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The San Francisco call., 1897-01-29
THE NICARAGUA CANAL.

Statements made by Senator Sherman
in discussing the Nicaragua canal bill on
Wednesday are in the highest degree en-
couraging to the advocates of that meas
ure. AS it is known that the Senator is
to be Secretary of State in the next ad-
ministration his words may be regarded
as declaration OF what Will be under
taken by President Mckinley, and they
give assurance therefore that the measure
which now seems to be checked will be
carried forward under a new form to COM
plete success.
Senator Sherman is reported to have de-
clared that he believes the only means
of building the Nicaragua canal is
through the power OF the United States.
He expressed the opinion that no private
canal company could carry out the project
and that it should be undertaken by our
Government directly. He went on to say
he would vote for the bill in any form in
which it might be presented but he
thought the better way would be to allow
the matter to rest until new treaty could
be made with the Nicaraguan Govern
ment.
The statement as reported is certainly
explicit enough to give satisfaction to the
advocate ties of the measure. AS Secretary
of State Senator Sherman will himself
have charge of negotiating the treaty for
the construction of the canal, and his
words are distinct promise that he will
do all in his power to promote the great
enterprise. There is moreover degree
of satisfaction to be found in his declara-
tion that the canal should be constructed
by the Govern ment for the people, and
not for private corporation. Much of
the objection to the present bill has been
founded upon the belief that it granted
too much favor to the canal company,
and this objection will OF course be re-
moved by the adoption of the policy sug
gested.
There can be no question that the great
est opportunity which will open before the
Secretary of State of the new administra.
ton on entering Office will be that of ar
ranging such treaty as has been out
lined. The construction of the Nicaragua
canal is just now the most important en-
terprise which engages the attention of
the world. 1t means virtual revolution
in the commerce of the earth. It's ad-
vantages to every nation will be great, and
its benefits to the United States will be
too vast to be calculated. The Secretary
of State who perfects treaty which pro-
vides for the construction of the canal,
and the President under whose direction
the great work is carried out, can count
upon holding a high place in the scroll
which contains the names of the great
statesmen of America who have promoted
the welfare of the country, not tempor-
arily, but for all time.
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HOW HEARST IS RUNNING
PULITZER.
New York Press.

willie Hearst is discovering that there
are wicked thorns in the path of bumptious
young man who comes from the West 10 scalp
New YORK and gets skinned alive. On the ro-
mantle stage the people who were pulling his
leg would call him an angel In the brutal
new journalism they call him sucker" He
is fair game for everybody, and every body
plugs away at him. Anybody can sell any
thing TO him by telling him that some other
paper wants IT, When a man wants an in
crease OF salary he tells the California eome-on
that Pulitzer has offered him more money
than Hearst Is giving him. Hearst goes wild
at the thought that Pulitzer is trying to get
his men away from him, doubles the chaps
salary and thinks he is running Pulitzer.
Hearst was paying one of his artists hun
dred dollars week, when some of the World
people put up 9 job on him. They told the ar
tist the World would like to have his services
at $3.50 week. The artist told Hearst, and
willing Willie raising him to 5000. Then the
World raised to 1925, and Willie, in a panic,
raised to $3.50 and promised the artist a trip
to Europe. That is the way the World helps
Hearst spend his money, and Willie is tickled
to death, thinking Pulitzer is the victim.
You could sell Hearst a yellow dog for a
thousand dollars If you told him Pulitzner
had offered you nine hundred for it. Every
body knows this, and every day lot of gold
bricks are offered to him, which take a large
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gresham from Massachusetts,. 1t has
been generally supposed that the people
of that State were in favor of education as
test not merely for foreigners coming
into the country, but even for American
born who desired to exercise the right OF
suffrage. Mr.. Walker of Massachusetts,,
however, declared that the bill made his
"blood boil" because 1t would exclude
from America honest farmers and work.
ingmen who cannot read while opening
the doors to nihilists and anarchists who
possess that accomplishment.
The objection thus made to the bill is
not valid. We have laws already against
anarchists and men of the criminal class.
What is needed now is a bill which will
shut out from the country those who are
not only ignorant, but are so devoid of
worthy ambition as to neglect to educate
themselves even in the languageof their
own country.
So far as it goes the bill is good enough.
The people desire to see 1t enacted with
out further delay. Such defects as may
be discovered in it may be remedied here
after. The point at issue now is to restrict
immigration as far as possible at once.
The revival of industry in this country
will bring hordes of cheap European Ia
borers to this country to compete with
our workingmen if they are not checked
by the passage of this law. It will not do
all, but it will do much, and for that rea-
son it should be regarded by Congress as
measure of urgency and promptly
adopted.
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ARouNp THE CORRIDORS.

