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The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07
A GOOD LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

NNE of the gratifying features of this campaign | has been the earnest attention given to the V local issue of good municipal government. It has been the rule that Congressional and State cleo tons have caused voters overlook city affairs to
 great in past contests and accordingly, weak or vicious men have been chosen to city and county offices simply because the people were less indifferent to the comparative merits of candidates
 It has not been so this year. The local campaign has been conducted systematically and zealousy as that for State offices for members of Congress Every point involved has been thoroughly discussed, the personal and political deserts of aspirants for office weighed and considered and the people will go to the polls tomorrow well informed of every issue whether of men or of measures on which they will have to vote.
 It is not due to chance that this public interest in the municipal campaign has come about. The events of the Phean administration have been of nature that compel the attention of citizens. The Mayor entered office under the faires auspices large body of independent citizens representing industrial and property interests voted for him and expected great things of him. To these his has been one of bitter disappointment Instead of giving the city honest administration he has used all its patron age to further his political ambitions, and has been more interruptions and more domineering than any other official or boss in our political history.
 Mayor Phelan was largely responsible for the cleo ton of the majority Of the Board of Supervisors and that majority has been thoroughly corrupt He was responsible for the election of the majority of the Board of Education and the board has given rise to scandals involving frauds of almost all kinds from something like petty larceny to something like whole sale plunder.
 The renominaton of this incompetent Mayor and interruptions boss reused the citizens to sense of their duty to the city It felt that strong man would be needed to defeat Phelan intrenched as he is in power possessed of large wealth and surrounded by band of intense partsans whose political anb- tions are bound up with his own and for time many people believed he could not be beaten at all
 The nomination of Charles L. Patton had the effect of rousing the hopes and energies of the taxpayers and of all citizens who desire good government His candidacy aroused enthusiasm at the start From the day of his nomination popular interest in the local
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07
A CRITICISM OF WORDSWORTH.

He pours into his personages the strong life and moving breath of genius; but they have little of the air of the mart or the farmyard. They have, indeed, all that which is so completely wanting In the heroes of Lord Byron, the absolute truth of being the nature which is so uniform under so many varieties; they are made LID of the elements of universal but want the accidents of social humanity. Words watching the entangled threads of pas sion which bind together crowds with such many colored, yet scarcely distin- guishable feelings. He retires from the conflict of mingled and heterogeneous in terests. He loves to muse by winding rivers; but the tumultuous current of mems ordinary motives has little for his contemplation. He delights to gaze upon cities; but it is when ''all that mighty heart is lying still
 He diffuses his affections over every thing around him, and lets them be re- stricted by no arbitrary limits and con- fined within no sectarian inclosures. He looks around upon the world and upon man with eyes of serene rejoicing, and traces all the workings of that spirit Of good of whose influence he Is conscious in mastery over forms which was never pos sessed so perfectly by any one as by Shakespeare, he cannot make so intellig1- ble to all men as he otherwise might the depth and value of his own feelings Like those angels who are made a flame or fire, he burns with a cam and holy light, and the radiance which shows so strange amid the contrasted glare and plackness of the present will blend with the dawn ing of a better time as with it's native substance.-F. D. Maurice in the Ath- enaeum of 1928.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07
THE ISSUES BEFORE US.

