The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 12, 1895, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1895 ; HAING HEAVY GUNS. Successful Tests Made at the Sandy Hook Grounds. SIXTEEN MORTARS TRIED Immense Projectiles Sent With Accuracy an Immense Distance. SEEN VERY HIGH IN THE AIR. Interesting Experiments Also Made With the Great 12-Inch Cannons. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 11.—Hun- dreds of people to-day went down to the proving grounds at Sandy Hook to witness the testing of the big mortar batte At 1:45 p. M. the isxteen mortars were fired four at a time in quick succession, | making but four tremendou reports. | When the smoke cleared away the sixteen | shots could be seen cle in the air, each | four grouped. together as closely as when they left the mortars. When they began to drop their speed was too great to admit | of noting their descent from the battery. The charge used in the first fire was sixty pounds of prismatic powder, with a pro- | jectile weighing 800 pounds. The mortars | were elevated to 60 deg. and were ranged to carry 6000 yards. Almost an hour elapsed before the mor- tars were discharged a second time. They were then charged to carry an 800-pound | projectile 4000 yards, Twenty-nine pounds | of black sphero-hexagonal powder was used. | The elevation of the gun was the same as | at first. The second firing was as succe ful as the first, with the exception that one of the mortars failed to discharge. The projectiles landed in a space very little if any larger than the size of a battle- ship. They were imbedded six feet in the | ground, and the corporal in charge at that | point declared that nearly all of them dropped vertically into the sand. The officers present pronounced the trials | extremely satisfactory. An exhibition was | given of the ten-inch rifle, which is| mounted on the Gordon disappearing | gun-carriage. After the shot was dis- charged a break in the machinery, of the | carriage occurred and the tests had to be discontinued. The guests were then taken to the top of | | the gun-lift battery, where tworfonster 12- | ¥ inch guns were mounted. Afterone of the guns had been run up to the level of the platiorm of the battery 1t was given a | range of five degrees and elevated ten de- | grees. The 1000-pound projectile was | backed by 470 rounds of prismatic power. | This piece was only discharged once, the shot landing far out to sea, directly in a line but much behind a white buoy which had been placed there for a mark. ! Disappearance of a Musician. | DENVER, Coro., April 11.—Dion de| Romandy, a distinguished Hungarian | musician, who has been leader of the or- chestra at the Taber Opera-house during | the winter, has mysteriously disappeared. | He took a train for the West and it is pre- | sumed he is en route to San Francisco. He gave the management of the theater no | notice of his intended departure and so far as known did not confide his plans to any | one. S LSl Yy Chief Seavey Resigns. OMAHA, Nesr., April 11.—Chief of Po- | lice Seavey announced to-day that he would | tender his resignation to-morrow. He was relieved pending an investigation of al- | leged corruption in the force. He was not | reinstated on demand. Seavey has been police chief eight years. He organized the National Police Chiefs’ Association. L R Ordered a Dividend. MILWAUKEE, Wis., April 11. — Re- ceiver Fletcher, who had in charge the col- lection of the amounts due from the sev eral stockholders of the Plankington Bank, reported to-day to Judge Johnson the pay- | ment of amounts aggregating $6 whereupon the court ordered a payment of 5°per cent dividend by the assignee. e e Ochoa the Revolutionist. EL PASO, Tex., April 11.—The trial of Victor L. Ochoa, charged with inciting a revolutionary movement in Mexico, ended to-day. The proof seems to be most con- clusive, and Ochoa will probably receive a short sentence. . Executed Privately. GAINESVILLE, Fra., April 11.—Grant Griffin, colored, who murdered William Tibbs, a negro gambler at La Crosse, on November 6, was hanged privately in the County Jail here yesterday BELFAST-BUILT BOATS. The Ship-Building Industry and the Linen Trade of the City. Besides being known for its linen manu- facture Belfast is noted as the greatest ship- | building portin the world. The largest ships are made here, and travel to the uttermost parts of the world—wherever a ship may sail. The tourist who crosses the ocean in one of the magnificent White Star liners would do well to stop off a day or two in Belfast and see where the first plank was laid and the last touch of polish and paint puton. Everything pertaining tothe shipis made here. Solid bars of iron and steel are cut and polished and molded into shape; huge sheets of steel are punched with holes and indentations as easily as we would prick a hole in a piece of paper with a pin; logs are sawed into planks, cabin fittings carved and lished, puffing, steaming engines and ggilers made to propel the accom- plisbed marvel safely and quickly across thousands of miles of rolling and treacher- ous waters. I stood on the dock and gazed on the huge hulk arising amid its forests of poles of the *‘largest ship yet made.” Then I went into the works, where hammers were sounding. forges roaring, anvils clanging, saws cutting,” chisels smoothing, molten metal flowing like water, engines