The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1895, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1895. LODI MO SUBURBS, Two Thriving Towns of Which San Joaquin Is Proud. MELON DISTRICT CENTER. A Fruitful Soil Which Yields Abundantly of Every Va- riety of Produce. FINE TRIBUTARY COUNTRY. The Business Posslbilities and Cli- matic Attractions Which Should Induce a Rapid Growth. LODI, fay 12.—In the midst of grain and fruit sections of .d San Joaquin Valley is Lodi. prosperous town is 100 miles by the 1 Pacific from San Francisco, and us of the Valley Springs nar- row-g road, which is the outlet of one of the richest mining districts in the State. A project is under way to build an electric road fr he Stockton Wharves fifteen ockton-Lodi Terminal headed by General road builder, who him some Eastern s, y are being se- nd the active work of construction soon be commenced. This road when completed will give very ht and passenger transporta- ton, and to San Francisco by with the two steamboat lines between Stockton and San This locality will un- dly become the center of a large tion, as the climate is so very good, tempered by the fag end of the trade acific in the summer, and ley towns, mild and n the winter. The soil of this Senator Langford at the same time planted 320 acres in fruit trees himself, thus showing his confidence in the adap- tability of the soil and climate for fruit- growing. A. T. Hatch, the most exveri- enced fruit-grower of the State, purchased over 600 acres of this ‘“Langford Colony” tract, which he planted in almonds, figs, peaches, apricots and olives. Soon after three brothers—P. B., Dr. E.and Dr. A. Armstrong of New York—purchased some four hundred acres, and with A. T. Hatch formed a corporation known as the Hatch- Armstrong Frait and Nut Company. More acreage has been added to the original purchase, until to-day this fruit ranch has 1200 acres in bearing. To drive about it one is hushed to silence—there are no words adequate to describe its per- fect cultivation and luxuriant growth. Figures, as a rule, are an abomination, and in many instances, when they are given in relation to California productions, are thought to be gross exaggerations, par- ticularly by Eastern people, who cannot possibly form even the shadow of a con- ception of the wondrous bounties of this State, which is capable of b&Ing the orchard and vegetable garden of the world. The number of trees in this widely celebrated Sierra Vista Ranch of the Hafch-Armstrong Company, which is part of the Langford Colony, is startlingly large. Think of it— 34,000 almond trees, 10,000 peach, 8000 Rev. Dennis Goodsell, Pastor of the Congregational Church of Lodi. tion of those things which will allow of a second crop. - It is a district of fine wells, By boring from fifteen to twenty-five feet an inex- haustible supply of good water is secured. ®Vindmills and tanks are seen on every hand. The town of Lodi, with its neighbors, the pretty cultured village of Woodbridge two miles away, and Acampo, the village of the “Langford Colony” district, a few miles farther on, gives this locality more of an Eastern appearance than some parts of California, where the distances between towns and villages are great. Acampo is on the direct line of the Southern Pacific and quite a shipping point. Woodbridge is a village of pretty homes, surrounded by magnificent trees. Society is particularly good here, as is al- ways the case in coilege towns. The United Brethren College is located at Woodbridge. Their grounds are large and extensive and the buildings large and at- tractive. Aside from the classical and scientific college course, a vractical busi- ness department has been added and special attention is given to a normal course for the preparation of teachers. ‘Woodbridge is a charming quiet place for student life. Winds from the sea sweep in through the Golden Gate, and these vagrant breezes drift up through the Straits of Carquinez, along the rivers and make the climate here healthful and pleas- ant. The snow-capped Sierras are plainly visible along the eastern horizon and the Coast Range on the west. This town of Woodbridge will certainly draw a cultured population to this vicinity. The college property, owned by the United Brethren denomination, is somewhat in debt, but they have hope of raising the money to pay off the mortgage through church sub- scriptions, as the Methodist people have now about accomplished such a purpose for their colleges at Napa and Santa Clara. The United Brethren denomination is not so strong in numbers, but they think a strong will and a well-defined righteous purpose will accomplish much. Lodi