The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 17, 1895, Page 19

SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—#6 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ | er week., { CALL-41.50 per year. | he SAN FRANCISCO ), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureav, Duane str Rhinelander building, Rose and w York. e SUND ¥ MARCH 17, 189 Hail, St. Patrick. Fverything is green this morning. Pray for rs n, but don’t prophesy. The smallest mind has the biggest vices. or shine this is a good day to quit | way of the transgressor iscobble- The stoned. The Lenten fast saves money for the E er bonnet. marriei man has an eye single | retty girl. ‘ Shall we thank God that the Legislature | 't any worse? ¢ poor SC d itself as the be which does not | Assoc! will ite with progressive men and you | ve progress yourself. i s the earth would be had it, | The man who wa every new idea helps to wear off. Prospects are good, but provement would h municipal im- b them a little. A boulevard to San Jo: symbol of the highway of f you have pressed the button diligently 1ng the week you can do the rest to- longer repr trial the 1 cuted. entative government it is to get it exe- - | has a chance to return with 2 few of our last winter’s con- Florida thanks dolence Very few men would like to have their deserts if they knew truly what their de- serts are. | | | People who intend to keep in the middle of the road must travel th the proce: me way with | sion. The citizen with a subscription to an enterprise in his hand is better than forty bloviators in the bush. It isn’t every woman who carries her head high that has one high enough to reach the Easter bo Follow the path of enterprise to the end anddon’t complain because it reaches a little bit beyond your lot. vine has this ad- vantage, that cast anything else you can sta ill wear in her bon- as well as artificial pretiy birds. The pressing need in this country is a | means for the A an woman to get a | title without having to buy a man with it. The co: Eastern people what they pa, 5 wine will go down when the price goes up. The frost was a heavy loss to some, but in most cases it seems to have simply thinned out the fruitand saved the growers work. The silurian has the misfortune of being dead to the world without having the compensating advantage of the repose of the grave. No man of ordina any of the | San around him without se beautiful world. stand upon and Jook g that this is a spicious of railroad influence th e to rise when Gab- riel blows his trampet for fear it may be the toot of an 8. otive. Some men The Delawarc ial contest secms to have been lost but at the latest advices the balloting was still going on, with Addicks holding his own. Punci’s latest cartoon of note represents John Bull as Ider regilding the Ameri- can eagie, but while the gilding may be a pleasant jest there, the payment is no joke over he; t. Louis has a good right to boast of her ry culture, for arecent reportof the y librarian shows the demand for “Van- ity Fair” to be twice as greatas the de- mand for “Trilby, The proposal to give a banquet to the members of the Legislature who stood ith the people in favor of the terminal bill is a good one. Rarely has there been any legislative action more justly a matter of publie congratulation than this, and a banquet would be appropriate to the oc- casion in every respect. “Considerable discussion has arisen in the Eastoveran advertisement in the European edition of the Herald informing ambitious mammas that there is a high and aristo- cratic English lady residing in Mayfair who 1s willing for a consideration to pre- sent at court a young American lady, in case her references are found to be all that such a presentation demands. As nine membersFof the Connecticnt Legislature haye been accused of refusing to vote for the incorporation of a ehildren’s aid society, because the promoters of the society would not pay ti for the favor, it is evident that our legislators are not the worst in the country. They might steal a locomotive from a railroad, but they have never yet been accused of picking pennies from the plate of a charity subscription. Ex-Governor Waite has distinguished himself by heralding his lectures through- out the East by bandbills containing two portraits—one of Lincoln, the emancipator of the black race, and the other of Waite himself posing as the emancipaior of the white race. The artist who designed the bills added a realistic touch to the sym- bolism of the pictures by putting the picture of Lincoln somewhat in the back- ground of that of the greatest living Col- orado bug. writers of the second epoch displ: THE GENIUS OF CALIFORNIA. There have been three epochs thus far in the history of California literature; one is past, one is passing, while the third has been fairly entered upon. During the first of these epochs, embracing the twenty years which followed the date of the overflow of Alta California by English-speaking peo- ple, its literature was altogether the prod- uet of men and women who had been born and educated under Eastern skies and who had drifted hither with the tide of pioneer times, Whatever there may be that is disstinctive in the work of the writers of that era is to be credited to those iliar local conditions which compelled xizenous genius to a display of qualities of thought and styles of expression which would not have been theirs in other atmos- pheres. Who can say that Mark Twain would ever have gained that wide appreci- ation of his humor but for his “‘roughing it” amid the intense experiences of early California and Nevada days? Who will ieve that Bret Harte would have hieved fame enough to have been made a diplomat