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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 'ALL—$6 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ 50 per year. ) per yea e SAN FRANCISCO I 1ento will draw a long | the cobblestones is a con- protest against their existence. a cold snap in California of course, It but the S. P, was beaten in the Legislature. | G helps to form public opinion home industry can never be | aville, but it must s were crowd- e at any cost rgain, for it will | s Sacramento out of hearing. it seems to be in a bad all over the world. Another flyin, to grief n abraded cuticle by trying to d of external wings. | of the political power of n Pacific d. none of its ss of the State if ve got far enough along o form a Provisional now take to the | ion woods for proy H g | ‘When the Legislature adjourns, the Sac- ramento Grand Jury should take a firm 1 on the sidewalk | n- | ity by pedestrians. : use of profa The members of the Legislature who do | not want us to have a bridge over East strect will probably be the first “Rubes’ to be killed when the new ferry building is completed. Jlogizes for the act of her 4 ng on the Allianca, Gresham will plame himself on his foreign policy with nothing but thatapology for & feather to do it with. Lease liked California well enough t Kansas but not to quit her posi- tion on the State Board of Charities; so shestays with the blizzards and says they agree With her new public library building resplendent in marble, affecting the minds of Jier people, we may expect to hear Stock- ton refer to Athens as the Slough City of the ancient world. Itisa signal proof of the weakness of California as a commonwealth that we cannot build even a few hundred miles of railroad without sending three thousand miles for the r: 1f a hait is not called on the process of tinkering with our election laws and cus- toms, a citizen will not be able even to go to the polls hereafter without consultingan attorney to find out the way. Mez who opposed the bill providing a terminus for the San Joaquin road solely because they thougkt it unconstitutional will please take notice there is nothing un- constitutional in their subscribing to the road. e There may be a great many people inter- ested in the bill for the regulation of pri- maries, but we believe if the Governor were to hitita hard one with a veto he would not knock out any brains nor hear anybody holler. A strong leagne has been formed in France to decentralize the Government, and some of the leaders are said to be in favor of going so faras to give the proy- inces the rights of States and make France @ Federal republic like our own. As Germany is réported to have pur- chased nearly $3,000,000 worth of Ameri- can oleomargarine last year and less than 2,000,000 worth of American butter, it ap- pears that the men who are seeking to prevent the manufacture of the stuff are trying to kill a goose thatlays a golden egg. One of the educational benefits derived from the Oscar Wilde libel suit in London is the fact it has given toan ignorant world & knowledge of the full name of the dis- tinguished plaintiff, and people of culture will know him hereafter as Oscar Bangor O'Flaherty Ulysses Wilde, the founder of the Sunflower School of Poetry. Mr. Corbett now has Mr. Jackson in a ring bounded on the north by Canada, on the east by the Atlantic, on the south by Mexico and the gulf with that surname and on the west by the Pacific, and having hemmed him thus tight and fast, is tonguing him with amazing viger all round/the ring. . | amounts which the company thus would | the issuance of patents was denied on the | ernment should issue patents to him he | | would relinquish his claim to these lands, NEW SUGGESTIONS. In his interview with the Secretary of the Interior on Thursday Mr. Huntington made a strong plea for the issuance of patents for those granted railroad lands which are occupied by settlers under con- tracts with the Southern Pacific Railroad Company to buy when the patents shall be issued. The two main grounds upon which he based his plea are, first, that the be in a position to receive from the settlers | would be an important element in the set- tlement of the Government'’s claim against | the company, and second, that the lands | would thus becometaxable and the revenue | of the State increased thereby. All this has reference to Secretary Smith’s declared | intention to order that no patents for granted lands shall issue until the railroad debt to the Government is adjusted. This introduces a new and unexpected | element into the controversy between the Government and the railrond. Formerly | ground that the company had not com- pleted its lines within the time specified in the grant. No sooner had this question been settled by the courts (generally in favor of the railroad) than this new ques- tion of the original subsidy is raised. The result is that settlers who have contracted to buy the lands, and who in thousands of instances have established homes upon them, are prevented, principally by the rovernment itself, from enjoying the se- y, comfort and other benefits of a home founded upon sufficient title. This is really the most serious phase of the whole case, and yet it is one that has re- ceived the least attention. Mr. Caminetti’s laboring with the Secre- tary has been chiefly in the interest of | miners, his contention being that before | patents are issued the granted lands should | be carefully inspecied, so as to ascertain | and exclude mineral lands. This is well | enough, but it is only a part of the matter; | and to make all the other interestsinvolved