steam- ing and hissing, and where 10,000 men were working in different ways and at dif- ferent objects necessary to the completion of the great ship. The next time I ride on an ocean steamer everything will possess a new interest. . It takes nine months to build one of the large ocean steamers. The Majestic and the Teutonic are among the latest steamers built at Belfast. The principal proprietor of these vast shipbuilding works, Sir Edward Harland, worked his way up from the lowest round of the ladder. “He has been Mayor of Bel- fast, has entertained the Prince of Wales, and has recently been knighted by Queen Victoria 3 In studging the best methods for ship- building he observed the motions of the fish, its long slender figure, its fine lines apd pointed extremities, and oon- | same fashion, | lofty that it is impossible to s: ceived the idea of building his ships in the 0ld shipmen all foretold disaster to the long tapering vessel, but such proved to be the reverse of the truth. The firm of Harland & Wolff also intro- duced the ‘‘Belfast bottom,” now generally in use, which is flat and square of bilge— shipmen may understand that term, but I do not—and has a large carrying capacity. This same firm also introduced the inno- vation of having the first-class accommo- dations amidships, thus avoiding the disa- greeable and nauseating smells from the galleys. _ Belfast also has the largest rope-works in the world, and ropes of the fineness of a silver cord to the thickness of 2 man’s arm are manufactured here.—Chicago Record. EoiE SCIENTIFIC HOUSE DECORATION. A Young Woman of Observation Speaks of Color Schemes for Rooms. “I have been helping an old school chum to refurnish her house,” said a young woman of observation, “and I have learned more about color effects in one week than I ever knew before. You see, houses are not painted or papered as they used to be, on the old, simple plan of ‘that will look well here,” and ‘such a pattern will be all right there,” but according to settled laws, canons and rules. It’s quite a scien- tific matter now, I assure you. “Yellows, for instance, are all right for a hall or vestibule, but they must not be used in any room_in which one rests or reads or works. Why? Because yellows do not absorb any light, but are strong re- flectors, and the reflected rays of light are t only trying to the eyes, but positively ect the brain and the spirits, creating a stinet disturbance of the nervous centers. So the modern scientific decorator, at any rate. tells us, and we believe him. On the other hand, buffs and creams | are recommended for the nursery and children’s sleeping rooms, becaase of their tonic qualities, They are better than white, which® is apt to disturb .the young optic nerves by its brilliancy, and are caleplated to impart a cheerful, but-not too boisterous temperament, as well as a good complex- ion to the youngsters. “For the library or werkroom there is no color like coffee. Coffee, in fact, is the most soot hirlg.; thing in the color world it seems. It induces a pleasant nirvana feel- ing such as nothin; else does; it conduces to habits of speculative thought, it pro- duces a philosophical calm, and itis emi- nently succe literary efforts. - Indeed, there seems to be some delicate and- abstruse connection be- tween coffee as a beverage and coffee asa | color for domestic decoration. I suggested something of this sort to the handsome and interesting young artist who was su- perintending the decoration, and he eon- descended (o agree with me. “I have learned one really important fact about colors, however. I used to im- agine that there was no color so cool as white, but I have been taught that, to the contrary, the coolest of all colors is red— not the flaring, glaring red, but the dull Pompeiian red and terra cotta. These are cool because of their peculiarly absorbent | qualit It is almost impossible to light | or warm them, and I had_to-day a most convincing object lesson of this fact—that while the cool, white room of the Words- ian poem is all very nice to read | nd does at _first sight impress one it does not begin to com- | in coolness with one in dull red. . to the two ' rooms had_just the same | cooling effect on meathat is produced by passing from sunshine into shadow. 0t course you know I am speaking all | the time of interior decoration, although I | am not sure whether a terra coita town would not be considerably cooler than a itewa So you see the old | ians were right when they cooled off their atria and patios by painting the town red. The only other color which ap proaches Poiupeiian red for coolness, so the elegant and artistic workman told me, | is dark green, but it has been found to | have so depressing a mental effect on most | })eople that it is yery sparingly used. Then was told lots about mass effects, distance | shadows and length lines, and I don’t| know what else, but guite enough to con- vince me that the decoration of our house interiors is conducted upon a plane so v whether it c art.”