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rasScu desires acquaintance OF HonofdGle
gentleman OF means. Mrs BURROUGHS,
tins Office. Il-tIh
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PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY.

efforts mado tc hasten the
and the President
expected essential
cordial
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will afford
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result will
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was learned tnat the microbes worked by
a process called nitrifica ton, which is the
conversion of ammonia and its compounds
into nitrous acid, and from a study of the
successive steps in this operation it was
deduced that nitrogenous fertilizers
should be applied in moderate quantities.
Practical results have also been obtained
BY the artificial production of breed OF
bacteria which have the power OF absorb
ing free nitrogen from the air and present.
ing it in available form for the plants.
Some years ago DR.. Wiley predicted the
farmer would soon be supplied by the
chemists laboratory with the bacteria
suitable for growing his crops, and last
year nitrifying ferment was produce
called ''nitragin," which is sown on the
crops and greatly facilitates their growth.
The rapid advance of science in compre-
hending natures secrets promises such an
increase Of mans domini ion of the earth
that the next century may be bringing us
such submission of matter to mind as
will make life royalty rich to all but the
wicked and the lazy. This new knowl-
edge OF the chemistry of farming may be a
long step toward such scientific agriculture
as will make the means of sustenance so
abundant all men will have time for much
beyond the work of earning living.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07
EXCLUDED.

1t will be seen by our Oregon dispatches
of this morning that the trustees of the
library of Portland have excluded the En-
ominer from that institution on the ground
that it is unfit to be read. The state.
ments of the trustees show that the action
was not taken hastily nor without due
consideration. Their attention having
been called to the character of the paper
by the protests against it in legitimate
journals the trustees investigated il and
found that the charges were we'll founded
and that the Examiner is really TOO inde-
cent to be allowed place in their public
reading-room.
The action taken by the Portland library
is doublv satisfactory inasmuch as it not
only puts the stamp OF official condemna-
ton on decadent journalism, but shows
that the earnest protests of legitimate
journals have had weight in impressng
upon the public mind the extent of the
evil influence OF such vile. vulgar and
venal publications. 1t is also gratifying
to learn that public opinion in Portland
strongly sustains the action of the trus-
tees. The exclusion of the disreputable
sheet is every where approved, and ample
evidence is given that in Portland at any
rate the sensationalisms and md decen cies
or decadent journalism IN are condemned as
they should be.
1t is only question of time when the
example set in Portland will be followed
elsewhere. 1t is indeed probable that be-
fore long such papers will be excluded
from the mails. The benefits which San
Francisco and California would derive
from such exclusion are many. The whole
State suffers from the foul and false
stories which the Examiner sends abroad.
1. Injuries the repute of the City and the
State wherever it goes. It defames one half
the people in order to corrupt the other
half. The trustees of the Portland Library
have done well for California, therefore,
as well as for Portland in excluding the
slum journal from the reading-room and
the files.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07
NEW CHEMISTRY OF FARMING

The study of bacteria is continually
magnifying our knowledge of the i'm
portant part these tiny microbes perform
in the works of nature. After the won-
derful revelation of the nature OF various
diseases, never understood till this micro
scopic life was scientifically observed. we
were next surprised by the accounts of the
skilled cultivation of choice breeds of
bacteria for use in producing butter OF
surprising flavor and keeping qualities.
AS If wonders are never to cease, now
comes DR.. Henry w. Wiley, chief of the
division of chemistry in the Federal De-
partment Of Agriculture, to tell us that
bacteria are busy in all agricultural soils
preparing plant food, and that the roots of
our growing crops do not and cannot
directly take up the mineral substance of
the soil and organize it into plant life.
This curious fact was explained in a
lecture recently delivered by DR.. Wiley to
stitute upon the subject of "Soil Ferments
Important in Agriculture He stated
that the old idea that the soil is an inert
mass of mineral matter has given way to
the new conception of the soil as living
organism, and that the production of
arabic soil is known to be largely due to
the activities of certain forms of bacteria
which decompose the inert mineral sub.
stances. In addition to the minute or
ganisms which dissolve the soil particles
there are others active in preparing or
ganic food for absorption and assimila-
ton by plants.
This discovery has already been found
to be OF great practical importance. II
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07
SMALL.CALlBER RIFLES.

