The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 10, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. 3 of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL ( ), Pacific States Adver- tising Burean, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, N York. tern office APRIL 10, 1895 The way to have progress is to make it. Enterprise is a steed that freshens as he travels. Dirt flies on the competing road and fur flies on the monopoly. Another contest of the income tax will be necessary to settle it. Too much silurianism in a community gives everybody a tired feeling. It may start out for San Jose, but will end boulevard round the bay. Remember, it will benefit your business to pledge it to the competing road. t all paradoxical that on May we ought to rest. It is not 1, which is Labor da; Flies are having a weary time trying to find a resting-place on the Half-million Club. It appears that old Miss Democracy will make the next Presidential race in divided skirts. t in these days the e men all over the It is conceded th CaLy is for pro State. The San Joa is loading the cars of the people’s road with pledges of freight. The Mayor's veto of the bituminous rock ordinance reached the right spot in the right way. Now that the ball of progress has been fairly started it will be easy to keep it roll- ing if all join i There was a rumor current yesterday that Collis Huntington has got lost in the shuffle somewhere. The proposed boulevard can hardly be called a competing road, but it will get there just the same. ‘Whoever subsc road or pled the front in gooc San Joaquin 0 it, comes to If you neglect to look for California products when you go shopping you will overlook your own interests. Daggett and Popper are the bright par- ar stars who are now doing the split act in the Democratic ballet. How helpl the giant Gulliver was when the Lilliputians bound him to the earth with ten thousand small threads. or Sutro was wise to reflect that any discouragement of smooth bituminous pavements would be an encouragement of cobblestones. As this is Holy Week, it might be profit- able to reflect that industry as well as piety is essential to the development of a high moral character. Perhaps Cleveland would rather let the country go without an adequate revenue than to spoil his holidays by an extra ses- sion of Congres: As San Francisco finds it so hard to i the cobblestones which she swal- lowed so many years ago, she might try bituminous rock as an emetic. San Francisco has secured the admira- tion of Los Angeles by adopting the po! which has made that city one of the hand- somestand most prosperous in the country. It did not need the Valley road project to discover to us the presence of silurians, for the cobblestones in the streets of San Francisco have been proclaiming the fact for years. The first man who drove a pick into the ground at Stockton for the Valley road was a poor laborer, and the only recom- pense that he desired was the honor of striking the first manual biow at monopoly. Many Eastern cities are announcing themselves as candidates for the honor of entertaining the next Republican National Convention, and every one of them regards San Francisco as the most dangerous of rivals. The Santa Rosa girls who are being voted for to see which shall serve as Queen of the Carnival are all so pretty that the roses thereabout are beginning to wonder if they have any right to their vaunted boast of beauty. EiThe climate of Canada has already proved agreeable to Mr. Buckley on one occasion, and now that another Grand Jury is in session it is consoling to reflect on the beauties of the panorama revealed by the Heights of Abraham. The proposal to enlarge the use of the Public Library by allowing free access to reference books is a good one, and if the management is not able to carry it_out in the present quarters it will be high time to begin an agitation for a suitable library building. It needed only the CALL’s suggestion to induce the enterprising residents of Visalia to secure pledges from shippers to patron- ize the people’s road. This recalls the fact that this charming city of the forested plains was named for a Mr. Vise, and that when his namesake gets a vise-like grip on this railroad proposition it will hold on till it hears the thunder of the people’s train. . It is another evidence of improving busi- ness that the Journal of Commerce has in- creased in size and now appears a larger and completer paper than ever. This in- crease in size should be accompanied by an even greater increase in public support, for the Journal has been identified with the business interests of the City and the Sizte for more than a quarter of a century and certainly deserves to share in the coming prosperity. The Visalia Times expresses grateful sur- prise that the CArv's writers know what they are talking about, and cites our treat- ment of Visalia’s proposition to the peo- ple’s road project as evidence of the fact. The Times will not be the only one of our interior exchanges to discover that the Cawy is first of all a newspaper for Califor- nia, her people and her prosperity, and that a requisite of this policy is an ade- quate knowledge of the State and her needs. UNITED OALIFORNIA. The circular issued by the Half-million Club, in reference to the proposed excur- sion through the State, is pretaced by the words “New, United, Progressive Cali- fornia.”” There is a whole sermon in these few words and their significance should not be lost upon any citizen to whom the circular comes. If any emphasisis to belaid upon one of these words more