Well done, Sacramento. The new movement is electrical. The new Sacramento will call herself the Electri City. Our trust is still in the aluminum and the Yankee crew. It is to be a new era in motive power as well as public sentiment. Democracy is watching Commissioner Stanton with bated breath. This is the time to begin enterprises and start in with the rising tide. The Valkyrie is at any rate good enough to make things interesting. The thing that Dunraven had up his sleeve was evidently a laugh. The Native Son illustrates the State and the Native Daughter illumines it. The pioneers and natives have had their day of glory and a glorious day it was. If Cleveland picked up Secretary Morton for a mascot he has been bitterly deceived. Hardly a week passes in this country without the opening of a convention some- where. If the Railroad Commissioners really get to work they will,literally, fill a long- felt want. It is time for Commissioner Clark to stand up squarely and .let the people see his attitude. Let us hope tire Sutro Library building will soon get out ol the air and take shape on a solid foundation. If Mayor Sutro shies a veto at the high tax levy he will make a hit, even if it doesn't bring it down. IfNew York loses the cup San Fran- cisco may go to England and bring it over to this side of the world. Louisville seems to have captured the Grand Army and made the veterans feel at home on the first whirl. Campbell accepted the Democratic nomi- nation in Ohio under pressure, but it is still doubtful if he thinks he is really run- nine. To entertain 30,000 visitors in the way she did gives Sacramento a right to call herself a capital city in every sense of the word. Gilroy made such a success of Admission day that we may expect her to come into the ring among the carnival towns of the State. _ Maryland voters are beginning to under- stand that the only sure way to get rid of Gormanism is to vote the Republican ticket. There has been another batch of horrors in Armenia and still the European nations hesitate to tell the Turk to get off that por- tion of the earth. Judging by her newspapers, Boston seems to have acquired the convention habit this summer to the degree of an actual dissipation. Keir Hardie is another British agitator who willgo home and say Chicago is hell, simply because he succeeded in raising it while he was there. » The project of bringing the Republican National Convention to San Francisco is moving forward steadily and lots of strong men are pushing it along, One reason why the United States has no right to interfere in Armenian affairs is that she has not yet made any attempt to prevent massacres in Cuba. Before the Commissioners take action in reducing railroad rates they should put on record a body of evide.ice sufficient to sus- tain the action before the courts. Take notice that the United Press gives the best reports of all events and that The Call is the only morning paper in the City that has the United Press dispatches. Japan has just enough of a war in For- mosa to keep her army m good exercise, while leaving her free to spend the Chi- nese indemnity in buying American war- ships toperfect her navy. Although American travel to Europe was larger this year than ever before, there was a decrease in the number of visitors to Yellowstone Park, which looks very much as if Americans with money enough to travel hadn't brains enough to know which way to go. The effort to bring the Republican Na- tional Convention to San Francisco is the fi:st enterprise in which the whole of the Greater West has been unitedly engaged, and with energetic leadership on our part there is every reason to believe it can be made successful in itself ana the promise of greater successes to come. _— ' — : . ; The announcement that the Mechanics' Fair may be continued for another week, instead of closing on Saturday, as at first arranged, will be received with more than ordinary satisfaction. The fair contains many exhibits that constitute important object lessons in California industries and the longer it is open the greater ia the work done in the way of popular educa- tion. IS ME. OLAKK BUS?? Railroad Commissioners La Rue and Stanton have attracted all the attention which has been devoted to that board of late, and Commissioner Clark has re- mained in the background. This means to say that Commissioner La Rue first pro- posed a certain reduction of freight rates which concerned wheat only, and that Commissioner Stanton has come forward with a resolution which makes Commis- sioner La Rue's proposition appear insig- nificant in comparison, because Commis- sioner Stanton proposes to reduce all rates to conform to the pledge which he took be- fore the convention that nominated him. In this measure he has announced his in- tention to give the Southern Pacific Com- pany credit for the voluntary reductions which it made in the latter part of 1894. This proposition seems to have set Com- missioner La Rue to thinking. In any event it seems that Commissioner La Rue's resolution to reduce the wheat tariff cannot be carried, and that Commissioner Stanton's scheme for a general reduction on all transportable commodities is not in- tended to be made effective until the Ist of next January, when every possible article of the current year's products will have been shipped. However futile and idle the apparent efforts of these two Democratic members of the board may seem they may never- theless prove to have a certain political value. The public is not insensible to the fact that seven months had elapsed be- tween the