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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30

weapons were pistols and the duel was fought
on the drillground behind the fort at Juetz
At the first exchange OF shots Lieutenant Kuhn
of the Sixth Dragons fell, MORALLY wounded,
His adversary Lieutenant Joachim OF the One
Hundred and Thirteenth Infantry, was no
other than the son of the great violinist, DR..
Joachim.
The Philharmonic-Artistic Society OF Padua
has lust given the first performance of
charming opera, 'Nita," composed by one OF
the members the Marquis francesca DanI.
DALI Orologio. The work was received with
great favor. One Italian paper says OF it: 1.-THE
opera does not manifest great pretens1ons, but
it augurs well for the future career of its young
composer"
The Prince of Wales has followed the exar1-
pie OF his nephew, the composer OF the Hymn
to Aegir," and has composed cantata for soil,
chorus and orchestra.
According to the italian papers, Saint-Saens'
"Henry VIII" has not proved a success at the
Scala in Milan.
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is on visit here. He is one of the pioneers OF
the State.
W. H. Dickson, the widely known lawyer of
Salt Lake, is in the City.
Alador Rausch of Budapest, who is here on
business trip, is at the Palace.
United States Judge Erskine NJ. Ross of Los
Angeles was among the arrivals at the Palace
yesterday.
Frank NJ. Berry Of Juneau, Alaska, was among
the arrivals at the Russ yesterday. He is ac-
companed By his family.
William A. Plnkerton, the noted Chicago de-
tective, is at the Baldwin. he and Captain
Lees attended the races together yesterday.
Mr.. J. II. Whited of Dunsmuir, wife of Su-
perintendent Whited of the Dunsmuir division
of the Southern Pacific, is guesl of the Grand.
First Lieutenant George f. Mcconnell OF the
revenue cutter Perry has been ordered East to
take command of one OF New York's harbor
boats. Mr.. Mcconnell was formerly commander
OF the Hartley here.
E. w. Chapman, owner OF the Taylor mine,
fourteen miles from Auburn, and also of the
bancroft, near Newcastle, is at the Occidental.
Both these mines are paying handsomely and
there is 20-stamp mill on each.
w. F. ePrisk, editor and proprietor of the
Grass Valley Daily Union, is in the City Mr.
Prisk reports the mining outlook for his Sec
ton as unusually good. BE says that Grass
Valley is entering upon new era of prosper
ity.
Portal Henry and Raureller Piene, wealthy
gentlemen of France, are at the Grand. They
are on tour Of the world and will visit Yoko-
hama, Calcutta, Saigon and other important
places in the Occident, returning home by the
SueZ canal
John Cameron, the mining man of this City,
has returned from Cripple Greek, where he
went about six months ago. He says it is a
bad place for poor men, that pneumonia
is carrying off the people at the rate of Is a
day, and that the accommodations are entirely
inadequate to the demands. He thinks we'll
OF the district, however, and believes it will
prove one of the phenomenal districts of the
world. According to experts, so he says, there
are $4,000 600 worth of gold ore in sight In
various mines there. People are coming from
Africa. Australia and the Eastern States, and
there is money in abundance for investment
Ten million dollars was offered for the Inde-
pendence mine and refused Gambling in
stocks continues. 1t is wild camp. The
houses are chiefly built Of plain boards and
canvas. 1t is very cold there now The Their
mometer often goes to Is deg. or more below
zero. and snow lies on the ground.
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A STRANGE QUESTION.

