The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 12, 1895, Page 6

THE FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DATLY CALL—$6 per vear by mail; by carrler, 150 er weck. ) per year. The Eastern ofice of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Paci ates Adver- tising Bureau, Rbinelander bullding, Rose and Duane street FRI Fight the income tax. Adlai emerges suddenly from obscurity, but appears to be in a bad muddle. Drop the lottery ticket and save your money. ton has kept her pledges like a sure Sto winner. He defends the constitution who resists | unjust taxation. | There are always new victories to be won by men of enterprise. W The competing road will furnish the ties to bind us to progress. The way to the income tax is to fight it all along the line. Every improved street will open a new avenue for prosperit Many a big lie has been sneakingly in- troduced by the phrase It is said.” There is not much mirth in the laughter of a bad boy who has been spanked. The silurian who cannot be converted | during this revival is hopelessly lost. The girls of Santa Rosa will be the prettiest blossoms in the rose festival. The star of empire may be coming west, but the dawn of enterprise has got here. Give the Supreme Court another lick at the income tax and yeu will see a knock: out. It is just as easy to acquire the habit of publishing a decent newspaper as the other kind. Monopoly may not be lying low, but it has set its organs to a good deal of low lying. There should be no socialistic class taxa- tion in a land of equal men and equal rights. s better to have a sure thing bank than a chanceinalot- { It is alwa in a saving tery game. chance to make a -d and the competing | Santa Clara record on the boule road at the same tim Jalifornia as well a ’s pledge is not deemed a wise | ypolicy by those editors who do not know | how to strive f based on cleanli- ness. It is interesting to remember that no train robberies have occurred since the recent events in which the robbers were Killed. Taxes which can be collected only by a resort to the methods of the inquisition will never be sustained by the American people. The voices of the ministers of all de- nominations attest that the moral senti- ment of the Ci on the side of the Carn in opposing lotteries. Every report from the East concerning the place of holding the next Republican National Convention mentions San Fran- cisco as the favorite in the contest. It is a notable sign of the times that the gold monometallists are beginning to straddle, but the silver men are standing solidly, with both feet on their platform. As 'President Harrison is an instructor international law at the Stanford Uni- ¥, itisdifficult to imagine him be- lieving that the Presidency of the United States could bring a higher honor. in The journalist whose only measure of success is the number of dollars he receives, from whatever source, may be expected to have that moral standard ‘which is so easily accessible to rogues. The Blue Lake Advocate is slightly in error in saying ‘Humboldt will never have a railroad until its people build it them- selves.” Assoon as the Humboldt people start the road in good earnest they will get plenty of help. Assessor Dalton of Alameda County has had the intelligence to discover and the fidelity to put into operation certain pro- visions of the California constitution which require the property of the rich, as well as that of the poor, to be taxed for something like its value. That policy which confines itself to a denunciation of the Southern Pacific monopoly, not only ignores the great benefit to California which the Southern Pacific, under the wholesome restraints of competition, is capable of producing, but will generally be found neglecting to do the very thing which will bring about com- petition. The spirit of railroad enterprise has been aroused in Oregon by a demand for a road that will open up the regions around Coos Bay, Yaquina Bay and Tillamook Bay to the rest of the State, and the Salem States- man in urging the enterprise makes the complaint that about the only time the people of those sections are reminded they are in Oregon is when some of them are sent to the Legislature, the penitentiary or the asylum. 1i, instead of casting a slur on the efforts of the Half-million Club to increase the population of Ban Francisco by increasing that of the State, the Lakeport dvalanche should reflect that a part of the whoie scheme is the calling of attention to the wonderful resources and beauties of Lake County, it might be induced to pursue a course in which all the enterprising and wide-awake newspapers of California arg united. Our good friend, the Colusa Sun, seems to think that an aggregation of the people’s capital in the form of a corporation to build a railroad creates a thing that is necessarily bad per se. The people want a railroad. They subscribe money to build one, The best way in which to hardlc money for such a purpose is by means of & corporation. Cannot our good friend distinguish between a corporation which is an injurious monopoly and one that destroys monopoly? BECAUSE IT IS RIGHT. The cordial commendation given to the CaLy by the pastors of the churches of all denominations, for the stand it has taken in opposition to lotteries, should not be overlooked by any citizen who has a re- gard for the welfare of the City and a knowledge of the extent to which the lot- tery evil has been developed. That the course taken by the CaLL in re- gard to lotteries entails a loss of money is well understood. That, however, is but a minor consideration which need not en- gage the attention of the average citizen. It is of more general interest to know that the CALL, while losing money itself in the loss of the advertising patronage of lotteries, is engaged in saving money for the people by continually warning them against the enticements of the insidious evil. If it could be made kmown how many people have been induced by the CavL to save the dollar