az think 1t one OF the oldest things In my
life that should have just arrived for the
frst time in San Francisco. Look at me; I'm
not an old man. to be sure, but I'm old enough
TO have known better than to stay away SO
long, for I've been everywhere else. I've been
held up by road agents In Iexas' lreeu W
drink in Maine. and have been talking adver-
tising in and out of Chicago for many years
and, whewl speaking of Chicago, how com
Portable it is to be sitting under the panyan
trees out here at this moment. I've heara .
great deal about the climate OF California Oul
you haven't any here to speak OF. IL is lusl
like this for three or four months OF the year
I'm Chicago. but for the balance of the time
the climate never does a thing. That REMINDS
me of story
William C. Hunter is member In hlgh
standing of the Ananias Club of Boston. IL is
better, perhaps, that the story OF (which thaI
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reminded him" be not repeated. He is also
an advertising agent, which probably OF IL
self makes him eligible to membership In the
club. At any rate he is an alert, wide-awake
and successful business man as we'll as an en-
ter tanning Bohemian and newspaper man.
He is secretary of the w. D. Boyce Company,
publishers of Chicago's three big weeklies,
the Saturday Blade, the Chicago Ledger and
the Chicago World. He is advertising man-
ager of the concern, and in that capacity
he is visiting the Pacific Coast, to his own
evident delight, for the first time. His room
at the Palace is stacked up with odds and
ends that he bought from Indians and others
in the West designed for his "den" in Chicago.
His den, he says, is a sight. 1t is papered
with the "matrices" of the leading newspapers
of the country-that is, the pulp impressions
from which the page is stereotyped.
scThey described San Francisco to me as the
Paris of America and l think the description
fits exactly. 1 brought box full OF letters OF
introduction to people here, but they are still
in the box" he said. "I didn't use 'em. The
people seem to be all made OF such original
stuff that formalities are out OF place. I've
been shown everything, and among others
might say that the Olympic Club is big card
for the City. That salt water is great stuff.
In Chicago we have fine athletic club, but
the only things that go with it free to the
members are admission and ice water Every
thing else is charged for extra"
But even with this handicap added to its
eccentric climate Mr.. Hunter does not go back
on Chicago altogether.
stThey say that we have taken into the city
limits all the farming country of the State.
but tn at is not literally true" he said. ave
have street that is twenty-five miles long.
built up for the whole distance-Halstead
street, We have three distinct cities in the
three divisions. The North Side is the Boston
of Chicago. There are the libraries and the
culture. The South Side is the New York. 1t
is the mercantile and money center. The
West Side is cosmopolitan Chicago itself"
Speaking of the big weeklies he represents,
Mr.. Hunter said: "They were started by w.
D. Boyce some ten years ago. Mr.. Boyce had
been publisher of patent insides, and in
spite OF the fight made against him by Kellogg
and others, he became such competitor that
they finally bought him out for $1,000 Mr..
Boyce then, with three others, started the
Chicago Blade. They undertook to make the
paper go on its merits without advertising.
Boyce sunk his $4,000, and when the paper
was $15, 900 in debt he bought out two of his
ing all sorts of schemes to get circulation,
and at last 1T began to go, and has continued
to do so with marvellous rapidity. The w. D.
Boyce Company was formed, and the Chicago
Ledger and afterward the World were started
We paid Uncle Sam for postage last year on
the three papers at cent a pound $27, 900.
We paid fully as much more on circulars to
orr apentsO
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NEW TO-DAY.