in the subject wait upon the solution of that branch of it is unjust and unstates- | manlike. The fourkinds of lands involved | are mineral, timber, grazing and cul- tural. The two first have hardly more than a transient value, however great that | may be; and as for the third, it does not, | in the absence of cultivation to produce | jorage, contain an element of home-build- | ing. Itisan important fact that the tim- | ber, mineral and grazing lands are remote | from the agricultural regions, and gener- | ally unfit for cultivation. Ou: gument is that the man who makes a home and | feels sccure in its possession is a strong, | ntial and peculiar factor in the stability of a people and its Government. Why not issue patents for those agricultural lands on which settlers have made their homes and lived for many years, and thus give | them the right to enjoy se y, freedom | and the rewards of their labor? - | Mr.Huntington appears somewhat dis- | ingenuous when he says that if the Gov- could then give deeds to these homes, re- | ceive the money for them and pay this money to the Government on account of road’s debt. Would it not have been fairer for him to suggest that he step entirely out of the matter, let the Government issue patents directly to the scttlers, and let the settlers themselves pay the money into the Federal treasury, where it may be either placed to the credit of the s account or held until the rail- | road’s t is adjusted? This would be | cutting across lots and avoiding numerous legal circumlocutions and dangers without | in any wise affecting the equities existing | between the Government and the railroad. | Possibly Mr. Huntington is influenced by | the consideration that these settlers have | paid one-fifth of the purchase price and are paying annually an interest of seven | per cent on the remainder, while he can | borrow money at six per cent. Perhaps | this consideration has caused him to refuse | ue quitclaim deeds to the many set- | who were willing to accept them and | take their chances with the Government on the score of 4 patent, and thus be relieved | of paying the interest and in addition acquire titles which will give their homes permanency and a market value. 1t is hoped that these suggestions, which | we believe put a new phase on the subject, | will receive serious attention from those who have a stronger desire to proicct indi- | vidual rights and foster the prosperity of the State than to “worry the railroad.” A SPLENDID IDEA. The scheme set forth in yesterday’s CaLL to construct a grand boulevard be- tween San TFrancisco and San Jose is one of the most cheering of recent evidences that the pride of our people is roused. San Mateo County, which has fine roads and some of the most beautiful towns and homes in the State, gave birth to the proposition; Santa Clara County has cheerfully accepted it, and no doubt San Francisco, which would enjoy the greatest benefit of all, will join in the enterprise. The scheme con- templates skirting the bay from San Jose to Colma, and then swinging westward to the ocean beach to meet the ocean boule- vard now being constructed by the Park Commissioners. This will give access to San Francisco through Golden Gate Park and Golden Gate avenue. The scheme is alluring. Bicyclers are the keenest judges of good roads, and to | the shame oi San Francisco it must be con- fessed that in making the run to San Jose | they almost invariably cross the bay and use the splendid road maintained by Ala- meda and Santa Clara counties. The San Mateo and Santa Clara parts of the road down the western side of the bay are kept in that perfect condition for which the highways of those counties are famous: but when the San Francisco County line is reached one encounters dust in summer, mud in winter, and ruts, hum- mocks and chuckholes in all seasons. With the exception of Golden Gate avenue San Francisco bas not a single decent means of vehicular exit, and even that thoroughfare is permitted by the authori- ties to be crowded with drays and huck- sters’ carts. There are many famons drives in America. The one that most nearly ap- proaches our contemplated boulevard is the shellroad at Mobile, which stretches for miles along the bay shore. It is made of broken oyster-shells, which form a smooth, white and perfectly clean road. Great magnolias line it on either side, their branches mingling overhead, adorned with those graceful tufts of Spanish moss that lend so ex- quisite a charm to the forests of the South, and when the trees are in bloom the de- licious odor of the blossoms completes the fascinationr. The climate of our peninsula is blander even than that of Mobile, and the opportunities for the arboreal and floral adornment of our boulevard are vastly wider. It is inevitable that in the years to come there will be a continuous city from the Golden Gate to San Jose. That part of the wealth of San Francisco which seeks means for an outing always has selected and al- ways will select a country resting place on the western side of the bay. Itseemsstrange that the vast wealth already settled along this charming sérip has not exercised an influence sufficiently strong to have caused the construction of a magnificent driveway long ago. The movement now afloat is evidently the delayed exercise of this force, and we shall all hope and strive for the fulfillment of its worthy ambition. AN OLD OOMPLIOATION. It does seem somewhat anomalous that our Government, by treaty with foreign powers, binds itself to protect their sub- jeets living among us, and yet cannot in- terfere with the power of the Statesin deal- ing with