they would other- wise have expended for a lottery ticket, it would doubtless be found that the money saved to the City and the people in this way would far outweigh any loss that oc- curred tous, and to effect this great gain we are perfectiy willing to forego anytihing that might have come to us for advertising the lotteries by publishing their lists of winning number: The moral as; of this question, how- ever, is of far greater importance than that seen when looked at soleiy from the stand- point of economy. This truth was forci- bly emphasized by every one of that noble company of the pastors of the City, whose words we published yesterday. These men, representing all denominations and occu- pying the foremost pulpits of the City, are from the very nature of their calling trained to judge everything by its moral effect and its tendency to promote vice or virtue. The undivided consensus of their opinion is that the tendency of lotteries is distinctly evil and vicious as well as wast- ful and foolish. The man who indulges in the practice of buying lottery tickets not only wastes his money, but encourages in himself a desire to get something for noth- | ing that sooner or later develops a passion for gambling and ruins the moral fiber of his characte: Weighty, grave and serious were the wordsin which the pastors expressed them- selves in regard to the great evil. To their solemn significance an added weight was given by the opinion of Judge W. W. Mor- row of the United States District Court. Speaking the sentiments of & humane man, as well as those of & just Judge, he said: | “The United States Government has been legislating and endeavoring with the statutes enacted to prevent the distribution through the mails 'of matter relating to | lotteries, and I believe that this course meets with the approval of all the best | people. I am often called on to instruct juries called to try poor men for sending lottery matter through the mails, and it looks odd to step out of the courtroom after ing one of these cases and find the lot- v business fully presented to the public in the newspapers.” Of course, the newspapers that publish lottery-lists do not violate the letter of the law, but they do violate its spirit. They are, therefore, to be justly condemned at | the bar of public opinion for encouraging | a contempt for law as well as for morality and economy. Such a course should not be continued by any journal that aims fo be a great newspaper. The CALL,in its devotion to legitimate journalism, gladly places itself on the side of the churches, the courts and the savings banks, and urges in opposition to the lottery the cul- tivation of morality, law and thriit. BUFFOONERY WON'T DO. It pleased the editor of the Post to pub- lish in his journal on Wednesday a state- ment that the proposed bituminous-rock ordinance, which the Mayor vetoed, had been opposed by two of its contemporaries “for the reason, it is said, that they are in- terested in the proscribed bituminous mines.” The CaLL being oneof the papers that opposed the ordinance, promptly re- ! sponded that the statement, so far as it concerned the CALL or its proprietor, was alie; and furthermore it wasadded that “all who made or make such a statement know in their hearts they are liars.” The response of the Post yesterday was what we expected. Itattempts to escape the charge of maliciouslying by a resort to buffoonery, and seeks, with an uncertain flippancy, to make a jest of integrity. We are well aware the object of the editor of the Post, in prefacing his slander with the words “‘it is said,” was to afford himselfa loophole of escape if charged with origin- ating the lie. We are also aware that the evasive language of yesterday was a wrig- gling attempt to reach the loophole. We do not propose, however, to permit any such escape for any such offender. Flip- pancy will not serve the purpose of rascal- ity this time, for the point on which the Post has impaled itself is too sharp to be wriggled away from by any eel, no matter how slimy he may be. Here is the whole issue. The editor of the Post insinuates it has been said by somebody that the editor and proprietor of the Carn opposed the bituminous-rock ordinance because it was not favorable to a bituminous-rock mine in which he is in- terested. The CarLn plainly declares this to be a lie. The editor of the Post must now name the man who made the state- ment or he must take the lie to himself and acknowledge the authorship of a mean and malicious charge against a man who has mnever injured him in any way, but who on the contrary has more than once helped him and befriended him. On an issue of this kind there is no room for flippancy without self-ubasement. The Cavw carries with it an honorable measure of self-respect. Its traditions have ever been in accord with the highest principles of legitimate journalism, and it proposes to continue on that plane. It may please the Post to make a jest of integrity, to be flippant when its honor is at stake, to re- sort to buffoonery and play the fool in order to avoid responsibility in serious matters, but it must seek other objects of attack than the Cair when it chnoses to play that contemptible game. We will have none of it. We repeat that the Post has published a lie and we are not going to overlook the meanness of the liar in order to smile at the buffoon PAY IT UNDER PROTEST. Althoughg the decision of the United States Supreme Court on the income tax law leaves in a chaotic state even those features of the law which have not been clearly declared unconstitutional, the Fed- eral authorities are preparing to collect the tax on those incomes not specifically ex- empted by .the decision. This leaves no option on the part of citizens. They must pay the tax. But as the decision is not clear and satisfactory the tax should not be paid without protest. This would be a wise precaution and would simplify the task of recovering the money so paid. The law, as it has been construed, bears with particular