The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 26, 1895, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 26, 189 Eooo———— e s e e s A oo S CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—4G per year by mail; by carrier, 168 T week. SUNDAY CALL—#1.50 per year. ‘WEEKLY CALL—31.50 per year. The Eastern oflice of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Dally and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New Yor] THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a vacation ? Tt £0, it 1s no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for yon will miss it. Orders given to the carrier, or left at Business Oftice, 710 Market street, will recelve Prompt attention. ; Sog MAY 26, 1895 Al g RSl P e Camping time has come. Shake the old things and agitate the new. China needs smaller spectacles and larger eyes. It takes parsimony to clip the wings of wealth. A Sunday outing stops a Monday pouting. ‘Will the bathing suits this season be out of sight? In the judgment of a fool there are no wise men. It is the slow worm that is caught by the early bird. A noble sermon trims the lamp of conscience. It is a wise cat that learns wisdom from ene singeing. BSunday ought to be a feast-day for all starved souls. SRR It is a superstition that thereis no rest without change. The Woman’s Congress did not need a sergeant-at-arms. ‘Whenever an enterprise is undertaken something is done. Men work for fame or fortune, but expect happiness as a git. The most delightful ethnelogical mon- ster is the double eagle. Many people will go a mile out of the way to hunt for temptation. Itis the wind of enterprise that raises the dust of silurianis Tennis is getting ready to stick its monocle and say, “Aw!” No San Franciscan needs to leave the City to try another climb. e There is room enough in the world for everybody to stretch himself. The man who frowns at coquetry is often willing to wink at the coquette. Many men fail in life by taking chances instead of seizing opportunities. Pride is the lamp that keeps darkness out of a progressive man’s soul. Our ocean breezes find an wolian harp in the breast of every good ecitizen. Blessed be the cobbler, even though it is only a half-soul that he gives us. Some people carry their wealth in their vockets and others in their hearts. To many Americans home is only an eating-house and a sleeping place. The foolish man thinks he cannot spend a holiday without spending money. The only light that can show us the road to heaven is that which shines within us. The man who knows that he is better than other people is a stranger to charity. No man will have cause to regard mar- riage as a lottery if his wife is always win- some. It is evident woman can talk through her millinery without putting on too many frills. ‘The trayeler who went around the world in search of joy never found it until he got home. Gold and goodness have to be very patient with each other in order to be friendly. The hardest road to travel is that which passes through Self-Denial from Income to Comfort. It is needless to say Sir Henry Irving can play the part of a knight with grace and dignity. e It is somewhat unfortunate that the cor- rect pronunciation of Ysaye’s name is a little slangy. Demagogues being incapable of high thinking endeavor to reach the public mind by tall talk, The San Francisco matinee-girl is the double-distilled extract of gold, sunshine, roses and balloons. If self-conceit did not furnish its own buoyancy some men would never be able to carry their load. If ages ago the tortoise had been moved by a strong desire to fly he would have had wings by this time. The coolest impudence of the season is the demand of the mugwump that the jingo shall shut up. It is one of the curiosities of life that the man who plays the bass fiddle in a theater orchestra is generally bald. Eastern writers are finding an exhaust- less theme for varied discourse in the - vicissitudes of the spring weather. 1A great many men of San Francisco evi- dently have not heeded Lord Chesterfield’s remark about “‘a rose in his buttonhole—a gentleman dressed.” It would do the State good to herd all the silurians in some remote cardyon and erect a placard at the entrance warning the world that the colony is the graveyard of hope. Professor Starr, who fills the chair of authropology at the University of Chicago, declares the American of the future will closely resemble the Indian type and may even be copper-colored. Every Japanese now thinks that Macau- iay made a mistake when he said it would be a traveler from New Zealand who would some day stand on a broken arch of Lon- don Bridge and view the ruins of St Paul’s, THE WOMAN'S CONGRESS. The Woman's Congress has been the principal feature of the week in S8an Fran- cisco. It hasevery day attracted crowds that were limited only by the capacity of the hall. These crowds, moreover, have not been composed of mere curiosity-lovers seeking a novel entertainment. They have been made up of earnest men and women, who attended the congress either from a genuine sympathy with its objects or from an intellectual desire to learn the aims of progressive women and to estimate the ability of their leaders to deal with the