infractions of their laws. Itisan old problem and has been revived by the recent demand of Italy that the assassina- on of her subjects in Colorado be stopped by Federal authority. It seems impossible for foreign powers to understand that the Federal Government is principally a ma- chine created by the States for the purpose | of protection and of harmonizing their in- terests. It is true that the power thus delegated to it is enormous, but none the less restricted to specific functions. Inthe exercise of the power with which it is in- vested the Federal Government may over- ride and even suspend the authority ofany State, but it has not been armed with the power to interfere in the enforcement of any State’s laws. The theory upon which the Government may pledge itseli by treaty to protect aliens is that it does so on the implied pledge of each State to enforce its own laws, none of which are permitted to be in conflict with treaty stipulations. Itis only when a State clearly exhibits a lack of power to enforce its laws that the Govern- ment may come to its rescue, and then only to re-establish the State authority. In this procedure there is no distinction affecting the safety of aliens. If it were not that the question of compensatory damages is generally inseparable from that ion of State laws in the perpetra- tion of outrages on aliens, the policy of the Government would be clear and easily followed. That is where the real anomaly exists. In the case of the assassination of Italians at New Orleans a few years ago, | the Government, though lacking the power to punish the assassins, paid the damages demanded by Italy. Other instances of this kind have occurred. Manifestly there exists here an incongruity. If the States reserve the privilege of enforcing their own laws, they should bear all the burdens which belong to that privilege. It is difficult to see how the Federal Government could assume the protection of aliens. Of course, Congress might by statute assume jurisdiction and employ the Federal courts distributed throughout the United States to exercise it. The dif- ficulty in that arrangement would be that as the worst outrages against foreigners are of a riotous character, sudden in in- ception and overwhelming in character, the machinery of the widely scattered Federal courts, far weaker than the local | constabulary, would be wholly inefficient. To increase the number and strength of these courts, or to enlarge the standing army to serve as a patrol, is utterly out of the question. Instances in which the State authority has proven inadequate in the end have been too rare to be consid- ered in this connection. Every State has awell-drilled and highly efficient National Guard, which is able to suppress any riot that has gone beyond the control of the local authorities. It is only when National concerns are threatened—as in the case of the stoppage of the mails during the great railroad strike of last summer—that the Government interposes its power. The strength of the law and the popular love of order and justice are a great deal stronger in the United States than our friends over seas seem willing to believe. For the matter of that we are ready to compare records with them on this sub- ject. It happens that American laborers are never involved in these Earopean riots and hence that we never have occasion to demand reprisals on their account. On the other hand, a large proportion of la- borers in America are foreigners. The antagonism of American laborers toward them is often provoked by the foreigners themselves in many ways not related to the mere matter of competition. This is a lesson that every foreign power should learn. LIBRARY BUILDINGS. The stately building, noble in architec- ture and beautiful in the glow of stain- less marble, which has been erected in Stockton for a public library by the mu- nificence of the late Dr. W. P. Hazleton, ought to bealamp unto the feet and an inspiration to the minds of the millionaires and of the people of every city én Califor- nia. In many things are the cities and towns of California equal or superior to those of similar size in the East, but in respect to libraries and art galleries they are woefully inferior. Art galleries, indeed, must wait for a fuller development of wealth and culture, but for library buildings there is no need of waiting. We are a reading peo- ple. Even the New Englanders do not read more nor a better class of books than the Californians. The demand for books on the part of the people has been su cient to cause the establishment of libraries in every part of the State. These libraries, however, in nearly every instance are badly located or insecurely housed. We need everywhere library buildings stately, noble and beautiful as the one at Stockton, and for these we ought to be able to look, as | most EaStern cities have looked, to the millionaires who, having made their money in the community, are willing to erect for themselves monuments that will keep their names in honored remembrance forever. Much as might be expected of million- aires, however, it would be nobler in a community to erect a suitable library building for itself. New York, Philadel- hia and Chicago have magnificent ibraries erected by the generosity of mill- ionaires and these are civic ornaments of which the people are proud. Boston has no such evidence of the public spirit of her millionaires, but she has a juster cause for pride in the great public library building recently opened, which was erected at the expense of the city in response to the en- lightened demand of the people them- selves. i San Francisco alone, among the