisco to make full statement of their
reasons for maintaining the present rates
and against the possibility of reducing
them. 1t is exceedingly unfortunate that
any conflict should have arisen between
those companies and the people whom
they serve. There is never any good
reason for such antagonisms if the people
are just and the companies fair, broad
minded and enterprising. Such antagon-
isms are exceedingly rare in other States
and have served to infict serious injury
upon California. The best results both to
the people and the railroads can come
only through friendly cooperation. De-
nunciation by mass meetings and a
naughty scorn on the part of railroad
are the worst way possible to
secure the desired result.
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PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.
1t is announced that Yvette Guilbert's ne,
profits in America were $34 900.

1t is announced that Yvette Guilberts net
profits in America were $34, 900.
Queen Victoria will wear none but black
gloves since her widowhood, and those of only
the two-buttoned length. Her Majestys glove
bill for an entire year is less than 800.
Within year Lady Henry Somerset has at
tended 115 meetings and twenty-seven con-
ferences. travelled over 5000 miles and spoken
in twenty different countries to over 200, 900
people.
Professor Poinacre of Paris, in his studies of
the earth, has discovered that it has an infiu-
ence not only on the production of cyclones
but also on their direction.
Dr.. Carl Peters, the African explore, who
was recently elected president of the German
Colonial Association, is about to undertake q
new exploration of Somaliland in the inter.
ests of q number of wealthy Americans.
Cecil Rhodes has such decided anti-matri-
matrimonial views that he will not have any
but bachelors as members of his private staff.
He recently made the announcement that
marriage is more difficult game than poll.
tics"
President Faure's particular fad is the COL
lection of autographs. He began the collection
some years ago, and has greatly added to its
value since he became President. The collec-
tion embraces the signatures of every living
sovereign, author, inventor ana actor of i'm
portance.
To have saved over 1000 lives Is q somewhat
unique experience. This record belongs to
Captain Weiss OF the steamship Belgian King,
to whom a presentation was made in New
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[ ru,r., has receiyed so much un,
| friendly attention from the golomonsh s,he NH
their serviceable newspapers, cnifScant Sign
~ ~ tho times eyincing as it Goes so plainly tnas
The people-the plain 'pesple-Iespeodd Oh ;ssnes
hearty manner to the senIiIueLnls anoh 60 No
nresented so unflipchingly in the speech. w
shrew men can be founG to-day tnan tnes1 s
resolute goldmongers, who nave year ny y3sed 3sd
gained every contention .ney ses nan sipca 1878.
and their onslaught upon I1llman anu MS MS
speech instead of quietly suomerging IL In en9 en
sea of oblivion by the con Ip1laI ~ roifical re-
form shows how clearly they undeIstand. I. .no ,,,
profound impression this Scuth CaIoIina ia5a III
orator and plain-speaking eeng,ue nnon the coun.
try. But they have apparently maue mhe
| take. They have overdone tne snlnsii si;o at.
onslaught was savage 1t arresteo puoiio
Il has made an unprecedented demand for
the speech. Enormous editions OF FoPuiiss
newspapers containing tne ss most sSv have heen
lures OF this two hours speech nave Deen ,
printed and sold and the demanQ Ior ~ Goat @
tinues to grow. Senator Tillman hlmselL mas
finally been compelled to print tns sPevun Wanty. r
four pages, which is sold at cent copy ~.
the Government does not print speecnes. ~ ~
frank or send them postage fres. George NJ.
Stackhouse. 26 Maltby building, WasnlngtotIi;
D. c., mails the speeches at cent copy 10 al
who apply for them. "Bimetallfsm or lnuuS,,
trial Slavery is the title of the speech. All
who believe in the free coinage of silver VIII
find this speech more effective than any otnef
publication ever issued.
Readers of the daily newspapers will be SnT-
prised when they get this great speech as illl-
man delivered it. The dignity, honesty, ylgor
and ciearness of the language he used wlll al
once arrest attention. The absence of rant
and coarse abuse will be in marked CONTRAST
with what the gold-loving newspapers have
led them to expect.
Ordinary readers will use rougher words In
commenting on the speech as they read It than
Senator Tillman used. In fact they will won
der that he did not use harder words when he
SO fully understood the situation, which he
sets forth with SO much vividness.
On reading the speech the second time l
marked number of graphic passages which
intended to copy in making this brief review
of it, but the limits OF this little "letter" will
not permit it. To do these passages justice too
many words of the context are needed and
they had to be omitted. l can only add that
this speech by Tillman marks an epoch. No
man with any real love of country can afford
to forego a candid perusal of this speech, no
matter which ticket he intends to vote next
November JOSEPH AsBURY JOHNSON.
IL Essex street, San Francisco.
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rents has encouraged the incoming of new
residents. 1t is true also that we have too
many wooden houses and that we are
neglecting the building stones that exist
SO abundantly and in so great variety
throughout the State.
In losing the lumber, dairy products
and other valuable articles sent out by
Eureka we are losing also the return trade
which our merchants have enjoyed. Geo.
graphically the Humboldt region belongs
to San Francisco. The extension OF the
railroad from Ukioh to Humboldt would
be far less expensive operation and would
open much richer country than the extern
sion of the Santa Margarita line to Santa
Barbara. That would not only develop the
wealth of Mendocino and Humboldt coun-
ties but would save them to San Fran
cisco, as it will never be practicable to
build railroad from that section into
Oregon. These considerations are rem
dered all the more important by the
movement on foot to run railroad from
Eureka eastwardly over the mountains
and across the upper Sacramento Valley,
and thence enthusiastically to tap the
great systems of overland roads centering
in the Northwest. That presents a far
graver situation to us than the diversion
of trade to Portland, as such railroad
would mean Pacific terminus for an
overland system and connecting steamers
direct to the Orient. Eureka can be saved
to San Francisco by plan similar to that
by which the Valley Road Is to make the
development of the San Joaquin possible.
In the meantime it is well to ponder the
fact that San Francisco is completely at
the mercy of the transportation COM
panies.
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EUREKA'S PREFERENCE.

