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The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04
AN IGNORANT BOODLER.

HE effort of the Mission street boodler to get
 another S3o.ooo advertising" contract out oi
 the Southern Pacific Company by threatening to advise the newly elected Board of Freehoders to conhscae its sreetcar lines in this city IS quite certain to prove futile In the first place, the Leg isature has control of franchises, having passed general law on the subject. As charters must be consistent with general laws, no such system of confscation is proposed by the poodle sheet could go into effect, if the Freeholders were reckless enough to follow its advice.
 At present the State statute provides uniform rule for selling railroad franchises. Boards of Su- pervisors and Common Councils required to advertise for tenders and to award to the highest bidder. Once franchise is sold it becomes the absolute property of the person or corporation pur chasing it. The legal maxim, expressio unius est exclusio aterius, applies to this case. Where one thing is expressed in statute all other things excluded. So the courts have held that where law provides method for doing thing all other methods are forbidden. Thus the law of 1893 ablishing rule for the sale of railroad franchises cannot be changed by the Freeholders, can any rule for conhscating the property of the present owners of those franchises be added to it.
 Possibly, the Mission street boodler says, the Board of Freeholders elect will decline to accept advice from anybody except itself. Possibly the people Monday week did declare in favor ot re- storing the booder to the railroad payroll and 1t is possible though hardly probable, that the Freehold CTS may consider it their duty to aid in getting another $3o,ooo advertising" contract out of the Southern Pacific Company. But in any event this boodle sheet will have to discover other method of making the blood come than that which 1t has selected.
 Doubtless the railroad monopoly can be made to sweat but not with threats to confscate its street railway property. When the franchises owned by the corporation expire, unless the law be changed, they will be sold to the highest bidders for cash. As the railroad monopoly, by virtue of its ownership of the roadbeds and rolling stock of the lines is in better position than anybody else to bid high it will probably get all the franchises The difficulty with poodle contemporary is that in its attempts to extort advertising con- tracts from the corporations it plans without refer ence to the law. What it should do is to study up 'cinches" that will somebody. This talk about conhscatng street railroad property Is childish. It does not righten the corporations because there is nothing in it. In our opinion the Mission street boodler will never get the railroad monopolys payroll again until it originates a charter "cinch' which will stand the test Even if the Freeholders which it claims to own, disposed to help re- establish its contractual relations with the rail- road-whch is extremely improbabe-they could not do so in any such way this.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04
THE OLD pAYMAsrERs ORIGINAL METHOD OF BOOKKEEPING

formed by paymasters could be done as we'll by the pay clerk, under the super vision of line officer. The proposition is favored by the pay clerks, who look for warrant rank and some definite standing in the navy, which they are now denied.
 The paymaster occupies a stateroom on the port side in the wardroom. His daily routine is to look after his pay clerk and yeoman, to make acquisitions for money and stores, and to purchase the latter under the orders of the commanding of ficer. In the event of an engagement at sea the paymaster assists the surgeon. In the case of the abandonment of ship the paymaster's duty is to see that the safe is saved. These duties, the line of ficers point out, are non-military in their nature and could be d0ne with ease by line officer, who, in the event of trouble. could take charge of division and be of some service.
 In the coast survey vessels there are no paymasters, the captain acting as such. and in the old navy it sometimes happened that the purser died and his duties then devolved upon the captain. A story is told of the captain of a frigate in the Pacific, away back in the sos. who performed the duties of purser through nearly the entire cruise. His system, 1t Is true. was rather unique and startled the Fourth Auditor by its orig inality. Old Captain S.. so the story runs,
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04
THE DEMAND FOR OLIVES.

n GRATIFYING feature of the news of yes \ terday was the report from Pomona of or ders received there for thousands of gallons of pckled olives for Eastern cities, to be delivered in the next few weeks. The orders the more encouraging because they give reason for believing that at last the people of the East have learned appreciate the California olive and that hereafter the demand will be an increasing one.
 No class of orchardists have had harder fight to make market for their produce than those en- gagged in the cultivation of the olive. The industry has labored under many disadvantages The American people as rule are not accustomed to the use of olives Those who them have known only the European brands. The oil, moreover, has been exposed to the ruinous competition of hun dred forms of adulteration. In the face of these obstacles the California growers have fought an uphill contest for years, and the reward which now seems to be coming to them has been amply mer- tied in every respect
 The industry is in which California has a most valuable interest It is capable of an almost unlimited expansion. There are thousands of acres in the State which the olive will flourish better than any other The fruit produced here is not inferior to that of any other country. All that has been needed to make the industry one of the fore most in the State has been a wide and safe market for the produce
 If the people of the United States ever come to use olives scale proportonate to their use blythe people of Europe we will have in our own country a market capable of sustaining immense olive in in California It is this fact that gives inn portance to the report from Pomona that wholesale dealers in the East who year ago had to be coaxed to handle California olives at all are unsolicited sending in orders for barrels and hogsheads of them. The big market is apparently opening up. The man with olive in bearing has bright pros pects ahead
 While the increased demand for pickled olives is thus gratifying, 1t must be borne in mind that the highest form of the olive industry is the making of oil. The pickled olive is comparatively raw mate rial The oil is the finished form of the product. It employs the most labor. engages the most skill and ought to yield the largest profits. It will never do so. however, long as cotton seed oil is per mitted to masquerade "pure Lucca" oil and finds purchasers under that name. A rigid enforcement of the law against the petty swndles of adulterated foods is one of the urgent requirements of Ameri- can life.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04

