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The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
AN AMERICAN CAUSE.

Before the present week closes the work
of organizing a movement in this City for
the promotion of the cause of free Cuba
should be virtually completed. We should
put ourselves into line with the other
cities of the Union aud give evidence not
only of our sympathy with the Cuban
people. but of our determination to aid
them by every lawful means.
The cause oil Cuba is the cause OF Ameri-
ca. The struggle of the Cuban patriots is
the same as that which our forefalhers
waged against England in 1776. 1t is
another effort on the part of an American
people 10 emancipate themselves from
European control and establish their right
to self-government.
The time has come when all America
should be free from the domination of the
Old World. We may concede as much as
can be justly claim ed by the older nations
of what is due to them for colonizing this
hemisphere, but such claims cannot go to
the extent of right to perpetual govern
ment over any part of our continent or
their adjacent islands. America is of
right entitled to self-government, and no
European power can seek to dominate an
American country any more justly than
the United States might seek TO conquer
and annex the territory of some of the
weaker nations of Europe.
The United States is not an aggressive
Nation. We do not make war for the an
nexation of territory or for the power of
domination. We have never sought 10
take from any European country any of
its possessions in our hemisphere. We do
not seek to do SO now. When, however,
an American people revolts against Eu-
ropean control and shows through years
OF war its ability to maintain itself against
all the power of Its former masters, then
it is not only our right but our duty to
intervene and give to the struggling pa
triots the aid necessary to re-establish
peace within their borders.
II Spain had any possible chance of re-
asserting her supremacy and her laws in
Cuba there might be reasons why we
should hesitate to interfere in the Tar and
put an end to it. 1t is certain, however,
that Spain cannot conquer Cuba. All that
she can do is to destroy property and
shed blood. We have therefore the COM
mon right of humanity as well as the po-
litical right of an American people to in
tervene and compel Spain to retire from
this continent and leave the Cubans free
to govern themselves.
San Francisco if she stood alone could
not do much to promote the cause of Gu
ban independence. She does not stand
alone. Nearly every city of note in the
United States has organized a committee
to promote the cause, and we will be but a
cooperative force with others when we
begin the work here. 1t is right and fitting
that we should manifest our willingness
TO cooperate in the work, and before the
week closes we should have made it evil
dent that we intend to do so.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
NEWSPAPER PLRASANTRY.

''Won't you take this seat?' said the gentle
man in the Car, rising and lifting his hat.
''No, thank you,' said the girl with the
skates over her arm "I've been skating, anC
Pm tired sitting gdown."-Yonkers Statesman
Hicks-That young fellow says he is q col
lege graduate, but don't believe it.
Dicks-Why not?
Hicks-Oh, tried him last night, and he
didn't know the first thing about poker
Somerville Journal.
Clara-Yes, there isn't any doubt in my
mind that George Fowler is blindly in love
with you.
Winnie (blushing)-Why?
Clara-He told me yesterday that he didn't
think you looked a bit over 3O.-Cleveland
Leader.
Neighbours Pretty Daughter-How much is
this yard?
Diapers Son desperate "spoons" on herr
Only one kiss.
Neighbor's Pretty Daughter-If it's so cheap
L will take three yards, and grandma will pay
you.-Dublin World
al see in a recent book where the idea is put
forth that mankind sang before it talked.
What do you think of it?"
Don't know, but there is q fellow on our
block who is going to sing just before he dies,
some time, unless he quits bowling popular
songs."-Cincinnah Commercial-T Tribune.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
THE S0N0MA FAIR.