At meeting of the Eureka Chamber of
Commerce the other evening some of the
members declared that as the natural
trade relations between the Humboldt
Bay region and Portland were closer than
those between that section and San Fran
cisco, it was to the interest of Eureka to
prefer Portland. The meeting was an i'm
portant one, being in measure the result
of meetings recently held by the San
Francisco Traffic Association to devise
means for counteracting the effect pro-
duced by the rate of 81 between Portland
and Eureka and So between Eureka and
San Francisco. This difference in rates is
diverting the Eureka trade from San
Francisco to Portland, and this diversion
has been produced by a steamship COM
pany which has greater interests in Port
land than in this City.
San Francisco is glad to see Portland
prosper and cannot blame the business
men of Eureka for paying attention to
their own interests. The main point in
the whole question is the unrestrained
power of transportation companies to de-
term inc for themselves the great economic
questions incident to transportation
charges. The importance of this question
to San Francisco is very great. Our prin-
cipal source of lumber is the forests of
Humboldt County, and if this is to be
turned away from us it will strengthen
the combination OF lumber men, raise the
price of building material, reduce build
ing operations and throw a large number
of workmen in the building trades out of
employment. 1t is true that the low prices
that have prevailed until recently
have overstimulated building and pro-
duced rapid improvements out of propor-
tion to the increase of population. This
has lowered the rent rate of the older
houses and caused misleading number
OF ITO let" signs 10 appear. AT the same
time 1t has given employment to many
workers. has opened numerous parts
of the City to settlement, and by reducing
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
THE TILLMAN PHENOMENON.

