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SUNDAY JOE 23,1895 people adapt their homes to their bicycles. The average San Francisco home is a good enough summer resort. Every section of California is a summer resort to the people of other sections. More patronage for home industry and less for lottery tickets is what we need. Patriotic impulses should tend to something more than firecrackers and oratory.

The petroleum bicycle will probably rave the rider the task of blowing up the tire. Sadness is as often the expression of a deranged digestion as an ailing pocketbook. So long as parrots are given to talking noboay will ever think of them as being cunning. The people most likely to capture the pleasure of summer are those who camp on its trail. Why should a man be made to take out a license to ride on a wheel any more than on a streetcar? Woman may laugh in her sleeve more comfortably than ever, but she cannot look over her shoulder any more.

While everybody agrees in the enjoyment of nature, there is a great deal of difference the nature of their enjoyment. With so many summer resorts open no one can say our pleasure should be arrested for the lack of a visible means of sport. In a too great easing of the way through life there is danger that in depriving the rose of its thorn we shall rob it of its sweetness. There is no sadder spectacle than the man who bar grown so fat as to lose the opportunity for reducing his flesh by riding a bicycle. The man who puts his hope in a lotteryticket is wasting money that might be better expended in extracting sunshine from cucumbers.

Without considering the number of us who can be good without extraneous compulsion it is wonderful how good we can be when we are forced to be. Coincident with a combination which secures a good profit to wine-making in California is a demand for the product in "New Orleans and elsewhere. The most successful knavery is that which has learned the secret of operating in that margin of evil that lies just without the law and just within the tolerance of society. Simplicity and directness, of whatever kind, are the surest enemies of wrongs that thrive by reason of the befuddling effect which their complexities have on the average Understanding. If the parliamentary crisis in England results in returning the Conservative party to power the chances of an international agreement for the remonetization of silver will be increased 50 per cent.

The bicycle will not have reached the height of its glory until a runaway couple are married while they and the minister are fleeing madly wheelwise from. a pursuing father similarly mounted. One of the arguments used to boom Morton for the Presidency is that no New York man has ever been nominated for that office by the Republican party, and therefore the State should have a chance this time. If the British Parliament deducted $500 from the pay of the Secretary of War because of a deficit in the estimates of the War Department, how much ought Congress to deduct from the salary of Cleveland The proposition to stretch a cable from Grizzly Peak, back of Berkeley, to the bay shore and run cars suspended to it high in air is; one of the loftiest flights that the aspirations of our friends across the bay have ever.taken. "'-VV'iy.

Money has become so plentiful in England that the London Spectator says, if the people do not take to wasting it on a war or some big unprofitable scheme like the Panama canal, interest will have to come down to 2 per cent. Recognizing the value of women as guardians of the public health, Oakland regretfully discovers that the women whom it appointed to its Board of Health are ineligible because the "charter, provides that only electors may serve. The Republicans of Kentucky are calling upon the people of that State in. the still potent name of Henry Clay to stand up for the American system and make Kentucky the strong protection commonwealth she was of old. A man went into a Florida barber-shop to have his hair cut, and when the barber bad removed half of it the man said he wished the job done on credit.

The barber refused to complete the jon and the "man sued for damages for in jury done to his personal appearance, but the court decided the barber was right, thus giving the country another warning that business must return to a cash basis. The Georgia; manufacturers who have subscribed money to erect a building for a display of Georgia manufactured products at the Cotton States and International Exposition will hold their second annual convention in Atlanta during the third week in October. At that time a superb collection of their wares will be on exhibition, and will attract the attention of the world. The coming together of this important interest will, without doubt, generate eh-' thusiasm and new energy in the development of the State. A GENERAL BENEFIT In entering into an alliance with The United Press the Call has.

placed itself in a position to be of larger service than not only- to its readers, but to the whole of the vast region known, as the Greater West. This results from the fact that it will furnish news to all the papers allied with that great organization as well as receive it from them, and thereby obtain the publication in the leading journals of the country of all those events of current interest on this coast which it deems worthy of telegraphing. The Call not only realizes that the new alliance gives it in this way great power to be of service to the City, the State and the coast, but is fully conscious of the responsibility that power imposes. Ever since jit passed into the hands of the present management the Call has aimed to fulfill all the duties and worthily bear the of. the.

