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The San Francisco call., 1897-04-07

said in brief: match off; you've got cold
feet"
Leader Howard Taylor states that the
club will secure hrst-class talent and q
show will be given in the first week in
May at the Pavilion.
Whatever others say, Iho.d
1t is a burning shame
The way the gas bills mount and mount
While lower sinks the flame.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-07
LORING CLUB CONCERT.

An Excellent Programme Spiritedly
Rendered at It's Third Concert
in Odd Fellows Hall.
The Loring Club gave its third concert
of the twentieth season in Social Hall,
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-07
WHY SO MANY REGULAR PHYSICIANS FAIL
To Cure Female nls-Somo True Reasons VIII,
Mrs. Pinkham is More Successful Than
the Family Doctors

A woman is sick some diseas
sex is fast developing in her sy
to her family physician and
story, but not the whole story.
Notwithstanding back, LOSE
becomes agitated, forgets wha
to say, and finally conceals
ought to have told, and thus {
mystifies the doctor.
Is it any wonder, therefore,
the doctor fails to cure the disc
Still, we cannot blame the wo-
man, foritisvery embarrassing
to detail some of the symp-
toms of her suffering, even to !
her family physician.
1t was for this reason that
wears ago Mrs. lydia f. Pink
The herald., 1897-03-17
AN IMPORTANT MEASURE

If opportunity is offered, measure will
be introduced in congress during the
special session to establish a national
quarantine against the Mexican orange
worm-a pest that would do incalculable
harm in Southern California if once in
troduced.
A bill providing for such quarantine
was drafted by Horticultural Commits
sioner Havens of Riverside county and
sent to the National Fruit Growers con-
vention in Washington by Capt. M. ].
Daniels of Riverside and f. M. Wardall
of Monrovia Capt. Daniels was one of
the secretaries of the convention, and,
in conjunction with Mr.. Wardall, did
some very effective work in securing ac-
ton on this matter. Mr.. Havens' bill
was made the basis of law. which was
framed and placed in the hands of a COM
petent committee TO urge its passage
on congress. Prof Wilson. the new sec
retary of agriculture. was present and
tADTtSSSu Ills COiuidi dppiONoi VI NiS
measure. .u
The bill goes further than to provide
for inspection. 1t will include the treat
ment of trees, plants. buds, cuttings,
gratis, scions and nursery stock and
fruit generally that are offered for i'm
portation. The fact that the secretary
of agriculture is in favor Of the meas
ure will be a material aid in having the
bill become a law, but the question is of
such vital interest to the fruit growers of
California that they should press the
matter upon the delegation in, congress,
that It may take the lead, if need be,
in carrying the bill to successful vote
and the approval of the president.
The herald., 1897-03-17
To Farm the YacantLots

To farm Chicago's vacant lots is the
object of plan submitted to Mayor
Swift last week by the Salvation Army
officers. in which there is a promise of
wide public interest.
Commander Booth-Tucker and his
coadjutors hope to start this year with
no mere Pingree potato patches, but
with a complex scheme of colonization.
which will begin with the self support
and education of the city poor into farm
ers and which will end in the establish
ment of independent. self supporting
colonies of small farmers in the south
and west. This is the plan which has
been in successful operation in and
around London for several years.
The most important piece of the city's
unoccupied property is the Gage farm.
This is under lease which has year
yet to run. If agreeable to the lessee
and the city council, the Salvation Army
will lift the lease and divide the 256 acres
of the farm into small lots, which will be
given out for purposes of cultivation to
persons willing to work.
In addition to this and other city
property. Commander Booth-Tucker and
Colonel Brewer hope to secure land from
Independent property owners.
The plans for the Chicago work have
been carefully worked out. They en-
brace. in addition to the various char
liable undertakings of the Salvation
Army already in operation, such as shell
ters for men and women, criminal and
nom criminal, slum posts, ETC., and the
potato and truck farms on city lots. a
farm colony of about 1000 acres, not far
from Chicago. for the completion of the
agricultural training Of those who show
an aptitude for farming, and permanent
settlements on cooperative and indi-
vidual basis of thousands of acres of
southern and western lands.
Commander Booth-Tucker said Mon
day that he was in communication with
a railroad company which was desirous
of placing one-half a million acres OF
first-class lands at his disposal for set
tlement on the most favorable terms.
Il hope to ablish farmers en-
ployment bureau which will have as the
cardinal principle the allotment of an
acre or two to the hands for cultivation
on their own account.
Our system has stood the test of ex-
perience. In London our various insti-
tutions last year came in contact with
5000 persons day and not the same 600C
either. 1t cost $4,000. A large sum, you
will say. Yes, but all but $4,000 was
earned. The taxpayers would have had
to pay out 100000 to get the same re-
suits; and think of the moral difference
I'VE do not put much stress on dis
covering the difference between the
worthy and the unworthy poor. We think
the most important difference is be-
tween those willing and those not will
ing to work. If the other religious and
charitable organizations of the city VII
undertake to care for the worthy poor
we will willingly become the church OF
the unworthy. Chicago Tribune.
The herald., 1897-03-17

