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might, under our present single-standard
financial policy, result in the outflow to
Europe of the gold which we might pro-
duce. the wealth represented by the pro-
duction would not be destroyed or de-
ported. Whether we sent the product to
Europe as gold or any other commodity
of value equal to it we would receive an
equivalent in return. Hydraulic mining
is desired as much for its wealth-produc-
ing as its gold producing results.
If it is the duty of the Government to
open interior waterways for trafic-as. for
instance. the rivers of California that
might be made navigable by the employ
ment of Government funds in their open
ing-and thus establish better facilities
for the profitable conduct of agriculture,
it is equally its duty to make appropria-
tions for the development of hydraulic
mining. The farmers in the valley of the
Sacramento cannot consistently support
one proposition to the exclusion OF the
other. We understand their contention
to be not that Government assistance OF
hydraulic mining is wrong in the aspect
of governmental fostering of an important
industry, but that the eng ineering difficult
culties in the way are insurmountable
! that restraining dams are a physical i'm
possibility. This question must of course
be left to the decision of competent en-
gineers, and that decision has been already
given to the effect that there is nothing in
the problem of impounding dams that
renders them either impossible, imprac-
ticable or uneconomical.
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MY SHADOW.

have little hadow that goes in and out with
me,
See
He is very, very like me from the heels up to the
head,
And see him jump before me when Jump into
my bed.
to grow
Not at all like proper children, which is always
very slow;
For he sometimes shoots up taller, like an India
rubber ball,
And he sometimes gers 30 little that there's none
OF him at all
One morning, very early, before the SUI was up,
rose and found the shining dew on every butter
cup:
But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy
head,
lad stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep
IN bed. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON,
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THE BRIT ISL VIEW.

To the American people the most inter-
estlng portions of the debate in Parliament
on the Queens speech are naturally enough
those relating to the Venezuelan contro-
versy and the part the United States has
played in it. 1t is pleasing to note more
over that by no one was our interfer-
ence denounced. Both the Government
and the opposition speakers frankly de-
clared their willingness to have our Gov
ernment assist in the settlement of the
long-protracted dispute, and even Lord
Salisbury said it was as natural for the
United States to take an interest in the
affairs OF Venezuela as for England to be
interested in those of Holland and Bel
GUM.
Through the debates both in the Lords
and the Commons, however, there runs
the suggestion of an idea quite different
from that which the American people
have on the subject. This appears quite
clearly when comparing the speech made
by Rosebery or BaIfour in Parliament
with that made by Blanchard in Congress
on the same day. The American Senator
saw in the affair no more than warning
to European nations that they could not
commit aggressions on American soil, but
Rosebery claimed to see in it guarantee
on the part of the United States of the
permanence of any settlement that might
be arrived at, while Balfour declared amid
cheers that as result of our mediation
and their acceptance "a permanent guar
antee OF the good will of an English
speaking people viii have been obtained
for all time"
From reading of the whole debate it ap-
pears that most British statesmen think we
are going to arbitrate South American af-
fairs with them; that we will undertake the
settlement OF the whole dispute with Vene-
'zuela and will guarantee that Venezuela
shall conform TO whatever is decided.
Now, as matter of fact, we propose SIM
ply to draw a boundary line and to de-
clare where British Guiana ends and Vene-
zuela begins. Only one speaker in Parlia-
ment seems to have had a clear idea of
the true condition Of affairs, and that
naturally enough was Lord Salisbury.
That astute old statesman did not gush
over UNI restricted arbitration like the
younger speakers around him. He de-
clared himself opposed to any arbitration
that might hand over 10000 British sub
iects to Venezuela, and favored what he
called policy of arbitrati on and nego-
tiation com bined.''
1t will be seen that while we derive sat-
isfaction from the glowing professions of
friendship on the part of SO many parlia-
mentary orators, we must not regard the
Venezuelan affair as wholly settled. The
British have got to learn that we are not
offering them an alliance nor favoring the
arbitration of everything in sight. There
is no danger of war, but there is a good
deal Of negotiation to be carried on yet
between England and Venezuela, while
our task consists simply in drawing line
and saying to the British, Thus far shalt
thou go and no farther.
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SIDEWALKS TOO WIDE.

