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The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18

Pacific and agent on this coast for President
C. P. Huntington; J. kruttschnitt, general
manager of the company; W. F. Herrin. chief
counsel of the law department OF the com
pany, and William q. Curtis, the company's
engineer of the maintenance OF way, consti-
tuting a party making an examination OF the
Sonora Railroad from Nogaies 10 Guaymas, in
Mex CO. have started on their way back 10
this city, and will arrive here on Monday.
william w. Leeper, merchant OF New York
City, arrived at the Lick last night directly
from the East. He will rem ain here several
weeks. Speaking of Greater New York's ap-
preaching election he said Seth Low, president
OF Columbia College and representative OF the
city's best people, Will probably finally be in
dorsed also by the organized Republicans,
though il will be a bitter pill to them to be
practically dictated 10 by the Citizens Reform
party in order TO defeat powerful aud corrupt
Tammany.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18
MAUD MILLER.

Maud Miller in the summer heat,
Rsked the meadow ihick with wheat.
The Judge rode slowly down the lane,
Smoo hing the norse's chestnut name.
"With wheat at a dollar per-" said he,
"Thls maid is about the size for me-"
Then he smiled at ner end she nlushed at him,
And over the meade " fence he clim.
''Will you marry me- sweet maid," he said,
And sh. told aim yes and they were wed.
Alas for maiden. alas for Judgei
For o.d designer and wheatfeid drudge.
Lord pity them both and pity us al,
F-r Maud didn't own the wheat at all.
And the Judge remarked when he learned the
cheat.
Don't tax to me about dollar wheat!
w. J. L.. in New York Sun.
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NO PATRONAGE INVOLVED.

OOME our contemporaries have treated the appontment
Board OF Supervisors if merely po.
cal designed bring redistribution of official
patronage. This justified by anything ua
ton or up no question or
patronage in the ISSUE Supervisors fully
understand the fact.
kind on the part of the
about ousting the employees the
city for the purpose replacing
policy would weaken public confidence in the
go deprving that popular
support which is cordially given them great
of citizens
The will required careful
supervision the work OF all city employees and any
petence dishonest practices will be duty
them and enrus the hands.
much essential good government but the Supervisors
fulfil the expectations
the their friends by absanng anything
removals office solely sake OF distributing patron
age among their political supporters.
In phase another the emergency affects very
ally every CITY, there
result confusion in municipal affairs will seriously
interfere with effective No be fully
of this than officials They have teen
appointed guard the welfare o: the city, and
because their known integrity and public spirit
that they would fulfil the duty intelligent fidelity that
would secure the common interests of ALL
Such being the condition affairs questions patronage
might well be dismissed from the public mind The
Supervisors have important things than that
distributing Offices They will inclination
The time to in petty politics when many
problems Of great the municipality
and
The new board is one that be counted The
who compose it well known to all citizens who have
watched the of public affairs character each
fully by past services rendered to the
community confirm public confidence expectations
good service We have unseemy scrambing
for patronage and efficient administrations
of the city, 1t is safe TO rophey because the known
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mission at the home ports preparing Tor
permanent service on that station. viz tho
oattle-ship Renown Qhc future flagship of
Vice Admiral Sir John A. Fisher. K. c. B. the
turret-sh1p Hotspur, the gunboats Medway
and Medina, the torpedo-boat destroyers Quail
and Sparrowhawk. aud the spt ciai service yes
sci Columbi bine. representing eolec lively a dis
placement OF II GAG tons. With this strength
ening OF the squadron it has been found nee
essary TO moderDize and otherwise improve
the admiralty properly at the depots At Ber-
muda large dock is 10 be Constructed. the
s@9Indaaiiy @ mouse i being repaired at cost of
$1,000, the breakwater is being improved at
cost OF $4,000, the harbor is being dredged az a
cost OF t10OO. hospital building is being
erected at al estimated expenditure OF f45O0,
ana gun-mounilng store will cost $4,000
AT Jamaica f19, 900 is being spent in improv-
Ing ihe water supply, and the staff Bermuda
dockyard is being greatly strengthened
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A SANITARY MAUSoLEUM.