severity and injustice upon Californians. For this reason they should resort to every legal means to secure self- protection and a final adjudication against the constitutionality of the measure. It the older States of the Union, particularly in New England, real property is more valuable than in California, and hence yields a larger revenue, and the invest- ments of the people there are very largely in National, State and municipal bonds, | which are exempt from taxation. As we pointed out in yesterday’s issue of the CaLy, the law, under the Supreme Court construction, places a burden on industry and thrift and exempts those surces of revenue in which these qualities exercise no present activity. It is so in all growing communities. New England is fullgrown. Her resources have been exploited and the profits ob- tained from their development have been largely invested in securities which are exempt from the operation of the income tax Jaw. California has not yet arrived at that stage of ripeness, and cannot possibly reach that point until all her peculiar and as yet haraly explored natural resources have been developed. At present it is practically virgin soil, yielding generous returns to industry and experiment, and inviting further effort on these lines. As the law stands, under the Supreme Court decision, it discourages industry and | thrift in the new and growing States and encourages investment in non-taxable se- curities, which do not build up a commu- nity. Manifestly this will operate even in the growing communities to a retardation of progress, for whenever there is surplus capital it wili prefer non-taxable to taxable investment. In short, the law offers a premium to an indolent employment of capital and serves as a check to those uses of money which build up a community. These considerations clearly inaicate the course which California should pursue. | If the tax has to be paid, let it be paid under protest, in order that the protestants | may reserve and preserve every single | point that may go to the protection l_;f} their individual rights. This, however, is | only a private and individual duty. Of greater importance than it is the duty which the taxpayers owe to the com- munity. This means to say that their | attitude toward the law should nuti be merely passively negative, but that | there should be an active, organized movement to test the constitutionali of the law. A movement of this kind has been already started in other parts of the country, but that is no reason why Cali- fornia should not strengthen the opposi tion with all her united force and energy. FUTURE A_qu{\l’[fEOTURE. An interesting and carefully considered | article by W. M. Conway in the London Chronicle on the present style of architec- ture and system of construction in that city, closes with a forecast concerning the architecture of the immediate future that suggests a much greater departure from the old order of things than has ever been ached by any one of equal authority in such matters, and gives reason for believ- ing that the civilized man of the future will be housed almost as cheaply as the South Sea Islander and as superbly as a Roman Emperor. Basing his argument upon the records of i history, which show that new conditions | of life have never failed to produce new | styles of architecture developed from a | blending of the preceding orders of con- | struction, the writer asserts the forces now | in operation will necessarily produce a | house structure widely different in some respects from that which now prevails, and vet anatural development of it. Improved means of transit have already materially | changed the aspect of cities, and this change will continue until the city of the | future will consist of a compact nucleus composed of buildings from fifteen to | twenty stories high, with a wide area of suburban villas extending for many miles around it. Along with this will come in- cessant alterations in buildings of all kinds | to meet the demand for new improvements | and the continuous shijting of the popula- tion. These forces create a need for build- | ings that can be rapidly erected, easily altered and moved without great cost. It appears certain, therefore, the mate- riais of the future will not be those of the past. Stone, wood and brick have had | | their day. Steel girders and concrete or terra cotta are becoming more and more | common for buildings of all kinds, and it | | seems likely that in the future they may | | have to give way to aluminum and paper. | The masterpieces of architecture at the Chicago Exposition show what the future may do in the way of palaces “lifting to a transient summer, paper walls.” Such structures wiil line the streets of future | cities and show a magnificence unparal- leled, as well as a convenience which for- mer generations never dreamed of. “Looking forward,” says Mr. Conway, “to the possible future of architecture in a world of powers enlarged by science, and | taste renewed e return to nature that marks our day, it is a pleasant and not un- healthy diversion to launch forth in thought to the coming era &nd behold the | cities that are to be—cities of great houses, | wide avenues and large open spaces—glori- | fied Chicagos at all the crossroads of the | highways of the earth. Inevitably in them the house of the individual must be | merged, as is already so largely the case, in some form of collective abode.” He then goes on to urge the London Common Council in its work of municipal develop- ment to construct a row of buildings of | this kind through oneof the slums it is | clearing out, and it is not impossible that | something of the kind may be undertaken. Strange as it may appear, therefore, the fleeting glory of the magic city by the lake may assume a more permanent form in the old gray city by the Thames and a new Chicago rise to take the place of fast van- ishing London. A GARDEN IN A VALLEY. Two beautiful valleys, whose draining rivers from the coast range empty into the | upper