but for his “details’ on the San Francisco papers; or that Prentice Mul- | ford or Edward Rowland Sill or Charles Warren Stoddard or Edward A. Pollock conld haye written as they did in enduring prose and verse except for draughts which each had taken at the bubbling well- spring of our California life? Certain it is that through the warp and woof of the products of these literary looms there runs a golden thread of humor, fancy, poetry and passion which is distinetively Califor- nianand without which the fabric would be scarcely worth the weaving. ! The second epoch opened when young men and women who were either natives | of California or had come to it in child- | hood began to mingle in their, work as | | writers with those of the earlier era. Of these, John Vance Cheney, Virna Woods, Madge Morris, Ella Sterling Cummins, Clarence Urmy, Carrie Stevens Walter, D. Coolbrith and Gertrude Frank- Atherton are shining examples. be prose and rhyme of these young yed still more markedly the influence of the environ- | ment and breathed forth a fragrance that | was conceded to be peculiarly Californian. The quaint old mi: ns; the rare romantic living of the days ‘“before the gringo came”; the California poppy; the pines and palms of hills and plains; the rustling wheat of bountiful valleys and the restless waves of Western shores; the Golden Gate and the golden sunsets beyond it—all were themes which called forth glowing sen- tences from these fervent minds. There have been crudities, to be sure, in the litera- ture of this epoch, but these resulted mainly from the temptation to imitate the writ of the earlier period, which their | farue awakened, while in fact, though more | artistic, sometimes, these were not so true to nature or to character as have been the | poets and romancers of the later time. The third epoch of our California liter- ature is that which during the last decade has been entered upon and of which the sun of a summer day is as yet but scarcely risen. It is the period within which the | sons and daughters of California shall pre- dominate in the development of her liter- ature and give to it a bouquet and an aroma which shall be native indeed. There yet linger between the twilights of the two epochs a few rare souls who have given to every period of our literary his- tory something worthy of immortality. Of these the two most notable are Joaquin Miller and Ambrose Bierce; the one the guide and the other the censor of the genius of the California of to-day. The most forceful writers of the second period also are still here to hasten on and to share in the renaissance of California literature, which | from every present indication is being entered upon. These elder workers in the mines of thought; these trained explorers of the realms of fancy, are attheir best. The schools and colleges of the State are equipped with every aid to culture. and are daily thronged with ardent youths and maidens drinking in enthusiastically draughts of the world’s rarest learnine. The press of California is most liberal in its encouragement of native talent, and with the aid of literary clubs is fast estab- lishing local standards and canons of criticism by which merit shall be rightly measured and speedily recognized. The es: the poem or the romance which artistically reflects California to readers’ minds obtains immediate favoramong pub: lishers, not alone here but in the East as well, for there also exists a growing belief titat the most distinctive as well as most promising literary development of the present is to be Jooked for upon the sunset side of the Sierras. Why not? What other place upon this broad continent possesses elements from ch an essentially distinctive literature be made to grow and bloom equal to those of Caiifornia? Here she is, with her intehse composite race, her strange ro- mantic history, her abounding béauties and sublimities of nature, her very air sur- charged with incitements to intellectual activity. Here she stands beside th world’s greatest ocean, whose winds waf to her senses the fragrance of spice islands of the tropics and whose waves bear to he: feet a daily infinitude of poetic and arfistic suggestion from that far-distant west which is the East, She is waiting for the genius in her sons and daughters to arouse itself and seize upon the time and oppor- tunity to create for her a literature the ex- cellences of which shall be supereminent and the characteristics of which shall be essentially her own. THE AGE OF SYMPATHY. The development of the human race is disclosing the most picturesque feature in all history. Itis not unlikely that the his- torian of the distant future will speak of the closing of the nineteenth century as the dawn of the Age of Sympathy. Itisa curious anomaly that although the activi- ties of the spirit of humanitarianism are assuming uncountable forms and stalking in ways bewildering and various, the sav- age instinct of the genus finds expression in the strengthening of armies and navies and the creation of formidable engines for the destruction of life. Time alone can determine whether the evolution of the dominant races has advanced sufficiently to permit the aggressive spirit of sympathy to triumph over the savage instinets that the very necessities of our evolution have fastened upon us, More interesting than these speculations are the concrete evidences that make them possible, and more interesting than the causes which have made the great edn- cated classes open their eyes to the agonies of poverty and pauperism, is the fact that the awakening has occurred, That the poor and ignorant have hopes, desires and aspirations; that the highest members of society must share tire moral