The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 12, 1895, Page 14

14 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1895. . e Trembling Mountain MERCED RIGHTS OF WAY, Public Spirited Men Offer Free Grants to the Valley Road. THIRTY - FIVE MILES LONG. The Engineers Have Finished In Stockton and Are Golng Southward. BStill another liberal offer of right of way and depot lands was made yesterday to the 1 valley railroad directors, which, added to | the proposition submitted by Visalia, guarantees a free right of way from Stanis- | laus County through Merced and Tulare | Counties—a large portion of the total mile- ege from Stockton to Bakersfield. J. J. Stevenson, William N. Gray, George 8. Bloss, Henry F. Greer and James S. Peck came from Merced yesterday and | offered a right of way for thirty-five miles | through their lands that lie between the | Ban Joaquin Riverand the Southern Pacific | Railway. Mr. Gray represented the W. C. | “Turner estate and his own interests, and George 8. Bloss and Henry F. Greer repre- | sented the Mitchell estate as well as their | own lands—in all about 100,000 acres of | Wertile land in Merced County. But the delegation was not a citizens’ committee, however. They were cordially received by ‘the directors, who heard their arguments dor an hour in the afternoon. “We can do almost anything the com- pany wants in our county,”’ said Mr. Gray, Who was one of the principal speakers. ©We can guarantee rights of way, depot | lands, etc., ss the county, and we come | dere to convince the directors of the valley | Toad that the place for them to build is be- | tween the San Joaquin River and the | Southern Pacific main line. This strip of | Jand is about twenty miles in width and thirty-five miles long, very productive | nearly all the way from Modesto to Merced, and principally & grain country. We rep- | wesent all of this land, nearly all of which is under cultivation and is irrigated from two main ditches. Most of it is our own, and the valley road can have aright of way 100 feet wide through it, provided the line is run into Merced. “The directors promised to look over the | &roposhion, and they feel satisfied with it. | Ve left them maps indicating the land, | end suggesting about where the line could | be built. There will be a meeting in Mer- | ced in regard to the valley road, but the people there are handicapped by the South- ern Pacific and cannot say their souls are their own. To a man they want the new railroad, and will do everything in their power to offer inducements for it to come their way.” | President Spreckels thanked them for the board of directors and assured them that as soon as the engineers reached the Mer- ced County line a committee will visit Merced to further discuss the matter. | Chief Engineer Storey returned from Stockton yesterday, whbere he had been making arrangements for the survey and superintending the preliminary work. After mapping out a line he left a busy corps of men in the field and came back to town well satisfied with the prospects for rapid surveys southward from Stockton. “The engineering department is striking a single line through Stockton,” said he, “beginning on the water front and leaving the city at its eastern boundary. This part of the work will be finished to-night, or at the farthest, early to-morrow. In the OBSOLETE INSTRUMENTS, charge of evading the payment of a tax on spirits manufactured in this city. Ha is the maker of a well-known horse Ii » ment known as ‘‘Leg Dope.” Its ingredi- ents are said to be, fusel oil, proof spirits and vinegar. i Harris has been manufacturing this medicine for nearly twenty years and ob- tained his fusel oil and proof spirits from theold distillery that used to be on the water front at the foot of Laguna street. In 1884 the proprietors of the concern _sold out to the whis)ky trust and the distillery was dismantled. There was a large quan- tity of proof spirits and fusel oil, made from potatoes, lelt in the vats, and while the distillery was being torn up Harris put this in casks and moved it to his home, on the corner of Scott and Turk streets. Ever since he has been using this stuff as the basis for his ‘“Leg Dope.” The internal revenue officers were informed of what was oing on, and they raided Harris’ house. geven barrels of the prepared liniment and one barrel of overproof spirits were found and seized. ; As the captain seemed to have acted in ignorance of the law he was not arrested. The facts in the ecase were submitted to Washington and the instructions came back to arrest and prosecute. The warrant was accordingly made out, Harris was | brought into court, gave bail and was re- | leased. He was out at the track yesterday timing the races as though nothing had happened. | The Viola d’Amor and Viol da Gamba Used by the Mozart Club. A Remarkable Concert Given at the Y. M. C. A. Auditorium Last Night. A unique and charming concert was given yesterday