A STUBBORN WARRIOR FULLY ARMED WITH
MORE STUBBORN FACTS.
To the Editor OF the San Francisco Coll-SIR:
After second attentive reading of Senator
Tillsnan's speech in full as it was delivered,
not in the garbled report of the unfriendly
press dispatches, it seems to me that can do
the honest readers Of THE CALL q real service
by calling their serious attention to this phen-
omenal speech. and am sure that all who
read 1t as he delivered IL will one day thank
me for this service. Ny memory goes back to
the time when Lincoln made the speech which
made him President, wherein he outlined the
impending conflict between the North and
South in the Cooper Institute, New York CITY .1
"a House Divided Against Itself Cannot
Stand" He was less known when he made
that speech than Tillman was two months ago
when he awoke the Senate and aroused the
country by mastery statement Of the present
impending crisis of the country.
Lincoln's great speech evoked a storm of
abuse and personal ridicule from the defenders
of slavery in the Sout tn, and the conservatives
commercial journals and financial circles of
the North quite equal to and quite like that
poured out upon Tillman by goldmongers and
their faithful newspapers in the commercial
centers OF the north eastern section of our
country and in few places in the old North
'rail-splitter," a ''baboon" and like names bv
conservative" journals in the North and pro.
slavery journals in the South. Since Tillman
pross fro sot 1h.9 ,ne plain farmer
TO designate disagreeable facts, the New York
Times has editorially named HIM ia lthv
baboon," the New York Evening Post "a
political anarchist" and the New York World a
.hlatherskite." In letter to the New YorE
World he challenges these Journals to publish
his speech as he delivered it and let their
readers judge whether he is "a coarse, brutal
blsckguard," as they would have the public
believe him to be, but they all declined to pub.
lish it, He says: "What other Senators have
whispered among themselves have spoken
alouo, and IN plain words" Thousands of
sound"
1t is no marvel that this notable speech by
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understood in bill-offare French)-Ifze gentle
man will talk re language vat he vas born in, 1
viii very mooch better understood.-London
Tit-Bits.
"What can 1 show you, madam ?" said shop
keeper in the leviathan draper's. 'The way
out" was the reply. sIve been trying to find
it. myself for the last ten minutes."-Alley
Sloper.
"You must mike good deal of money :out
of this monopoly?" said the new arrival.
at amt as big business as it looks" said
Charon. ''It is nearly all deadheads." In
dianapolis Journal.
May-I hated to refuse him, he's charming
fellow.
Mother-Then why did you? That ugly
Miss Spiteful was listening beside the arbor
and wanted to get even with her.
Insurance superintendent (suspiciously) How
did your husband happen to die so soon after
getting insured for a large amount?
Widow-He worked himself to death trying
to pay the premium.-Texas Siftings.
"Ten years ago." said the conter plative
gentleman, ~ was bachelor and working for
q wife"
"And now?"
"And now I am not only working for my
wife, but for her mother and Two of her gu nts."
He sighed.-Spare Moments.
Some years ago the town OF Manchester was
the scene of riot during which the police
were in danger of their lives and were afraid
to appear in the streets.
One day two little urchins saw burly police
man looking around corner as if afraid to be
seen, when one of them cried OUT
Don't be afraid, mister, we won't touch
you!'-Spare Minutes.
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THE FUR SEAL QUESTION.