in itself is a thriving place, with gas and water works. This enterprise is under the management of the Casey brothers, two energetic young men who have recently selected Lodi as their place of residence. They have accomplished much in ashort space of time, for they have built a planing-mill plant where they turn out excellent millwork of all kinds. A large sawmill will soon be erected in the suburbs of Lodi by Van Buskirk, who has Moin, the proprietor, is one of the most active citizens of Lodi, always interested in street and other improvements. The private hotel, kept by Mrs. Taylor, an old resident of Lodi, is a home-like place. The churches here are prosperous, par- ticularly well attended by the people from the surrounding country, as the ex- cellent roads make splendid driving. Rev. Lorenzo Fellers, pastor of the Methodist Church, is a man of energy, self-made and abreast of the times. The Episcopal, Congregational, Christian and St. Mary’s Catholic are also under good charge. The Grammar School, with the addition of one year’s course of High School work, is doing high-grade work under Principal E. B. Wright, who is assisted by E. 8. Hogan, vice-principal. This year they ex- pect to graduate fourteen pupils. Two good: weekly papers—the Sentinel and Times-Budget—keep matters humming in this locality. The Times-Budget is a recent consolida- tion of the Woodbridge Record, Clements Tidings and Lodi Budget and is now owned by Ruggles & Broadbere. The citizens are wisely cultivating a plaza immediately facing the business street and just where the eye of every traveler on the Southern Pacific can rest upon it. With its ornamental plants and palms casting shadows over a carpet of green it will be in time a thing of beauty and “a joy forever.” It would redound greatly to California’s Rev. Lorenzo Tallers. olive, 7000 prune, 3000 fizg, 1000 pear, 900 orange, 500 cherry and 500 plum trees and 18,000 table grapes. The Langford Colony, of over 2000 acres, is now under perfect cultivation, Senator Buck, J. B. Cory, Dr. | N. R. Barbour, Bellows & Son and Story & Williams are the other members of the colony. The land in the vicinity of Lodi is level as a floor, and being a rich sandy loam its cultivation is simple, being mellow and devoid of clods. It is particularly adapted to the raising of berries and fine vegetables. Large crops of blackberries and raspberries are gathered from vines which are planted between the rows of fruit trees. Colonies of intelligent energetic families of even limited means could, by pooling for their first installment of purchase money, se- cure large enough tracts off the great grain fields of thisand other localities in the San Joaquin Valley to insure them- selves homes and a good living by sub- dividing. The subdivision could be by contract among themselves, until the en- tire tract was free from mortgage; then each would receive deeds for hisown share. The uniformity of soil and conditions in the vicinity of Lodi, Woodbridge and G. W. Hill of Lodi. entire Jocalify high ducing « s. is of a soft sand with firm foun- d which makes the best n the world, hence and working in this inity is much greater than in localities bad country roads are the rule. The g an individual character to is the watermelon. Thou- are planted in melons each ne result of 500 or more fine re, which mature with- be Lodi melons have a fine grain, firmness and flavor which gain for them the highest place in all the best markets they are able to reach. During the melon season from ten to fif- ed from Lodi each needles hat grain is a he entire world knows that San ley produces grain above com- ive crops of alfalfa is the gift of th annually in this corner of bountiful California. Notwithstanding the great yield of mel- es. horc Charles Sollars of Lodi. spent thousands of dollars on the improve- ment of Mokelumne River. Mr. Van Bus- kirk is now building an elegant residence and large sawmill on the bank of the river. His purpose is to float the logs down the stream to the lake he has constructed here, and the lumber when sawed and seasoned will be shipped to San Francisco on barges. Lodi has a fine nursery where all kinds of healthy fruit, vines and ornamental trees can be secured, of which James A. Ander- son is the owner and manager. The Bank of Lodi, a substantial, well® conducted financial institution, has been in existence since 1888. Senator B. F. Langford is president and Francis Cogs- well the cashier. Mr. Cogsweli, who is practically the manager, is a far-seeing, conservative man, who, while a young man, has had quite an experience in bank- ing business in Lawrence, Mass., his native