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The San Francisco call., 1897-05-13
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BUSINESS OFFICE:
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far Francisco, CalifOrni8.
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nave anOtner Issue on WnicQ TO raise the
banner of freedom and shout the battle
cry of progress.
1t took Philadelphia eighty-five years to
raise monument to Washington, but
when we consider tho rate at which the
work is being done on the new municipal
: building We must admit that we have no
right TO criticize.
Bulgaria is now rejoicing in the fact
that she took no part in the war against
Turkey further than to ask for the ap-
pointment of few more bishops. She
can -efer to that request as being strictly
peaceable in every way.
The settlement OF the Greek question Is
for the present in the hands of the EN-
perors of Austria, Germany and Russia
but sooner or later the people will have
their way and then it will be settled per-
manently by being settled right.
The Examiner said yesterday that we are
not to have prompt beginning of the
work of constructing the new Federal
building in this City. and we certainly
will not If the Examiner has any influence
He
Out Of an income from the city of $3.50,
600 the Boston Public Library was able to
spend this year only S25 900 for books.
The rest was required tor maintenance. 1t
will be seen, therefore, that to the tax.
payers q free library is free in name only.
The statement OF Prince Constantine
that the Turks lost during the war twelve
times as many men as the Greeks may be
true enough, but the Prince overlooks the
fact that the Greeks also lost the battles.
the cities, the war and the cause they were
fighting for.
Now that q scientist in New York ha 8
risen up 10 say that the rosy bloom upon
woman's cheek is only collection of
microbes, it is time for Legislators to be
getting after the whole scientific tribe
with an assortment of suppression and
prevention laws.
The report that the fortune of the late
Theodore Havemeyer has shrunk from
500, 000, 600 to $4,000, 600 may be true, but
possibly the probate fees and taxes on be-
quests may have great deal to do with
the shrinking, and 1t will swell again
when those proceedings are over, all the
same as the Gould fortune did.
The Greeks are reported to have cap
tured an American and an Austrian war
correspondent, and if they are wise they
will let the captives go on condition that
they will write up the affair as a great
Greek victory. Such version Of the in
cident would be at once a scoop for the
papers and an advertisement for the cap
tors.
One of the gratifying features of the
new administration is the reappointment
OF Union veterans to Offices from which
they were removed By Cleveland. The
Republic owes much to these brave old
soldiers OF the war, and the Republican
party is always well pleased whenever it
car repay any part OF that debt OF honor
and gratitude.
The story that the dispatches from Gen.
eral Lee concerning affairs in Cuba have
been smothered in the State Office will
not be so readily believed OF this admin
istration as of the last one, but all the
same the dispatches should be published
so that the people can learn what they
contain. The only way to head off a lie
is to publish the truth.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21
AMERICAN FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE.

York has been di
demand grain anu
for Time
radical New
Old but no" EUROPE
borrowing
The editor the situation anu
which we
build
conduct commanded m"h
"
seek in foreign lands
about the 'n oi 'A'
Barring failure the lenders called in their
sold holdings linen
industry and every ae
and ceased
money accumuons OF Idle caa
made i'll all chief
lower than in the chief ces OIL
lending money 10
alteration Oh
the beginning
commercial
Wall American ou-
the
and the re-
goo
aid European
weeks the foreigners nave
has rise
independence in sight We
be
promising
this
toward making
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21
THE BANKERS CONVENTION,

There was very little in the proceedings
of the convention of the American Bank.
ers' Association of interest 10 the general
public. This was not due to any lack OF
Importance ir the subjects considered, but
to the fact that the monetary issues of the
country have been so long discussed in the
press and on the stump that the people
look for their solution to Congress and
are therefore comparatively indifferent to
resolutions on the subject adopted by any
assembly of private citizens.
1t is conceded on all sides that some al
teration and reform in our banking and
currency system is necessary. at the
time of its adoption the national bank
system worked well, but since the de-
crease of the public debt and the reduc-
United States bonds, national banks no
longer furnish currency sufficie nj tly
elastic to supply the needs of our COM
merce. Differences exist as to what form
tn. proposed revision shall take, but these
differe noes can be settled only by the ac-
ton of Congress, and accord ingly the
papers read before the Bankers Conven-
ton, though excellent in themselves,
have not attracted much attention from
outsiders.
The more interesting addresses made to
the convention were those which dealt
with banking problems lying apart from
the field of political controversy. One of
the most striking of these was that of
Myron 7. Cleveland on Savings Banks"
The speaker pointed out that these insti.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21
RAPIDLY NEARING COMPLETION.

