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The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

appear from its columns that existence over
at Aicatraz is not at all dull. The prisoners
nave an orchestra and give frequent enter tain
nents' and the dances in the prison mess hall
seem to be highly pieasurabIe affairs.
The Peta'umian has lost itself, so far asname
IS concerned, in the Petaluma Weekly Budget.
The paper has been enlarged and the new
editor, Frank II. Snow, proposes to give his
readers just plain budget of news, without
poiiticaI 1riIis. He appears to understand his
business and that is saying quite good deal.
George F. Weeks has sold the Bakersfield
ta'JoTRidn to Alfreu Harrell. who win en-
deaVor TO keep the paper up 10 its present
hlgh standard. In one respect, however. the
new proprietor will inaugurate an i'm ports t
change, IN making the Californian Democratic
In poltics The paper has hitherto made its
political abode in the field OF the elect
The Promoter is the name of new paper in
Williams, Glenn County. The editor, II. D..
de Gaa, declares that his aim will be to redeem
the 1alr name OF Glenn County from the odfum
engendered by the faction fights OF the past.
lie Will know neither CLIQUE nor faction,
neither ring nor anti-ring, but will work for
the common good OF all. The Promoter pre-
sents q clean and neat appearance.
The proprietors of EL Barbareno, the cleverly
edlted santa Barbara weekly, have decided to
issue once month ''a beautiful illustrated
magazine to be styled El Bdrbareno Illustrated
Monthly" The scope of the new work will be
National in its character, althouTh the special
OBJECT Will be that of concentrating attention
upon this glorious coast section, with its su-
perb climate and remarkable resources.
says the Fresno Republican: A few days ago
). d. Culp of Gilroy, the wcll-known tobacco
grower, visited Fresno with the view of ascer-
tanning whether there was any soil in the
county adapted TO tobacco-g o-growing. He did
not have far to look, for he found the best
kind OF soil not far from this city. Since
Fresno County has soil adapted to the growing
oil havana tobacco, IT is to be hoped that the
crop VIII soon be gwen trial here. 1t would
De great source of prof TO our people if sue
cess were attained
The San Mateo Leader observes that the
future prospects of that section "are brighter
than those of any other section of the State.
The CALL has announced that the Valley road
would make China Basin, on the Potrero, the
terminus; that TO reach that point the road
would approach this section through the Pa
checo Pass, below Gilroy, thence northward
aIong the westerly shore of the bay to San
francisco. San Mateo will be benefited be-
yond measure. This action, once begun by
the Valley road people, VIII undou btedly
nasten the construction of rhe doube-track
oay-shore cutoff, and this point will then
enjoy an hourly service, which in addition to
the oeneht OF being on q main transconti-
mental line, will give US prestige that will
prove Uodsend to this section Those who
can look into the future and reason inteIli-
gently agree that San Mateo is place with q
brilliant future"
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01
PERSONAL.