— is an_artistic science or a scien: New York Sun. — A TWO-PENNY FINE. The Defendant Laughed as She Made Good the Amount. At the West London Police Court, Eliza- beth Hillyer, of Cambridge Road, Ham- | mersmith, appeared to ansyer a summons charging her with willfully damaging a jacket and hat, the property of Louisa Matthews. The complainant, a smart- looking young woman, who carried the damaged jacket on her arm, said that on the 11th instant she was followed by the defendant. Another woman held her, says the Lon- don Graphic, while the defendant tore her jacket and pulled her hat off her head, throwing it into the road. She estimated the damage as 10s 5d for each. On being asked the cause of the attack, the com- plainant said that it was because she was living with the defendant’s husband, but she supported herself. The defendant said that the complainant left her husband and three children, the youngest in a dying condition. Mr. Ross said that whatever rievance the defendant had she must not reak the law: He fined her twopence and ordered her to pay 1s, the damage to the jacket, but without costs, the damage to the hat not being proved. The com- plainant left the court laughin; e —— Garfield as a Book-Reviewer. Concerning Garfield’s inordinate love for books a new story is told here. When he first came to Washington his salary was not sufficient to supgorc his family and to ratity his taste for literature and it was is large expenditure for new books, in fact, which kept him poor and added to his difficulties. In those days Garfield de- voured every new book that came from the press and his mania in this direction led to an arrangement between himself and the proprietors of a bookstore here. At the time publishers were 1n the habit of sending two copies of all new works to dealers for the purpose of securing reviews in the news- papers, and this firm asked Garfield if he would not have the new books turned over to him for review. ‘I never saw a happier man than Garfield was when this proposal was made to him,” says the boof—dealer. “He fairly hugged me for joy. Every night thereafter for three years he would stop at the store on his way from the House and A take home with him an armful of new books. Then he would sit up nearly all night reading these and writing out notices for the newspapers, bringing us the co}ay the mext morning. I can turn to the files of the old newspapers and show&gu col- umns of book notices written by Mr. Gar- field.”—Chicago Times-Herald. ———————— A Barrister’s Bureau of Information. The waste of time involved in long and often fruitless interviews with clients is one of the annovances incident to a_law- yer’s life. Much of the cost of legal ad- vice arises from this needless expenditure of valuable time. Another difficulty which a busy lawyer frequently meets is in- volved in a sudden call for a legal opinion on some state of facts submitted by a client at a time when other duties occupy the time of the lawyer. Various methods of meeting these difficulties have been devised from time to time. Legal writers or asso- ciations have offered for moderate fees to give to lawyers information on points sub- mitted. A" “Barristers’ Bureau” has re- cently been organized in Philadelphia to assist lawyers 1n preparing cases fiy fur- nishing nremoranda of authorities or argu- ments upon questions of law. The fees are high for lawyers having clients of mod- erate means, but when engaged in impor- tant litigations counsel may at times find it convenientto haye such a means of se- curing the authorities on some question | which has suddenly arisen on the trial of & case.—New York Tribune. —————— Fifteen of the forty-five pensioners of the war of 1812 are over #0 years old, [T CAUSES SURPRISE. News of Mr. Thurston’s Recall Reaches Hon-~ olulu. NO OFFICIAL ACTION YET. Dole’s Government Is Now Quietly Awaiting Devel- opments. PREPARED FOR EMERGENCIES. Several Statesmen Willing to Ac- cept the Mission to Wash- ington. HONOLULU, Hawaum, April 4. —The first news brought to this country of the trou- bles existing between Minister Thurston and Secretary Gresham was received by the China on Tuesday. It was a great sur- prise in official circles as well as to the community in general. Minister Willis states that the first and only information he had received was through the press dispatches that reached here on the 2d. The only notice received by the Government was a telegram from Mr. Thurston stating he is on his way home. HMis letters written on or about the 20th ult. allude to rumors, but in a private letter he stated thathe intended remaining in Washington for the present. Minister Hatch said to-day: ‘“We have received absolutely nothing officially in the matter. Six weeks have elapsed since the sful as a mild incentive to | newspapersstated that SecrétaryGresham’s notice was served on this Government and forty-eight hours since the arrival of the press dispatches, but Mr. Willis has given no notification of any action on the part of the American Secretary of State.” Notwithstanding this the reports are generally credited to be true, with the ex- ception of Mr. Thurston’s reported verbal apology. The people . here know their representative too well to believe any such statement. The Government is quietly waiting de- velopments and is fully prepared to meet any emergency Secretary Gresham may thrust upon them. If Mr. Thurston is re- called they will simply send another rep- resentative to Washington, as they well know the policy pursued by Secretary Gresham is entirely at variance with the spirit of the American people. Minister Hatch of the Foreign Department will un- doubtedly be the man sent if he will ac- cept the position, and Mr. Thurston will