responsibility of the lowest criminal’'s act; that the elimination of ignorance is as essential as the punishment of erime; that the whole human family is akin and to some extent mugt share the burdens and blessings of life; that selfishness, being fundamental and necessary, its most intelligent exercise must be made; that some natures being stronger and others weaker, the one must guard the other against temptation—these c are the wonderful children of light to THE SAN FRANCISCO which the genius of the century has given birth, and they are erying aloud with the hundred thousand lusty throats of new- born giants. Esotericism seems as innate as savagery. Alongside of the vast wave of purely intel- lectual reform, with its straightforward | teaching of the value of life and the art of | living, is reared the crest of those great re- ligious organizations which teach the value | of correct living as a wise provision for | happiness in the life to come. Shoulder- ing scientific schemes for government that would restrict the accnmulation and power of wealth, are other schemes for socialism, and still others for the abolition of govern- ment by anarchy and the erection of pure commuafism in its stead. Through all this whirl of activities shines the clear, steady light of human sympathy. Tt is the inspiration of them all; and how- ever painful must the process be out of which shall come an ordered and universal plan, we may be sure that a radical turn in the evolution of the species must ensue, and that it will direct the steps of history into unwonted ways. International policies are feeling the impulse. The value of commercial and industrial reciprocity is forcing itself upon the attention of governments. Interna- tional congresses, assembled both as arbi- trators of disputes and as adjusters of friendly relations, have been found wiser than estrangements and wars. The suc- cess of international postal facilities has been proved by experience, and the value of a common system of weights and meas- ures has been demonstrated. Attémpts have been made to devise a universal lan- guage, but that, as might have been known, | must be the final and crowning achieve- ment—must be the last of many slow and difficult things that must first be done. It is already a fact that the money of friendly contiguous countries is current in com- | mon, and this has educated us up to the belief that a universal money, pledged by | the faith of all the nations, will be a step | soon taken in this broad, swinging march of the world. TLYING KITES. | He rode upon a cherub, and did fiy; yea, he | did fly upon the wings of the wind. | It is in March that the wind blows | strongest and steadiest, and it is then that | the kite, most graceful of teys, soars and | flutters aloft. Tt isa pity that in so-cailed | civilized countries this delightful sport is | confined to boys. In China and Japan it is the national pastime of men, and some of the kites which they fly are wonderful | affairs. Perhaps when those countries | shall become, like the United Btates and | Europe, plantations of telegraph poles and decorated with a hatchwork of wires, the glories of kite-sailing will depart. Civili- | zation has its disadvantages. There is probably not a grown man | among us who would not like to fly a kite in March if he were brave enough to with- stand the langhter of his neighbors; that |15, unless he has kept himself always so | close to the ground that the wings of the | spirit which the Almighty has placed | within him, have become stunted by hope- | less aspiration or sordid neglect. For even | some of the oldest of us are inspired by the | sight of a kite sailing so freely and gayly | and gracefully aloft, held to the earth by a | tie just sufficiently strong to serve a beauti- | ful earthly purpose, and yet keeping it | from flying wildly abroad and then dash- | ing its life out in a purposeless career, Ii | we are honest with ourselves, we will ad- | mit our envy of the freedom of the raga- | muffin who, without a care, puts his whole | little soul into the toy and sends it upward | toward heaven. It does not concern us to | know that it is a very cheap and flimsy toy made of slender sticks covered with | flimsy paper; nor that the tail, which | waves in the most graceful curves imagin- | able, is made up of cast-off rags; nor that | the sudden dartings and divings of the | xite, as it takes on the wild, free spirit of | the wind, would not occur but for the | bond which holds its captive to the earth. | We care to observe only the soaring, the grace and the freedom, and only to envy the happy urchin who can send his heart sailing through the sky. | But we know that civilization has its | drawbacks: that the boy; in order to avoid | the plantation of poles and the hatchwork | of wires—those most aggressive evidences {of our civilization —must, if he would | have his spirit soar in safety, seek quiet places, where poles and wires may not hinder his aspirations or wreck his efforts; must find wide open | fields, where the wind is as strong | and free as his hopes. We observe that | efforts to soar in places where civilization | has planted its poles and strung its wires | have brought to grief those other lads who | have rashly opened the cages of their | hopes in the midst of snares; for dangling | from all the wires are broken kite-strings, | swinging ruefully in the wind, and on | other wires the gaunt and tattered skele- tons of innumerable dead Kkites are hang- ng in dismal wretchedness. If the im- pact of our flimsy but none the less beauti- ul and lofty ambitions cannot sweep aside he iron net into which they fall, the dis- figuring wreck of their beauty may at least nar the hard symmetry of the net and bang aloft therefrom in silent, pitiful pro- test. | From contemplation of a picture with | contrasts so strange but eloquent, we may turn to the wiser lads who, if they would | soar freely and hope to be companions of the sun, seek the wide fields where flowers grow and the grass is soft and cool under the feet; where civilization has not woven an iron web in which to entrap while they are alive and from which to hang till they are dead, the kites on which we mount our finest aspirations for their flight to the stars. 