Champion of Pacific Coast interests and Pacific Coast men. With the attainment of a position that affords new and larger opportunities to advance these interests it will pursue that aim with renewed ardor and undiminished zeal. As a representative of The United Press on this coast every energy will be exerted to make the- reports full, accurate and comprehensive of all events that make up the life of our community and afford a true knowledge of what the Pacific Coast is. It is not easy to estimate the full extent of the influence for good the Call can exert in its new position. California has never been fully understood in the East.

It has been regarded only as a land of gold, of romance, of deserts, of adventurers, of booms, of endless sensations and exaggerations. It is time to make it known as a land of a thousand resources, well-ordered law, industrious people, safe' business, colleges, churches, homes and a continuous advancement in enterprises based upon solid foundations and directed by conservative judgment. The. reports The United Press will send East will fairly present the facts of Pacific Coast development and not give more importance to passing sensations than to legitimate news items of industry, politics, education and other forces that make for the welfare of society. In this way the people of the older sections of the Union will get juster ideas of this part of the Republic.

They will read day by day of our increasing prosperity and expanding energies. They will iearn of our widespread industries as well as of those isolated crimes which have too often been treated as the only news of the day from California. In short, they will acquire the truth and the whole truth, and that will be as much benefit to the Pacific Coast as 'can be desired by its most earnest advocate and most stalwart champion. THINK IT OVER The lottery swindlers find their profits in the easy credulity of the victims and in the American disregard for the smaller economies of life. An easy credulity is readily persuaded to take the most unpromising chances if they do not cost much, and to the average American twenty-five cents is but a trifle and even a dollar does not seem an important part of a month's earnings.

Hence those Americans who are credulous of every tale that is told yield without difficulty to the enticements of the persuasive rascals who offer them lottery tickets on the argument that even if no prize is drawn the loss will be small. It is evident under these circumstances that much can be done to cripple the power of lotteries and save money for use in legitimate industry by leading those people who Lave been in the habit of buying lottery tickets-. to think for a little while upon the comparative values of a ticket and of a two-bit piece. We return to the subject this morning therefore with that object in view. It is a day of rest.

"Nearly everybody in the City has leisure to reflect upon other things than business, and to the victims of the lottery game this is about as gocd a subject for meditation as can be suggested. In the course of its contest with lotteries, the Call has published abundant evidence that the greater number of. lottery companies operating in this City are unmitigated swindles, never having any drawings at all, that of the tickets purporting to emanate from companies that do possibly go through the motions of a drawing, one half are rank counterfeits, and that of the genuine tickets of such companies not one in a thousand draws a prize. What, therefore, is a ticket worth Those who have been in the habit of buying them can best answer that question by calculating how much they have put into lotteries and how much they have drawn out. Those who have had no experience will be able to find the answer without it by the simple exercise of common-sense.

A two-bit piece is no great sum, but it is worth something. There is scarcely a household in the City that could not find a really profitable use for even that small amount of money. If it can be put to no other service, it would be excellent as a starter for a savings bank for a child. Any. boy or girl permitted to regard 25 cents a month of the family earnings as.

their own and taught to save it, would acquire habits of thrift and an estimate of the value and right uses of money that would make them helpful to the family when they grow up, and of more worth than 40,000 lottery tickets. The subject, however, is one for individual reflection rather than for general argument, for every person is the best judge of what a quarter is worth to him. We can only say a lottery ticket is about as worthless as anything ever gets jto be, and it would seem, therefore, that any man who gives the subject the slightest consideration could find for his a better use than that of squandering it for the enrichment of the sharpers who carry jon their I nefarious games in violation of the law. Think it over. The lottery is a swindle, a fraud, a lying pretense, a crime.