The Board OF Health of N.w York has au-
proved the plans of a new mausoleum COM
pany and the latter will establish q sanitary
mausoleum near High Bridge, W ith capacity
OF from 10000 to 1900 bodies. The idea is
to seal up the dead in cement receptacles
after exposing the bodies LOT several months
TO current OF air made chemically pure bv
passing II over sulphuric acid and atterwarci
oy hre. When the body is thoroughly desic-
Gtted the ceptacle is to be made alright.
Inc sanitary authorities are reported to be
wen pleased with the proposed scheme, which
ayolos so many OF the Objectionable features of
eartn burial 1t is proposed 10 erect a build
ing 20 feet long, rs feet deep aud three
concrete, four inches thick and iointless in
size little larser than an ordinary coffin.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18
THE GODDESS GRINS.
New York Snn.

There is peace in Warrensburg, Mo-, at last,
and the Goddess of Liberty on the staff of the
new Courth use there shows a sweet smile as
the tender eye-dawn of aurorean love. The
ball on the staff, which the goddess emuses
herself by holding, used to be "a rich golden
color" to the delight OF the Republicans and
the sorrow and wrath of the Democrats. The
Repu blicans feered and jeered ur til the Dem
ocrats couldn't stand any longer. The
members OF the County CoErt "are all Demo-
Gratis, AID secret orders were given to suppiant
Gers were obeyed. The unhai owed badge of
the money power WAS removed, and now the
end of the staff glistens with bail OF silver.
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down the Streel. hHdI udhcS MIN 40 llt
Papa-The policeman.-Glasgow Mail.
tDoes that Kentucky politician have a big
pull ?"
"Yes-when there is a jug arounu"-Colum.
bus Journal.
Perry Patettic-Please, mister, could you
help the victim of waShout?
Mister-Of washout?
"Yes, mister. 1 amt had nothin' but
wotter 10 drink for two long weeks ''-Ciacin-
natl Enquirer.
with the lion-tamer? He's been hanging
around for two hours.
The ConlortionIst-He's afraid to go home.
He's heard his wife was at the show this alter.
noon and saw him beat her favorlte liouess
OTIS hard" said the menagerie lion.
"Whats hard? asked the kangaroo.
$50 be starved when I'm alive and stuffed
when I'm ead"-Pick-Me-Up.
'That new cook from the country that the
Blueberries have been boasting about insisted
on sitting on the porch las night when they
had company"
Didn't she feel out of plnce?"
"She did afterward." - Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Bobby (admiring the India ink tattooing on
Dickev's arm)-Did it hurt much?
Dickey-Not till my mother saw it-Boston
Transcript
Tom Barry-Can you keep q secret?
Peydita-Yes, if it isn't worth repeating
Truth
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A CORRUPT ADVISER.

NEWSPAPER has sustain powerful and
proper relation affairs social and governmental
paper that conducted without greed 10 satisfy grudge
faen, that tells the truth and fair is important
element in the good government of city.
expulsion the Boatd Supervisors furnished
object lesson that made plain without the cir
poster.
The members of the expelled board counseled by the
commit the caused the loss of their
Office then with a cheek compared which
liquid the attacked them their misfortune and
while under the lash of punishment for following its advice
The unfortunate themselves public may learn
valuable the preense of and fake
journalism to a wholesome influence in public affairs
If the expelled board in fixing rates
legal limit corruption by
What the motive of the local of
absentee journalist roll the moral
New York and the reek jour
naIsm here like and face the
quences OF the against decency committed in
his rameP Vas there negotiation in February between
the absentee and the Spring Valley Water that could
be brought to head by delay in the Board of Supervisors and
after ALL did swag mscarry? Was Examiner taking
howl TO excite public opinion against Spring Valley increase
risk price of being officially friendly
IT, and finally missed its share of the profits of market which
it had buled vigorously?
Nohipg dear the absentee journalist the troll
supervisors and legislators He taken the public
his confidence in the claim chate of the
Examiner and the in charge OF that acted
that idea in the conference the board only find that
his master msaken-that holds mortgage the
Governor the Board OF Supervisors They all
free honest conscious of :heir responsibility the
enactmg The difficult footing
6le
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II. B. MS AMERICAN SQUADRON.
London Daily Neus

LUIIuUH Ua1Iy News.
Although the admiralty have during the
past months made considerable changes in
the constitution of the various squadrons en-
pioyed on foreign stations, on no station has
the strength been sc greatly increased as in
NORTH America and the West Indies. Each
SNIP relieved in those waters has been re-
plaeeo Dy one OF greater TONNAGE; with the
exception or the cruiser Cordelia all ere of
noiern type, and now for the first time since
the iormat1on Of North American squadron
the naeship will be batt.eship instead of. as
heretofore. cruiser. There are at the present
Time no fewer than seven vessels in com
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18
NOT YET sHAKEsPEAREAN.