than another the word “united” should receive it. In this single word is summed up all that is brightest in the present and all thatis most hopeful in the future. A united California must mean a new California, for it implies the termination of all the local jealousies and sectional prejudices that have been such a disturbing element in the past; and it means also a progressive Cali- fornia, for we can have nothing but prog- ress and prosperity when all sections of the State work together for the general good. It was a happy thought of the Half- million Club to begin its circular with words so impressive and suggestive. They will bring to every mind a thousand ideas of co-operation and a profound sentiment of State patriotism. There are few Cali- fornians at this time who are not animated with a genuine State pride and a keen desire to assist in the advancement of the commonwealth. In giving assistance to the fiestas in the south, the Half-million Club is setting an example which we may be sure the south will reciprocate when- ever San Francisco undertakes anything that will redound to the glory of the whole State. Every citizen can rightly rejoice in the new aspect of affairs. There is but one California and her people at last have begun to realize the true greatness of her indivisable unity. From this time for- ward but one purpose will animate all Californians and that will be to bring about the speedy realization of all that is meant by ‘New, United and Progressive California.” THE RAILROAD BEGUN. The actual physical work which is to end in realizing the hopes of California for competition in rail transportation has been begun at Stockton, where the engineers have started with the setting of stakes. Although it will require a few days in which to run the lines through the city, the work isnot experimental or for “boom” es, as railroad surveying so often s the actual necessary work pre- liminary to construction, and hence it con- stitutes the beginning of construction. It was the promptness of Stockton in agreeing to the terms of the railroad directors that made this beginning possi- ble, ' It is true that the energetic men of the city, in their canvass of the local re- sources, have discovered a number of wealthy men whose fortunes would be greatly increased by the new road, yet who refuse to subscribe anything to aid it. But the broad people who are forwarding the enterprise are nota whit discouraged by that. They know that in every community must exist men without pride, patriotism or conscience—leeches on the enterprise of the thrifty, and as lacking in industry es in manliness. The worthy men of that city have the consolation of reflecting that the time has passed when these drones areimmune from the punishment which they deserve. There are a great many ways in which greed can be punished, and the people of Stockton know what they are and how to employ them. Preceding the engineers whoare running the lines will be agents or directors of the company dealing with the property-owners fora right of way. Already some hand- some offers have been made, and it all seems clear sailing. It is a time when manhood and independence prove infec- tious. One strong man’s example will be sufficient to direct the conduct of many weak ones who may be wavering between greed and enterprise. Theproposition that every land-owner will make a handsome profit out of the gift of a right of way through his land is so clear that the one who holds out for a price will be regarded as inviting such an opinion at the hands of his neighbors as few men have the cour- age to invite. But it should not be forgotten for a sin- gle moment that a pledge to patronize the new road is one of the elements most es- sential to the success of the enterprise. Such a pledge means far more than a prom- isé to support the road; above and be- yond that meaning is the one which pro- claims a desire to see California prosper, and hence the pledge to support the road is a pledge of patriotism and a proclama- tion of good citizenship. The CarL's pledge is accessible o all on the line of the road. Those who have their own reasons for not wishing their names to be published will be protected, but it is ad- visable that they sign, nevertheless. IMMEDIATE RESULTS. The strongest encouragement that San Francisco has received to put forth all her energy in building up the State has been furnished by D. M. Carmen, the energetic chairman of the Half-million Club’s trans- portation committee, upon his return from Los Angeles, whither he went to make arrangements for the excursion from San Francisco to Los Angeles and Santa Bar- bara on the occasion of the fiestas there. He reported as follows: “I had an opportunity during the even- ing of seeing what has made it possible for Los Angeles to produce the finest display of its kind that America has ever seen. The business tact, the system, the energy and the public spirit evinced by the com- mitteemen are a guarantee that even their great undertaking will be carried to suc- cessful completion. It also explains why Los Angeles has made such strides during an unprecedented period of commercial depression. I heard while thére no com- plaints of hard times, but did hear one merchant say that he was convinced San Francisco had taken a new lease of lifeand was the coming place in which to make money. He had heard of the changed con- ditions and_thought that San Francisco awake was the best city he knew of.” It is not difficult to imagine what this City might have been long ago if the spirit that is now stirring our people had been earlier awakened. The