eveningin the Auditorium of the Young Men’s Christian Association by the Mozart Symphony Club. The organization consists of the usual string quartet, comprising first and second violin, viola and violoncello, but the original character of the concert sprung from the fact that a couple of antiquated instruments also figured on the pro- gramme. These instruments were the viola d’amor and the viol da gamba. The for- mer belongs to the violin tribe and the lat- ter has the appearance of a small 'cello, but the unusual number of pegs and strings give both viols an unfamiliar and complicated appearance, in fact the viola d’amor has fourteen strings in all and the viol da gamba twelve. The difficulty of fingering these obsolete instruments would seem to preciude as rapid and brilliant execution as can be ob- tained on the viols in use to-day, but on the other hand the quality of some of the tones evolved from them was exquisite Richard Stoelzer, the viola-player in the quartet, performed upon the viofa d’amor, rendering a _‘‘Reverie Solitude,” by | Schneider, and several encores, including the “Prize Song” from “The Master Singers.” The quality of the tones in the viola d’amor consisted of two distinct registers, In the upper one the notes were light, raceful and not very penetrating, but the ower tones were exquisitely sweet, full and rich. This register was particularly sug- | gestive of singing, and a good many Walters who give “The Prize Song” on the lyric stage might take lessons from it in tone production. Mario Bloaeck also produced some de- | htful notes from the viol da gamba. | Unlike the viola d'amor, which sounded | sweetest in cantabile passages, the da next day or two they will establish a camp down the route and will he country toward the it will take probab to get there, a distance of twenty-five miles. “‘The people of Stockton are going to put this thing through. In order to raise funds for a right of way the ladies of Stockton are going to get out a Sunday edition of the Mail and give the proceeds to the rail- road. Itisthe same thing all along the groposed route through the valley; every- ody wants the road and realizes it is the people’s line. Everywhere the engineers are receiving evidences of welcome, and they will be assisted in their work as far as it is possible by citizens’ committees and county officials. “We have finished the survey down to East street in Stockton from the water front. There will be sidings at the ter- minus there to reach the water at different places. We have practically decided to place the passenger depot on block 22 at Taylor and Hunter streets, which is a central location, and the best on the main line on Hunter street. “‘For the lines already surveyed through Btockton we have started a franchise through the City Council and expect to see it granted very soon. We are unde- cided as to how we shall get out of Stock- ton on the way to San Francisco, but_that will be necessarily an after-consideration.” The tables of Chief Engineer Storey’s office were littered with specifications for construction and flatears and locomotives ieste):day" all of which gave evidence of he dispatch with which business of the road is being managed, as they show that already bids for all classes” of railroad materials'are under consideration. . Ready for the Lease. The Board of Harbor Commissioners met yesterday afternoon and prior to the routine work the lease of the Valley rail- road was under discussion. Governor Budd was present and though no definite action was taken in the matter all arrangements were completed for formulating alease this morning. DID NOT PAY THE DUTY, Captain Ben E. Harris Arrested for Evad- ing the United States Internal Revenue Laws. W!fij,‘v_ = b DN oz Prers B egin working in nislaus River. Captain Ben E. Harris, timer at the Bay District race track, was arrested yesterday INCOME TAX REGULATIONS, New Rules Have Been Received by Collector Welburn From Washington. MANY CHANGES ARE MADE. The Tax Will Be Dellnquent Next Monday, So Everybody Is Anxlous. Chief Deputy Collector Loup of the Internal Revenue Department and his as- sistants had’ a very busy time of it yester- day in handling the income tax returns. From morn till night there was a rush of people eager either to get their returns sworn to or else seeking information. More individual returns were made during the day than at any one time since the act went into force. Over 1400 people swore to their statements between 10 A. M. and 4 P. M., 80 it is no wonder that Deputy Col- lector Loup was tired of taking oaths when the day’s work was done. During the day special instructions “relative to returns and taxation of in- comes for the year 1894’ were received. expended for ordinary repairs necessary 8 preserve such propesty is not permanent im- provements, nor_betterments made to increase the value thereof, the same may be deducted 88 NeCessary expenses. ““The rulings are very