The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 19, 1895, Page 20

i THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—$6 per year bymail; by carrier, 15¢ per week. SUNDAY CALL—$1.50 per year. ‘WEEKLY CALL~—$1.50 per year. The Eastern office of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on & vacation ? It £0, it 18 1o trouble for us to forward THE CALE to your address. Do not let it miss you for yon will ‘miss it. Orders given to the carrier, or left at Business Office, 710 Market street, will recelve prompt attention. AY 19, 1895 Wisdom goes without crutches. Too much gain brings some pain. Arrogance is the livery No one ever accused spring of being too fresh. of weakness. “Suffering is generally a confession of misconduct. Nearly everything done in an underhand way is overdone. Some of the white liescommon in society are old enough to be gray. The person who does not enjoy music is out of harmony with nature. A happy home is the rose that Civiliza- tion wears in its buttonhole. The latest caprice of Eastern girls is to have their feet photographed. The best excuses for sadness are dys- pepsia and disappointment in love. If you never do to-day what you can to- morrow, you will never be out of a job. Men have been known to seize an oppor- tunity so rashly they choked it to death. | This is the time to decide whether you will go to the mountains or the seashore. Ii you take care of your cash yourself | your neighbors will take care of your credit. It is hardly worth while to go to church unless one brings home the lessons taught thére. * . It isstill adisputed point whether Russia ly taken the peacock feather from There is a dread rumor that the fashion- abie ice cream of the season wiil be called | Trilby. There are some people in social circles who think the world is nothing but a flirta- tion rink. “He that gives quickly, gives twice,” and moreover he is liable to be tapped the third time. If there were any possibility of profit in the advice of the average man, he wouldn’t give it to you. If Mrs. Grundy could be seen as well as heard what an extraordinary living picture she would make. You can never give a man any effectnal help until you have made him believe he can help himself. When a man has resolved to take a leap in the dark, it is not worth while for him to look before he leaps. 11 this silver campaign is to be kept up all summer we mightas well have Congress in session to settle it. Happiness is largely a matter of not overestimating our troubles and not under- | valuing our treasures. ‘Woman’s economy consists not only in what she saves herself but in what she makes her husband save. There are some people to whom you can not show the slightest kindness without having to pay for the privilege, It is one of the paradoxes of life that the only way to acquire a get-there movement i5 to develop your staying qualities. Many a man considers himself a friend to the city he lives in, who doesn’t even take the trouble to get acquainted with it. . While it is wise to seek the good opinion of others, it is worth nothing unless we have the higkest opinion of ourseives. " The saddest thing in life is the spectacle of a man who is sorry because he does not know that he has reason to be happy. Very busy peé;fl: who have only vne day in the week for relaxation should not make it too much of a business to seek pleasure. The people who get on in the world are . those who make the world think that they ought to get on, and that requires brains. . There is little use in a hypnotism that sends a lively man to sleep, but the world is just yearning for a kind that will wake a silurian up, There is no man living but that can find fault with his newspaper, but it is surpris- ing how few persons can succeed as news- paper publishers. If the Japs and the Russians undertake to carry on their diplomacy in the lan- guage of either, there will surely be hard words between them. The University of Pennsylvania, unable to take warning from Princeton’s experi- ence, has cracked its skull in collision with the California University athletes, Although marriage may be a lottery, most people have the privilege of writing upon the tickets the amount and character of the prize which they should draw. The cold wave has spread from the East- ern States to Europe, but California is still -luxuriating in the kind of sunshine that fills the stomach with food and the pocket with gold. ° It will be interesting to observeif the failure of the income taxlaw to meet the expectations which inspired it will be re- garded by the administration asa suffi- cient excuse to issue more bonds, Santa Rosa proposes to make its rose fes- tival an annual ‘affair, and this presents the interesting question as to whether its enterprise is to be herbaceous—dying down in winter and blossoming forth in summer. Beerbohm Tree has made the astonish- ing declaration that he likes America and expects toreturn next year,and he has not neglected to say that American au- compare in intelligence with any in Europe. MUSIC ON SUNDAY. The large foreign population of San Francisco has bronght about a very inter- esting condition of affairs—the necessity for music