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4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1895. T 4 K CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—$6 phy year by mail; by carrier, 156 per week. SUNDAY CALL—$1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—$1.50 per year. The Eastern ofice 0f the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rbinelander building, Rose and Duspe streets, New York. THE SUMMER MONTHS. .. Are you going to the country on a vacation? It #0, it fs 1o trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier, or left at Business Office, 710 Market street, will recelve prompt attention. MAY 17, 1895 Well done, Healdsburg. The last festival is the best. As time flies everything goes. The police are looking blue over their uniforms. Silver speaks out warmly, but gold is do- ing the clam act. The blush of the May Queen is lovelier than a royal flush. In the game of iife when progress leads you must follow suit. The interior press is vigorously ringing the death knell of inactivity. Even Ysaye’s fiddling failed to open the Bohemian Club owl’s other eye. There is more pleasure than labor in working for a living in California. Never was silence so golden as that of a politician on the money question. Public sentimentis one of the best things which the Half-million Tlub is weaving in its looms. The Valley road will be an artery through which the richest blood of the State will flow. Never before were the interior papers of California so eager to round up silurians and build up industr; First in Nicaragua and then in Bering Sea, the British seem determined to make us draw.our snickersee. Napa Valley is going to have its compet- ing railway in the shape of an electric road between Napa and Cal; ries and fruit when they.are cheap will be lacking in the sweet by and by. The war in Cuba will never be over until Spain-quits setting a match to the. native train of powder on the island. Now that the matter of National Guard officers is settled, the organization is wear- ing a Dimond in its shirt front. The revival in business is simply the re- sult of the revival in public confidence caused by Republican victories. The greatest novelty of the yearis the prolonged delay in sending out.the usual report of the destruction of the Delaware peach crop. From the way the Democrats ‘are taking to the woods it appears they intend to have nothing to do with the conventions of pel- itics in 1896, Eastern wheelmen complain that tramps, farmers’ dogs and rattlesnakes are adding too much of thrilling variety to - Guting tours this year. Mr. “Spud” Murphy, the Valléjo arson- ist, has been trying {o hang himself, but his prison-mates, preferring his' company to his ghost, gave the alarm, B i These are cool and delicious days on the coast, but in-the interior, where heat is needed to ripen the fruit, the sun is pour- ing its wealth all over the land. It is as much the duty of California manufacturers to turn out the best prod- ucts known to the world as it is of Cali- fornians to buy home-made products. A student of affairs in Chicago asserts that. as soon as the lake fishing becomes good in the spring strikes increase in the city and the labor element gets disorgan- ized. The next time Cleveland desires to fire off an open letter he will confer a benefit it he addresses it to Adlai Stevenson and lets the public know what has become of the young man. Mr. Corbett’s contemptuous remarks about a swell London sporting club ex- hibit the natural superiority which genius feels over an aristocracy based on the acci- dent of birth. - — The street-lighting companies propose to show the City, through the courts, that they can throw some light on the assumed municipal authority to make them turn on the darkness. So long as people will buy where they can get most for their money, the neces- sity for furnishing them with home-made articles which will meet that requirement will never relax. mil LSRG It will be amusing to observe whether the threat that Cleveland will be a candi- date for a third term will serve its inten- tion of stamping out a free-silver tendency in the Democratic party. If the Massachusetts speculators who were swindled by a salted gold mine in California had put their money in Cali- fornia orchards they might have been picking the gold from the trees. The financial editor of the New York World estimates that within a tew months " Jess than one hundred of theleading secur- ities dealt in on Wall street bave advanced sufficiently to show an aggregate profit of $300,000,000. In order to get twelve men to serve on the jury in the McLaughlin trial in New York it was necessary to summons over 1600 talesmen, and as a consequence there is now a big demand for a change in the system of selecting juries. - STl The National Sculpture Society, New " York, has offered a first prize of $300 and a “second prize of $200 for the best designs for an artistic silver dollur, and it would be in accordance with the fitness of thingsif a Californian won the big money. ? oamred o If it be true that the China-Japan affair has finally been settled without embroiling Europe in & war, and that Rassis will not exercise a protectorate over Korea, the next question is, In what direction will Japan now seek meat for its sharpened teeth? - '| manifestations. TRADE AND THE TARIFT. The Examiner of yesterday, following the policy of the tariff tinkers in claiming that the revival of trade and industry is due to the Wilson bill, says among other things of the same import: It has been conclu- sively proved that wages do not depend upon duties, and although many formerly dutiable products have been put upon the free list, not a single American industry has been destroyed. The predicted tlood of cheap foreign goods has not come—on the contrary, our difficulty has been the same from which we suffered in 1857; namely, that an increase in imports has not been sufficient to give the Government as much revenue as it needs.” If these things have been corclusively proven, the Ezaminer can achieve the greatest scoop on record by publishing the proof. No evidence that even tends to such conclusions has yet been made pub- lic. Certainly no American industry’ has been literally destroyed, but many of them have been crippled, and not a few have been rendered too unprofitable to be car- ried on. It is true we are not deriving revenues safficient to meet the expenses of the Government, but this is not because no foreign goods are coming into the market, but because they either pay no duties at all, or such low duties that the revenues derived from them are inadequate to the needs of the treasury. 