reaches of the bay of S8an Francisco, are the Napa anda Sonoma valleys, much alike in their topographical configuration, climatic conditions and soil fecundity and | both famous for special products and in- dustries. Santa Rosa, the county seat of Sonoma County, is the principal city of the Sonoma Valley, as Napa is of the Napa Valley. All of this region, the Sonoma Valley particularly, has an exceedingly interesting geographical history, and it is employed to explain some extraordinary physical phe- nomena which abound thereabout. Geolo- gists will say, for instance, that the time was, in comparatively recént geological times, when the Russian River, which now flows southwardly into the bay of San Francisco, pursued a nearly opposite course and emptied directly into the Pacific Ocean. They will explain this remarkable change by saying that about the time when Mount St. Helena, which closes the northern end of Napa Valley, was in vol- canic eruption there came a great upheaval which threw a ridge across the ancient Russian River and prevented its west- wardly flow, and that therenpon the waters were banked into a great lake, which, in breaking out, cut their way through the mountains to the bay of San Francisco, forming the deep gorges which constitute a distinctive feature of the upper end of the valley. The petrified forest, one of the wonders of California, found in the upper extremity | of the county, is supposed to have been formed by the burial of a living forest in a great deposition of ashes from St. Helena, this superimposed envelope in time silicifying the trees. Then came the disappearance of the ashes by the erosion of the rains, leaving the petrified trees standing, to be overthrown later by earth- quakes. Many other natural marvels abound in this wonderful region, including solid mountains of obsidian (volcanic glass) and others of columnar basalt, which is mined and shipped to San Francisco for street pavements. Living evidences of the origi- nal volcanic character of the region are found in the numerous hot springs which exist in nambers in the flanks of the mountains bordering the valley. These springs are invariably mineral, have a high medicinal value, and are largely vis- ited by seekers for health. Of more immediate interest than these natural marvels are those pleasant charms that make Santa Rosa so delightful a ;_:lace of residence, and the intelligence and en- terprise with which the residents have made them available. A few years ago Santa Rosa set a worthy example to all California cities environed by mountains by constructing a scenic drive to the sum- mit of the range on the eastern side of the city. This is one of the wonders of the State. After leaving the cool, rose- embowered, peaceful city, the sightseer crosses a fime level stretch of valley and 'hy a winding road ascends the mountain. From the crest the view is as enchanting as that from the heights of Redlands. The noble valley of Sonoma, with its splendid vineyards and orchards stretching to north | and south as far as the eye can see, backed on the west by the cool-wooded slopes of the western range, is a scene worth many a day’s journey to behold. In the center of this exquisite picture, set in a frame that has received the most artistic touches of the Creator, is the city of Santa Rosa itself, reposing peacefully amid the groves which are its own, and taking on an added charm from the noble featuresof its en- vironment. PERSONAL. Dr. K. Urban of Tomales is at the Lick. E. W. Preston of Nevada City is at the Grand. J. E. Enright of Santa Clara isstopping at the Lick. Thomas R. Bard of Hueneme is at the Occi- pental. Dr. A. K Osborne of Eldridge isregistered at the Grand. J. H. Flickinger, a fruit-packer of San Jose, 1s at the Palace. F. W. Macfarlane of Honolulu is among the guests at the Palace. C. L. Ruggles of the Stockton Independent is a guest at the Grand. L. Abraham, & merchant of Healdsburg, is stopping at the Grand. 4 Charles Rule, & cattleman of Duncans Mills, is staying at the Grand. S.F. Ayer, Supervisor of Santa Clara County, was in the city yesterday. E. W.Hale, & merchant of Eacramento, put up at the Baldwin yesterday. Captain William Gray, a prominent citizen of Merced, is a guest at the Grand. Assemblyman H. W. Laugenour of Woodland and Mrs. Laugenour are at the California. R. M. Shackleford, a miller of Paso Robles, arrived at the Occidental yesterday. General A. A. McDowell of Los Angeles and Mrs. McDowell are registered at the Palace. Professor J. M. Schaeberle of the Lick Ob- servatory arrived at the Lick House yesterday. Captain O’Connell and Ormond M. Lissak of the army are among the guests at the Califor- nia. G. N. Wilcox, an ex-Cabinet Minister of the Hawasiian kingdomm, is amoug the guests at the Occidental. lonel John T. Harrington of Colusa, & member of the Governor's staff, came down yesterday and put up at the Lick. W. C. Irwin, manager of the Spreckels inter- ests in the Hawaiian Islands, and his family arrived by the Alameda yesterday and went to the Palace. Attorney A. Barnard returned this morning per steamer Alameda from Sydney and Mel- bourne. Mr. Barnard’s many friends welcome his return. W. W. Heffelfinger, Yale’s great football player of 1892 who coached the California team in 18903, registered at the Occidental yes- terday from Minneapolis, where he is now en- gaged in business. Mrs. Nettie E. Gunlock, national president of the Ladies of the G. A. R., and her daughter, Miss Nettie E. Gunlock, arrived at the Baldwin sterday from Chicago. P. Olmsted, D. M. Berry, J. H, Perry, A.A. McKethan, F. B. Upham and F. D. Read, cadets in the United Btates navy, arrived from the Philadelphia at Honolulu yesterday on their way to Annapolis, where they have been or- dered to pass examinations. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Little Ben lives in & new house, one of the most modern of modern houses, where light, water, heat and other things are all to be had by turning & knob or touching & bell. He lives in & state of perpetual marvel over these things, and the othersnight, when suffering from & headache, the little fellow said to his mother, who sat beside him: “Please turn on the dark, mother; my eyes hurt me.”