Think it over, and individually do what you can to stamp it out. AN OAKLAND GODDESS. A highly intelligent faction of Oakland's society has successfully opposed the idea of electing a goddess of liberty for the Fourth of July celebration there. They have taken the matter quite seriously and have arrayed the following arguments against the plan That it cheapens, vulgarizes ami degrades young womanhood to determine the quality of a young lady's char by public ballotine that as the votes are paid for is an inducement on the one hand to indulge unseemly campaigning, and on the other to a reckless: squandering of money the young ladies' supporters that such an election is a sham and as it is wholly worthless in determining the end, which it assumes to have, and that heart-burnings and enmities that time cannot heal grow out of the contest. yj iV'V.

is a dreadfully serious view of the case, and as it' is in the nature of a very rebuke to. the estimable young women who in nearly all the leading towns of the State have engaged or are about to engage in "such contests, the action of the Oakland ladies deserves a little attention. It would be difficult THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 23, 1895. convince us that these girls of the interior have less womanliness or modesty than is becoming to girls, or that their womanhood has been cheapened and degraded, or that bitter animosities have resulted or are likely to ensue. We have an idea that the typical California girl has more sense than and that much of her matchless charm is due to that dash, spirit, independence and character which make her stand apart from her weaker and almost colorless sisters of -less fortunate communities.

Many have regarded these contests as harmless play, and hence had never seen degradation in them in the numerous ways in which for all time they have' been conductedat fairs, at social gatherings, 'at May-queen elections. On the contrary, there had seemed always to be something peculiarly attractive about them, including the cultivation of a chivalric admiration of the sex and a recognition of the fact that its charms and graces are worthy of a struggle. We had reflected that from the dawn of civilization, from the moment when women were elevated above the primitive conditions of tribal slavery, the flower of manhood has contended in doing them honor that thrones and empires have fallen before the dainty uplifted linger of a woman, and that to the extent to which women are adored and cherished by the "men of a nation is the national standard of manhood high and noble. Must we now revise this standard of chivalry and say that our girls shall not be shamed- by having their names bandied about in a public contest? Then where shall we draw the line between feminine modesty and a woman's right to go forth into the world free and fearless, using the heart and courage and strength that God has given her for the good of the world? But, in any event, Oakland will celebrate in a manner worthy of her intelligence and patriotism, her beauty and her chivalry. A DEVELOPING FACTOR Assuming that the; bicycle is a permanent institution it is not difficult to foresee the peculiar effect which it will on the growth and development of San Francisco, It being an established fact that cneap and swift urban transportation is an exceedingly important factor in determining the character and extent of a city's spread, and the bicycle having proved its ability to with all kinds of street railways and livery service, two considerations now present themselves.

One is that the districts having the smoothest pavements will be those which develop most rapidly, and the other is settlement will proceed most easily in level and approximately level areas. The factor represented by smooth pavements exists in every city. It happens, however, that San Francisco has a peculiar its steep hills presenting an obstacle which the bicycle cannot overcome. At the same time it has very large approximately level areas, which include nearly the whole of the settled region south of O'Farrell street. That is to say, about two-thirds of the City as it is at present settled can fall under the developing influence of the bicycle.

It is very greatly to the interest of every section which has no prohibitory grades to offer smooth pavements to bicyclists. With the exception of a few running north and south', such as Van avenue and parts of Devisadero and Stanyan streets, the Western Addition has too steep grades for the bicycle, and even these streets do not give safe and pleasant access to' anything like the whole of that region. Hence the bicycle cannot be an important factor in the development of the northern end of the peninsula. For that matter, as the wealthier residents are concentrating in that section, and so, however much they may indulge in cycling as a pastime or hygienic measure, they will never employ it as a business convenience, it is easy to see that the streetcar lines traversing that section will receive no serious injury from bicycle competition. It is very different with the more level parts of the City, and it is here that serious economic problems are to be solved.

Street railways here will suffer, and development will bear a rigid relation to the condition of the streets. A wheelman demands a bituminous pavement, and a wheelman who works for a salary will pitch his home, whether as a boarder, a renter or a freeholder, on a street which has the easiest grade and the smoothest pavement. The pavement which Folsom street is preparing to lay will send thousands of homeseeking wheelmen to that thoroughfare, and this extraordinary demand alone will raise rentals and increase the value of property. All this is based on the assumption that the bicycle as a business convenience will not only retain its present-popularity, but that this employment of it will be very largely increased. This is not altogether an assured fact.

Say that a man pays 10 cents a day for car fare, and- that he has sixty-five holidays (including Sundays) in a year. This would make; his necessary persona! streetcar expense $30 a year. He will spend at least .10 a year more' tor himself and family, making $40. A bicycle costing $100 will last, say four years, and the expense for repairs will be, say $10 a year. This is $35 a year.