[ the votes to be cast tomorrow California will h declare her attitude toward the politics of the 10 day and the destiny of the nation. She will be counted for Mckinley for Bryan; for the prn- ciples Of protection sound money and conservative government; for free trade debased currency and the rule of the discontened the nprovident and the lawless.
 The distinction between constitutional government stability and prosperity represented by the Repub lcan party and that fornless mass of anarchy and folly represented by the fusion of the extremists among Democrats and Populists has been clearly drawn during the canvass that observing man can overlook it, no good one ignore it. So wide and deep is the difference between the two that the is much discussion between political par ties struggle the part of certain violent and more less vicious elements in the community to overthrow the established order of society and gov ernment and to reconstruct everything by wholesale confscations of property and the destructtion> of vested rights.
 Throughout the nation it is everywhere recognized that the chief issue of the campaign is that of taning the President. The people are to determine by their ballots whether Congress will uphold the administration in dealing with foreign relations and in settling the currency problem, whether there shall be at Washington a Congress to oppose the President, hamper him and thwart him. Were there other issue in this State than that Wlllcn IS presented to the nation at large, OaOrnla should go Republican. We have, however, local issue which renders Republican victory doubly necessary to the welfare and the dignity of the monweath The contest forced upon California by the nomination of Mcguire IS menacing than that which has been carried in this campaign in any other State in the Union. We have here not only the incentive of patriotism to sustain the admnistra tion but the dire danger of single tax industrial dis turbance and anarchy if we vote the other way
 The issues have been fully presented the voters, the Is completed and the campaign is over. There remains only the duty of rousing the indffer- ent among the people to sense of their respons- bity to the city the State and to the nation This work should be undertaken by every pubic-spirited citizen There should be full vote tomorrow, and to-day each should speak to his neighbor and remind him of his duty to vote right.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07
HIS DELICIOUS NERVE.

As the young man entered the old man looked up and scowled.
 "Well?" said the old man, shortly.
 "Your daughter" began the young man. but the old man cut him off abruptly.
 .Tve noticed that you've been @ .a1a hanging suppose that you've come to tell me that you love herr?
 No" replied the young. man, calmly. "Ive come to tell you that she loves me and wants to marry me:
 sfWhat?" roared the old man.
 "She says so herself" persisted the
 q never heard of such an exhibition of egotistical impertinence.' said the old
 "Then you misunderstood me-" ex- plained lne young man. My assertion is dictated by policy and not by imperH- hence. You see, it's just this way: What I want is nothing to you; now, Is it?''
 ''Why-er-not exactly.
 ''I might want a thousand pounds, but that wouldn't matter to you, would it?"
 Certainly not"
 You're under no obligations to supply me with what l want. are your
 Hardly.
 would be for me to come to you and say: MT. Parkinson, I have been very favor ably impressed with your house and fur niture,' or I think. I'd like your daugh- when your daughter wants anything it's different. Now. isn't it different ?"
 Tt certainly is different" admitted the @ aPrecisely.a % said the young man. "she and I figured that all out very carefully last night. You sees l have got no. par that there wasn't one chance in a hum dred that you would give her to me. Then she suggested that you had never yet re- fused anything that she wanted, no mat ter what the cost might be. and that per- haps 1t would be a good plan to change the usual order somewhat. We sort of
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07
AROUND THE
 CORRIDORS

A. N. Butts, mining man of Angels Is at the Occidental
 Fred Conn, a capitalist of Big Pine, is stopping at the Russ.
 A. Bernheim, merchant of Sacra' nento, is at the Lick
 J. Marion Brooks, a lawyer of Los An geles, is guest at the Grand.
 E. s. Mainhart, mining man of Grass Valley, is stopping at the Grand.
 Robert B. Canf1eld, ex-Superior Judge of Santa Barbara, is at the Palace
 A. N. Felix. a well known jeweler ot New York City. Is a guest at the Lick.
 Mortimer F. Taylor, the we'll known attorney, of Denver, arrived from Denver and Is at the Palace.
 R. R. Lowe, Mrs. Ash and T. H. Mallory arrived from Dawson yesterday and are stopping at the Grand.
 Dr. Simmons of Sacramento, accom- panied by his wife and children. is a guest at the Occidental.
 P. Hirschfeld. merchant of San Jose accompanied by his wife, registered at the Lick yesterday and will remain in town few days.
 c. A. Williams, accompanied by Morti- mer F. Taylor, an attorney, arrived in this city from the East yesterday. He is now at the Palace. 7 s. Woolner Jr., one of the owners of the great Peoria distillery, and wife are spending their honeymoon in this city. They are at the Palace.
 P F. Mercy, president of the Portland Electric Light Company, and H. w. Goode, president of the Bank of British Columbia, are at the Palace.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07
THE TEMPLES OF sIvA.