The cheerfulneSs with which the prop
erty-owners along LON bard street agreed
to the proposition to reduce the width of
the walks in order to widen the driveway
in its establishment as a boulevard is ex-
planned by petition which the residents
of the Richmond district have filed with
the Board of Supervisors for the reduction
of the width of the walks on certain
streets in that section, and both of these
incidents are sufficient to call attention to
the general fact that the sidewalks in the
newer parts of the City are entirely too
wide.
That is to say, the sidewalks are too
wide in proportion to the width of the
driveway. A street seventy feet wide, for
instance, will have fifteen-foet sidewalks,
leaving forty feet for the driveway and
giving thirty to the sidewalks. In some
cases even greater proportion goes to the
sidewalks.
The question of convenience is the only
one that can nationally be considered in
this matter. On Montgomery or Kearny
street, where at certain times of the day
the walks are pretty well filled, it would
be reasonable to have walks fifteen feet
wide, but in the residence parts of the
City such provision is absurd. The
system under which our streets were laid
out seems utterly to have ignored the pos
sible advent of streetcar lines, which
necessarily take considerable space that
otherwise might be used by wagons, thus
greatly reducing the usable width of the
driveway without affecting that of the
sidewalk.
1t is far more essential to have abunda 1t
free room in the driveway than on the
walks, for human beings run no risks of
collisions or blockades. Again streets in
San Francisco, by reason of the wretched
methods of paving which are prevalent,
are frequently torn up for repairs while
walks are not, and this fact serves further
to embarrass vehicular traffic.
Most OF the sidewalks in the residence
parts of town are nearly twice as wide as
they should be in order for the streets to
subserve their highest usefulness, and the
improvement clubs which are aiming to
upbuild the various sections in which they
work might give profitable heed to the
subject. OF course there is hardly need to
call attention to the matter of cost in con-
structing sidewalks.
The case of Lombard street illustrates
the whole subject. The property-owners,
recognizing the fact that the making of
their street into boulevard would in
crease travel and thus make wider drive
way necessary, cheerfully agreed to a
proposition that would benefit their prop
erty and increase the carrying capacity of
the street. That is the entire subject in
small compass.
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HUMoR OF THE HOUR.

Violinist proudly)-The instrument shall
use your house tomorrow evening, my dear
sir, is over 200 years old.
Parvenu-Oh, never mind that. 1t is good
enough; no one will know the difference.-Ilt
Bits.
"why," thundered the editor, "do you intro
duce such impossible situations? Here, for
instance, you say woman was comfortably
but not s:ylishly dressed. How absurd"
And art, thus made conscious of its error,
departed with diminished head.-Detroit Trib-
une.
Literary criticism is droll affair"
'Isn't it? The critics say the English lau-
reateship is mean, 1ow-down job and then
decide that Alfred Austin isn't good enough
for it."-Louisvllle Couner-Journal.
Uncle Hays-'Member the Hawkins boys who
ran away to jine theater company?
Aunt Marthy-Why, yesl What about en-?
Uncle Hays (quietlyl-They walked back
Cincinnati Enquirer.
in old times BARRIERS used to pull teeth and
bleed people. Now they talk them to DEATH
Bodie Exchange.
'You told me you and Harry loved at sight"
"Yes, but we quarreled on acquaintance. -
New York Truth.
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hunting So days; to calls on allied Princes in
Austria, Sweden, England, oldenburg Fried
richruha, Weimar, Szehlen, Darmstadt and
Carlsruhe, 3S days, and to military maneuvers
% days. Days unaccounted for were spent in
various cities and palaces of the empire.
General John NJ. Schofeld is visiting Florida
for the first time since early in the ffties,
where he went as lieutenant just from West
Point to regulate the Seminoles. His special
chum in those days was A. P. HILL then lieu
tenant in the same company, afterward the
famous Confederate general. It was in the
house OF Hills father at Culpepper, Va, that
General Schofield drank his first mint julep.
The Empress of Austria was 5S on December
"a. She has changed very much of late years
from the dashing sportswoman who used to
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Ex-senator John c.. Spooner OF Wisconsin
leIt for Los Angeles yesterday and will prob
aply not return to San Francisco again. After
oolng Los Angeles, Pasadena and other points
ne Will go to San Diego and Coronado.
Inc ex-senator is peculiar-looking man.
from his reputation one would suppose him
ABOUT SIX and a half feet high, with the stride
OF giant and will something like a lion.
ihls is the idea common among those who
have known him only by reputation, first as
an able lawyer and afterward as United States
Senator.
instead of this, however, he seems little over
hVe 1eet and hall in height. His 16-year-old
son with him overtops him by two or three
lncnes. The ex-senator wears his hair long,
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to the Rubinstein fund in order to show his
veneration for his late master.