DR.. J. Rosal OF Guatemala is staying at the
Baldwin.
R. ]. R. Alden, a VALLEJO merchant, is at the
Baldwin
II. W. Blaisdel1 of Yuma, Ariz., is registered
at the Lick
M Herrick, mining man from Portland, is
at the Russ
W. J. Rainwater o mining man of Helena,
Mont, is staying at the Russ.
Thomas K. Cay prominent man of Peta-
luna, is at the Cosmopolitan.
Ex-Judge S. Nj. Buck OF Eureka. Cal. is in
town. lie is staying at the Lick.
John Quinn, capitalist of Fresno, is a re-
cent arrival at the Cosmopolitan.
d. P. Pierce, a mining ms n from Big Canyon.
registered st the Grand YESTERDAY
RI. Blankenbeckler of United States steamer
fetrei was at the Baldwin yesterday.
TJoyce and wife are here from New York o:i
business. They are at the cosmopolitan.
II. L. Cave and family arrived from Colorado
yesterday and are staying at the Cosmo politan.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. R. Clark, George H. Clark
and Algie Clark, of Stockton, are at the Bald
win.
Mrs. DR.. Cleveland and her daughter, Miss
Mamie Cleveland of Dundee ILL.,, are stayiug
at the Palace.
james NJ Moore of the United States army
is registered at the Occidental He is accom-
panied by his wife.
harry Rutledge. a mining engineer of ANA
oor County, arrived here yesterday. He is
staying at the Baldwin
MT. and Mrs. +. H. Loring of Kobe, Japan
VINO recently arrived from the Orient and
nave been visiting friends in Alameda, re-
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der was in force during the time General
Howard was in command of the depart
ment.
During the past week the officers and
men at the Presidio post expected visit
from Colonel G. II. Burton, inspector
general for the Pacific District, but he
came not.
In consequence of the disagreeable
weather there are but few drills at the
Presidio now, but last Tuesday being a
reasonably good day, there was battalion
drill Of four troops'of cavalry under com
mand of Lieutenant-ColonelY Young. The
drlli was splendid one, the movements
being executed with promptness and
exactness that speaks we'll for the train
ing OF the men aud horses. One OF the
finest and most exciting movements was
when the troop formed in battalion front.
and the order came to charge. SaberS
flashed from their scabbards, the men
leaned forward to urge their horses on,
and on they rushed at maddening speed,
and when near TIE end of the parade
ground each man gave yell. and then
the recall was sounded. An elderly man
who had been watching this movement
with the intentness of a critic remarked
to one who was standing near him:
That's fine; it reminds NE of old times.
He was undoubtedly veteran OF the war.
Pending the assignment 10 headQuar-
ters of an officer OF the Adj utant-Gener-
aps Departm ent, Major Stephen W. Groes-
beck, j1d ge- advocate, viii act as adjutant-
general OF the Department Of California.
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the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. and
Animals and the Suppression OF Vice. He
sets forth that the monthly average OF
cases was seventy, and that ali but 123
were investigated by him. The work of
the society has increased and although
the subscriptions have also increased be
finds himself handicapped in his work for
want of funds to enable him. to conduct
IL on broader basis and in a more vigor-
Gus manner. On the subject of children
he SAYS:
There should be at least $4,000 year given
to this society. There are wealthy people iii
this City VINO could afford that amount out of
their pinmoney every year for the saving Of
the helpless little ones whom. receive from
the custody of their unnatural parents,
whom find stepped in vice through their ex-
cesses IN drink and immorality; their. So
called homes filthy and their :children naked
and hungry take out lie tiers OF guardian
ship and protect thems and inEeYdience of this
have throughout this City and vicinity scores
OF boys and girls under my jurisdiction, and
can safely state that many of these little in,
nocents would have become lost to church and
society, but for the interest | have taken in
their cases and the protection / have given
them. o..
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PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.

George Ebers has written another long novel
called Barbara Blomberg'
The Philadelphia papers say that no other
Mayor in the United States has Offices so hand
some and luxurious as those of the Mayor of
Philadelphia
President-elect McKinley's instructions in
regard to his inauguration suits are that they
be made loose about the arms so that he NAV
not become fattgued by handshak1ng.
Mrs. Long, the wife of Ex-Governor Long of
Massachusetts,, says that Mrs. Mckinley must
be good woman to let her husband be Presi-
dent when she needs his care SO much herself
on account of her invalidity.
The children of Harriet Beecher Stowe do
not look kindly upon the proposition TO erect
pub blic statue of their mother Her SON the
the Rev. Charles E. Stowe, says it belongs to
him and his sisters 10 erect whatever mouu-
ment may be placed over their mothers grave
Herbert Spencer is at present at Brighton
enjoying the rest that he has so well earned
after the completion of his great system of
philosophy, life task from which only a
genius genius having been defined as the ca
pacity for taking palms, would not recoil in
dismay.
Charles Maron, who lately died in Paris,
claimed descent from the poet Virgil. Regu-
larly every New Years day all persons in
Mantua, the poets native town, who bore the
name of Marc, the poets patronymic, sent
greeting to Maron, whom they regarded as
first and greatest of them all.
Hugh H. Hanna, who has come into National
prominenc as the organizer OF the Indianap.
oils convention sound-money movement is
cousin of Mark A. Hanna. He manufactures
steam engines, and has never been in politics
except TO take part in local movements for
good municipal government. His age is about
so.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01
KANSAS AND THE EAST.

