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OBSTACLES TO COMMERCE.

Professor George Davidson, whose abil-
ity cannot be questioned, has made an as
tonishing report to the central body of citi-
zeus organized to advance the interests of
California. His special task was to ascer-
tain and report upon the menaces to navi-
cation which exist in and about the harbor
of San Francisco. He has done his work
thoroughly and presented a mass of facts
which even Congress cannot ignore.
He has made list OF twenty-four dan
gerous rocks which threaten our ocean
commerce and which have already caused
a list OF casulties OF astonishing length.
He shows that the losses which have been
thus entaiied are immeasurably out of pro-
portion to the cost necessary to remove the
rocks, and that in some cases small frac-
ton OF the loss from single one of the
many wrecks which the rocks have caused
would have been sufficient for the removal
of the obstacles causing it.
In his delving into the records he has
learned that 348 wrecks have occurred be-
tween Bodega Head and Santa Cruz, 317
between Point Reyes and Halfmoon Bay,
and 224 within the harbor of San Francisco
and within five miles north and south Of
the heads. Notwithstanding the millions
that have been thus lost the Government,
according to Professor Davidson, has ex-
pended only 100000 in the removal of
dangerous rocks from this vici nifty and has
not devoted cent to that purpose since
1874. Worse than that, the Government
has lately announced that there is no
necessity for appropriations for removing
these menaces to navigation.
1t seems almost incredible that the
Government is thinking of abandoning
the telegraph line from Point Reyes to San
Francisco, when Professor Davidson shows
that the losses from wrecks at that point
foot up nearly $1,G00,0OO and that San
Francisco is the only place from which aid
in the shape of tugboats or otherwise can
be summoned in case of q wreck
Every neglect of the harbor of San Fran
cisco means the strengthening of the rail-
road monopoly which now holds the State
in its grasp and which is seeking diligently
to defeat the Nicaragua canal project, pass
funding bill, prevent an appropriation
for the improvement of the interior water
ways of the State, monopolize isthmian
transportation and impose extraordinary
charges on the overland shipment of Cali
fornia products. The possibilities of the
Cape Horn route will never be fully de-
veloped until the harbor of San Francisco
and its approaches are made perfectly
safe, and it is now the duty of our people
to see that this is done.
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PERSONAL.

George s. Mills of Olympia is here.
1. Lowengast a banker of Portland, is at the
Occidental
B. X. Block, wine merchant of Sacramento.
is al the Lick
State Controller E. P Colgan has arrived
here ior a short stay
William B. Fisher wealthy business man
of Denver, is at the Palace.
R. B. Butler, the vineyardist of Fresno, princi-
pal owner OF the Fresno Expositor, is in the
City.
John McMurray, q wealthy miner of Weaver
vile, who has been on visit to the East is at
the Grand.
L. P. Sage, the wealthy California pioneer,
VINO is owner of the Congress Mineral Springs,
is at the Lick
Bishop Morris of the Episcopal Church of
oregon arrived here from Portland yesterday
and is at the Palace
Dr. David starr-Jordan, president of the stau-
ford University and of the Acadamy of Sci
ences, is at the Occidental.
a N Gilbert of Salem, formerly a member of
the oregon Legislature and now superintendent
OF the Oregon penitentiary, is in the CITY.
]. H. Porter, wealthy mining man OF Red
ding, Is at the Russ. He brought down a large
and handsome piece OF rock from one of his
mines, which shows the quicksilver fairly boil
ing out of it.
Admiral Beardslee of the United States flag
ship Philadelphia sailed for San Diego on the
steamer Mexico yesterday, accompanied by
Mrs. Beardslee and Mrs. Edmundson, wife of
Captain Edmundson. The Philadelphia will
start for San Diego in day or two
Sir Audley Coot of Australia, who has been
in this country for some time in reference to
the trans-Pacifc cable, left for Washington
again yesterday. he says the Hawaiian cable is
the one he is now bending all his energies upon,
but that ere long there is no doubt there will
be complete cable system between Japan, Aus
traha, Samoa, Tahiti, Hawaii and San Fran
cisco.
Thomas Hill, the noted artist of Yosemite,
who some weeks ago went North with the in
tention OF painting Mount Baker, returned
here yesterday and is at the Palace. 1t rained
so much that Mr.. Hill could not see the sun,
and he had to give up his project for the time,
He remained in Portland, where he has many
friends, and enjoyed vacation there. He
thinks now he VIII do next to no work till
spring.
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elected the following officers for the en-
suing wear: President, Professor e. J.
Wickson; vice president, L. o. Hodgkins;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. w. H.
Smvth: recording secretary, ProfessoB
Emory Smith; treasurer, John Hendersoni
accountant, f. A. Bruins; directors, John
Hinkle and Mrs. Austin Sperry. Exh!bl-
tion committee-Professor Emory Smith,
manager; Mrs. o. D. Baldwin, secretary;
Mrs. Amos Mccartney. Mrs. w. S. Chand-
Ter and Mrs. B. Harris.
The society will hereafter make the
Palace Hotel it's regular meeting place.
where an exhibition of wild flowers Will be
held some time in the month OF April.
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a MAD MONARCH.