on Sundays. This is the day on which the proletariat of all nations may seek recreation, and if he is a for- eigner we may be sure that his Sunday outing must have a musical feature. Ysaye has made us understand that the system of musical education in America does not permit whatever native musical genius we may have to find means for proper devel- opment in this country. He speaks from the point of view of a European, and this excludes consideration of these facts: That every nation has a certain total energy; that this energy must be employed, and in its employment may produce results which may be large or small, according to the range or the point of view; and that, although American musical institutions may not be producing as many great musicians as Europe, the forces which might have gone to the making of musi- cians have undoubtedly been employed in advancement in other directions ahead of European achievements in those lines. It might be unfair to expect Ysaye to take all these matters into account. Still, it is well that no country and no people be noted for pre-eminence in one or a few things. Itis clearly better that the intellectual forces of a people be spread over as large an area as possible, provided that wholesome results be achieved in all useful directions. It cannot be denied that the American people have a tremendous vital force, and that it is being employed actively for the good of the whole race. It is an interesting fact that we have among our people, as a valuable leaven, a foreign taste, which, particularly in San Francisco, has a very important effect on the pas- times of our own people, and that one of its best manifestations is the demand for | music. Thus, while San Franciscans are enjoy- ing the advantage which the averaging effect of people from all parts of the world produces, these foreign tastes affect only our holiday amusements and our methods of restaurant existence. Even in these matters, however, this influence is exceed- ingly valuable. The subject of restaurants conducted by foreigners is a matter by itself. What we are most concerned with now is the matter of Sunday concerts. The central expression of this idea is found on Sundays at Golden Gate Park. Every Sunday afternoon many thousands of S8an Franciscans may be seen listening attentively to the excellent concerts which are given by the park band. Apart from the fact that most of the musicians are foreigners, the most interesting study which the audience presents is on the | score of mixed nationalities, the Latin and Teutonic races predominating. Most well- to-do Americans keep away from these concerts, probably because no admission fee is charged; but it is exceedingly in- teresting to the student to observe the genuine enjoyment which our local for- eigners find in these concerts, and if he be broad and generous he will be grateful to the foreign influence which has contrib- uted so largely to the regarding of these concerts as a public necessity. —_—— THE YACHT. To-day the combined squadronsof the San Francisco yacht clubs will cruise to- gether around the harbor and adjacent waters. Who does not love a yacht? ‘When does not that matchless and im- matchable thing of beauty forever and a day appeal to the tender and sentimental part of one’s being? The ship molded from a noble design, shapely and perfect in her grand maturity, a fit and royal con- sort of the kingly ocean, passes by in majes- tic review the fairest and best of human handiwork. Stand on the shore as she spreads her pinions of snow and sails away. One by one the white cloths lift on high and bow in_stately submission to the | winds that waft her on. Never a look or a longing is backward thrown to the safe harbor she has left, for her great heart is a-sea. Night and storm will shut down upon her, and the darkness and bitterness of death will encompass her about, but true to her purpose, true to the artistic mind that fashioned her and the master hand that pilots her, she enters the veil on the horizon’s verge and is gone. But the yacht—that dainty shape-blow- ing here and there among the big vessels that come and go in the roadways of com- merce; that thing of the birdlike flight above the waves, whose love is not drawn away from all ejse to follow her in her bright mystic dance across the water? With what coquettishness she tosses up her exquisite crest to the envious frown of the black-browed sluggish craft not built as she—for they -all, yacht or ship, are in- tensely female, and the characteristics feminine sail in them always. They doubt- less wonld like to crush the fairy fabric with their great, heavy selves, and would joy to know of that tender hull being ground on the hungry tooth of the reef, or lost under the mighty heave of the gale- lifted surge. They put their heads—their figureheads—together when the butterfiy of the sea wings by and they find her dainty lines not in good form. The prettiness of her is suggestive of an inordinate and somehow improper desire to please, and they are not pleased. The rake of her masts is unmaidenly, and the “‘many flirt and flutter” of her billows of white canvas is frivolous and unseemly. It was not so when