sweeping,”’ said Chief Deputy Loup, “and they will bea surprise to many people who have already filed their statements. The tax will be de- linquent-next Monday, and everybody is now rushing to get their statements in be- fore closing day. We are rushed from mormn§ to-night, and I think there will be very few delinquents when the time for putting in the statements closes.”” A SENSATION SPOILED. Detectives Burke and Gibson Not to Be Discharged. Although Detectives T. J. Burke and J. A. Gibson have brought suit against the Southern Pacific Company to recover the reward of $5000 offered for the capture and conviction of the men who wrecked the THEY STAND BY HOLMES. Harbor Commissioners Dis- credit the Charges of Moore. THE ENGINEER TALES BACK A Little Insight to Water-Front Work—An Old Partner Scored. Detective Stilwell’s report to the Grand [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] A FEW OF THE FOURTEEN HUNDRED WHO YESTERDAY RUSHED THEIR INCOME-TAX STATE- MENTS IN ON DEPUTY COLLECTOR LOUP. These throw much new light upon the in- come tax and will be a revelation to some of the people who come within the law. In the beginning the Commissioner of In- ternal Revenue says: “It should be made to appear distinetly upon the returns that ‘expenses,’ ‘losses’ and ‘worthless debts’ deducted from income pertain exclusively to the business of the year 1894.” Some of the other rules laid down for the guidance of the Collector and his deputies are as follows: Where corporations disincorporate and dis- tribute their property to their sharenolders prior to making returns the dividends thus istributea from net profits only should be re- turned by the individuals receiving the same as income for the year in which such net profits were made. Such dividends, and also those received by residents of the United States from corporations doing business and having their property entirely outside of the United States, fall within that class designated in the Iaw s being derived from net profits upon which the corporation is not liabie to paya tax of 2 per cent, and thercfore all such divl- dends should bé returned as income by the resident who receiyes the same, where returns should be rendered. Where person is engaged fn business in- cluding seversl different kinds, as, for instance, merchandising, menufacturing and buying and selling real estate, his taxable income should be ascertained by taking the gross | profits of all of said business and deducting | therefrom all allowable deductions, including business losses, notwithstanding the fact that his gains from one businoss may be reduced by losses from another. This, however, would apply only to legitimate busiuess, and no de- duction in any case should be allowed for losses sustained in horse-racing or at cards or in other illegal gambling transactions. The husband or father, as the head and legal representative of the household, is required to make and render a return of all’ the income of | train last July in Yolo County, there is no | danger of their being dismissed from the | | service of the company, as was intimated | in a dispatch from Woodland. Burke and | | Gibson claim to have been the means of | | convicting Worden, who is now under | sentence of death at Folsom, of complicity in the crime. The dispatch further stated that interesting developments were ex- pected to come to light. ‘When W. F. Herrin, the head of the law department of the Southern Pacific, was asked why the detectives, who are in the i employ of the company, should nave been | forced to sue, he replied: ‘“There are a lot of people claiming that | reward and it is simply the means adopted | to ind out who are really entitled to it. | The money will be paid into court and the | Judge will disburse. it to those who prove they have a legal claim on it. I under- stand that there are several claims already in for the $5000, and to protect the company from any future complications in reference to the matter we have adopted this course. The same methods have been used in other cases.” Asked whether the two detectives named had been dischnr%ed from the service of the company he referred the questioner to Superintendent Fillmore. The latter said the men had not been dismissed and that he had no idea of dismissing them, ex- plainingetheir part in the Woodland suit, as had been done by Mr. Herrin., — Mrs. Rosenthal’s Cigar-Stand. Mrs. B. Rosenthal's cigar-stand on Market street was seized again last night. The charge is the same, selling cigars and cigarettes in un- stamped boxes. On the last occasion Collector Jury regarding his investigation of the ferry foundations and his excoriation of State Engineer Hokmes did not disturb the serenity of the proceedings at the meeting of the Harbor Commissioners yesterday afternoon. No attention was paid to the charges by the Commissioners as a body, but as individuals they expressed them- selves unreservedly that their confidence in