undoubtedly be given his pesition in the bureau. Aftorney-General Smith has been mentioned by sorie members of the Ameri- can League, but he is altogether too hot- | headed to take the position of a diplomat and probably would not be considered by the Cabine A movement may be made to have Mr. Thurston go into the Legislature in the position made vacant by C. L. Carter’s death. Thére is important legislation to come up, for which he is regarded as an able champion. These, however, are fore- casts which depend entirely upon future developments. President Dole is at present on a trip to the other islands, having left jnst after the arrival of the China's dispatches. Un- doubtedly what the Government would like to do is to refuse to appoint a successor to Mr. Thurston, thus necessitating the recall of Minister Willis. He has made himself obnoxious to the republic in many ways of late, and were it not for the desire to keep on friendly terms with the United States, his recall would have been de- manded long ago, also Consul-General Mills. Itis policy alone that keeps them here. To the body politic of Hawaii they are persona non grata in every sense of the word. The Government knows that until the next session of Congress they are at the mercy of President Cleveland, whose enmity is unquestioned. 1tis not the in- tention, however, to incur the enmity of the American people by an attempt to retaliate. President Dole at this writing has not re- turned to Honolulu, and he has not given out anything to intimate the probable course of the Government, but it is well known that he will do his utmost for con- ciliation before entering upon a policy savoring of retaliatory measures. OFFICIALS ARE RETICENT. Gresham’s Message to Willis May Have Been Stopped En Route. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 11.—The officials of the State Department were silent to-day when questioned relative to the latest Hawaiian news brought by the Alameda, and refused to make any re- sponse when questioned as to the cause of the delay in the report by United States Minister Willis of his instructions touching Minister Thurston. Itcan be stated posi- tively that instructions were sent to Mr. Willis on March 5 last, in ample time to have caught the Chjna, unless by some accident they miscarried on the way from ‘Washington to Ban Francisco. Whether they went as far asa peremptory demand for Mr. Thursten’s recall or were confined to a direction to Mr. Willis to intimate that Mr. Thurston had been indiscreet in his public utterances and had thus en- dangered the cordial relations of the two countries cannot be learned. It is also suggested that the instructions, though actually leaving Washington, never reached Hawaii, but were stopped by tele- graphic orders at San Francisco or some intermediate point. Mr. Hastings, Charge d’Affaires of the Hawaiian legation, was shown the forego- ing dispatch and read it with much inter- est. He said it was a diplomatic question which he would not discuss if he had any information, but as a matter of fact the legation was in possession of no informa- tion whatever on the subject. LONGFELLOW'S FIRST VERSES. He Was Past Thirty When He Began Publication. Toward the end of 1836 he took up his abode in Cambridge, where he was to re- side for the rest of his life—for forty-five years. He was made to feel at home in the society of the- scholars who clustered about Harvard, then almost the sole center of culture in the country. His work for the college was not so exacting that he had not time for literature. The impulse to write poetry returned; yet the next book he published was the prose, ‘Hyperion,” which appeared in 1839 and which, though it has little gldt or action, may be called a romance. The youthful and poetic hero, a assionate pilgrim in EnroYe, Was, more or less, a reflection of Longfellow himself. A few months later, in the same year, he ublished his first volume of poetry— *Voices of the Night”—in which he Te- printed certain of his earlier verses, most of them written while he was at Bowdoin. Some of these boyish verses show the in- fluence of Bryant, and others reveal to us that the young poet had not yet looked at life for himse! l,gut still saw it through the stained-glass windows of European tradition. The same volume contained also some more recent poems: ‘“The Be- leaguered City” and ‘“The Reaper and the Flowers,” and “The Psalm of Life”’—per- haps the first of his poems to win a swift and abiding popularity. These lyrics tes- tified that Longfellow was beginning to have a style of his own. As Hawthorne wrote to” him, “Nothing equal to them was ever written in this world—this West- ern world, I mean.” Certainly no American author had yet written anyfioem of the kind so good as the best of those in Longfellow’s volume of ““Ballads,”” printed two years later. Bet- ter than any other American poet, Long- fellow had mastered the difticulties of the story in song; and he knew how to com- bine the swiftness and the picturesqueness the ballad requires. His ballads have more of the old-time magic, more of the early simplicity, than those of any other modern English author. Of its kind there is nothing better in the language than “The Skeleton in Armor,” with its splendid lyric swing, and “The Village Blacksmith” and “The Wreck of the Hesperus” are almost as good as in their humEler sphere. “Ex- celsior,” in the same volume, voices the nobler aspirations of youth, and has been taken to heart by thonsands of boys and irls.