7 A short time ago the Home Market Club Bulletin sent out inquiries to the textile manufacturers of the country concerning the . conditions of that industry, and answers received from nearly 500 of them show they are now running only 95 per cent of the machinery, employing 94 per cent of the help, and paying 94 per cent of the wages of April, 1893. In other words their trade is actually less than it was two years ago, when by the ordinary growth of population, commerce and wealth it should naturally be considerably greater. ‘While our own manufactories are thus depressed below the conditions prevailing two years ago, there is a sound of rejoic- ing in England. At the recert annual meeting of the Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom, Sir Albert Eollet, president, is quoted as saying in his open- ing address on the business situation: “American tariff reform so far stimu- lated our export of cotton goods as'to have doubled their value'in February asagainst January, to have increased the quantity from eleven to eighteen million yards dur- ing 1895, as against the corresponding period of 1894, and to have made this vear’s shipments exceed those of two years ago in both quantity. and value. Similarly there have been larger linen shipments to the States for both the last month and the two months of the present year, while in woolens: the advance in values has been three times and in worsteds four times more than in 1894, and in ‘quantity quite 400 per cent. 8o, too,.the same beneficial influence ‘has made itself felt in great in- creases during both the month and year, and in both quantity and values of our consignments to America of cutlery, rails and iron and steel goods generally, and more especially of tin plates, and also in earthenware and china, and, to the extent 0f600 per cent in shipments of raw wool.” The contrast between -the statements of our textile manufacturers and those of the British Chambers of Comnierce is striking, but there is no proof in it of any benefit of the Wilson tariff to us. Industry isun- doubtedly reviving, but it is reviving in the face of obstacles asa result of Ameri- can energy and determination. Not by any process of specious pleading or artifice of argument can the American people be deluded into the belief that the present tariff is adequate either for protection or revenue, and the .free-traders might as well abandon the ‘attempt. - FEIGNING INSANITY. Whether or not“Fredericks, the mur- derer, is feigning insanity in order to escape- an unpleasant acquaintance with the hangman’s noose is: not so important as other considerations which his conduct suggests. = 5 a One is that criminals of inferior intelli- “gence almost invariably commit the fatal ertor in feigning insanity 'of resorting to acute mania. They do this partly because acute mania is generally the only form of insanity with which they are acquainted, and - partly because it is striking in its They .are ignorant of the fact not only that it is the .most difficult, exhausting and dangerous form of insanity to assume, but. that- it is also the form of the “insanity dodge” most easily detected. - ; 5 Certain very prominent -pathological conditions accompany violént mania, but are obscure and- difficult .to discover in passive insanity and what is commonly called monomania. The raving lunatic most likely shows unmistakable aberra- tions of the pupils, a heavy coating of the tongue, a derangement of the digestive organs, irregularity -and inadequacy ‘of sleep, uncertain heart action, greater or less insensibility to pain and pecunliar odor of the person. Expert alienists -are familiar with these symptoms and know their meauning. The difficulties of feigning violent mania are_increased by the neces- sity for an exceedingly active alertness, for an expenditure of physical force which must be followed by abundant food and sleep and by inviting restraining means which hamper comfort. g The educated criminal pursues a differ- ent course. He feigns the mildest possible form of insanity—preférably a simpering, foolish manner of speech, or the training- of his conduct in some special direction to ingicate monomania of a kind . which would explain : his crime, or a’ dense stolidity which excludes notice of .any passing circumstance. - This last is- a difficult task, but not so trying as violent mania. A striking instance of it in this State was that of - Cimerilla, a San Jose murderer of many years ago. He was a dense, heavy, stupid man, but he simu- lated this form of insanity with so perfect cleverness that the doctors disagreed, and the jury gave him the benefit of the doubt and instead of hanging him sentenced him to prison for life. . Meanwhile every possible trick had been resorted to by the Sheriff to entrap him. He was taken out and turned loose to see if he would attempt to escape, but he was shrewd enough to guess that a dozen men were concealed and ready to seize him. He was thrown face downward ina pool of water, and would have permitted himself to drown if he had not been dragged out in time to save his life. As s00n as the jury announced its verdict, which made it impossible for him