place. One of the most enterprising and popu- lar firms in town is the Lodi Soda Works of Charles Sollars & Co., of which Mr. Sollars is the active manager. They man- George N. Le Moin. Acampo makes it particularly well adapted for colonization purposes. When the Stockton-Lodi terminal electric rail- road is completed colonies of small hold- ings utilizing their land for fruits, berries and vegetables would be an undoubted success, as their produce could be landed in San Francisco prime and fresh by the Stockton boats which handle freight at a very nominal figure. This colony idea of breaking up the large holdings is one that Senator Langford and other thoughtful men of this vicinity would like to see taken hold of by.the improve- ment clubs, as they consider it the true way of adding to the State’s population. B. F. Langford has served six successive oldest member in either branch of the Cali- fornia Legislature. Bur, says some one, who is thinking of the long and rainless summers of California, Can all this fruit and grain be produced without irrigation? Up to thistime,all the results have been obtained without irriga- tion, as the soil holds moisture the year around. But the great Woodbridge ditch of the Woodbridge Irrigation and Canal terms in the State Senate, and is now the |- Miss D. M. Place. ons, grain and alfalfa, the 1atest conclu- sion drawn from experience is that this moist, sandy soil, joined to a peculiarly dry atmosphere, makes of this a fruit- growing district par excellence. Fruit- growing has just passed the experimental stage. Even citrus fruit is being brought to perfection, 900 trees having come into bearing on the Hatch-Armstrong ranch, showing that in flavor and size the oranges grown here are equal to those grown in the famous Riverside district. Orange and lemon trees are being planted quite exten- sively since the fact has been demonstrated that citrus fruits are a success when prop- erly cared for. Senator B. F. Langford has done much to advance the interest of San Joaquin County by taking the initiative in fruit culture. Senator Langford, a pioneer who became in turn a miner, stock-raiser and large land-owner, decided about ten years ago that San Joaquin County must have other industries than wheat-raising if it was ever to become thickly populated. To think was to act with him. He immediately laid out 2000 acres of his best land, naming the tract “Langford Colony,” and adver- tised to sell the same on most reasonable terms to those who would plant orchards. Francis Cogswell. Company, with a capacity for irrigating thousands upon thousands of acres, is ready for use. and as a result many large holdings formerly sown to grain have been divided and will be utilized for the produc- ufacture all kinds of palatable summer beverages and icecreams by the quantity. Their specialty is an iron phosphate and sarsaparilla, which is being sold exten- sively. Mr. Sollars is also a large dealer in ice and coal. The tradespeople of Lodi are abreast of the times, as their well-stocked stores tes- tify. The CALL representative was par- ticularly interested in the store of G. W. Hill, watchmaker and jeweler. There was found Miss D. M. Place, a young woman of 23 years of age, who is a practical watchmaker. Mr. Hill says there is none better in the State than this gentle, retir- ing woman, who found she had a mechan- ical talent and turned her attention to the watchmaker’s trade. Miss Place said: “After graduating from the Lodi High school at 18 T began work in earnest and now, after four years, I have no reason to regret my decision. The work is well suited to women and any girl who has ap- plication and mechanical genius will be highly rewarded by taking up the work. “What am I going to dojwith the trade now that I am perfected in it? I expect to start in business for myself assoon as a favorable locality is decided upon.” Lodi has one of the best-kept hotels in the interior of the State. George W. Le credit if a little taste, judgment and labor was given to this matter in other towns. The stations should be pleasant surprises to the traveler. Eastern people expect much of color and bloom when they land in California and it is the fault of Cali- fornia citizens that disappointed faces are pressed against the car windows, as deso- late-looking depots are passed. California supplies ideal soil and sunshine; all it asks is that a root, bulb or slip be placed in the earth and given a drink of water oc- casionally and a wealth of color, form and perfume brings back glorious beauty to gladden the hearts and lives of earth’s sons and daughters. The Lodi plaza idea should be emulated by sister towns. But still more thought should be gived this littie park by the Lodi citizens. It needs more color. When the San Joaquin Valley Railroad makes of Stockton a great city, as it surely will, this Lodi country will be dotted with beautiful villa residences of the manufacturers and commercial men and cottage homes of other busy Stocktonians who will desire to pass their evenings and rest days away from the busy mart. The people of Lodi as a class feel that the era of depression in all lines is over, and they are peering into the future through the rose-hued specta- cles of hope. TO JOIN THE FEDEEKATION. Metalliferous Miners of the West May Make an Important Affiliation. DENVER, Coro., May 12.