—Louls- ville Courier-Journal. Martini—They tell me you had a great time last night. I suppose you didn’t allow the others to do all the treating? Stoughton—It was about an even thing. They pald for the liquor, but the jokes were mostly at my expense.—Boston Transoript. Minnie—I wonder if there is any truth in the theory that tobacco will kill microbes? Mamie—Of course not. Charlle Lltewayte has been smoking & pipe for more than a year.—Indianapolis Journ “Oh, mamma, please do let the ship walk,” as & very seasick little four-year-old girl said to her mother on board the steamer.—New York Herald. Subbley—Here is a letter from “Anxious Sub- scriber.” 7 Chiefly—What does he want to know? Subbley—He wants to know how long a man would live if there were no such thing as death.—Boston Courier. Perhaps when woman carries the pocketbook then men will think it safe to attend the church fair; but will the woman be as fierce for going as she now is? Awful doubt! terrible uncertainty I—Boston Traveler. Clara—How under the sun did Edith happen to marry Mr. Awkward? Dora—He was the bane of her life at every ball she attended and I presume she married him to keep him from wanting to dance with her.—New York Weekly. Tommy—Yes, cats can see in the dark and so can Ethel; "cause when Mr.Wright walked into the parlor when she was sittin’ all alone in the dark I heard her say to him, ‘Why, Arthur, you didn’t get shaved to-day.’ "—Life’s Calen- dar. “Don’t you find it rather difficult to get rid of them?"” was asked of the man whois makinga specielty of Trilby tableaux with society women in the title role. “Oh,no. Whenever a women doesn’t suit I tell her that her feetare too small.”—Hartford Courant. Chase (to dentist)—I won’t pay anything ex- tra for gas. Just yank the tooth out, even if it does hurt a little. Dentist—I must say you are very plucky. Just let me see the tooth. Chase—Oh, I haven’t got any toothache; it's Mrs. Chase. She’ll be here in a minute.—Truth. “There’s the most reliable tipster on the track,” said Tender Foote to a friend at the racetrack. “‘He doesn’t scem to help you much.” “No. But I have reason to believe that he has been giving me to the bookmakers for a sure thing ever since he first met me.”—Wash- ington Star. AROUND THE COFRRIDORS. “The average man,” remarked Bookmaker Quinn at the Palace last night, “is in & very poor position to judge of the actual amount 1ost or won by any of the big bettors. Itmat- ters little whether you attend the races daily oronly on special occasions it is next to im- possible to come anywhere near the truth. “A man like Riley Grannan for instance wins or loses & fortune nearly every day, if the wild reports which daily gain circulation and credence are to be believed. When a man H_ke Grannan or ‘Pittsburg Phil’ is credited with losing $10,000 or $20,000 I will nearly every time bet that he has won lhllhmuch.c I\'ov’:nll: is opularl; believed that Tan dropred. anywhere from $40,000 to $60,000 on his last trip. I know positively and I think my assertion is worth something, that Grannan is still about $50,000 ahead on the two trips. He was very unlucky on the oc- casion of his last visit, though he lost nothing like the amount popular opinion credits him with. I know that his losses will not reach over $20,000, which leaves him 8 big winner n the season’s pla; & “Pittsburg Ph‘i‘, ys.ccurding to the talk of the «ahorse” people who nightly visit the Palace Hotel, carried something like $30,000 back East with him. As he wasa big loser at one time, about half that figure would be nearer the mark. Ed Percy, who is a general favorite with race-attending people, is coming in for a whole lot of sympathy just now. Up to two months ago he was a big winner, but the “knowing’’ ones now affirm that he is $30,000 loser. Apropos of the talk about followers of the turf, there is a story floating around the corri- dors of the Palace which has forits central attraction the name of Ives, the champion billiardist. This famous manipulator of the polished ivories arrived in San Francisco sev- eral days before the time set for the match with Schaffer, and he concluded to try his luck with the selling platers then and now smusing the public at the Bay District track. In a short time, 80 the story goes, Mr. Ives was loser to the extent of $16,000. The Brunswick- Balke people wanted Mr. Ives to play his en- gagement with Schaffer on a certain day, but the young Napoleon could not see it that way. “You will have to wait, gentlemen, until I get even,” he is quoted as saying, and it is gener- ally supposed that he pulled himself finan- cially together, for he sailed right in and beat the “wizard” without much apperent effort. Colonel Chalmers Scott of Los Angeles is in #his city, and will probably leave next week for the Rosebud Agency in South Dakots to sur- vey the lands of the Indian reservation for al- lotment in severalty to the Indians. Speaking of his mission last evening he said: *Dr. Wil- lism A. Winder, formerly a captain in the Third Artillery and in command of Alcatraz during the war, who resigned from the army 10 resume the practice of his profession, was employed by the Government to make an allot- ment of lands at Round Valley reservation in Mendocino County. After that he was ordered to South Dakota to take charge of the allot- ment to the Sioux Indians at Rosebud Agency, the previous surveys of the lands having been unsatisfactory to the department. Dr. Winder has called upon me 10 report immediately and take charge of all the surveys. The standard and base lines and township lines are all to be run and section- fzing is to be dome. Then subdivisions are to be made of the land into twenty aud forty acre lots. Each Indian will get about that amount where the land is good, but where it is bad it