broader problems of life. The attendance of such audiences un- doubtedly excited the emulation of the speakers and roused them to put forward their best efforts. As a consequence every day of the congress was marked by a more than ordinary brilliancy of discourse. The subjects which engaged the attention of the speakers covered a wide range and in their entirety comprehended almost every important problem of modern society. It may be said of the congress, therefore, with an almost literal truth, “there was nothing it did not touch, and it touched nothing it did nof adorn.” That our society will derive much bene- fit from this assembly of intellectual women and their earnest discussions of great subjects, is certain. To doubt it would be to doubt the ability of our men and women of culture to acquire new ideas or to profit by new suggestions. It isnot necessary to agree with all that was said at the congress in order to recognize its value. Much that was said would perhaps not re- ceive the assent of the majority of dele- gates themselves. This does not detract, however, from the substantial worth of the work accomplished. The congress has shown us how some of the difficult prob- lems that confront the world are seen by intelligent women, and has given us sug- gestions of how women seek to solve them., No one can gainsay that the view of these problems presented in the congress was essentially accurate, and that the so- lutions offered were full of promise. Out of the discussions we may draw enlighten- ment, not only upon those questions that concern women mainly, but upon many which are now regarded as distinctively the affairs of men. To the membersof the congress, therefore, the press of the city may well extend congratulations. If they have not conciliated opponents they have won the favor of the impartial, the praise of the judicious and given encouragement to their friends. THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY. The action of the directors of the Mer- cantile Library on the proposition to con- solidate that institution with the Free Library was taken by a majority suifi- ciently large to make it decisive. There will be no consolidation. The friends of the Mercantile maybe feel assured that the institution will be maintained in full independence to supply the special re- quirements of its patronsand to fulfill in the intellectual life of the City the part it has so well filled in the past. The debate upon the proposed consolida- tion brought out a statement of facts in the highest degree encouraging to the friends of the institution. So far from be- ing clouded by gloomy prospects the situa- tion of the library is much better now than it has been for some time past. While it has liabilities of $75,000 it hasassets valued | at about $200,000. In addition to this, Director Biglow stated that friends of the institution had promised $15,000 to the funds. He was also sanguine of a large increase of members in the near future and cited as a fact justifying bhis expecta- tion, that a number of new subscribing members had been added to the rolls last month. One of the most effective arguments against consolidation is that the readers of the Mercantile Library are a different class from those who patronize the Free Li- brary. Their tastes are different, and they call for a different class of books. It is evident, therefore, they can be best served by maintaining a library devoted to their particular requirements. There are certainly enough people in San Francisco to maintain in a flourishing condition a library which fills the position of the Mer- cantile. It has grown up to its present noble proportions because of the demand for it, and with a little co-operative energy on the part of its friends there is no reason why it should not continue to flourish and increase indefinitely. “THE ORIGINAL MULVANEY. ‘Wherever the English language is read and tales of romance find a welcome, Rud- yard Kipling’s genius has made the fame of Private Mulvaney known. It is not too much to say that Mulvaney is the greatest creation of recent literature. Though he figures only in short stories, his personality is as real and as vital as that of any character presented in English fiction. It is a character, moreover, that attracts the admiration and wins the abid- ing sympathies of men. Had Kipling written nothing except his Mulvaney sketches, be would still hold a high place in the literature of the day, and would have been accorded no small honor because of the popular delight in the adventures and the philosophy of that racy specimen of the Irish soldier in India. It will be regarded therefore as a rare treat to the lovers of romance and to the readers of Kipling that the CALL presents this morning an account of the original of Mulvaney. It will also be a matter of pleasant surprise to find he isa resident of 8an Francisco. The true name of the hero of those exquisite stories of life in the East Indian army of Great Britain is Wil- liam McManus. As a corporal in the British army he knew Kipling when that brilliant story-writer was a boy and fur- nished him with the materials out of which the best of his romances have been made. His real story is not inferior in