they were young and fresh from the ways, and they would like to catch her across their mooring chains and bring that proud, gaudy pennant low, A rocky breaker-beaten leeshore will get her some day, and they know it. Nor does she trim her swelling volume of cloth to the soft winds of the hill-en- circled bay. She floats like a white, fleecy cloud, far out at sea,and her light, slim form audaciously mounts the billows with the steadiness of a ponderous frigate, or furls her sail, like the fairy nautilus, when the fury of the gale furrows the main. The living creatures of the deep arise to her, and the sirens of the wave lift their white hands to her, beckon her, welcome her, the fairest thing of the sea. A VETERAN STORY-WRITER. A characteristic story by Dan de Quille is printed in to-day’s edition of the CALL. Dan de Quille is the pen name of William ‘Wright, who is one of the pioneer story- tellers of the Pacific Coast, and his talent is everywhere acknowledged. Years ago Mr. Wright contributed to tne early literary papersof the Pacific Coast, and his name is associated with the first writers and publishers of California and Nevada. Though well advanced in vears, his mind continues clear and vigorons and hisstyle isas finished and captivating as ever, - Mr. Wright isan attractive personality. He has the sterling qualities olf” chu;czr that go to make up the typical citizen of the West, with all that gentleness of nature that belongs to the highest development of manhood the world over. In Mr. Wright's literary career he has touched upon every line of thought that is capable of appealing to the human heart, | He is an acknowledged humorist, and in his pathetic moods can move to tears, or when heroic can inspire the soul to high and noble thoughts. The weird and super- natural are favorite themes with Mr. ‘Wright. and the story of the “Black Dog of the Bend” isan apt illustration of his power in that department of the literary craft. RETROSPEOTION. The passing away of Peter Burnett, the first Governor of California, recalls to memory the wonderful things that have occurred in these forty-five years that have been devoted to the building of a State. The two States which have the most inter- esting history are California and Louisiana —most interesting because of the romantic incidents out of which they have been de- veloped: and so long as romance is cher- ished in the human heart, just so long will the elements which have gone to the making of these two States be alive with interest. It is a pity that the art of romance- writing in America has so grievously neglected its richest opportunities. George ‘W. Cable has taken merely a glance at the sweetness of early Creole days in New Orleans, and Lafcadio Hearn has given us but one touch of his genius in handling the beauties of Louisiana’s history by tell- ing the tragic story of Last Island. The wonderful literary resources of California, in the story-telling line, have been han- died by exceedingly few—Bret Harte, J. W. Gally and E. H. Clough in tales of the early placer mines, and Helen Hunt Jack- son and Mrs. Atherton in very slight and inadequate touches upon the pastoral sweetness of Franciscan days. Beatrice Harraden, a young English wo- man who has written the daintiestand most pathetic modern studies of English life, is now with us, and has announced that she will write California stories. It is to be wondered if she knows, or soon can learn, sufficient for the task. The remarkable thing about the telling of California stories which carry the spirit of the subject is that a very long education is required. Miss Harraden may bring with her all the fine and simple skill of her English art, and yeu it may prove amiss in the treatment of subjects which require a certain sympathy and understanding based on long residence: William Henry Bishop, Charles Dudley Warner, Julian Ralph and numberless other sojourners who luxuriate in pro- digiously long names have written things about California that are interesting to residents principally because of their Iudi- crous misconceptions. It may not be a part of their art to tell the truth, but it requires a very high order of art to violate the veri- tiesand still be interesting and instruc- tive. The rich field of romance in Cali- fornia has not yet been more than touched. Even before the inauguration of Governor Burnett the spirit of romance had long been busy in spinning its web over the country. The Russian traders who operated from Alaska to the Golden Gate; the English freebooters, headed by Sir Francis Drake, who were a menace to the sea; the incredible exploits of Fath- ers Serra and Crespi in seeking cut places for the establishment of missions; the ex- traordinary ability with which these men and their assistants invaded, conquered by persuasion and won by faith and upright example the refractory Indian regions which they encountered; the heroic task of building the vast missions out of stone or adobes: the inconceivable patience and skill with whick the Indians were brought under the dominion of the cross—these are all separate and wonderful chapters of in- numerable romances. But the story is only begun. Connecting