hearty co-opera- tion of Los Angeles is particularly com- mendable, and is what might have been expected from a city which has shown so much public spirit and has secured results 80 remarkable. The excursions are to be the greatest af- fairs of the kind ever seen in California. Every town and city included in the itin- erary is preparing to give the excursionists royal entertainment without charge. The train from San Francisco southward will be a luxurious affair of vestibuled Pull- man sleeping-cars, with a dining-car fur- nished with bath, barber-shop and the like. It will leave the city next Monday at 4 p. M., and will remain a hali hour at Merced and another half hour at Fresno. There will be side trips to Santa Barbara, Riverside, Redlands, Pasadena, Mount Lowe and other places of interest in the south. The train from Los Angeles northward will leave Monday evening, the 22d inst., and will stop at Bakersfield, Tulare, Porterville, Fresno, Merced, Stockton, Sacramento, Auburn, Napa, Santa Rosa, Menlo Park, Palo Alto, S8an Jose, Los Ga- tos and Monterey. Ukiah is asking that an excursion be sent thither, and no doubt arrangements will be made to that end. The small charge to be made for tickets for these excursions is the least of the in- ducements offered. The itineraries in- clude many of the choicest and most picturesque parts of California, and will disclose a variety of scenery and indus- tries that will be astonishing to a stranger. The trip through the San Joaquin Valley will show the great Sierras with their everlasting crowns of snow on the east, the dark slopes of the Coast Range on the west, and vast level plains covered with grain fields, vineyards and orchards. In the southern part of the State, besides the vineyards and the orchards of oranges, lemons and deciduous fruits, will be seen beautiful cities luxuriously embowered in semi-tropic verdure. At Penryn and Auburn the stranger finds himself in the heart of the gold country; at Napa, Santa Rosa and San Jose beautiful cities sur- rounded by orchards; at Menlo Park the country mansions of the San Francisco millionaires, with their splendid gardens; at Palo Alto the Stanford University, and at Monterey a quaint and charming old Spanish town, where the State of Cali- fornia was born, and where the matchless bay of Monterey awaits the coming of ships from all the nations. AFTER THE VETO. The message which Mayor Sutro sub- mitted to the Board of Supervisors giving his reasons for not signing the bituminous rock ordinance was very brief, but its con- ciseness fell in no way short of making clesr the good and sufficient reasons on which his action was based. These rea- sons were four. The ordinance practically excluded the shipment of bituminous rock by vessels. It thereby excluded mines at a distance from competing in furnishing the rock. It substantially created a monopoly in favor of Santa Cruz mines, and also a monopoly in transportation in favor of the Southern Pacific of Kentucky, and finally by reason of certain specifica- tions regarding the nature of the bitumin- ous rock required, it threatened to exclude the use of bitumen for street paving alto- gether. With this terse veto itis to be hoped the attempted job will be ended, and that even those men who favored the ordinance will now abandon it. Certainly there can be no hope of passing it over the veto, for the Mayor is sustained in the board by four incorruptible guardians of the public interest, and it ia not likely that all of the “‘affiliated eight” will remain solid for the job after it has been so clearly exposed and so strongly condemned. It is probable that some of the Super- visors who voted for the ordinance in the first place did so through an honest mis- take of judgment. Such men should not lose this opportunity to separate them- selves from evil company and come over on the right side. There is much work in the way of municipal improvement to be done in this City, and every Supervisor who makes a conscientious endeavor to carry out such work by clean, honest, economical methods will gain the esteem of his fellow-citizens and a popular com- mendation that will be of great value to him in all the walks of life. This, there- fore, is the time for honest men to stand up and get into line. Let this job be buried where it has fallen, and no more of the kind be undertaken. THE NEXT CONVENTION. In commenting upon the discussion con- cerning the place of holding the next Re- publican National Convention, the Wash- ington Star says that if it were not for the lack of telegraph facilities and cost of go- ing so far to the convention it might be that S8an Francisco would be selected. Here is a case where San Francisco might justly exclaim with Shakespeare “If me no ifs.” Thereis truly no occasion for ifs in this matter. Why say “if it were not for the lack of telegraph facilities” when every well-informed man knows there is no such lack? Did not the Eraminer once duplicate in Washington every word of the paper issued in San Francisco on the same morn- ing that it appeared here? Did not this is- sue contain ten times as many words as would be necessary concerning any con- vention? Was not the Washington edi- tion printed on time for the breakfast table? With such evidence of the tele- graph facilities of San Francisco on record, why should there be at this time any ifs about the matter? The ““if” in regard to the cost of attend- ing the convention is even less justifiable than that concerning the telegraph facili- ties. It will cost Eastern men no more to come to California than it will cost Califor- nians