to be tried again, he cast aside his disguise ‘and -| expressed joyfnl gratification over its success. ; Our present system of determining the #anity of a criminal is conspicuously wrong. Both the prosecution and the defense invariably produce physicians, often of high reputation, who give directly opposing testimony. It would seem that a commission appointed by the court and kept free from the influence of either side would be the more sensible idea. Under .the present method the medical profession, by its very ment over one of the Mmost serious of human aflments, suffers a lowering of its dignity and is made to appear ineom-] petent. It is difficult to understand why the insanity of a criminal should be tried by a method so entirely different from that of an ordinary lunatic when the question to be decided in either case is exactly the same. It would seem that physicians, for their own protection, should insist that our present vogue be changed. THE SALT LAKE OONFERENOCE. The conference of free-silver advocates at Salt Lake was-not large enough to be called a representative body, but it never- theless fairly represented the sentiments and desires of the Great West. Governor Rickards of Montana on delivering the opening address declared it to be the ab- ject of the conference to place in the hands of every voter “the arguments in favor of free silver fashioned into language that the wayfaring man can understand and apply.” There is certainly much need of this work, for, as the orator said, the gold standard men are actively circulating ar- guments on their side of the question, and “all that literature can do, all that oratory can accomplish, all that gold can achievg, will be done to strangle the growing senti- ment Zor silver.” It appears evident that the battle of the standards,will be practically fought out be- fore the political campaign of 1896 begins. It is to be a warfare of pamphlets and news- papers rather than stump oratory, and the people are to have ample time and oppor- tunity to hear and to study both sides be- fore the political conventions meet. This will undoubtedly tend to reduce the ques- tion to a clearly defined issue -for submis- sion to the popular vote, and will enable the people to act decisively upon it at the next Presidential election. It is too early yet to foresee what will be the shape in which the i.sue will be actu- ally submitted by the contending parties. It is certain, however, the great fight will be in the Republican convention. No other party has any prospect of electing the next President, and the extremists of both sides will make every effort to con- trol the one party having assurance of vic- tory. Fortunately, there is not the slight- est prospect that the convention will be controlled by the extreniists on either side. The- Republican leaders are not theorists, and therefore are not extremists. That they will devise a safe and states- manlike method of returning to bimetal- lism can hardly be doubted, for they have dealt with equally complex problems be- fore, and have never failed to solve them in a way compatible ‘with the prosperity of the Nation and the interests of all classes of the people. To the next Republican convention, therefore, all conservative men must look for the actual settlement of the issue, but in the meantime ‘such conferences as that held at Salt Lake are beneficial. They give the people a chance to heéar both sides-and to learn what after all will be the vest for the country to do. It is a long time be- fore' the next presidential election, but none too long for the work of educating the people as to the true solution of a problem so complex and so important as this. A WISE APPOINTMENT. Governor Budd’s reappointment of Gen- eral W. H. Dimond as major-general of the National Guard is one of the wisest acts of the Governor's administration. The bill passed by the last Legislature providing for a radical reorganization of the Guard, including a reduction of the number of geheral officers and companies, calls for the exercise of superior judgment and tact; and though hampered as he has been in the past by the defective plan of organization and the resulting weak spots in the efficiency of the Guard, General Di- mond’s ability in infusing a soldierly spirit among the men has been conspictiously exhibited. Combined with a genial and magnetic nature he has a clearness of judg- ment, strength of character and power of enforcing discipline that render him in- valuable for so important a position, and besides these qualifications he is an able business man, an orator, and a gentleman of finished address. It would be difficult to. find so many valuable gqualities. possessed by one man;, and the National Guard is to be ¢ongratulated’ on ‘having him at its head next to the Governor. g PERSONAL. E.E.and E.M, Bush of Hanford are at the Lick. ? £ % Major A. R. Denike of San Jose isat the Calié fornia. S 5 & Major C. B.Sears of the army is a guest at the Palace. o .D. Rinaldo, a prominent San-Jose merchant, is in this city. - 2 R. Rowlands, & mining man of Placerville, is at the.Grand. % : 'J. Vinegar, a lumber merchant from Orescent City, is at the Russ. 5 . F. R. Bill, &' mining man from Deer Lodge, Mont., is at the Russ. 5 Frank H. Buck; a iarge fruit-grower of Vaca- ville, is at the Palace. £ i’ ‘ ‘W. H. Cleary, & mining man of Sheep Ranch, is registered at the Lick. 8. N. Androus of Los Angeles registered yes- terday at the Occidental. Ex-Mayor S8am .N. Rucker of San Jose ‘regis- tered at the Palace yesterday. Robert Lee and son, newspaper men from Woodland, are registered at the Russ. J. M. Buffington, & mining man of Nevada City, registered at the Lick yesterday. A 8. W. Bright, & mining man from Jackson, Amador County, is a guest at the Russ, L. A. and T. H. Cram came down from Vista del Mar yesterday and sre stopping at the ‘Grand. Nate R, Salsbury of Chicago, & big shipper ot California fruits, registered at the Palace yes- terday. - - : : A. K.