Which would you rather
trusti An old, true friend of
twenty years, or a strangere 7
You may have little health
left. Will you risk it with
strangerf If you have a
cough, are losing flesh, if
weak and pale, if consump-
ton stares you in the face,
lean on Scott's Emulsion.
1t has been friend to thou
sands for more than twenty
years. They trust it and
you can trust it.
Let us send you a book
telling you all about it.
Free for the asking.
seorr 8. Bowrz, Chemists, Nsw Yorh.
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Sir Francis Drake's last male descendant
has died at the age of 80, in the Bristol aims
house, of which he had been an inmate for
many years. His father fought at Trafalgar.
Testimony in recent suit in Paris court
developed the fact that fashionable under
takers charge for embalming the body of an
American is 5000. The charge for embalm-
ing Dom Pedro was $1,000, and for the King oi
Hanover $4,000.
There is some probability that Rev. DR.. Wat
son, so well known as "Ian Maclaren," will by
and by take up pastorate in London. As DR..
Watson is brilliant orator he would no doubt
Immediately take his place in the front rank
of London preachers.
There was lately sold in London for $125 9
silver salver made in 1882 bearing the coat oi
arms, crest and motto of William Pitt and
having the following words engraved on Its
back: This piece of plate belonged to the
Right Hon. William Pitt, the most incorrupt
and loyal Minister that ever graced the annals
of any nation"
A French writer, Edouard Toulouse, has ex-
amined Zola's mental peculiarities, and dis
covered peculiar weakness of memory. He
could not recognize welLknown citations from
Moiiere, Balzac, Hugo and George Sand. and
in some cases even failed to remember his own
early writings when passages from them were
read to him.
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him believe that was the way to put another
nail in Pulitzer's coffin.
Every week Willie pours a barrel OF silver
into his paper. He draws large checks for
contributions rejected by the World, employs
the Worlds discharged men at tiptop salaries,
and, as a result, expects every day to see the
dome of the Pulitzer building fall into Park
row. The Journals free campaign ffty-cent-
on-the-doll circulation slips over into tbs
World Office day by day, but that doesn't make
any difference. Willie buys everything that
the World won't have, and smiles beautifully
when his people tell him that Pulitzer is
doomed"
While Willie is running Pulitzer" the willy
Joseph helps Willie spend little more of the
silver of his late papa each week. and while
Pulitzer chalks up his circulation Willie looks
at the stubs of hundred eheck-books and
gloats over the tall OF Pulitzer. If Willie were
q heavyweight there would be terrific crash
some day, though not of the gilded dome; but
the passing when Pulitzer has done with the
innocent Willie will probably be like the pop
ping of little red balloon.
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THE RICH SHOULD NOT EcoNoMIzE
New YORK Sun.

new ! OrK sun.
The greatest injury that can be done to the
prosperity OF a community comes from the
enforced or voluntary economy on the part oi
society. If every family in New York should
begin to-day to cut down its expenditures by
a small fraction only the sum of the loss to
trade and labor would be so vast that it would
orally. If the rich, more especially, should
cut off all 'extravagance" the consequence
would be an appalling increase in ''poverty
and destitution," for trades employing thou.
of support,
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slice OF the fortune his father made in silver

slice OF the fortune MS ialner maze IN silver
mines.
Willie has been trying to buy paper in
Chicago to save freight on the free copies of
his New York paper that he sends out West.
He hasn't succeeded in getting the Chicago
paper yet, because the shrewd Westerners are
bidding him up just the way the World people
bid up his artist. Willie has found no lack of
helping hands eager to assist him IN scatter
ing his fathers millions.
The funny thing about Hearst is that he
came here to teach new journalism TO Pu-
liter. and that after dropping two millions
he is trotting along admiringly behind Pu-
liter if he had been trained to it all his
life. If the World comes out tor beer tax on
Monday, Willie follows him for beer tax on
Tuesday. It's the same way with trusts, po-
lice abuses, special commissioners, baby shows,
and everything else. Willie has become
crazy free-trader now. If Pulitzer should ad
vocate an American emperor Willie would
say amen. And his leg-pullers would make
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SHOULD BE THE RULE,
Philadelphia Times.