to go East. The fact that those re- quired to come here will exceed in number those who might be required to go there, does not affect the issue, for the cost is to be computed for individuals and not for the whole convention. In addition to this it should be remembered that the trip across the continent is one that every statesman aud aspiring statesman ought to take. Cal- ifornians who are to participate in National legislation must of course go East. Isit not fair, therefore, to require that Eastern men who propose to legislate for the Nation should oceasionally came West? The Star admits ‘‘the newspaper men would vote heartily for S8an Francisco and would enjoy a trip out there beyond all question.” Why then should it doubt that all the delegates to the convention would be of the same mind? There isno good reasen figainst holding the convention here and a thousand for it. San Francisco is in fact the ideal place for such a gather- ing, and when the arguments in its favor are fully presented, we believe the National Comuiittee will admit their force and the next convention will be held here. —— THE PROPOSITION AMENDED, Visalia Times. ‘We publish an editorial to-day from the San Francisco CALL which sets forth in a convinc- ing way the reasons why the competing rail- road should be built through this county and the city of Visaha. The CALL is making an effort tobe aState newspaper, and if it has men on its staff as well acquainted with every county as the writer of the editorial which we reproduce is with Tulare County it wiil soon distance its competitors. All the CaLL says about Tulare County is true, and a resi- dent could not have stated the situation with more force and clearness. It seems that the proposition of our Board of Trade is satisfac- tory to the directors of the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad with the excep- tion that the pledge to ship freight over the new road is not signed. The committee which leaves Visalia to-night for San Francisco will take with them the writ- ten pledgesof the merchants of this city to patronize the road when it is built. There was no objection on the partof the business men tosigning the pledge as the new road will have virtually no competition when it reaches Visalia. The Southern Pacific has no road lead- 1ing to this city, and the easiest and most direct way to get freight will be over the new road. The first proposition was thought to be suffi- cient for the reason that most of the business men subscribed for stock in the road and it wes the opinion that nothing more could be asked. However, we are willing to amend the proposition in any reasonable way, and we will submit a pledge to patronize the road with the offer togive the right of way through the county and depot ground 1in this cityand a subscription of $25,000to the stock. That is more that has been offered by any other county in the State, and we think ought be per- fectly satisfactory to the promoters of the new road. AROUND THE COBRIDORS. ““Times are getting much better for the stock- men,” said §. 8. Bayley, formerly of Modoc County, yesterday, as he chatted with old ac- quaintances in the corriders of the Lick House. ““The price of beef is going up, and if the stock- raisers will only hold back a little and not force their cattle on the market they may com- mand their own prices. “It was not very long sgo that the stock- raisers in Neyada had no market for their cat- tle. If they shipped them to this city they re- ceived only five cents a pound on the hoof, and then had to pay the freight. Now the Eastern people have come into the market, and the Nevada men are receiving seven cents a pound net on the ground. “The slaughtering of cattle here on commis- sion is what has injured the business more than anything else. By that system the slaughterer made from $60 to $100 off the cat- tle he killed, while the originai producer was lucky if he quit even on the freight. The changing of all this is now possible, because of the eltered conditions, and whether or not it shall be done rests entirely in the hands of the stock-raisers.” E. C. Farnsworth, Mayor of Visalia; William H. Hammond, County Clerk of Tulare County; Ben M. Maddox, editor and proprietor of the Visalia Times, and E.O. Miller are mem- bers of a delegation of Visalia citizens which is sent to lay the claims to recognition of that city before the Board of Directors of themew valley railroad, and to state to them what that city would do in the matter of rights of way, subscriptions to stock and so forth. Through courtesy to the board the members of the dele- gation declined last night to state what in- ducements they were authorized to offer. One of them said, however: “You may say that in comparison with the wealth of the two citles Visalia will do five times as much as Stockton has done.” “I sincerely hope,” said Banker Hewlett of Stocktonat the Union League Club yesterday, “that this building of the new railroad will not result in a boom in real estate in our sec- tion. A boom or any sudden increase in land values retards rather than helps the develop- ment of & country in my opinion. The new railroad will bring in new people, most of whom will become actual settlers. These then should be permitted to secure homes at bed- rock prices and share in whatever gradual rise in values which may and surely will follow. In this way all will benefit, and you know that the true prosperity of any country depends largely upon the prosperity of all its citizens.” I have just reczived a telegram from Direc- tor-General de Young expressing his profound