great cities of the Union, has no library building of any note orimportance. Much has been done here by private munificence, but in this respect thereis a sad lack. Like nearly every other city in the State we lack a noble edifice for storing the volumes that contain the memorials of history, the records of science and the imperishable thoughts of genius. The building at Stockton is not only a monument to one man’s wealth, but a suggestion to the whole State. What city in California will be next to house its library in halls of marble? ENCOURAGING NEWS. John D, Spreckels, in an interview pub- lished in this issue of the CaLz, gives the pleasing information that Governor Budd has assured him of his intention to sign the San Joaquin terminal bill. While nothing else could have been expected of the Governor, a great many public-spirited citizens have feared that the bulldosing, persuasion and other kinds of pressure that have been so fiercely brought to bear on him might cause him to swerve. Noth- ing short of a miracle can now prevent his performance of a plain duty. The moment is o0 eritical, and the interests involved so far-reaching, that a popular feeling of se- curity will be assured only when the bill has been actually signed. So far as the CALL is concerned, it bas never entertained the slightest fear on the subject. The only feeling we have in the matter is one of sympathy for a man placed in the Governor’s position, in which he is called upon to resist the most powerful appeals to which any man could be subjected. A ROASTED RALPH. The amazing audacity of Julian Ralph in attempting te-discuss so profound and various a subject as transportation in Cali- fornia is ably exposed in this week’s issue of the Wave. Harper's Weekly, which pub- lished this absurd product of Mr. Ralph’s fecund imagination, is the first periodical, so far as we know, that has ever commis- sioned him to write upon any profound subject, and the dismal result of the ex- periment will probably be a sufficient warning against its repetition. While Mr. Ralph has touched the truth at a few points, the general effect of his contribution discloses a perception so shal- low, a bitterness so vindictive and a draft upon sources of information so clearly an- tagonistic to fairness, that the loudest demagogue in California may reverently lift his bat to the superior genius of Mr. Ralph. The editor of Harper's Weekly may be superbly indifferent to the fact that such an article as this, written by a man the least qualified to discuss it intelli- gently, may hurt California, by reason of its misrepresentations, and he may be con- tent to take his chances on punishment in a future life for wrongs committed in the flesh, but it is somewhat hard to realize that the courtesies of a generous welcome have been repaid with that peculiar form of appreciation which gentlemen do not mention unless they are willing to fight. Between the danger of inflicting a severe punishment on an Inspector of Election, who was convicted of a felony in neglect- ing to sign the returns, and the other dan- ger of establishing a precedent of lenity that may prove mischievous in the future, Judge Wallace has a choice with no pleas- ant alternative, gymen who want the privilege of riding their bicycles on the sidewalks pay a poor compliment to the A SERMON THAT DID SOME GOOD. As Iemigrated from Wales at the tender age of 12 months it was not to be expected thatI could preach in my mother-tongue as one to the mapner born when I went back to the old country a full-blown preacher in 1882. The worst of it was that I was consumed with thie desire to preach one sermon in Welsh be- fore I died. When I was a divinity student I had worked at that sermon, during the years of my preaching I had put finishing touches to it, and on the boat going I embeilished it every day. Perhaps some people will think this an unnecessary amount of labor, but let them try to throw off gems of oratory ina language they want to use fluently, but cannot, and let that language be Welsh. They will un- derstand then why I wrestled so long with that sermon. 1 happened to reach my native village just in time to celebrate the eighty-second anni- versary of Unitarianism in Wales, and when they invited me to preach my first thought was, “This is my chance for using the sermon.” Sunday r.orning arrived, and the people came from farend near o the service in traps and dogearts, wagonettes and even hay-wagons, till the churchyard wassurrounded by vehicles and the church was thronged with people. It was with considerable trepidation thatI went up the pulpit steps with my Welsh ser- mon in the right pocket and an English one in the left, wondering whether I dared preach to these people in their own tongue. However much or little English they knew they all un- derstood Welsh and could criticize it. But would they be critical? A glance at the simple, kindly folk—the men in smock-frocks and the women in quaint pointed hats—was so reassuring that I pulled out the Welsh sermon ana began in a hurry, like & man who plunges into cold wgter. A more delighted congrega- tion it would have been impossible to find, for the villagers took it as a personal compliment that any one should come from America and preach to them in their beloved Welsh. My success was so marked that the clergyman of & neighboring parish insisted that I should preech for him the following Sunday. “But it would teke me years to preach another Welsh sermon,” I pleaded. “Preach the same sermon over again,” re- plied the clergyman cheerily, and he sdded: “You know there are more than eight miles between my two