the bay of San Francisco and the many mining regions were stage roads, which were infested with the most picturesque order of brigands on the “face of the earth. If the old California and Oregon stage road could talk, every mile of it would have its tragedy to relate. There are hundreds of other features of the State’s history clamoring for artistic treatment at the hands of a romancist; and we have cause to grieve that no sooner does one of our writers beein to stir the world than some poor consideration of dollars and cents lures him from his duty and opportunity. AN I0WA IDEA. Tt appears that in commenting upon the recent disastrous windstorms in Towa the Californians have mixed too much advice with their sympathy to please the people of the Hawkeye State. Our zeal in remind- ing the Towans of the superior advantages of California and our urgency in advising them to come here and be safe haye been irritating to their local patriotism, and as a consequence, while thankful for our sym- pathy, they have scoffed at our advice and not only lifted up their voices to complain but their feet to kick. > A vigorous expression of the discontent with our well-meant advice is found in a recent issue of the Iowa State Register, where, under the title of ‘‘California’s Deadly Dangers,” is the declaration that the “anfortunate people” of this State are *‘daily compelled to suffer from drifting sandstorms and the constant fear of earth- quakes, which have killed many more peo- ple in €alifornia than have been killed by windstorms in Iowa, and may and prob- ably will yet slide all of that elongated commonwealth into the Pacific Ocean.’’ Truly it is well at times to see ourselves asothers see us. If the performance does not give us a better idea of ourselves, it af- fords us atany rate a clearer and more abundant comprehenslon of the knowledge or the ignorance of the others. This revela- tion of the Iowa idea of California, for ex- ample, will help us to understand why any- body continues to live there when he might come here. People who wake up every morning in the expectation of reading that California has been slid off into the ocean by an earthquake or blown off by a sand- storm can hardly be expected to make their homes with us, We may pity the ignorance of such folks, but on the basis of their belief no one can question the sound- ness of their judgment in staying where they are. ‘With such an illustration before us of Eastern ideas of California, it is clearly our duty to begin a campaign of education on the subject in order that our fellow- countrymen beyond the Rockies may have a true conception of our conditions. What will it profit us to go on talking of sunshine and flowers, of prunes and pomegranates, of oranges and vineyards, of balmy climes and fertile soils, 50 long as the hearers are convinced that the whole Elysian land may suddenly, like a summer’s girl, step into the sea and become a part and parcel of the infinite swim? The Board of Trade, the Half-million Club, the Chambers of Commerce and all the trumpet-tongued host of the press should at once set about making it known that California is linked to the Union by bonds irrefrangible, eternally durable and not to be broken. She holdeth fast to the everlasting Sierras, rock-ribbed and per- manent as the earth itself. Her so-called earthquakes are but the gentle motions by whic!l she nestles closer into the great granite lap of the mountains. There is neither any danger in them norany shock, even to Mrs, Grundy. Her sandstorms are few and rare and confined to narrow localities. She has no deadly dangers, nor is there any possibility of widespread dis- aster within her borders, unless some l knew a man in Illinois whose wife put up cyclone should turn its course westward, and, drawing up all Towa bodily into its enormous vortex, should whirl it high in air across the continent and drop its stu- pendous weight hurtling downward in an awful cataclysm upon the peaceful plains of the San Joaquin. OUR EXCHANGES. Enterprise, Improvement, Progress. The things expressed by these words occupy to-day almost wholly the attention and the energies of the journals of California. They employ the investigations of reporters and engage the thoughts of editors. Around them is woven all that is brightest and all that is best; all that is most real and all that is most ideul in our State journalism. Records of acts or of aspira- tions in the direction of these things are found in every newspaper of every section. Pick up any California paper of recent date and you will find either reports of enterprises begun or editorials urging them. The papers of the State are too numerous for us to quote from all, and it would be an exhausting task to attempt to select the best. We can dono more therefore in our review of exchanges this week than to take up a few at random, and by extracts from them show examples of how earnest and how active is the press of California in promoting everything included in enter- prise, improvement and progress. The Willows Journal declares the condi- tion of that section to be most promising and says: “We even see and feel the new blood permeating the almost corpselike