will be allotted in larger tracts.” Colonel Scott, who is & son of the late Rev. Dr. Scott of this city, is & member of the Amer- ican Society of Engineers and & member of other such societies, and has been assistant engineer of the Southern Pacific for many years, and was for some time chief engineer of the Guatemala Central Railway. He saysthat he is still a candidate for the position of adju- tant-general, and if he is the Governor's choice will relinquish the work in South Dakota for the Federal Government. Ben Maddox of the Visalia Delta was speak- ing about the mining outlook in Tulare the other day at the Lick, and, mentioning the old Mineral King distriet, said: “Mineral King is a favorite place for people down our way to go in summer fishing and hunting. Otherwise there is nothing doing up there. It is not many years ago since there was a good-sized mining town there. A fine wagon road was built up to the altitude of 8000 feet, and things were very lively. Old Tom Fowler was the leading spirit in it all and the prinei- pal owner in the mines. Atone time he could have sold out for a fortune, but Tom bad an idea that there wasuntold wealth in Mineral King, and boasted tbat he would held on until he took out enough money to ‘buy Ireland and set her free. But there was something wrong; I don’t know what it was. There is plenty of quartz there, and there mey be a way of mak- ing it pay; but poor old Tom died poor, and the wagon road is now used only by campers.” PEOPLE TALEED ABOUT. William Morris, the English poet, rejoices in the possession of & prodigious memory. Given & fair start on any sentence in Dickens’ works, he will complete that sentence with very little deviation from textural accuracy. Were every copy of “Pickwick Papers” destroyed to-day, Willisa Morris could write the book almost word for word as it now stands. Rev. Calvin Lathrop, a noted Methodist dr- vine, has just celebrated his 91st birthday at Somerville, N. Y. The aged clergyman had many thrilling experiences in his earlier life, which, gathered together and put in book form, would make unusually interesting read- ing. He wasa ’49er,and was engaged in dig- ging gold when not preaching. He has also twice experienced shipwreck. Albert George Sandeman, the new governor of the Bank of England, was born in 1833. He is @ wine merchant. He is one of her Majesty's lieutenants for the city of London, and was Sheriff of Burrey in 1872. In 1856 he married & daughter of the late Vicomte da Torre da Moncorro, Portuguese Minister to England. Since the assassination of M. Carnot, the cutler at Cette who sold the dagger to the wurderer has, it is sald, been inundated with orders for weapous of similar pattern and size to that used on the fatal night at Lyons. The orders come from all parts of the world, some- body in Brussels having asked for 300 daggers. The South Wales News has the following amusing peragraph: *It is calculated that some 10,000,000 colored photographs of Queen Victoria and the Prince and Princess of Wales are produced annually, and find a ready sale all over the world—even in America.” The German Emperor's imperial train cost $750,000 and took three years to construct. There are altogether twelve cars, including two nursery-carriages. The reception saloon contains several pieces of statuary, and each of the sleeping-cars is fitted with & bath. On the fleld of Waterloo a topaz seal, set in gold, was recently found, bearing the arms and motto of Viscount Barrington. It belonged to Ensign Barrington, who was killed at Quatre Bras, June 16, 1815, and had lain undiscov- ered for eighty years. ' Euphrates Esculapius Endymion McJimsey is the name of & clerk in the Recorder’s office at Marysville, Mo. He signshis rather euphoni-- ous name with a big rubber stamp. His mother was a student of oriental history and mythology. The house in which Pierre Loti lives when in France is the identical one in which he was born forty-five years ago. Many of the rooms there are furnished in the style of habitations he has occupled in Turkey, Algeris, Aunam and other lands. Professor Joseph Emerson, who has been senior professor of Greek at Beloit College, Wis., since 1848, is a cousin of the late Ralph Waldo Emerson. He is now about 74 years of age, and is known among the boys as ““01d Zeus.” The latest pretender to the *“throne” of France is Mohammed-ben-Bourbon. He claims deseeént fromyone of the Bourbon Princes who went to Algiers at the time of Louis XIV. He is & cattle-dealer at Rougie, in Algeria. King Humbert of Italy is an amateur cook, as well as an expert fireman. It is said that he can manipulate & grill and manage a kitchen range as well as any one in his chef's department. Ex-Congressman Stevens of Massachusetts has restored the wages of the 1200 operators in his woolen-mills to the rates which prevailed before the recent dull times. BANKER DONOHOE'S WILL In a Brief, Concise Instrument Millions Are Disposed Of. THE BULK TO0 HIS FAMILY. A Bequest of Fifty Thousand Dollars to the Menlo Park Seminary. The will of Banker Joseph A. Donohoe, who died on April 5 last, was filed for pro- bate yesterday. Its full text is as follow: In the name of God, I, the undersigned, Joseph A. Donohoe of San Francisco, make, publish and declare my last will and testament as follows: 2 I revoke all former wills and codicils by me heretofore made. After payment of all my just debts and funeral and testamentary expenses I give, de- vise and bequeath as follow 1. (1) To my nephew, William J. Donohoe of New York. son of my late brother, John, the sum of 5000 (2) To my niece, Mrs. Elizabeth Applegate, daughter of my said brother John, the sum of $5000 as her separate property for her sole and separate use free from the eontrol or interfer- ence of any husband. (3) To my sister-in-law, Jane Blaine, $5000. _Egbo'rp my sister-in-law, Mrs. Aimee Schneely, IL. The foregoing clauses in this clause of my will are to be paid in gold coin of the United States of the present standard at the end of two years aiter my decease unless my execi- tors see fit to pay them or some of them before that time. None of the said legaciesare to bear interest. III. Ideclare that I have promised the Most Reverend Patrick William Riordan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco, to give him fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars asa con- | tribution toward a fund for maintaining the | seminary which he_ intends to build at Menlo Park. In case I shall not have given the same to him before my death, then I give the same, | or the balance thereof that remains unpaid at | the time of my death, to him personally and not as a corporation, or in case of his death, to the person who shall be for the time being the Roman Catholic Archbisnop of San Francisco. 