Governor Leedy of Kansas has the salts
ia action OF knowing that his inaugural ad-
dress has given rise 10 wider discussion
Than that of any other Governor in the
Union. This was not due to its length. al
though it was one of the longest on record.
nut to the manner in which he defended
Kansas against the attacks of Eastern
oitIes.
: 1t will be remem bered that of late years
1t has been the fashion in the East to de-
nounce Kansas as land of ignorance &C.
centricity and dishonesty. In reply to
these reiterated criticisms, the Governor
said that while in The great cities of the
East:
children linger in the streets untaught
except in the lore of the pavement; un-
fed, except at the hand of charity; un-
housed, except in the kennels they dispute
with creatures scarcely less miserable-the
com mmonwealth of Kansas. re iolcing in a
public school system, which is the most
grateful heritage we received from our
fathers and the best legacy we can leave to
our children, finds ample houseroom and
schoolroom for every Kansas child and
for such struggling waits as come to us for
aid in Kansas, except those birds of pas
sage which fit by US, grim reminders of
old communities.
The truth of this assertion has goaded
the Eastern critics into making various
kinds of reply. Some are tiippant, some
are spiteiul, and some, we are glad to say,
are wise. The hippant ones seek to evade
the charges made by the Governor by
mocking at the wealth of Kansas and de-
claring that her schools have not enabled
her people to pay their debts. The spite
full ones retort that the Governors mes
sage is only another evidence that Kansas
farmers hate the East. The wise ones
however, admit that Governor Leedy is
right and call upon the large cities of the
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turned to town yesterday and registered at the
Occidental.
Mr.. and Mrs. Johu NJ Dean and Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank l.. Budlong of Providence. r. l., are
staying a .be Baldwin.
Colonel Mike Branagan of El Paso, Texas,
well known in the sporting world, is among
the arrivals at the Baldwin.
V. Clyte, wineman of st. Helena, and
Thomas Clark of Placerville, O well-known
mine owner, are staying al the Grand.
V. s. McClatchy, editor and proprietor of the
Sacramento Bee, R. l. Valentine and J. c. An.
derson of Chicago registered at the California
last night.
l.. F. Breuner, merchant of Sacramento,
James Gallagher, Fresno attorney, and Will
liam Mcguire, mining man from Dutch
Flat are at the Grand.
Thomas G. Sullivan, w. F. Norton and Miss
NJ. Norton, Mrs. NJ. S. Struck and Louis s.
Struck were among yesterdays arrivals from
New York at the Palace.
Captain J. H. Egan of New Bedford, Mass,
well-known whaler, Colonel J. F. Harring-
ton, Colusa lawyer and A. Jones, q large
rancher of San Luis Obispo, are staying at the
Russ.
n. E. Bieber, the agent of wealthy English
syndicate largely interested in mining proper
ties in Peru, viii leave for that country in q
few days, accompanied by a force of men,, Mr.
Bieber has been in the City for the last few
weeks
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01
THE INAUGURATION SUPPER.

Washington dispatch states that Carl
Essner of Philadelphia will furnish the supper
at President McKinley's inaugural ball. Mr..
Essner expects to serve 10, 600 persons at the
coming ball. Fully $4,000 pieces Of china,
10000 pieces of silver and 10000 napkins
Will be needed for the service of the sur per-
The supper viii cost ST., wine extra. Here is
the menu:
Raw oysters in ice.
ConSomme in cups
Broiled oysters. Oysters q Ia poule:te.
Chicken outlets. Sweetbread patties.
Terrapin.
Chicken salad Lobster salad Crab salad.
Tongue. rnlithfield ham.
Game pattie. Boned turkey.
Pate de foie gras
Assorted sandwiches
Lemon ices Roman punch.
Vanilla and chocolate ice cream.
Fruit Assorted cakes. Coffee
This menu was considered the best of twenty
one that we're submitted by competing caterers
from New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia
Washington, Cincinnati and Chicago.
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EXCELSIOR.

The shades of night were not yet drawn,
When in a mill where W ood is sawn,
\ lot OF boys were told to haul
Away the stuff that carvers call
Excelsior.
Soon meath these curls made into packs g
they stagger forth with loaded backs.
Across the way there stands "a shop,
Where into bins they softly drop
Excelsior.
Next day some skilled m mechanics come;
sharp needles ply; swift shuttIes hum:
Huge sacks are made with corners SQUARE
And scheming hands deposit there
Excelsior.
Soon after this great big store
Hangs out the :-"For sale. Some more
Of those hair mattresses, the kind
You want" But here again we find
Excelsior.
In po itics as well as trade,
Re orms are often likewise made,
Not of the hair and wool they laud,
But OF that cheap and shoddy fraud,
Excelsior
And Destiny W IL sometime pun
A Prophet with such fulsome stuff
That ia the place of heart and brains
The inquest shows in the remains
Excelsior.
New ork sun.
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DEFECT IN The NEW Army RIFE
Philadelphia Ledger.