The shape of the temples of siva, the destroyer. does not differ from those Of the other Indian gods. The chief entrance into the great temple, says a writer Tn the Architect. is by high, massive pyramid, the top of which has generally the form of a crescent. It invariably faces the east. Beyond the gate there is a large court, at the further extremity of wnlcn another gate leads through pyramid of less height but of the same form. small yard separates it from the temple of the idol In the middle of 1t there IS either huge bull or a linga carved Tn stone, raised on a pedestal or put under a canopy supported by four pillars. This door is the only passage for light and hilf air, there being no windows. A lamp WniiCn burns night and day, gives a toieraDle light The interior of the building IS gen erally divided into two parts, sometlneSS into three, the first of wInch IS the n9st spacious, and Is destined to receive the ne people; the second. or the adytum, s1ns,llar en which the idol resides. is llf mueh +ba ssnd doer and darker, and generally shut the qst doUh being opened only by the otdclaIlng Pr'sst: who. with some of his attenoantS, ,s,s ns,s alone the right of entering this ta ,,, place for the purpose of washing il. the III, II, age and dressing and bringing offeIings p o9 if rThis part is often built in the snapo .oA oA a a vault. but it is so low as to make a RrI1II Rs1I longed stay in 1t rather oppresSl'e' ' Mall Gazette.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07
ONCE EUGENIE's HOME.

Camden House, ChisIehurst, and the hands of the builders; but another and a more satisfactory fate awaits 1t. A syn dicate has been formed and 933,000 raised to purchase the mansion and the seventy acres of land in which 1t stands. Hence forth, as has been the case for some time, the grounds will be used as golf links. and the building itself is to serve as clubhouse. The residence takes it's name from the fact that for some time William Camden, author of the famous
 Britannia, in whose honor the Camden here, and here died in 1923. So far as l am aware, Camden was not a devotee of the royal and ancient game of golf, the Biackheath Club was in existence
 However this may be, 1t is probable that, could the father of English antiquaries morphosis which is now. to be carried out to the demolition of his old dwelling: In the early years of this century MT. and Mrs. Thomson Bonnar were murdered by one of their men-servants in Camden House, painful circumstance alluded to in the Personal Recollections Of Mary Somerville." The house is also associated Bonaparte family. After his release from German captivity, Napoleon III and the Empress Eugenie retired to this place of exile and it was here, or January 9, 1873. that the Emperor died. When on the Wednesday following he was buried in the little Roman Catholic chapel or St.
 Mary, which lies on the south cage or tne mourner, followed Immediately after 1he hearse. Six years later the body or this Prince, killed, as all will remember. m Zululand while serving as volunteer on a reconnoitering expedition. was borne from Camden House to be laid Tn re- cess in the opposite side of the church II4 fo Soon afterward the Empress removed from Chislehurst.-Glasgow Herald.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07
MOUNT WASHINGTON SLIDE
 BOARDS.

The slideboards used by the workmen on the Mount Washington Railway are originated in necessity and are used by the workmen to make the descent of the mountain after the close of each day s work The best riders have been known to go from the summit to the base, three miles, in three minutes. About o'clock each day one of the workmen makes the descent to examine the track, and see that it is in good condition-always preceding the downward train.
 The board is constructed so as to fit ing arms, one on each side. A piece of iron projects from these arms to point undernsath the rail, which slightly pro- jects from the timber on which 1t rests By pulling up on the handles. or arms, the speed of the slideboard can be check
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07
THE ROMANCE OF A RING.