and put 1t into tangible form, but when the work was completed 1t was found to tally exactly with the sums the captain had drawn from time to time.
 It was subsequently, explained that when the captain entered upon the duties as purser he had two barrels placed in his cabin, one at each end of his desk. When any one was paid he took two re- ceipts, one of which he dropped in the barrel on the starboard side, holding his vouchers; the other receipt went into the port barrel, which was his account with the Navy Department. This sys- tenn of accounts, while it had the merit of simplicity, did not meet with the ap- proval of the department, and no other officer has ever followed it. On the con- trary, during the past ten years various mixed boards, consisting of commodores, lieutenants, marine corps lawyers, now and then assisted by a paymaster, have worked indefatigably to devise a new system of accounts for the navy, with startling results. Only one paymaster has survived the ordeal, after a two years sojourn in a sanitarium. The commodores are dead or retired, the lieu tenants are also retired, and the marine corps lawyer has resigned and is now a private citizen. Order seems at last to have been restored, where once all was chaos, and nothing is now more simple than the navy accounts, provided always that there Is a competent clerk to do the work, and supervision or the official sig nature matters very little.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04
REORGANIZING THE PERSONNEL OF THE NAVY

returned East after three years cruise, and after seeing his ship dismantled and laid up in ordinary the captain got the usual leave-of-absence orders and went to his farm. In the course of month he received an official intimation that the Fourth Auditor wished to get his flnan- cial accounts of the cruise. Old $. re- piled that his accounts had been duly rendered. The entire office force hunted pigeon holes and lockers for the missing accounts, but without success, so an other letter of inquiry was sent to the crusty captain-purser. His answer was that he had sent his accounts in barrel ashore with other articles ad- dressed to the Navy Department. With this intimation of the whereabouts of the missing accounts another search was made from garret to cellar in the Navy Department building. and slowed away with casks containing curiosities gath cred aboard was the barrel-an ordinary pork barrel-duly indorsed.
 When opened 1t was found to contain thousands of slips of paper. receipts for various sums of money paid officers and crew, and for stores of all descriptions purchased at many places during the long cruise. Only these and nothing moro constituted the old seadog's ac- counts. and it took several months for the office force to unravel the business
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04

THE Board of Naval Officers ap-
 pointed by the Secretary of the Ma
 Wy to devise some plan for the reor-
 ganiZation of the personnel of the navy has concluded its labor and sub
 mitted its report. The recommendations are, as far as they go, radical enough, and the fact that an additional annual expense of $500 900 goes with the proposed reorganization plan is likely to defeat the entire scheme. Briefly explained, the en- gineer corps will cease to exist as a sep- arate organization, and in the course of few years its functions will be per formed by line officers. This plan dis poses of the thirty-year fight between the line and engineer corps, but leaves sev- eral other corps troubles still unsettled. These are the medical staff, the con- structors, the civil engineers, the pay and the marine corps. It was at first in- tended to recommend the abolition of the two latter, but fear that the entire reor- ganization scheme might be jeopardized caused the board to leave these recom- mendations out-for the time being. In- dications point, however, to the abolition of the pay and marine corps in the near future, so far as their service on board ship is concerned. The argument is used by the line branch that every officer on a ship should be a military officer, and that the purely civilian service now per-
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

Every girl thinks she knows how to look wisfully at man.
 It is just as apt to be the homeliest girl in the family that carries home the mis- tletoe.
 At a certain age no girl can see how an old bachelor can keep Lucille in his library and act so.
 Probably the first man Balaam told his story to said that the ass was nothing to a parrot his wife once had.
 After woman has got tired kissing her husband every night because she loves him, she still keeps 1t up to see what's on his breath.
 A girl will very seldom go to the door to bid a man goodnight unless there are some portieres which she can wrap her self up in and look out at him over the edge.-New York Press.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04
4 LESSON FOR WAGE FARMERS.