—Professor Brander Matthews in St. Nicholas. LIKE A NATURAL ~HAND. Warmed by i!lectriclty Resemble the Living Member. to A New York Inventor’s Scheme to Add to the Value of Artificial Limbs. There is a genius on Canal street who thinks heis going to make his fortune. He is an inventor, and occupies an attic room in an old gambrel-roofed house, from the windows of which he can see the Georgian spire of St. John’s Church. At present he is living on the proceeds of the sale of a patented waistband buckle, and times are | rather hard with him, but he is confident that both fame and fortune are in his path and grasp. The two terms are used ad- visedly, because his invenion {s that of patent calorified and vibrant artificial hands and feet. “You see,” said the inventer, taking a beautifully modeled and articulated arm of kid, papier mache and aluminum from a drawer, “my brother has an artificial hand and forearm, the real articles having been shot off at Gettysburg. I happened to touch this artificial hand of his one day during the February cold snap, and it felt so awful freezing “and death-like that it sent the shivers all over me. One of those shivers reached my brain, I guess, for the thought came to me in a flash, ‘What a failure a thing like that is any way.’ ‘“You see I had aright to think bad things about that hand if T wanted to, because 'twas mine. It was my brother's, of course, but I madeit. SoI borrowed it of him then and there. He grumbled some about hein%x without it, said he'd need of it to carry his satchel—he’s a collector for the gas company—but I told bim it was a case of must, that he'd thank me as long as he lived, and so on, and here it is. Now, then, just take hold of that hand.” With that the inventor lifted the arm from the work bench and held it outin such a way that the hand lay in a position for grasping. ““Grab it as you would a natural hand,” said the inventor, “press it gently, and let your hand rest for 8 moment. You'll find it a tingler.”” That was just what the hand seemed to be—in a tingler. The hand was covered with a kid glove, and underneath the glove there was felt a gentle throbbing motion which seemed to be communicated to the living hand, while an equally gentle and }xleasant warmth was plainly perceptible. t seemed hard indeed to realize that the hand was not one of living flesh and blood instead of a piece of mechanism. “How is it done?” said the inventor. “Oh, easy enough. It's just electricity. Right here, where the stump fits in, you'll observe is a small dry battery. From it a current is sent down to the fingers where it passes through minute tubes, or veins if you will, of asbestos; that is the heating system. A second current sets in motion a number of small diaphragms which lie along the palm, and it is that part of the arrangement which gives the throbbing motion to the hand. “You see,” continued the inventor, grow- ing a little enthusiastic over his arrange- ment, ‘“calorified and vibrant artificial hands and feet make very much ‘possible that which was not so before; in fact they open up new possibilities of life to maimed men and women. With this electrical vivification a young man who has lost his left arm in a sawmill can pass such an arti- ficial arm as this around his sweetheart’s waist and she will not only feel 1ts gentle warmth against her throbbing heart, but the yqung man has only got to give the battery an extra charge before he leaves home to go sparking and the girl would swear that his hand is glowing and quiver- ing with an emotion he cannot control when really it is nothing but a question of electrified particles of "asbestos and tin typ&metal. *‘The benefits of my invention even go further than that,” continued the genius, “I know a man who lost both feet in a powder explosion. Now this man’s wife suffers terribly from cold back, and noth- ing seems to relieve her. Now here’s my chance. I'm going to fit that man’s arti- ficial feet with the patent calorification at- tachment, and then there will be no more trouble. You see, it will revolutionize the old antagonism of feet and back, and a man with artificial limbs will positively be at a premium—provided he has the patent calorification and vibratory attachment on.”—New York Sun. e — A Very Peculjar Kite. A balloon-maker, who uses kites in ex- erimenting, has made a kite which, upon eing tossed into the air, will scud away exactly like a bird. It will fall if a string is attached to it. Anybody can make this kite if he will bear in mind the appearance of a bird in the air. It consists of a wing-like main part and a paddle-like tail. It may be of any size. The wings should be like two right-angled triangFes. connected at the base, only the Eaper must be curved out- ward beyond the hypotenuse, much the same as a bird’s wingis curved. About half the length of one wing from this main portion, a light, flexible piece of wood should hold the tail—a paper paddle of the area of one of the wings. Make each wing with a little convexity from the under side, and don’t attempt to flg' it with a string. ' Tie a string to the le of a frightened bird; it will fly to the en of it, flutter a moment, and fall to the ground. This kite will do the same. A bird cannot fly backward, neither can this type of kite. It will go with the wind, and for the same redson that a bird goes forward. The tendency of the breeze, which will first strike the’ tail, will be to throw the .kite down, but as the tail goes down it ele- vates the wing portion. The instant the wings begin to rise to a perpendicular gos tion to the wind current, it presents a roader surface to the breeze, and is, of course, pushed onward.” By this undu- latory snake-like wavering, it scuds on- ward and upward. This movement may be seen in any fluttering flag on a breezy day. Indeed, this discoveg was made by observing the undulneoli{ otion of a flag on a mast.