At the close of the battle of the Tcher- maya I was riding from the bridge toward our camp when a zouave offered me a huge gold signet ring which he had taken off the finger of a Russian officer. need not mention how he had obtained IL, put I bought it as memento of the day. It bore a massive shield with a coat of arms and a coronet with the letter ''Z." wore it occasionally on my forehnger as a signet ring, and the likeness of 1t IS to be seen in an engraving rom photo- graph which adorns one of my books. When l attended the coronation of the Czar In 1856 Count -, adjoint ot the Minister of Finland, to whom I told the the seal and discovered that the ring belonged to a colonel whose widow. an English lady who had been Miss Hope of the Commandery of Worcester, was then living at her country seat some dis tanee from Moscow 1 sent the lady the ring with few lines to say how fortunate restoring her a souvenir of her gallant husband. Before I left Moscow my fair countrywoman brought me the ring, and with many thanks asked me to Keep what was painfully associated with the mem ory of one whom she could never forget. I was not destined to keep 1t long.
 The following year l was on my way to Sir Colin Campbells camp, and while the Nubia was coaling at Alden, MT. Stew art Muirhead of the Seventh Hussars and 1 were lodged in sort or cave IoI the night. It was intensely hot, and my companion. who was a confirmed sybarite hired Sonali Arab to fan him to keeL the fnosquitoes away while he slept. reposed rep, on an adjoining couch, and wher I woke in the morning the ring whicf I wore on my finger was gone. The hote was turned inside out, the police were summoned, ali the Somalf boys in Alder were driven like a flock of sheep intc the yard, where their wool was closely nutely exan1ined: but though I offered egregious ransom, the P. and Q, Nubia disconsolate and ringiessl-William How ard Russell in The Spectator.
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 ed. and thus prevent it and its rider from flying off into space, as it speeds at a aIear- ar full rate downward to the bottom or eol, ,,s 1ns l mountain. No one except the WorkIiilen Wi is permitted to use them, as it requlre5 experience to manage them without Jan- I- ger to the rider. Many years ago, not long after the road was constructed an exper77 fenced person connected with the ss signa1 {nfa station while making a descent, ran mo it a descending train and was instantly killed. s,ida- The workmen come up with their snoe- boards from the base in the morning, on the first train, and they are left at dif- ferent points along the road. where they are engaged in making repairs on lne track At night at the close or Worh, they get on their boards and slide 10 iI1t5 rne base station, and they can be usualily seen by those on the last train for the summit As they come dashing down the track at a fearful speed it would seem impossible to stop them, but that IS cas- iIy done by applying the brakes, though lS would be dangerous for an inexper1enced person to attempt to manage them.- Among the Clouds.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07

has been keen as that in the State against Mcguire and the single tax. For it may be said people have given heed to their home affairs, and the outcome is no longer doubtful.
 It must be borne in mind, however, by every voter that to assure good local government Mayor Pat ton should have the support of Republican Board of Supervisors and Republican Board of Education The overthrow of the Pheanites should be made com plete. When we eliminate Phelan from politics let us eliminate along with him all the gang of job chasers whom he has brought to the front and put forward as candidates for office
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07

felt that it wouldn't be right to ask you to do anything for me. but 1t dineren9t 9o I'm here merely as her agent to say that she wants me, and that she wants me very much, and to ask you to please see anything so much as she wants me, and am so favorably disposed toward her that 1T you care to make the investment, entirely to you and her"
 Naturally she got him. No wideawake business man is going to overlook chance to get such fine sample of nerve in the family.-Tfd- Bits
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07
ADJUSTMENTS

BaIdwin-"NIlstakes Happen Cafornia-'F1nnigans Ball" Coumba-Kelar, the Magician Alcazar-''Dr. Bill.' AIorosco' s--'Stranglers of Paris Ttyoii-'Girohe- -Grona.' Comedy Crust of Society," Orpheum- Native Sons HaIl-Benen to Matheu. wednes- day evening" Olympia corner Mason Eddy streets-Specialties Chutes-LIlian F. Smith, Vaudeville and the Zoo Baths-SNimmng.
  Oakland Track-Races Rosenthal-Coming in December.
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QUITE IMPOSSIBLE.