-Robinson and son, business men from Auburn, arrived in this city yesterday and are at the Russ. . J.D. and W. G. Matthews, Truit-growers of | Newcastle, and Mrs. W.'G. Matthews arrived at the Grand yesterday. X R. H. Beamer of Wlodland, member of the State Board of Equalization, came to town yes- terday and registered at the Lick. Robert Graham, the San Francisco agent for Armour’s fruit-shipping business, came down yesterday and is stopping au the Palace, George Ohleyer, one of the most prominent citizens of Sutter County and well known in Democratic State politics, is at the California. J. B. Crowley, United States Treasury Agent, isat the Occidental, on his way to the Seal Islands, in Bering Ses, to watch for the Gov- ernment the killing of seals. Miss Beatrice Harraden, the young English suthoress who wrote “‘Ships That Pass in the Night,” has come up from Southern California,’ where she hasbeen living for over a year, and registered yesterdsy at the Occidental. Her ‘work is & wholesome protest against the tribe of queer and sensuous writers that has been holding the boards lately. It islight, butshe hes a graceful touch and writes with a fasci- nating charm of style. i . Harvard Examinations. “Examinations of students desirous of enter- ing the freshman class at Harvard are to be held at the rooffis of the Mechanics’ Institute library by Harold Wheeler, A.B., on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 25,27, 28 and '29. Those taking advanced algebra, analytical geometry, advanced .physics, chem- istry and intending o enter the veterinary ¢ol- lege will be their examinations Tuesday. :fi‘ others onThursday. Applicants ‘will have to send their names to the secretary .g} k= College 80 as to reach him by une 10. # AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Frank Baggs, a carpenter and builder of San Jose, came to the City yesterday and registered at the Russ House. Frank's reputation as a humorist is established in the Garden City, and it is seldom that his friends engage in serious conversation with him because of his pro- clivity of twisting sober thoughts awry. Sev- eral acquaintances, with whom he was discuss- ing various matters at the hotel last night, found this out. They had been talking about extraordinary grounds for lawsuits, when Frank drawled out: “That reminds me of a case that eame up in the Justice's Court down our way last year. It heppened this way: There sre two neighbors out on the Alum Rock road niamed Drummond and IHitehcock, whose places adjoin. Drum- mond, who is a Missourian, owned a big white mule which he prized dearly because of its working powers. The animal, however, had two failings. One was an abnormal disposition to wander from his owner’s premises and take in the neighborhood, and the other was an unconquerable appetite for corn, vegetables, squashes, or, in fact, any kind of produce that grew. “It was useless to erect fences to keep the mule in or the mule out. His heels broke everything that barred his way and his teeth could meet through the stoutest rope. Once his owner anchored him with a fairly stout wire rove, but he broke it in the night. Itis vet firmly believed that the mule cultivated & ragged edge onyone of his hard hoofs and filed the rope through. The mule had been shot, prodded with pitchiorks and chased for miles up the hills, but he came back with the same naughty twinkle in his eye and his appetite more insatiable than ever. “Finally, Drummond consented to build & barn in which to keep the mule confined during his off hours. The mule was allowed, however, 1o put his head out of-a square win- dow and survey the surrounding crops. “Neighbor Hitchcock had about seven acres of popcorn in the field adjoining Drummond’s and what the mule had left of it after several foraging trips was ripe and ready to pick. It happened, however, that before " this was done his haystack in an adjoining field caught fire one night and burned furiously. It created a fearful heat and the result upon the corn was -disastrous. Every kernel of corn in that field popped, and then was one vast vista of white corn. The mule lookiugout of his window was slso affected by the fize, even though it was quite a distance off, and in the morning Drummond found the animal stiff and stark in death. Then he sued Hitehcock for cansing the death of his mule.” “Why,” said one of the listeners, “I don’t see where he had any grounds for suit there.” “You don’t, eh?” said, Baggs, with one of those San Jose grins of his. “Why, it is simple enough. That mule had once been frostbitten up north, and when hie saw that field of white popecorn he forgot about the fire and felt a reminiscent shiver come over him. It deep- ened to.a shudder, and, under the impression that snow was about him, he laid down and {roze to death. So Drummond sued Hitchcoclke for freezing his mule.” The listeners felt chilly pa’ Frank drifted off. A. M. Drew of Fresno, the newly elected grand. warden of thel. 0.0. F., was speaking yesterday of & mew snd importsnt en- terprise started in his city. “A cor- poration has been organized with the backing of Chicago capital” he said, “for the purpose of utilizing the water power of the San Joaquin River in operating an electric power plant. We will at the start bringin nearly & 1000 horsepower. It will be used in operating streetcar lines, mills -and other factories. ' Everything is getting to be un- usually lively in our town. There is more building being done than there has been for several years and the large crops we are assured of cereals and fruit make the business outlook very promising. Of course, much of the healthy state of affairs in a financial way is due to the starting of the San Francisco and £e % Joaquin Valley Railroad.” 