1t would make the European chessboard a
much less interesting object If the game of
politics were played without Emperor William,
who is species of electrical eel with crown
on its head. This mechanical passage at arms
of the diplomats, together with the alarming
side moves OF the powers, keeps the world of
finance on the qui viye, when it would other
wise lapse into lethargic state. But for En-
peror Williams idiosyncrases how dull would
be the routine of state watching state, and the
long, slow checkmating which has gone on
ever since there were countries to be jealous of
one another. Thanks to this erratic Hohen-
zo!lern, with the blood of the Georges in his
VEINS, there Is something beside the monotony
OF klngly relgns in this history for the future.
The Kaiser is tainted with the family malady,
but not TO such degree that he is considered
irresponsible Tor his actions. HIS mind is not
without intelligence, and his clief mental fail
1ngs are the somewhat negative ones OF exces-
slVe concelt ana q superlative reStlessness,
Whlch he does not seek to control. Both traits
throw him into whirl of extravagances. The
observer, with much less temptation, not to
say power TO Crafty it, wonders at this want OF
balance IN man OF such marked ability, and
per1unctorlly classes him among those lunatics
VINO are constantly met with in the
sanest relations oil life. mere spider
WEB nne separates these two conditions
Whlch william IL represents. He is as mad as
the March Hare in 'Alice in Wonderland"
and he is as sane as a New England professor
OF physics, and between whiles he is most
amusing to everybody save his own household
and the majority of the German people. Those
who suffer from these yagaries can find no en-
tertainment in such a strange ruler. They
would prefer less of surprise and more of the
conservatism which dignifeG their monarchs
OF olo, Wnlle al the same time they clamor for
thoSe radical changes made necessary by this
wild young mans ideas of divine right
me 0erman Emperor, as he appears at this
Instance, is an archaic tyrant garbed in
modern dress-a sort of materialized thumb
screW placed On nation struggling to think
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PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.

Lord Lonsdale's hobby is TO collect whips
Some in his possession are worth over $500
each.
Dr. George Macdonald, whose health OF late
has been fairly good, is now at work on another
story.
Kaiser Wilhelm is said to be partial to q
queer mixture of kirschwasser and American
whisky.
Nearly one-half of the National House men,
bers are college graduates, and the same is true
of the Senate. Some 63 per cent of the Repre-
sentatives and 6S per cent of the Senators are
lawyers.
The Turkish Government has made over
lures to M. Turpin, the inventor of the explo-
sive known as melinite, to go 10 Constantine
pie and make experiments with his new engine
of destruction.
A French Canadian couple, Louis Darwin
and his wife, now living in st. Paul, recently
celebrated the eightieth anniversary of their
marriage. The husband is 10Y years of age
and the wife is 101.
Knackfuss, the painter, explains Kaiser
Wilhelm's extraordinary picture of "Civiliza-
ton in Peril" He says that the Buddha and
the dragon do not represent an impending inva-
sion OF Mongolans, but Indifference for Chris
tianity and anarchy.
Andrew Carnegie has announced that he
will give $4,000 year for the establishment
of the museums and the art gallery in Pitts
burg bearing his name. The only proviso
that he attaches to the gift is that two or more
pictures by American artists be purchased
each year.
DR.. Mary Walker is now living on a farm
about three miles west of Oswego, n. Y. She
is familiar figure on the streets of the town.
to which she drives nearly every day. She
always wears full suit of black broadcloth,
with Prince Albert coat ana silk hat, and walks
with cane.
The summer house of Emanuel Swedenborg
w as sold recently to DR.. Arthur Hazelius the
founder of the Northern Museum at Stock
holm, and will be removed from its present To-
cation TO Skansen,, a branch of the museum.
There were many American and English bid
ders for this little house.
La Tarrasse, where the Czarowitz is TO stav
during his sojourn in the Riviera. is on the
shoulder OF the mountain between Nice and
Villefranca. To go there one passes bv the
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11
HUMoR OF THE HOUR.