So far from it being a novelty for an Ameri-
can President or a well-dressed American citi-
zen to be clothed in homespun woolens, 1t
should be the rule, and it would be SO If our
wooden manufacturers advanced as they should
have advanced under the high protection
given 10 them. We have abundant capital;
we have the best skilled labor, and produce the
finest machinery in the world, with the highest
protection given to wooden manufacturers in
any country, and yet our wooden manufac-
turers themselves wear foreign woolens.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-29
1896
" BILLY" MASoN'S FINE HOUSE.
Washington Post.

Washington Post.
An Illinois member of Congress had dined
with "Btlly" Mason in Chicago. They had
talked OF the desire of Mr.. Mason to come to
the Senate, and admired the beautiful house
in which he lives, had even inspected the
tiled glories of the bathroom, and then, smok-
ing an afternoon cigar, the two friends walked
downtown together. When they were some
distance from the house the Congressman
turned and looked back at the large and brill
liantly lighted dwelling.
s'You have beautiful home," said the Con-
gresham.
"Yes,' replied Mason, with q sound that was
between laugh and a sigh, ''but / can hear
that house drawing interest two squares
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THE VoTE OF OHIo-B., Turlock, Cal. The
vote OF Ohio for Presidential electors at the
last-held election was as follows: Mckinley,
525, ,991; Bryan, AIT ,494; Palmer, 1857; Lev.
ering. 506S; Bentley, 2716; Matchett, 1167
McKinley's plurality, AZ ,497.
BoNDs-G. B.. City. II an individual is re-
quired by court to furnish bonds he must
offer individuals who viii prove satisfactory
to the court The court will accept either q
freeholder-that is, person who owns real
estate-or a householder-that is, a person
engaged in business and who does not own real
estate; but as to the sufficiently OF the surety
offered the court is the Judge. person own
ing real estate that is mortgaged might be ac-
eepted as surety on bond If the court thought
the property was worth much more than the
amount of the mortgage-that is, that the ex-
cess was more than Sufficient to cover the
amount OF the bond.
CIVIL SERVICE Rules. D. A, Santa Bar
bara, Cal. Every persons who wishes a posi-
ton in either the postal or customs depart
ments of the United States must undergo an
examination as to fitness. No one is certified
for appointment whose standing in the ex-
animation is less than 70 per cent of COM
plete proficiency, except that applicants
claiming military or naval preference need
obtain but 65 per cent. Those who do not
need to be examined are: In the Custom
house Department, one cashier in each Gus
toms district, one chief deputy in each dis
trict which employs as many as $50 persons;
IN the Postal department, one assistant post
master, one cashier of each first-class post.
Office when employed under the roster title OF
cashier only.
A ASIsTER-IN-LAw-Arbor City. A correspond
ent who is anxious to let this department
know that he reads answers, but is ashamed
to sign his name to his communication, writes
as follows: "Allow me to contradict the fol-
lowing answer: There is nothing in the laws
governing the. Episcopal church that prohib-
its widower from marrying the sister of de-
ceased wife 1t is not lawful to marry de-
ceased wife's sister. They have been trying
to pass the deceased wife's sister bill for
years. but the House of Loros rejects it always.
P. s.-Always give correct answer or not at
ALL" 1t is the purpose of this department to
give correct answers and the answer quoted is
correct. In England widower cannot marry
the sister of his deceased wife because the
civil law says it is illegal. In the United
States there is no such law. In the State OF
California and other States in which mar
riage license is required minister of the
Episcopal church will, on the presentation of
such license, marry the couple holding ii, ire
spective of the fact that the woman is the sis
ter of the mans deceased wife.
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IT NEVER MISSES
Philadelphia Record.

J. C. Graham, New York expert says: 'It
stands to reason that anything that is intended
for family consumption should be advertised
where the family can always see It," And the
verges daily, with the exception of the dinner.
table, is the family newspaper. That never
misses being seen.
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OLD SECRETARIES OF STATE.
Boston Herald.

bO9tOu HeraIus
John Sherman is IA. Webster died as Sec
retary in his seventy-frs year, and his last
days saw his intellect IN its greatest vigor
Marcy was IL when his term under Pierce
closed. General Cass was rs when he entered
Buchanans administra ton, and Hamilton
Fish was 20 when he retired from his arduous
services at the close of Grants administration
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-29
THE SPINNING WHEEL.