election of the members and their assumption of the obligations which they assumed, and that such assumption was coincident with the severe castigatlon which the local press administered to tbe commission on the score of its indolence. Seemingly, under the influence of that prodding the two Democratic Commission- ers, who constitute the majority of the board, and who were bound under specific pledges to make a reduction, came forward with certain limping propositions, the ulti- mate result of which is not to be felt until the crops of the current year have been moved. While the people of the State are awake to the sham of all these proceed- ings, they still remember that Commis- sioner Clark is a member of the board, and they observe with amazement that he has not made even a pretense of an endeavor to serve the interests of the people. As the representative of the Republican party Mr. Clark has been elected to an op- portunity for announcing the policy of that great organization. We all know that he was not elected under a pledge, we know equally well that the party which elected him pledged its history and its faith in presenting him as a candidate, and that in securing his election itreposed the reputation of the party in his hands. Has he kept this great faith? Has he made any attempt to show that as a repre- sentative of the Republican party he has aimed to be a representative of the people? Has he given any evidence that he desires to be known as a student of the needs of the people? On the contrary, is it not clear that he has done nothing whatever, but has left the fight to his political antag- onists in the board, and so has connived in a scheme to obscure the political force of the party which he represents and leave all the glory to the other side? These are questions wiiich Mr. Clark has an oppor- tunity to answer with actions — unless, in- deed, itis too late. All good citizens are anxiously awaiting a response from him. AN OAKLAND EXAMPLE. The lottery has been scotched, but not killed. Suppressed in many places, it con- tinues to find other channels through which to exert its pernicious influence and accomplish its evil results. It is evident the war upon it cannot be relaxed for a moment, and that if we expect to further diminish the evil we must improve our laws so as to forbid any kindof advertising for the nefarious traffic either before or after the drawing?. In the Police Court of Oakland last week there was an illustration of the injury which the lottery works in the commu- nity. A man. reported to be a good work- man, and who has had steady employ- ment, was brought before the court to an- swer the charge of having threatened his wife with a carving-knife and driven her from the house. The man, it seems, was under the influence of liquor when he committed the offense, but his wife stated he was a complete slave to the Chinese lottery game, and all his money was thus gambled away, leaving the family desti- tute and the home miserable and wretched. There are ruined homes, broken man- hood and families made wretched by lot- teries that never come before the Police Courts. The full extent of the misery, wrong and suffering brought about by the insidious evil will never be known to the public. We can only be sure that the evil which ia known is only an evidence of a greater extent of cvii unknown, and on that surety do what we can to put an end to it. It is the opinion of the police that the lottery evil would die of itself if it were not agaiu and again nursed into life by the publication of al- leged profits drawn and distributed. These publications excite the minds of those given to delnsive hopes, and they re- turn once more to squander their honest earnings upon dishonest games, giving to the sport of swindlers what should be the comfort and maintenance of the home. To put a stop to that pernicious advertis- ing is, therefore, the next step to be taken in the contest with the eyil, and we trust it will not be wholly in vain that we call upon our contemporaries to join with us in refusing to subordinate the power of the press to the money of swindlers, or to serve them as a medium for carrying their lying enticements into the homes of the people. _^__________ THE CHINATOWN WAE. The struggle which has been proceeding for several weeks in Chinatown between rival organizations illustrates the im- punity with which the Chinese may vio- late our laws. If such a wrangle had oc- curred between rival bodies of American citizens the jails would have been long ago crowded with the offenders. The failure of the authorities to cope with the situa- tion in Chinatown does not mean a fault on their part. They find themselves con- fronted by a peculiar order of foreigners, who not only scorn our country, our people and our laws, but who by reason of their strange tongue and the extraordinary secrecy with which they can conduct their lawlessness have every possible advantage over white men in the commission of un- lawful acts. The situation in Chinatown is this: Some weeks ago a member of one of the societies murdered a member of another society. Up to that time there had been no enmity between the societies. Usually when a murder is committed, reprisal is taken by the murder of any member of the society to which the murderer belongp, but the present case is different. Retalia- tion by murder has not been resorted to. partly for the reason that the fight is not between societies of professional black- mailers and murderers, but between two large organizations which comprehend all elements, and