2 SPIRIT OF THE ' PRESS. The people of the Middle States live in fear of their lives, either from freezing, burning up or being killed by cyclones. There is but one sensible thing for them to do, and that is to come to California—Northern California— ‘where all is peace, prosperity, flowers and sun- shine, with no thought of cyclones or frost. Here in Northern California the bees are hum- ming and the birds are singing, editors get rich and everybody is happy.— Petaluma Courjer. Hanford wants the Valley road and she has the power to secure it by united action. Let every man buckle on his armor, determined to do or die, and victory is certain. The man who says the thing can’t be done must be rele- gated to'the back room and kept out of -sight. The battle is now helf won, and everybody must get:in for the last pull.—Hanford Demo- erat. _There {s a vast difference in the man who is anxious to do everything' legitimate to up- build the community in which he lives and the professional boomer.’ Itis a grievous mistake to-contound one with the other.—Woodland Democrat. . ot Wouldn’t it be better to spend the cash re- quired to build storm caves in Iows and Kansas in paying the fdre of the people of those States to.the Staté where such things as cyclones and blizzards never come?—Riverside Press. Government troops have béen sent to the Yosemite Valley to keep the sheepmen and the cattlemen out. It would be better to drive out the human hogs that prey upon the visitors Who go there.—Santa Rosa Republican. No one Bas yet called Cleveland’s Nicaraguan episode a Trilby sensation. Yet it wasa very Dare feat.—Redlands Facts. 5 - PEOPLE 'TALKED- ABOUT. The death is announced of U. §. Croggan, who drove President Lincoln’s carriage from Willdrd's to the Capitol on the day of his first inauguration. The eglored population of the South is believed to include several survivors of President Washington’s corps of coachmen. Rev. Cyrus Hamlin, D.D., who was for thirty- five years'a resident of Turkey,in discussing the Armenian massacres, asserts -that to the Kurds was attributable all the trouble. They sacked two villages before their leaders were bagged by the regular troops. Miss Addams of the Hull Hounse College sel- tlement in Chicago bid last year for the re- moval of garbage. She did not get the con- tract, but she has just been sppointed an official inspector of garbage. A fortune in Brooklyn awaits Sam Johnson, | whois declared to be a professional tramp, and Kie is being looked for- in Atlantic City. Quite & wealthy man for his walk in life. Loring F. Tyler of Boston left $150,000, eight wills nd two contestants for each will. The Probate Court has decided that his last will shall have its way. Mrs, James A.Garfleld, widow of the Presi- dent, will spend the summer at her niece’s residence, Caldwell, N. J., the town of President Cleveland’s birth. The organist in King’s Chapel, Boston, the other day started in to practice the seales when an eel in the water power stopped the proceedings. SUFPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. A west-side hack-driver ate a plece of wed- ding cake last evening and promptly fellin'a fit. Some one might have told him that wed- ding cake should be slept upon, not eaten.— Chicago News. Don'’t go into ecitacies, my son, over & young woman who ‘‘has a secret charm about her.” Bhe won't keep it any more than any otner secret.—Boston Transcript. . Mr. McSwat (getting ready forchurch)—Lobe- lia, what's the matter with this necktie of mine. I can't find any way 10 fasten the ‘blamed thing on. Mrs. McSwat—Oh! oh! oh! Put that down, Billiger! That's my new hat!—Chicago Tribune. “Coot night, Mrs. Prown. I haf tosank you for de most bleasant ebening I haf efferschbent in my life!” ‘‘Oh, don’t say that, Herr Schmidt!” . P;‘Aehl bot1do say dat! Islwayssay datl’— nch. “The coming man,” said Mrs. Lease, “will be ‘hairless”” . The man who is already here is somewhat short on hair and would most likely be shorter if his wife stayed at home more— Omaha World-Herald. There 1s many an amiable young gentleman who flatters himself that he fs & devil of a fel- low simply because he goes about with & cloven breath.—Boston Transeript. A finished gentleman is one some coquette has done up.—Dallas News. WIENIAWSKI'S REVENGE. BY EUGEN YBAYE. This is the famous history of the “Elegie @'Ernst,” and I can assure you thatitisau- thentic, for it was given me by Wieniawski himself—all except the end, and Rubinstein t0ld me that. When Wieniawski was in Paris—twenty years 8g0 or more—the people there were wildly en- thusiastic over him, and as well as crowding his concerts they continuslly begged him to play at soirees. One Baroness in_ particular, belonging to the highest aristocracy of the Faubourg St. Germain, would take no refusal. Wieniawski did not care much about the visit, but he yielded at last, and went with his eccompanist. The Baroness, who was receiv- ing her visitors at the head of the grand stair- case, welcomed him with effusion, enchanted, delighted to receive so distinguished a guest, and she begged him to be seated in the salon ill the other visitors had arrived. After ten minutes, when & few peeple were present, the Baroness, snatching a few mo- ments from her duties of receiving, asked Wieniawski to favor them by playing some- thing. He glanced around, the Baroness had gone back to the head .of the staircase, and there were present a few shriveled-up old gen- tlemen and three.or four young girls—very thin end uninteresting girls. “Bah!” he said to his accompanist, shrugging his shoul- ders. “Let us play Ernst’s ‘Elegie.’” Now, you know that Ernst's “Elegie” is of all com- positions the most dull and uninteresting. It is tedious enough to drive a hearer to commit suicide, They played Ernst’s “Elegie,” and the Baron- ess, who had been out of hearing during the performance, came beaming into the room soon after. “Ah! monsieur, how beautiful; I cannot thank you enough, but might I dare to ask you to play once