His family will spend car fare in addition, so that apparently there is not much economy in a bicycle. But it has. one tremendous pleasure, freedom and health that it gives in the riding, and these alone seem sufficient to give it a permanent monopoly. -y; i "We shall expect therefore that the level parts of San Francisco will develop rapidly under the influence of the bicycle, and that it will even serve to bring into proper notice that whole sadly neglected region lying south of Market street and east of Seventh. The property-owners who fail to take these considerations into account and provide smooth streets may live to rue their negligence.

THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. There is one aspect in which the holding of the Republican National Convention at San Francisco may be viewed which gives to the matter a peculiar National it not that "the Republican party has charged itself with the safe conduct of all those broad policies which concern the prosperity and happiness of the whole people, the suggestions. which we are now to present might not be deemed so important; but as the paity has assumed so comprehensive a responsibility, and in the past has executed it with so much intelligence and" fidelity, it might consider, with profit to its own' aims and hopes, the arguments which we shall -now advance, Vy VyyVvV, The point of view must first, be made wholesome. Let it be assumed" for a moment that it is not our sole aim to secure the convention for the purpose of booming California, and that it is possible for California Republicans to be animated 1 by as broad a National spirit as it is possible to find in all the country. Assuming that the great Republican leaders of the will adopt this point of view, and that they will not "charge the faithful supporters of the party in California with a mean desire to use the Republican organization as a commercial instrument for adver.

tising our State and thus enhancing the market value of our properties, let us now, from this point of view, inquire what the whole country might gain from the holding of the convention at. San Francisco. The first great fact 1 that us is the intermediary position which California occupies between the United States and the most favored parts of Europe." That is to say," California is the only State in the Union that can produce many of the expensive articles which are consumed largely in this country, and which are produced elsewhere only in foreign countries, and which, therefore, constitute a very important element' of import-tariff charges and reciprocity arrangements." This very important consideration has not heretofore received anything like due consideration at the hands of either of tho great political parties. To be more specific, among these articles which' California produces are wines of the quality and range of those produced in France. Italy, Germany and Spain, olives and olive oil equal; to those of Italy, figs of the kind and excellence of those produced in Asia Minor and on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, eucalyptus oil to.

compete with Australia, to' supplant the insect powder which Persia sends, grapes of a range' from the Concord and Isabella of New England to the Scuppernong of the Gulf of Mexico and the whole tribe from Malaga to the Cote dOr, loquats and plums from Japan, scent-yielding plants from every corner of the world, apricots, sugar beets, nectarines and silk. In addition we produce other valuable articles grown in other but very limited American districts, as oranges, lemons, limes and prunes. Besides all these are the vast known, undiscovered and checked deposits of together with a bewildering array of valuable base minerals. And all this is added to our production of every conceivable staple article, including all the cereals, cotton, hemp, flax, tobacco, wool, lumber and flower and vegetable About all that we do not produce is coffee, tea and opium, and even the last two of these might produced under a sufficient protective tariff. Is it not worth the while of a great political party to consider seriously the bearing of these facts upon the prosperity of the Nation? Is it not the duty of such a party to see and understand these conditions and be enabled thereby to adjust them wisely to the needs of the country? The holding of the convention at San Francisco would not only be the discharge of a perfunctory duty, but it would present an opportunity for studying the resources of the garden of the Union and for applying the resulting knowledge to the needs of the whole country in' the form of beneficent policies and wise legislation.

Vy'. And so we say to the leaders of the Republican party: Come West. AROUND THE CITY. It is not so very expensive a matter, to take a certain drive which we shall now outline, especially since the bicycle has given livery stables an exceptional opportunity "to please." The drive begins, say downtown, and the first pleasant roadway encountered is Van Ness avenue. This is followed northwardly past Union street nearly to Fort Mason, where a good driveway, westwardly to the Presidio is found.

It is in traveling this street that one finds cause for genuine regret that James G. Fair died before completing, in the fillingin of the hundreds of marshy acres lying in the vicinity of Harbor View, one of the greatest improvements ever undertaken by private enterprise in San Francisco, -Beyond: this lies the Presidio, recently made particularly interesting by the erection of new military defenses. McDowell avenue, a splendid macadamized highway, reveals all these evidences of the savage instinct of fighting, which "civilization" has only made more great guns that carry nine miles to sea and the plant for the famous battery that is to blow whole invading fleets out of the ocean. This avenue gives an outlet to Lobos avenue, which has fallen into unpopularity because of the superior attractions of the park. But Mr.