1t is only in freedom that we may ride upon a cherub or fly upon the wings of the wind. OUR EXCHANGES. ‘We note with more than ordinary gratifi- cation that the Amador Record has done us the honor to republish in full an edi- torial from the CALL urging a revival of hydraulic mining along with the other in- dustries of the State in the new era that has already dawned. It isindeed a source of satisfaction that so many of the more influential papers of the interior are work- ing in full sympathy with us on this line. ‘When hydraulic mining is released from the restrictions of unjust law and per- mitted once more to use the mountain streams in the work of separating the precious ore from the earth, it will send a stream of gold across the State to revive all its industries and advance the welfare of the Union and the world. No county will prosper more under the new order of things which is surely coming, than the picturesque county of Amador; and when the fullness of that prosperity is at hand, the Record will have the lively satistaction of knowing that it did much to bring it about by working for it when the task was difficult and the helpers were few. The Marysville Appeal takes exception to a recent statement of the Cavy that it is ‘‘an easy feat of engineering to impound the debris of hydraulic mining or sweep it away,” and says: ‘It hasnever been done successfully for any length of time. The power that cut out the canyons will cut out the obstructions invented by engineers ’ in the twinkling of an eye. Witness the Yuba River dam, the Kelly Hill dams, the Hustler aams, the Liberty Hill dam and all others when fairly tried.” We prefer to take other witnesses of what modern engineering can do. We cite the Suez canal, the Brooklyn bridge, the great breakwater _at Humboldt, the Eads jetties that have held the mighty Missis- sipp1 to its channel, the gigantic irrigation works in British India and the immense dam that holds the water supply of New York. These are sufficient witnesses with- out citing others, to prove that modern engineering can build a dam that will hold up the debris of a mountain stream. The Appeal should post itself. In commenting upon our recent state- ment that California producers must ad- vertise their goods in order that the consumers of the State may know of their existence, the Los Angeles Express gives a specific point to the argument by saying that California petroleum might in many instances be advantageously used for fuel instead of Australian coal, if it were only judiciously advertised and made known. The Express adds in conclusion: = *“This is only one of many instances that might be mentioned where efforts are made to secure distant trade while neglecting that at our very doors. So far as possible Californians should deal with Californians, patronize California producers and stimulate to the best of their power home trade.” No one can question the truth of that doctrine. It is sound business and patriotic sentiment in a nutshell. Tt is a good suggestion of the Stockton Mail that there should be assembled at an early day a convention of representatives of all the towns in the San Joaquin Valley to confer and také such action as may be deemed necessary to promote their com- mon interests in the new railroad, Such a convention, while it might disclose divi- sions and differences. of opinion at the start, could hardly fail to reach a basis of agreement in the end thav would be decidedly beneficial to the enterprise. The Mail very justly says: “It is & good time to pool all issues and unite for the general welfare of the whole val- ley. By presenting a solid front in San Francisco the people of the San Joaquin Valley will be in a much better position to give and to receive favors when the time arrives for the exchange on one considera- tion for another.” It is the opinion of the Los Angeles Times on the question of fighting the income tax that “‘the proprietor of the CaLL might save some money and acquire the knowledge he desires by watching the outcome of the test case now pending be- fore the Supreme Court.” That, of course, istrue. We in common with the rest of the people of the United States are watch- ing that case, but as the case has been raised by injunction proceedings tne real merits of the issue may not be decided. If that should be the result, it will become necessary to viclate the law in order to bring it to dec: test, and that the Carn proposes to ao. It is true, indeed, that money might be saved by not fighting the law, but we are not making the contest to save money but to save the rights of the people under the Constitution. The Porterville Enterprise, with an unex- pected emphasis, asserts: *“We would think more of Mayor Sutro’s opposition to the octopus if he would subscribe a reason- able amount, say one million, to the pro- posed road. He's able to.” Strangely enough the Eureka Standard happens to have a similar thought and says: “If Mayor Sutro is soénuch opposed to the Southern Pacific, a €heck for a half million subscription to the new railroad would go far to establish his sincerity in the minds of the people.”” Sentiments of this kind show the