again? Yes?” hastened away to welcome more guests, shall we play?” asked the accompanist. ‘Wieniawski looked around. The company was becoming more numerous, but no more inter- esting than ‘at the beginning. “Let us play Ernst’s ‘Elegie’ again,” he said. Absolutely no one listened, but a little later in the evening the Baroness entered the room, more ecstatic in her admiration than ever. “Bravo! M. Wieniawski; better and better!” she said. “You surpassed even yourself in that piece. Butwould you—dare I ask you to be complaisant enough to play once again?” and she flitted away. “If these people don’t understand Ernst's ‘Elegie’ they must hear it till they do,” Wieni- awski said to ¥ sccompanist, when she had gone,so he played the‘Elegie’” for the third time and the Baroness, whocame back just as the last few bars were being sounded, went into ex- travagances. ‘‘Monsieur, the powers oi the French language fail to express the beauty of that last work. Each of your selections is more exquisite than the one that-preceded it. What! Going g0 soon? My secretary will call at your house to-morrow.. Adieu, monsieur, and a thousand thanks for the delicious treat that you have given us. That was the story as Wieniawski gave it me, and I was telling it one day in Paris when Ru- binstein, who. was present, said: ‘‘Ah! but you have omitted the last part,” and thisis how he ended it: “As Wieniawski was leav- ing the Baroness’ house one of the guests, s little, shriveled old gentleman, who had been present from the beginning of the soiree, came up to the violinist: “Monsieur Wieniawski,” he piped, I have felt the most profound ad- miration for your playing to-night. Indeed, I bave never missed a concert that you haye given in Paris.” Wieniawski bowed, snd the ©ld gentleman continued : “There is a piece in your repertoire that once made the most profonnd impression on me, and I desire ardently to hear it again. Come, with your violin, to my house to-morrow or the day aiter, and name your own terms, for before -1 die & must hear you play Ernst's ‘Elegie.’ " Rubinstein told me that Wieniawski did not stop to make the appointment; he rushed out of the house too much overcome to say whether he would gratify the old gentleman’s last wish, and that is one of the most enthusiastic mu- sical histories that was ever penned, for Rubin- stein and Wieniawski both vouched for it. . ~> ON PERSONAL PROPERTY. The Work of Collecting Taxes Still Being Briskly Pushed to Com- pletion. . Twenty extra men were out collecting personal property taxes yesterday. On ‘Wednesday about fifty men were em- ployed making a house-to-house canvass. The returns they made showed that the force was not large enough. If it is found that the work cannot be completed before July 1, as required by law, with the sev- enty men now at work, more will be em- ploq\ed from time to time. “Those collectin% the taxes.are all expe- rienced clerks,” said Assessor Siebe. “They were sent to the districts they assessed as nearly as possible. In this” way trouble has been lessened, as the citizens remem- ber theclerks and are not afraid to pay them the money. ‘“The collections yesterday amounted to $6577. Of this sum over $: was paid by people who came to the office in order to avoid any chance of fraud .or mistake. I think and hope that the amount paid in at the office will grow larger each day as peo- ple learn that the tax is being collected. “I don’t think this is af way to col- lect taxes. The work of getting in the money should be done by the Tax Col- lector, anyhow. My men should get the statements. Then ‘the people should be enxmcfigd to bring their taxes to the City THE LABOR EXOHANGE. Gleeser, Clark and Warfleld Explain Tts Advantages, The advantagesof the labor exchange system were enthusiastically set forth last night at Golden Rule Hali on Mission street by Carl Gleeser, the originator of it, and Henry Warfield and J. 8. Clark, who conduct the store of the exchange on Val- encia street. Gleeser argued that his system of ex- changing products of labor by means of certificates of deposit on a co-operative basis and in a practical business manner was_the only solution to the problem of hard times. " Warfield said that thirteen g;cfil;lngu were already organized in the Arthur W. Dowe, the Shaker missionary, acted as chairman and G. W. Wglderman, originator of the “Christian operative Bociety of the World,” already described in the CALL, was among the audience. Furious Driving. Henry Steffin, who lives on the Ocean House road, was knocked @down by & delivery wagon on Eleventh and Mission streets yesterday afternoon and sustsined two badly lacerated wounds on the scalp, which were dressed at the Receiving How’ul. Steflin was unable to say to whom the delivery wagon belonged. It was driven at a furious &) and_came upon him before he could jump out of the way. The police are searching for the driver. ——————— The ordin eight aiahes‘—rz some shellfi: Chinese l;ll’“l conslst; gf Wwo_vegetables, eggs, a fis| a bird and two. dishes of meat, pork ai t in the south and mut- ton and beef in the north. Besides this a tureen of soup is served with rice, which at Chinese tal takes th bread. o e LIGHTMAKERS AT WAR, The Secret of Recent Reduc- tions in Electricity and A NEW RIVAL IN THE FIELD. The Mutual Electric Company Will Soon Be Ready to Enter the Arena. Within a few months there will be a lively rate war among the gas nnd_e]ectr_ic light and power companies and prices will go down to figures never before known in this City. The first.movement in thisdi- rection was the reduction of the price of | gas and electric lights by the San Fran- cisco Gas Company, the Pacific Gas 'Im- provement Company and the Edison Light and Power Company. The cause of this was the organization of the Mutual Elec- tric Light Company, of which P. B. Corn- wall is the president. This company has its office and power station at 617 Howard