1direct that the same or such part thereof as remains unpaid at the time of my death be paid by my executors in said coin aiter the completion of said seminary in annual pay- | ments of $10,000 each. IV. Igive to my executors $11,000 in said coin in trust to pay the same at their conven- fence atany time within five years after my death, without interest, as follows, to wit: Five thousand dollars to'the Roman Catholic Orphan Asvlum of San Francisco,or to the rson having charge of the same for the time eing; $5000 to St. Vincent’s Orphan Asylum, near San Rafael, or to the person ha 035 charge thereof for the time being, and $1 to the Protestant Orphan Asylum of San Fran- eisco, or to the person having charge thereof | for the time being. V. Iconfirm and for the better assurance of their title I %i\‘e and devise to my beloved chil- dren, Mary Emilie Parrott, Joseph A, Donohoe Jr.and Edward Donohoe, the lot of land and | building thereon in the city and county of San Francisco, State oi California, fronting 29 feet | 4} inches on the northerly line of Golden Gete avenue, 187 feet 6 inches on the eastorly | line of Taylor street, 90 feet on the southerly | line of Opal alley and 52 feet 1 3-80 inches on | the northwesterly line of Market street, this | day conveyed to them by deed of myself and ] wife, duly executed and delivered to them, but not recorded. VI. In accordance with the consent of my dear wife, Emilie Donohoe, I give and devise to her for the term of her natural life all the rest, residue and remainder of the estate and roperty that [ may own atthe time of my | He-lh, both real and personal, to have aud to hold the same for her own use in lieu of dower and her share of common property, and after her death I give and devise the same unto my said children, share and share alike, save and excepting, however, that $85,000 in said coin heretofore advanced by me to my said son, Jo- seph A. Donohoe Jr., shall be charged to him, without interest, as such advance, so that no child shall receive more than another. VII. Itis my will, and I hereby direct that in case my partner, Eugene Kelly, shall outlive me the amount that I shall have to my credit in the firm of Eugene Kelly & Co. of New York shall remain invested therein for four years after the probate of my will, unless he shall sooner die or desire to repay the same, and that for the time it shall remain unpaid the said Eugene Kelly shall himself determine the compensation that shall be allowea for the use thereof. Ialsodirect my executors, wife and children to accept without question or voucher any account between me and him that he shall render and declare to be just. VIIL Inominate and appoint as executors of this will_my wife, Emilie Donohoe, my son, Joseph_A. Donohoe Jr., and my partner, Eu’ ene Kelly of New York, and in case of the eath of said Eugene Kelly, I nominate and appoint my friend James B. Wiiliams of Stand- ford, Conn., and of the city of New York, as executor in his place. I direct that no bond or security be required of them or either of them for the pertormance of their, her or his duties as such executors or executor. I give tomy executors full powers to sell and convey any e of my estate without order of court, and in ike manner to make leases thereof for such term as they may deem proper. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my seal and subscribed my name this twenty-fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thou- sand eight hundred and ninety-three, at the city of San Francisco, in the presence of the subscribing witnesses. - JosEPH A. DONOTIOS. The Ioregom% instrument wus on this twenty- fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand” eight hundred and nmeiy-*rw, signed, sealed, published and declarcd by Joseph' A. Donghoe, the tesiator therein named, as and for his last will and testament in the presence of us, who, at his request and in his resence and in the presence of each other ave subscribed our names as witnesses in th% twenty-third line of page 2. The word “eleven’ was interlined over ‘‘elen,” canceled before execution. HOWARD HAVENS, JOHN SPOTTIEW0OD, LOUGHBOROUGH. Codicil—By way of codicil to the foregoin, will, I do hereby direct that in case Ifihnfl hereniter make any advauce of property or Toney to any:of my children the ke shall b charged without interest to his or her share of my estate under the said will. In witness whereof I have hereunto signed 1y name and afixed 1wy seal this 24th day of May, A. D. 1893, at San Francisco in the presence of the same witnesses, to whom I declared this to be a codicil to my said will and who at my request have signed their names thereto. JOSEPH A. DONOHOE. The foregoing codicil was signed, sealed, pub- lished and declared by Joseph A. Donohoe a3 and for a codicil to his will in the presence of us, who, at his request and in his presenoe and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto to this 24th day | of May, A. D. 1893. HowaRD HAVENS. JOHN SPOTTISWOOD. A. H. LOUGHBOROUGH. The widow, Emilie Donohoe, and the son, Joseph A. Donohoe Jr., at the same time filed a petition for probate wherein it is stated that the ‘‘exact value of the estate is unknown.” FOR CHARITY'S SAKE. A Reception Musicale