in- terest to those which Kipling has told about him, and our publication of it this morning may be accounted as one of the literary sensations of the day. ~ A TASTE OF EUROPE. It has not been very long since the Caty, in showing how cheaply one may live in San Francisco, named specifically a num- ber of places where excellent meals may be had for 10 or15 cents, and described in detail the dishes which are served for that price. One very interesting feature of the matter did not receive special atten- tion in that article, and it is that the very large number and great variety of foreign- ers in the City explains this most interest- ing phase of our City life. In no other city in the world, thanks largely to the presence of these foreigners, may one live so well at so little cost. Of course there are expensive restau- rants eonducted by foreieners. At the ex- treme opposite end of these cooked-food resources are the numerous littie shops kept by Americans, who are not res- taurateurs, but who keep on hand cooked substantials of a wide variety, which are bought and taken away, to be eaten at home. Asa rule these delightful resorts are kept by New England Yankees, ana | are conducted by earnest, anxious-faced, ~ hard-working women. These are the cheapest of all, and what they sell is as clean and sweet and dainty as the most fastidious housewife could wish. Itis to these places that the wisest housekeepers resort for many good things which they could not produce for so small a costat home. But it is in restaurant living-of the cheaper sort that the most instructive phase of the subject is to be found. Along with a very large foreign population have come special means for catering to its needs. The prevailing foreigners repre- sented by cheap restaurants are Germans, French, Italians and Spanish. The cater- ers to these nationalities have brought with them all their native deftness in pro- ducing and serving the most tempting dishes at the smallest cost, and have intro- duced into their art that fine skill in economy which the experience of many generations has enabled them to master. And the economical American may be sure, when he takes a meal in one of these restaurants, that, no matter how ill trained may be his palate to the curious dishes served him, the presence of foreigner diners congenial. to the enviroument will be a sufficient guarantee that nothing un- wholesome will be set before him. San Francisco has an uncommonly large element of educated Americans, mostly in the arts and professions, who are loosely classed as “Bohemians.” In stronger evi- dence than these are certain social sets which, through organization and a re- stricted range of tastes, governed by alto- gether wholesome ideas of propriety, have their own round of pleasures that are evolved entirely out of their own resources, and perhaps they have a tendency to shrink from what they may regard as ex- cursions into the regions of the bizarre. These represent the distinctively Amer- ican idea of strict propriety fashioned after the Anglo-American standard. They are wholly separate (barring a few points of social contact) from that large number of free American spirits who see in the large foreign population an opportunity to temper the rigidity of American modes of living with those soft, elastic and infinitely various resources of wholesome life which prevail in Europe and have not yet been generally incorporated in the American scheme. 1t is these “Bohemians” who know best the fine story of life which may be read in the cheap restaurants kept by foreigners in San Francisco. Environment does not de- ter them. If they discover a cheap, dark littlé corner in the Latin Quarter, where a soft-voiced and velvet - fingered senora serves the finest little Spanish dinners, steep hills and ill-lighted alleys have no terrors for them; and it is these, besides the poor among us. who understand best the value of the delightful little restau- rants which the I opulent foreigners have a way of hiding in the most unlikely corners of the C ONE NEEDED SOHOOL. The Women’s Congress will leave many waves breaking on the shores of our civili- zation. An observer of the course which this congress has taken will have seen that its efforts have taken no account of climate or geographical definition. In appealing to the concrete woman it has addressed the women of all Christian lands. This is altogether admirable and could hardly have been otherwise; but unless there come out of it a series of strictly local movements, set in procession by our own women whose ambition for the good of their sex has been roused, we shall fear that one of the most valuable sequels of the congress has gone astray. Tt was not to have been expected of the distinguished visiting women, who have led the congress, that they should be fa- miliar with the many avenues for dis- tinctively feminine employment which are made possible by the peculiarities of our climate. But they will carefully agree with us in the declaration thatif we have in California peculiar 'avenues for the em- ployment of feminine deftness and adapt- bility, and that if from a seizure of these conditions our womankind can enjoy special privileges, which will operate to an