Our dispatches from Washington giving
an account of the proceedings before the
House Committee on Pacific Railroads on
Tuesday report Grove l.. Johnson as say
ing to Mr.. Tweed, the attorney for the
railroad: 1t has been asserted, particu-
larly in California, by some politicians
that if the Pacific Railroad debts should be
refunded the people of California would
be obliged to pay the debts in increased
freight charges over the roads. Is there
any foundation for such a statement?"
Coming from representative IN Con-
gress from California this is a strange
question most strangely expressed. Why
should MIR. Johnson seek from a railroad
attorney information as to what would be
the effect on California of the refunding
scheme? Why should he say that some
politicians assert that if the railroad
debts are refunded the people of California
would be obliged to pay the debts in in
creased freight charges? The assertion
spoken of is not made by some politicians
merely. 1t has been made by commercial
bodies, by mass-meetings, by newspapers
and, in short, by everybody who has given
the subject the consideration it deserves,
with the exception of those who either are
or have been employees of the railroad
Is it possible that Mr.. Johnson has over
looked so notable fact as that in his own
State?
In reply to Mr.. johnson the railroad at
torney is reported to have said: "The
proposition is absurd. Freight rates on the
Central Pacific Railroad, as on all other
railroads, are kept down by competition,
and they could not be increased to cover
the funded debt" If that answer salts
fed the questioner, as it seems to have
done, he can hardly have been Mr.. John
son of California. 1t is true there are
competing routes for the terminal points
of the Central Pacific, but there is no COM
petition for all the length of line that
stretches between the terminals. 1t is the
local freight rates that will be raised to all
the traffic will bear, and, except where
the competition of the new San Joaquin
road prevents, those rates will be certainly
raised to meet the interest due on the re-
funded debt. How else, in fact, is the
money to be raised?
In his position as member of Congress
Mr.. Johnson represents the State of Cali
fornia and also the Republican party. He
is aware that both the State and the party
expect him to oppose the refunding scheme
now before Congress, or any other that
may be brought forward. To do this in
diligently he must, OF course, have in
formation; but the next time he wishes
enlightenment he had better apply to his
constituents and not ask questions that
imply total ignorance of what is going
on in California.
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were committed at the instigation OF the
conspirators of the money power.
A much more reliable book is ''The Eff
fects of the Gold Standard, or BimetalIists'
Catechism," by w. H. Smith, MD. pub
lished by Charles H. Kerr 81 Co. of Chi
cago. There IS much in this book that
will repay the reader who wishes to study
the subject without resorting to the more
abstruse and technical works on finance.
1t IS not likely to prove So popular as
Coins Financial School," but is never
theless written in a simple direct style
easy to be understood, and will have con-
siderable effect in determining waverers to
take decided stand in favor OF the free
coinage of silver.
Quite different from the other two in
style and method of treating the problem
is the third work, money and the Money
Power" This is q compilation of series
of articles contributed to the Middleburv
(Vt.) Register by Joseph Battle and is pub
lished by the Register Company. The
value OF the compilation is largely en-
HANGED by the fact that IN addition to the
articles of the author it includes all the
important laws OF the United States rela-
tive to money, several notable essays by
high authorities in England on the effect
OF the gold standard on British manu-
features and numerous quotations from
other writers of established repute on
financial subjects.
With so many books on the financial
issue pouring out from the press the
chances are it will be worn thread bare be-
fore the campaign opens and the orators
will have nothing new to say. This will
not be altogether a loss either to the speak
ers or to the public. Both will probably
be perfectly willing to set the money ques-
ton aside until we have re-established a
protective system that will give the peo-
pie chance to earn money of any kind.
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Virginia City he went there and took hand at
quartz mining.

Virginia City he went there and took hand at
quartz mining.
At an after period he returned to California
and resumed hydraulic mining, which he fol-
lowed for some years. But about a dozen
years ago, when the anti-debris laws were
passed, he turned his attention again to quartz
mining.
Though he has been among the first at every
big camp in Nevada, Utah, Montana, Idaho,
Colorado and Arizona, and has also had much
experience in Mexico, he thinks there is no
place like the mother lode of California. In
Mariposa Calaveras and other counties on this
lode he foresees the development OF enormous
additional wealth.
you 60 up and down the country, wherever
you will, said he, ''but you can find only one
mother lode. That lode is in California. 1t is
plenty good enough thing to tie to. l have
been all over the West, and am satisfied with
it. don't believe, either, that Africa or Cool
gardie is equal to it.'
Mr.. Tozier says he knows of considerable
Eastern and British capital that is coming to
the mother lode for investment. Syndicates
are being organized, and the indications are
that big developments will take place on the
lode in new and old places in the next year or
two.
The veteran expert is talented story-teiler.
He usually has lot of men around him, and
invariably he interests them. The larger num-
Der of his stories relate in some way to mines
and mining, the subject that lies so near to
him
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30
TOBACCO IN CALIFORNIA.