"How do you manage to make yourself so
popular with all the old bachelors?'
Widow ask them for their advice.
He-And do you manage it the same way
with the young ones?
Widow-Oh, no; with them I ridicule the
advice the older ones giye.-Woonsocket Re-
porter.
"Please look here moment, Miss Grogan,"
said the gentleman whose mission in life was
TO hourly entertain the admiring public by
dislocating his neck.
"Phat is ut Mr.. Smith?" returned the beauti-
full Circassian Princess, pleasantly.
els ma head on traight?"-Harper Bazar.
Miriam-Don't you think my new hat poem,
Ned?
Ned critically it's height, dear, I
should, instead, compare it to short story
Judge.
'We have no use for bear stories" said the
editor. "Our readers demand something
spicy
"Well," said the man with the manuscript,
''this story is about cinnamon bear. Sport
Afield.
The Thin one-Dear mel You are losing all
your outlines.
The Fat One-And you are getting to be
nothing else.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Plenty of presents at your house, I suppose.
What ones did your boy like best?'
"Those that our neighbours boy reeeived."-
New York Recorder.
Thus departed Hiawatha
To the land of the Dakotas
To the land of handsome women;
And in ninety days returning
A divorcelet he brought with him.
To his wife he gave the bahia
Sent her back unto her mama,
In the outskirts of Chicago
Nebraska State Journal.
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in Office a Republican President. None
tary reform occupies by no means SO good
a position either at present or in prospect.
TO fasten the two movements together
would be to retard protection without ad-
vancing bimetallism, and no good states
manlike reason can be found for support
ing such policy.
The error of Senator Teller's position is
the more serious because of the pressing
necessity of tariff reform at once and the
restoration of completely protective
tariff at the earliest moment possible
The greater portion of the difficulties in
which cur finances are now involved are
due TO the defects of the present tariff.
Under its operation we have the double
evil of deficient revenues and an adverse
balance of trade. BY reason OF the one we
have to run the Nation into debt to pay
current expenses and by reason of the
other we are forced to export gold TO settle
the debts due to foreign nations for the
excess of imports. To redress the defects
of the tariff and get rid of these evils the
emergency bill now before the Senate was
passed by the House. 1t should be passed
for the relief of the country with an equal
promptness by the Senate, and on CIeve-
land should be thrown the responsibility
of rejecting it if he dares.
The need OF returning to comprehen-
sive protective system as soon as possible
is not less urgent than that establishing
an adequate tariff at once. The emer-
gency bill would benefit the National
treasury as soon as it was put into force,
but 1t would only by indirection serve the
industries OF the people. To restore to
the country that full measure of prosper
lty 1t enjoyed under Republican tariffs
another such tariff adapted to the changed
conditions of the time must be enacted.
Our manufacturers and workingmen are
threatened now with a competition from
Japan far more menacing to the welfare of
home and industry that any we have
known before. Absolute and thorough
protection is therefore the imperative need
of the time. L should be sacrificed to no
other interest whatever, not even to so
great and benefcent a measure as that of a
return to bimetalism. On that platform
all Republicans can stand and must stand
If they wonld stand unitedly and securely.
Let US hear no more talk of "bimetallism
or nothing" The Republican party is the
champion of ''protection and bimetallism"
and he only is loyal to the party who
serves both of these causes with an equal
fidelity
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small farmhouse and garden of Michael Carl
baldi's uncle, which was inhabited for some
years by Gambetta's father.
Mr.. Kalbfeisch of Rochester is a vestryman
OF Christ Church in that city and the ticket
agent OF the New York Central Railroad.
While he was in his Office the other day man
came to the window and said he wanted
ticket to Christ Church. Mr.. Kalbfeisch
thought he was being made the victim of
joke until the man added, "Christ Church, New
Zealand" He could not be accommodated
with ticket to that place, and he bought one
to Timaru, New Zealand, which is about Il, 900
miles from Rochester.
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AIDED THE LIBRARY.