advancement of their general scheme of progress, it would be a neglect of duty to ignore them. Suppose, for instance, that we could be brought to realize the possibilities which might be developed out of scientific flori- culture in California. Then we should start with the postulate that a peculiarly genial climate extends our local horizon in this regard far beyond the comprehension of those who have acquired a smattering of floriculture in the Eastern States. And yet it is a startling fact that among all the flower-growers of California there is but one woman who has taken rank with the leading men in the business. This is Mrs. Theodosia Shepard of Ventura, who as an invalid came to California to grow flowers for her health. To-day sheis a sound and hearty woman, and one of the leading flower-seed producers of the country. It is an astonishing fact that although the conditions under which flowers are cultivated in California are so radically different from those prevailing in the Eastern States, the catalogues of Eastern growers, absurdly inappropriate for our purposes, are largely followed by such of our amateur growers as have the diligence to read at all upon the subject. Compara- tively few, however, go to that trouble. It is so easy for them to put a plant into the ground and idly observe its profusion of bldom that anything like special educa- tion on the subject is likely to strike them as ludicrous. And yet of all the graceful, refining and healthful occupations which women may follow that of scientific flower-growing is the finest, and the sub- stantial allurements which our climate offersin this particular might be regarded as a special providence. So few of our women are aware of these facts that the creation of a scientific school of floriculture would be one of the greatest institutions'which the women of Califor- nia might set on foot. If their influence prove insufficient to attach a college of this kind to the State University or Stan. ford they would still have the privilege of founding an independent institution. In addition to whatever immediate financial benefits which those who acquire this education might secure in the shape of returns from seeds, plants, bulbs and essential oils, would be the incalculable general good which the whole State would enjoy from having its homes made beau- tiful with flowers intelligently grown. —_— OUR EXOHANGES. By reason of the cordial welcome and hospitable entertainment given to the visiting members of the S8acramento Val- ley Newspaper League, the pleasant town of Woodland is receiving an amount of commendation which will make its attrac- tions known all over the Pacific Coast and to a considerable extent in the East. The p)'aise given to the place, however, has not been indiscriminate and thoughtless. The editors met in Woodland to consider what is needed to advance the welfare of the valley and they studied that community asan object lesson in the work they are about to undertake. As a consequence they found even in Woodland some condi- tions that should be changed. The Dixon Tribune for example says while the citi- zens are progressive they are ‘‘greatly handicapped in the existence of large land holdings and a silurian spirit on the part of their owners, who although the.y would profit by the subdivision of their holdings stubbornly refuse to initiate a movement which would malse that section a paradise.”” This is one of the evils ?hnt weighs most heavily upon many sections of California, and the newspapers of the State can hardly render a better serv§ce than in striving to break it up. The praise given to Woodland will be none the less appreciated because this evilin her sur- roundings is noted, and on the other hand the clear criticism of the situation con- tained in the Tribune may prove mr.ge_!y instrumental in bringing about a subdivis- ion of the largeland holdings under the wholesome pressure of an educated public opinion. With a considerable force of argument the San Bernardino Sun urges the pe?ple of that section to grnb-stake industrious men among, the unemployed and send them out to search for gold. It claims, reasonably enough, that there is probably more gold in the mountain ranges and gravel beds of California than has yet been taken out, and says: “There has seldom been a period—not within twenty-five years certainly—when a greater number qf nrfh discoveries have been made in California than within the past six months.” That there are sufficient inducemen_ts ahead to encourage prospecting for gold in many parts of the State is beyond ques- tion, but whether it is advisable to enter upon the adventure of grub-staking.the average unemployed man in 2he§e days is another consideration. The business of grub-staking was profitable enough in ”?" old days when nearly every adventurer in California had a keen desire to search for gold and went at it for the love of it. - In these days, however, there are many idle men who have no aspirations in t_hat way, and if given a grub-stake would Slmpl_v‘go to some pleasant canyon in the mountains and have a picnic. It will not hurt the people of San Bernardino to gmb-sta}se a man whom they know to be a true miner, or a man with gold-hunting instincts, but