—The annual convention of the Federation of Western Metalliferous Miners will begin in this city at 9 o’clock to-morrow morning. The fed- eration represents a membership of 40,000 miners, and it is thought there will be 150 delegates present at the sessions this week. The delegates will come principally from Colorado, Idaho, Montana and South Da- kota. Probably the most important subject that will come before the convention will be that of affiliating with the American Federation of Labor and with the coal miners. By uniting with the Western coal miners the membership would be in- creased largely beyond what it nmow is. President John McBride of the American Federation of Labor is expected to be in the city and urge affiliation with the fed- eration. President P. H. Clifford of Aspen and Secretary W. H. Eddy of Butte, Mont., are already in the city. E.D. Boise of Ceeur d’Alene, a member of the State Senate of Idaho, has also arrived as a delegate. Butte, Mont., will be represented by eight delegates. A P, A, WORK CONCLUDED Junior Associations to Be Or- ganized Throughout the Country. It Is Also Decided to Have a Na- tlonal Political Board for the Order. . MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 12.—The Su- preme Council of the A. P. A. closed its session in this city at 8 o’clock this morn- ing, and its last acts were among the most important of the week’s work. The Junior A.P. A. was organized, which will be under the jurisdiction of the Supreme Council of the United States, and will reach into Canada and England. Boys and-girls aged from 14 to 18 will be eligible to membership. It is proposed to teach the children patriotism, and it is under- stood that the society will not be of the ironclad-bound order. It was also decided tohave a National political board, to be composed of members from affferent States, who shall be appointed by the State Council. President Traynor will appointa com- mittee of five to meet with the Council of Patriotic Organizations at Washington, December 10, 1895, to take under consider- ation the question of the campaign of '9%6. Itis the intention to unify the action of the various patriotic organizations. The committee will also have charge of the A. P. A. legislation that is to be urged before Congress, including the proposed sixteenth amendment, pronibiting the ap- propriation of public money for purposes, the citizenship act, ete. President Traynor said to-night that he had not yet chosen the men for the Wash- ington committee, but that he would prob- ably select Judge George W. Vanfossen of Tacoma, Allison Stocker of Denver, A. V. Winter of Tennessee, Senator Gibson of Panmg{lnnin and Colonel H. L. Sellers of Detroit. The latter will also be a member of the international A. P. A. committee. AN IRRIGATION WORK, The Stanislaus and San Joaquin Water Com- pany’s Big Canal. NOW NEAR COMPLETION. It Will Irrigate. Thousands of Acres of Fine Fruit Lands. SOME ENGINEERING PROBLEMS. Tunneling Through Serpentine and Gneiss and Building Flumes in the Mountains. OAKDALE, CAL., May 12.—Work on the canal of the Stanislaus and San Joaquin ‘Water Company is being rushed with all the power that money, men and imple- ments possess, and what is destined to be the most important factor in the develop- ment of the northern part of S8an Joaquin Valley will undoubtedly be pouring its life-giving properties upon the plains be- fore the end of the coming summer. Only by a visit to the center of opera- tions can a correct estimate be formed of the magnitude of this enterprise, and when one observes the many stubborn difficul- ties which have opposed the progress of the work, he must stand convinced of the wonderful virtues of irrigation, when men will risk so much to obtainit. A work of this kind means more than mere damming and excavation. Through six miles of rug- ged mountains and foothills this conduit must be bored, flumed and dug through solid mountaius, around perpendicular