Sutro's electric road has been laid over the route as far west as his baths, and it is to be but a short time till the cars are running. The avenue ends at the beach, where the new Cliff House is seen rearing its airy framework heavenward, and beyond that is an parable drive on the hard wet sand to the road which turns abruptly eastward toward the City. V-Vi Vy pass the Ingleside, where poor old Stagg was recently murdered, and find it in the hands of a new lessee, who has rejuvenated the famous resort. Here we may turn sharply to the north into the Corbett road and follow it over the most picturesque and spectacular drive on the whole peninsula. This is the drive that is to form the western extension of Market street to the ocean beach.

In the" range of mountains which cut the peninsula north and south this road brings into review "a succession of such splendid and bewildering panoramas as may be seen only from these towering heights in the neighborhood of Twin Peaks, 300 feet above the level of the sea." The lights and shadows made by the afternoon sun as one descends the grade to the level of the City, with broad views of the numerous valleys into, which the" City is divided, the bay stretching in a shining mass to Oakland, and beyond it the hills of Contra Costa, above which are uprearcd the somber peaks of Mount Diablo, make a series of pictures matchless for variety and expansiveness. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Mrs. Langtry's jewels are valued 'by experts at over fjSSSO.OOO. Phil May oi Punch is said to be earning more money just now than any artist in England.

The Prince of Wales and his family consider Sandringham their reap home, and here their principal family treasures are to be found. Jacob Seelig, who was appointed recently captain of the life-saving forces at Hell Gate, has a record of having rescued fourteen human beings from a watery grave. Keir Hardie has introduced innovation in the Commons. While other members sweltered in frock coats and top coats he looked cool arid easy in his jacket suit and knickerbockers. yy' Casimir-Perier is enjoying life now that he is not afflicted with the burden of office.

He has taken to cycling and enjoys a sharp spin in the morning along the shady paths of the Bois de Boulogne. Professor Crooks thinks that if the electric ight were universal to-day the candle, if suddenly introduced, would bo thought a wonderful invention, as it 'enables a person to obtain light in its simplest and most portable form and without the use of cumbrous machinery or the necessity of attaching' the lamp to any fixed point by moans of wire before it could be yy: vy .3 General Simon Bolivar Buckner, one of candidates for United States Senator in Kentucky," is said to be the most popular man 'V in the" State. general is now 75 1 years old, but is as alert mentally and as vigorous physically as most men of 50. Ho stands 6 feet in his He jis remarkably abstemious," his; only Indulgence being tobacco, he smokes in a long-stemmed corncob pipe. Buckner was at West Point with Grant in 1839.

AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Colonel Finley Anderson, the representative of The United Press, 4 through whom the Call made its alliance with the gieatest news-gathering agency the world, is more entitled to be numbered among the great journalists than many men perhaps better known. As he hurried into the Palace Hotel yesterday morning an elderly gentleman, who had rather a London air about him, turned to a friend and the following conversation ensued: goes Colonel Anderson of New He is a man with considerable of a record. Now, between you and me, he had a bigger hand in getting Henry M. Stanley off to Africa in his hunt for Livingstone than most people know.

"How so?" "This way. You see Anderson was the correspondent of the Herald in London about the time. Bennett got it into his head that somebody ought to get on the trail of Livingstone, and that that somebody should be a Herald man. He put the case in the hands of Ander- COLONEL ANDERSON, WHO STARTED STANLEY INTO AFRICA. from life for the "CalV by son, and instructed him to do what he thought right the matter.

There was an endless amount of work in the preparation of the details, and the expedition was prepared in a remarkably short space of time. The business, the route, the provision, the telegraphic service and the relays were all out by Anderson, and Bennett was not bothered from the time he ordered it done to the hour of Stanley's return with another Herald victory. "That Isn't all of his association with Stanley, but it is beyond a doubt the greatest. A year or two before that he started Stanley off to Abyssinia with Sir Robert Napier. That was the war in which King Theodore was killed and his army captured.

I tell you Anderson is a man who has been in touch with some unusual incidents of latter-day history. He knows his business." 'j "How long ago was that twenty-live years. Why, man alive, 1 saw Stanley leave London, and remember both occasions just referred to as though they were yesterday. It was something one can't forget. Just think of the sensation it created.