perversity of the interior press. When a man is grappling with an octopus how is he going to find a hand free to reach for his pocket-book? It is recorded by the Redlands Facts that ayoung man who returned to his Massa- chusetts home after a couple of years in California and devised an irrigation system of his own, went into fruit-growing and is making a fortune rapidly. Meanwhile he is teaching his ncighbors how to grow fruit. The Facts draws the conclusion that California is an object lesson from which most Eastern people could derive many valuable lessons. This is very likely to prove true in the case cited. By the time the young man gets through with his les- sons in Massachusetts, he will know that irrigation is not the only thing that goes to make fruit-growing successful in Cali- fornia. The ‘“‘rosewater” policy is commended by the Cottage Grove Leader with the per- tinent remark that it can be studied with profit. The Leader might have added that it has been studied with profit during the last two months and hasnow been adopted by most of the progressive papers’ of the State. There is very little of the old snap- and-snarl spirit manifest in the editorials of to-day in any section, and as a result there is more harmony in the State than ever before. Rosewater is to be the win- ning policy of the next decade, and papers like the Leader that are doing so much to spread it, are going to find a profit in it in more ways than one. Provineial journalism differs from met- ropolitan journalism in terms and scope, but not in prineiple nor in aims. For ex- ample, the Del Norte Record recently in- formed its readers that ‘‘every small im- provement, if it be nothing more than whitewashing the chicken-house or burn- ing the decaying rubbish in the back lot, is a benefit to the community and to the country at large, and is one of the marks of good citizenship.” The references in that to the chicken-house and the back lot may be provincial, but the sentiment reaches for this metropolis about as effec- tually as anything ever published by a city paper. POWER FOR SPEED. Engineers Are Puzzled by the Speed of Birds and Fishes. ‘When man competes with nature in en- gineering problems he is left far in the rear. This is particularly the cgse in the appliance of power for speed. The wild duck is about the last bird we should ex- pect speed from; it has enormous surface, is very heavy forward and has a compara- tively long neck and a heavy head, and, withal, it has very small wings, but a wild duck is ong of the swiftest birds in flight, surpassed only by the wild goose, which is even more handicapped. The whale is a lubberly craft, so to call it—modeled on the lines of a Dutch gallipot. Its propellers are axuctlx the reverse of what we should suppose the correct position, lying hori- zontally upon the water when at rest. in- stead of being vertical in it, as a vessel's propellers are. Moreover, the fiukes of the whale’s screw are very small indeed and are also the reverse of what man makes, They have the least surface at _the tip and are largest at the hub or junction with the body, but with this apparatus.a whale goes through the water lfke a fast steamboat and can tow a heavy whaleboat full of men at a most surprising velocity for a long time.—The Engineer. —— . —————— The West Virginia House of Delegates has passed a law forever disfranchising any man having been convicted of selling his vote or of asking money for it 3 JALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 1895. ; AROUND THE CORRIDORS. United States Immigration Commissioner Stradley is delighted with the Japanese-Chinese war, and the effect it has had on the influx of Japs. While chatting with Attorney Cannon in the Palace Hotel yesterday, he said: “Cannon, between you end me, this war going on in China is the best thing that ever happened to California and the coast generally.” “How’s that, Stradley?” “Why, they are allstaying over there to die for the Emperor, and very few are coming to this country. They grow fewer in every steamer, and if it keeps up much longer T will have very little to do with Japan as a nation. COMMISSIONER STRADLEY EXZLAINS. [Sketched from lfe for the “Call” by Nankivell.] I tell you they are really thicker than the Chinese as it is, and it would be a good plan for the United States to shut down on them. Something ought to pe done.” “Oh, I dow’t know tfat it's so bad as that, Stradley. I think theyare doing a good work,” Mr. Cannon remarked. “Do you mean to tell me that people who work cheaper than the Chinese are doing the country any good?” “Certainly.” “In heaven’s name how?” “By driving the Chinese ont.” This seemed to throw Stradley into & coma- tose condition, but he came back with the state- ment that he would preier to see the Chinamen remain if it came to a question of choice. “Speaking of immigration business, Stradley, what kind of people do you find the easiest to handle in transacting business for the Govern- ment,” inquired a CALL reporter. “The people from the Colonies. They always have money; they are clean and understand the customs of the country pretty well. Then, again, they are better able to take care of them- selves and also speak English, 80 I really have 1o bother at all with them.” “There is the whole secret of Stradley’s pref- erence,” said Mr. Cannon. “They can do everything nefessary to take care of them- selves, which relieves Stradley of the labor.” Professor M. C. Jardine, who was for several years connected with the Johns Hopkins Insti- tute in Maryland, is in this city. The professor is a great traveler, and is an authority on ento- mology. “Bugology,” in fact, is his hobby, and in discussing this subject yesterday he took