foothold in Europe until the peopli
shall have conhscateu every royal Char
ter by the destruction of every crown.
Even now the liberty of France is men,
aced from without, for. the new. coali-
ton that has sprung up between Ger
many and Russia may, any day. result
in the demand that a puppet member o.
the royal corporation be admitted to
his inheritance there. If a respite is to
come to the people of Europe. from the
exactions of royalty. they will have to
fight for it. The Americas, North ana
South, have set them the example.
France has shown how 1t may be done
by them at home. The great Germanic
people should be the next to. take this
step, for this heroic race is, ruled by a
hard task-master
If corporate royalty is ever to reach
the period of disincorporation it is high
time that the hand of the people should
write the decree. Under it's domin;t-
tion the madness of destruction is ad-
vancing to supplant the intoxication Of
power, and If the flame tht is kindled in
Greece should develop into confiagra-
ton the Hellenes might have the great
er glory of confirming to mankind the
civilization that they planted in the days
of Solon.
The herald., 1897-03-17


stood as meaning is, that while bonds
might have bad to be sold to maintain
the gold reservesansway, had there been
a surplus Of revenue. bonds could have
been purchased with the surplus. sBuf
the surplus he talks about did not mater
ialize at any time during the operation
of the Mckinley bill That is to say,
during the four years of the operation
of the Mckinley act the net deficit was
about s21, 100000. The first year there
was a surplus of 100000, the second
year there was s1o,ooo,oo0. the THIRD year
there was 100000, and the fourth
brought up deficit of s7o.ooo,ooo. Thus
the net deficit, as stated, was s21,OOo,ooo'
The herald., 1897-03-17
THE CORPORATION OF ROY
Atty

In this age of modern trusts and other
business combinations and the strug-
gle of the people for individual freedom
from that form Of aggression, it is in
structlve to take a retrospect of the
Oldest corporate body in existence. This
is the corporation of royalty 1t was
chartered by custom before the founda-
tions of Nineveh or Babylon were laid.
and with a code of bylaws that has
suffered but little change through tn .
centuries, it is with us still Its object is
the assumption of superior wisdom
in the sphere of government. and its
rights the levy Of an, unlimited tribute
upon the life and property of the work.
for the purpose of maintaining its as
sumed prerogative. Except in America
and France it is today in the full enjoy
rnent of it's ancient powers But the
nations of America, even without tn :.
advantages of education or the cultiva
tion of the arts and sciences as thesa
are found to exist in Europe, have peace.
From this generalization we need not
exclude the Dominion of Canada, thu
government of which is practically as
local and as representative as our own.
But all this time Europe under the
dictation of corporate royalty, is at war.
not just now the acute stage of wa
which is distinguished by the effusion
of blood, but that waste of war that
drags every able-bodied man from tn,
field and vineyard and parades. him
under arms in fantastic idleness during
the best years of his life, while poverty
and the most grinding toll are reserved
for the old and for the women and Cor
childhood. This is the food that has
swept over Europe in the age of her
highest enlightenment, and no shore is
visible above its tide. The system OF
the Americans can find no permanent
The herald., 1897-03-17