The county of Sonoma has long since
demonstrated that the northern citrus
belt has advantages peculiar to itself
which are in no wise inferior to any pos
sessed by the southern counties. This
proof is to be confirmed and made amply
manifest in the citrus fair which is soon
to open. All reports show that the dis
play will be one of the best ever made in
the State and fully equal in many res poets
to any which has been exhibited at River
side, San Diego or Los Angeles.
The cultivation of oranges in Sonoma
was at first treated as a joke, and when
the orchardists of the county showed that
they intended it seriously, many people
regarded it as hazardous experiment.
Both the jokers and the doubters. how
ever, have now been silenced. Sonoma
has shown that it can produce oranges of
the finest quality and in large quantities.
1t has entered the market as an. ORANGE
producer, has drawn therefrom large
profits and has every prospect of larger
profits in the years to come.
The display to be made at the coming
fair will serve TO demonstrate something
more than the ability of Sonoma and the
districts around it to produce oranges.
1t will make evident the fact that the
foothills of California are far richer than
has been generally supposed. They pos
sess soil equal TO the best and have a
climate which can hardly be surpassed.
1t would be hard to set limits to the va
riety of productions which may be OBJ
tanned from all the foothill region, when
thorough and com prehensive experiments
have tested and made known the utmost
which can be produced there.
There are other counties in Northern
California which can profitably initiate
the example set by Sonoma. 1t needs
nothing more than well-conducted ex-
periments TO show that they also may
make themselves rich in orchard products
OF all kinds known to the temperate zone.
The display to be shown at the coming
fair will tend to encourage the making of
these experiments in fruit-growing in
other sections, and it is safe to pred let
that ere long the northern citrus belt will
be as prosperous and as renowned as that
of the south. Such fairs are benefits to
the whole State. and should be literally
patronized not only by the people of the
section where they are held, but by the
State at large. Certainly the people of
San Francisco should do much to promote
and advance them, and every one who can
afford it ought to visit the Sonoma fair
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
1923 More
Inches were published IN
THE CALL than IN the
Examiner during 1895.

1t is 10 be remembered that during 1895 the
Examiner published approximately 500 inches of
illegal lottery advertisem ents, OF which THE CALL
did not and would not publish one.
The monarch of the faKers has doubtless sue
ceeded IN securing thousands of inches of adver-
tsIng during tn e past year by duping and deceiv-
ing advertisers through false and arrogant asser-
lions Of the character OF the foregoing fake. 1t
would seem. however, from the facts that the
merchants a rule have not been misled by its
fraudulent pretenseS.
inspection. but suggest that it inspect its own
looks before it ventures uDon the publication of
another fake.
We congratulate the public on the fact that the
xTosure of this fake led the Examiner TO drop it.
In this the Examiner discreet and IL It is wise
!, will make more such bold attempts to
deceive the public.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
a FARMERS CLUB.

As result of the Farmers Institute,
held in this City, it has been decided to
organize Farmers Club to be made up
of residents of San francisco. The de-
cision is in no way surprising. 1t is known
there are more farmers, viney ardlsts and
orchardists living in the county of San
Francisco than in any other IN the State
II is natural. therefore. that these should
unite and organize. as have done the farm
ers in other cities, in order to advance
their welfare By discussions and by organ
lied action where such is necessary.
Since such club is to be organized, it
should be the aim of the promoters to
make it of more than ordinary strength,
vigor and importance. A club of farmers,
resident i'll the metropolis, can be of great
service, not only TO its own members, but
to farmers throughout the State. AS was
stated by Alfred Holman at the session of
the institute on Thursday evening, q San
Francisco Farmers Club could aid in the
esta blishment of a satisfactory market for
rural products, and could also facilitate
the exchange and dissemination of current
news, which would be of great value to
the farming industry.
Mr.. Holman pointed out an instance of
recent occurrence where such a club
would have been of great benefit to the
farmers. The wheat-growers of California,
be said, failed to profit by the recent rise
in wheat because, though the circum-
stances which led up to it were known to
few persons here and TO the department
at Washington, there was no way in which
that knowledge could be conveyed to those
most vitally interested. If there had been
a strong Farmers Club here, with special
sources of information, the farmers would
have been benefited to the extent of a sum
so large as to be difficult to estimate.
The proposed club begins under propi-
tious circumstances. The men and women
who have started the movement and given
in their names as members are persons of
influence and energy. We can reason
ably look forward 10 good results from
their work, and may, therefore. in all cer-
tainty count on a Farmers Club as one of
the established institute of the City.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
THAT'S WHoi