The well-known Viennese composer and
bandmaster, Charles Komzak, is leaving the
Austrian army, where he is very popular in
order tc dedicate himself to composition His
colleagues recently organized a farewell enter
tainment in Vienna, at which the military
music OF four different regiments. in nearly all
800 musicians, performed Komzak's compo-
sitions. The execution was irreproachable.
although the musicians of the different regi-
ments had never played together before. The
Viennesse press remarks that the ancient repu-
tation of Austrian military music is as much
merited to-day as in former times.
The Theatre Royal of Turin will
shortly produce new lyric drama en-
titled "Sawitri," by Can't. Frau dEhren-
stein of the Imperial Opera at Vienna
has been engaged to create the role of
Sawitri, sort of East Indian Eurydice, who
obtains from Brahma the life OF her defunct
spouse. The management of the Imperial
Opera has granted leave of absence to its artist
to sing in Turin.
The Musikverein of Mannheim has just excel
ted, almost in its entirety one of the least
know n to-day of Mozarts operas "Idomeneo.
King of Crete" 1t appears that in spite of the
good execution this attempt to revive the work
met with no success. II is well known that
"Idomeneon was represented for the first time
in Munich in January, 1881, when Mozart
had just completed his twenty-ffth year, but
it is not SO well known that the 1ibretto of the
opera was an almost exact translation of
libretto entitled "Idomenee," which Danchet
a member of the French Academy. wrote for
the composer Cam pra.
Rossini was born on the Goth of February
consequently it is not every year that his
debut on the stage fife can be celebrated with
due exactitude. This being the last leap year
in the century grand music festival is being
organized at Pesaro the Swans native
place, in bis honor Mascagui, who is director OF
the Pesaro Rossini Lyceum, will conduct one OF
his Own compositions, and it is intended also
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and as it is thick and fluffy he looks from
rear view not unlike a Stanford or Berkeley
student.
Another weakness of the Wisconsin orator is
Wllley-boy coat, SO ample as to length that it
almost trails the floor. He stood in the corri-
dors of the Palace, his wife and children about
him, last evening, preparatory to taking the
south-bound train, and said good-by to several
old Wisconsin friends.
The Madison statesman is not in very good
health, and therefore is taking particular care
of himself. He looks to be little over so
years old
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to nerform Rossini's solemn mass with the best
lrric talant nrocurable in Italy.

lyric talent prOcuIdDle III AeoAJ.
Prince Luigi of Savoy has signified his inten-
ton of attending the farewell concert to be
given tonight by Signorina Carolina Beschieri
in the Maple Hall of the Palace Hotel. No
doubt the italian colony will be present in
great force, as Miss Beschieri is very popular
among her compatriots. She has sung as
nrima donna assoluta on more than one oeca-
SION with the Italian Philharmonic Society,
always winning warm applause. To-morrow's
concert will be her farewell appearance in this
Cftv Miss Beschieri will be assisted by David
Manlloyd, g. Almagia. Mrs. Flora Peterman,
yocalists; Miss Madeline Bechhusen, violinist;
G. Martinez and Emil Cruells, accompanies,
and by the Alhambra Bandurria and Mandolin
Club, directed by Professor Jose Sancho.
Hermann Levi, the celebrated Wsgnerian
conductor, who has been suffering for months
from an attack of the nerves, bordering on in
sanity has been obliged to obtain an indefinite
leave of absence from the Munich Opera-house,
1t is also announced that he will not go to
Bayreuth at all during the coming summer.
Johann Strauss has just finished new opera
comique, "The Witch of Scharfenberg."
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huntlike man. Her health has been much
affected, and she spends most of her time NOV
ing from place to place in the hope that change
may do her good. She travels good deal in
her yacht, which is appropriately named the
Wanderer, and sails ceaselessly up and down
the Adriatic from Trieste to her island palace
at Corfu
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TELEPHONE MAIN 717