—New York Recorder. The word Papua is Portuguese for “friz- zled,” and the district inhabited by’ the Papuans was named in honor of their wmuch-decorated head-dresses. «AGGETT 1, EMPEROR." J. Saulmann Excoriates the Superintendent of the Mint. ADVOCATE OF THE RAILROAD. Introduced by Stanford to Cleve- land When He Sought Office. ! J. Saulmann, a member of the Demo- cratic County Committee, is deeply inter- ested in the conflict that is raging between John Daggett, Superintendent of the Mint, and certain leaders of his party. {\{r, _Su\_xl- mann occasionally dips his pen in vitriol and writes about men he does not like. He wrote as follows about Mr. Daggett yester- day: 2 o the Editor of the Call: Looking over the Inrznntncmmeuw {i John Daggett I, emperor of Siskiyou and autoerat of the Mint, published in your issue of Monday last, one is uncon- sciously carried back to the haleyon days of the ancient regime in France, when Louis X1V, the great Sun King, answered the respectful re- monstrances of his Ministers with his famous «Letat cest moi” (I am the State), and to those later days when Marechal Vilieray, the Gov- ernor of his grandson, Louis XV, the well- beloved, exhlbfied the little five-year-old King npon the balcony of the Tuileries to the erowd of Parisians who had gathered there, exclaim- ingall the time: ‘Look, master, look at these Well, they are all yours, they all be- ou.” His Majesty the Czar informs us that he was 2 candidate fof the complimentary nomination for United Stftes Senator,and that Senators Fay, Biggy and Gesford promised to vote for him in consideration of a certain amount of patronage. Senators Fay and Biggy have em- phatically denied the soft impeachment, and having by their acts und votes during the past four years proven that they belong to the pe% pleand not to the corporations, the people of San Francisco, knowing them, and knowing also that the autocrat of the Mint has been the consistent, persistent and faithful agent and advocate of the octopus for many years past, will readily believe that the Senators told the truth, and that the autocrat was drawing upon his imagination for his facts. The record of Senator Gesford also proves conclusively that he could not confiistenl?’ have voted for the servitor of the octopus and have retained the confidence of his constituents. The autoerat says that he didn’t care a snap of his fingers whether they voted for him or some other good Democerat. Well Mr. sford voted for Dennis Spencer, Mr. Fay for Judge Maguire and Mr. Biggy for Joseph J. Dwy What's the matter with their Domocraey, John? XNotenta- cles of the octopus upon them; all true, good and loyel men, warranted to withstand the seductive influences oi Herrin, Waters and Deacon Stubbs. And so the great autocrat of the Mint has discharged the sister of Senator Ges- ford because her brother would not betray the people. 3 Well, this is certainly a new way of doing politics—one that ought to stamp him as the champion peanut politician of the age. And he has taken the laundry work of the Mint away from Senator Biggy, who always did a clean job, politically or otherwise, and is now compelled to do all of his dirty linen before the eyes of & disgusted public. Yet there'is trea- s0n to the interests of the people upon it, and all the perfumesof Arabiacannot wash out the stains. He says that he owes the dis- charge of the young lady heretofore mentioned and of the brother of Miss Fay and Biggy to the Democratic party, which he considers has been bunkoed out of patronage. The autocrat 1s mistaken—emphatically so—for if anybody was bunkoed it was the Democratic party when he received his nl:{\aigtment, in spite of Demo- cratic protests and objections. Y e continues that his action in disposing of the patronage of the Mint was governed entire- Iy by his judgment as to the fidelity to party interests of the recipients of patronage. Since the autocrat assumes the entire responsibility for having employed professional prize-fighters and for having imported ballot-box manipula- tors from Sacramento and Oakland to fill cleri- cal positions in the Government service, the managers and followers of the Democratic arty feel muech relieved, for they have been Feurful all along lest the odium of having been guilty of planting these exoticsin our midst Should have been visited upon_their unoffend- ing heads. Iam inclined to believe, says our autoeratic friend, that fayors from a “bold, bad man’ are appreciated only when they are about to be lost. Bold he certainly is for it takesa very bold man indeed to single outan inoffensive youn, women as the object of his vengeance. “Bad’ e is most assuredly, else why should the Dem- ocratic party have protested against his ap- ointment