Think of the plan of sending a fellow-reporter off to Africa to find a white man supposed to be lost somewhere in the midst of three thousand miles of jungle. Talk about your enterprise among the journals of to-day, they are not in it with the old school," and the speaker brought his hand down on the railing of the cortel as though he wished to punctuate his remarks 'with vociferousness. How are you, Anderson explained the speaker, suddenly. "Come over here and meet a friend of mine. Mr.

Harkness, Colonel Anderson, New York; Colonel Anderson, Mr. Harkness, San Francisco." With this the trio went off somewhere to review the past and lay down some new plans for the future. One Sunday in Denver a sinner wandered into church. Recognized by the ushers as a i stranger he was shown into a seat which was i occupied by the clergyman's wife. During the I service the stranger's as in the West rej volvers are dropped to the floor and I was exploded by the shock of finding itself in so unusual a place.

The bullet imbedded itself in his neighbor's leg, inflicting a serious but not "dangerous wound. The incident ere- I ated some excitement, amd the sinner was I deeply moved by the result of his thoughtlessj ness in taking his gun to church, but was partially consoled by the reflection that such a thing had never happened to him before, and that lie had jno intention of going to church when he started out. yy, y. Vyiy'T UP TO DATE IDEAS. J.

N. Thorp of College Park has invented an apparatus for wetting the staves of watertanks to keep them from shrinking when the tank is only partly filled. The apparatus consists simply of a funnel, having two pipes, projecting armlike in opposite directions and pivoted, on a pin, which Is supported in the center of the tank by a light beam fastened to opposite sides of the tank. The water from the pump empties into the funnel and runs out through the pipes, which are bent at the outer ends, causing them to slowly revolve, while the water is discharged against the staves, and running down wets the whole inner surface of the tank. The apparatus can be attached to any tank.

It never needs oiling, as the motion is slow and the bearings are brass. The motion' is automatic. It makes more work for the pump, as 'the empties freely into the funnel and the surplus water runs over into the tank. A patent has been applied for. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

The truth of the matter is that the great majority of the Democratic party stand with the President on the financial San Jose Herald y. -y --yyy Cheap fuel has been one great lack that has kept Stockton manufacturers in Now that the lack is removed the check is removed with it. Manufacturers, instead of asking bonuses to come here, will hereafter come for the standing bonus of cheap coal. San Francisco is straining every nerve to secure the next meeting of the National Republican Convention. The success of the effort of the San Franciscans would be of untold benefit to' the entire Salem (Or.) Statesman.

Californians are just "beginning to realize that by patronising home industry, buying everything they need and can get that is home grown and home made, they are doing a greater service to their own locality than they ever dreamed of Rosa Star. The State Board of Education recently lowered the prices of quite a number of the State series of Now if 'it would only abolish a few of the most worthless texts that we are compelled to use it would receive the good wishes of many earnest Miner. will give Los Angeles or Pasadena a flue monument toCortez, the. real Columbus of the Pacific, man who Instigated, directly or indirectly all' the up to the discovery of Southern California Dy Viscaino and Cabrillo. These three men- deserve recognition, not 'to speak of Pasadena News.

yV One way to make times good and money easy is to get to work producing something that can be sold, at the same time developing the resources of this 'great valley, where the increase in the value of all property in the next ten years will make every man who owns a piece of land independent if he lives within his Fresno Expositor. -yrv. If you wish, to be happy, lift; if you wish to be worse than happy, lean. By lifting you build, by leaning you destroy. The man that lifts gives life to things; the man that leans takes life away.

The man that lifts makes the world a merrier place to live in; the man that leans fills it with misery and poverty. So lift; don't Pendleton East Oregonian. The lottery business is an evil without one redeeming feature. It is responsible for thefts, defalcations, domestic and even suicide. It ought to be wiped out utterly.

The ordinary statute laws do not operate to crush out this evil, and we believe that Congress did well in excluding from the malls all papers publishing lottery advertisements or Angeles Record. The great need is some agency through which the white men who really desire work and the horticultvAists who are willing to give them employment can be brought together, if that can be accomplished, we shall then know if there Is sufficient reliable white labor to supply the needs of the State, and if there is not, we all know that there is an ample supply in the East to draw Sam Jose Mercury. I Other things being equal it is a safe proposition for every locality to look out for its own interests, on the principle that if we do not care for our own we need not expect that others will care for us. An exchange of certain products between one domestic locality and another will always be in order. The point to be cultivated is to reduce this "exchange of products to a -Salem (Or.) Statesman.