The formal opening OF the Valley read
to Visalia will BE- celebrated in Tulare
County's capital in conjunction with the
festival of Admission day. Thus gradu-
ally is this popular railway enterprise
extending its benefits down the great
valley of the San Joaquin, and farmers
and merchants find excellent reason to
rejoice at its advent. 1t has fulfilled it's
promises to the letter; it has reduced
PASSENGER fares and cut down freight rates
and encouraged every business interest In
the country through which it passes.
Now comes the welcome announcement
that the right of way question has been
virtually settled and that speedy progress
will be made in the completion OF the
road to Bakersfield. Sixty-five miles OF
track remains to be laid to fill up the gap
between Hanford and the Kern county
seat, and twenty-five miles of that stretch
have already been graded. 1t is conf.
IDENTIFY believed that the line will be in
operation between Stockton and Bakers
field before the dawn of another year.
Excessive freight rates have been the
greatest obstacle in the path of Kern
County's pros sperity. The country around
Bakersfield has an extensive and costly
irrigation system, and the soil is capa BILE
of producing anything that grows in a
semi-tropical cline. Railway exactions
have been the bane of the county. the
development of which will be quickened
ana its trade with the outside world en-
larged and rendered more profitable
through the agency of the Valley road.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21
THE LIGHTS OF klLGALLON.

There's party at Kilgallon's, Mary Ann:
An the wiuders all are b z.n' out with light,
We en- sit here il want to
on the porch, an Pm a-goin' to,
Even II they didn't send no in vte.
NelPs mighty prou dish person, Mary Ann,
Since Der husband Bil,v's pullin no. g.
But them times when he firm,
Heavin coal in an perspirin'
She was not too good to neighbor up with me,
she was not too proud to know me. Mary Ann
When they set him up to haul a switchin' crew; (;
But this new run on the Flyer
Well, o. course it's bound o try her.
An old friends, l s'pose, must make way for
the
There's hust1in' round o. lanterns, Mary Ann;
All the roundhouse men have turned out e1-
pect.
It's a high an mighty party;
A Ii, I'm sure l wish 'em hearty
Even II she thinks for me it's too select.
don't care for the invitin', Mary Ann,
Nor the Sligntin Sell kilgallon puts on US;
Still hope her pride II borrow
All it's eight In grief an sorrow
An that she-whats that you're callin' to me-
Gus?
Come up closer. Cn you hear him, Mary Ann?
am wanted at Kilgalion's? Biliv's deade
Killed to night at silver slidin'-
Brought Inc in the blood he died in
An Nell wants me? = God forgive the
words I've said. Chicago Record.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21


celebrated actresses in
remained Alice Kngsbury wisely retired to private lie
ghted with
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family
C pa wit HI S
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unequaled OF
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sthat
family
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HOW HE WON.

Western Congressman says that out in his
district the Populists are pretty strong and
very active, says the Philadelphia Inquirer's
Washington correspondent They nominated
candidate for Congress last year. He started
in on mis- canvass, having good-sized audi
ences almost everywhere and was received by
Them with considerable enthusiasm. One
OF the chief tenets OF the Popu ist party is op-
position TO the legal fraternity. Finally it
was nolsed about among the Populists that
their candidate for Congress was a lawyer.
This greatly disturbed them, and the leaders
took counsel together as TO what should be
done, whether they should permit him 10 con-
tfnue in the race or withdraw him and nomi-
nate some one else who was not a lawyer.
Before they had arrived a decision friend
OF the candidate appeared on the scene and
declared the story tnat the candidate was
lawyer to be without foundation. "Our can
diGate," said he, twas at one time lawyer.
He is not lawyer any longer. He has been
disbarred by the courts" This exp. ana ton
seemed to satisfy the Populists," exclaimed
the Western Congressman, for, you see, am
here
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21
FOREIGN VIEWS OF KlONDIKE.