street, opposite New Montgomery. It bg- came known a few months ago that it would enter the field and compete for the patronage ot those who use electricity and gas for illuminating and power purposes. The Edison people were the first to recog- nize the rival and since the first of the year they have made two cuts in their rates. Their example was quickly followed by the San Francisco Gaslight Company and later by the Pacific Gas Improvement Company. Neither of these corporations will admit that they are making the first movement in a cut-rate war upon the new company, but the officers of the latter say that the recent reductions were simply the throwing of the gauntlet at them and they will soon be ab%e to take it up and do battle. President J. B. Crockett of the San Fran- cisco Gas Company, in explaining the rea- scns for the reduction. said that the tariff on coal had been reduced from 75 centsa ton to 40 cents, and as this promised to be permanent his neog_lc decided to give the public the benefit. he company had long contemplated a reduction. he said, as soon as it was possible to make it, and the new rate would go into effect on the 1st of July. Thenew rate will be 1214 per cent less than the present, or a saving of 25 cents on 1000 feet of gas to the consumer. For fuel and manufacturing purpeses the reduction for 1000 feet will begs cents. Mr. Miller of the Pacific Gas Improve- ment Company gives similar reasons for the , reductions his company will mak ‘“We have reasons to believe that our busi ness will be more encouraging. We have made favorable contracts for our sugplies, such as coal and oil, and we are glad to be able to share our prosperity with the pub- lic. We wanted to make a reduction some time ago, but the San Francisco Gas Com- pany was not in favor, and we_ did not wish to begin a rate war. As to electricity being better for all purposes, why, that is a mistake. Gas is the cheapest and best {é‘gm that has been found so far.” Mr. iller denied that there had been any compact with any other company toward making a war on any persons or corpora- tion. J. E. Green, secretary and manager of the Edison Light and Power Compauy, de- clared that no movement was zeing made toward giving the rival a warm reception. He said that in five vearsthere had been six cuts in the price of electricity, two of which were since January. The first this year was 10 per cent on incandescent lighting, and 20 per cent on electrieity for gower. The last cut was on May 1, a re- uction of 25 per cent on current for arc lights on the underground system. “If the new company put their prices down we will tannd meet them,” said Mr. Green. ¢Mr. Cornwall or the new company seems to think there is a field for another electric concern, although so far we have with our extensive plant and improvements, etc., been able to meet all demands for both power and light.” P. B. Cornwall, vresident of the Mutual Electric Company, is of the opinion that there will be a rate war started as_soon as his plant is in working order. “While we are not an opposition company we are a competing company, and we are going in for all the business we can secure. We have already contracts for furnishing electricity for illuminating and power pur- poses. Many of our stockholders are power and light consumers. These will, of course, leave the other companies. “In a recent interview published in the Caryr J. B. Stetson’s remarks were con- strued by me as threats to drive us out of the field. Well, we are ready to meet him on his own ground. We will be equipped 50 as to be able to sell electricity cheaper than any other company. I don’t say this in a_boasting way, but as a fact. The Edison Electric Company is more heavily handicapped than we are. It has out- standing “$600,000 bonds of its own and $200,000 of the old California Electric Light Company, all of which draw in- terest. Besides, the stockholders expect to receive dividends on their $3,000,000 stock. The company has made costly ex- ‘periments, and even now has on hand stock that is not the latest improved. ‘“We have nobondsand will not issueany, and it will be an easier task for us to pay. the interest on 500,000 shares than for the Edison folks to meet their obligations, I can construe the gas and electric compa- nies’ recent reductions in but one way,’ and we will be prepared to accept the challenge and sell as cheaply as any one. They claim that they have the best con- duit system, but we are sure that ours is the best patented so far. We have already filed our bonds, with Alvinza Hayward and A. W. Rose as surzties, for streef work covering four miles. These conduits will be on Market street, from Second to Ninth; Fourth, from Market to Howard, and Sixth, from Market to Howard. The will be laid on both sides of the streets, an we will eventually cover all the business pnfitx oé the tolvlvn.’ At > . Cornwall said that the laying of the conduits would be begun ehonl;. %Vitbin a few dg\{s four of the finest boilers ever built wili be in place in the new power- house. The' en ines are now being put :gg;thfi. and will be in working ordervery ““What will be the rates you will charge your customers for electricity ?”’ was asked of the president of the new company. “I do not consider it wise that I should make that fact public. W know exactly what it will cost us to make electricity. We also know what we can sell it for at & profit on the investment, and we know that the other companies eannot afford to g0 down to these figures. If the; i running at a loss.” VA Wil be A QUESTION OF LAWYERS. Election Commissioners to Decide What Steps to Take in Their Nult Against the Auditor, A meeting of the Board of Rleation Com- missioners has been called by Mayor Sutro for 11 o’clock this morning. The question to be discussed regards the steps to be taken by the Commissioners in the suit against thé City. The Election Commissioners, it will be remembered, were allowed $150,000 with which to conduct the last election. They spent nearly §190,000. Then objection was made to paying the extra $40,000, and to test the matter certain creditorsof the Cit; brought suit against Auditor Brodericz and Treasurer Widber to restrain them from paying any of these accounts. The “court decided for the defendant. This was &nmul!y a declaration that the Election Commissioners had_the right to incur the extra expense if they chose. Thne Supervisors were unwilling to see it that way and appealed the case to the Su. preme Court. 