Trustees Acknowledge the Generosity
of Mrs. Hearst and Mr.. Flood.
At a meeting of the trustees of the Mer-
camille Library, held January 7, the follow
ing resolution was unanimously adopted
ReSoEUed, That the thanks of the trustees of
the Mercantile Library Association be and are
hereby rendered to Mrs. Phoebe Hearst and J.
L. Flood for their generous donations to this
library, and that they be declared elected
honorary members of this association.
AT the last meeting of the trustees of the
Mercantile Library Association it was an
nounced that Mrs. Hearst had donated
$4,000 and Mr.. Flood $1,000 to the funds of
the library
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STREETCAR TRANSFERS.
Another Effort for a Reform Is Soon tt
Be Made,

AT the last meeting of the Merchants
Association the committee on street rail.
way transfers, consisting of A. S. Baldwin,
w. g.. Doane, Hugo D. Keil, w. s. Kohl
berg, +. A. Swain. A. S. Hallidie, G. f..
Drlscoll, S. w. Dixon and Frank Maskey.
was increased by adding number of GER
tie men outside of the association.
This committee will meet Mr.. Vining.
superintendent OF the Market-street sys-
tenn OF railways, and confer with him con-
cernlng the reduction of the transfer traffic
and the extension of the limits of trans
fers.
Engineer Mccullough of the association
has prepared directory and guide of the
City Hall.
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PUPILS OF EVERETT SCHOOL.

Interesting Exercises to Mark the Open
ing of Eureka valley.
Wednesday the pupils of Everett Gram
mar School held exercises in commemora"
ton of the nineteenth anniversary OF the
opening OF the first school in Eureka Val"
ley.
Interesting papers were read by mem"
bers of the eighth grade class showing
the change in this locality; also by AL
bert Elliott, Almia Thompson, Ethel Ham.
mond, Ninita Bruce, Robert Belser, Allis-
ter Mckenzie and Molly Irwin of the
ninth grade, and by the principal.
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EDUCATING FROGS.

There is one queer fact which DR.. Ernest
1ederle OF the Health Board seems to have -es-
tablished by his recent experiments with three
Staten Island frogs, and that is that the little
ANIMAL while capable of receiving instruction
in limited degree, has very short memory
says the New York Evening Sun. When he
first got possession OF the frogs, several months
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materials is to use the material crosswise for
the plastron, the stripes in the body being used
up and down.
waist of blue-colored heavy linen after this
model might have revers and plastron of white
lawn.
Blue duck could be made very effective with
the reyers and plastron in blue and white
striped or plain white duck.
For cIepon or light woods the most stylish
and summer-like trimming Is f1ax-colored grass
linen or batiste, which could be used for the
reyers and plastron. These might be trimmed
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LADY's BELTED WAIST.

charming model for three fabrics is here
shown. 1t may be made without the lining
The pattern is cut with the back in one piece
The front is laid in box-pleat on either side.
1t opens at the top to show plastron, from
which revers of the latest shape turn back
The sleeves are particularly effective, made OF
striped materials to show the folds at the top
white lawn with pink stripes would be
exquisite, trimmed with white plastron and
Another charming way of making up striped
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CAL1FoRNIANs IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Jan. 1o.-Among recent
arrivals are: Miss Johnson, Brunswick; II. C.
Tibbits, Grand Union; w. H. Wiester and wife.
Marlborough; ]. S. Curtis, st. Cloud; A. Stern
and wife, Holland; E. B. Westcott and wife,
Grand Union
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CHICAGO LIMITED.
VIA SANTA EE KOUTE.

new train throughout begins October "a.
Pullmans finest seeping-cars, vestlbule reclintng-
chair cars and dinfng-cars. Los Angeles TO Chi
cago, via Kansas City, without change Annex
cars on sharp connection for Denver and St.
Louis Twenty-seven hours quicker than tbs
quickest competing train. The Santa Fe has been
put in fine physical condition and is now the Osss
transcOntinental railway.
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The shore Line at Sea.