body of the Sacramento Valley.”” Asevi- dences of the changed order of thingsit cites the facts that in the northern part of Glenn County private enterprise has con- structed an irrigation system which ina few years will add millions to the wealth of the county; the Central District Canal Company, which two years ago was sup- posed to be dead, has this spring elected a new board of directors pledged to carry out the enterprise, and finally a number of the large land-owners have expressed a willingness to sell a portion of their lands in small lots on easy terms to actual settlers. Thése things surely point to the coming of a greater prosperity for the county and the Journal is justified in say- ing to its readers: “Spend your time talk- ing up your lands, your town, your cli- mate, your resources, your people. Praise the good of all these and forgive the bad and Glenn County will prosper beyond your wildest imagination.” According to the information of the Los Angeles Herald, ‘‘a number of enterprising and public-spirited gentlemen have under consideration plans for carrying out the project that will build'a railroad with Los Angeles and Salt Lake as the terminal points.”’ This project haslongbeen talked of, but this year there may be something more than talk. The enthusiasm for en- terprise, which prevails all over the State, is of course felt with more than ordinary intensity in such a center as Los Angeles, and this will stimulate the project. It is worth noting, also, that the work of San Francisco is having its effect on the minds of the Angelenos, and the Herald says: “It is not much that is done in the Bay City that we need emulate, but the ex- ample set by its property-owners is one that those of our city should immediately observe and promptly follow. Which one of the great earth-owners we have will start the tracklaying ?” A number of wide-awake, sagacious busi- ness men in Chico are talking of organiz- ing a Board of Trade to advance the inter- ests of the county, and are having the in- fluential support of the Chronicle-Record, which says: ‘“Organization is the secret of a community’s progress and the earlier Chico’s solid men form themselves into a Board of Trade oran improvement club, as it might be termed, the earlier will Chico begin to gain in standing among the cities of the State.” There can be no ques- tion of the truth of that statement. Chico has abundant resources, but so long as they are unknown to the world, they will remain undeveloped. Co-operation and judicious advertising are the first steps for the public-spirited people of the place to take in the path of progress, and, indeed, when they have been well taken much progress will have been already accom- plished. e Over in Redlands the opportunities for the establishment of manufacturing in- dustries are good, and the Citrograph is so diligently and persistently making them known to the world that it can hardly be long before enterprising capitalists take advantageof some of them. The town has excellent railroaa facilities, being touched by two overland lines; has cheap electric power and an abundance of raw material. The Citrograph points out that there is vroduced in the county not only large quantities of fruit capable of making the finest jams and jellies, but also sugar for preserving purposes. Moreover the county contains an excellent clay for making pressed brick or terra cotta articles. Asif these were not enough, the Citrograph urges that a woolen-mill would also pay, and finally recommends the construction of an electric line from Redlands to On- tario as a profitable enterprise. A most excellent showing of what has been done in Petaluma by local subserip- tions to promote manufacturing establish- ments has been madein a terse article by a correspondent of the Courer. According to this statement the people of Petaluma, during the last twenty years, have sub- scribed upward of §94,000 to such enter- prises, and as a result the industries of the locality have been egriched by a woolen- mill, a flourmill, a cannery, a pickle and preserve factory and a silk factory. The writer closes by suggesting the construc- tion of a larger hotel than any now in the city as the next step of local enterprise, and judging from the record the town has made for itself in the past it would seem a foregone conclusion thatif this undertaking should please the public mind it would very soon be carried to success. In Antioch there is talk of generating electricity by the power of the tides and putting it to use. The er says: “We have six feet of tide in Antioch, and with n:.lchinery to harness the power we could liberaily light the entire neighborhood. In fact, enough power in addition could be secured to generate sufficient electricity to run a streetear through the town and to the depot.” The Ledger, however, does not favor waiting for outslde capital to put up the plant, but candidly says to its readers: “We have waited long enough for a railroad or a manufacturer to come among us and lift us out of our boots, and the best thing that could happen is for us 1o come to a realization that we must help ourselves if we ever expect thrift and progress.” In