SOTTOW over the museum robbery at Golden Gate Park,” said Colonel K. B. Brown at the Palace Hotel last night. “The general informs me that he is heartbroken over the rascality of the miscreants who purioined the coins and gems, but he asks me to assure the good people of San Francisco that he will duplicate the piliered treasures if it costs him ten times their original value.” PERSONAL. A.J. Bruner of Sacramento is in town. A. 8. Garretson of Rodeo is at the Grand. E. 0. Miller of the Visalia Times{s at the Lick. Hon. C. E. Farnsworth. Mayor of Visalia, is staying at the Lick. Ex-Mayor R. C. Cushing of Omaha, Nebr., is at the Palace Hotel. Ex-Sheriff J. B. Scott of Tucson, Arizons, is a guest of the Occidental. Dr. C. T. Hibbert of the United States navy is & guest at the Occidental. Captain J. W. Smith, a wealthy grain-dealer of Stockton, is at the Grand. John Finnell, a rancher of Corning, Tehama County, is staying at the Palace. Ben M. Maddox, editor and proprietor of the Visalia Times, is staying at the Grand. W.F.KnoxJr., a prominent lumberman of Sacramento, is registered at the Grand. County Clerk W, H. Hammond of Tulare County is registered at the Lick House. H. H. Hewlett, president of the First Na- tional Bank of Stockion, was in town yester- day. C. M. Keniston of Stockton, manager of the Union Transportation Company's steamers, is in town. Mrs. Charles M. Shortridge and children and Mrs. M. E. Singleton and daughter of SanJose, are at the Palace. L. H. Frankenheimer of the Stockton grain commission firm, Murphy & Frankcnheimer, is staying at the Grand. Lieutenant J. 8. Phillips of the United States navy came over from Mare Island yesterday, and is staying at the California. James T. Murphy, & banker of San Jose, came down to-night. He will make his headquar- ters during his stay in the city at the Baldwin Hotel. J.D. Peters of Stockton, a wealthy buhach manufacturer and s director of the California Navigation and Improvement Company, is stop- ping at the Occidental. Colonel J. J. Aitken, late of the United States army, was in town yesterday. He comes from Stockton, but has been sojourning in Santa Cruz for a few months. R. H. Coe heads a large party of Boston capi- talists, who are staying at the Palace Hotel. It is said that they are interested in a patent fuel which they will manufacture in this city. E. A. Cudehy and wife of Omaha stopped over in town yesterday on their way East and regis- tered at the Palace Hotel. Mr. Cudahy is vice- president and general manager of the Cudahy Packing Company of Chicago. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Queen Victoria has just lost the last royal servant who knew her as a child. G. Fleming enterea the service of the Duchess of Kent in 1830, and was transferred to the Queen’s house- hold in the year of her accession. He retired in 1886, and died on March 3, aged 79. The Queen manifested her usual sympathetic in- terest in the iliness of Mr. Fleming, and on his decease sent a wreath bearing the inscription, “A word ot sincere regret toa faithful servant— Victoria.” As traveler, writer, editor, hotel-keeper and dealer in real estate the late Maturin M. Ballou of Boston was a remarkable man. In his later years—he was 75—his liking for travel became a passion, and he was in Egypt when he died. Mr. Ballou was the talented son of a famous father, Rev. Hoses Ballou having been one of the most noted divines in New England half a century ago. One of the fads of the new Czar of Russia is the study of electricity. He is intensely inter- ested in everything pertaining to electrical science, and reads eagerly descriptions of the latest experiments and applications in that line of endeavor. He is said to have made sev- eral ingenious contrivances himself in the sim- pler lines of electrical manipulation. Much regret is felt in the literary circles of Germany at the death of Colonel von Cohan- sen, who died recently in Cassel. He was one of the best-known German authorities on Roman archmology, and wrote & number of books on this and other subjects. Victorien Sardou, when staging one of his plays, has an eagles eye for details. Ata recent dress-rehearsal in Paris he compelted an actor to leave the stage and delay the action of the play until a frayed button on his coat was re- placed by & new one. The well-known sculptor Giuseppe Grandi died the other day in Milan, Italy. His first academical prize was received for a statue of Odysseus. Among his most celebrated works is his statue of the philosopher Becearia. Hezekiah Butterworth of Boston, proprietor of the Youth’s Companion, has completed his plans for a long-contemplated trip to South America, Spain and the Holy Land. He willsail May 4 and will be absent about a year. When Mr. Gladstone was in Mentone re- cently he was met at the station by hundreds of people, and listened to an address by the Mayor. In answer to the cheers and words of ‘welcome he stood for some time with his head bare, and replying to a request to keep his bat " onsaid: “I am not weak from old age yet— don’t fear.” The late General A.J.Pleasanton of Phila- delphia left one of the largest private libraries in that city, numbering about 15,000 volumes. General Pleasanton was widely known as & lover of books and had many rare editions. M. Jules Verne, though in his seventy-ninth year, works for five or six hours a day. He is now engaged upon a story for 1897, but he has five manuscripts ready for the printers. Hiram S. Maxim, the inventor, says that New Englanders are the best mechanics in the world, and that the French are the best me- chanics in Europe. Miss Frances Willard has a name for her bicycle. She calls it Gladys. Ellen Terry is another devotee of the wheel. Mrs. Anna Novak of Chicage is the first Bohe- mian woman of America to be made & physi- cian. Prince Hugo, the Duke of Sora, has become a priest after studing theology for two years. Cardinal Gibbons has been summoned to Rome and will sail in May. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS, ‘We have all we can do to get what rightfally belongs to us in California, but we will say a word for Alaska, Our friends up there have s good country, far better than the same latitude in Europe, which affords homes for 20,000,000 people. The Territory produces £16,000,000 outside of the seals, yet they have no military protection, not & single post; but one light- house on the entire coast, and the land has never been surveyed, s0 land cannot be bought or pre-empted. In time to come people will wonder why Alaska, with its gold, silver, iron and coal, was so long neglected.—Pasadena News. Some very excellent methods have been dis- covered in the antipodes for the improvement of government and the betterment of soclety. New Zealand has recently hit upon a plan for doing away with intemperance. It consists in photographing drunkards and supplying every saloon-keeper with a copy of the photograph. Those who sell to the men whose photographs have been given to them are liable to a fine. This is certainly a novel scheme, and its opera- tion will be watched with interest.—San Diego Union. If Fresno County were as thickly settled as Rhode Island it would contain more than 2,000,000 people. Yet Rhode Island is not crowded, and the soil is much less productive than the irrigated lands of Fresno. The Hun- dred Thousand Club need not fear that the mark has been set too high.—Fresno Repub- lican. Shall 8 new map of the West be made? With more States the East would not rule oh the money question. Irrigation is destined to be not only a great but a very serious question. The West must solve it, and without much assistance or sympathy from the East.—Los Angeles Record. The big indemnity extorted from France as s result of the war of 1870-71 did not help Ger- many much. It started wild speculation and disturbed trade for years. There is a lesson for Japan in this experience.—Virginia City Enter- prise. It will not be many years until the valley railroad will have as many branches as a tree. All parts of Central California will share its benefits.—Stockton Independent. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. It Wasn’t Corrected.—“Well, I did think you had more education than that,” said Mr. Joo- s, airily, to the grocer. *‘N-o-t-1-¢’ doesn’t zcll ‘notice.’ It comes nearer spelling ‘no tick’ than anything else.” “Yes,” said the grocer, “that is what it means.” Mr. Joobus concluded that he could get along that evening without any apricots.—Cincinnati Tribune. “I beg of you to pey me what you owe me.” “Can’t do it.”" “Well, just give me enough so that I can be- gin a suit against you.”—Texas Siftings. “Many a man,” said Uncle Eben, *hab foun’ dat de pinnacle ob fame am intiahly too p'inted to sit down on wif comfort.”—Washington Star. “My task in lite,”” said the pastor of one of churches, complacently, “consists in saving young men."” ‘Whereupon one of our fair maidens, with a soulful longing, repiied: *“Save a good one for me.”—Troy Chief. “Mr. Stalate,” she murmured, “do you re- member when, in 1894, we sat up to watch the new year come in?” ““Yes,” he replied. rapturously. *Well—don’t you—don’t you—"" “Don’t I what?” “Don’t you think we are beginning rather early this year?”’—Washington Star. It is thoroughly proved that Moses, when he drafted the third commandment, did not fore- see the existence of mOrning-paper reporters and their right to drag a minister out of bed at midnight in order to ask him whether he preached heresy in his last sermon or not.— Minneapolis Journal. When the bellows gave out and the organist in aRockland church was unable to get any- thing but a few groans from the instrument, and the pastor remarked, “The organ has failed us at & vital moment; let us rise andsing ‘Praise God From Whom all Blessings Flow,’ ” some of the people wondered just what he meant.—Lewiston (Me.) Journal. His First Visit.—¢‘It seems very swampy along here,” observed the New Yorker, looking lan- guidly out of the car window. “How much furtheris it to Chicago?” “You've been in Chicago half an hour,” said the conductor, majestically. “Good gracious! Idon’t see any residences.” “You must be near-sighted, sir. I cansee the dwelling of one of the oldest families in Chi- cago not half a mile away.” “I can’t see it at all. What's their name?” ‘“Muskra “Bless my soul.”—Chicago Tribune. “This man,” remarked the asylum attendant, “is the most complicated case in the institu- tion. He started with a mild attack of the Na- poleon revival, struck the Trilby crazeat its in- ception and this soon developed into a mania for duplicate whist. Now the poor fellow im- agines he can see some lucidity in the ideas of those puplishers who turn their papers over to female editors. Theexperts pronounce his case incarable.”—Washington Post. e e A Sudden Death From Natural Causes. Charles Campbell, an old man who lived with John W. Hass, a grocer at the southwest corner of Seyenteenth and Church, died sud- denly yesterday. His wife died about two years ago, and ever since the old man has been ailing. The death of Campbell was reported to the Morgue and an autopsy was held. Death was due to natural causes. \ 4 —————— Low prices for Easter eggs, Townsend’s. * PRSI A S s Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * R ST STRONG hoarhound candy,15¢1b. Townsend’s.