bluffs, and over an undulating stretch, crossed here and there by a treacherous ravine or a belt of sand which, moistened, will crumble away as snow before a mid- day sun, The present work was laid out eight T grade of four and a half feet to the mile will be sufficient to supply six distributing ditches on the plains forty feet wide where a grade of only nine inches to the mile can be used. The mountain division of the canal is under contract to John Kelso, with a force of 175 men. The flumes are being constructed by the San Francisco Bridge Company, with a force of fifty men. J. D. McDougall hasthe contract for the foothill and valley divisions. He is now working three camps, with a combined force of about 240 men and 250 horses and mules. His largest force is now stationed on the land of the Oakdale Land and Im- provement Company, a tract of 8000 acres along the river seven miles from Qakdale, owned by a syndicate of Oakdale and San Francisco capitalists. As soon as the canal is complete to this point the land will be subdivided and placed upon the market. On the south side of the Stanislaus River, and paralleling the San Joaquin canal, is"the irrigation system of the Oak- dale Irrigation Company. This canal is now entirely complete through to Oak- dale, but the company has been unfor- tunate in having three draws washed out, and there is not now enough money on hand to complete this system. The Oak- dale canal has cost over $115,000, and will, when in operation, irrigate about 15,000 acres of fine fruit land about Oakdale. It is probable that the San Joaquin Company will submit a proposition to build a flume across the river and supply the Oakdale canal with water. Should this be done the necessity of a new dam would be avoided, and the Qakdale canal would be in opera- tion the coming summer. The Stanislaus and Ban Joaquin canal will irrigate from 60,000 to 80,000 acres, but as there are nearly 200,000 acres of ir- rigable land under the canal, the system may eventually have to be extended. The entire work is under the supervision of C. H. Leadbetter, vice-president and general manager, and C. H. Leadbetter Jr., who is secretary of the company. The Leadbetters are practical canal-builders, and are constantly at the front looking after the interests of their company. FLYING FROM COUBA. Several Residents of the Island Secking More Congenial Habitati§ns. TAMPA, Fra., May 12.—Thé Plant steamshio Mascotte, which arrived from Cuba to-night, brought 120 passengers, most of whom were Cubans seeking more congenial habitations. The passengers re- port that there was a small uprising at Caibarien on the north coast, but all the A SECTION SHOWING RIPRAP WORK OF CANAL IN THE MOUN- TAIN DIVISION OF THE STANISLAUS AND SAN JOAQUIN CANAL. years ago by the San Joaquin Land and ‘Water Company, a corporation composed of Stockton capitalists, who organized for that purpose. Among the stockholders were H. W. Cowell and N. S. Harrold, the wealthy rancher. The company spent $270,000 on a dam and a portion of one tun- nel, and work was suspended in 1894. Har- rold and Cowell were always loyal to the enterprise, however, and the present cor- poration was formed at once and work was begun anew. The dam which will be used temporarily by the company is located at Six-mile Bar and was built in 1856, when that place was a thriving mining village. It, to- gether with the old Schell ditch, was built for mining purposes, but of late years it hassupplied the vineyards and orchards of Knights Ferry with water. A mile below is the new concrete dam of the company, which will be completed next fall. This dam will be 300 feet wide, 60 feet high and 10 feet broad on top, with an 80-foot apron. It is now complete to a height of 32 feet. Two thousand barrels of cement were used in its construction. The mountain division of the canal, ex- tending from the dam to Knights Ferry, a distance of six miles, is now practically completed, only the flumes and onejtunnel remaining to be finished. The heaviest work on the entire system is in this divi- sion, and owing to the roughness of the country it is extremely difficult to get the material on the ground. However, the lumber is nearly all on hand for the re- maining flumes, and only 200 feet of the upper tunnel is yet to finish. This upper tunnel is said by experts to have the hard- est composition of any tunnel known in the State. It was begun by the old com- pany, which for three years had a gang of Chinamen working on it. During that time they made a distance of less than 700 feet. The work now is being pushed from both ends night and day by a force of fifty men all told. ‘' The material is