The adoption of the small -caliber magazine
rifle by the different nations has been proba-
bly, the most marked change in infantry equip
ment of The past decade-in fact amounting
a most to a revolution. France initiated the
new movement, to be followed in rapid sue
cesson by the other nations. This, with the
simultaneous adoption of smokeess powder
has become a great factor il altering the
tactics not only of infantry but of cavalry and
artillery as well, since tactical formations
must always depend primarily on the kino of
arm used by the enemy and by ourselves.
The new rife gives a higher velocity to the
bullet and longer range. AS a further result
of the increased velocity we have a fla tier
trajectory, which in turn has in creased the
deadly zone to 400 yards, and the danger zone
or space within which the bullet in lis flight
does not rise above mans head, is now thrice
that distance. At 1900 yards, or over four
miles, the bullets still have velocity enough to
cause severe injury.
But. possibly the most marked effect at.
tendant on the Introduction of the new SIN all
caliber arm is in the number of rounds carried
by the soldier. Where formerly the infantry
soldier could carry but seventy rounds, and
often went into battle with only twenty rounds
in his cqrtridge-box, he now carries $50
rounds or more. The German soldier on going
into battle will have on his person 200 rounds
with 100 rounds more Immediately availabl
in the ammunition train. This, combined
with the facility of rapid firing afforded by
the magazine principle, has greatly compli-
Gated the question of ammunition supply to
the line of battle.
Ere discipline, always so important, has
now become doubly so. Undiscipllned or raw
troops are especially liable to waste their am
mun1tion, and lack OF am muniton W i'll doubt.
less decide many battles in the future.
The Krag-Jorgensen rife with which the
army Is now equipped, his caliber of 80
inch. being about medium between those OF
other powers. The navy, in the selection of a
new arm, seems to have gone to an extreme in
the adoption of the Lee rifle with q caliber of
only .Z36 inch The reason TO the adoption
OF different caliber from that in use in the
army is not apparent, especially as grave
doubts exist whether in the .3O-caliber the
limit has not been passed and loint reached
where The stopping power of the bullet has
been sacrificed to a reduction in weight and
increase OF number of rounds to be carried
A resolution recently introduced into Con.
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THE NEW ENGINEER.

At last we've got an engineer to run our "specar'
through
His name is Bill Mckinley; he's the man to do
1t, too
Wen have no more prolonged delays and smash-
ups on the line,
For his and is on the throttle and youu see he'll
run her fine.
We've had four years OF wretchedness and dis
aster worse than-well,
I won't say what meant to say, for 1t wouldn't
do to tell
In print what OF those years think; but. whoop
we're off at last
With an engineer who knows the road and the
long, dark tunnels passed
1t made me fairly bubb DER to see the way we
When we had the last old crew aboard. with that
fat pig headed man
Who Thought he owned the whole concern, from
the fireman to the boss
For he ran the train to suit himself but he ran 1t
to our loss.
Yes, I'm mighty glad there's been change the
whole way long the line:
We know the station now we're for, and we'll get
there too, on time;
For the engineer we We got at last is tried and
steel
20, hurrah for Bill McKinleyr Say amt that the
way you feele G. +. STARR.
San Francisco, March s.
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NEWSPAPER PLEASANTLY.

Mother-what did you learn to-day at Sun
day-school?
Child-About Noah.
Mother-Can you remember who he was?
Child-He was a weather prophet When he
said it was going to rain no one believed him.
"I hear that Mrs. FouHtar's masquerade ball
was perfect in every detail"
"It was Even the black head ducks on the
supper menu masqueraded as canvas-backs."
Evening World.
Kean-Isn't your wife afraid to drive that
horse?
steam-Not at all. It's the people she meets
who are scared.-Hartford Times.
sis Scrymser progressive"
Progressive? Why, that fellow can tell
when his wife is going to make mince pie; he
always has the nigh ghtmare the night before."-
Chicago Record.
Mr.. Higgins-Molly, guess you had better
be looking around for another girl. / don't
believe Deborah will remain with US much
longer.
Mrs. Higgins-Why, what has given you that
idea?
Mr.. Higgins-I looked into the kitchen just
now and saw her starting the fire with kero-
sene.-Cleveland Leader.
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broad National way to give work to the