embrace nearly the whole population. Instead of murder, therefore, the ag- grieved society has instituted a vicious and ruinous boycott against the one whose member committed the murder. As the boycotting society is numerically much larger than the other, and as the boycotted society controls most of the shops, the gravity of the situation may be inferred. The boycott is enforced with ex- treme rigidity. Any member of the boy- cotting society who makes a prohibited purchase is not only robbed of what he buys, but is fined $20 for each dollar of his purchase, and is given a whipping besides. The laws would not tolerate these out- rages if they were committed by American citizens. The representatives in America of the Chinese Government have sent a strong official to assist the local Consul in sup- pressing the boycott, but instead of calling in the local American authorities to their aid these functionaries are attempting, as the Chinese in America always attempt, to settle their affairs in accordance with their own laws and customs and to the com- plete ignoring of our institutions. As a result they are making no headway against the heavy odds which confront them, and the situation is not only grow- ing worse here, but the boycott is extend- ing all over the State. If this does not soon lead to a bloody war of these aliens on American soil we mistake the temper of the Chinese and the signs which they are giving. Meanwhile is it not possible for the American authorities to intervene and stop the disgraceful proceedings? Is our local government too weak to cope with the evil '? Can any band of aliens come to this country and organize a lawless strug- gle on our soil without our intervention? If our local authorities are not able to handle the matter, and if the dignified gentlemen who are the accredited agents of China to the United States hold them- selves aloof from the relief which our peace oilicers and courts should be able to afford, it seems time that the citizens themselves ascertain what they might be able lawfully and peacefully to do in the premises. _______________ PLAIN TALKS WITH FARMERS The argument, beginning last week and running through three or four of these letters, may bo summarized as follows: The farmer is at a disadvantage in his material conditions as compared with other property-owning classes because he knows less about his business than they know about theirs. This was not always the case, his relative retrogression being due to the fact that in his isolated life he has not been so well able as others to keep pace with modern progress; that the ten- dency and inevitable result of this condi- tion is to deprive farmers, beginning with the weakest, of their property and reduce thfm to the condition of dependents; that nothing can change that tendency or prevent that consummation except the general diffusion among . farmers of such business education as will prevent them from engaging in un- profitable enterprises; that the cost of the information necessary for the profitable conduct of a farm undVr modern conditions is more than the revenue from the farm will pay after supporting its owner in reasonable comfort, and that the alterna- tive confronting the small farmer is com- bination with ills fellows for educational and other purposes or gradual extinction. I shall develop this argument as closely and concisely as I am able, but the above is its gist, and I do not think there is any doubt about the conclusion — we must unite or die; and as we cannot unite until we fullyunderstand the need of it and learn how. the first problem to be considered is the preliminary education. I showed last week that in so far as the farmer is unfortunate it is due to his ig- norance. Let us now see what must befall him if he does not educate himself; and we must iiniember that nature is relent- less and remorseless; the quality of mercy is unknown to her; she docs not consider abuses but conditions, and whether weak- ness is occasioned by misfortune or per- verseness the penalty is the same and is death. To fullyunderstand this we must leave farm life fora littltfand see what the evolutionists say. Evolutionists are mostly professors, a breed which some of us farm- ers do not esteem very highly, often re- ferring to them as "fellows with a lot of theories," using the term in the contemptu- ous sense of vague speculations with no basis save in the mind of the speculator. This again is because we don't know the science of modern days is built upon facts ascertained and verified with a patience and precision of which we farmers have very little conception. The scientific man does not as we sometimes vainly imagine spend his days ana nights in rapt but dreamy contemplation of the infinite, but, on the contrary, is mostly concerned with minute detail; he dissects polly wogs and extracts the bones from dead and* bad-smelling fish, which he patiently compares with the j>etrined relics and im- prints of those that died years ago. This he does, not because he likes to clean fish or break rock, but because he seeks to learn what has boon the rule of life in all ages, inferring therefrom what now the rule is and what it shall be. The collection of actual facts verified by men trained to ob- serve upon which modern science now rests is amazing and daily the store is in- creased. After some Jives have been spent in gathering and classify i 115: facts in a cer- tain line, the mass begins to take shape so that some law running through it can be apparently discerned, and with that law assumed to be true, more