exception to what he termed nonsen- sical beliefs of many travelers regarding the poisonous effects of bites from tarantulas, centipedes and scorpions. “The bite of the tarantula,” said he, “is yvery severe and painful, the sear lasting for a long time, but although it produces a violent in- flammation for a short time, it is notdan- gerous to life. “The centipede may be classed as much in the same category in this respeet. Its bite in warm ciimates is sometimes excessively viru- lent and painful, though at other times the poison causes little inconvenience, and I do not believe that it is ever fatal. “The sting of the scorpion is very painful in- deed, and it is dangerous in proportion to the size of the animal, its age, and the state of irritation in which it may be. There are known cases in which its sting was followed by fatal effects, but such are very rare. The centipede is by nature a very timid creature, while the tarantula is, on the other hand, very courageous. The latter does not hesitats to attack even & human being if the necessity arises.” “You don’t otten hear of a salted mine in Colorado these days, or, in fact, in any other mining country,” said Gage H. Horton, a well- known miner from the State mentioned, at the Lick yesterday. “That used to be a favorite and paying pastime for unserupulous indi- viduals, but when public sentiment crys- tallized into the belief that the only effective preventive was a short shrift and a ready rope, the practice fell into disuse. I recollect many years ago in the district now known as Cripple Creek a fellow named Mason salted a mine, which he sold to en innocent-looking individual named Peck.who had lotsof money, but who most people thought was short in brains. However that may be, Peck was not lacking in one manly characteristic, and that was nerve. After Mason had secured his cash he ‘sloped,’ and a short time after Peck dis- covered he had been duped he also disappeared. We never heard of either for about two years, when werd reached Denver that Peck had just run Mason to earth in Little Rock, Ark., and had filled him so full of lead that the Coroner brought in a verdict that he had died fromdead poison. There have been a good many hang- ing bees in Colorado in years past for just this kind of practices, and, as I said before, it has become so unhealthy for the perpetrators thereof that the yocation has lost its following entirely.” PERSONAL. James F. Peck of Merced was at the Lick yes- terday. G. W. Lynch, a hotel man of San Diego, is at the Grand. A. A. Reardon of San Jose registered at the Grand yesterday. Dr.and Mrs. W. W. Hayes of Dover, N. H., are guests at the Lick, Jeff E. Doolittle, a mining man of Alta, is a guest at the Palace, R. E. Morse of Milpitas was registered at the California yesterday. 8. T. Felkins of Modesto was a guest at the California yesterday. Mayor B. U. Steinman of Sacramento was at the Palace yesterday. F. A. Miller of the Hotel Glenwood, Riverside, is a guest at the Grand, C. H. Phillips, & Sen Luis Obispo banker, registered at the Palace yesterday. J. M. Wilmans, a promingnt merchant of Newman, is a guest of the Lick Houge. Alyin Hurlbert, proprietor of the Great Northern Hotel in Chicago, is at the Palace. Louis L. Janes of Mill Valley was among those registered at the California yesterday. D. B. Fairbanks of Petaluma, colonel of the Fifth Regiment, N. G, C., is registered at the Lick. Lieutenant James C. Cresap of the United States gunboat Bennington is staying at the Occidental. E. B. Willis of the Sacramento Record-Union’s editorial staff isin town and is registered at the Russ House. . Nathan Fluscher, & prominent grocer and wine merchant of Paterson, N. J., is in thecity, and is staying at the Palace. Dr.and Mrs. W. W. Hayes and Miss M. C. Morss of Dover; N. H., are with & party of Eastern tourists staying at the Lick. C. A. Dolph, a Portland attorney and brother of ex-United States Senator Dolph of Oregon, is at the California Hotel. He will ®e in the city a week. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. General M. Scott of Faribault, Minn,, is 103 years of age. His hair is still a bright red, the same color it alw The oldest British Congregnflr{l_ml minister in active service is the Rev. Nisbet of New Town, Tasmania, who was oraained in the pas- torate nearly sixty years ago. The Empress of Austria, whois a great pedes- trian and delights in making excursions in the mounteins in the neighborhood of Mentone, hasobtained permission from tne authorities to ascend Mount Azel, which is fortified at the summit. i - re of France is adding to his popularity by visiting the hospitals of France. He entexg a hospital, speaks encouragingly to the patients; leaves money to be spent in wine and tobacco for their use, and frequently goes into the kitchen to taste the food served to the in- mates. Dr. Savory, an, eminent English physician, in writing upon" the subject of English gout, asserts that nearly the entire population of England, sooner or later, will become victims of the gout in one or more of its protean forms, not more than one-tenth of the people of that country escaping. Prince Oscar Bernadotte, son of the King of Sweden, who is mentioned as the possible King of Norway in case the King resigns that part of his throme, is extremely popular in Norway owing to his democratic waysjand idees. When he married Miss Effa Munk, lady-in-waiting to the Queen, he renounced not only his right to the throne of Sweden, but also every title. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Traveler (inquiring at a famous castle)—Can I see the antiquities to-day? Servant—I am afraid not, sir. My lady and her danghter have gone to town.