as one unfit to be made? My distri- Piition of the patronage is best justified from the fact that it was the greatest factor in the nomination and election of James H. Budd to the office of Governor. continues our friend, the Czar: Well at last the secret is out and we are glad of it. We know that he has violated the President’s order of July 14, 1886, ad- dressed to all heads of deparfments warning all Federal office-holders against makin, their influence felt in the menagement of pri- mary meetings and nominating conventions, and that from ci%h! to ten employes of the Mint neglected their public duties by and with his advice and consent and participated in the deliberations of the State convention, but we never knew that it was he to whom we were tn- debted for the Ylensuxe of having the famous buckboard candidate for our chief magistrate. We remember Mr. Estee assuring the Republi- can State Central Committee that it was the A. P. A. vote and the vote of the renegade Republicans that defeated him. We have heard it rumored that Martin Kelly and his Fremont Club claim the honor of hav- ing done the job. Itis openly proclaimed on the highways and by-ways that the world-re- mnowned Iroquois Club of this eity, always with an eye to the good things of this world, did the business with its TN“L monster meeting at the Mechanics’ Pavillon—but, alas! they builded better than they knew, and they are lament- ably like the man who fell outof the balloon— they are not in it. But what shall we sey of the” Colossus of Siskiyou, who has single- handed and as if by magic performed this won- drous feat! Warwick the King-maker who during the War of the Roses made and un- made Kings of England at his will and pleasure, was not a circumstance to him. Napoleon, the little _corporal, of Corsica, to whom &1l Eane paid tribute for nearly fifteen yeers, sinks into ‘‘innocuous desuetude.” There nas never been any one like him since first the flight of vears began, and comparisons are utterly odorous, as Dogberry Was wont to say. y Sofar asmy uppointment to the superinten- dency of the Mint is concerned, the Colossus of Siskiyou goes on, “I secured that myself.” Well, not altogether so, if our genial friend and embryo Governor John H. Wise is to be believed. He told the following story at the rooms of the Democratic State Committee after his return from Washington in the pres- ence of the undersigned and five or six other witnesses. While wafting in_the President’s ante-chamber, not like Wilkins' Micawber for something to turn up, but just whiting like any other mortal, the door of the sanctum sanctorum of the President was sud- denly opened and lo and behold out_came the late Senator Stanford, leaning heavily on the arm of John Daggettl, Emperor of Siskiyou. Of course they said nothing to the President about the office soon to become vacant. They merely discussed the weather and the future Brospecu of the Black Bear mine in Siskiyou ‘ounty, and all that thing, and the meeting of the Senator and the Colossis was & mere acei- dent. But people will talk and shake their heads and discuss the coincidence in the most uncharitable manner. had ample indorsement from the banks of Siskiyou and from a majority of the business men of the State, and I also possessed the con- fidence of President Cleveland, and may we be permitted to add, for we always know a sure lhlnE when we see it, the confidence of the Southern Pacific Company of Kentucky, whose faithful servitor I have been for many years. Iam glad to say that my accounts have been found correct by the officers of the Treasury Department. Great Scott! Why shouldn’t they have been? The doughty superintendent is making money all the timg, literally coining it day after day, therefore how could his ac- counts be other than correct? Any one can afford to be honest on five thousand & Je"’ says Miss Becki Shlrg, and it is whispered in the corridors of the Baldwin Hotel, where the statesmen congregate at even- tide to discuss affairs that he llin receipt of five thousand a month from the Black Bear mine in Siskiyou, in addition to the comfort- able salary he receives from the Federal Gov- ernment, for goiu%to Mexico and Siskiyou to attend to his own business, rusticating at the springs, lobbying at the State capital, man- ipulating a State convention from a box in the aldwin Theater, and occasicnally, when time hangs hea in order that he may periorm the onorous function of drawing his monthly salary. At the present time I, Johu Dsg ett I of Siskiyou, am running the Mint, an TOpOSse to run it for some time, grovidln[ the Govern- ment should not take it into its head to run me. 1am not -ngry but, like the hd{ln the “Vicar of Wakefield,” I have sworn by the living Jingo to be revenged, and if I cannot revenge myself upon Senator Gesford I can at least fight the young lady who happens to be his sister, and still call myself & mag, if Seuator Biggy is beyond my reach I can geteven with him by taking the laundry work from and by washing my own dirty {inen in publi Tam simply disgusted with the un-Democratit ; methods adopte Democrats, concludes the autocrat. Our only. hope is that he will do nothing rash. Remem- bering the fact that no less than four Presi- dents of the third French Republic—to wit. Messieurs Thiers, MaeMahon, Grevy and Casi- mir-Perier—have resigned in disgust during the past twenty-five years, we are fearful lest the valient Superintendent should imitate their example, and what would become of the prize- fighters, bailot-box manipulators and purifiers with whom he has surrounded himself in the Fifth-street citadel? In conclusion suffer me o say that Mr. Daggett’s place is, properly epeaking, in Washington, for a man who can make and unmake Governors, fight & young man successtully and do_his own washing in public will never thrive in this cimvum{crlbed Stmosphere. He ought to go to Washington and become a Cabinet Minister. That is his proper fleld, and we shall cheerfully recom- mend to the President that his sphere of use- . Respectfully yours, fulness be enlarged. espe J?