The success which tobacco-growing has
enjoyed for years in the southern end OF
the Santa Clara Valley has induced a
strong n ovement to engage in the indus
try. 1t has never been a question that
tobacco would flourish in this State, the
more important considerations being the
quality of the product and the cost of la
Dor. On the score of quality it has been
asserted that while the crops are bountiful
the product is coarse in texture and heavy
in essential oils, the principal one being
nicotine. 1t might be expected that in a
country where, under liberal irrigation,
vegetation tends to rankness tobacco would
develop a coarse fiber; but as this depends
solely upon its method of treatment dur
ing its growing it can be governed almost
with mathematic precision. AS for an
abundance of essential oils, that is as valu-
able thing in tobacco as an excess of SUI
gar is in wine grapes. There is an unfail-
ing market for strong" tobacco.
Cotton will grow better in California
than in the South, but it is not cultivated
here because of the absence of cheap labor.
The same condition operates in the case of
tobacco culture. But within recent years
there has grown up within the State the
employment of children in the fruit-drying
industry, and as the labor is light, pleas
ant and profitable the country schools gen.
orally time their vacations to suit the fruit
drying season.
The heavy labor required in the cultiva-
ton OF tobacco is similar to that employed
with other crops. There is, however, a
vast amount of light work to be done, par
ticularly in keeping the plants free from
worms. Children could do this with
greater ease and CELEBRITY than adults, and
their labor might be profitably employed.
The opium poppy will grow well in Cali
fornia, but it is not cultivated because of
the expense of labor. Tea, also, would
doubtless thrive, but it would be impos-
sible to compete with the cheap labor
which produces it in China and Japan.
Considering the higher and more profit
able results which can be made to attend
fruit-growing, it hardly seems worth while
to experiment with staples which are pro-
duced elsewhere with the cid of degraded
laboi. Far more inviting than expert
! ments OF that kind are the possibilities
which lie undeveloped in the State, and
which are features of the monopoly which
California enjoys in this country as the
producer of fine fruits and wines.
The extraction of perfumes from odor-
iferous plants which grow here in so re-
narkable luxuriance should be developed
into profitable business, as it would be
one in which women and children could
find pleasant, profitable and healthful
exercise. Silk culture remains to receive q
more thorough test.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30
THE PIXY BAND.

When forsake the busy street
And train my footsteps home at night,
A band OF naughty pixies meet
Me on the steps with keen delight
They nimbiy steal my hat and take
Away my overcoat and cane;
My wet umbrella seize, and shake
Adown my back the drops of rain!
In vain plead, "Oh. leave me; go,
And bar the way no longer, please:
Why will We clog my footsteps so?
Why Will ye hang about my knees?"
They bend me down and mount my back
And, needless quite of bump or fall,
They make the floor racing track,
And speed me through the entrance hall.
We reach the parlor; there they place
For me my easy-cushioned chair,
And pull my beard and pinch my face,
And comb away my scanty hair.
They call me papa man alive!
Sure, fortune smites with heavy hand,
When I, youth of tiirty-fiYe,
a m father of pixy band,
L'ENvoI.
Beside row of drowsy heads,
With moistened eyes each night stand,
And bend and kiss them in their beds
God bless my little pixy band!
Chicago Inter Ocea
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TIME TO PROTEST.