serpentine and gneiss, and it is so hard thet less than one- fourth of an inch can be made with one drill. At the opening of the tunnel at each end is a blacksmith-shop, where stand three expert drill-sharpeners working like machines, without a moment to spare. Out of about thirty drill-sharpeners who have been tried only three or four have been found who could temper the drills to stand the work required of them. One man at each end goes to and fro with dull drills for the blacksmiths and sharp ones for the miners. The progress made averages about 140 feet in a month. The length of the tunnel is 1037 feet. This work is under the direction of J. A. Robb, formerly of the Spring Valley Water Company and the Shasta Lumber Company. He states that in all his experience he has never seen rock which would equal that in which they are now working. The lower tunnel, 1100 feet in length, which is connected with its companion by 1500 feet of flume, isthrough astratum of cement-gravel and conglomer- ate. This tunnel is finished. The canal on the mountain division is twenty feet across the top, twelve feet on the bottom and eight feet in depth. The |4, banks the entire length of the section are walled on the outside with rock, and where curves are the inside walls are i) rapped with heavy rock to prevent wash- ing. The work is thoro substantial. The dimensions of the canal with its hedvy band has surrendered. Mataga is said to have a strong band near Colon. The re- port of battles in Santa Clare, on March 27,28 and 29, are said to be false. The arrivals assert that Flor Crombet is dead. Spanish papers deny the engagement at Baracoa, but the passengers to-night con- firm the story. ————— POURED POWDER ON A COAL. Careless Deed of Two Children May Re- sultin Their Death. LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 12.—A special from Sayersville, Ky., says a sad accident occurred near there Friday afternoon in which one and probably two lives will be sacrificed. Two children of Wesley Row tried to start a fire by pouring powder out of a horn containing a pound and a half of powder, on a small coal of fire, when the powder in the horn ignited and exploded, tearing one arm entirely off the girl, 16 years of age and burning her hair and clothing entirely off. She will die. A brother, aged 6, was standing near and arts of the horn struck him in the face, nocking out both eyes and burning off all his clothing and hair. He may recover. KILLED THE EARLY CROP, Extensive and Severe Frosts in Fifteen Eastern States. Peach Belt of Michigan and Cran- berry Marshes of Wiscon~ sin Suffer. CHICAGO, Irn., May 12.—The Weather Bureau in a report of frosts last night, says: The frost area reported this morning is unusually extensive and severe for this time of the year, frost having occurred this morning in all of the fifteen States for which it was forecasted Saturday. In the peach belt of Michigan and the cranberry marshes of Wisconsin temperatures below freezing occurred and the freeze was of a killing nature. Frost of more orless severity occurred throughout the States of the upper lake tegion and the Upper Mississippi Valley, &n the east slope of the Rocky Mountains and in Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. In these States the temperature will rise considerably to-night. < MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 12.- North- ern and western sections of the State re- port a heavy frost last night. Fruit buds and garden truck are ruined at Chippewa Falls. At New Lisbon small fruits and grain were killed. A heavy rain is falling there. The berry crop was destroyed at Boscobel. MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, May 12— Frost in this section this morning nipped the early crop of corn, potatoes and tender en truck quite seriously. Fruit was g:tunlll:%eflnly injured, except grapes may BIOUX CITY, Towa, May 12.—Specials the Journal from Northwest Iowa and Dakota reron a heavy frost and water freezing at several ints. Fruit and vegetal will be damaged considerably, ?!‘t‘:l e&rp and 'fi:nall grain oscapu} with le injury. There is prospects of more frost to-night. BLOHATTHEENPRE Full Significance of the Defeat of the Hohen- lohe Ministry. FIASCO WAS COMPLETE. Not Likely, However, That a Ministerial Crisis Will Result. THE ANTI-REVOLUTION BILL, Its Defeat WIll Create a Vacancy In the Prussian Council—-Com- ment of the Press. LONDON, Exg, May 12.