* ——————— EMACKAY'S carpet store, 715 Market street, the ‘place to buy good matting: 8l4c yard up. * et wutyy oo 50 Lo og The army and navy of the Argentine Confederation are kept up at an annual .cost of $13,000,000. ~ At the Kew Gardens a greenish glass has ‘been used for' greenhouses for half a century. Recently experiments with.ordi- nary white glass showed such a remark- able improvement in the plants that the green glass will be given up altogether. e - THERE i8 no doubt but what Hood’s Sarsaparilla is the most popular spring medieine. Words of | praise for it are heard everywliere. Itls the best blood purifier and makes the weak strong. b S e ; “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by mmt_m~ children while PaRKrn's HAIR BATSAX s lfe t0 the hair, e T0 ADVANCE ONE-THIRD, Commander Booth Is Prepar- ing a Salvation Army Manifesto. Ensign McFee Shows What Each School Donated to the Home Poor. Commander Ballington Booth has in preparation a manifesto, which he will issue to the Balvation Army next Saturday. It will be an inspiring docu- ment and patrons of the War Cry will wonder when it reaches them. A fierce onslaught is to be made upon Satan and the hosts of sinners, and Commander Booth in his manifesto will marshal all his zealous forces for a titanic effert in the coming campaign. The keynote of the manifesto is indi- cated in the little fraction “one-third,” but that fraction stands for mighty things. It means one-third more work in the slums, one-third more battling in the highways The Memorial Building. and byways, one-third more spiritnal hot shot to be poured into the sable ranks of the immense army of the evil one. Even the rear guard of the evangelical warriord is to be increased, so that instead of the timid, shrinking pin-wearers num- bering only 4000, they are to be run up to 5300. There is to be no escape from the uniformed invaders, and when the sound of the cornet, drum and tambourine is heard approaching the worldly might as well prepare at once to surrender, for no mercy will be shown. Following is the programme of work mapped out for the year: There must be, says the commander, 44,015 visits to fam- ilies, 16,321 visits to saloons; 98,797 persons to be separately dealt with in the saloons, 262,387 persons to attend the slum corps meetings and 1546 souls to be saved. The attack is to be general, and regular warriors, charioteers, out-riders, slummers and life-savers are to march forth in every direction, and the 2000 commanding offi- cers are to be increased to 2700. It is to be prosecuted in a scientific manner, too, for the emboldened stalwarts and braves are to file down upon the strongholds of the devil according to the ratio of the popula- tion of the wicked cities. But the work is not to be narrowed down to simgly this—a new movement has been started, and the citadel of Beelzebub is to be assailed where it is the very weakest. The new feature of work is to be nothing | less than a fishing for children in the muddy stream of humanity. Commander Booth, Major Keppel, Captain McFee, and Editor Milsaps have their nets ready for thousands of poor, ill-treated or neglected, ill-fed, ill-clad, dirty and be- draggled juveniles in this city, and the ranks of tLe junior salvationists are to be mightilf swelled. The children of this city will not, perhaps, prove hard to cng- ture, if the donations of the variousschools to the poor may be taken as a criterion. Ensign McFee gives the following list of recent school donations for publication: Washington $20 75, Fremont $2 75, Clement 26 10, Golden Gate $13 50, Crocker $22 85, roadway $16 50, Hearst $11, Columbia $19, Irving $7 00, Harrison $1,Le Conte $4 80, Haight $16 50, Cleveland $4 85, Douglas $4 64, Cooper ilfl 20, Fairmount 10, Webster 28 45, Lincoln $29 46, Pacific avenue §60, arfield $4 70, Agassiz $21 50, James Lick 85, Horace Mann (evening) $2 30, Humboldt 15 South Cosmopolitan 120, Lowell High $54 30, Denman $16 15. Lafayette $3 30. Everett $17, Pacific Heights $93, Sherman $19, Girls’ High $3 25, Buena Vista $1, Lincoln uight) $62 65, Rorace Mann $28 75, Garfield 1, West End Longfellow $13, Reddin 8 50, Mission Grammar $8 60, Marshall 35, Whittier $17 65, North Cosmopolitan 80, Hawthorne $15, Franklin $16, Hamilton 51; total, $914 60. The grand total of cash, clothing and everything amounted to $3748. The Salvation Army of the United States has in_course of construction a .splen- did edifice, which is to be the national headquarters. It is a nine-story stone and brick structure, going up on Fourteenth street, in New York, and will be known as Memorial Hall. Itisexpected to have it completed this year. A NEW MISSION-ROOM. The Congregational One at the ¥. M. O. A, Is xn Great Request. The Congregational ladies interested in home and foreign missions have taken a pleasant room on the fourth floor of the Young Meu’s Christian Association, where all information respecting. - missionary work is acipplied'w visitors, whoalso are allowed access x&; the library with which the room is supplied. $ SEIE ————————— * Has Won the Suit. . The.societies that have combined to take the room are the Woman's State Home Missionary Society c:}c:lfiomhrtha Young Ladies’ Society ‘and the Foreign Mission- ary Society. The-officers of the State ciety are: President, Mrs. E. 8. Williams; secre! , Mrs. Mary L. F. Eastman; cor- responding secretary, Mrs. L. M. Howard; treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Haven. Miss F. Willtams