The Gas Consumers Association, the old COM
pany, BIG Post street. The Standard Auton.
attic Gas Regulator is attached to the meter
controlling the pressure automatically, keeping
the flame steady, and allowing no waste or
blowing, preventing breakage of globes, and
saving from 20 to 40 per cent
. New tips and burners are supplied, leaks and
II necessary, and all complaints connected
with the gas, electric bells or gas liuhting
apparatus are attended to-
The monthly dues are according to the aver.
age gas consumption and the quantity of elee-
trio apparatus in use.
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But One California.

While the people of much OF the East are
suffering from the second or ground hog"
half of the winter, people in the reOion Of
Stockton are making their gardens or remak-
ing them. Potato vines are ten inches high
and the shade trees seem about to burst into
leaf, so thick and heavy are the leaf-buds.
Only few hours ride from where almonds
are in bloom, near Sacramento, people are
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NEW FLAG FOR NEW YORK

The Committee on Ways and Means of the
New York Assembly has decided to report ia
vorably the bill for new emblem of the En-
pire State.
The coloring of the new flag, as the expert
designs show it, is an orange red, with the coat
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OF arms OF the State in the center. 1t will be
the same flag in detail as the American patriots
carried in the wars of 1776 and 1912, and will
be the first historically correct emblem the
State has ever had
The idea of perfecting the flag as it should
be is the inspiration of Colonel Asa Bird Gard
iner, commandant of the Society of the War
of 1872
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The Senate has at last done something
that may be expected to grow. 1t has
passed free seed bill
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

HIGHEST PoINT-G. H., City. The highest
part of Clay-street hill is not the highest point
in San Francisco. The altitude there, Clay
and Jones streets, is 355 feet. The highest
point is Twin Peaks, 905 feet above base.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

SPECIAL information daily TO manufacturers.
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen's), $40 Montgomery
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1t is very seldom that American jokes
are poor, but the comic valentine is GER
tainiy not rich.
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Protect Farm Products.
Stockton Graphic.

If the United States Government would de-
vote little more time to securing advantages
for that great source of prosperity to our coun-
try, agriculture men who are now idle, it mat
tiers not what their calling may be, could get
employment at a living rate of wages. The
Government fosters and protects the manu-
facturer, and the growers of farm staples are
left to compete with the pauper labor of all
Christendom.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

NAVAL RENDEzvoUs-S., City. There is a naval
rendezvous at 20 Ellis street in this City where
men between the ages of 81 and 35 can enlist
as marines. Those who wish to ship as able
bodied seamen must make application on
board the Adams at Folsom-street wharf
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

By this time Huntington has ceased to
expect a refunding bill as a valentine this
year.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

Senator Dodge says that political patron
age is un-American, but why, then, doe
the average American call it pie?
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Public VS.. Private Ownership.
Fresno Expositor.

1t means that the people of this valley will
be paying tribute to British foreign syndicate
or trust for all time if the Wright law is not
sustained. That would create an aggravating
war between the people and the trusts, and no
foreign syndicate Will be allowed to control
the waters of this State.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

The cannon-makers and powder manu-
facturers have formed trust and a new
terror has been added to war.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

SHAKERs-A. o. s., Sacramento, Cal. A few
months ago the preliminary steps in the mat
ter of organizing q society of Shakers were
taken in San Francisco and there the matter
rpcta6
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

Hunter has made a great fight for the
senatorship in Kentucky, but the time ha:
now come for him to quit and go fishing.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

HOMESTEAD RIGHTs-J. j. L., Redding, Cal,
In this State children have no rights in piece
of property that was declared a homestead by
their parents while the parents are living.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