The King OF Siam is not as yet Shakespear-
can scholar. On the recent occasion of his
VISIT to Denmark he accompanied the Crown
Prince Frederick 10 Helsingfors and was duly
conducted 10 the grave OF Hamlet, Prince of
D1nmark. Here he took off his hat and stood
Tor moment in reverential siIence. Then
turning TO The Crown Prince he said, with
deep sympathy. "a relation OF your royal
Hishness, ! presume. Has he been long
dead 2''
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A MORAL PAPER.

MELLOW absentee journalism, exempied in the career
| of the San Francsco Examiner achieved distinct
triumph yesterday Had the Sums been searched for
subject and the yellow kodak brought to bear the tender
on Cripple Creek nothing could have been produced
ceiling genuine immortality and filth the "scoop" of the
saffron journal from Dawson Its rednosed poet reveng in
the foul atmosphere of Yukon dance hall and detailing his
experiences audience of respectable American people
achievement upon which the absentee proprietor of the
Examiner should be congratulated
1t is difficult to treat of such a subject in decent
paper To do to advertise things which the veil of
secrecy should in the interest of respectable people, be drawn
The scupes whh prevented the exposure of the orgies of
Sausato, which keep in the dark the frghtul mmoales of
the of every great city, and which mpe decent people
shun vice and hrusts its hieous head in
view rush in here to intercept reference to this triumph of
yellow journalism.
Yet what is decent newspaper to do? Joaquin Mler's
letter from Dawson, published in the Examiner the vlest
exhibition of coored journalism in civilized COM
munity. Is to Be allowed to pass unheeded Must this
whskydnkng poet and his absentee employer be permitted
with impuny write up Dawson dance halls and the holy
Catholic church in the paragraph, and garnish both
with picture which would disgrace the Police Gasse We
ask ourselves these questions because in this article we are
calling attention publication which should bring the blush
of shame the face of every decent San Francisco.
Coored journalism has been thought equal 20 almost
thing Not long ago gave pages the murder of
death in her den. But dreamed that would send
ednosd poets the Yukon to write up the painted harr-
dams of Dawson and artists to depict them drinking cham
pagne at s35 quart. This is rather too much for
spectacle human But what is to be done about t1
Will calling the attention of decent people to the fact that this
taken into their families and read by their wives and
children have the effect of putting stop the spread of the
immoral sheet?
We cannot answer these qvestions. Unless we are mis-
taken however is time that committee of safety
ganized to fumgate the Ex1er this is done pretty
soon the city itself will need fumigating.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18
A POLITICAL CHINESE DRAGON.

FOLLOWING the lead Sacramento Bee the Record
Uno. OF makes attack upon the
proposal CALL that Equazers be elected bv
large instead OF by equalization districts;
having objection of its advance
of the Bee that the
giving Francisco control board
leaving the of the State without protection whatever
excessive taxation
charge Bee wise enough to state without
argument but the Record Union foolish spreads
the sua and Indifferent reader can
perceive folly fit Under the amendment says
the gArulous obector The mining interest to have
resentaon Board of Equalization The agrcu
tural is to be equally ignored Fruit growing and
raising have voice The con-
Francisco bear as the
balance and man to be permitted
authority vouch.afed Equalization
unless he is wholly satisfactory to San Francisco"
Here is a political Chinese dragon made order and
painted nonsousy red and lud alright FOOLS any fools
there be in Sacramento The concentrated and
Francisco is the phrase of unatic
the of San Francisco and
consolidated?
In the Presidential San Francisco
equally divided that change of less than
of the Nc
Kiney. The division almost equally close in last
gubernatora Ali records show that the
CITY, teng consolidated fluid as
1t changeabe than that of the State
of Alpine is likely div
sions in the of San Francisco than is that of the city
hold the balance of power in the State
holowness
bugaboo Union dags the length dragon
argument point where the joints break
ing emptiness says: Nothing m ore
republican institutions ce of
consolidated a popular election of President of the
would choice square
which comprises the manufacturing this
country"
completer futility of the
console argument than that state
ment stands? When did the people of territory
comprising manufacturing th. country ever
dental ion the nation began Even in
led war, consolidated any State
either South. The Norher vote was
divided Lincoln, Douglas and Bell; Southern vote
among Breckinridge, Douglas and Bell As fact
been consolidated in
munity, large small
San Francisco has cast consolidated
people will while party spirit and differences opinion
exist among An attempt frighten intelligent
the interior charge of that kind
attempt them from the by trailing Chinese
dragon through the town.
The equalization of is local issue, State
1t should be left representatives but to
with his colleagues every citizen
The movement TO that end is
special Francisco for justice
1t is right by the intelligence of the people it
will prevail.
~ fhaa -Sunar vis u0uld tall
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JHE LARGEST DYNAMO IN JHk WoRhD