—A dispatch to the Times from Berlin When the last paragraphs of the anti-revolution bill were read out scarcely one Conserva- tive remained true to the Government. Thus ended ingloriously the long cam- paign in defense of religion, morality and social order. What consequences are to be expected from this first defeat of the Hobenlohe Ministry and who is to blame chiefly for she fiasco are questions now ex- clusively occupying the public opinion of Germany. i It appears improbable at the present moment that a Ministerial crisis of great moment is likely to result, still less a dissolution. An appeal to the country would, at best, be hazardous. At the same time it must not be concealed tnat the de- bates of the last few days have been char- acterized by remarkable mistakes on the part of the representatives of the Govern- ment, with the exception of the Chancel- lor. But the three chiet spokesmen, Dr. Schonstedt, Minister of Justice; General Bronzart von Schellendorf, Minister of War, and Herr von Koeller, Minister of the Interior, adopted a tone completely at variance with Chanceilor von Hohenlohe and which contributed in no small degree to the final failure of the measure. “Tt will not be surprising to learn that the defeat of the anti-revolution bill cre- ates a vacancy in the Prussian Council of Ministers. No one is inclined to believe that either the Kaiser who, it is reported, had a good opinion of Von Koeller, or Chancellor Hohenlohe, is edified at the performance of the Minister of the Inter- ior, who, the Vorwaerts says, deserves an honorary membership in the socialist party of the interior. That no result was obtained is, in the first place, owing to the fact that the champions of religion, mor- ality ana social order have been unable to subordinate their own wishes to the gen- eral good. -Attention must also be drawn to the breach in the Government Center, which doubtless exercised an influence in the development of the situation. It may be taken for granted that the failure of the attempt to combat the subversive tenden- cies in the basis of common law will be followed by renewed demands for excep- tional legislation. There is scarcely a word of disappointment in the press. The Radical and Socialist organs are highly delighted. The Times in a leader this morning says: “The decision is a serious one, and perhaps the most serious feature is that it seems to be thoroughly popular with some of the most important classes of the State. It is an unmistakable rebuff to the policy proclaimed by the Kaiser himself in his famous speech at Koenigsberg last Sep- tember. That result will be welcomed by alarge number of his subjects. That is not a very satisfactory end to several months’ parliamentary warfare. United, the forces of religion, morality and social order could have carried the day; but the one thing which, in Germany, these forces cannot do, is to unite. They did not care for one part of the bills, the Center did not care for the other. They could have car- ried the bills as a whole had they come to terms, but apparently they did not trust each other well enough to make an ef- fective bargain.” The Standard, in a leader, says: Itis the impression abroad that the bill was framed and introduced without sufficient forethought and defended with inadequate vigor. Taunts, rather than arguments, seem to have been the weapons employed. The crown is visibly worsted in a struggle of its own choosing with the country’s representatives. The German Emperor has more than once appealed to his people to trust him. May not the Germans say in turn that they deserve to be trusted by the Emperor? With this or that Reich- stag a ruler can afford to differ, but he can- not safely quarrel with the sentiments and ideas of the nation at large. Others Failed | Hood’s Cured Mr. C. 8. Groby is a well - known resident of Dayton, Ohio, and & promi- nent'member of the K. of P. He sayst “I had two severs attacks of inflam- matory rheuma- tism. I tried three of our home physi- cians, but realized scarcely any relief. I took medicines faithfully, but was unable to see any improvement. I them visited s specialist, paid him $50, but he did menogoods I was then advised totake Hood’s Slrugarilla. I did so, and befors Istopped 1 had taken fifteen bottles, s bottle just lasting me one month, as I took it very regularly, three times a day at meal times. Ever since I took Hood's Sarsaparilla I have been entirely free from rheumatisma.” Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the Only True Bloed Purifier This is why it cures eve he medicines h{l Insist u;:n'fi::d’:.l gt Fuash s St il b sk il o 3 ry “ood s pl“s cure habitual constips. Dr.Gibbon’s Dispensary, 623 KEARNY ST. Establishe !ll)’ lll‘lml:a“l;.emenol Prlv:’: Debility or disease we on bodyand mind and Skin Dise; d ot fadl. Try B m%:;e‘:?&"l? i Dr. 3. F. GIBBON, Hox 1957, Sarr Fransiae