at Mrs. Henry 2. Scott’s Residence. The charity fete for the benefit of the Armitage Orphanage, to be held next week at the home of Mrs. Henry T. Scott, will be in the nature of a reception musicale and sale. The patronesses, Mesdames H. T. Scott, | E. M. Bliss, A. Chesebrough, J. B. Crock- ett, J. M. Cunningham, 8. W. Forman, G. ‘W. Gibbs, M. Hopkins, E. W. Hopkins, L. T. Monteagle, W. M. Newhall, H. L. Tatum, 8. B. Welch, R. Wilson and M. S. ‘Wilson, anticipate a success commensurate with their unsparing efforts, The evenings of Wednesday and Thurs- day from 8 to 11, and Thursday afternoon from 2 to 5. will be devoted to mirth, music and money-making—all for sweet charity’s sake. The Maria Kip Orphanage, at the “Old Latham place,” 638 Folsom street, is at present caring for over eighty girls, from 2 years old and upward. Wells - Fargo Express carry, free of charge, all packages weighing twenty pounds or less, on all their routes, addressed to the orphanages. s T G TR RAILROAD ELEOTIONS. The Annual DMeeting of the Central Pacific Held Yesterday. P | steel placed between them. C. P. Huntington, vice-president; William H. Mills, second vice-president and treas. urer; Isaac E. Gates, third vice-president: William M. Thompson, secretary and auditor; Frank H. Davis, assistant treas. urer in New York City; William Mahl, assistant secretary and assistant auditor in New York City. The Market-street Railroad Company met yesterday and elected Charles F. Crocker, president; H. E. Huntington, vice-presi- ent; M. D. Stein, formerly manager, sec- ond vice-president; N. T.Smith, treasurer J. L. Willcutt, secretary; directors—Al- vinza Hayward, W. J. Adams, Charles G, Lathrop and F. 8. Douty. OBSERVING PASSION WEEK, An Interesting Programme of Exercises in the Catholic Churches for To-Day. Yesterday was Holy Thursday of ti Passion Week and it was observed in 4] the Catholic churches of the city. It the day which commemorates the insti ! tion of the Holy Eucharist in the Christian church. On that day the hol crament is carried in procession from the repository which is prepared in t} and which is decorated with floy illuminated with candles. There were large attendances at th churches and the feature of the day the 1nterchange of visits betwee ous parisnes by worshipers. The v in the churches consisted of devotional ¢ ercises. To-day—Good Friday—the mass of the presanciified is celebrated. The blessed sacrament is taken from the repository and brought back to the altar and received by the celebrating priest. Arrangements have be propriate Good Friday sery churches. The following will speakers at the churches named: St. Mary’s Cathedral, Archbishop Riordan; old St. Mary’s, Father Clark; St. Charles, Father O’Mahoney; Holy Cross, Father Hugh Gallagher, 8. J., of Ban : St. James, Fathe O’Neill o Joseph’s; St. Anthony’s, Fath Leo Bruener; St. Joseph’s, Father Doran; Ignatius, Father Woods for the Three Hours and Father Calzin in the evening; St. Peter’s, Father McDonald dget’s, Father Mc- is ade for ap- in all the be the Kinnon; St. Bonifas ther Athanasius; St. Patrick’s, Father Foley Brendan's, Father Gannon. For Easter Sunday elaborate prepara- tions have been made in the way of deco- rations and special services will be held. In the Episcopal churches, as well as the Catholic, there will be an appropriate floral display in addition to an interesting programme of exercises. S Cementing Armor Plates. A method of cementation or carburiza- tion of armoru{»lntcs by the use of gas has been patented by Schneider of Cruesot. Two plates are placed in a very hot fur nace, one above the other. wvith a space be- tween them, the separation of the plates being accomplished by a frame of iron or By the use of asbestos or other suitable material the joints between the frame and plates are made air and gas-tight. The farnace is closed and the cementing or carburizing gas admitted. As the cementation of the plates progresses best at the point where the fas enters, the gas is admitted ata number of points intermittently, so as to supply the carbon equally over the whole ace of the plates. In order to cool the gas, the pipes supplying it, which reach into the furnace, are inclosed in other pipes filled with water.—London Inven- tion. ————— Low prices for Easter eggs, Townsend’s. Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay streat. . ———————— VERMONT maple sugar, 15¢ 1b, Townsend’s.* —o— THE prettiest Easter novelties ever made, at Sanborn & Vail’s, 741 Market street. JOURNALS, ledgers, cash and all other blank books at bottom prices. Sanborn, Vail & Co. * . THERE will be a special display of Easter bonnets and hats. Mrs. I. E. Conner, 36 Geary.* St = The largest beehive in the world is prob- ably that at Bee Rock, California. It is a gram(e boulder, rising abruptly from the ed of a little affluent of the Arroyo Al calde, and it is seamed and scored with fis- sures of diverse They are all inhab- ited by a vast population of bees and over- flow with honey. Hood’s Sarsaparillais the oniy true blood purt- fier. This means that Hood's Sarsaparilla is the greatest curative agent in the worid. All scrofa- lous troubles and blood diseases yleld to its power. - . “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup' Has been used over fifty ‘ars by millions of moth- ers for their children while Te-thing with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrheeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25¢ a bottle. e ———— NEW TO-DAY. THE AND THE SHORT i LONG OF IT— As regards values you get the Long of it when you come di- rect to us—and the Short of it when you go to the Retail Deal- ers. We formerly sold to the dealers, and they in turn to you. We are now selling to you di- rect, thus saving you 12 HYAMS, PAUSON & CO0, The newly elected board of directors of the Central Pacific Railway Company held a meeting yesterday and elected their offi- cers as follows: Isaac L. Requa, president; 25 and 27 Sansome Street, Wholesale Manufacturers, Now Retailing,