—Household Words. Lawyer (to & client)—I defended you once be- fore—let me see, was it not a case of swindling? Client (warmiy)—Of course it was. I paid you 30 marks and got six weeks notwithstand- ing.—Lustige Blaetter. Wool—So you have been sued for breach of promise, eh? Van Pelt—Well, T expected my course in Delle’s letters to cost me something.—New York World. Lea—Bimley is much interested in passing a law to hielp out the depleted revenues by tax- ing all bachelors between the ages of 25 and 30, Perrins—Yes, he has five unmarried daugh- ters.—New York World. Muller meets his friend Negel at the Turkish bath. Eachis troubled with a gouty foot and has been ordered massage by his doctor. Dur- ing the operation Muller cried out lustily with pain, while Nagel maintained a stolid com- posure, greatly to Muller's astonishment, who afterward asked him: *“How could you stend the rubbing so quietly? Didn’t it hurt you atrociously?” “Nothing of the kind,” smilingly replied Nagel. “Istmply held out my healthy foot.”— Lustige Blaetter. “Iv’s all nonsense, dear, about wedding cake. Iput anenormous piece under my pillow and dreamed of nobody.” “Well?” “And the next time I ate it and dreamed of everybody.”—Life. Mr. Greathead, who keeps a corner store ina New Jersey village, greeted his rival across the street the other day with much courtesy and said: “Won’t you lend me your spiritual level & moment?” Quick as a flash the rival called to the boy in his store: “John, take Mr. Greathead that old copy of the Bible under the counter.”—IHarper's Magazine. WILL VISIT THE SCHOOLS. Mogui Indians to Go on a Tour of In- spection. Colonel Shafter, commandant at Alca- traz Island, is getting dangerously near to an attack of brain fog in bis efforts to find amusements for the twelve Moqui Indians who have been quartered on him for sev- | eral months past. Indians, like wild animals, grow peaked, if not pale, while in confinement, and the authorities at the island have strict orders not to let the dusky captives languish for want of something to occupy their minds. At first the large guns, shining accouter- ments of the men, and their new environ- ments generally kept the reds from moping, and they thrived and grew fat on Uncle Bam’s ample rations. Even these grew monotonous, however, and ennui stared them in the face until suddenly one day the Government steamer General McDowell hove in sight freighted down with Gaiety girls and their escorts and the Indians immediately took heart again. The wondrous costumes and com- plexions of the sprightly actresses were spoken of in deep gutturals for many days, but signs of weariness made their appear- ance as before and the commandant was at his wits’ end. Suddenly a brilliant idea struck him. The Indians were confined for inciting a 110t in the tribe against the introduction of schools for the redskin children. Why not show them the errors of their ways and the advantages of education, as well as supply a new diversion for their savage minds by taking them through the public schools? Colonel Shafter did not let the idea grow cold, but immediatcly wrote to Buperintendent of Schools Moulder, re- q;’lesting permission to send the Indians in charge of an officer through a number of the institutions of learning under his charge. The Superintendent will reply, giving the desired permission, both as ‘a matter of courtesy to the Federal officer and as an object lesson to the children. A Good Street Directory. A little handbook that will prove useful to citizen and stranger alike has just been issued by N. A. Wolcott & Co. It is a street and busi- ness directory of San Francisco, in which almost everything of interest regarding the city is to be found. Directions are given en- abling one to find all public buildings, depots and streets; the fire-alarm system is explained, and there is full information concerning postal matters, ete. L ee— Probably the largest fire insurance policy n existence, or ever written, is that cover- ing the property of the Santa Fe Railway Compan{ It was issued by the Pheenix Fire of London, England; is in amount $17,000,000, and takes a premium of $170,- 000 to carry. E, H, BLACK, painter, 114 Eddy street. % (CALIFORNIA Glace fruits, 50¢1b. Townsend’; e Bacox Printing Compeny, 508 Clay street. * ——————— Apcock’s.—March 20 and following days will have opening of imported millinery. All in- vited. 10 Kearny. ks e ———— CUR-IT-UP; heals wounds, burns and sores as if by magic; one application cures poison oak; itrelieves pain and abates inflammation. * e JAMES E. WOLFE, ARCHITECT, Flood building,— Plans, specifications and superintendence for every conceivable character of brick and frame buildings. Unexceptional results guaranteed.* ———— ALva E. KnitH, Easter opening, 24 Kearny, AlmaE. Keith, enlarged store, high millinery, Alma E. Keith, next Wednesday is the day. Alma E. Keith, 24 Kearny. FPromepade llf' —————— ‘When they ask Cleveland the where- abouts g! that surplus l:eI tmm I: e the ue; Y murmurin, 's Lent.” Eeslg it’s spent. B 2% —_————— . EVERY form 0. suffering hasa cause. Remove the cause and the suffering will cease. Nervousness i8 due to poor blood. Purify the bloed with Hood's Sarsaparilla and nervousness will disappear. ————— MoTHERS give Dr. Slegert’s Angostura Bltters to their children to stop colic and looseness of the bowels. ———————— Tr aflioted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp sou’s Eye Water, Druggists sell it at 25 cents. RUIT AND FLOWER MISSION. ONE OF THE MOST DESERVING CHARITIES IN THE CITY AND COUNTY. NosLE Work DonE BY THE LADY MEMBERS DURING THE PAST YEAR. The charities that soothe and h eal and bless &3 Are scattered at the feet of man like fowers. The San Francisco Fruit