Who hypnotized me with her ways
Until my heart WAS all ablaze
With love, and every nerve appeared
To be, like lightning. double geared?
Lucinda.
Who listened to my earnest pleas.
Aud warmed to ward me by degrees
Until she called me Sam, and said
I'd sort o. turned her little head?
My sweetheart.
Who let me kiss her one sweet night
Beneath the moons white metal light,
And said SEED ever cling to me
AS clings the bark unto the tree?
Ny betrothed.
Who left the altar at my side,
Dressed In the trappings of a bride,
Ana said again and yet again
1 was the king of all the men!
My wife.
And now who often calls me down,
Upon her face vicious frown,
AND IL to answer her 1 dare
Lntwines her fingers in my hair?
Same girl
The Denver Pos
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
AROUND THE CORRIDORS

For day or two past it has been rumored
that the distinguish he'd Japanese naval officials
who arrived here recently to supervise and
partly superintend the construction of the
new Japanese cruiser at the Union Iron Works
had had a row with the SCOTS and the contract
was OF. 1t was said that the gentlemen from
the land of the chrysanthemum were very
hostile indeed.
No interview could be gained with the naval
officials, and for little while it looked as if
1T might be true. But Lieutenant Kyo Aoki Of
the commission came TO the front yesterday
and denied it utterly. he is at the Occident tai
"The Union Iron Works." he said, sis build
ing us cruiser of the same class as the fam
Gus Yoshino, used in the Chinese-Japanese
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE

Two members OF q British chess club played
a tournament to see which should be left free
to WOO a certain lady. Before the contest was
decided she married third man.
female highwayman, described as 'of her
culesn proportions and of extraordinary
bravado," is holding the roads between Brus-
sels and Antwerp and attacking solitary
houses.
case that has baffled physicians in New
Jersey is that of Miss Anna Carson of Lower
Alloway, small settlement in Salem County.
N. ]. Her afaiction is with her eyes. While she
sees all objects readily and clearly, in taking
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

brlt1sh docRyards launched IlsS(O tons OF
war vessels during 1896.
Argentine is negotiating for the purchase OF
battle-ship in England.
Japan has made a contract with Yarrows,
Eng, for the construction of two torpedo boat
destroyers OF 81 knots guaranteed speed.
The first rolled armor-plates were made by l.
W. Parkgate. Rotterdam, Yorkshire, England.
The first lot was shipped to the Palmer yard
February 8, 1856, and 200 tons, ranging in
thickness from to AZ inches, were delivered
in seven weeks. The plates went on the floating
ironclad battery called the Terror.
Japan intends to spend a vast amount of
money in establishing or extending dock
yards al Hyogo, Moji, UIaga, Hakodate and
Yokohama. The latter is well advanced
toward completion. Twenty million dollars
have already been expended on the harbor at
Osaka, which is OF great military importance.
The shipyard and marine-engine works of
the FORCES ct Chantier at La Seyne are of
capacity and Importance equal to any OF the
French dockyards. Besides several vessels
building for the French navy the establish
ment has five ships on the stocks or complet-
ing Tor foreign navies, and in addition are re-
fitting the Pelago Vitoria and Nomnancis for
Spain, and the Psara and Spetzia for Greece.
The Monarch, rated as third-class turret.
ship in the British navy, built in1S69, has been
thoroughly refitted and re-engined at a cost of
100000 and was commissioned last month
as guardship in Simon's Bay, Cape of Good
Hope. The hull, built OF iron at the Chatham
dockyard twenty-seven years ago, is still in ex-
cellent condition, and SO are the Warrior, built
in 1861; the Northumberland, 1868; Devasta-
ton. 1873; Sultan, 1871, and Thunderer of
1877 ali of Whiph have either been rppauslv
refitted or are now at the dockyards being put
in condition to meet present requirements of
that class of ships.
The Russian Naval Reserve is so far as the
personnel goes, in very unsatisfactory con-
dition, judging from q recent incident. The
Minister of Marine had heard about the
Reserve and wanted to see what it was like, SO
he issued summons for eighty-six men to
report at the Admiralty. Only thirty-eight
reported, and Of this only eleven were able to
speak their own language fiuently; fifteen
knew English; sixteen German, and two
swedish. As result of the examination,
only eleven men were accepted by the Minis ter
Oh Marine as Mt for service IN the navy.
The sinking of the French torpedo-boat No.
SO, in consequence of a collision, is the fourth
boat OF that class which has had bad luck.
Sixty-three of these boats ranging from 81 to
Do tons displacement, were built between
1885 and 1892. Their contract speed was
twenty knots. with $40 horsepower, but the
first lot OF thirty-five boats were found too
slow, and heavier boilers were put in. This
reduced their stability and led TO accidents
In 1889 No. 102 capszed in moderate sea
ana drowned six men. Three weeks later No.
drowning all hands In 1894 No. i2O burst a
polier and killed two men, and now No. 90
has gone to the be tom,
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