The Little Giant wavers, And his bass profundus quavers,
 As he works himself into puerile rage; And in attitudes gymnastic, Gives the voters doses drastic,
 About himself and throwing down the gage. But his single tax oration Causes little perturbation,
 'Mongst the gallant cohorts of the G. O. F. For, despite his awful thunder, He will have to stand from under;
 There's Gage he can't throw down--that' s
 Henry IT -C. F. D.
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sMrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup

Has been used fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while TeethIng with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums. allays Pain. cures Wind Collie. reg ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas. whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs Winsiow's Soothing Syrup. 25c bottle.
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It is time for California to take her place among the solidly Re- publican States, Let's make this victory a clean sweep
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07
Through Tourist Car to St. Paul.

This car is nicely upholstered in leather leaves every Tuesday night. change. Goes via Shasta route and Northern Pacific Rail- way. The scenic line of the continent Tick cts on sale to all Eastern cities at lowest rates T. K Stateler. general agent. csS Market St. San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07

Beware of roorbacks and scur- riious stories started by the fused factions, who are now des- perate. Vote the straight Re- publican ticket and you will vote piof1f.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07

It is not easy to why the American army should pay so much deference to the wishes of Blanco The soldiers ought to land in Cuba irrespective of his wishes, and fl he has not enough to get out of the way the result would be chiefly distressing to him self
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07

Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good perhaps in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07

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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

FIRST CABLE CARA B. C., City. rr,,a fsre+ trin of a cable car in San Fran cisco was made over the Clay street nie ~, tba 1st of August, 1873.
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A girl who swore man to prison now asserts that her testimony was totally false. The mildest that Justice can do is to perr her to change places with the man.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07

RupYARD KIPLING-N. N' City. Rndvard Kipling, the author. was born in Bombay, India, in 1865. His father; John Lockwood Kipling, was formerly or Vnung Kipling was sent to England, uhera he WAS educated
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MONTEREY AND MoNADNoCk---A IA B. C., City. The Monterey saneu z., t,oa, ae T~ne ISes, The Monadnock sailed from the same port for the same point on the oqd If luna
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HOTEL DEL CORONADo-Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only seO by steamship, including fifteen days board at hotel; longer stay s2 50 per day Apply at New Montgomery street. San Francisco
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Georgia boasts that murder trial there, the prisoner negro, consumed only an hour and forty three minutes This is really time than is usually needed there, the ordinary delay being only such as necessary to find tree with convenient limb.
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German editor has been sentenced to six months in jail for lack of reverence toward the Kaiser The increased circulation of his paper is hardly com pensation He has desire to circulate himself.
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Amercas demands surprise the Spanish, although why they should is not clear. Had the Spanish been victors they would have had something to say corning the terms of surrender.
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ACKER'S ENGLISH REMEDY WILL STOP cough at any time. and will cure the worst cold in twelve hours or money refunded No Percentage Pharmacy.
The San Francisco call., 1898-11-07

While the city will pay for the incineration of or dinary garbage, the circulation of the Examiner by way of the cremaory chimney will still be item of expense to that paper.
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Several papers have offered condolences to the Nebraska girl who deserted at the altar because her breath tainted with the fumes of cigarette It is not pity she needs. Let the sympathzing edi tors send her congratulations and package of cigar cites
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Cal. glace fruit 5Oc per ID at Townsend's.
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Some of the Spanish news coming by way of Ha- would be disquietng did anybody take the trouble to believe it. The same is true of Cuban news coming by way of Madrid
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WAGON TO REDDING-W. M, Oak land. Cal. The most feasible way to reach Bedding. Shasta County rom oak @ San Francisco. for Stockton, thence Dy tba county road to Sacramento and from there by the county roads to the point or
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Spain seems to have greater regard for the Philip pines than would have been suspected by the way which she treated them when her possession un disputed.