lives are spent in patiently collecting other facts and com- paring them with the assumed law: if all facts as verified harmonize with the work- ing hypothesis, the law is strengthened and gradually tends to become part of settled science; but ifone undoubted es- sential fact be discovered inconsistent with that law, the whole edifice of reasoning is destroyed and the work of rebuilding must be patiently begun. Hence science must, above all things, be sure of its facts, and so endeavors to be. The facts thus collected, verified, classi- fied and analyzed through all time until now show that all life has one law, and this law, at first merely as- sumed, by long continued observations is now considered settled and part of science —one of the things which we know as well as we can know anything in this world; it is a law that has so far run through all time, operates now, and, so far as can be seen or judged, will always operate ; it applies alike to the birds of the air.the trees 01 the forest, the floating " microbes about and to man himself ; it •\u25a0 is universal, unchang- ing- _____ Th is law is that the only condition under which any species can maintain itself is by the introduction of a greater number of individuals than existing conditions will sustain, the survival of the fittest and the death of the unfit. Could this process be checked the species would degenerate be- cause individuals of all species greatly dif- fer in the qualities to secure sustenance from their environment, and were all o prooagate and transmit their qualities alike the total result of vigor would be less than if only the same number of the strongest survived and left descendants, and itis necessary that the aggregate vigor shall constantly increase in order to cope with increasing difficulties caused by the increasing pressure of population. The operation of this law upon man as distinguished from other forms of life is modified by the fact that man has reason. As his numbers press upon the means of subsistence he is able of his own volition to add to those means. The races which have least of this quality die. It is evi- dent that the present population of America could not live without better means of obtaining subsistence than the red Indians had, or have been able to ac- quire. The time will come when existing populations will not be able to subsist without better means than we now have. The present generation has the means to produce comfortable subsistence for all. I do not know that this is or can be scien- tifically settled, but I think no one dis- putes it and I shall assume it. This sub- sistence, however, is very unequally dis- tributed. Looking Into this further we see that in the long run those who know most have most; those who know most about matters which directly concern their own income have most money, accumulating a surplus which they cannbt use ; those who know most about things which affect the incomes of mankind generally have most honor, usually in addition assuring them- selves of comfortable subsistence. Knowl- edge which affects nobody's income is worthless and is not sought. It is best to make clear this money value of knowledge. Of course I know that all 1 can say is admitted in advance, and yet those who admit itmay not after all know it, because real knowledge inevitably in- fluences action. We do not touch a red- hot stove because we know it will burn us. If in that sense we know the danger of ignorance, which is just as real, we would strive for knowledge at any cost. The only real knowledge is that which we habitually and unconsciously act upon. Any so-called knowledge which comes short of that is mere vague impression, unavailable for practical use. Now, al- though it cannot be actually demonstrated, I am sure that the incomes of those en- gaged in any business vary almost in a direct ratio with the number of essential facts pertaining to that business which they know accurately and certainly. Of course it is true that individuals greatly vary in capacity and vigor, but then it is the smart and strong who know. Allthat the weaker and less capable can do to maintain equality is to study more hours—* to toil more nights and days. It is knowledge that brings the income. Farmers are apt to denounce the great salaries paid in some walks of life, but they are nearly always the price paid for knowledge, or sup- posed knowledge, at market rates. The farmer who prefers the life of a banker has merely to know better than any one else what property is safest to lend money on and to make his ability known: some bank will soon want him. Banners are large borrowers, and as they are apt to seek and obtain loans which they have not the knowledge to use wisely, the bank president must he a better judge of the possible profits of farming than the farmer himself, lest the bunk's funds be invested where they cannot be got back when wanted. This means a high salary for the bank officer, which goes to reduce the profit of the farmer, for ignorance must pay its own bills. Iffarmers could know enough about their own business to make loans to them certain to be so wisely used as to pay interest promptly and the prin- cipal at maturity, a cheaper salaried man could lend them" money and the farmer's profits be so much increased. I have said that the most capable know most and consequently get most. For- tunately it is not necessary for us all to know as much as the most capable. Nature requires that we know enough to get a living and kills us if we do not ; but she does not concern herself with great