Stockton Independent.
There is no likelihood of trouble with Britain
over the Alaskan boundary unless that Gov
ernment tries to measure ten marine leagues
inland from the islands instead of the shore
which it probably win not do.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11
Those Latent English Rights.
Alameda Encinal

Alameda Encinal
1t has been admitted by the English diplo-
mats that they did not ''strenuously" claim a
new boundary in Alaska until gold deposits
were discovered there The latent rights OF
England are becoming numerous that a
definition OF them should not be delayed much
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81 left letter on my table when went out,
Where is it?'
Valet hope you won't mind sir. thoughs
it would do nicely for my sweetheart, so &
posted it to her. Your Christian name is the
same as mine-Tit Bits
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Lively John Sherman.

Seattle Post-Intelllgencer.
John Sherman may be too old TO run for
President, but his activity in Congress does
not indicate that he has suffered any great loss
OF either mental or physical power.
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STATE FLORAL SOCIETY.

officers Who Will Oversee Its Manage
ment for the Ensuing Year.
The California State Floral Society held
its regular monthly meeting at the Y. NJ.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

Europe talks of war and keeps the peace,
but the Turk talks of peace and goes on
with his slaughtering.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

The TransvaaI, Venezuela and Cuba de-
serve sympathy, but Armenia requires
help and protection.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11
Feeding the son-in-Law

The Southern Pacific Railroad Company is
gobbling mineral land by the thousands of
acres at a grab. But poor old Coils must have
somethlng TO stuff into the ever-gaping sack of
that imported sOn-in-laW of hisn
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The QUEENS POWERS. j., Oakland, Cal.
The sovereign of England cannot herself
make any alteration in the existing laws but
she may refuse to sanction alterations sug-
gested by the two houses of Parliament.
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The next big war viii rearrange not the
map Of Europe only, but that OF all the
world, outside of America.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

UPON fair trial Hoods sarsapariIIa fulflls alb
claims made for it. 1t is the one true blood purife
hence ITS success in aeviating pain and curing dis
ease after other remedies have failed.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

"BRo WIS BRONCHIAL. TRoCHEs" are Of great
service in subduing Hoarseness and Coughs.
Sold only in boxes Avoid limitations.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

Russia keeps the peace in Europe, and
Europe calls her barbarous.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

To neglect the hair is to lose youth and cOmelt-
ness. Save it with PARKER's HAIR BALsAM.
PARKER's GINGER Tonic cures inward pain.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

England and Germany talk of war, but
the Stock Exchange doesn't believe them.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

From the way Congress Is working, this
promises to be the shortest long session
we have had in many year.
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WE recommend the use OF DIR. Siegert's Angos.
STA.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

Other issues come and go, but the fund
bill fight stays with US.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers.
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen's), $40 Montgomery.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

1t might be worth while for the Demo
Gratis to renominate Cleveland Just to give
the people whack at him.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

The third-term movement is by no
means a good thing, but Grover has lots of
bondsmen to push it along.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

From the difficulty the British have in
understanding the Monroe doctrine one
would think it was good joke.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

Huntington is the only potentate left
who has not received an ultimatum.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11
Barrx,s Star. 5 Cents.

rousing protest against the funding bill }
DR.. Brown discussed; Civic Federation scored 8
Menzies-Gu Gunst decision reversed; ETC., etc.
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Big as are the Cleveland bond issues
they are not big enough to cover the deficit
and hide the weakness of the Wilson
tariff
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

He-Do you ever have any hops out in your
town?
Country Cousin-Oh, yes. Pa raised ten
acres of 'em this year.-New York Evening
World
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The Kaiser does the talking, but it is the
Gar who has the sayso.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

The cleanup on the water front will i'm
prove the entrance to the City, and by and
by we may get the City itself cleaned up.
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TURoUo1sE-W, Alameda, Cal. It is said that
the reason so many Russians wear tur-
quoise as an ornament is their belief that the
gem is a taliSman against a cruel fate. The
Htndoos consider it a preserYer against violent
death
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

SPECIAL sale choice cream mixed candies 15o
pound, worth 35c. Townsends.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

Spain will not accept the resignation OF
Campos, and if he is ever 10 get ont of his
position he must surrender it to Cuba.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

If the Democratic leaders do not wish
the third-term move nent to carry their
next National Convention, they had better
begin to get there Eli and head it off.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-11

The bond issue may be called popular
loan, but it will be poured out into the
swlll-barrel OF the syndicate hog.