1t is stated that the number of persons
killed in the United States last year by
overhead wires was greater than the num-
Der killed by railways. They are called
live wires, but they mean death.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

1t is reported that the demand for skilled
mechanics in England has become so
great that young men are turning away
from Office work to enter factories, where
they make twice the pay they could get
as clerks.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

1t is said there are 5000 families in want
ofbread in Chicago, and yet the bins of the
farmers of Illinois are full of corn they
cannot sell. 1t looks as if the links of our
civilization had lost connection some
where.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

In place of bank suspensions we now
hear of bank resum ptions and the pendu-
lum is swinging back to prosperity.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

President Eliot has informed the mill
lionaires of Boston that if they will give
$40, 000 600 to Harvard he will see to it
that good use is made of it. There are
others who are ready to make the same
guarantee.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

The election of Perry Belmont to the
Tammany council looks as il an attempt
is to be made to reform the tiger by giving
him the gold cure.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
..Mrs. wins1ow,s soothing svrur,,

Has been used over fifty years by million. OF
mothers for their children while Teething with per-
feet success. 1t soo hes the child softens the
allays Pain. cures Wind Collie regulates the Bowels
and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas whether ars
ing from teeShing or other causes FOR sale by drup
gists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask
for Mrs. Wtnslow's Soothing Syrup 25c q bottle
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

All right minded men approve the re-
solve of the Greeks not to be passive spec
tators of the massacres in Crete, and they
would approve US If we refuse to watch
any longer with indifference the mas
sacres in Cuba.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

Over in the East they are saying "as the
days grow longer the cold grows stronger -
1t is different here
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

Some tobacco raised in Wisconsin from
Cuban seed developed such an excellent
leaf that the Wisconsin people in talking
fit can hardly avoid speaking Spanish.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

Senator Hill says the trouble with the
Democratic party in the last campaign
was combination of "passion, prejudice,
selfshness, sectionalism and emotional
ism," and it will be admitted the diagnosis
is correct.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

Papa, why do historians call Louis XIV
Louis the Magnifcent?'
because they hadn't heard of Mrs. Bradley
tin."-Chicago Record
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

angels Camp is being agitated on the sub
!ect OF incorporation and the Mountain Echo
Is earnestly pleading with the people of that
prosperous mining town to move in the mat
ter without delay, to the end that many
needed public Improvements may be the more
speedily secured
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

If Butler is the criminal of the century,
what are we to call the highly educated
young man in Pennsylvania who tried to
kill his stepmother by use of diphtheria
germs.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

The dramatic critic of the Boston Herald
asserts the people in that city have
adopted fad OF applauding everything in
g theater without regard to its merits. Ap-
plausiveness is regarded as the proper
thing, and so all the nice people clap their
hands vigorously as often as possible dur
ing performance just to show their style.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
up reading matter of any kind the letters be-

up reading matter of any kind the letters be-
come inverted.
Some one asked Max Nordau to define the
difference between genius and insanity.
"Well," said the author of Degeneration "the
lunatic is, at least, sure of his board and
clothes
General Schofeld and h is wife are passing
the winter in one of the Ponce de Leon cot
tages at st. Augustine. The general has a
book of army experiences and recollections
on the stocks.
In Difference to orders received from the
Colonial Department in London, ex-king
Prempeh of Ashantee and his family have
been removed from Elmina Castle, where they
had been confined since their arrival from
Coomassie, to Sierra Leone. 1t is expected
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