| ) reason of the great and rapidly growing ! competition in the Southern States the cot
 ton manufacturers of New England have been forced to begin the present year by sweeping duction in the rate of wages paid to their opera tives. Only the of dire necessity has driven ttem to take this step at the opening of year which promises in other industries to be so pros porous, and the event affords to wage earners an object lesson which even the dullest cannot mis- ;eke
 Wages have been reduced among the industrious and trained operatives of the great mills of New England because of the lower wages paid in the South. The Southern wage earner works for low wages in the cotton mills, and the Northern wage earner must accept wages nearly as low the mill in which he works will cease to be profitable It is the old story of the runous effect of cheap labor upon all high-priced labor with which it comes into competition.
 The cotton manufacturers of New England have many advantages those of the South They have larger plants, larger working capital intelligent workingmen better transportation fac- ities, experience in business, more settled habits of thrift and industry and more compre- hensive knowledge of the markets to be supplied The Southern manufacturers have but one advan- tage, that of cheap labor but it has proven sufi- cient to overcome all the others. Where there is cheap labor the mill industry is rapidly extending but in New England either the mills are being closed or wages are being reduced.
 From the lesson taught by this experience of a great industry exposed to a comparatively feeble competition of cheap labor can readily perceive what would have happened to all the industries of the nation had the free traders succeeded in their efforts to enact genuine free trade tariff and ex- posed them to the wholesale competition of the cheap labor of the world. The ruin would have been overwhelming and almost universal.
 The tariff issue is supposed to be out of politics and it is to be hoped the supposition is well founded Our generation has had experience with free trade tariff tnkers and is hardly likely to need another. Nevertheless the value of protection to the wage of the country cannot be too often repeated.
 We have competition enough Tn this country without inviting that of the world at large We can reasonably hope to raise the standard of Southern wages to point of equality with that of the North and thus in the end restore the possibility of good wages in the cotton industry throughout the coun- try, but cannot expect to accomplish so much for all the cheap labor countries of the earth High wages and prosperity the children of protec- ton, and we must maintain the mother if we would have the offspring.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04
FLoURIsHING EXPORT BUSINESS.

The export business of the United States is in a most flourIshing condition. The total figures for the eleven months of the year are s2SS, ,521 ,sO5. This amount is unparalleled in our history and pre- sents a gratifying aspect for the future of American commerce. The most sig nificant fact about the export reports from month to month is the steady in- crease which they show. Nothing but some unforeseen calamity or fool legi5- lation can stop the onward march of a foreign commerce for the United States unprecedented in it's value to the country and unequaled in its volume by any na- ton on earth.-Detroit Free Press.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04

President McMillan of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States has appointed L. M. Hamburger a commits sioner to promote American sports at the Paris Exposition in 1900.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04
BALLADE OF THE PRIMROSE WAY.

Life. through the arc of century Cronies two have faced the road Cheek by jowl since the first young day When the primrose path before us glowed; Mind you the wonders the vista showed? Cloth of gold where the sunlight lay Mind you the cowslip balls we slowed? Glinting guerdons of Primrose Way. Life. you're faithful votary, Years and day to keep the code: Yours was rare knight-errantry, For hobble-de-hoy my fancy rode But. then the cowslip crop we sowed! Crowfoot furrows we reap to-day; Carols have changed to palinode And lost forever is Primrose Way.
 EENvOI.
 Youth, of the morning sandals shod, List to a graybeard eegy:
 Man but once is a demigod- Earth's Olympus Is Primrose Way
 ROSE EDITH MILLS in The Chapbook
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04
A FoREGoNE CONCLUSION.

Typewriter machines may be cheaper next year, but typewriterS will proba- bly, be as dear as ever.-Chicago Times Herald.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04
AUCTION SALES.

W. Butterheld-This day, January ( Furniture at S43 Ellis street, at Il o'clock
 By ButerhedThis January Japanese ourios, Il o'clock.
 Sullivan Doyle-Frday, January Mis- sion o'clock.
 By Killp & Monday January 10, Horses, Ness II o'clock
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04

Prince Ouronssoff. the new Russian Ambassador to France, is an accomp- lfshed linguist. He studied diplomacy under the famous Prince Gortchakoff, who was his uncle
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04

To advertise our perfumery counter, we give a panel picture free to every pur- chaser in this department Sanborn, Vail & Co.,, TAI Market street.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04

Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont gomery st. Tel Main 1042.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04

Lieutenant Elmer Lindsey, U s. A., writes from the Yellowstone Park that few buffalo have been reported in the park this season. though he hopes to find twenty-five, which he will endeavor to profect
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04

The Rev. Frank Dewitt Talmage. though new resident in Chicago, has already been elected chaplain of the Sec ond Regiment. Illinois National Guard.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04

"BRowNs BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs" are of grea service in subduing Hoarseness and Coughs. Sold only in boxes Avoid limitations.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04
ADJUSTMENTS.