In the midst OF the Klondike excite
ment, with new crowds of fortune unters
rushing northward as fast as ships can
carry them and the press daily recording
fresh incidents of the wonderful gold
strikes; in the midst of all the BOOM
spirit, it is interesting 10 turn to some OF
the foreign publications and obtain an
idea of how ali these things are regarded
abroad.
In England, for instance, the news
papers direct attention more specifically
to the difficulties OF Alaskan gold mining
than to the reported marvellous riches on
the banks of Arctic rivers. They tell OF
the long voyage by steamer, OF the tedious
march over semi-frozen wastes and peril
Gus mountain passes; OF the heavy costs
ana exact;on., and the discomforts in
Vulnerable, not 10 mention the menaces
to life. But they don't indulge in any
palaver over the biz, fat sacks OF nuggets
which have been pictured for weeks TO
the astonished gaze of Americans.
Those British accounts of the gold
strike and the British comments made in
regard thereto will hardly stir up large
sized exodus from the tight little island
over the sea.
The Amsterdam HdndekbLdd foresees
some political troubles as a result of Eng
lands attitude in relation to the North
west Territory placer diggings. 1t con-
trasts the matter of heavy exactions prac-
ticed under the British flag with the COM
plants OF the English in the Trausvaal,
where the royalties demanded by the
Beers are very light 1t thinks the aim of
John Bull, With his royalty and other
taxes, is to exclude Americans, and
reasons that if an alleged exclusion of
annex the Beers republic it might not be
amiss Tor the United States to profit by
the example with reference to Canada.
An Edinburgh paper, The Scotsman
thinks that if a tithe of the tales told
about the Klondike are true Uncle Sam
has at hand new cause of dissatisfaction
with Britain. The paper avails itself of
the opportunity to get lick at the
Monroe doctrine, rcmarking that If the
new discoveries are as rich as reported
the Americans may trot that famous
measure to the front and claim everything
in the western hemisphere.
All the foreign papers agree in their re-
ports on one thing, and that is, that the
overwhelming majority of the Klondikers
are Am mericans, and from this fact many
ot them think that the new Canadian
mining regulations, made to fit the
Northwest Territory case, may cause
serious trouble before many months have
flown, and may possibly result in nter-
nation al conn DticationS
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21
PERSON AL.

t. K Beard of Modesto is at the Russ.
]. Wood of MERGED is at the COSMOPOLITAN.
F. E. Sheadley of Sitka, Alaska, is at the Lick.
J. D. spfou, lawyer of Chico, is at the
Palace
Dr. Thomas Cox of Sacramento is at the
Baldwin.
State Senator ]. H. seawell OF Uklah is at
the Grand
Mayor NJ P Snyder of Los Angeles as at the
Occidental.
Robert Graham, a contractor of Sacramento,
is at the Palace.
D. Satterwhite, a mining man of Tucson /,
Arz., is a the Palace.
Isaac Bird, manager of large ranch in Mer-
ced County, is a the Lick.
J. P. Blair, merchant of New Orleans, is at
the Palace with his family.
G. W. Towe mill and lumber man of
Towle Station, is at the Grand
Charles c. McIyer OF Mission San Jose is at
the Cali with Mrs Mclver.
Ex-Congressman Caminetti OF Jackson, Am
adOr County, is guest at the Lick.
Mrs. F. ]. Nippers and daughter. of Boise
City, Idaho, are at the Cosmopolitan.
John c. Lynch of Cucamonga, acting clerk
of customs at this port. is at the Baldwin.
John Fisher, Collector of the Port of San
Diego, is making short stay a. the Palace.
Police Surgeon We'll has been appointed
resident ply ysician OF the German Hospital
Adam A. Cramer, an attorney-at-law of Gin
cinnau, Ohio, is among the guests at the
Palace.
J. C. Ruddock OF Uktah, one of the directors
of the insane asylum at that place. is at the
Grand.
A. E. Williams, q prominent merchant OF
Sonora, Tuolumne County, is at the Cosmo-
politan.
S. NJ. Buck, late Superior Judge of Hum
boldt County, is at the Lick, registered from
Eureka.
Marion Biggs Jr vineyardist and for
merly State Senator, of Oroville, is stopping
at the Grand.
Eugene Runicke of Valparaiso, Chile, ar
rived at the Palace last nigh on his way home
from the East.
James Stockwell, editor OF the San Francisco
Law journal, has returned from his vacation
at Paraiso Springs.
C. E. Tinkham, secretary of the Sierra Mil
aud Lumber Company at Chico, is a late ar
rival at the Grand.
O. Mouron, accompanied by his sister, Miss
Juliette, of Sonora, Tuolumne County, are at
the Cosmopolitan Hotel.
Archie Sands, one OF the managers of Mains
Railroad Shows, is at the Russ with twenty-one
members OF the circus troupe.
B. l. Steilmsn, ex-Mayor of Sacrament to and
proprietor of the Depot Hotel at the Capital
City, is registered at the Palace.
E. 7. Lough5orough of Virginia. cousin OF
the late Attorney Loughborough of this City,
is at the Palace on his way 10 Oregon
Joe Evans has been made local agent of the
NH pasI y 1ta,
look after freight business in this City.
Guy b. Barham, nephew of Congress man Bar
ham and ex-Police Commissioner of Los
Angeles, is up from the south and is at the
Baldwin.
s. T. Black of Sacramento, State superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, has just re-
turned from long vacation at Lake Tahoe,
whittier he went because of i'll health.
Among the arrivals last night at the Occi-
dental were three young women missionaries
in Japan: Miss Bancus, Miss Dickinson and
Miss Margaret Scott of Grand Ranids Mich
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21
KNEW WHAT HIS AUDITORS
WOULD DO.
WashiDCtOn Post