Senator Vest seems to have settled down
TO the roasting OF Secretary Morton as a
steady job and keeps up the fire every day.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

1t seems the anti-funding resolution
never reached the Governor, but there can
be no doubt it reached Mr.. Huntington.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

The success of the San Joaquin road in
getting right of way through Fresno is
not victory over the city but for the city.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

WHAT Hoods Sarsaparilla has done sor o.,. ..
can and VIII do for you fair trial of HOOPS s.r
saparilla Will convince you Of the entire trn,b =,
the above statement. Take only Hoods -
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

PENsAcoLA-S., Santa Monica, CAL The navy
yard at Pensacola, Fla, is still maintained by
the Navy Department. William H. Whiting
is the commandant, whose rank is Commander
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

'Why, hello, Barley, thought you wera
going South for the wintern
"Well, was, but changed my mind. loan
get all the winter / want around here uitbcrt
going South for it."-Harper's Bazar.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

Salisbury talked of peace, but all the
same he told Parliament he would ask for
an increased expenditure in preparing fo1
war.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

Edison should hurry up his machine for
photographing the brain. as it will come
in handy in making pictures of Congress
sional candidates this fall.
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The Queen speech does not use as many
words to con ceal thought as one of C!eve-
lands messages, but it conceals 1t just the
same.
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PURE mixed candies, 1oc lib. Townsend's. /.

THE sweetest Valentine-"A basket of Town.
sends choice candies" Palace Hotel
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The debate in Parliament on the Vene-
zuelan question was as agreeable as love
feast, SO it seems Uncle Sam is a great
harmonizer.
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Chinese new year threatens to collide
with st. Valentines day this year, but the
good saint is not afraid of firecrackers and
will bring out his sparks as usual.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

The young leap year has chance to be
frisky tomorrow.
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The burning of sugar plantations by the
Cuban insurgents looks a good deal like
cutting off the nose of Cuba to spite the
face of Spain.
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Some people are still discussing whether
woman ought to ride bicycle, but we
do not hear any one suggesting the pos
sibility of stopping her.
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When the Senate proceeds to elect a
doorkeeper it would not be bad plan to
attach silver bill to him and thus shut
the gold men out.
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Count Leo Henckel Won Donnersmarck, who
recently died in Germany, was said to be the
last descendant of the Goethe family.
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

stTrilby" has been translated into Russian
and the craze is On in Moscow. The name OF
the translator is Teminotf and Katia stands
for Triiby in Russian
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

After all it hardly needs resolution OF
the Legislature to speak for California on
the refunding scheme, for on that ques-
ton the people are speaking for them
selves.
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The omission from the records of the
anti-funding resolutions passed by the
last Legislature may have been an acci-
dent, but 1t was the monopoly ak that was
ground.
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AcoUeH SHOULD NOT BE NEGLECTED.. {" Rro,r,,.
bro''cnaae 1roches are simple remedy and give
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

DR.. sIEeERT's Angostura Bitters possess an s..
qusite flavor and are a sura rraye.I aSs5SSo an ex
diseases of the digestive organs. iof al
The San Francisco call., 1896-02-13

The German Emperor it is said, is fonder of
Shakespeare than of any other author.
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skating on ice and enjoying toboggaEing at
Truckee, and all in California
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In noting the source of an extract, the
New York Literary Digest puts the politi-
cal status of one of our morning contem-
poraries in this curious way: "The Ctros-
icle Qnd.), San Francisco, NJ. H. de Young
(Rep.), editor and publisher" This kind
of distinction between the politics OF an
editor and that of his paper is unusual,
and moreover in this case is peculiar.
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G. E. Dillon, the instructor in sculpture at
the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, has COM
pleted the statue of Sir Isaac Newton, which is
to be Placed in the rotunda of the new Con-
gressional Library at Washington.
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RAY PALMER. P. S., City. Ray Palmer is q
native of the United States. At present he
does not preside over any congregation. Fol
many years he was pastor OF the First Baptist
Church OF Stockton. few months ago he
on account of his health, resigned the pastor
shin. -