What We OWe Abroed

Through honest and dishonest deal
ings the following American invest
ments are now held by foreign capital
lists: Bonds. s1,250 000.O 900; mines, $780,
600, 900; gas light companies, $50 000. 900;
electric light companies, $4,000, 900;
breweries, $36, 900, 900; stockyards, $780,
900, ,000 cotton mills, $20,000,000 flour
mills, $4,000. .000 dressed beef COM
panies, $40, 900; rolling mills,
$4,000, 900: distilleries, s5,000000; grain
elevators, $4,000, 600; sash and door
factories, $5,000,000; leather goods
factories, $4,000, 900; food produce
companies. 81, 10000 paper mills, $3,-
100000: shpyards, $500. 900; potteries.
5000 900; varnish works, 50, 900; rub
ber mills, 50 000, 600; miscellaneous, $780,
900, 900; real estate, 81, 500, 900, 900. An ag-
gregate of SS, 1874 S00,0 ,000
No estimate is made of foreign invest
ments in railroads. Ifthese investments
net profit of 5 per cent the producing
masses of the nation send abroad an
nually S159, 600 in either products or
money. All of the wheat produced In the
United States in 1895 only amounted to
S237 .93S. 1898. All of the cotton produced
in the United States in 1895 did not ex-
ceed in value $3.50, ,000, ,000 So long as 1t
requires nearly one-half of all the wheat
and all the cotton produced by the great
est wheat and cotton producing nation
on earth to pay the interest on its for
eign debts Qncluding railway stocks and
bonds) that nation will be peon. a serf
under the lash of foreign wealth. No
nation on earth can have prosperity and
pay a tribute of s159, 900 per years to
a foreign power.-New York World.
The herald., 1897-03-17
to johannesburg. South Africa, realized
1870 TO 5000 each on them.

to johannesburg, South Africa, realized
$3.50 to $500 each on them.
Denmark's foreign egg trade has
grown to tremendous size. mainly with
England. Twenty years ago the annual
Danish export of eggs was 100000 now 1t
is reckoned at Ill. 100000.
Paris is making the venture of lay
ing down mahogany roadways. The
Rue Lafayette has been pulled up and
relaid with real Brazilian mahogany Of
a peculiarly fine texture and color.
Mayor Price of Macon Ga, has ap-
pointed DIR. c. Mccarthy, colored ply
sician, to vaccinate all negroes in the
city who desire to be vaccinated. 1t will
be done free, and is not compulsory.
Recreant men cashiers of several Min
neapolis establishments have been re-
placed by women, and the action has led
to another discussion as to whether wo-
men are more trustworthy than men,.
Bones of soldiers who were buried ~
Clarksville, Tenn. when the female
academy at that place was used as
hospital during the war were uncovered
by a recent landslide back of the build
ing.
The czar has caused the formation OF
three committees to receive contribu-
tions of money in aid Of the sufferers
from the Indian famine. These commit
tees are established at MOSCOW. St. Pe-
tersburg and Odessa.
The herald., 1897-03-17

correct. The presidential term upon
which we have just entered is the twen-
ty-eighth, and will include the Fifty
fifth and Fifty-sixth congresses. OF the
presidents thus far elected, eight (Wash-
ington. JEFFERSON. Madison, Monroe,
Jackson, Lincoln, Grant and Cleveland,)
were chosen for second terms, thus MAX
ing but twenty persons selected to fill
the high Office of president. AS that
number includes President Mckinley.
II is thus evident that he has had only
nineteen predecessors elected to the
presidential chair. When we add to
these four vice presidents (Tyler, Fill
more, Johnson and Arthur) who sue
ceeded to the Office 1t will be found that
previous to the present 4th of March 1t
has had but twentythree incumbents.
Consequently, Major Mckinley is the
twenty-fourth, and not the twenty fifth.
president of the United States. 1t is in
teresting to add that, of the twenty
presidents elected. but two were voted
for three times. These were President
jackson, who. though he obtained a
plurality. failed in securing a majority
of electoral votes on his first appeal. and
had to give way to John Quincy Adams
as the choice Of the house of representa-
tives. and President Cleveland, who was
defeated upon his second appeal for
public favor. M. A.
New York, March 6, 1897.
The herald., 1897-03-17
NOTES OF INTEREST

over 1000, 900 cat skins are used every
year in the fur trade.
The Maine bear is fast becoming tra-
dition. There is talk Of abolishing the
IS bounty on bear
A Philadelphia woman has sued her
heartless husband for divorce because
he has forbidden her to eat pie:
Bangkok, the capital Of Siam, is
floating city, containing 10000 houses
each of which floats on raft OF pampoo'
A. pearl that was afterward sold to a
jeweler for SIS was found in the gizzard
of O turkey in London recently.
The South Carolina legislature has re,
jected a bill to permit the running or
trains on Sunday with perisnapie
freight.
Antelope are abundant out IN the Car
den City neighborhood, Kansas, ana
sportsmen have given the nimpie 1ack
rabbit a rest.
1t is estimated that the cost OF vessels
now being built at lake shipyards Is close
to $4,000. 900. as compared with $s'ooo'ooo
a year ago.
The London school board rule rorpi 4
ding collections in schools was suspend
ed in order to allow subscriptions to the
Indian famine fund.
It Is said that Missouri dealer VINO
recently shipped several hundred mules
The herald., 1897-03-17