the engineer is unabated. Mr. Holmes, when questioned about the matter, said the so-called investigation was a personal attack upon him by enemies. The work on the water front which had been criticized as having been done by him, he said, was done by Marsden Manson, who was for- merly engineer of the board. Mr. Manson was one of the gentlemen who had done some experting for the Grand Jury. Alfred 8. Moore, who sent an anonymous report to the Grand Jury, was once a partner of Mr. Hoimes, and to him the engineer paid his respects in no ambiguous terms. “This man Moore has been persecuting me by every means in his power, " said Mr. Holmes, “‘since I defeated him ina law- suit he brought against me. He has been to my bondsmen in every work in which I have been interested and he has also gone to disgruntled contractors in his endeav- ors to make trouble for me. If there was any crooked work done by me in Spokane Moore was a party to it, for he was my partner and shared in my profits. What the directors of the cable road I built thought of me was shown by their subse- quent action. They let a second contract to me, in which Moore was also a partner, LFFELS Bl IR i NU RN AN NS OJC 155 1, O e SO 1 O] H gamba’s most velvety and characteristic tones seemed to be produced in lighter passages. Mr. Blodeck was recalled again and again. Another gifted soloist in the quar- tet was Theodore Hoch, who played two solos on a small cornet with remarkable command over his breathing and with reat sweetness of tone. The same per- ormer also gave a number of bugle calls on a Roman triumphal trumpet—an in- strument which was more saited to a mili- tary band than to a chamber concert. The quartet consisted of Otto Lund, Theo Hoch, R.Stolzer and M. Blodcek. The “Idomenes’ overture, by Mozart, a ballet by Delibes and several other num- bers and encores were all very agreeably played. Otto Lund, the violin soloist, also won applause and encores. The lady vocalists who assisted the club were also encored, but they were by no means artists in the sense that the term was merited by the instrumentalists. ML, ————— It was in Cornwall that gas was first used for lighting purposes. In 1792 Mr. Mur- dock, a metal-founder at Redruth, turned the inflammable air to account to save oil by Deputy Revenue Agent Thomas on a and candles. He distilled gas from vari- ous substances and lighted gis own house, offices and street. Highest of all in Leavening Power.—Latest U. S. Gov't Report Rl ABSOLUTELY PURE Baking Powdlg TO THE CITY BOUNDARY. ‘| be deducts o ~ 5 & & [me‘ Chicf Engineer Storey's map.] himself, wife and minor children, in the aggre- f“e' For the purposes of the income-tax law it must be assumed in all cases that he can as- certain the amount of said income, and except in cases where said incomes are controlled by legal trustees, or persons appointed by a court, it must be assumed that he has control of the same. Incase a wife has a separate taxable in- come, and manages her own business le{l- rateiy, she is required to make a return of her own income, and such return should be at- tached to the return ot her husband, in order that only one deduction of $4000 may be made from the aggregate incomes of the family. Prizes declared by and received from lotteries in tbe year 1894 are clearly income for that Yelr within the meaning of the income-tax law, and should be included in the income of the persons receiving the same, where, taken with other sources of income, such persons would be required by law to make income-tax returns. Persons receiving fees er emoluments for professional services in making return of the same for the year 1894 shouid include in saic return only the fees or emoluments received, | or due, from the business transacted in said year. 1f the professional services began in the ielr 1892 and continued through the year 893, and were finally completed in 1894,’and the whole amount due for such services for the three years was paid in 1804, the receipis therefrom returned as income by the person receiving the same for the year 1894 should beonly that portion of the gross receipts re- ceived for professional services rendered in the year 1894, g Mileage and allowance for stationery paid to Senators and Representatives in Congress should be included by them as income in ren- derm&lnme—ux returns for the year 1894, and the actual expenses of travel and sta- tionery for official use within the {Ild by said officers ear for which return is made may from the sums allowed to cover such expenses, No deduction, except the ex- emption rooo, can be made under the law ixed salary of any officer of the Gov- ernment, and deductions for expenses should be made from specific allowances for such ex- penses. ‘Where State or municipal officers are per- mitted by State laws to collect fees for official services in lieu of & stated salary, such fees are included within the meaning of the term "nl.ri,"umed in the income-tax