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now consists OF two
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READY FOR THE EMERGENCY.

Beaumarchais, the author OF the famous
Marriage of Figaro" twas the son OF Partisan
matchmaker, but had gained fame, rank and
wealth through his own talents and exertions.
A conceited and envloUs young nobleman
once undertook 10 wound the pride OF Beau1
marehais by an allusion 10 his hum bic origin
In the presence of large company of peopleA
who had regard for the talented young a r.
thor this young man handed him his watc
saying: "Ex mine 1t, sir 1t does OF keeII
time WELL You can doubtless ascertain thZ
left the watch before that of the surprised
Besuma ais had gras ped it, and it fell to the
ground. Pardon, monsieur" said the author,
with grave courtesy, STOPPING to pick up the
watch and hand it 10 its owner, ''you see my
father was right when he declared that was
too awkward TO be a matchmaker"
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18
THE NICARAGUAN CANAL PLOT
na,ro.. Ere press

Detroit Free Press.
The half has not been told about the Nicara-
guam canal plot Once having secured control
OF the great waterway it was Japan's purpose
TO sneak the island of Cuba through the canal
some foggy night and get 1t into Japane Sc
waters beiore the United States would have
time TO suspect what was up.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18

yellow journalist afraid appear San Francisco rep
resented here By similar hue who
endowed with the quality give rise
emotion of shame, really consd-
his efforts shape destiny city, True he
doing something for it by remaining away but against this
that ne susans dseputable gang
much harm, perhaps could do himself.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18

skobeloff have more than anything else con-
tributed TO bring the two nations together. At
all events they must be considered the start
ing point OF the sudden change OF feeling.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18
cALIFORhIANs IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, n. Y, Sepr. 17.-At the Plaza
c. d. Bradley; Warwick-A. +. Earle; Stuart
T. J. Kelly; Sturtevant-R. n. Mason; I'm
perial-E. c. Gcdney; Park Avenue. H.
Smith st. Denis-Dr. and Mrs. A II. Tickel.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18
THE THREE BEST BOOKS.

Oliver Wendell hoime $ said TO n vounu man
who asked him TO name the three best books.
The Bib.e, Shakespeare, and good diclion-
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18
NOTIFICATION SETTING IN.

New York Mall and Express.
Yellow journalism in New York is begin
ming to turn an envlous green.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18
MEN AND WOMEN.

White ribboners recently gathered In lsrua
numbers Mt North Danvllle, VT, and planted I
a tree in honor OF Mrs. Willard, mother ~
Miss Frances willard, upon the site of her
birthplace.
A story is told OF the late Baron Hirsch that
couyeys a yaIuab bic lesson. After writing
message announcing the gilt OF fortune to
school, the great millionaire went over the
telegram carefully second time, condens1ng
it so as to save franc.
monument to the memory OF Niels vii.
helm Gade the famous Danish composer, has
been erected on the st. Anne's Plnd, Copen-
hagen. Gade died seven years ago. He was
born III Copenhagen, and was for many years
first director of the Royal Conservatory.
Mrs. Hitty Smith and Mrs. Deborah Hall OF
Barnstable, Mass, probably the oldest twin
sisters in the country, cele brated the ninety.
second anniversary of their birth last week
They enjoy excellent health, and, it is said
look as hale as many people twenty years
younger.
The Governor-GeneraI of Algeria has given
the charge of medical mission to the noun.
tains beyond Biskra TO woman graduate OF
the University of Paris, Miss Chelier. Her
chief work will be the care of the native
women and children, and she has already
gained experience by making two successful
journeys into that part OF the country, placing
trained nurses at the various stations.
One of the family of the fighting Bells' OF
Augusta County, Virginia, has died at the
homestead at Long Glade at The age of so. He
was Alexander r. Bell, one of five brothers
who together had nineteen sons that foughtin
Captain Cushing's company of the Fifth vir.
ginta Regiment, Stonewall Brigade, and were
nearly all killed in battle or died OF wounds
A. R. Bell had been for nearly sixty years an
elder in the Presbyterian church.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18
cALlFoRNlANs IN WA .HINGToN