If any Californian has INDUCED the
pleasing hope that the defeat of the Reilly
bill in the last Congress had taught mod
Grafton to the railroad monopoly and that
there was no pressing need of an agrees
sive fight against anything it might ask of
this one. that hope was rudely shattered
by the publication in THE CALL yesterday
of synopsis of the Smith bill, which the
House Committee has approved, referred
to the Secretary of the Interior and will
probably report to Congress.
Bad as the Reilly bill was the Smith bill
is worse. 1t contains every Objectionable
feature of the most extreme demands of
the railroad and offers no compromise with
regard to the public welfare. Despite the
fact that in the Cleveland loans the Gov
eminent itself has had to pay fraction
more than per cent for money, the bill
Government by the Central Pacific, money
shall be estimated as worth only per
cent. 1t further provides that when the
total Indebtedness has been thus COM
puted the debt shall be funded by issuing
bonds to run for 100 years; for the first
ten of which the interest is to be per cent
and for the remaining ninety years 2
per cent.
fasten the cinch of the monopoly upon Cali
fornia and the great central road across the
continent for century to come, and will
impose upon the industry and commerce
be paid off through exactine freight rates
extorted by the monopoly which the debt
itself has been the means of perpetuatng.
The most greedy and grasping of monopo-
lies could not ask more than has been pro-
posed in this scheme. 1t is in plain terms
an infamous proposal. There is not a re-
deeming feature in it. 1t carries millions
for the monopoly and not cent for the
people, and moreover violates every law of
justice and every principle of finance, in
order to continue the power of a corrupt
and corrupting corporation.
1t is significant that this measure, ap-
proved by the Pacific Roads Committee in
secret session, was sent to the Secretary oil
the Interior for his opinion. That means
of course that Cleveland is to be consulted.
Before Congress has chance 10 discuss the
measure, even before it is reported to Con-
gress, the big bond-dealer of the White
House and his Secretary, Hoke Smith, are
to give it their approval. By this scheme
it is made certain that if the bill passes in
Congress the President viii sign it. It
must be beaten, therefore, either IN the
House or IN the Senate. That is the issue
now before US and to that issue every
energy should be directed. Every Board
of Trade or Chamber of Commerce, every
industrial organization, every newspaper
and every city and town in the State by
massmeetings or by Its official authorities
should send protests against the bill and
send them at once. The danger is immi-
nent and the infamy is threatening.
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narrow bands OF Persian lamb fur. The stock
collar OF green velvet was finished at the back
with black satin bow. A piece of black satin
RIBBON two inches wide and one yard long was
gathered into top Of collar to form ruche. The
seams OF the sleeve were left open two inches
at wrist, each piece faced separately ruffle
OF white lace extended half an inch below the
Belt of black satin ribbon
:, A dress of mixed wool showing many bright
threads bad the simulated box pleats Of myrtle
In front was of dreamy guipure lace over white
satin. Stock collar of white satin ribbon fin
lshed with bow at back. Belt of velvet and
piping OF same velvet showed in all the seams
OF the sleeves. A serviceabe dress of brownish
mixture had pleats and belt bound with
leather-colored braid
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Charles w. Tozier, the mining engineer, who
has figured in one way or another in many
camps of the West, is one of the familiar fig
ures at the Lick House.
Mr.. Tozier has been fifty years in mining
and forty years ON the Pacific Coast As the
expert for Alyinza Hayward and I. D. Lane,
he reported favorably on the now famous Utica
mine, one of the richest, it is believed, in the
world.
For many years Mr.. Tozier was hydraulic
miner, and in this capacity he got out at Vari-
GUS times and in various places large amount
OF gold. When the excitement broke out at
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30

LADY'S PLAIN WAIST WITH
MELON SLEEVES.
WITH

Plain waists perfectly fitted, the effect being
smooth and seamless, are in high favor. The
design shown in this illustration pictures g
cheviot mixture. The seams OF the sleeves and
the edges of collar and belt are neatly stitched
by machine Another dress made after this
iron between the box pieats in front was of
green velvet. The box pleats were edged with
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30
PERSONAL.