Since it is conceded that the battles of the
future are likely to be fought at extremely
long range, because the deadly effect of mod
ern artillery viii not permit combatants to
get very near each other, the unreliability of
the Krag-Jorgensen rife at distances of 500
yards and over seems to be fatal defect in it.
Ever since this rifle was adopted for use in the
army there have bee adverse criticisms Of 1t
in both official reports and unofficial remarks
but the finding of General Ruger's inspector
that 1t Is, in some respects. inferior to even
the old springfield rifle, should command ser-
Gus attention. 1t would be very costly to
fully provide the United States army with q
weapon which would fail in the event of action.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01
MANY CHAN GES
IN THE ARMY
A Preside Captain Goes to
the Adjutant-G Generals
Office.
Ball.Playing Will No Longer Be
Permitted on Sunday at
the Preside.
Waiting for the Insp spector.General
Who Did Not Put in an Appear.
ance-A Battalion Drill.

Colonel Thomas c. Sullivan, who since
December, 1892. has been principal as
sistant commissary general of subsistence
at Washington, d. c.. has been made
commissary-general, vice Brigadier-Gen-
eral Michael R. Morgan, retired January
Is of the present year. The new commits
sary was born in Ohio on the 14.h OF No
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01
NEW SPAPER PLEASANTRY.

Maude-Miriam is trying to keep her engage
ment secret.
Martha-How do you know9
She told me so."-Gonkers Statesman.
SOFTEN" said the Cumminsville sage, "a
man gets credit for having sense enough 10
sense enough to say nything.'-Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Mrs. Love-My husband is so affectionate
He always kisses me when he leaves the house
in the morning
Mrs Sowerby-Its funny how good-natured
men feel when they are getting away from
home.-Boston Transcript.
81 wonder if the world is really growing
wiser?" said she in black.
"Oh, you needn't be alarmed said she in
plaid. at hasn't grown so fast that you have
lost all chance of marrying again. Indian
apolis Journal
= Mrs Peck during the breeze)-Our wedding
was brought about by a wretched match
maker.
Henry Peck-Yes; and there's been nothing
but fire and birthstone in this house ever
since.-North American
Chumply-That hypnotist is q fraud. He
couldn't control my mind at all last night.
Pokely-Of course he had some excuse?
Chumply-Yes; he said that there was no
material to work on. You ought to have
heard the audience give him the laugh.-De-
troit Free Press.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

SANBoRN.. VAIL & Co, have improved their
Framing Department very much. Since the
holidays new mouldings in Old Dutch, English
and Green Oaks Mat Gilts, Green Bronzes
nave come in during January. In add ton to-.
TINS the retail Picture Departm has been
brought downstairs and fitted up next to the
irameroom. making 1T much more convenient
tor both departments
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

A colony of Nebraskans has gone TO
Maryland TO grow peaches. What is the
matter with California?
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01
"srrs. winsio1y,s soothinr

0o1EIlIS Syrup''
Has been used over fifty years by million, ~
mothefs for their children while Teething wIthpsr-
fect success IT soothes the child softens the m mx
allays Patn. cures Wind Collie, regulates the Bowels
and is The best remedy for Dlarrhoas whether ars-
ing iTom tee,hing or other causes sale by drug
gisIs In every part OF the world. Be sure and ask
1CF MIS- lnsiow's Soothing Syrup 25c postlA
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01
CALIFoRNIANs IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, N. Y, Jan. 3O.-At the Wind
sor, T. FL. Carey; Amsterdam, V. T. Collopy
and F. T. o. Molloy; Imperial, ]. Leidan; Man
haitian. Miss S. G. Pierce; St. Denis, E. C.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

Cawker-Pye had another addition to nv
family. since saw you last
sCumso-1ou don't sayl Boy or girl?
"Son- w."-Spare Moments
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

1t is now said the Sultan has 700 wives,
so we needn't wonder be is such master
OF diplomacy.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

Huntington's exposure of the Examiner
has set the example for other corporations
10 follow, -.
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Mother-You don't know how you worry me,
dear: why, my hair is turning gray.
Florrie-My, how you must have worried
grandma; her hair is all white-London House
hold World.
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CoPoSA o--Atmosphere is perfactiy drv az.
ap6 mid. being entirely Tree from the mists con.
non further north. Round-trip tickets by steam
ship, including fifteen days board at the hotsI -
Coronado sos; longer stay 50 80 per day. Ap2J
4 New Montgomery ST.. San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

SPECIAL Information daily to manufacturef4
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Alien's), $40 Montgomery
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

From extorting money from a corpora
ton to bun&oing prize-hght. anything
goes with faker who is hard up for coin.
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COAST TX 1HANGES.