parishes. You might preach it at the other in the afternoon.” The following Sunday when I arrived at my friend’s church & cold perspiration bespangied my brow to find the same traps and dogcarts, wagonettes and hay-wagons, around the churchyard, and almost 4he same congregation occupying the benches of the church. How- ever, as I could not preach extempore in Welsh under any pressure of circumstances, the only thing was to deliver the same old sermon. After a hasty lunch the pastor and I drove off tothe other parish. The road was very pictur- esque, but in the intervals of admiring tie scenery I could not help noticing that the same traps and dogearts, wagonettes—yes, and hey-wagons—that had become so familiar to me were going in the direction that we were. “Do the people all live this way?” I asked. “Oh,no,” replied the clergyman carelessly, “they are going to afternoon service.” “But they are the same people!” I cried, ina voice broken hy anxiety. “Yes; we generally have about the same congregation,” he answered soothingly. “And my sermon!” I wailed. “‘Preach it again,” replied the pastor. “You will get used to repeating it by and by.” And the worst of it was fhat his propheey came true, for that sermon must have been heard twelve times in the neighborhood alto- gether—and always by the same congregation. !PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Bishop Andrews of the Methodist Episcopal church said at the Baltimore conference that Dr. Parkhurst had accomplished a great deal of good, but that the trouble with his success was that it would induce & great meany weak- lings in all partsof the country to attempt to imitate him, The Rev. Dr. Reginald H. Starr, rector of St. Paul's Church at Dedham, Mass., who recently resigned, has been appointed professor of dog- matic theology in the theological department of the University of the South. He will assume his new duties early in the Lenten term. ‘When Lillian Russell was asked to sing “The Star-spangled Banner” in the new Carnegie Music-hall in Philadelphia to test its acoustic: qualities, shé said she did not know the words of the song. None of the committee with her knew the words, so the song Was not sung. James Putty, 75 yesrs old, end Mrs. Hester West, 70 years old, of Hopkinsville, Ky., were married. James Stamps, whose first wife was & daughterof the groom and whose second wife ‘was a daughter of the bride, was the best man. Henry Gentrup of West Point, Nebr., re- cently received a paper rescued from the mail- }Jl-g! of the ill-fated Elbe. He refused to sell it or §5. Ex-President Harrison is confined to his house in Indianapolis by an attack of the grip. Elias Carpenter was elected treasurer of Rut- land, Vt., for the fiftieth successive year. "’ AROUND THE CORRIDORS. While a group of old-timers were discussing the early-day period in the Occidental Hotel vesterday Jim Brazell, a mining expert, dropped in, and after listening to the conver- sation said to a disinterested bystander: “Do you know of anything quite so produc- tive of full-grown lies as the period when the water came up on Montgomery street? Why, it seems to me, and I came here in 1873, that some 700 men were the first to land where the Postal Telegraph building now stands; and the worst of it was that they all got into a 14- foot Whitehall boat. I believe there are at least 10,000 men who paid 50 cents for an onion and twice as many who are still talking about fifty-dollar slugs bemg as thick as nickels aré now. You bet, the opportunities for quick, appalling, iron-clad romances can be found in conversation regarding the early days. “The other day I heard a man say that the sjreet was paved here in 1865 with plug ta- bacco for a distance of eighty feet. They tell that a fellow sent three shiploads around the Horn, and when it arrived there was hardly anybody to et it, so they concluded to use it for street pavements. “About every tenth man you meet in San Francisco to-day shakes his head and refers, COLONEL JIM BRAZELL REJECTS SOME PIONEER REMINISCENCES. [Sketched from life jor the *Call” by Nanktvell.] with & sed expression on his face, to the time when he camped where the Palace Hotel now stands and feit the spray from the breakers splash fn his face. To say that he could have bought two acres facing on Market street for a bale of hay is nothing at all, and is now be- coming & common phrase among the ‘has beens.”” s o Somebody/asked Colonel Brazell if he remem- bered whefl the stock market used to boom. “Do I remember when the stock market was booming? Well, rather. Now you are telking about something that touches on fact. Why, wasn’t the Stock Exchange & seething mass of millionaires, piling over each other and send- ing the shares up into the several hundreds? Isn’t it & fact that the entire coast was clothed in an opulent atmosphere, and didn’t the people reap the harvest of the wonderful gold and silver ontput from the Comstock mines? There was a proposition that did the country some good, and it would act the seme way to- day if we could get free coinage. Don’tI recall without an effort the fact that men who hadn't a dollar when they struck the town were made rich in & week speculating in stocks, and didn’t everybody have money even down to the kids, who were allowed to play jackstones with gold nuggets? A man could get $5000 any time for experting & cleim, and do it in less than a week. Everybody knows of the time—"" “Say Jim,” chimed in a voice, “ain’t you giving us a little bit of the early-day variety of romance yourself?” J. A. Yerrington, late commissioner from Nevada to the Midwinter Fair, was at the Pal- ace yesterday, and