Hanford, as elsewhere, there is & de- mand for a cannery, and a fair prospect for establishing one. The Sentinel, in urg- ing a favorable consideration of the pro- ject, suggests that if the enterprise is car- ried out it should make a specialty of fine 200ds and not enter into competition with the cheap canned fruit now so abundant | fu: in the mar] It then goes on to say: “The writer some strawberries for the market, the quality of which attracted attention, and from that small beginning the man was drawn into the canning business, which made a fortune; but the quality of the goods was the basis of success.” The view taken by the Sentinel is un- questionably right. California must make her fruit preserves superior to the rest of the world if she would derive from them the full profit they are capable of yielding. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. J. Ross Jackson and Dr. Hughes walked into the California Hotel yesterday evening and sat down in the window. “Ididn’t have a good dinner, Ross,” said the M.D., as he bit an inch off his cigar. ‘‘You must have had a bad day at the races. How much did you lose, Doc?”’ inquired Ross. “Didn’t lose anything. Idon’t play the races, Mr. Jackson.” “You don’t? Well, you talk very much like & man who does; or rather you talk as a friend of mine does when he drops his money. How 'was the wine you had?” “No good, Bad flavor. “And the salad?” “Too much oil, Ross.” “How about the cheese?” “Too fresh. Whole dinner spoiled.” “Doc, there is no use talking to me. You have been playing the races. You exhibitall the symptoms of having bet on the Wrong horse. Come now, tell the truth. How much behind ?” “Seems to me you're doing the Sherlock Holmes act at a very rapid gait. Tell me the basis of your deductions.” “Simply human nature. You are like other people in the matter of showing feeling. I base my conclusions upon. things I have been constantly associated with. Thereisa gentle- man who comes to my house occasionally to Not dry enough.” J. ROSS JACKSON BELIEVES IN SHERLOCK HOLMES, [Sketched from life for the *Cuil” by Nankivell.] dine. When he wins he drops in with a smile on his face, and begins to harrangue about the start, the ‘bunch at the quarter,’ the rush down at the homestretch, the way he piled up the tickets and the finish! He cannot say enough about the good points of the animal upon which he had his money, nor is there anything quite so fine as horseracing as a pastime. ‘I tell you, Ross,’ he says, ‘when the two favorites swung into the stretch I saw Tamalpais go right down to the ground and almost fly. I had eight tickets on Dolly for place, and I thought I would lose. All of a sudden she took the bit, and with amagnificent spurt she went 1o the front. I won $65 on that one head!” And soitgoes. He raves over the sport like a crazy man, and his talk is horse, horse, horse for three straight hours. When he loses and dines with me he never mentions horse, but takes the privilege of an old and dear friend to advise me to get a new cook. The beef is too well done, the fish is not baked enough, the entree too hot, the vege- tables have too much salt and the wine is too young. Nothing suits him from start to finish. The whole earth is going to thejdogs and civil- ization does not civilize. If we go to the theater after dinner the play is bad, the ballet isawful sud the house is badly ventilated. Whenever he gets in this mood I ask him about the races. His answer is generally a growland he threatens never to be seen there again. I have reached a pass now that when I see a man in an anti-dinner mood I conclude that his favorite lost or else he tore up his tickets. Am I right, Doc?” “Let’s go and have a cigar, Ross.” The way was long and dusty and the sun in- tense as, one day this week, several surreys, bearing John D. Spreckels, Robert Watt, Leon Sloss, Thomas Megee, Fulton Berry and others of the Valley road party, jogged over the burn- ing San Joaquin. Mr. Sloss was in charge of the commissary department, and had taken the precaution to take plenty of ice along. The thermometer was over the hundred point, and the wayfarers were assuring one another that this was no junketing trip, but real hard work. Even Berry, whose stock of good humor and fund of storles, with all sorts of pointsand peculiar terminations, is inexhaustible, felt the overpoyering oppression of the heat and grew taciturn. Leon Sloss nodded in his dus- ter. John Spreckels made a vain attempt to smoke & cigar when Thomas Magee cried in a loud and distinct tone, “When we haltI will make & stew.” The effect of this announcement was posi- tively startling. That Tom Magee, in the presence of such epicures as Sloss, Spreckels and Berry, should refer to gourmandaise in any form was astonishing, but that he should actually volunteer to concoct a dish himself filled his companions with the greatest appre- hension. “It is the heat,” sald Spreckels. “Poor Magee's brain has' given way. I noticed that he has been acting queerly for some time.” “He scowled and looked so vicious when I told my last story,” said Berry, “thatI felt sure there was something wrong with him.” “‘I wish we could spare some of that ice