There is more activity in the mining regions of the State just now than at any previous period in twenty years. Eastern and British capital is being invested without stint and we may look forward to an old-time boom. California is undoubtedly the greatest gold-producing country in the world. The Australian arid African discoveries yielded fortunes to a few, but disappointment to the Dixon Tribune. Some of our local politicians who "pose on the street corners as philanthropists and economists have evidently been studying the dictionary of discontent as published by a pessimist at large.

Here is a definition contained therein: "What is money? Everything. What is everything? Nothing." This definition, no doubt, appeals to the wheels in their heads and bespeaks the vacuum in their purses at one and the same Williams Farmer. If another wheat corner is being attempted the worst luck we wish those who are attempt! ing it is the same measure of success that Sen-. ator Fair had. It has always seemed to us that i gambling in and cornering wheat, touching as it does the home of every poor man in the land, i is one of the most conspicuous offenses of the times, and that it is permitted is one of the most glaring evidences of the weakness of the social -Alameda Argus.

Vallejo has made steady and appreciable progress during the two years of depression. There has been no actual cry of hard times in this city and, while many other cities, and towns have stood still or retrograded, we have been enjoying peace and plenty, and we can truthfully state that we are now in a splendid condition to enjoy the wave of prosperity that is about to roll over the land, the preliminary swish of which is now distinctly Chronicle. Beyond question, one great difficulty in life is that men have not yet learned, the omnipotence there is In well-directed -human effort when guided and controlled by an unyielding determination. They are too much the creatures of circumstances, too ready to yield to discouragements and to shift the responsibility of their own failures to somebody else's shoulders. It is not society which makes or mars our' life; it is we ourselves.

We need I nave no fear for the manhood of the boy who has the courage to say in whatever he lawfully i undertakes, "I Angeles Times. I Let us be inspired by a desire to increase th value of property; to attract capital that is seeking investment; to hold out inducements to energy that is seeking avenues in which to operate to induce brains that are looking for a field in which to develop, new enterprises to locate among us, and to promote the comfort and prosperity of all. Energy and effort intelligently directed will accomplish much; and the results that will follow will be of direct advantage to every resident or property-holder now here or who may come to aid in the work of Woodland Democrat. The fixed and unalterable policy of the managers of the present roads has been to charge for transportation all the traffic will bear. it is expected and believed that' the proposed new railroad (San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley) will be differently managed and that it will be ready and willing to encourage the development of all interior resources that will give employment to wage-earners and breadwinners that are within our borders, and also to encourage the growth of all these industries to that an immigration of that class of population to California may Stockton Kecord.

SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Mrs. Hiram have you any mum' Oi tored 'em up. Mrs. Hiram Daly (in Tore them up? How i wudn't think so, mum, if yez had seen Truth.

Too This cake is very good, my dear: but it seems to me there ought to be a little more- v- Wife (in clear, icy, incisive That cake came by mail and was made by your mother. Yes; as I was saying, there ought to he a little New York Weekly. you think you can stand the arduous duties of a variety actor? You know in our play we find occasion to throw you down a 30-foot flight Of stairs into a barrel of rain water." "I think I can stand it," said the hungryman. "I was Tax Collector for three London Tit-Bits. "Speaking of fishing experiences," said the man in the neglige shirt, "I shall never, forget the day Bob White and 1-you know trying our.

luck on Lake Squam. We had fori an hour or more ana had caught only a few little fellows, when suddenly I had an awful 'And you pulled in your line hand over hand, only. to lose a ten-pound pickerel, just as you were about interrupted the fat man sitting on the flour barrel. i "I had an bite," the fisherman resumed without noticing his interrupter, "and I mashed the fellow as flat as a doormat. It was the biggest mosquito I ever Transcript.

On an ocean Parson (who wishes to do a little missionary work while on his trip My dear young lady, do you love the Lord? Young lady How impertinent of you to ask, I've only known him two Puck. Roundsman (reporting at the station at 3 a. just found Officer Murphy drunk in O'Hara's saloon, sir. Sergeant Go back at once and arrest that villain O'Hara for violating the excise Puck. PERSONAL Rafael Moran of Salvador is at the Occidental.