law, and are wholly exempt from all the provisions of said law, and should not be included ir any in- come-tax return. No deduction can be allowed for the wear and tear of machinery or building untilrepairs have been made thereon. When the amount of Internal Revenue Welburn was instructed not to proceed, because the store was in charge of'a recelver appointed by the Superior Court and a conflict with the State authorities was not desired. The facts in the case were then submitted to the internal revenue authorities at Washington and an order to confiscate the place was received to-day. Mrs. Rosenthal and the receiver will now have to answer before the United States courts for a breach of the in- ternal revenue laws. BURNS COMING HOME. Local Politicians Await the Advent of the Boss With Much Anxiety. Only a select few know that Colonel Daniél M. Burns is on his way home from his mine in Mexico. Colonel Burns is ex- pected Sunday. The rank and file have been kept in ignorance of this, however, as it was deemed wiser to give the colonel a few days in which to attend to the larger affairs of state before the small fry should begin their clamor for recognition. Immediately upon the arrival of the colonel he will endeavor to modify the gutmnqga controlied by the Board of Upervisors. he men handling political interests ex- fiecb a lively shake-up at the New City all. 1t is thought there will be a num- ber of removals, and there is some talk of anew deal all around. PP 15 Cents Per Set, Decorated. These beautifully decorated breakfast and lunch sets will be sold for a short time at all GREAT AMERICAN IMPORTING TEA COMPANY'S STORES. Those in want of crockery, chinaware or glassware will do well to visit our stores and get posted on our prices, Newest and preitiest dee signs, shapes and decorations. JUsST OPENED—The Bouquet Grill Counter, at: 634 Market street, opposite Palace Hotel. It is without an equal in the city. Everything first class. Try it and be convinced. b fM"Actions speak louder than words. QD L D% OO =z i i Dl et e el e STy THE ROUTE SURVEYED THROUGH STOCKTON FOR THE SAN FRANCISCO AND SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY RAILWAY FROM TIDEWATER THE PASSENGER DEPOT WILL BE AT HUNTER AND TAYLOR STREETS. but he was a silent one. The directors would not have anything to do with him. He was known in kane as the yelping hyena. and se alluded to by the press. Mr. oore has follpwed me with a_persistency which is only equaled by the_ bitterness of his expressions against me. He has tried to poison_ the minds of my employers wherever I have been located. But his utterances have been met with the con- tempt they deserved. I built the SBouth Pacific_Coast Railroad, and President A. E. Davis was so well pleased with my per- formance that he presented me with a handsome set of surveying instruments. I constructed the Powell-street road and power-house, and at the conclusion of that work I was presented with fifty shares of the stock in the road, valued at $3500, and a check for §750 besides. Then the em- ployes of the road gave me a dinner and resented me with a gold watch and chain, 'he Stockton electric road was so well pleased with my work on that line that they presented me with a hand- some jeweled matchbox. I did sbme work on the California-street line and President J. B. Stetson was so well pleased with it that he gave me a check for $250 besides my salary. The Presidio and Fer- ries road presented me with a check for tsooh i l;vhen 1 had completed my work on at line. “Regarding Contractor M-ttingy who is quoted as having said that I told him there was no use of his bidding on the ferry foundation, I do not know the man. I never heard of him. Mr. Manson’s rec- ord on the wm front speaks for itself. ' It was he who e the plans for the Powell- street wharf, for the Fremont-street pier and for the ferry foundation. “The way In which contracts are let by the board will show that there could not be any crooked work in making theaward. Every bid is opened in the presence of the bidder, and there cannot be any collusion. It is a very poor incentive for a man to do his duty fearlessly and honestly when cat- tle like Moore, when all other methods of ersecution fail, can get the Grand Jury to in bennfihmx [y m’-ugnr- acter. As for Stilwell—well, the public may judie between him and me. “Spreckels was the lowest bidder for the cement, ana that is why he got the con- tract for furnishing it. Cowell’s bid was $2 70 a barrel and Spreckels’ $2 40. Grace & Co, put in a bid for §2 35 a barrel, but failed to comply with the specifications, and for that reason their bid could not be considered.” oGovernor Budd, who was present at the meeting yesterday, declined to be inter- viewed, as the report of Stilwell had been made to him. He said: *“I have turned the report over to President Colnon, and the board, including the Mayor and myself, will take action upon it later on. I believe that Mr. Holmes is thoroughly competent, and the fact that he owns the quanz which is supplying the rock to the ferry ounaation hasnotasimporuntqbenrgngonthe mncteé' as might seem at first sight. He owne the lot before the act was passed to have this work done. It isimmaterial to him how much or how little rock is takenArom the quarry, as he gets his rent just the same. In fact, the less taken the better for FERi A = President Colnon of the board said that the fact that Mr. Holmes was still engineer showed the confidence the board }’1‘3(1 in him. ‘‘We are his superior officers,” said Mr. Colnon, *‘and we have not' called him to account.”’ Commissioner Chadbourne was more forcible in his remarks. “We are not paying any _attention to anonymous communications if the Grand Jury is,” said Mr. Chadbourne. “We have the greatest confidence in Mr. Holmes. In certain countries with certain people it is a crime to be successful. Evi- dently some of those pe%})le have located in San Francisco, and Mr. Holmes, too, has evidently been successful. It will take more than an anonymous communi- cation to Jessen our esteem for him.” Last evening Engineer Holmes received the followin, %etter from R. C. Mntcinfly, who denies the conversation attributed to him by Stilwell: Howard Holmes Esq., City—DEAR SIR: The statement in regard to what I said about a conversation in this morning’s Examiner is not true and I am ready at any time to deny it. When the first contract was to be let for the foundation Iasked you if you thought it would go through and you told me that you thought changes would have to be made, etc., and that the board would not let it the way it was then. Itold you that I had no time to waste figuring on a job that wounld not be let. You told me also not to be guided by what you said in the matter. Respectfully, R. C. MATTINGLY. HIS STUDID 1S HAUNTED. The Nightly Visitant That Camps in Marion Wells’ Quarters. The Ghost of the Kamakura Buddha Comes to Town. For many months Marion Wells, the sculptor, has been engaged in modeling in clay the big statue for the City Hall. The sculptor found an abandoned church at 2523 Howard street best adapted for his colossal art work. Here the graceful and majestic figure which is to crown the dome and for centuries keep watch and ward over the portal of the West was fashioned from toenail to tresses, until she now wears the proportions of a perfect woman. But the once-ruddy cheeks of the Califor- nia sculptor have lost their glow, and the eye that could sight a three-pronged buck over the barrel of a Winchester at 500 yards is now subdued and lusterless. Mr. Wells is mostly reticent on the causes which have wrought the change, and why 1n the full tide of success %e should look anything but jubilant. Occa- sionally, however, his over burdened soul finds relief in imparting the secret to his intimate friends. ST The trouble is the sculptor's studio is haunted. He has been brought face to face with the supernatural, the veil of Isis has been rent, he has looked upon a shape which has no part or dealing with the af- fairs of mortality. A page has been dis- closed to his startled gaze and he is filled with wonder and awe to the impairing of his appetite and the marked decrease of his adipose tissue. 5 Two summers ago Marion Wells was en- gaged by the Bohemian Club, 6f which he is a worthy member, to reproduce in the redwoods, back of Mill Valley, the Kama- kura Buddha. It wastobe theexact coun- terpart of the great bronze god that looks over the Japan Sea, and who is worshiped by hosts o?adevout pilgrims. For 3000 years, when Egypt was in the zenith of her lory, and Thfi)esflourished. and Jeremiah ynch and his Egyptian sketches were yet in the womb of time, the great Buddha has sat drowsily upon his pedestal, the apo- theosis of contemplation, the perfect type of perfect philosophic thought. The grand- parents of the towering redwoods, where his California statue now stands, were not in the cone when pious hands fashioned this magnificent idol. The sculptor had the exact measure- ments and good photographs of the god and the result was a copy of marvelous precision, with the same lines and the same expression as the original. The most lighthearted and giddiest member of the Bohemian Club was awe stricken by the reat beauty and power of the statue. §Vhen the rays of the harvest moon, glint- ing through the canopy of leaves, fell upon its massive features they wore a bale- fui expression, as if the god deemed these forest revels within the very shadow he cast an unseemly and sacrilegious proceed- ing. The summer jinks came to an end and the idol was deserted. The winter storms beat down upon him and the ocean fogs enveloped him as a garment, and the wild deer bounded away from him asan uncanny apparition wearing the semblance of its ferocious enemy, man. The annual revels were held in other forests and the Kamakura Buddha became a thing of the ast. But