5 The Board of Supervisors refused to allow the Election Commissioners an a4 torney with which to conduct the appealeq case, and this is the cause of the meeting to-day. The Commissioners will fix npon some plan to secure legal talent for the active prosecution of the case. The amount of ‘the election expenses is now about $197,500, having grown since-the institu. tion of the suit. CAPSIZED IN THE BAY. Two Men Saved From Drowning off Alcatraz by a Cool-headed Boatman. The clear head and cool cotrage of one man in a bay accident yesterday morning saved one if not: two companions from drowning. Thonias Iverson, the well-known boat- man, Albert Credawell, a saloon-keeper on East street, near: Fisherman’s wharf, and Joseph Connelly, a lamplighter, manned a sailboat for a ‘day’s fishing near Alcatraz Island, While out on the bay they came near being run down by the ferry-steamer Sau- salito, and on attempting to bring their boat around in the swell, wi heir main- sheet made fast to a tk e capsized. Credawell was thrown ' in the water under the large sail and held in there for more than a minue, but being a good swimmer, managed to scramble ont from beneath the wet cloth. He held to the mast, which lay flat on the surface, and seeing Iverson struggling near him caught the drowning man by the collar and kept him from s The rolling of the boat ly beam ends chook them both ¢ but Credawell managed to get on the keel and dragged his h across the bottom of the craft. In the meantime Conne; almost strangled in the sail, which spread out on the water and kept him from going to the bottom. They were finally seen and rescued by Charles Collins, the noted life-saver of the water front, who steered his big fishing smack skillfully alongside of the exhausted men and pulled them one after another into the boat. Reception by Old Ladies. A public reception will be held for the henefi of the Protestant Episcopal Old Ladies’ Home, Golden Gate avenue, near Lot street, on next Saturday from 2 to 5 and from 8 to11r The young .]:eople mafileneos themselves wit music and dancing. e lady managers be glad to receive donations for the recept: of for the home. itself, and more m ¥ or yearly subscriptions would be gladly received, Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay stresz. o 1 5 VERMONT maple sugar, 15¢ Ib, Townsend's.» e GEO0. W. MONTEITH, law offices, Crocker g DA S e i Marg Hopkixs INSTITUTE OF Arr. Only one more weeky, — - WINE-DRINKING people are healthy. M. & K. wines, ¢ a glass. Mohns & Kaltenbach, e » PALACE sea baths, 715 Filbert street, now open for summer swimming season. . T Y B HUSBAND'S CALCINED MAGNESIA. premium medals awarded. Mo the taste and smaller dose than other magnesia, For sale only in bottles with registered mark label. ————— Gold in Madagascar. Adluvialand reef gold has been discov- ered in Madagascar at Antinahaka, north of Antananarivo. A thousand ounces were taken by native workers from & strip of ground 20 feet by 3.—New York Sun. e Your Wife and Self | 616 E. Twelfth Street Should attend the outing given by the Iroquois Club next Sunday in the Santa Cruz Mountains. A family excursion. Round-trip tickets $1. Boat leaves foot of Market street at 8:45 A. M. sharp, ————— An ambulance cycle has been by a Berlin doctor.” It is a litter re: two wheels at one end, and attachec ordinary tricycle at the other, and work by two.men. It would be useful in small towns where a horse ambulance is too ex- pensive, or in the country. vented PEFORE the warm weather of summer prostrates you take Hood's Sarsaparilla, which gives strength makes pure blood and promotes healthy aigestion. It is the only true blood purifier. . ““Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth- ers for thelr 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 Diarrheas, 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. 25c a bottle. —_————— The system of washing linen with petro- leum, which is customary in parts of Rus- sia, has recently been introduced into a German military hospital. ' = Fifteen grammes of petroleum are added to twenty- six pints of water containing soap and lye, and the linen is boiled in the mixture. PERFECT GEMS. THOSE LOVELY DINNER SETS, Selling for a Mere Song. DINNER SETS COMPLETE. Pure White Set complete.. $4 00 Rich Brown Decorated Set A 475 Dainty Harvest Decorated Set complete. Decorated Gold Enamel Set complete. . Gold Illuminated Decorated Set complete, exquisite. ... Decorated Toilet Set.. Decorated Toflet Set, extra large size.. Newest and Richest Shapes, designs and decorations. Don’t fail to see them, Gems of beauty. A Rovelation in Prices---New Features. — AT Great American [mporting Tea Cos STORES. 52 Market Street 140 Sixth Street 1419 Polk Street 521 Montgomery Ave. 5 2008 Fillmore Street 8006 Sixteenth Street 617 Kearny Street 965 Market Street 333 Hayes Street San Francisco 218 Third Street 104 Second Street 146 Ninth Street 2410 Mission Street 3259 Mission Street 917 Broadway 131 San Pablo Avenue | Oakland }Alameda REDUCTION T IN—— GAS. The Pacific Gas hn;fielmt Co. will Re- duce the Price of Gas to Consumers, BEGINNING WITH JULY For illuminating purposes to..$1 75 per M cu. 1. For heating, cooking and all i manufacturing purposes, :.h:;e & separate meter Ll.l > .81 60 per M cu. ft. €. 0. G. MILLER, Secretary pro tem. Park Street and Ala- meda Avenue