for his head,” sald Commissary Sloss, “but there is only enough to carry us through.” “When we halt I will make you a stew that will delight you,” shouted Mr. Magee again, waving his straw hat over his head. Mr. Watts’ suggestion that the unfortunate gentleman should be strapped in his duster, straitjacket fashion, was being seriously de- bated when the driver of the leading surrey announced that they were within a few hun- dred yards of Baccigalupi’s ranch, where they were to rest for & few hours, and that Mr. Magee might be confined in the wine cellar until the deputies could be summoned from Fresno. % “How do you feel now, Tom?” said Mr. Berry soothingly as they stepped out of the vehicles. Magee looked at him disdainfully, and pro- duced a big boiled ham from under the seat of his w-fim At this, a faint hope that there might be some method in this out, which was further oonnfqu wheum,l(;’npg:’sf:d called for s mfi 8nd a coal-oil stove. Both were rnished him, and the ribaldry of the crowd-| was changed to awi they noted the artistic deliberation of the suspect’s proceedings. He chopped up the bam in aices ang put it ! half a bottle of white wine into the bubbling t to simmer in a quarter of a roll of i;‘e:lllleb’:lotur. To this he added three cans of chicken, one can of tomatoes and one sliced onion. «“The man is as sane as I am,” remarked Mr, | Spreckels as a whiff of the mixture saluted his nostrils. “PTl make it & personal matter with the gen- | tleman who suggests that Magee’s mind is diseased,” muttered Berry as the cook poured caldron. Indifferent to their commendations, as he had previously been to their gibes, Gourmet Magee plunged a huge im_n spoon | into the very bowels of his stew. The idea was both aiplomatic and ertistic. A cloud arose from the seething depths, which hung for a moment over the circle that | surrounded the alchemist. They closed their | eyes and sucked the delightful vapor into their | lungs with a sort of luxurious spasm. When | they awoke from this brief but delicious leth- argy the tall form of Thomas Magee scemed transfigured as he waved his spoon and cried: | ““Whosaid I could not make a stew " 5 “No one, not a soul. Speed thee, good Magee, | ob speed thee,” groaned the impatient spec- | tators of this impressive scene. It was an apotheosis of ham, onions, Magee and condi- ments, and they unshipped it accordingly. ! The dish was fully up to all theanticipations 1‘ of those who had witnessed its preparation. “Heaven knows what Magee may reveal next,” said Sloss, as he bathed his mustache in the glorious gravy. ‘‘He may be & profi- cient in the skirt dance for what we can tell.” Itwasa feast on the desert that even John D., the author of ham & la Bordelaise, waxed enthusiastic over. The seasoning was perfect, and when washed down in cool, plentiful bumpers of the wine of the country gave the wayworn and heat-op- pressed travelers a lighter view of life. And | as the last morsel of bread, soaked with the last dab of gravy and moistened with the !ges of the last bottle, disappeared the resolution | to decorate Tom Magee with the cordon bleu | was passed with acclamation. ‘\ W. E. Peck of Santa Cruz, the treasurer of the Venetian Water Carnival, was at the head- | quarters at the Grand Hotel yesterday taking | alook at the pretty decorations that Secretary Christie and the ladies have put up. | “How are you getting on with the raising of | funds, Mr. Peck?’ was asked by & member of | the San Francisco committee. “Oh, that is the easiest part of our work. | We will spend $20,000 on the show probably, | butit willall be in hand in good time. Al ! Santa Cruz is taking hold with a will. We know that we have got to make a success. “Coming as we do with our carnival, aiter all | the other shows, it will be necessery for us to do something great. It is going to be the big show of the summer, too. We cannot afford to | do less, for we propose to make it an annual affair and want it to be something to be known of and looked forward to all over the country. | “We have plenty of money and enterprise, and that, with such good backing as we are | getting from the CALL, will make anything go. “The lighting up of the river at night is go- ing to be a wonderfnl sight. We shall have every arc light in the city brought down to the water’s edge, besides 2000 incandescent lights and $2500 worth of fireworks. “Santa Cruz has become & very energetic | town, particularly since the big fire we had a | few years ago that burned outa good many old rookeries in the heart of the city and enabled us to move the Chinese to the outskirts, and many fine buildings have been put up on the ground they occupied.” | i PERSONAL, Dr. D. E. Wells of Eureka is at the Grand. | Dr. W. F. Pratt of Agnews is at the Baldwin. | Judge J. C. Ball of Woodland is staying at the Lick. John Herpst, & lumberman of Arcate, is at the Grand. | Dr. G. H. Jackson of Woodland is staying at | the Grand. l J. S. Oyster of the navy and Mrs. Oyster are | at the Palace. | Frank R. Daley of San Bernardino is a guest | at the Baldwin. Adolph Busch Jr.of St. Louis registered at i the Palace yesterday. | Dr. J. M. Blodgett of Lodi was one of yester- | day’s