The bill which Congressman Dingley intro
dueed last year, which passed the House of
Represent tatives, to be defeated in the Senate
through the opposition of Senator Morgan,
and which, If passed. would have authorized
the Government to kill all the fur seal on the
islands of Bering Sea, If itcould not make an ar
rangement with the British, Russian and Jap
anese Governments to have fur-seal xii ling
suspended for several years. time, bids fair to
become law before the present session of
Congress is over. Hon. Charles S. Hamlin, the
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, has taken
great deal of interest in this matter, as the
fur seal islands come under the charge of the
Treasury Department, and from the state
ments recently made by him to the Ways and
Means Committee 1t is evidently his opinion
that, unless some such course is taken, it will
be impossible to prevent the Canadian pelagic
seaiers from possessing themselves of practi-
cally all that remains OF the once enormous
herd of fur seal. According 10 the count made
last year by the Government officials, the herd
that will come this year to the islands of st.
Paul and ST. George cannot exceed in number
$50 900 seal.
When one remembers that on the year after
Alaska was purchased from the Russian Gov
ernment quite this number of seals were cap
tured In single year, and that in 1874,
twenty-five years ago, there were, as nearly as
could be estimated, 900 900 fur seals on the
two islands, the enormous inroad that has
been made by the destructive methods of kill
ing adopted by those who have carried on the
sealing business in vessels becomes too evident
TO be doubted. The in terest of England should
be, and probably is, in maintaining the exist
ence OF the fur seal herds, for the reason that
the cleaning, dressing and dyeing of the fur
seal skins give regular employment to 5000 or
5000 people in England who would be thrown
out of their occupation by the determination
of these animals. In this respect the English
have far more at stake in the matter than we
have. II, with this interest and the constant
diminution of the fur seal herds, absolute ces-
sation of killing cannot be obtained, we had
better, as the Dingley bill suggests, make an
end of the entire business by killing the re-
naming seals, sailing their skins and dispos-
ing OF them whenever the market warrants
such action.-Boston Herald.
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THE SUMMER GIRL.

The pretty summer girl Is coming,
Coming with the spring;
With the early bee she's humming,
With the early bird she'll sing.
Look! Across the meadow cleaning,
See, the grass is growing green!
From the sky the run is beaming,
soft the rffting clouds between.
And the Summer Girl Is looking
T'ward the mountain and the sea,
New engagements she is booking,
With grim and savage glee.
Hats and ribbons, laces, flowers,
All of fashions vaguest rumors;
Soon amid the fragrant bowers
You will see her and her bloomers.
What would life be worth without her?
She's the center of the whirl.
You may scorn or you may doubt her,
still love the summer Girl.
WILSON HUNT STILES in st. Louis Star.
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ard is made necessary by the admission OF
Utah to the Union of States, which adds the
forty-fifth star to the flag Under the law the
new star will not be added until July 4, after
which date all flags displayed by the various
departments Of the Government will contain
forty-fve stars. In the field of the present flag
there are forty.four stars, arranged in six rows.
The top and bottom rows contain eight stars
each, and the four intervening rows contain
seven each. The lines are horizontal, from
left to right, and run obliquely from top to
bottom. Two changes have been made in the
rearrangement so as to meet the present naces-
sity and to provide for contingencies in the near
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tom and added to the fifth row, and the addi-
tional star required for Utah is placed in the
third row. In this manner the first, third and
fifth rows each contain eight stars and the Sec
ond, fourth and sixth rows seven stars each.
When other States are admitted to the Union
stars may be added to those rows that will con-
tain seven each, and upon the admission of
Arizona. New Mexico and Oklahoma the six
rows will be mplete with eight stars each. 1t
is expected that the present arrangement will
not be disturbed by the admission of the three
Territories named.
In the first National flag containing the thir-
teen stars they were arranged in circle and
the union itself was made square. But whe n
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Vermont and Kentucky came in parallekrows
OF stars were resorted to, there being three Of
them with five stars each. The rectangular
held favor, although ingenious geometrical
devices have at times been proposed, in combi-
nation of circles, diverging rays, and so on;
and one bill in Congress wanted them to take
the shape OF pansy, with view to making
that the National flower
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

There was . birthday celebration on the
steamer Alameda during her run from Homo
lulu to San Francisco. Purser ]. B. Sutton had
attained the respectable age of SO years, and
the passengers were determined to not allow
the occasion to pass without some jolliica-
tion. purse was raised and an appropriate
present is to be purchased in this City for the
popular purser.
Purser Sutton has been with the Oceanic
Steamship Company for thirteen years. Along
with Captain Morse, now retired, Chief Engi-
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REARRANGEMENT OF THE STARS