A beautiful stream is the River of Rest:
The STILL white waters sweep clear and
cold,
A tall mast crosses the star in the west,
A white sail CLEANS in the west world S
gold
1t leans TO the shore of the River of Rest
The lily-lined shore of the River of Rest.
The boatman rises. he reaches a hand.
He knows you well, he will steer you
true,
And far, so far from all ills upon land.
From hates, from fates that pursue and
pursue;
Far over the lily-lined River of Rest
Dear mystical. magical River of Rest.
A storied, sweet stream is this River of
Rest;
The souls of all time keep its ultimate
shore;
And journey you east or journey you west,
Unwilling, or willing, sure-footed or
sore, M
You surely will come to this River of Rest,
This beautiful, beautiful River of Rest.
JOAQUIN Miller,
The herald., 1897-03-17
The Bible In the Schools

There is one religious provision in the
proposed charter for the Greater New
York which we do not like. 1t is that
which denies the board of education
or to any borough school board the right
to exclude the Holy Scriptures, without
note or comment, or selections there
from from the schools. The Independent
is on long record as believing that the
state has no right to give religious in
struction by requiring that the Bible
be read in it's schools. Religious in
struction is the business of the church,
not of the state. 1t is not safe to in
trust it to the state.-Independent
The herald., 1897-03-17
HUMOR OF THE HOUR

There's no place like home" said the
Young woman In gray, land that's fiat.
Boston Transcript
Mr.. Surley (savagely)-"That con-
found baby is always crying. What's
wrong with him?" Mrs. Surley (sweet-
ly)-'He's got your temper, love.
Tit-Bits
He Cites Case.-Auntie-"You say
vou had bad cold. Did you ever hear
of a good cold?" Johnny-"I had one
once that kept me home from school. p
Puck.
Up to Date.-Mr. Beechwood-"Young
Point Breeze has wheels In his head"
Mr.. Homewood-"They. are of the 'S7
model, too."-Pittsburg Chronicle Tele-
graph.
II am sorry monsieur. but ! cannot
consider your proposal. l shall never
marry" Never marry? But, made
moiselle what do you intend to do with
vour immense fortune?'-Tit-Bits
No Further Trouble-'Pumphrey has
invented a battleship that will save the
navy dead loads of money" whats
the principle?" ''Why. she sinks as
soon as she's unched!'-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Cholly-"My dear fellow. I do wish
you'd lend me that ten asked for. It's
a case of life or DEATH" Tom-"How
to pay five of 1t to Algy, or my credit
will be Killed. "-Harper's Bazaar.
II guess" said the Spanish general,
thoughtfully. that I'd better have an
other victory" Immediately? Yes;
the spring advertising will soon begin,
and IL 1 don't have it in the editors
hands promptly 1t may be crowded out
by more important matter. r."-Washing
ton Star.
"Theore tically." remarked the man
who had lived in flats for years, there
are always two sides to STORY. Prac-
| tically, however, after you get above
the fourth story, the inside doesn't
amount TO much" He spoke something
! lightly. as knowing the potency OF an
affectation of gaiety and insouciance
! to tighten the sternest sorrows.-Det troit
Free Press.
| Setting Him at TIT shall be my
ambition, father said the young man,
who had finished his education and was
ready to lift the cares OF business from
! the parental shoulders-"it shall be my
ambition and my motto to keep the
family name free from stain" All
| right" said the old man. ''Tell Mike to
| give you the whiting an ammonia and
| then go out and polish up the Sign
| Indianapolis Journal.
| In the Wrong Boutwell, that's
| funny thing" exclaimed Mrs. Snaggs,
who had been reading the newspaper.
Whats funny?' asked her husband.
J "a witness In court did not konw In
| what month the Fourth Of July occurs
| What do you think of that" What 40
| I think of that?" repeated Mr.. Snaggs.
| II think that he should not have been
| called as a witness. He ought to have
| been a juror. "--Pittsburg Chronicle Tel
| egraph.
The herald., 1897-03-17
Wool

One hundred and fifty-nine million
pounds of wool were imported into the
United States from abroad last year
and the manufacturers ot the New Eng
land states are content to nave the wool
tariff left as it is. They want cheap raw
material.
This is an opportune time for the wool
growers of Colorado to call the atten-
ton of the Colorado delegation in con-
gress to their great interest In this mat
ter. There is danger that Major NC
Kinley will yield a great many of his
high tariff principles tn the sreat I'M
porters of New York and Nav England
and to the free trade gold Democrats
who supported him.-Cincinnati Com
mercial- Tribune.
The herald., 1897-03-17
Something ncKiniey Dare Not Do