and Flower Mission is one of the most deserving .char- ities in San Francisco. Its object is to distribute fruit and flowers, papers and magazines to the people in hospitals and city institutions. Further, clothing, food and medicines are given to the deserving poor. In this connection the society last year distributed : Twenty-four bottles Scott's emulsion, 843 pounds rolled oats, 235 pounds crackers, 12 boxes erackers, 10 bags erackers, 160 cans con- densed milk, 731}¢ dozen eggs, 222 bottles port wine, 5 cans evaporased cream, 424 jars beef extract, 47434 pounds tes, 265 glasses jelly, 40 bottles claret, 108 cans fruit, 925 pounds sugar, 250 pounds corn meal, 73 quart bottles whisky, 3280 pounds flour, 19 bottles cod- liver o1, 25}) pounds beans, 72 pounds coffee, 738 pounds rice, 14 bottles ite wine,’ 11" boitles Floride water, 4 bottles malt, 9 cans vegetables, 41 pounds vermicelli, 4 boxes vermicelli, 6 boxes snowflake crackers, 163 pounds germea, 5 bottles vaseline, 1 bottle malted milk, 4 bottles bay rum, 9 bottles Mel- lin’s food, 3 bottles beef, iron and wine, 1237 pounds oatmeal, 15 glasses wine jelly, 72 boxes oranges, 30 pounds dried fruit, 1 large box prunes, 5 large bags dried fruit, 3 bottles sherry, 125 pounds sago, 8 bottles porter, 82 boxes mixed fruit, 5 barrels apples, 135 pounds flaked oats, 4 boxes cherries, 18 pounds breakfast de- light, 4 packages Nestle’s food. 3 bottles cologne, 7 boxes raisins, 30 pounds raisins, 6 boxes mac- aroni, 74 sacks potatoes, 2 cans corn beef, 3 pounds choeolate, 111 pounds candy, )¢ box limes, 1 whole sheep, 3 hams, 2 tongues, 3 roasts, 109 turkeys, 30 chickens, 3 box 2 boxes cranberries, 105 heads celery 112 loaves bread, 12 cakes, besides al s butter, cheese, capdles, soap, aleohol, eauli’ flower, squash’ and many well-filled hampers of fruit. The articles acceptable for distribution are: Flowers, cut or in bouguets; potted plants, seeds, slips, bunches of lavender, sweet-scentes clover, ferns, grasses and cattails; books, maga- zines and papers of any date (except the dail- ies), in any language; toys, old cotton or linen, clothing, and baskets of any shape or sort. Also cologne, fruit, preserves, vegetables, eggs, butter, provisions, candy, etc. These should reach the society’s hall be- fore noon on Thursday of each week. The institutions visited regularly are the City and County, 8t. Luke’s and " Califor- nia Woman’s hospitals, the Home for In- curables, the Old Ladies’ Episcopal Home, Crocker Home, Maria Kip Orphanage, the Sheltering Arms, Nursery for Homeless Children, Occidental Kindergarten and Girls’ Directory. Outside of these institu- tions the private visiting committee called upon 114 new cases during the year. In this they were greatly aided hy the volun- tary and_untiring services of Dr. Philip K. Brown, Dr. Adelaide Brown, Dr. Lucia Lane, Dr. Virginia Smiley, Dr. Elizabeth Yates, Dr. M. Krotoszyner, Dr. Francis Sprague, Dr. A. Adler, Dr. A. Abrams, Dr. H. E, Sanderson and Dr. George F. Shiels, X During the year the society received from donations, an entertainment at the Cali- fornia Theater and other sources $2042 75, and expended in relief $1887 15. Besides this there were 49.829 papers, books and magazines distributed among the Alms- house, City and County Hospital, Califor- nia Woman’s Hospital, Old People’s Home, St. Luke’s Hospital and Home for Incur- ables. In this way the San Francisco Fruit and Flower Mission has done a vast amount of gond, and is now reaching out for wider fields. The officers of the society are: Honorary president, Miss Mary D. Bates; president,” Miss Meartha W. Shainwald: first Vice-president, Miss Anne Bryce; second vice- resident, Miss Harriet S. Mason; correspond- ng secretary, Miss Harriet Jacobson; recording secretary, Miss Cecile I. Sanderson; treaswrer, Mrs. George H. Buckingham; auditor, Theo- dore E, Smith; librarian, Miss Winifred C. Douglass; assistant librarian, Miss Mattie L. Brown. Private visiting committee—Mrs. Louise Ar- nold, ehairman. House committee—Mrs. Louisa Dowlen, chaire man. Hospital yisitors—) Floreiice Lippitt, Miss Hi Jacobson, Miss Alice Ta Miss Hattie Bastheim Delphine Cerf. Committec on supplice-Miss I L. Leszinsky (chairman), ias Effie Johnson, Miss 1da Fisher, iss Fannie Danforth. Miss Angie sig, Mis¢ Bastheim, Advisory board—Mrs. I. W. Raymond, Mrs. Charles R. Story, Mrs. Currier, Mrs. Oliver Eldridge, Mrs. George F. Ashtom, Mrs, E. P. 8losson. Trustees—M. H. Hecht, George H. Bucking- iss Mary D. Bates, Miss Martha W. Shainwald, Miss Anne Bryce, Dr. George F. Powers, Theo E. K. Brown, Rev. Charles J. Mason, Miss Harriet Jacobson, Mrs. George H. Buckingham. —-———— ~ The British empire and dependencies and colonies embrace 11,000,000 square miles, or about the size of all Africa. NEW TO-DAY DRY GOODS. WASH FABRICS THAT ARE SHOWN FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS SEASON! Printed Satin?triped Ducks ! New Deségns. on BlackgCream, Ecru, Red and Navy Grounds, 15c per Yard. PRINTED PERCALES, Choice Styles, Extra Quality, 81 inches wide, At 10c per Yard. CRINKLED SEERSUCKERS, Handsome Patterns, At 12%c per Yard, NOVELTY CHIFFON CREPE, Just opened, all the evening shades, At 20c per Yard. Drapery and Curtain Goods, New Coin Spot 8wiss, now on sale At 15¢, 20cand 25c¢. PRINTED DRAPERY GOODS, Choice Styles, At 12ic, 15¢, 20c, 25¢ and 3oc. SHIKI SILK, Gold printed drape: 00ds, Vi eflecn’;'e, on a gegygsilk 'cloetll’zy, hangs nicely, 36 inches wide, At 75¢ per Yard. livered free in this and neighboring Parcels del cities and WG:I“M Country lers recei’ best aention, Y Towve our S04 Jeomat Samples on application. KOHLBERGC, STRAUSS & FROHMAN, 107 AND 109 POST STREET, ——AND—— 1220-1222-1224 MARKET ST,