arrivals at the Grand. ! D. M. Madison of the navy was among yester- | day’s arrivals at the Palace. | A. E. Putnam, & prominent lawyer of Santa | Barbara, is at the Occidental. | A. 8. Cooper, & civil engineer of San Ber- | nardino, is registered at the Grand. | Frank G. Finlayson, & prominent attorney of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Baldwin. W. E. Peck, Tax Collector of Santa Cruz County and the treasurer of the Venetian Water Carnival, was in town yesterday on business connected with the coming fete in his | city. | PEOPLE TALEED ABOUT. Medical students at Harvard attend at cook- | ing class to learn how sickroom delicacies should be prepared properly. | Viscount Peel is the first peer created by the | Rosebery administration, except in the cases of two law Lords—Russell end Davey. | Salvini’s matchless rendition of “Saul” in Rome last month is said to have been the chief | theatrical event of the year in all Italy. ! Rey. W. A. Sunday is pushing an evangélical | campaign in Indiana, and lightening his cler- | ical duties by occasionally acting as umpire in | ‘baseball games. | The only church in Philadelphia in which 1 men predominate in the congregation is Hope | Presbyterian Church, of which Rev. James | Gray Bolton is pastor. | The aged Baroness Burdett-Couts is said to | be remarkable for the youthfulness of her at- | tire, her taste leaning toward delicate stuffs in | pink and rose colors. Sir Frederick Leighton, who has been seri- | ously ill in Algiers, has excelled in other ways | than with the brush. He is 8 musician of fine | taste, a soldier, orator and a man of fashion. | Lady Gwendolen Cecil, Lord Salisbury’s liter- ary daughter, hes acknowledged the author- | ship of the recently published story, “The | Curse of Intelleet,” which has made a hit in | England. i Gladstone looks forward to the future with- out fear of death. In declining to do some | literary work recently on account of press of other business he agreed to begin the task in the latter part of 1896. { W. . Gilbert, who once said in a huft that he would not write any more comedies, has racon. | siderea his decision. A new play from his pen may be produced by Mr. Willard at the Gar. rick—a London theater in which Mr. Gilbers has a proprietary interest. —_— e —————— SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. ‘What we need here is not another boom, in the sense of more opportunity for everybody to unload at big prices, but a boom in actual set- tlement of our back country lands, a boom in productive activities; and that is Pprecisely what is being prepared for in the wide opera- tions of the big water companies. o pa; —San Diego | A great many more of the tourists tha before known will come to the eum:l envne; northern part of the State for an inspection of the charms and advantages of these localities, and it is only fair 10 assume that many a new hearthstone will be laid in our Dbeautiful coun- try in consequence.—Santa Rosa Democrat. The enterprising man, about who; 80 much, is simply the man whno‘ ::nusg chances to make money which the ordinary man eannot perceive. In other ‘words, genuine enterprise, s distinguished from spurious, is merely brains.—Oakland Enquirer. : 1f there be any who yet question th climate in dollars and cen?.-, let them.ovo.l}l‘;bell?: the withered ruins of the orchards, vineyards and gardens of the East with the certain prom- ise of fruitful harvest of all kinds in Califor- nis.—Fresno Republican. Justkeep on the division of large farms, and we will have addition and multiplication of prosperity, and substraction of mossback- ism, unthriftiness and 1 o s nd lethargy.—Sslem (Or.) Land monopoly has heretofore been the great eurse of Sacramento County, as it has probably of every other county in the'valley. Land mo- nopoly retards enterprise; t hampers progress; it puts a gigantic stumbling-block in the path of desirable immigration. The leaven is work- ing, however, in Sacramento County, and even | the preliminaries for the splitting up of one great tract of land have given & new spirit to the people.—Sacramento Bee. While the people of Eugene are talking diver- sified farming to the tillers of the soil the said tillers should talk to the people of town of their need of diversified manufactories. — Eugene (Or.) Guide. This is not a time when we can afford to do nothing. Other towns are pulling for su- premacy, and it is rustle that counts these days.—Kern County Echo. ———— SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Friend—And you ere very happy? L y happy? Bride—Very. " Almost every day I hear of | some other girl who would have jumped at the chance Tribune. “I licked him,” said the bo mours ly; - lcked him g00d, and now there are s ccple of big fellows in the next street jest a-layin’ for me to lick me ’cause I licked him.” “My son,” said the father earnestly, seeing 80 OPpOTtUNIty to fnpress a lesson in interne tional politics upon the boy, “now you realiz the position that Japan is in.” - Chicage Tribune. Miss Lillie Cusack (coyly, after refecting Alkali Tke’s proposal)—But I'll be at home next Sunday night. 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