Perhaps every president finds the ex-
ercise of the appointing power agreeable
in some cases, but in ninety-nine cases
out of one hundred it is curse and
bore, a tax on the mind and the feelings,
a sheer waste of powers which the ma
tion sorely needs in better employment.
If President Mckinley would set the ex-
ample of repelling every personal solicit
tation for office as an insult and insist
ing that his personality has too high q
value to the nation to be occupied in that
fashion even for a moment, he might in
deed become on that account alone, l.
on no other, the beginnir of new era
New York Tribune
The herald., 1897-03-17
Would Be a Pltt,nenes,

But Greece is not relying on this SEN
timent. She knows that when the col
lision comes and has begun, beacon
fires will be lighted from every noun
tain top in Macedonia. Albonica. Bo-
senia and Bulgaria. She knows that the
Ottoman empire is paralyzedl at its CEN
ter; that 1t has long been held together
solely by the cohesive power of inter-
national jealousies. Greece has fought
Turkey before. Her own independence
is proof of her power to resist the Turk,
and the daring victory of Montenegro is
a living example of what answering
courage can do. There would be a fit
tingness in the glorious result If Greece
should repeat In the closing years Of the
nineteenth century and should strike
the power of Orientalism as of old she
did at Marathan and at Salamis.-
Knoxville Tribune
The herald., 1897-03-17
Never Fails

Booker T. Washington, whom we re-
gard as the most remarkable man the
negro race has produced in this coun-
try, has built up, in little country town
in Alabama, an industrial and normal
school with which no other car be COM
pared. The money needed to carry on
this great work is contributed regularly
hv northern people interested in It,
Every wear President Washington goes
to New England to raise this money.
and never ails.-Jacksonville (Fla.)
Times-Union.
The herald., 1897-03-17
A CHEERFUL OUTLOOK

| Seldom have Southern California far-
mers cast seed in the ground, ploughed
their orchards or pruned their vines
| with greater hopes of rich harvest
than now. The rainfall has been not
| only abundant, but it has come In such
moderate installments that the 16 to 20
inches now on record for the season have
| done more good, than oIe-half more
would have done coming in severe
storms. No man can recall season in
which SO little rain has been lost or so
little damage done by swollen streams,
roaring arroyos and bank-full barrancas.
Since December the temperature has
been low, keeping fruit buds in check
and grain from running all to straw.
The fruit buds are so backward that all
chance of injury from late frosts is
about passed, and the grain as a rule
has made such a moderate growth that
very little of it is likely to lodge or grow
to too rank straw.
But this surmise of large harvests
is only half the enchanting tale. When
new barley shall be ready for the mills
next September there will be very little
old crop in its way. The stocks of wheat
when the new crop shall be seasoned
for grinding will be all exhausted.
OF fruit there is none left in any
shape For several years fruit and
vegetable Gamers all over the United
States seemed to vie with each other
in seeing how much surplus stock they
could pile up to carry over from year
to year. Under these circumstances it
was quite natural that prices should
drop until the goods were forced on the
market below cost of production. Last
year, with a small crop of fruit in Cali
fornia, and generally moderate one
in most parts of the east, and with the
disasters resulting from excessive COM
petition written along all paths of COM
mercial enterprise in such large char
acters that the scriptural wayfaring
lOOi might lCdd tiit SUI q tHdH6 Ndiic
over the dream of the reckless packers,
and a very moderate amount of fruits
and vegetables were packed. Thus.
even at this early date old stocks Of
fruit, dried and canned, have not only
gone out of first hands, but the jobbers
holdings in all parts of the Union are
very meagre, while the trade generally
has taken the covers off the last cases
in the store.
Bee men are as hopeful as fruit grow
ers. Wine men are also in the cheer
full circle, with native dry wines firm
at 20 cents a gallon naked, which three
years ago sold as low as six cents,
cooperage included, in San Francisco.
Vine growers ought to smile in unison
with all others who follow the occupa-
ton of Adam and Noah.
All this means an active demand 70,
the products of California farms. or
chards and vineyards as soon as the
crops are matured. With such condi-
tions ought to come fairly good prices
for whatever the farmer has to sell.
Should present hopes be fulfilled dur
ing the coming summer and fall tie
business situation in this section will
be very materially bettered. If the TIL
lers of the soil prosper the good in
fuences will rise and spread until they
reach every member of the community.
1t is indeed a cheerful oullook