C. F. Preston of the United States navy is at
the Occidental.
James ]. Atkins of Pittsburg is among the
recent arrivals here.
Charles B. sloat, business man of Fort
Worth, is in the City.
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CALIFoRNIANS IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Jan. ga Bierce and
A. L. Rhodes are at the Aston; A. Thompson,
st. Cloud; W. A. Walker, Brunswick; 0. John
son, Broadway Cen trail; Mrs. Natick, Imperial
j. Harness. Miss B. Harness, Vendome; A. H.
Martin, Imperial; G. Raphael, Marlborough
G. c. Smith, Aston; J. Wells, Gilsey; II. S.
Wood, st. Cloud; c. W. MemcalI, Continental.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30

paid his visit to England he refused to 60 to
the theater deeming it immoral He was ac-
customed from force of habit to rise at O'Clock
in the morning, and it put his entertainers to
vast Inconvenience to have his breakfast served
to him at that unseemly hour
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30
CALIFoRNIANS IN WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 30. - San Fran
CISCO ]. s. Alderman, Arlington; Henry A
Buffers, Shoreham; w. A. Martin, Normandie
Leigh Berne, Pages.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30

NJ. Romero, the Mexican Minister, says that
peace in Mexico is as secure as it is in any
other country, and that foreign capital is be-
ginning to realize that life and property are as
safe there as anywhere else in spite of the rev.
olutionary record of the past.
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

TIDE IN THE AFFAIRs-M. N, City. "There
is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at
the flood, leads on to fortune" is from Shake
speare's "Julius Cesar" act ~, scene 3, and
the lines are spoken by Brutus.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.


Mark Twain writes to q friend in Hartford
that he went away in debt and will come back
in a first cabin.
President Faure of France has given permits
sion to the citizens of town in New Hebrides
to call the place by his name.
The Rev. MInot ]. Savage has been invited to
deliver the essay before the British and For
eign Association in London next June, an
honor never before bestowed upon an Ameri-
can.
The Car of Russia is said to be very much
interested in the brilliant fight that H, n.
Pillsbury of America has been making at st.
Petersburg against the chess veterans OF
Europe.
The Polish residents of Baltimore are taking
steps to commemorate the one hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of the great Polish patriot,
Thaddeus Koseiuszko, which will occur on
February IL.
Chsrles Webb, the genre painter of Dussel-
dorf has just died from injuries received from
a fall. He was born in Breda in 1882, and was
q Dutchman in nationality and not an English
man, as his name would indicate and as was
commonly believed.
When President Kruger of the Transvaal
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30
SHORT SMILES.

They have brand of whisky in San Anton 10
called the Horn of Plenty" because it will
corn you copiously.-Texas Sitter.
boy never says his schoolteacher is nice. II
he likes her he says she isn't as mean as the
others.-Atchison Globe
First cabman-How do you find things?
Second cabnan-Slow Just think! / bought
that horse yesterday and he hasn't paid for
himself yet!-Puck.
Mrs. Hashton-I lost two Of my best boarders
this week.
Mrs. Hammond-Perhaps they fell through q
crack in the tloor,-Cincinnati Enquirer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30

THE GENUINE BROWNS BRONCHIAL TRocHEs"
are sold only in boxes. They are wonderfully
effective for Coughs, Hoarseness or Irritation Of
the Throat caused by cold.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30

The whole Pacific railroad muddle can
be settled in the one word: foreclosure.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30

AFTER other medicines have failed Hoods Sar-
saparilla has permanently cured. This is explained
by the fact that Hoods Sarsaparia is the only true
blood purifier, the unconquerable foe of disease.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-30

As a bond fend Mr.. Smith is even more
abominable than Cleveland and without
half his excuse.
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Smiths refunding scheme cannot posi-
bly, be made decent by any amendment; it
must be plotted out altogether.
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The rounding bill has been referred tc
Hoke Smith, and there IS no telling what
hoeus pocus may come next.