broad National way to give work to the
unemployed.
tbs evident that this is to be in the 1uli
sense OF the word a workingman's al
mlnistration. Its most careful thougnt
and its strongest energies will be dlrec'eo
to procuring for the American working
man ian honest dollar and the chance 10
earn it" To provide work for the WORK
ers will be the chief object OF Mckinney
care. He has ever been known as the
champion of the workingman, ana Win
proper support from Congress can De
counted on to DO much to provide oppor
tunities for labor and to carry comfort
into every home
What is done for the workers Will De
done for the community at large. AS the
President said in his inaugural address,
Legislation helpful to prod Is nene-
hciaf to ALL" His administration there-
fore means first of all work for the woIk-
ers, and secondly the Improvement OF
trade. These are the things the country
most needs, and every class and conoltlon
OF people may therefore rejoice in the ac-
cession to Office of the new administration,
and find qualification in the policy 1t has
outlined for the country.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07
WORK FOR THE PEOPLE.

President Mckinley has shown a true
try by stating in his Inaugural, address
that the responsibilities of the high office
he has assumed are augmented at the
present time "by the prevailing busi-
ness conditions, entailing idlepess upon
willing labor and loss to useful enter
prise" He has furthermore shown a
statesmanlike capacity in dealing with
these evils by the remedies which he pro.
poses for them.
Expressed in its simplest terms the
policy which the President urges upon
Congress is the adoption of tariff which
will furnish an adequate revenue to the
Government and afford work for the un-
employed.
1t is an illustration of McKinley's inter-
est in American labor that in the course
of his address he gave more consideration
to the problem of giving employment to
American lat bor than to that of providing
a revenue for the Nation. Each is, of
course, i'm portant, ana the fact is well u n
derstood by the President, but neverthe-
less he devoted more of his address to the
welfare of the people than he did to the
National revenues. he knows that when
the home is prosperous the Republic is
prosperous, and that the best way to Sc
cure National welfare is to provide for the
personal prosperity OF every industrious
citizen.
"The depression of the past four years."
says the President, "has fallen with a spe-
cal severity upon the great body of the
toiiers OF the country. and upon none
more than the. holders of small farms.
Agriculture has languished and labor
suffered" He urges therefore measures
which will promote the interests of the
farmers and secure to labor the oppor-
tuniiies Of earning the wages to which it
is entitled. He strikes directly at the evil
which affects the country. He aims in q
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07

the entrance to New York harbor, type fort.
Here will soon be installed type system for
the control of heavy artillery fire.
The solution OF this problem, the import
ance of which in sea-coast defense is second
only to that of guns and forts, has been in
trusted to the Board on the Regulation of Sea-
coast Artillery Fire. This board is composed
of artillery officers of the highes. ability and
the subject has received the careful and pro-
louged study which its impor tance demands
The result will be system of tactics for heavy
artillery designed to realize from the guns
their maximum effect in action.
The new Army Register for 1897 shows
total of 2145 officers on the active list divided
into 532 staff and 1913 line. The latter is
composed OF 445 cavalry, 2SS rtillery and $50
infantry officers. OF the total mum Der 81 are
"additionar' second lieutenants, graduates of
West Point, appointed in excess of the normal
number, and in due time to be appointed as
full second Heutenants.
Of the sold army who served "befo' de
wah" 60 still remain on the active list while
46 officers appear as having served more than
twenty years in one grade. OF these ID are
first lieu tenants of artillery, 6 of whom served
during the War of the Rebellion. Surely, pro-
motion in the United States army In time of
peace is not SO rapid as to be especially daz-
zlingl
A new act OF Congress authorizes officers now
In the regular service and who served in the
war of the rebellion to bear the title and on
occasI ions of ceremony to wear the uniform of
the hig hest rank held by them. At the termi-
nation of the war many meritorious volunteer
officers were given commissions in the regular
service, but necessarily of much lower grade
than in their volunteer service. General
Miles, now at the head of the army, after
serving as majoI-general of volunteers, was
made colonel OF an infantry regiment To
prevent confusion law was finally passed
prohibiting an officer from using or being ad-
dressed by any title except that pertaining to
his actual rank. Owing TO changes and pro-
motions the new law will affect comparatively
few officers now in the service, but notably in
the case of a number OF captains who will now
become "major" and of a few first lieutenants
of artillery who will henceiorth be entitled to
wear the gold leai.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07
PERSONAL