The Monterey NelO Era has cut its subscrip-
tion price in twain, and for a dollar year is
going TO furnish its readers with a paper as
bright and newsy as ever it issued at the So
rate.
The Downievilie Sierra County, Enterprise
has entered its second year aud joyfuny
speaks OF its excellent prospects for the future.
The paper looks very comely in a new dress of
type.
The Lemoore Leader, next to the oldest paper
In Kings County, is very happy at the begin
ming OF Its ninth year, as it has just been
recognized for the first time as the county
official paper.
Inc FRESNO Wdtchm1dn has completed its first
year and proudly announces that its success
as weekly publication has induced its own
ers TO make plans for the issuance of a daily
in the near future
Puoilshed weekly at Alcatraz Island is a
lively little paper called The Zap. IL would
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

MILD but always effective, Ayers Pills are in
dispens able as family medicine. both Tor children
and adults
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

Long Green has been turned loose to
Cinch where he can. -.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

a newspaper which resorts to Lii Yung
Iuening for fakes and to highb nder tao
tics for money suits China better than
California. =.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

A New York chem !st asserts the beer in
that city contains glycerine, resin. aloes,
glucose and tannin, put with US it is
mostly froth. IT,.
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THE CHILDREN'S FRIEND.
Frank j. Kane Tells of Word Done
to Save Little Innocents
From Ruin.

Frank ]. Kane has presented his third
annual report to the Pacific Society for
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

The plague in India is comforting some
thing OF a benefit on Europe by soaring
the people into cleaning their cities more
carefully than usual
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

The Washington correspondent OF the
Galveston Ne,cs expresses some indignation
because at the recent hearings of the WAYS
and Means Committee, "even the Demo-
cratic party of Texas put up soft yawn
for protection" but 1t is not clear whether
he was indignant that Texas should ask
for protection or at the soft yawn with
which IL was done. o.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

The proposition before the Nebraska Leg
lslature to impose poll tex On all who are
entitled to the ballot and remit it to all
who vote is only another example of the
many foolish schemes to compel men to
perform their public duties against their
VIII. No man can be made good citizen
by appealing to his pocket instead of his
patriotism.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

Hearst is atthe end of his leading string.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

New York proposes to give her Mayor
authority to arbitrarily revoke the license
and close any place of amusement where
the performers do not act according to
his idea OF what is proper and edifying,
ana now Boston trembes in fear of losing
her reputation of being the only place in
the Union where the morals are as high
as the art.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

Boston has been compelled to abandon
the idea of becoming great by annexing
her suburbs, and is now trying to coax
them into what she calls federation:
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

TRY rownsend's Molasses Crisp Popcorn. 1.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

Honest men must stand together.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

The success of the newly elected Sena.
tor Mason from Illinois is said by his
friends to have been due solely to his per-
sistent determination. When he first an.
nounced himself candidate for the SEN
ate years ago he was laughed at. He
stuck to it, however, and now the laugh
is on the other fellow.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

The. .faker.is ravenous for Doodle,
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

Just as soon as the crusade against the
theater hat is won, there will be a move
ment to exclude the big sleeve from the
streetcar so that a man can bave a chance
for seat.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

Down the .blackmailers.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

TIE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
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Published weekly at Alcatraz Island is a
lively little paper called The Zap. IL would
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

In forty-two years Senator Sherman
has been out OF Office only twenty-four
hours, and even in his old age he has been
still spry enough 10 get the first slice OF
the Cabinet pudding.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

We are taking no part in the Cuban
war, but nevertheless we are losing money
by 1t. As matter OF fact it would be
economy on our part to get into the fight
a once and force it to a finish.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

The. next. chrome gwen away by the
Examiner to attract advertisements should
be collection of portraits of Hearst,
Lawrence, Bierce ond others OF the tribe.
That would be pretty good yard OF
puppies itself.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-01

As most or the Southern celebrations of
Lees birthday were conducted with ban
quets and balls, it is evident the period of
war mourning and battle oratory IS over
Everything goes now for peace and a
frolic