Elliot Snow of the navy is at the Occidental. F. D. Nicol. an attorney of Stockton, is in town.

C. E. Pinkham, a lumberman of Chico. is at the C. F.

Hutching of the navy is staying at the Occidental. Maxime' Brieusel of Guatemala is registered at the Palace. Dewitt B. Gray, a fruit-shipper of Fresno, is at the Occidental. H.

W. Turner of the United States Geological Survey is at the Lick. Louis F. Bruner, a merchant of Sacramento, is a guest at the Grand. A.

Cooper, an attorney of Ukiah, arrived yesterday at the J. H. Eckley, a merchant of Eckley Station came to town yesterday. Dr. D.

Maliano and family, of Nicaragua, are guests at the Occidental. John J. an attorney of Fresno, arrived'at the Lick yesterday. Dr. A.

Brown of Madison, was one of yesterday's arrivals at the Lick. William Eastman, proprietor of the McMahon House in Hollister, is visiting in the City. Dr. B. Beverly Cole is spending a few days with his family at Calistoga.

He will return to-morrow. H. Francastel, Consul-General of France to Guatemala, is a guest at the Palace. He is on his way home. Mrs.

Charles Montgomery and family are spending their summer vacation at Seal Cove, near Halfmoon Bay. Lieutenant-General Schofield and his party returned from the Hotel del Monte last evening and went to the Palace. Mr. Hall of the Union Lithographing Company of this City has moved to Oakland for the summer and will occupy Mosswood Villa for the season. Hilario Inleriano, a coffee-planter of Santa Ana, Salvador, at the Occidental yesterday.

Four of his daughters and one son are with him. V'yf'V: E. H. painter, 114 Eddy street Rents collected. Ashton, 411 California Glace fruits, 50c lb.

Bacon Printing Company, 503 Clay streak Wine-drinking people are healthy. M. K. wines, 5c a glass. Mohns Kaltenbach, 29 "Fourth of July Excursion.

During the Fourth of -July holidays the B. F. and N. P. Railway Company have arranged to place on sale from June 29 to July 3, inclusive, round-trip tickets to all points beyond San Rafael at greatly reduced rates.

Ukiah and return only and on July 4 to all joints beyond San Rafael one fare for the round trip, return limit July 5, inclusive. From June 29 to July 4, inclusive, tickets will be sold to the various resorts at special lowrates, good for return to and including July 10. Mr. Gladstone has given a hell to the new chapel of Selwyn College, Cambridge, founded In memory of his old friend and schoolfellow at Eton, the late Bishop Selwyn. i Thousands write that they have been given health and strength by Hood's Sarsaparilla.

It is the great blood purifier, consequently is the nerve tonic. It gives renewed vigor. Dn. Siegekt'b Angostura Bitters are the best remedy for removing indigestion aud all of the digestive organs. If afflicted with sore eyes use Dr.

Isaac Thompson's Eye Water. Druggists sell it at 25 cents. NEW TO-DAY. MIDSUMMER BARGAINS! Commencing Monday, Jane 24. WASH MESS FABRICS On Sale at Oar Market-Street Store Only.

Tennis Flannel, Light Stripes, heavy quality, price was Now at sc. Twilled Flannelettes, 36 inches wide, dark stripes, yyy Now at sc. Cacheraire Challies, Henrietta Sateens and Epingi- line Pique, handsome patterns, printed wash fabrics, light and dark colorings, former price 15c and All Now at 10c. Duck Suiting, Colors are buff, French blue, navy and light grounds, neat printed designs, this is the 10c Now at 6ic. Pique Ducks, The plum styles of printed wash fabrics shown this season, choice At I2Jc.

Royal Plisse, The daintiest of the dainty summer dress fabric, price was Now at 10c. Special Bargain Prices Now On LACE CURTAINS, 'PORTIERES, COMFORTERS, Etc. DON'T FAIL TO SEE THEM. i Our new catalogue now ready. Mailed free to any address on application.

Parcels delivered free in this and neigh- boring cities and towns. Country orders receive our best and prompt attention. Samples on application. STRAUSS FROHMAN, 1220-1222-1224 MARKET ST..