F. R. Brown OF MADEIRA Is in the City.
E. P. Borden OF Philadelphia is at the
Palace.
E. A. Bunce, mining man of Alamo, is at
the Russ.
DR.. C. C. Gleaves of Dunsmuir arrived here
yesterday.
R. D. Church of Portland, Oregon, is at the
Occidental.
at the Palace.
is in the City.
Reno, is in the City.
Oregon, is in the City.
II. c. Anderson of London. and Mrs. Ander-
son. are at the Occidental.
D. H. Hutchison, a business man of Marsh
field, Oregon, is at the Lick
George E. Williams OF Modoc County Is
among the late arrivals here.
A H. Moore and wife of Vallejo are regis
tered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel
Charles Merrill OF San Jose is in the CITY and
staying at the Cosmopolitan Hotel
A. w. Cotton of Toledo, Ohio is iu the Citv.
accompanied by his wife and daughter.
Robert Nixon Jr. of the Yreka Journal ar.
rived here yesterday, and is at the Grand.
W. ). Cooksey, prominent business man of
Reno New, is staying at the Cosmopolitan
Hotel.
Captain Henry Glass has been ordered to
take charge of the Mare Island Navy-Yard.
and will do so April l.
Among the late arrivals here is Colonel w.
j. sutherland of Nevada, who has been several
months In the East and Europe. He was for
several years in the mines at Candelaria
Nevada. He is at the Palace
Rev. DR.. c. w. Clinton, Bishop of the African
M. Z. Zion Church, arrived here yesterday.
he Will probably re main on the Pacific Coast
several months. He is thirty y-eight years old,
the son Of slave parents, and entered the
church at the age Of twenty.
I. E. Davis of Bound Brook, N. J., the ad.
vance agent of eighty or ninety Christian
Endeavorers OF New Jersey, who want to at.
tend the great convention here during the
coming summer, is at the Occidental His
purpose in coming is to arrange quarters for
his people.
Attorney and ex-State Senator Frank Nc
Gowan OF this City left on yesterdays steamer
Pomona for his old home at Eureka, Cal.
where he will be for several weeks engaged in
lie gal battles. He is the retained attorney for
some of the leading redwood man ufacturers of
the north. and he will appear in the large
damage suits, aggregating $500. 900, against
the A. Korbell Company, now pending in
Humboldt County.
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building operations that are going on, and it
looks as il we are jus stified in the belief that
there is a solid reason for hoping and expect
ing continuance of the favorable conditions
now prevailing.
ITO be sure few of our structures are over
three stories in height but we regard them
with the same pride that you metropolltans
regard the new CALL building that so aspir'
ingly perces the clouds at the corner of Third
and Market streets.
"My wife and were on street the other
day and she called my attention to the crowds
of well-dressed. busy people. We both re-
marked that 1t looked as lively as kearny
street on pleasant afternoon.
''Tne suburbs of Sacramento are increasing
in population and Importance. The improve
ments in the Oak Park neighborhood have
been extensive and substantial during the
two years just past.
"Now that the racetrack and grounds of the
State Agricultural Society are to be cut up
into building lots and sold for private resi-
dences the part OF the city next to the Ameri-
can River will also increase in population and
prosperity very rapidly. Governor Budd has
signed the law allowing the sale OF this prop
erty and streets will be cut through at once.
This VIII open E, F and G streets, and in addi-
ton to opening up delightful tract for new
homes will increase the value and accessible
1ty or the homes ALREADY eStaDi1SneQ III lndt
vicinity.
"Outside the city there is a feeling of salts
faction with business prospects throughout
the county. The smaller towns are thriving
and the Tanchers are doing as well as could
reasonably be expected, considering the un-
favorable conditions that have prevailed for
several years throughout the Nation.
Growth of the community necessitated the
establishment of third department of the
Superior Court and so the people chose Judge
Joe Hughes and Judge 'Lige Hart. You know
they cali me Judge Matt Johnson in Sacra-
mento Your Judges down here, 1 suppose,
would object to that way-say Judge Hunt or
Judge Wallace or Judge Coffey or Trout or
any of the others-but We are used to it and
don't kick. You see, Sacramento to great
extent preserves the traditions and ethics of
the days OF 40. That's why we all live to-
gether something like the m amer of big
family, and if we have troubles of our
own they are after all, only family troubles" I"
judge Johnson is accompanied by Mrs. John
son. who came with the hope and expectation
of fortnight OF good weather, but it has
rained every day since her arrival. The lady
smiles somewhat regretfully as she speaks of
her interrupted pleasures, and thinks that so
far as amusement is concerned Sacramento is
equal TO il not superior to San Francisco in
rainy weather.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07
AROUND He CORRIDORS.