the creator of the god has not en allowed to forget the image that grew under his deft hands. The Kamakura Buddha haunts Marion Wells’ studio. The specter is seen but by the sculptor himself, and then only at the full of the moon. Gigantically and awfully it towers to the top of the old church, its Hands resting, with thumbs touching, across its great frame, and its dull eyes fixed in sleepy admiration upon the clay statue of the woman. To imagine for a moment that any sentiment of human passion could permeate that passionless symbol of wisdom would be an outrageous and in- famous presumption. To hope that its intentions toward Mr. Wells were of an amicable nature would likewise be an ab- surd endowment of the god with those Trembling Mountain, a massive pile of sculiarly arranged rocks lying on Rogue iver, almost directly north of Montreal, Canada, was known to the Indians by a combination of words signifying “the seat of the thunder god.” According to their traditions the thunder god formeriy used a broad and deep indentation an its summit asa seat, and that therein he would sit for three days in spring, seven in summer, five in autumn and two in winter. They also believed that during the time he was present great chasms would open in the side of the mountain, from which fire would stfeam for hours without ceasing. Nothing is known concerning the early history of the mountain, but it is thought that'the legend refers to old-time volcanic action, an opinion_strengthened by its geozraph{cnl name, Trembling Mountain.—New York Commercial Advertiser. —————— The Supreme Court of California has de- cided that the holder of a through ticket has the right to stop-over privileges. Tonic Lapres Axp Grsriemen: It affords me great pleasure to call the attention of the public to Yale’s Excelsior Hair Tonic, which is the first and only remedy known to chemistry which positively turns gray hair back to its original color without dye. It has gone on record that Mme. M. Yale —wonderful woman chemist—has made this most valuable of all chemical discov- eries. Mme. Yale personally indorses its action and gives the public her solemn guarantee that it has been tested in every conceivable way, and has proved itself to be the oxrY Hair Specific. It STOPS HAIR FALLING immediately and creates a lux. urious growth. Contains no injurious in- gredient. Physicians and chemists invited to analyze it. Itis not sticky or greasy: on the contrary it makes the hair soft, youthful, fluffy, and keeps it in curl. For gentlemen and ladies with hair a little gray, streaked gray, entirely gray, and with BALD HEADS, it is specially recom~ mended. All druggists sell it. Price, $1. If Anybody Offers a Substitute Shun Them. MME. M. YALE, Health and come plexion specialist, Yale Temple of Beauty, 146 State street, Chicago. REDINGTON & CO., Wholesale Drug= gists, San Francisco, are supplying nj dealers of the Pacific Coast with all my remedies. YOU AND qualities which, in its high stoici: i cannot but despise. But tl.\gere it is, :lrlll‘uzxif welcome guest in a tem%le where Christian worshipers once assembled, to harass and perplex the artist who made its mightiness familiar to the people of the West. It is as impalpable as a shadow, and when Mr. Wells has conjured it to speak the ex- pression on its stolid features has been one of annoyance at_being disturbed in its contemplation of the clay lady. It is luminous, yet rounded; transparent, yet l;;irglservmg all the characteristics of ihe A century ago the sculptor would have .prul_edt,othg ecclesiastic authorities to help him in this his sore strait. But now he must wait until the woman is moved to the summit of the City Hall, and even then he fears that the Buddha will perch upon the opposite tower and keep the lady ina condition of perpetual embarrassment. ——————— Some Queer Hats Are worn in various parts of the world, but San Francisco wearers of headgear are critical and choice in their selection. At Dixon’s new store, 287 Kearny street, the recent importations are the latest and best styles, both in quality and prices. Stiff hats, soft hats, all the newest shades of color, etc. Special bargains are offered in Easter hats. ————————— Ina cubic meter of limestone Orbiguy found 3,000,000,000 seashells. ——————— FRITz ScHEEL at the park keeps the Park News presses rushing to supply programmes.* YOU 'ONLY. I People of San Francisco and suburbs are favored with the offer to come right to the biggest shoe factory and get your shoes for the same money they cost t}le retail dealers. Nowhere else in the world does anything like it exist—nowhere else do we fill retail orders, because we do not wish to interfere with our many wholesale customers. What the retailer makes you save; is it much or little, think you ?—But why think ? Why not find out and KNOW ? ROSENTHAL, FEDER & CO., ‘WHOLESALE MAKERS OF SHOES, 581-583 MARKET ST. NEAR SECOND. Open till 8 P.[1. Saturday Nights till 10, ot