gave an interesting account of the late rich strike in the Silver Star district in that State. “The mines referred to are located in Esmeralda County,” said he, “and the location of the vein illustrates the pro- verbial good luck of some men. Some timeago, when the mills at Soda Springs, on the line of the Carson and Colorado road, shut down owing 1o the low price of silver, seven or eight of the boys who had been working there went out in the hills about eight miles from that point and took up sixteen claims in & locality which showed surface indications of gold. There was one piece of ground which had not been located by the party but which attracted theattention of one of their number, Ed Brown. A pathway ran into it which had been made by the mules which were used to pack wood to the mill and Brown found spots where the hoofs of these animals had uncovered rich quartz. He quietly made a location and by working a few feet found the ledge, upon which he started to sink. He first took out fourteen tons of ore, which he milled as a test and got $101 a ton. He then went down on the ledge ninety feet and ren a tunnel in to connect with the incline and then sank a shaft to a depth of 160 feet, where he found the ledge fifteen feet wide. By drifting through the ledge he succeeded in ex- tracting 120 tons of ore, which netted $10,000. A shaft was sunk thirty feet deeper, or 190 feet in all, and the developments showed in sight, without stoping, $300,000 in ore. The claim seems to hold out in depth both as to size of vein and quality of ore, and it is impossible to estimate its worth until it has been fully de- veloped.” E. F. Hall, an official of the Chicago City Railway Company, who was at tne Baldwin yesterday, gave an interesting description of the methods adopted by a great system of street railways to keep its lines open during a severe snowstorm. “In Chicago and other large Eastern cities we are conironted by con- ditions which do not prevail in San Fran- cisco,” said he. “Snowstorms are frequent in the winter time with us, and the heavy ones cost us from $2000 to 5000 each, besides the loss of traffic, which amounts to $2000 a day. We are notified of the approach of a storm some six or eight hours before it appears by the local ‘weather bureau, and this message is sent out tothe chief engineer and his main subordi- nates, so that every precaution may be taken. It is frequently the case that we employ 250 extramen for snow work. Up to a year orso ago we had been in the habitof using hun- dreds of tons of salt every winter, but this plan has now been abandoned, because we believe it tends to keep the earth moist at rail points, sllowing them to go down, so that the pound- ing is increased, and also that it is injurious to the iron parts of trucks, wiring and the elec- trical parts of the car equipment. We main- tain seven wreck wagons, the general use of ‘which corresponds to that of a fire department, as the horses are kept hitched ready to respond to & call at any momen D. J. Robarts, the mining prospector, of this city, who recently returned from & trip to the Coolgardie gold fields, has wandered over a b good part of the world in his time and has sought wealth in many climes. Yesterday, while sitting in the Grand, he gave several gentlemen a short account of the life of a rubber-gatherer in the Amazon fieids, a section of country visited by him about four yearsago. “The tapping season,” said he, ‘‘extends over a period of twelve weeks on an average, and this part of the work is done in the morning. It Tequires & good deal of skill, as deep incisions will kill a tree, while if they are too shallow the sap will not flow. The sap runs about five hours and it takes about three pounds of it to make one pound of rubber. Little cups are used to catch the sap, and the principle is much the same as that employed in an Eastern sugar camp. A rubber tree, however, differs from sugar in that the latter is seldom tapped in over three or four places, while the former is literally covered with incisions at the end of the season. A thousand pounds of rubber is & pretty good season’s work, but at the present price of rubber not many American working- men would care to follow this vocation.” «A first-class newspaper man was spoilt when Professor Kennedy of the Franklin Grammar School became & pedagogue,” said Thomas Mayne to a number of friends at the Baldwin Hotel last night. *I used to know Professor Kennedy in Santa Clara County, when for a time he edited the Santa Clara Tribune for John Sullivan. One of tne burning questions at that time was whether the county should donate to the Southern Pacific Company about $300,000 worth of bonds that had been sub- scribed for by the county in aid of the railroad. Professor Kennedy wrote a vigorous article in the Tribune against the donation to the rail- road company. Sullivan was under the weather at the time, but managed to hop around to the office and said: “4See here, Kennedy, I don’t want you to go too far on that, because I may have to flop, you know.” “Kennedy replied: ‘Oh, that’s all right, the paper can flop essily enough when the time comes.’ “The next week another stirring article was printed in the Tribune against giving the bonds to the company. “A day or two afterward Sullivan sent for his editorial writer and said: ‘It’s all right, Ken- nedy, give the peper the flop. The railroad has fixed it with me satisfactorily.’ “The next issue of the paper contained the following: “ “We have been paid our price and therefore we flop, and have nothing further to say against giving the bonds to the railroad company. We believe that is the best thing to be done.” to this he has said thatSullivan’s lack of ap- preciation of his ability as a newspaper writer shunted him out of the journalistic profes- sion.” h, an Eastern excu in a conversatior regarding the possibilities for secu; tion to California in the future, told some plain truths. He said that there were many farmers in Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois and M souri who would willingly sell out their hold- ings in those States and come to Cal in if they would be assured that land could be secured here at a reasonable figure. “What is necessary,” said Mr. Goodrich, “is to disabuse their minds of the idee that land out here is sion agent believe to be a fact. Los Angeles hassucceeded in having the land in that part of the State cut up into small holdings and thus vastly in- creasing the population tributary to that city, and-San Francisco has an ample field in which to do the same. Ii the territory lying between the Siskiyou and Tehachapi mountains was filled up with producing and consu : ers this city would have taken a long step | toward rendering hard times & thing of the past.” An excursion party from the Alma Sani- tarium fh Michigan will arrive here to-day, | #nd rooms have been secured at the Palace for | the members. They travel in the private car | “Alme,” which i the institution. The itinerary.includes a visit to Fresno and other points in the southern portion of the State, after which the East will receive attention. The large dining hall of the Palace was thrown open to guests yesterday for the first indication that the expected flow of travel from the southern portion of the State has begun to materialize. A Reymond excursion party, comprising seventy people, arrived irom the south last evening and registered at the Palace. All the members of the party reside in Boston and that vicinity. PERSONAL. J.N. Agee, a fruit man of Grangeville, is at the Russ. Dr.J. F. Chrystal of Santa Cruz is a guest at the Grand. Colonel William Forsythe of Fresno is at the Occidental. Ex-Judge J. H. Logan of Santa Cruz is a guest at the Lick. Andrew Markham, a capitalist of Santa Rosa, is at the Lick, V. Courtois, & large wine-grower of Calistoga, is at the Grand. John J. Boyce of Santa Barbara is registered at the Occidental. E. A. Frenzel of Hollister was a guest at the Russ last night. G. L. Turner, a fruit-grower of Los Gates, was at the Grand last night. V. 8. McClatchy of the Sacramento Bee was at the California yesterday. R. Van Brunt, superintendent of Mrs. Lang- try’s ranch, is at the Palace. Norman Rideout and wife, of Marysville, are registered at the California. George H. Warfield, cashier of the bank of Healdsburg, is at the California. A. C. Hellman, manager of the Briggs ranch at Davisville, was at the Lick yesterday. Dr. J. M. Flint, U. 8. A., who has just returned from China, is a guest at the Occidental. John F. Kidder, owner of the Amador County narrow-gauge road, is at the Paiace with his wife. George A. Wiley, superintendent of the Cook stock farm at Davisville, Is registered at the Grand. Phil L. Crovat, formerly with the Northwest- ern road in this city, is here on a visit from New York. J. Charles Jones, Assistant District Attorney of Sacramento County, is at the Occidental with his bride. The Misses Grace and Edith Conell, Miss M. Falconer and Miss M. Harkness, returned mis- sionaries from Japan and China, are at the Occidental. SUPFPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. T used to write the finest things That called my love an “angel fair,” Lacking in nothing but the wings To 1ift her gently through the air. And now she has the wings as well, For fashion is the best 02 boons, And when the wind their flounces swell, Her sleeves are equal to balloons. —Town Topics. A German baron wasso deeply grieved by the rejection of an offer of marriage that he was on - the point of suicidg. “As 1 opened my bedroom window last night,” he said to a friend, “I was barely re- strained from throwing myself out.” “What restrained you?” “The height from the ground,” answered the baron.—Youth’s Companion. She—I wonder if those little district messen- ger-boys have any religious training. Do you suppose that boy is observing Lent? He—I hardly think so; the word “fast” is not included in his ritual.—Truth, Lipsey—Love is blind. Crusty—VYes; but there isa suspicion afioat that he recovers his sight after he gets married. —Philadelphia Inguirer. “This passage,” said the publisher to the great author, “seems ambiguous to me. What do you mean by it?” “I don’t know,” replied the great author. I left it there for the commentators to work over when I am dead.”—Washington Star. _ ‘Do you remember the heathens in your prayers, Tommy ?” Tommy—Yes, I prayed real hard that the little boys in Africa might have a jolly snow for Christmas.—Life. e Landlady—Would you edvise me to send my “Kennedy wasdischarged, and from thatday |° worth $2000 an acre, which many of them | specially fitted up for just | | such outings, which are one of the features of | time this season. This is looked upon as an‘| daughter toa cooking school, or to a mu school? ; Boarder (reflectively)—Well, I think I'd senq her to & cooking school. It maey be more fatal in its results, but it isn’t anything like so no —Detroit Free Pr SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Itis the duty of every legislator at Sacra- mento to vote against the approprietion of any more money to build new asylum Or new re- form school buildings. The insane and ti criminal who have become charges on State are getting better care at the Stat pense than a large portion of our free s dependent people are able to provide fo dependents, and these institutions are fille faster than the State can put up build house that class of people and the pol pets who are given jobs to take care of the The State’s profiigacy in these matters duces large crops of public charges.