Baldwin-"The Henrietta" California-Song Recals, Thursday evening Columba--"At Gay Coney Island" Alcazar-'The Girl Left Behind Me" Moroscos- District Fair" Ttvol-'Mother Goose" Orpheum--Vaudevile BushThe Thaia GermanHebrew Opera Co., night The Chutes-Vaudevtlle Oberon-Cosmopolitan Orchestra Inglesde Track-Races today. Olympla-Stark's Vienna Orchestra.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04
NOTES ABOUT NoTABLEs.

Transvaal correspondent of a Lon don paper says that President Kruger has the wonderful art of saving ten times his salary every year.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04

"Can you, sir.'' said the incomer with the shiny long coat, "can you give me a short and succinct definition of money?"
 See here." said the financial editor. 1T want to tell you before we go any fur ther that you needn't expect this to be any object lesson. n.''-Indianapolis Jour ra
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04
THE CIVIL SERVICE DEBATE.

| IVIL service is expected to be the first sub | jcct the House of Representatives will take up when it assemblies for business this week. According to arrangements made before the ad- journment for the holidays full time is to be given for elaborate discussion of the issue in all its phases The debate is certain to be lively and can not fail to be instructive as well as interesting to the public
 The demand for a change in regulations of the civil service is not party measure. It does not come from a desire on the part of victorious Re pubcans to obtain the offices Grover Cleveland bestowed on his cuckoos and mugwumps. Men of all parties who have had experience in the practi cal operation of the existing system have perceived serious evils in it that must be remedied in order to render the service thoroughly efficient. When the vote is taken Democrats as well Republicans will be found voting the side of amendment and reform.
 For some time past the affairs of the civil service have been under investigation. Photographic reports of evidence given before the Investigating commit tee have made known the fact that heads of depart ments are dissatisfied with many features of the present regulations, but the full extent of the de- fects complained of have not yet been made public That will be done during the coming debate. Re ports from Washington that the oppo- nents of the system intend to cover the whole question ana VIII develop ana exploit some very n- teresting facts.
 In his message to Congress last December the President clearly intimated that in his judgment some change is necessary in the regulations under which the civil service is administered. While giving a general commendation to the law he sad Much of course still remains to be accomplished before the system can be made reasonably perfect for our needs. There places in the clas- shed service which ought to be exempt and others unclassifed may be properly included" This statement is in strict accord with the opinion of men of experience in the service and with that of all citizens who have given the subject inteli- gent and serious consideration
 It is in fact, full time for the issue be taken up and revised in the light of experience with the ex- isting law. It would be folly to persist in main taining a system found to be defective in operation simply because it originally enacted in the name of reform. The administration of the civil service is of the most important parts of gov -rnment, and common business dictates that it be so ct'ered as to be made, in the language of the President, reasonably perfect for needs
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04
THEY WORK IN HARMONY.

Those who speak poetically of the voices of the night do not mention ever having heard short ton of coal and a gas meter calling each other liars in the Standardization Times.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04

ANGosTURA BITTERs-Prepared by DR- SEC ERF for his private use have become famous as the best appetizing tonic. Accept no other
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04

Announcement comes from England as if some thing new, that titles purchasable there. In America this has long been understood, the only doubt being to whether the titles are worth the price asked
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04
cAL1FoRNIANs IN WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-S. B. Waters of San Francisco is at the Ebbitt House; S. M. Bowden of Los Angeles is at the Arlington.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04

Another football player has died at his post of duty, victim to noble ambition to control the destiny of pgrskin sphere stuffed with wind.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04

Physicians governed by the sacred code of their kind which forbids them to accept remedy alleged to consumption ought at least to spare the feel ings of the people laborng under the pleasing de- fusion that the remedy possesses merit because of having cured them. An ex-consumptive has at least right to feel kindly toward the method by which he acquired the "ex."
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04
FLASHES OF FUN.

Did Miss Flavilla seem pleased when you asked her to go to the theater?"
 Pleased? She wanted to keep the tickets for fear something might happen to me'-Chicago Record.
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If the people of England wish to pay the debts left by the Duchess of Teck that is their affair. They amount to trife of thirty thousand pounds But it would to misguided persons who take pride in not being paupers that the royal family would hasten to relieve the public of new burden.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04

Lows Horehound Cough Syrup for hoarseness: price 10c. AT Sansome st.
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04

Mayor Van Wyck is under the impression that he has taken charge of the affairs of New York. Yellow journalism thinks it has done this, while the public has an idea that Dick Croker dictates the policy and hands out the pie Ultimately the mat ter may be one for arbitration
The San Francisco call., 1898-01-04

There are many indications that Weyler is far more successful blackguard than ever he soldier