accumulations. If we are strong enough and know enough to make such accumu- lations she (Joes not mind it, and if neces- sary will kill off such weaker ones as may stand in our way; but if we attempt to accumulate beyond our strength she will kill us for that, too. All she requires is that we be warmed and well nourished and our mind 3 kept free from worry, but for the lack of those, whether with or without our own fault, no excuse wiil be taken. Since evolution teaches that the penalty of ignorance is death, it is well to under- stand just what the evolutionist means by death ; we may be dvinjj and not know it. Evidently (he evolutionist does not mean that the ignorant shall fall down in their tracks and give up the ghost, or even that within a short time we 'shall all disappear and leave no sign. He means simply this, that by reason of our ignorance we shall be unfort unate ; being unfortunate we shall be worried; being worried we shall not oe weil nourished ;not being well nourished we shall die before our time, leaving half- nourished and nervous descendants to live still shorter lives, until our names finally perish from the earth. That is what death means to the evolutionist, and itis the process which the ignorant are now going through. We are these atoms in a struggling mass of humanity of whom it is certain that the weakest must die, but amid which it is the highest duty of each one of us to make sure that he* shall live. If we can also aid others to live we shall do yell, but nature does not demand it of us, nor can we do so until we have first satisfied our own debt to the awful force which controls us; but by as much as we maintain or increase our own vigor by so much we add to the aggregate vigor of our race. It is there- fore not. only essential but morally right that up (o a certain point we look out for ourselves; and we are compelled not only to live, but to live up to a certain standard of comfort which is customary among those with whom we mingle. The China- man iives in hanniness and holds his own among the races amid environments which would be death to the American farmer. I have now to disentangle from this seething multitude the farming class, ancT especially the American farmer, in order to note his condition as compared with others of his race, and see whether or not he is holding his own, and ifnot, whether of his own volition he can strengthen himself, recover any ground he may have lost and maintain his position among those who shall live; and as 1 am now considering mankind solely with reference to the relative power of survival I am compelled to make the rather heartless division into owners and non-owners of property, meaning by the latter class those who in the prime of life have not in their posses- sion the means of supporting themselves without serious worry during their years of decline. For the acquisition of the means of subsistence according to one's station in life is not only the best but the only evidence of power of survival. Those who cannot do that may be of the salt of the earth, but they are delivered, over to the bondage of death. The former, from the nature of his business, must be, or ought to be. a property-holder, and I wish here to com- pare him only with other owners of prop- erty. In past years the American farmer has been regarded as the type of an as- sured prosperity within a very moderate range, and his occupation considered as upon the whole the safest to engage in by those who were prepared to be content with abundant nourishment, warm hous- ing and moderate intellectual and social enjoyment, with freedom from serious care. It has been thought that \ipon the whole those who contended for the more brilliant prizes of life, even if they achieved them, paid more for them than they were worth ; much greater the major- ity who strove for them and yet failed. It has been believed that the strain and worry of the severer strife so seriously im- paired their power of survival as to far more than counterbalance any com- forts or enjoyments which they were able to secure. If now, comparing the farmer of to-day with the farmer of half a century since, we find that estimate still hold- ing good, the farmer is still holding his own and need not be discouraged. If, on the contrary, we find habitual worry, care and dependence graaually taking the place of the independence, comfort and security which he formerly enjoyed, then he is losing ground ana must bestir himself. I do not propose to enter upon a detailed comparison of the condition of the farmer as compared with other property-owning classes. Each of my older readeis is as competent as I to compare for himself; I simply record my own judgment, which is that the farmer has ceased to be the in- dependent man whom I knew in my boy- hood. He Is attacked by the care and worry of the business man without the business man's equipment to meet them, and he is losing ground. If lam wron^ I am glad of it,but I shall proceed upon that assumption. Now this decadence of prosperity, in my belief, is entirely unnecessary. The farm is the storehouse of vigor, without which and the application it makes possible there can be no knowledge or the prosper- ity which knowledge brings; from the farm the ranks of the prosperous are being constantly recruited ; the drift of our best into the cities is notorious; farm-boys make the best records in school and in col- lege. Their mother earth has given them the vigor which is the foundation and the means of all progress. We have, then, as farmers the basis of success in the physical