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 17.-E. ]. Wolfe
oil San Franc is at the Ebbitt House. l. G.
Holmes of Los Angeles is at the Raleigh.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18

When firm of lawyers guarantee immunity to trans
OF certain there something wrong Perhaps
the lawyers possibly the law itself But in either the
matter is worth investigation.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18

AGE tends to kill the hair and turn it gray
HAIR BALsAM renews color and life.
HINDERCoRNs. the best cure for corns. Is cts.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18

SPECIAL info rma tion daily TO manufacturer
Clipping Bureau tAlen's) $40 Montgomery.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18
UP IN MUNICIPAL LAW.
Snnora Ranner

We understand 1t will not be long until Don
Pedro will be incorporated according to John
Twigg's reports.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18

For doing exactly that .hem
TO do the late Supervisors experienced pang
bounced Naturally any body accepting counsel from
could deserve nothing less the good of
gver o in lampoonng foolish
enough may be questioned
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18

The goddess grins radlantIy. The Warrens.
burg Democrats sleep In peace. knouinq tha
the peoples metal is enthroned on the new
Courthouse. e"
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18

If OF the exSupervisors would tell frankly why
Hears paper loved them once and why the grew cold
would make reading interesting is in
the habit OF printing.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18

The sins OF Harry Weswood Cooper finding
him out but If Cooper to be interviewed door
concerning he would probably opne egretuIly
that the sins finding him in.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18
MAKE HIM A BUOY AGAIN.

Detroit Journa'.
Debs would make a most admirable auto
matte siren to warn mariners to steer clear OF
fog-enveloped rocks.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18

The lettercarrers bsen San Francisco gave
impression of being able to take of themselves
masack When overland stop long
TO permit them they simply stopped the train and kept
waiting until the last appetite had stated AMI the tables
bare Oace awhile hod-up to be iusti
fable
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HE SHOULDN'T BEAT AEOUT THE EUSH


looking
found he
charged the
advertising
Inc whole advertising proposition
40 not know that think
only objection to him that he does
when no PAYMENTS expected
system should be utterly she'd.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18

CALIFORNIA riace fruits. soc ID. Townssnrl'
JUSTIN GATES, Notary Pubic, removed to IA
McAIlister ST., room 3 third floor.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18
MECHANICS FAIR
PURE FOOD
Demonstration and Lecturer CONF
mends Royal Baking Powder
in Preference to ALI
Others.

Miss Suzy Tracy, the
cooking demonstrator in
the Model Kitchen at the
Mechanics Fair, says -
@In the practice ofmy pro-
fession as a teacher of cook
cry 1 have tried the different
brands of baking powder,
and I find that Royal Bak-
ing Powder gives the best.
satisfaction. I can accom-
p1ish the best results with a
smaller quantity of Royal
Baking Powder than of any
other kind, and l find It
always to be perfectly tani.l
form il its action
EM |~1I
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tits induce office. Naturally he
prefers position direct counsel gentleman
who may choose to accept.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18
SCIN 1lLLATION ).

Tommy-Paps, when q man is playing the
bagpipe he never stops, but keeps moving on
down the street What makes him do it?
Papa-The policeman.-Glasgow Mail.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18

Mr. Harss friends ought notify him his Fran
cisco sheet is making an indecent exDasnre Of itself:
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18

The young who aggreved she paid fare
for to the Kondke in ship sailed of
wants her back Yet with her indignation should be
mingled of gratitude gone she wished
could got money back probably could
have got back herself.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18

Accusing the Examiner of bad memory is cruelty
mails Even the lowest OF created things entitled
consideration And the way Examiner memory would suffer
If it not for privilege of going into trance.
The San Francisco call., 1897-09-18

"Does that Kentucky POLITICIAN have big
pull ?''
"Yes-when there is a jug around. u."-Colum.
bus Journal.