is_the president of the State society, Miss G. Barker the corre- sponding secretary and Miss Grace E. Good- hue the tréasurer. Every day an officér of one or the otherof the societies spends sey- eral hours, at the mission-room to supply information to visitors, On Thursda; iss Merritt of Oakland is in charge, d a weekly missionary meeting is to be held on those days. % At present the young people are engaged in studying the varions countries which are considered as foreign missionary fields. ¥ e s depmnos el Denounced by the Press Club. The attention of the Press Club of San Fran- cisco has been called to the fact that some un- known persons have been going around the city, representing themselves as officers of the clul soliciting subscriptions to defray the ‘expenses incm at the Bohemian jinks and other entertainments. All such persons are de- nounced by the oficers and members of the :}:‘:{b Ii: l:xlnfnomn. The cln: solicits ""u'n‘.':-' or any purpose whatsogver, ant no &tllcmu agents in the field. ————————— A Big Deficiency. ; . Accountant Williams has prepared & state- ment of the condition of the finances for the benefitof Chairman Taylor of thaFinance Com- Jmittee of the Board of Supervisors, in which he close of the fiscal year at gsso,ooo. Th not include the floating ‘debt of $211,500 for 00ds bought and oon.m‘med. : Michael Murphy has won the suit relating to 1and on which he located in Alameda County. He said last night: ‘““About twelve years ago I located on land in Alameda County: There has been litigation ever since. About three years ago the Land Office in this city. n my favor and the Land Commissioner in i\\‘nsfi’mgton approved the decision. The Sec- retary of the Interior also approved it. The case has mow been settled for good.” Mr. Murphy is well known as & Grand Army man, having been chaplain of Lincoln Post for the last ten vears. Messrs. Sumner & Moses are the attorneys who have acted for him through the affair. THE REGENTS MEET. Affiliated Colleges of the University ta Have a New Building in This city. At a meeting of the Regents of the 'Um- versity of California yesterday the resigna« tions of professor of botany, E. L. Greene, and associate professor of physics, Harold Whiting, were received and accepted. Dr. G. F. Shiels was appointed a member of the faculty in the medical department. Professor T. P. Bailey was granted leave of absence from the closing of the examina- tions to the end of the term. A donation of $100 was received from Mrs. Phobe Hearst for experiments in hotography and ascertaining the most feasible plan for photographing the eclipse in Japan in 1396. The proposal of appointing a professor of oriental languages was approved. In 1872 Edward Tompkins donated a parcel of land in Oakland to the University of California, which was to be sold and the proceeds to be used for the maintenance of a class in oriental languages. The property was re= tained by the university until 1891, when it was disposed of, and as yet no appointe ment of a professor in that branch has beeny made. Loans to the amount of $25,000 on_prope erty in San Francisco were approved. A vote of thanks was tendered the Legis- lature and Governor Budd for the appro- riation of $250,000 for the erection of & Euild&ng in this city to be used by the law, pharmacy, dentistry and other .arblmtcd colleges of the university on this side of the bay. SYSTEMATIC STEALING. The Butler of a Santa Cruz Millionaire Arrested Here. Albert Pontet was arrested at the ferry last night by Detective Anthony and taken to the City Prison, where he was booked en route to Santa Cruz on a charge of grand larceny. 5 " Pontet and two women, one being hig wife, were recently brought from France by J. Smith, a millionaire at Santa Cruz. Pontet served in the capacity of butler, his wife as nurse and the other woman ag chambermaid. Pontet and his wife have been systematically robbing their em- loyer, but the fact was not known until & ew days ago. 4 Pontet had come to this city and his wife was to join him here last night. She: was arreste(i at Santa Cruz, and a lot of stolen articles were found in her possession. A message was sent from Santa Cruz t@ police headquarters mentioning the traim she was to have taken, and Anthony went to the ferry, where he found Pontet wait- ing the arrival of his wife. Little Ethel Brown. The question of the guardianship of little Ethe} Brown, was decided yesterday in Judge Slack’s court by the withdrawal by Mrs. Kendelburger of her application for letters of guardianship. The girl will not go to Mills Seminary now robably, but will remain in the care of Mrs, ynders, who is also known as Mrs. Tobleman. NEW TO-DAY. COME SEE WHAT WE OFFER. COMPARE THE FOR YOURSELF. & LET us SHOW YOU WHAT WHOLESALE PRICES 5 MEAN, WHAT . YOU SAVE. LOOK - Wholesale Manufacturers Props, Ovegon City Woolen Mills _ Fine Clothing For Man, Boy orChild . _ RETAILED ‘At Wholesale Prices - 1214123 SANSOME STREET{ : Bet. Bush and Pine Sts. ALL BLUE SIGN FURNITURE 4 ROOT1S i £ $00 . Parlor—Silk _Brocatell 2 rlor—sSilc B e, B-plece sult, plush edroom—7-plece Solid Oa FBedzoom Solid Oak Suit, French Bevel- lass, bed, bureau, washstand. two chairs. rocker aud table; pillows, woven-wire ta G and top mnin:-xmm—um"r:th ion Table, four . 1501 Oak Chairs. g Kitchen—No. 7 Range, Patent Kitchen Table and'two chairs. - BASY PAYMENTS. Houses furnished complete, city or co eral Fund rdxhg . cgmplete, city or country, any here on the coast. |M. FRIEDMAN & CO., 224 to 230 and 306 Stockton and 237 Post Street. Free packing and dellvery across the bay. decided | I R A T . i o >