Judge Matthew F. Johnson of Sacramento.
who is presiding in Departments OF the Su-
perior Court of this City while Judge Hunt is
in Sacramento trying the libel case OF Gilman
against the Daily Bee, is popular with the
memb bers OF the San Francisco BAR He has
the same gentle manner that characterlzes
Judge Hunts reign in Department D, ana IL Is
said he can deny motion Tor con tinuahce
or an immediate trial in a way that will ac-
tually arouse a feeling of gratitude In the
breast of an average litigant, although an
average ntigant is almost universally con-
ceded to be the most cantankerous ana ip'
tractable kind OF an individual imagina Die.
1--WE people of the capital city are well aus
fed with the growth and prosperity OF our
community" said Judge Johnson yesterday.
"We watch with solicitude the extensive
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07
,ress is designed to throw light on the ques-

tion.
Tt would seem that both army and navy
should not only:have the samecaliber but the
same rifle Occasions may easily arise where
in Joint operations OF the army and navy IL
may be necessary for one department TO call
upon the other for supply OF arms ana am
munition. The navy especially shouid always
he able to replenish its supply of small-arm
ammunition at any of our coast forts, to the
vicinity of which its vessels would naturally
come. The matter of uniform calloers ana
ammunition for heavy guns afoat and ashore
is quite a d ifferent question, but 1t is 10 De
hoped that the army and navy may soon agree
on the same caliber for small arms as they
have already decided on uniform eode Oh
signals by flag or otherwise
i. l. a..;~.axl 70 ,,,ako For .WadsWnrth. at
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07
ALlFOKNIANs N NEW YORK

NEW YORK, N. Y. March 6.-Dr and Mrs.
Kaspar Pts chi arrived on the Allan from Bre.
men, W. L. Lock eft the Plaza to sail on the
Ufnbria. At the Plaza, S. w. Anderson; Union
Square, C. a. sumner; Hoffman-S. Blume. E.
NJ. Lynch, G. Stout; Sinclair ]. E. Mason;
Holland, Mr.. Maddox; st. Denis, Mrs. E.
French; Cosmopolitan, F. Cornell; Grand
Union, Mrs. C. E. Hertzell; Astor, P. l.. Kos
cialowski; Sturtevant, II. Ii. Mears; MetropoH.
tan n. G.. Price.
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"The Overland Limited Only Three
and a Half DAYS to Chicago.

The Union Pacific is the only line running Pull
man double drawng-room and tourist seepers
and dining-cars, San Francisco to Chicago daily
without change Buffet, smoking and library cars
Ogden to Chicago. Tickets and sleepingc car reser-
vations at ] Montgomery st. ID. w. Hitchcock,
General Agent, san Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07

Bishop Quintard OF Tennessee was in the
Confederate army, and his first work after the
war was to plant cross on Sewanee Noun
tain, where the University of the South after.
ward rose through his energy
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-07

Bismarck's Boswell, Herr Moritz Busch,
studied theology, but in 1948 went into poll.
tics as violent Democrat, came to the United
Sta tes about the same time as Carl Schurz,
oil q for short time filled the pulpit OF a Ger.
man church.