strength which makes success possible, and yet we are falling behind in the race. We have the earth and are frittering it away. This matter will bear more examination than I have space for this week, and, while 1 do not propose any detailed comparison of the farmer with other classes, I do think it well to compare him with his forbears of a generation or two ago. This I shall do next week, using as a Ibasis my recollection of two lectures of Professor Boss of Stanford University, delivered at Camp Koache — lectures, by the way, which I hope to some day see printed and in the hands of every farmer. In entering upon that comparison it will be my object to discover and set forth the causes why the farmer of to-day is less happy than the farmer of former days, that we may see how, if in any way, those causes may be removed, and the farmer be enabled to regain his relative position. If we can once be made to see plainly the road by which we passed from properity to misfortune we may find it such that we can retrace our steps upon it. We may be sure of one thing— that if the American farmer was ever prosperous and happy it was because at the time he had all the knowledge which he needed to maintain his power of survival. What our investigation should disclose is why he has not now that knowledge; whether" he can regain it, and, if so, how. Edward F. Adams. IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS. California. The time may come when every enlightened community willsupport a free observatory as well as a free library. Why not? The study of the stars can be made popular, and it exercises a good influence upon all who engage in it. But little is really known by the masses of the people about the wonders of the heavens. A telescope for general use— not the sort built exclusively for professional astronomers— should be accessible to the people every nicht in the year. Rich people who contemplate providingin their wills for some public educa- tional beii3faction might consider the propri- ety of founding free public observatories. — Stockton Mail. We cannot expect the Kast to buy of us those commodities which can be produced in the East to advantage, and we ought not to buy,or to be expected to buy, those things in the East which we can advantageously produce on this coast. All legitimate trade consists In ex- changing things which we can produce to ad- vantage Tor things which we cannot, and any other manner of trade than this is "carrying coals to Newcastle."— Tulare Register. Fresno and Merced seem to have outlived their eagerness to get the Valley Railroad. Per- haps they imagine the road will have to come to them and they need not bestir themselves. That is the way some people thought in Stock- ton, but, though they were numerous, those who didn't want to take any risks outnumbered them. The Valleyroad doesn't have to go to any town, but may create several.— Stockton Independent. Oregon. It is not likely that the scheme of military drill for the boys of our public schools will meet with much favor in this country. The idea seems to have been put forward here at an inopportune time, for Paris has just given up the same project. The Municipal Council of Paris has disbanded the battalions and ordered the guns and equipments to be sold at auction. — Portland Oregonian. If Oregon's game laws were amended to punish the sportsman who fails to .kill more than twenty birds in a day's shooting there might be fewer hunters afield, less powder wasted and really better protection afforded the feathered beauties.— Portland Telegram. UtMh. There will not be much if any disappoint- ment among Republican ladies over the re- sult of the Supreme Court decision on the suffrage case, because they never thought they could consistently vote on a law giving them the right to vote.—Prove Enquirer. The shortage of Montana's contribution to the Bimetallic League educational fund would be greatly reduced by donating the solid silver statue of Ada Kenan to that purpose.— Salt Lake Tribune. Arizona. It is no wonder that the State Department moves with majestic slowness in the case of ex- Consul Waller, who is passing the summer in a French prison, while Grover Cleveland is fish- ing inBuzzards Bay. In addition to the dis- advantage of being an American citizen, Mr. Waller is a colored man and a Republican.— Phoenix Republican. From reliable sources comes cheering news of Arizona's chances of admission, and the peo- ple of this Territory have every reason to be- lieve that pefore the next Congress adjourns Arizona will be one ot the States in the Union. —Phoenix Gazette. Washington. Mountain rats are becoming a nuinance Inall the mining camps. Their depredations occur during the nights. The Cascade Mountain rat is entirely different from his voracious brother of the Rocky Mountains. Those around Monte Cristo are bobtailed with very large ears, and when cornered or alarmed in any way stamp repeatedly with both hind feet like arabbit. — Monte Cristo Mountaineer. The Call stands at the head of the clean papers of San Francisco.— Santa Cruz SentineL THE VALKYRIES GALLANT RACE. Turn About is by Mr. Pope Thought to be Fair Play. To the Editor of the Morning Call— Sir: In Sun- day's Call you published a few lines celebrat- ing the victory of the Defender over the Valky- rie. Turn about is only fair play, and as a com- panion-piece to the Eagle's scream I would suggest that you give the Lion a chance to roar. You can insert, if you please, the following lines: Once more "Britannia rules the wave," On far Columbia's shore. Her English hearts, the tried and brave, True as their sires of yore. The laurel wreath once more Is thine, Proud mistress of the sea! Thy gallant sons far o'er the brlnt Have proven worthy thee. A victor proud Valkyrierides O'er the Atlantic's foam. Her glittering sail in glory flies To bear the trophy home. Very respectfully, Charles W. Pope. 630 Market street. San Francisco, September 10, 1895. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. It costs something to have an Emperor for a friend. The recent visit of Kaiser William to LordLonadale cost, it is said, $200,000. This is not quite as bad as was the case in which the Duke of Buckingham had Queen Victoria as his guest at Stowe. The costliness of her re- ception was so great as to bankrupt him. Mr. Mackenzie estimates the number of slaves in Zanzibar and the adjoining islands of Pemba, both under British protection, to be 206,000, these being the survivors of over 1,000,000 souls, the others having lost their lives in the course of transit from the places of their capture. Theodore Roosevelt is taking what time he finds free from his cares in Gotham to devote to literature. He is writing, among other things, a book of patriotic stories for young people. Sir Philip Sidney at a great fete SDOrted a hat worth $25,000. It was felt, broad brimmed and turned up at the side, with a rosette of diamonds. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. It would be a difficult thing to get anybody to believe that Dr. W. G. Mizner would let a Chinaman slip upon him without raising one or those celebrated rows that follows the "fate- ful Mizner smile." It is nevertheless true that such a thing did occur and according to the doctor's, story very little was said. "I was traveling through China some years ago," said he to tome friends in the Palace grillroom, "and stopped a little while at Can- ton. Of course I wanted to see the city, so I hired a palanquin and went forth into the streets. They are very narrow seldom wider than one can stretch the arms. By some hook or crook it was discovered that I was an Ameri- can. We had gone probably half a block when the sallow brutes deliberately began to spit at me. I had to dodge and duck to escape the charges of tobacco juice, etc., for had I at- tempted to make any protest there would have been a Mizner corpse under the feet of a large portion of three million inhabitants of the city. It was as much as my life was worth to get out and declare war. I had to take it all and get out the best way possible. They smashed the top of my palanquin with bamboo sticks and made remarks that caused the blush to rise to ny cheeks." "Is there no protection for an American there?'' asked one of the doctor's audience. "Absolutely none. Had I been an English- man I would have been treated with respect. They fear the English and laugh at Ameri- cans." "Why is it so?" "Simply because America never protects her citizens if they get Into trouble. On the other hand, England will send relief at once and stand by her subjects. In Canton there is no more respect for the American Consul than there is for a street gamin. They know that if they take liberties with an American who has no particular station in life outside of his own country, America will never lift her finger to demand redress. Now, let's get down to this question ana discuss it. There is a good deal to be said about the matter and let me tell you it's about time to find out where the land of the free and the home of the brave has any jurisdiction. "I know of a man in San Jose de Guatemala by the name of John Magee. He was one day approached by the commandant of the town and asked for a horse. He replied that he needed the horse himself, whereupon the com- mandant ordered him strapped to a post and given liitv lashes. Magee appealed to the English Consul, and in a short time an Eng- lish man-of-war steamed into the harbor and demanded $100,000, or threatened to bom- bard the city. Twenty-four hours' time was allowed, but long before it was up the money was on the deck and Magee got half ofit — the ship the balance. After that incident Magee was granted a concession to build a steel pier out into the ocean, and he charges a cent a pound for every pound of staff imported and exported into the country. He is the big Injun of the place and is greatly respected. "Now take a look at America's policy. Dr. Harry Cross of Stockton went down to Guate- mala, took a photograph of the palace with a camera and was thrown into prison for two weeks. He appealed to the American Consul and got nothing for a reply. "In Acapulco there is a first mate of an Amer- ican ship who shot the second mate in self- defense. All the evidence was clear on that point, but the people there imprisoned him for life and he has been in the place for eight years. Several appeals to the American Gov- ernment nave been fruitless, and the result is that all over the world the foreign policy of America is a laughing stock. I didn't intend to get into this discussion, but what I have said goes, and it is deplorable that a man dare not defend himself in a foreign country for fear that his own Government will not pro- tect him from a life of servitude and imprison- ment. I can't stand it when I think of it. It'« enough to drive an American crazy. Let's get out of here and cool off"; and the "fateful smile was gone to make room for a large ex- pression of disgust. At the Lick House last evening several men were talking about the need for opening up markets outside the State for the food products grown here. "It