1895
Beside the wheel my lady sits and spins the live
long day,
The drifted wool her fairy touch like magic mets
away.
Certes, she is passing fair-fairer than verse may
TELL
She winds the skein about my hands and round
my heart spell
The sunbeams dancing in her eyes dare me kiss
to steal
From gentle Mistress Dorothy beside her spin
ming wheel.
1896
Scorching down the boulevard,
Chewing gum and pedaling ha d,
ling ling! Almost knock me fiat.
Dizzy tie, Fedora hat,
Scarlet bloomefs. 'Tis picture
Makes my very senses reel
What that? | ask. o, merely
Dot astride her spinning wheel.
ERNEST NEAL LYON.
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a,rrs. Winslow,s soothing su-.,.

Has been used over fifty years by millions ~
mothers for their children while Teething withpsr-
feet 1t soothes the child softens the gums
aIays Pain cures Wind Collie, regulates the Bowels
and is the best remedy Diarrhoeas whether aris
ing from teeshng other causes For sale By drug
gists in every part Of the world. Be sure and ask
for Mrs. Winsow's Soothing Syrup 25c bot.la
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-29

1.-TWO years ago the French novelist, Hector
Majot, having finished his sixtieth volume,
said farewell to his career as author. AS sa
epilogue, however, he has now published /" lie
Roman de Mes Romans" in which he relates
his life and the circumstances which led TO
the writing of his best-known books.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-29

CORONA SADo.-Atmosphere is perfectly drv. so.t
end mild being entirely free from the nists com
mon further north. RouDd-trip tickets. by steam
ship, including fifteen days board at the Hotel dsI
Coronado, $66; longer stay 81 so per day Apply
4 New Montgomery st. San Francisco
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We were not aware that the immigra-
ton bill is very hot stuff, but Congress
man Walker said it makes his blood boil,
and Mr.. Walker is from Massachusetts,.
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The juvenile attaches of the State Legis-
lature are said to have organized a social
club, and when not dancing attendance
on business will be in attendance at q
dance elsewhere.
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HUSBANDS Calcined Magnesia-Four first
premium medals awarded. More agreeable to
the taste and smaller dose than other mag
nesia. For sale only in bottles with registered
trademark label.
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1t will be observed that the Examiner
Chinese dispatch mill has stopped
working.
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SPECIAL Information daily to manufacturers
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen's). $40 Montgomery.
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CALIFoRNIANS in NEW YORK.
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE

NEW YORK, N. Y, Jan. 28.-At the st.
Cloud, q. K. Getz; Belvedere, A. 81. CrockerY.
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What does it profit reader to get stuff
by fakelectrophone from China when he
doesn't even get straight news from Stock
ton street2
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The fact that Melba's voice has suffered
from singing Wagner's music is not con-
elusive as to the effects of the music. We
would ike to have Mr.. Bryan try it.
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Eastern charity is still tussling with the
Eastern blizzard and keeping itself warm
by wholesome exercise.
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Once more we are assured that the new
tariff bill will be reported early at the
coming extra session and will be promptly
adopted. Even the Senate, it is said, has
made up its mind to attend to business.
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The next step in Willie Hearst's career
from aff1uence TO penury will be to call up
the Emperor of China by telephone and
ask him where Ii Yung Yuen is.
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No TOILET is complete without bottle OF Ayers
Hair Vigor-the best hair-dresslDg. ASK your
druggist for Ayers Almanac.
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WHY suffer from corns when HINDERcoRNs
removes them so easily. Is cts at druggists
PARKER's HAIR BALsAM aids the hair growth
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Perhaps Long Green Lawrence would
rather be known as faker than as what
he really is.
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CLEARANCE sale Genuine eyeglass specs,
store); weekdays, IS Fourth, next to bakery. =
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The speeches for free Cuba at Sacra-
mento did net hurt the Spaniards, but
they killed time and warmed the blood of
the orators.