Washington Post
A Chicago editor, who was recently in Wash
ington, paid Senator Mason a handsome trib-
ute as public speaker. Though his speeches
overflow with wit and humor. which seem to
be born of the tccasion, Senator Mason pre-
pares them with great care Long experience
has enabled him to judge what points will
take with his hearers. Said this Chicago edi-
tor: Mason has sent me d type-written copy
of a speech he was going 10 deliver. In look
ing over ii | noticed the applause and laugh
ter were sprinkled very literally through it,
but thought Mason might be assuming too
much. i deter .iined to make the test, so car
ried that typewriter copy with me 10 the
meeting where he was to speak. followed
him line by line. Now. i want to say that in
not single case had he made a mistake.
Where he had put Great applause in paren-
thesis the audience justified the parenthesis.
Where he had put Laughter there was laugh
ter, and where he had guessed there would be
Great laughter the merriment was great.
Where he had adroitly made feint OF ending
his speech, and then had fnterpolated de-
mands from his hearers TO Go on, Billy the
audience thundered for him to go on The
only cases where he misj judged were in brack-
citing Applause and Laughter where
actually there was great applause and great
laughter. l suppose his modesty kept him
from giving TOO high decree to 1t. After that
speech was finished carried the copy over 10
my office and gave ins trnctions that there
after Mason's speeches should go just as he
sent them in. I"
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21
WITH YOUR COFFEE.

Mrs. Commonstock Ia the summer hoteD-
They say the Waiter at our hotel is q ioreipn
nobleman.
Mr. Commonstock (excitedly)-Good! III
offer him one of our daughters and a share
in my business and escape tipping him
Judge.
'Jorkins broke his engagement with Miss
Loveleign."
"Was he justIfed?"
"Yes; he found out that her mother was one
of those women that never travel without
taking bird cage along. ."-Chicago Record.
81 thought you advertised home farew said
| the summer boarder indignantly.
"Wall," replied Farmer Corntossel "thars
what you're gettin'; canned peaches, canned
tomattusses, canned corn beet and condensed
milk, the same as you're used to."-Washing.
ton Star.
she-so you don't like the hat just in front
OF US. How would you like 1t trim med?
He (savagely)-Wtth a lawn mower.-Tit.
| Bi Il
She-How delightful it would be TO drift on
like this forever and ever.
He (who had hired the boat)-Not at IS
cents al hour.-Leslie's Weekly.
We have not read Professor Corbett's the,i,
on what 10 do in fight but it probably tells
| the reader to do as Ftzsimmons did.-Chicago
News.
"Dad, l wish 1 came of distinguished
family, like Bob Hill, SOS could have some
thing to boast about"
"a distinguished family like Bob Hilps, eh?
In what way were his parents distinguished
'Why, his mother wGs fat woman in mu-
scum and his father was swallowed by an aui-
gator r"-Richmond Dispatch.
81 don't see why you should feel so badly
over my refusal" said the summer girl to her
latest victim. "Why, if married all the men
who ask me at this place they'd send me to
prison, and (sweetlyl you wouldn't Ike that,
now, would dyou?"-Philadelphia North Amer
can.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21

tons in the United States hold 81, 7oo,-
100000, and that in combination with
trust com panies and like institutions they
practically own all the municipal anu
State debts, and to gether with 1ndiviouai
holdings, some nine-tenths OF inc Ma
tional debt.
Contras ted with the deposits in the saw
iags banks of this country those OF any
European nation make but poor snow
ing. The vast wealth accumulated by the
earnings of our working men and women
Is a distinctive feature of American hfe.
In no other land can there be found any
such evidence of thrift and prosperity,
and, as Mr.. Herrick said, these are unmis-
taxable signs pointing to the fact that the
United States is entering upon new era
OF prosperity, and that it Is soon to be
creditor instead OF a debtor nation.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21
CITY VERSUS COUNTRY LAD.
Atlanta Journal