‘E!AL‘LMA.\'NA + San Francisco, April 10, 1895. —e A GREAT CANAL Proposition to Cut Through France From Bordeaux to Narbonne. The project of a canal between Bordeaux and Narbonne, whereby a waterway would be afforded between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, was already, in the year 1887, at least to some extent, investigated at the instance of the Government, but there are, no doubt, very serious obstacles to be overcome. According to the plan, the canal is to be some 250 miles lo\_’lg, close upon 150 feet wide and twenty-five feet deep. There will have to be thirty- eight locks and the calculated cost amounts to no less than £67,000,000. Even if all the vessels passing Gibraltar would make use of the canal there can be no prospects of ever making it pay. Stra- tegic considerations are the most im- portant, but in order to adequateli; serve strategic purposes a greater depth than the one mentioned above would be neces- sary and heavy fortresses would have to be erected for the defense of the canal. If the matter Is, therefore, soberly viewed from its various pointsof view thereis really nothing to recommend such an enormous outlay. There have been several proposals with reference to an Atlantic-Mediterranean canal; much attention has been given to the matter both by engineers and various authorities, but it cannot be said that any definite result has as yet been arrived at. 1In 1880 a plan was brought forward about a canal proceeding from Bordeaux and having its terminud in the vicinity of Nar- bonne. The length would be about 254 mil and the cost was calculated at 009,000, exclusive of the fortification: our years later there was another projec the Societe d’Etudes et Travaux Franca applying for a concession of ninety-nine years’ duration for the construction of a canal, like the one just referred to between Bordeaux and onne; its length was to be a few miles less, but the cost was con- siderably heavier, viz.: £29,000,000. The plan and various caleulations were carefully gone info, but were not quite approved of, so in 18% two commit- tees were appointed, one consisting of en- gineers and one comyprising representa- tives for the navy and commercial inter- ests. The reports of the committees were ready by November the following year, and they were both agreed that the financial basis was very incorrect, and that the:pro- posed canal would be of comparatively small use to_the country. with a hostile criticism on the part of the ublic, and an agitation was ‘started in avor of the undertaking. This agitation has since been continned, its outcome being a renewed examination of the whole ques- tion.—Engineering. Restoration of a Bible. Colonel Cabaniss, member from Georgia, received by express from J.F. Zahn of Toledo, Ohio, a little Bible with a history. On the fly-leaf was written in lead pencil : “T, B. Cabaniss, 1860,”’ and under this in ink the following words: “This Bible was found on the battle-field of Carrick’s Ford by Paul Edwards, major, and afterward lieutenant-colonel of the Fourteenth Ohio | Volunteer Infantry.” It was the first glimpse that Colonel Cabaniss has bad of the Bible_in thirty-four years. How it came in_ Mr. Zahn’s p ssion is not known, but some time ago he adver- tised for the owner in the Toledo Blade and received a letter from a Mr. Cabaniss, living in Mississippi. He remembered that some one of tfle same name resided at Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Zahn opened a correspondence with the Atlanta bearer of the name and was put on the right track, the gentleman proving to be a brother of the Representative. Enclosed within the pages of the little volume was a 1 cent postage stamp of an issue antedat- ing the war. The Bible is as well pre- served as thouih it had been recently re- moved from a bookcase, and, in the words of the delighted owner, it doesn’t look as if it had been used much before or since the late unpleasantness.”” The fight at Carrick’s Ford was one of the earlier battles of the war.—Washington Post. ——— Clinker for Road Pavement. A new road-making material is produced at Hornsey, a suburb of London, by col- lecting and burning the dirt of the district, which leaves considerable residue in the shape of clinker. The coarser of this is an excellent material for road making, The finer clinker is put in a mortar mill and mixed with lime or cement and used as mortar and grouting. There is still a great deal of clinker left, and this is mixed with a fair quantity of Portland cement, making excellent paving-stones at about half the cost of those purchased from the patent- stone makers. 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