An agreement has been reached by Secre-
taries Lamont and Herbert as to the re-
arrangement of the stars in the blue field of
the United States flag, and the Encouragement
has received the approval of the President.
This change in the field of the National stand
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atrical matters comes from the stage, and
is directed toward the elimination of what
the reformers call the encore fend." The
chances are, however, that the most active
in the movement are those who do not get
the encores.
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CoRoNADo.-Atmosphere is perfectly dry. soft
and mild, and is entirely free from the mists
mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam
ship, including fifteen days board the Hotel del
Coronado, $50; longer stay So SO per day. Apply
New Montgomery st., San Francisco.
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THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.

We can do no more than feel for Arme-
MIA, but Cuba is within reaching distance.
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castle, England. recently. 1t mas been his
good luck to pick up several vessels in distress
at sea, including the liner Palmyra, with $50
people on board.
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The saddest thing about Democracy i:
that it cannot get even favorite son boom
well started before it bursts.
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When Spain sees how slow the Senate
moves on the Cuban question she will
wonder what in the world she got excited
about.
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Yvette Guilbert is a dancer, not a
kicker, and she says the United States is
more like France than any other country
in the world.
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It is the opinion of Ex-Governor Camp
bell of Ohio that when Mckinley gets to
the st. Louis convention "he will find a
great deal of green goods in his grip" but
then Campbell's experience in Ohio has
been disastrous enough to make him a
morbid pessimist
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st. Louis is building for the Republican
convention new hall-the grandest Of
the kind in the world-but for the Demo-
cratic convention Chicago has come to the
conclusion that any old thing will do.
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thing from religion to Venezuela except
Cuba and the third term.
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Since Kruger has become famous there
has been an inquiry into his history, and
as result it is made known that when a
young man he was a filibuster himself and
rode a raid as gayly as DR.. Jameson.
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The Foraker men in Ohio seem to be
willing that Mckinley should get the
nomination provided they get the credit of
nominating him.
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"Any amusement in this town tonight"
asked the stranger.
"I reckon there's going to be lecture" re-
piled the grocery man. "Pve been selling eggs
all day."-Atlanta Constitution
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A New York theater has provided tea
room where ladies can get refreshments
between the acts, ard as consequence
there is no longer any objection on the
part of the ladies when their escorts go out
to see man.
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THE benefits to be derived from good medicine
in early spring is undoubted To purify the blood,
overcome that tired feeling and gain strength
take Hoods Sarsapara-
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It is now asserted that the little, insig-
nificant, evii-smelling Chicago River floats
more freight in forty eight hours than the
beautiful, grand Ohio does in whole year,
but the assertion was made in Chicago and
lacks the verifcation OF Cincinnati.
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Get yourself in trim for the campaign for
protection by making practice of buying
home goods for home use.
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The Quay boom in Pennsylvania may
not be the biggest thing in the world, but
it is so big that no statesman in the coun-
try is tall enough to overlook IL.
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The Senate should hurry Uncle Sam up
to recognize Cuba before the Presidential
election gets so exciting as to distract his
attention from everything else.
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SPECIAL infoIma .iou daily to manufacturers.
business houses and public men by the Press
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There are not many Democrats in Mas
sachusetts, but there are enough TO get
mixed up in fight to decide whether
Russell or Olney is the favorite son.
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The conviction of an Ohio State Senator
of the offense of soliciting bribes will be a
warning to the rest against soliciting. The
modern statesman should conine himself
to taking things as they come.
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HUMoR OF THE HOUR.

"Efsome men paid ez much 'tention ter bein'
congressman" said Uncle Eben, "ez dey does
ter bein' candidates dar'd be mob statesmen
in dis here country Washington Star.
French Waiter lin London restaurant, to
Yabsley, who has been trying to make himself