The city boy grows upii a contracted space
The square upon which he lives is his world,
the little things on earth he despises. and he
begins to burn the candle of existence too
soon. For him there is little opportunity for
the display of sterling manhood or the en- joy
ment of life in its relation to nature. The
country boy is, from the first, a child of ueces-
sity, and carry learns the lesson of how TO
make ends meeE. The ways and N cans of life
is g hard and effective school from which to
graduate. The pupils therein cannot sit uown
with folded hands and wait for help, but they
must help themselves, and al once The broad
fields give scope 10 the mind and strength 10
the heart-the country boy is at 10,
though he does not know it, and at 20 n e
STANDS young giant, while his city cousin is
the dyspeptic victim OF vile Gig arettes and bad
hours.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21

The figure 8 has peculiar connection with
the career OF the Emperor of Germany. His
Majesty is the ninth King OF Prussia; he was
born in the fifty-nin;h year OF the century.
entered the army in 1869. and completed his
university career il 1879. The dates of his
birth and marriage, January 27 and February
27, both make nine if the figures and are
added together
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21
BICYCLE PATENTS.
Washington Post.

Nearly one-iourth OF the patents granted at
this time relate to the bicycle. There are all
kinds of devices, from small tools to the whole
wheel. So many kinds of wheels are made
and the wheels are used for so many purposes
that patents concerning the various parts are
very numerous. Almost every use to which
wheel is put Will point the way to q
patent to improve the service. Then there are
constant experiments IN chains, handle bars
spokes. tires frames, pedals and in fact every
part OF the machine. 1t would seem that with
SO many patents issued every week the bicycle
would soon btcome perfect.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21

The problems confronting the Commits
sioner of immigration are various. One
OF the latest is the case of young Bohe-
mian who started across with $50, but ex-
pended it all for beer, landing penniless.
Mr.. Powderly does not know whether o.
not 10 send him back, but he ought to
send him. The only hope OF that immi-
grant would be to secure position in a
brewery, and such positions ere scarce.
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21

Miss Susan B. Anthony fa ther was seriously
warned againstmarrying his wife, who was
Lucy Reed. His family considered her too
worldly 10 be asuitable wife for Quaker, be-
cause she sang and danced and wore pretty
clothes. The night before the wedding the
young couple went to neighbor's, and the
young girl danced until 4 o clock in the morn.
ing. 1t is SAID that after her marriage next
day she never danced sgain
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21
MEN AND WOMEN.

John D. Rockefeller has presented to Vassar
College library of 27o0 books purchased in
Germany.
The venerable Horatio F. Simrall, ex-Cbief
Justice OF the Supreme Court OF Misslssippi. is
mem Der OF the Board of Supervisors of War.
rem County, Mississippi.
Three sets of twins, all boz n within the ss M a
hour, break the record in Smyrna, Del, Two
girls being born to Mrs. Jefferson Stats. two
boys to Mrs Amos Walker and two bows to
Mrs. Gray Deakyne
Helen Kellar, the remarkable deaf d,u.
and blind girl, who recently took examina,
uons Tor Radcliffe College, read the Questions
in French by feeling the movements of the aY.
aminer's lips, but in the German exsm;n.
tions letters were formed on her hand bv n.
sign language.
Charles Henry James Taylor, a wellknow1
colored man who has taken up his res 1denca
in Raltim ore, has just been admitted ta nrac.
tice in the Supreme Court in that citv. He
has declined the deanship of the Morris.
Brown Law School of Atlanta, Ca, which was
recently offered to him.
The Empress of Austria collects cows. Tbi.
Is a curious habit on the part of her Imperial
Majesty, but 1t is one which she faithfully
The San Francisco call., 1897-08-21
ASKING FOR THE POLITICIANS S
DAUGHTER.
Washington Star.

"Did you speak to the father of the girl you
wish to marry?" said one young man.
EYES," replied the other.
Ibid he give you any encourage ement?"
"He seemed to think he did. He is a poll
tician and has been haunted by constituents
ever since election. When told him the am
bitoE of my life he said very gravely that il
was seldom anybody secured exactly wnat he
desired; he couldn't see his way clear to
making me the groom at his daugh ter's we'd
ding, but he'd see what he could do about
getting me the place OF best man."