Observation-Disclosures is perfectly dry sos,
and mild. being entirely free from the mists com
mon further north. Round-trip tickets by steam.
ship, including fifteen days board at the hotel del
Coronado, $65; longer stay SO so per day. Apply
New Montgomery st., San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

SPECIAL information daily TO manufacturers,
business houses ana public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau tAllen's) $40 MONTGOMERY
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

1t is altogether right and fitting that the
banquet TO be given Judge McKenna
should be non-partisan gathering. The
guest of the evening will represent all
California in the Cabinet and sall Califor-
mans are ready to congratulate him on his
selection.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

The Hollister Bee has changed hands, Harry
Johnson retiring from its editorial manage
ment, and being succeeded by Edward Series.
Inc policy OF The paper remains the same.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

The United States should adopt vigor-
Gus Pan American policy ana enforce it.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

AYER's Hair Vigor is the best PREPARATION
which can be obtained for removing dandruf and
curing humors OF the scalp.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

ne Fresno Erpositor has begun war on the
Chlnese lottery games of the Raisin City. II
remarks that conservative estim ates OF the
amount drained from that city annually into
the coners OF the shrewd heather sharps,
place the sum at no less than 100000. The
ETposftor should be commended for its stand
in behalf of law
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

Teacher-what animal attaches himself tn
man the most?
Johnny Thickhed = The-er-er bulldog.
ma'am.-Puck
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
The Overland Limited "-OnIy Three
and a Half DAYS to Chicarn

The Union Pacific is the only line running Pull
man double drawing-room and tourist sleepers
and dining-cars, San Francisco to Chicago daily
without change uffet, smoking and library cars
Ogden to Chicago. Tickets and sleepingcar reser.
vations at Montgomery st. d. W. Hitchcock
General Agent, San Francisco
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15


Paris streets are constantly being renamed
after persons recently dead. Among the names
given this year those of Nine. Furtado-
Heine, Jules Simon, Arsene Houssaye, Victor
Durny and Ambrose Thomas
A prisoner of the Saltwater (Minn.) peni-
tentiary who ran away while on parole in
1895 has written the Warden letter, asking
If he may return. Transportation has been
sent him and he is returning alone to serve
the remaining seven years of his term.
Ibsen and Tolstoi having begun to pail on
the Partisan public, translators have brought
forward more northern and even more real
istic literature from La pland and Finland, the
chief exponents of which are two neyelists
named Paivarinta and Runcherg.
The late Henry o. Houghton, the publisher,
said that when in England he was asked
where he lived. "Near Boston," he replied.
"Ahi you probably know some friends OF mine
who live near Boston," ''Where do they live?'
'In Atlanta" was the reply.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

that the dusky potentste will eventually be
transferred to the island of st. Helena.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
NEW ro-pAx.

The makers Of
baking. powders
have been 50 busy
telling about the
purity and leaven-
ing strength of their
goods tn at they
have generally for
gotten to put the
purity and strength
in at the same time.
Trophy" ought to
win the field easy.
"a rillmann & Bendel Mfrs.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

japan has made a contract with Yarrows,
Eng, for the construction of two torpedo boat
destroyers OF 81 knots guaran teed speed.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

The first rolled armor-plates were made by ].
W. Parkgate. Rotterdam, Yorkshire, England.
The first lot was shipped to the Palmer yard
February 8, 1856, and 200 tons, ranging in
thickness from to AZ inches were delivered
in seven weeks. The plates went on the floating
ironclad battery called the Terror.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

STRONG hoarhound candy, 15c. Townsenqs.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15
NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES.

British dockyards launched 1870 tons OF
war vessels during 1896.
Argentine is negotiating for the purchase OF
a battle-ship in England
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

Japan intends to spend a vast amount of
money in establishing or extending dock
yards at Hyogo, Moji, UIaga, Hakodate and
Yokohama. The latter is well advanced
toward completion. Twenty million dollars
have already been expended on the harbor at
Osaka, which is OF great military importance.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

San Francisco, February IL, 1897. '
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-15

MoNDAY.....,..........-FEBRuARY Ia. 1897
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THE FAKE And THE FACT.
THE FAKE

The Examiner published for several days at tn
top OF its title page the following fake: