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The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
LYMAN GAGE.

In the selection of Lyman Gage of Chi
cago for the Office of Secretary of the
Treasury President-elect Mckinley has
been even more fortunate than in gaining
Senator Sherman for the office of Secre-
tary of State. Mr.. Gage is not so eminent
nor perhaps so strong man as Senator
Sherman, but while the Senator will be a
doubtful quantity in the State Office Mr..
Gage Is undoubtedly by training, expert
ence and ability we'll fitted for the duty
of conducting the affairs of the depart
ment to which he has been called.
There are few bankers in the country
more eminent than Mr.. Gage and none
more favorably regarded or held in higher
esteem both by the public and by bankers.
His reputation in the community is due
to the fact that he has made himself
known as something more than a busi-
ness banker. He has studied the subject
of finance in all its branches and has
taken prominent part in the recent dis
cussions of the subject. To him banking
is something more than lending money
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
A SPECIAL FEAST.

Paulist Fathers to Observe the "Con-
version of st. Paul."
Tomorrow the Paulist Fathers will sne.
cially abserve the "Feast of the Conyer.
sion of st. Paul." he being the patron
saint of their order. Solemn high mass
will be sung at IL A. NJ. and the clergy will
be vested in the gold vestments recently
presented to the church. His Grace the
Most Rev. the Archbishop of San Fran
cisco is expected to be present on the occa-
sion. The sermon will be preached by the
Rev. Father Woods, s. j., on the Soon
version of st. Paul. and a discourse of
more than passing eloquence may be ex-
pected.
A splendid musical programm me has been
arranged, under the direction of the or
ganist, Miss Georgiani, and which will be
as follows:
Haydn's Mass in C, with Benedictus, from
Gounod; "Messe du Sacre Conr. . Te Deum.
Dy Elmer; "Ven1 Creator" by Handel, with
organ ana orchestral accompaniment. Di-
rector, Eugene E. Schmiiz; sopranos-Misses
Aoeie Rottanzl, kathleen Duffy L. Devine,
annie Devine, NJ. Byrne, Tillle Pauba, Mary
Higgins, Maggie Ryan and Bertha Smith; con-
tralIos-Mrs: Leo Paulina Steffani, Misses Ag-
mes bergen, Madeline Bumstead G. Rottanzi,
Helen Ford and Jeanette Hughes; tenors-
Messrs James Lane, Daniel Gilfsather, Henry
Dlnen, 1; Meagher ank DR.. Bonini; bassos-
Messrs. William Gordon, William O'Brien,
James Allen and DR.. Rottanzl. The solos will
pc rendered by Miss Adele Rottanz Mrs. L. P.
SteHani, Messrs. James Lane and William Cor.
Agnes Bergen
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Lower rates to the coast is what many men
interested in large enterprises in California
say the State must have before there is great
prosperity. More people are needed here.
There is an enormous territory comprised in
the State boundaries, and but small popula-
ton considering the advantages that are to be
enjoyed when the would-be locator once gets
here.
All this and much more is being set forth by
the proprietors of different enterprises. C. N.
Hammett of Chicago, who has for some time
been negotiating for q large tract of land in
Northern California for colonizing purposes,
is at the Grand. He says that after going into
the question of passenger rates to this coast
he does not know whether he can carry out
his colony scheme
The rates are too high, far more than the
people can stand, but the transcontinentai
roads will give no reduction. The rate ought
to be at least half what it IS, Mr.. Hammett
claims, TO properly induce people to come and
settle here.
"If they made inves tments in land" said he,
"the railroad could well afford to give tn rate.
1t would make money by doing so. In fact, if
the State was filled up as it ought to be the
railroad would make enormously more than it
does now. 1t is short-sighted, in my opinion,
not to give reduced rate.
al have put great many people into Kansas
during the last few years and have also been
sending them to surrounding States. The
railroads were all glad to give a cheap rate to
land seekers, and settlers had other reductions
who bought lands
'Kansas filed up rapidly in many parts.
The cheap rates in that State, as in others,
were of inestimable value, and the roads made
more than any body else. There ought to be
vastly reduced rates here. AS it is it takes a
big sum of money for the average man and
family to come here, and they just won't stand
it. They can't. They haven't got it."
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
NEWS SERVICE.

That the managers of the Examiner have
no appreciation of the real issue between
legitimate journalism and fake journalism
is made evident by the manner and tone
of the reply which they make to the ex-
posure of the Chinese dispatch story which
they recently published. Instead of reply
ing to the charge that the story was a fake
ridiculous on its face they enter into a
long, labored, vehement and uncalled for
defense OF their general news service.
THE CALL has never condemned that
part of the news service of the Examiner
which is genuine. It has had no reason
for so doing. AS soon as THE CALL passed
into the hands of the present proprietor it
began to furnish the people of San Fran
cisco and California with the news reports
of the United Associated Press. The ex-
celence of this service and its superiority
over any hitherto known on the coast was
soon manifest, and it is to the credit of
Mr.. Hearst that he had the sagacity to see
it and ADOPT it. The Examiner therefore
at the present time receives the same news
service as THE CALL. This fact is suffi-
cient proof of the perspicacity of Mr..
Hearst, but it certainly does not justify
him or his managers in claiming that they
have better news service than anybody
else, or in publishing ridiculous fakes and
reiterating that they are true when the
public well knows they are false.
Our objection is not to the news service
of the Examiner, but to its fakes. Any
reports it receives from the United Press
are all right, but the reports 1t gets by the
fakelectrophone from such personages as
the Emperor of China are certainly to be
condemned. To sell such fakes for news
is to obtain money under false pretenses,
and to brag about them and to reiterate
them shows something like a total de-
pravity of the intellect or degeneration
of the brain tissue.
The Chronicle Of yesterday pointed out
some of the recent fakes of the Examiner
and showed in humorous way how
ridiculous the Examiner managers are
making themselves in persistently brag-
ging of its fakes instead of its genuine
news. For example, the Examiner now
boasts of the dispatches it received during
the Chlno-Japanese war from an alleged
correspondent named Creelman. The
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

! C. P. Villiers, "Father of the House of Com.
mons" who has just celebrated his ninety
fifth birthday, has represented Wolyerton un.
interruptedly for sixty-two years.
Lady Henry Somerset employs two secre-
! taries, who are busy ten hours day In reply
ing to her correspondence and who have to
be diligent then to keep within bounds
De Quincy, who devoted his life to the
reading of books, said that the greatest mum.
ber Of books any one man could hope to get
through with in mans allotted time was
$500.
Mrs. Theodore Tilton has recently recovered
her sight after two years of blindness. She
has changed little in twenty years. Her hair
shows few strands of gray at the temple, that
is all.
General G. w. C. Lee, who has just resigned
the presidency of Washington and Lee Uni
versity, was the eldest son of R. E. Lee, and
through his mother was direct descendant
OF George Washington's father.
The estate of the late Shah Of Persia is
valued at 5000, 600, 900, of which two-ifths is
in cash and bullion 1t is rumored that his
successor will devote $50, 600, 900 to advanc-
ing the civilization of Persia.
A prominent member of the Players Club
OF New York" informs a Philadelphia reporter
that Mark Twain received in London recently
q letter mailed to him in New York and ad-
dressed only "Mark Twain, God-Knows-
Where.'
Mrs. Arthur Sewall, the wife of the late Free
Silver Democratic candidate for Vice -Presi-
dent ofthe United States, is an expert amateur
photographer, and has received diplomas for
her work, not only in New York and Boston,
but also in Paris.
One of the valuable relics intrusted to the
care of the Grand Master of Massachusetts,
Masons is the washington urn"-a small
golden urn containing q lock of General
Washington's hair. Mrs. Washington pre-
sented the lock to the Grand Lodge in 1900
and Grand Master Paul Revere made the urn
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

across the counter on good security. He
recognizes its relation to finance gener-
ally, and understands that banking is but
portion of the great work which finance
does insthe mechanism of modern society.
He will enter his office, therefore, broadly
cultured on the subject of his duty, and
will be we'll able to fulfill it with usefulness
to the public and honor to himself.
While Mr.. Gage has been more noted
as a fnancier than as a statesman, there
can be no question of his fitness to per-
form the statesman's work in dealing
with the financial problems of the Gov
ernment. He is true Republican, and is
in sympathy with the party on all the
great issues of the time. In recent in
terview he declared that he was in full
agreement with President elect Mckinley
not only on the money question but on
the tariff. He stands for all that is i'm
piled in sound money, protection and re-
ciprocity, and will be true representative
of genuine Repubicanism.
In another respect Mr.. Gage is man
whose appointment to high Office will be
satisfactory to the people. He is one of
those self-made men whom Americans
delight to honor. His success in lite has
been due to his own industry, energy and
talents. He has risen to high positions
because he has shown himself faithful in
those of a subordinate character. Every
work intrusted to his hands has been
rightly performed. He has never been a
deficit banker and he will not be a deficit
Secretary of the Treasury. We can look
to MIN for an efficient management of the
finances of the Nation and be we'll as
sured that when he retires from Office he
will deserve the commentator of the
people in the words, Good and faithful
servant, well donel'
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
A CHARACTER.

He was always a-sayin': "It's all for the best:"
No matter what fortune was bringin'.
He did what he could-left to heaven the rest
An went on his pathway a-singin'I
BY day and by night-in the dark, in the light,
Youll find i'm serene and contented;
The world, to his notion, was treatin him right,
AM his way with its roses was scented.
His life was a lesson all comfortin' sweet
life that was Kind and forgivin',
For who, when the sharp thorns are plercin' his
feet,
Can thank the good Lord that he's livIn'?
But sometimes 1 think when the heart in the
breast
Is sick with It's sorrow and grievin'.
If things never happen at all ''for the best"
We Can make 'em the best by belevin'!
FRANK l.. STANTON.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
A DISTINCT OPINION ON THE
TREATY.
Bridgeport Morning union,

bflQSepOrb MOEuinS OnlOu.
BY forming what the diplomatic world will
insist as regarding as an offensive and defen-
sive alliance with our traditional enemy, we
shall offend our traditional friend, Russia,
and her friend, our friend and former ally,
France. The support OF Russia has been stead
fast and unshaken, and in more than one
crisis her strong arm has been proffered as an
aid. AS for what we owe to France, may it
never be forgotten. Shall we turn aside from
the two nations which alone, out of all the
world, entertain amicable feelings toward US
to form an alliance with Great Britain, whose
friendship is delusion and a snare, and
whose history is a history of deceit and
cruelty?
final and incidental reason is that the
Senate of the United States should not permit
itself to be bluffed into an action for the grati-
fcation of two gentlemen who, while making
a grand-stand play for universal peace" re-
fuse to lift finger to suppress one of the most
m murderous and bloody wars of modern his
tory, and one that is being carried on at their
very doorsteps.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
PERSON AL.
Ell. Smith of Redding is in the City.


H. L. Hobbs of Fresno is on a visit here.
E. E. Bryoselbont of Paris is at the Palace.
u. S. McLena OF Kendriok, Idaho, is at the
Russ.
f. A. Boale, a merchant of Red Bluff, is in
town.
NJ. J. Cady, owner of hotel at sonoma, is il
the City.
w. H. Peelor, business man of Orange, is at
the Russ.
John ]. Mooney OF visalia is spending few
days here.
W. s. Bates of Golconda, New, arrived here
yesterday.
Arthur H. Clark of Cedar Rapids Iowa, is al
the Grand.
G. Stuart Simons of San Antonio, Texas, is at
ths Palace.
P. J. McKenna of Brooklyn, N. Y, arrived
here yesterday.
C. O. Johnson of San Luis Obispo is a late ar
rival in the City.
L. Chandler of Pescadero has arrived here
for few days stay.
Ex-Congressman Louttit arrived here from
Stockton yesterday.
R. E. Hyde, wealthy business man of vi
salia. is in the City
John Lane, mining man of Spokane, ar
rived here yesterday.
Sheriff James Quirk of Story County, Ne
vada, is on visit here.
c. W. Thompson, a general-store keeper OF
Tomales is at the Russ.
George W. Patterson of Bishop, Inyo County,
is recent arrival here.
F. L. Savage OF Northport, Wash, and Mrs.
Savage are at the Grand.
Charles Platt of Colfax, Wash, accompanied
by Mrs. Platt, is at the Lick
A. R. Colburn of Tacoma accompanied by
Mrs. Colburn, is in the City.
]. F. Condon, mining and business man of
Verdi, New, is on visit here.
D. K. Slavin of Battle Mountain, New, is
recent arrival at the Baldwin.
Louis Einstein, well-to-do merchant of
Fresno, is here on business trip.
James F. Farraher of Yuba, ex-District At
torney of Siskiyou County, is in town.
Congressman-elect Marion de Vries of Stock
ton and Mrs. de Vries are at the Grand.
J. H. B. Hull of EIdridge, CAL, arrived here
last evening and is at the Cosmopolitan.
Henry 8. A. Dittenhoefer of New York was
one of the arrivals by last nights Central Pa
cifc train.
H. Rogers, a rancher of Salinas, is in the
City on business, ana is registered at the
Cosmopolitan.
A party consisting of E. ]. Daniels, Mrs.
Daniels and Miss Cora Daniels of Sioux Falls,
S. D., are at the Baldwin.
Ira G. Hoitt, ex-Superintendent of Public
Instruction, arrived here yesterday from Bur-
hngame, and is at the Occidental.
John w. Garrett and Graeme Trumbun, of
Baltimore, and w. J. Cotton OF Phoenix. Ariz.,
who have been on an extended trip through
Arizona and Southern California, arrived here
last night
Captain F. R. Brightman, an old whaler of
New Bedford, Mass, who is interested in whal-
ing ships here, arrived here yesterday and is
at the Russ. He has come in reference to get
ting his vessels started for the whaling
grounds.
NJ. A. Kiyama, who has been for long time
past secretary of the Japanese Legation in ST
Petersburg, is here on his way home to Russia.
w. Fujita, who has been studying in London
and on the Continent for eight years past, is
with him.
E1-Congressman William Woodburn of Ne
vada arrived here from his home in Carson
yesterday, and is at the Russ. He has come in
connection with the United States Mint cases
which have been transferred from Nevada to
this City for trial.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
Lecture on HYGIENE.

This evening lecture will be given
at the Mechanics Institute by Lieutenant-
Colonel Greenleaf, United States army, on
"School Hygiene The lecture will be free to
members of the Mechanics Institute and their
friends, and in addition, as this is a matter of
importance TO educators, schoolteachers and
all parties interes ted in the subject are espe-
cially invited to be present
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
The Tax Rebates.

The Treasurer of the City and County is
anxiously awaiting the coming of about 5000
taxpayers who are entitled to e rebate. All
persons who paid personal property taxes in
1895 to the Assessor only are en- titled TO
rebate at the rate of 81 cents on the $1OO
valuation. Those entitled to rebate should
call at once and collect 1t.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

Angry caller (at newspaper ofice)-Say,
want that little ad. gave you two days ago
Wanted, an electric battery in good working
order"-taken out.
Advertising clerk-What is the matter ?
Didn't we put it in the right column?
Angry caller-Column be dashed The ad.
overdid the business. My house was struck
by lightning last night.-Duplin World.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

a great spIutter has arisen in Chicago
over a proposition to give the Mayor
$4,000 year, and it is safe to say tina.
many a Mayor has helped himself to more
money without making half the noise.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

The Examiner has at last found out the
name of the Chinese Consul-General in
this City, ana if it had not stopped to
fake that Chinese dispatch it might have
found it out on the day Little Pete was
killed.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
CALIFORNIANs IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, N. Y, Jan. 29.-At the St.
Cloud, ]. W. Booth; Murray Hill, G. W. Lynch
Belvedere, Mrs. L. R. Stockwell; st. Denis, w.
Hotchkiss; Cosmopolitan, J. Redington.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

The Illinois Legislature has tackled the
job of regulating department stores, just
as ii it were not something of a variety
junkshop itself.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

TowNsEND's California glace fruits, SOC lb
In handsome joker etched boxes 627. Palace
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
What OF the ChiIdren,s Page?

Why published
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The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

According to the Examiner Ii Yung
Yuen is in Havana and San Francisco at
the same time, and as for Creelman he is
everywhere
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

The Senatorial fight in Washington
seems 20 be so hot at both ends it is i'm
possible to handle it either way with
safety.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

All that Nevada asks of the country is
to furnish the prize-fghters. She will fur
nish the sand.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

so-called storms are rains that bring a
blessing with them.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

Among the features of The SUNDAY
CALL there are some of special interest to
you. Don't fail to get the paper and read
them.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

Professor Langley gives good reports OF
his sirship and the next thing he gives US
ought to be public trial.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

Idaho sends to the United States Senate
a Populist who has never been known to
make a speech. This is real surprise
party.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

If Congress undertakes to prevent the
scalping of railroad tickets it ought at the
same time prevent the price of those tick
cts from scalping the public.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

When Senator Dubois left the RepubIi-
can party he stepped on the toboggan
slide and now he is in the snowdrift.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

Crselman is certainly a myth-there
cannot be any such ubiquitous cuss.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

1t seems that Lyman Gage voted for
Cleveland in 1884, but he repented early
and never did it again.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

IRRITATION OF THE THROAT AND HoARsENEss
are Immediately relieved by "Bro,Cps Bronchia
Trocles" Have them always ready.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

SPECIAL Information daily to manufacturers,
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen's), $40 Montgomery
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

The Legislature is making as much OF
the payroll scandal as if it expected never
to have another, and let US hope it won't t.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

Donner-I see that German tailor has made
fortune by inventing bullet-proof armor.
Blitzen-That's good. 1t will give some
other fellow chance to make fortune by
lnventing gun that will shoot holes through
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

Leave your orders to-day for The SUN.
DAY CALL and provide your leisure with
good reading.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

The passage of the glove contest bill
gives Nevada fighting chance for boom.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

No TOILET is complete without a bottle Of Aver 9
Hair Vigor-the best halr-dresslng. Ask your
druggist for Ayers Almanac.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

The Chronicle calls it ''creelmanizing,
but 'Ionggreening" would be better.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

San Francisco can well afford to be gen.
erous in her aid to the stricken people of
India, for California has profted by the
loss of the Indian wheat crop and il is
only right for US to help those from whose
injury we have derived gain.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
CREAM mixed candies, 25c lb. Townsend's.
STRONG hoarhound candy, 15c. TownssnGs'

FOUR pounds Townsend's famous broke
candy, in handsome basket, only SOC.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
NEWSPAPER PLEASANTLY

Grieving husband-oh, dear; what is delay
ing the funeral? The rooms are crowded now.
Undertaken assistant-Mr. Berriem is max
ing some final arrangements about the coffin
and the corpse is not quite ready yet
Grieying husband-Not ready yeti That's
Hannah all over; she always did like to keep
folks waiting Press.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A soLDIERs


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the soldiers me
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

Lyman Gage will suit the Office and the
TN
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

The rains will be of benefit to miners
who wish to work their claims as well as
to the farmers and orchardists. In fact
almost every industry in the State has
been benefited and the outlook for pros
perity has been frightened by the clouds.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
son-Papa, what is history :

Great historian-His tory, my SON, is an In
dividual opinion on an aggregation OF hearsay
evidence highly colored by the prejudice of
the witness-New York Press.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30
r. B. KITTRIDGE.
]. w. CUDWORTH.

Chairman Brunt of the committee ap-
pointed to report upon the Fish and
Game Warden ommended the continu-
ance of that official in office-that is to
say, recommended the continuance of the
office, las the City and County is INSULT
GENTLY patrolled by the officers of the
State Fish and Game Commission"
No action was taken on either report.
The Grand Jury will take up at its next
meeting the inquiry into the alleged at
tempt to bribe Supervisor Dodge by Frank
Marty in the latter's effort to secure the
contract to supply the Almshouse and
City and County Hospital with milk.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

Mckinley is doing the job well.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

The Chronicle recalls the Especial cable"
OF the Examiner asserting that the Colima
had 'split on a rock" when she really
sank in sixty fathoms of water, "and it is
hardly necessary for the Examiner to re-
iterate the statement and add that it was
absolutely true"
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30


81 am deeply interested in discovering the
lost tribes of Israel" said Mr.. Musty, as he
came in and sat down by the busy editor for
an hours discussion OF the subject.
''So?" replied the man of resources. "Why
don't you advertise for them? The business
office is on the first floor. Here, Dick, show
the gentleman to the advertising depart
ment. Household Words.
III handed your short story to our reader"
said the magazine editor, with vicious smile.
"Yes?" queried the author expectantly.
'.And the doctor says he thinks he will be
able to be about after another weeks rest."-
North American.
The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

Conductor-D1d 1 get your fare, sirf
Passenger-You MI ust have. You didn't ring
1T up for the company.-Town Topics.