—F; Expositor. The CALL very sensibly remarks ths facturers who seek to build up & home for home produets should not overlook that the best way _to do it is to adver home papers. Thé same rule spplies ¢ merchents.—Osakland Times. The Stockton Mail proposes t coupons be issued by the valley rc for subscriptions. - If this were done t ern Pacific Company would undoubted the strain.—Gilroy Telegram. California’s do-nothing Legislature will s adjourn. The people of the State i satisfied if the Legislature met but once in four vears and held a ninety-day session.—F Advocate. The San Francisco CALL has done the city in calling attention to the = and the laws relating thereto t in the ity combined.—Colusa § n. It seems to be due to the Vande It fan to say that they have managed the big divorce case on record with the least pos publicity.—Woodland Democra SOHOOLS THAT NEED SEWERINC, Health Oflicer Keeney Recommendat Health Officer K cation to the Bos Health ye advising that the Board of Educat sted to I ver connecti the follc school acation which begins to-day : Makes Some ons. Primary and Ocean House Primar: Dr. Keeney stated that the in bad sanitary condition, and t ough fum 1 would ecessary order to against dis | passed both , and you al | Francisco from this at d make us pay double fa | people of the priv gridironed this city with ra control and now wants to escape cessions it was forced to make election. This is & clear ca the octopus against the people, and I k 1 will stand Dy the latter. ApoLrH Francisco. Attached Van Ness’ Horses. Joseph & Sheriff, proceeded to the and, on an assigned cl | atiached { Van Ness, the w Townsend’s.* 3 Clay street. * PLAIN mixed candies, 10c 1b. . Bacox Printing Company, g o o TOWNSEND'S Cal. Glace Fru: 1b. in Japanese baskets. 627 ) ———— eals wounds, burns and sores as if by magic; one application ct ison oak; it rélieves pain and abates inflammation. * cesiol g JanES E. WOLFE, ARCHITECT, Flood building.— specifications and superintendence fc ‘conceivable character of brick and fra. buildings. Unexceptional results g e Plymouth Church, Worcester, is perhaps the latest to adopt the “individual com- munion cup.” S Hoov's Sarsaparitla positively cures even when all other medicines fail. It has a record of suc- cesses unequaled by any medicine. Be sure to get only Hood’s. It makes pure blood. - “ BROWN'S BRONCHIALTROCHES " are unrivaled for relieving Coughs, Hoarseness and all Throat Troubles. Sold only i ————— MOTHERS give Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters to their children to stop colic and looseness of the bowels. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY THOMAS MAGEE & SONS, Real Estate Agents And Publishers of Real Estate Circular. REMOVED TO 4 Montgomery Street, Unien Trust Building, Cor. Market. NEW PROPERTY. Post st., N. side, bet. Webster and Fillmore: x137:6 and good 2 bay-window hous Tooms and modern conveniences; $6500. $4100—Rents $37; 3 flats, 5, 5 and 4 rooms, Dbath, hot and cold water each; 1ot 25x77 :6; Broad- way, near Hyde st.; street bituminized, Very fine residence and large lot on Washington st., ur. Laguna: $19,000. Treat ave., W. side, bet. 234 and 24th sts., near cable-cars: cottage, 5 rooms and bath; 26x100; only $2300. Cheap lot: only $3500; 27:(x131;3: Fulton st., near Frankiin. Bush st., bet. Polk and Van Ness: 55x120to re: street; covered with buildings; $20,000. INVESTMENTS, Suttersst. business property, near Kearny; 64:6x120 to rear street and solid brick building} can be leased to pay well. ‘Third st.; rents $410; $70,000; solid bullding in stores and rooms. Post st., near Taylor; 23x68:9 to rear street; old buildings; 2 stores: rents $53; should be improved and will pay well: $10,500. Sutter st., at Grant ave., 25-foot front; rents $155; $29,600. HOUSES AND LOTS. Only $2000 cash; balance easy payments; new residences now being finished with all conven- iences; west side Bucharan, between Vallejo and Green; fine view of bay: ! O'Farrell st 6 rooms; $7800. Cheap, 85500; Pine st., near Stockton; 84:6x 77:6; and 2-story house; 12 rooms and modern conveniences. Make offer—Vallejo and Octavia; corner, 25x 112:6, and very comfortable residence of 8 rooms and every convenience: fine view ; $10,500. Make ofter—Rents $80: Haight st.; 5 flats; bet, Webster and Fillmor: x137:6: houses in first- class order; always rented; $10,000. 6 Nearly new flats, 5 and 6 rooms and bath each; rents $45; Folsom st., bet. 20th and 21st. CHEAP LOTS, Broadway, near Octavia; 1ot 34:6x127:8; only each. 68:9; and house of ‘s!zevialdero st., W. side, near Green; lot 34x100; ot N, aide, bat. Taguns and B rondway, N. side, bet. na and Buch 1 40X137:6: fine view: $12,500. Ry Polk and Filbert, SE. cor.; 25x100; $3250: Polk st. now being cut through; cable line will ther be S irs. Grove kit 7 ake offor: on corner; 37: 3 $4750; desirable for residence or numne:. ol Very cheap; $2350; Ouic ., facing the park, near Ashbury s : 10ts 25x127:8; Jackson st.; 5 i Reduced to & bug:! ot magnificent view; bet. Locust and S 3 st work done: any size front SR Lots 253120; only $650 each: on Wood, Ferri and Cook sts.; just north of Geary st. nz‘:wm:’:f Central I\";}‘" Ry Cheap; ler st., N. side, few f¢ z&omun H lots 25x187:6; only $3500 cach, mg #700; California st.. N. side, bet. 12th and 13th eves.; cars pass; 25x100. Y