seems to me that Californians are too much inclined to go ahead and grow something that somebody else is growing. They lose good opportunities, too," said J. A. Finch. "There is no reason why San Fran- cisco should import its eggs and poultry from the East." "Oh, that is such a small matter, and it is such a troublesome business," he was an- swered. "Small matter?" said Mr. Finch. "You are not aware that San Francisco consumed over 7,000,000 dozen eggs last year, and that one- half of them came from the East. Let me give you some figures I have about eggs and poul- try, and you will see that it is one of the greatest ofindustries. "France consumes in eggs and poultry, in value over 337,000,000 francs annually; Eng- land imported from Germany, Belgium. France and Holland $33,500,000 worth of eggs last year; while it is estimated that the United States in 1894 consumed in eggs and poultry in value $750,000 000. All the eggs sold do not go to the restaurants and hotel tables, but are largely used in the manufacture of kid gloves, in book-binding establishments, in finishing fine leather. The calico-print works used 40,000,000 dozen eggs Jast year, and some photographic establishments use over 2,000,000 eggs annually. Wine clarifiers use over 10,000.000 a year. Over half the eggs sold are used in the manufactures; this por- tion of the consumption increases more rap- idly than the table demand, which is the reason so large an average price is paid for eggs to-day. "The poultry business of the Eastern States has become one of the leading industries within the past few years, and for the amount of money invested has paid a larger per cent profit than any other legitimate business known. Nine of our leading Eastern cities consume over $137,000,000 worth of eggs and poultry annually. The industry has grown to such large proportions that some of our lead- ing financiers in the East have gone into the business, employing scientific men to run their plants. The old method oi setting the hen and waiting until she rears her brood has been su- perseded by the incubator and brooder, which enable those engaged in the business to turn out Chickens in all seasons of the year, thereby procuring a large profit. Ninety per cent of alt the poultry consumes in Massachusetts, Con- necticut, New York and New Jersey are raised artificially. "It may surprise you, but it is true, that Call- fornia does not produce more then half her de- mand. Carloads of dressed poultry, and eggs in the same proportion, are shipped here from Kansas City and other Eastern points, which is a reflection upon the California climate and the indifference of her people. Those interested and engaged in horticulture and agriculture would rise up in indignation if the East were to ship two carloads of fruit to San Francisco.bu t here is an industry in which the neglect of the people allows over $1,000,000 to go out of the State annually. Inorder to meet this demand the industry must be run on the same business principles as are used by the successful poul- try-raisers of the East. There are plants inthe East with investments from $10,000 to $150,- --000, which pay large profits, being run on scientific methods." D. \T. O. MIZKEB PROTESTS AGAINST AMEKICA'B FOREIGN POLICY. [Sketched from life for '•The Cull" byKanklveU.] PERSONAL. Dr. J. Caples of Elk Grove is at the Grand. George F. Winslow, U. S. A. is at the Occl- dental. w. H. Cleary, one of Stockton's merchants, is at the Lick. G. C. Freeman, a Fresno lawyer, is stopping at the Lick. J. H. Flickinger, the San Jose fruit-packer, is at the Palace. Sam Rucker, the San Jose improver, Is in town at the Palace. j. F. Coop, a SanU Cruz merchant, is houBM at the Grand Hotel. Dr. George F. Chalmers, ft Modesto physician, is at the Grand Hotel. S. J. Grover, one of Santa Cruz' lumber mer- chants, is stopping at the Grand. Major J. S. Mcßride, a prominent Mason oi Modesto, is in the City at the Lick. Nicholas Frayer, one of the leading mining men of Amador, is a guest at the Ruse. George A. Steinway, a son of the famous piano-maker, is a guest at tne Palace Hotel. A. Abrahams, a Reno merchant, dropped down from Nevada to lay in a fallstock. He is at the Falace. L. L. Boone, the largest land-ovrner of Conley station, is in town to lease some ranch lands. He is at me Russ. J. M. Shawhan, The Call's correspondent at Los Angeles, is in the City for a few days, and is a guest at the Lick Honse. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. V., Sept. 10.—Californians registered at hotels to-day: San Francisco— W. A. Foster, Murray Hill; H. A. Gerrlsh, Union Square: D. Plousky, Marlborough ;|G. H. Gray, J. C. Payne, Mr. and Mrs. H. N. Ste- vens, G. R. Perry, Broadway Central; J. W. Raphael, Stewart House; B. Lathrop, Murray Hill; Mrs. A. J. Stevens, Park Avenue. Oak- land—Mrs. H. E. Cook, Miss E. Cook, Mrs, Alexander, St. Denis. Los Angeles— C. A. Brandt, Grand Union. California— J. G. Cooper, Grand. CALI FORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 10.— Among to- day's arrivals were: CD. Buerler and wife, Miss Buerler, San Francisco; A.B. Burrell and wife, Ray Burrell, Oakland; H. H. Herald, Coronado; J. D. Wiley, Los Angeles. CALIFORNIANS AT SALT LAKE. SALT LAKE, Utah, Sept. 10.— At the Tern* pleton— C. H. Clark, San Francisco. At the Knutsford— Mr. and Mrs. W, E. Hale, San Quentin. At the Walker— L. D. Fullmer and C. J. Boskowitz, San Francisco. At the Cullen— L. Simon, Alameda. Strong hoarhound candy,lsc lb. Townsend's.* "CAKDSby the million." 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