in helping the average unemploy_ed wan- derer, they will find it more profitable to stake him out where they can watch him earn his grub. According to the Visalia Delta there is pot a vacant store or office-room in the city, nor a single desirable residence to let. It says: “‘Several of each could be rented at once if available, and in order to supply the demand more building will have to be done. A flourmill is building, and a fruit- packing establishment will follow. A new water system is being laid, and the streets fronting all business blocks will soon be paved.” Statements of this kind attest the solid foundation upon which the pres- ent revival of industry throughout the State is based. There is nothing in itofa speculative character. It comes to supply the permanent needs of our increasing population. During the two years of de- pression towns like Visalia have outgrown the existing equipment of the social or- ganism, and now they have to set to work lively to provide new homes, offices, stores and shops to make room for themselves and afford exercise for their energies. The editor of the Crescent City Record has given notice that “long communica- tions on religious sects or creeds other than those that tend to harmonize the different denominations will be refused publication through the columns of the Record here- after.”” This resolution is wisely taken and shows a clear appreciation of the true limits of mnewspaper discussion. A live journal can concern itself only with those debates which tend to action and lead to an understanding by which the majority can be brought to agree upon a policy and act with that unity which is necessary for the best success. This is true of all contro- versies whether religious or otherwise. There are too many discussions in the world over things which ought to be done for a newspaper to give any of its space to combats in the air over merely speculative opinions. Not satisfied with the results of the ex- periments with the Nicholson pavement in San Francisco and Portland, the Los Angeles Record urges another experiment with it in that city. It claims the value of that pavement is dependent upon the kind of wood used, and that in Australian cities where the material is obtained from the gum tree the pavements even under the heavy traffic of Melbourne and Sydney, require to be relaid only about once in six years. If these statements are correct it might prove a benefit to the State for Los Angeles to make the experiment. The gum tree grows with great vigor in Cali- fornia, and if it can be shown to make a substantial street paving there wouid be a good profit in growing it notonly for home use, but for shipment to Eastern cities. Lovers of good living will be pleased to learn that the San Diego World reports a successful attempt to propagate Eastern oysters in Alamitos Bay. The supply at present is too small to be put upon the market, but the prospects are said to be so good the experimenters are sanguine of being able in a few years to supply the Pacific Coast with as delicious bivalves as ever grew in the Chesapeake. This of course is not the only place in which the oyster industry may soon be thriving, for Eastern oysters have been propagated at several points along the coast, but we can never have too much of a good thing of that kind and therefore there will be no little satisfaction in the cheering reports from the breeding grounds of Alamitos. PEOFLE TALKED ABOUT. Colonel Bigger is now private secretary to Queen Victoria, in guccession to thelate Sir Henry Ponsonby. Signor Grimaldi, the Italian Deputy, is the fastest speaker known and runs off 200 words & minute quite easily, Barah Bernhardt is writing & book of her own life. If she tells all she knows, there will be mighty interesting reading in the volume, Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox has a white Per- sian cat for which she paid $400. She con- siders it worth several times as much as it cost her. Professor Babcock of the College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, Chicago, has been totally blind from birth, yet he has become one of the most successful practitioners in diseases of the chest. Miss Lillian Russell keeps, it is said, s dish of boiled earrots on her dressing table, which she eats ins of candy. She does this for the benefit of her complexion. 1t is said that William H. Van Tine of Cleve- land, Ohio, although 75 years old, never ut- tered an oath, never used tobacco or tasted liquor or sp'ke an unkind word about any- body. Frederick L. Sargent of Cambridge, suggests asa floral emblem of Massachusetts the blue flag (irls vervicolor) because it is ““the embodi- ment of the State’s cherished motto, ‘With the sword she seeks quiet peace under liberty.’ ” Whether the late Sir Patrick O’Brien did any- thing else of note in the House of Commons, he will at least be remembered for one motion. One sultry day when the proceedings were dull he moved that the House adjourn to see his nephew batin a cricket game. This nephew l succeeds to the baronetcy. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “I don’t know where it got its name,” said Jerome Fuller of Keeler, Inyo County, last evening st the Russ House, “but it is well named. The Spanish called it Death Valley long before the American occupation of Cali- fornia, and Iam told that the Indians had & name somewhat similar, only the word they used meant quick death, 1nstead of death.” Mr. Fuller was speaking of that desert of horrors in the southeast corner of California, neer the Nevada line, known and designated as Death Valley. “The deposits of borax,” continued Mr. Fuller, “would seem to indicate that this waste spot was once a lake, the waters of which were heavily charged with sodium. It was in all probability of voleanic origin. I suppose that there is no place on this planet so near to the popular conception of hell as this awful valley. I have been told by travelers who have visited the Dead Sea region that it is & pafadise compared with this pestilential spot, the home of vonomous reptiles and ver- min, and shunned alike by man and beast. Its baked and blistered soil breeds only mnoxious and venomous things. About the place there is something weird, un- canny, grim and ghoulish. Even the rep- tile life is of the most ghastly shape, of rancorous nature and diabolically ugly. Its dead do not decompose, but are baked in the scorching heat of countless scorching days. No tree, or flower, or shrub, or sign of vege- table life relieves the prospect of this drear waste spot, which lies 200 feet below the level of the sea and stretches away to the south for adistance of: forty miles. There is no shade, and not a drop of moisture ever falls to cool this trackless waste of salt and sand shimmer- ing under a sun that kills and then petrifies. “Some of the California pioneers have good reason to remember Neath Valley. In 1850 an emigrant train bouna for Sacramento, and composed of about thirty persons, attempted to cross the deathtrap. Only one of them lived to tell the story. The others perished from heat and thirst. The sole survivor of this ill- fated train brought out a story of & gold dis- covery which, during the ten years following the death of his companions, lured many to destruction in the burning sands of the valley. Something over twenty years ago Lieutenant Wheeler of the army, while on an exploring expedition or- dered the guide to cross the valley. The guide, knowing something of the treacherous pit, re- fused to obey the order. Then Wheeler ordered two soldiers with fixed bayonets to compel the reluctant native to take np the trail. They started out, the gnide and his armed escorts, butin about three hoursone of the soldiers returned and staggered into camp unable to articulate. A relief party brought in the other soldier in a stricken condition. The guide went crazy and wandered away to die alone. Half an hour without water under the intense heat will drive & man insane, but water will not always save & man here. Many have dropped down with full canteens in their hands, never to get up again. For varlety in reptile life there is no place like Death Valley. There are about ten different kinds of snakes, from the deadly rattler to the harmless little green snake of the temperate zome. Centi- pedes, scorpions, lizards, tarantulas and horned toads abound in great numbers. At night the alkali crust is alive with them, and by day they are always very much in evidence, 5o much so as to make Death Valley a pit of indescribable horrors.” Queen Victoria, having upon her seventy- sixth birthday conferred knighthood on Henry Trving, to him Horace Greeley Platt, president of the Bohemian Club, sent a message of con- gratulation, omitting the Queen entirely, This was the message cabled to the eminent actor: ““The owl welcomes another knight.” Fearing that Mr. Irving might be shocked if the message was misconsirued, Mr. Platt stipu- lated carefully with the telegraph company that knight should be spelled with a capital K. Mr. Irving must have received the precions message on time and taken it to the Queen with infinite delight, for he responded as fol- i LONDOX, 10:30 4. 3., May 27. Horace G. Platt, Bohemian Club, San Francisco: Love aud greeting. Warm thanks to brother Bohemians. HENRY IRVING. The telegram from the new knight, who nightly impersonates the immortal knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha, will be framed and placed in the Red roo C. M. McPhail, a banker of Cass City, Mich., is taking observations of California scenery, climate and products, with & view of establish- ing a home in this State. H. A.McCraney of the Supreme Court clerical department, has guided the man from Michigan to many of the picturesque points of interest hereabouts, and has all the time set 1orth the advantages which San Francisco possesses for holding a National convention to nominate a President of the United States, feeling sure that Mr. McPhail’s impression will be faithfully reported to George L. Maetz, the Michigan representativein the Republican National Convention. Mr. Mec- Craney is chairman of the executive commit- tee of the Republican League of Newspapers, and feels it his duty to make a point wherever he can in favor of bringing a National Conven- tion to the commercial metropolis of the Pacific coast. Morris Newton and John T. Sullivan were busy all day yesterday about the headquarters of the Santa Cruz Venetian Water Carnival, at the Grand Hotel. There are a great many athletic, musical and military organizations to arrange with about going down to take part in the show, and from this time on until the car- nival begins there will always be a number of men from the city of the Holy Cross here. The large banner of the carnivel floats over the Grand Hotel, and outside the windows of the committee-rooms are the carnival colors, yel- low and white. Each day a fresh supply of flowers are sent up from Santa Cruz to decorate the rooms. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. The best way to avoid unpleasant eriticism is to do nothing that is likely to invite it.—San Luis Obispo Breeze. Enterprise will manage to find a market for all the energy our workers can produce.—Polk County (Or.) Itemizer. Patronage, like charity, should begin at home. We cannot expect people abroad to use California products unless we are willing to use them ourselves.—Los Angeles Times. A fiesta that is not a success is a fiasco. There is a distinction between a winning fight and a fizzle, a rainstorm and a drizzle, bursting fire- works and g sizzle.—Santa Cryz Sentinel. Mark this prediction: Within three years there will be 100 pump plants running by Kern River power, and within five years there will be 500 such plants.—Kern County Echo. Now the doctors tell us we must have mi- crobes or we cannot digest our food. We pre- sume a ratio of microbes of about one to six- teen is about the right figure.—Pasadena News. Men who come here to live and invest their money in dividend-paying industries are wel- come. But the man or company sending money in for investment, while remaining in the East or in Europe as a resident, has done us no good.—Pendleton East Oregonian. It will be learned with much satisfaction that, although the Cuban revolution has com- pletely demoralized the tobacco trade, pure Havana cigars made from choicest native leaf, are being manufactured right straight along in the East where the cabbage crop was good.— Ogden (Utah) Standard. Flush times or hard times, military or non- military, every American community owes to itself, and especially to its youth, the future citizens of the Republic, to keep alive the fires of patriotism by & proper tribute to the found- ers of our free government upon each recur- ring anniversary of our indepenaence.—Fresno Republican. The Trilby craze has evidently struck the mining center of Lovelock. By a location filed 160 acres are located, to be known as the “Triloy placer mine.” As 160 acres contain 6,969,000 squaré feet, the mine perhaps is not inappropriately named, only Trilby’s famous feet were not presumed to be square.—Oroville Mercury. One thing in particular we can offer people seeking for homes, and a most important thing itis. We can offer them the finest and most productive land in the world, without any payment whatever on the purchase price for several years, thus enabling them to live and crltivate the soil and produce a few crops be- fore being called upon to make even the first payment on the land. Where but in Merced County can land be purchased on such terms? We venture to say it cannot be done elsewhere in California.—Merced Sun. There is a difference between extravagance and that liberality which Inspires the public citizen to encourage every legitimate public and private enterprise having for its purpose the development of resources and the increase of wealth and population, although the si- lurian refuses to distinguish the difference.— ‘Woodland Democrat. The horse-raising industry is only lacking in one element at the present time to enjoy a genuine boom. If to the recent horse-canning industry could only be added a horse appetite, and that could be elevated to the degree of a fad, greet wealth would immediately be in store for the owners of stock now almost worth- less.—Prineyille (Or.) Review. NAVAL LESSONS. Lord Brassey's Naval Annual for 1895 has just come out, having been delayed by the compilation of parts taken from the Chino- Japanese conflitt. This makes the publication the first official and most accurate account of tbe sea-fights in the Yellow Sea as yet given, and most valuable from an historical and scien- tific point of view. The author takes the five-hour battle of the Yalu as an object-lesson in armor, and states that as the Chinese ironclads Chen-Yuen and Ting-Yuen were each hit 200 times near the water-line and not seriously penetrated, it is proven that armor is effective against gun fire. And when it is remembered that those vessels were not protected by the Harveyized nickel plate now used by all navies, but by the old process, and against the most modern guns, the war student is convinced that the new steel cruisers need not fear the new rifles of her foe. Theoretically, the 6-inch and 13.3-inch guns of the Japs should have gone through and through the old armor of these Chinese cruis- ers, but practically they were a failure. Passing over the miserable condition of the China fleet without an adequate supply of am- munition, without fairly intelligent officers, and even without a complete code of signals whereby ships could act in concert in fight, Lord Brassey and his co-writers come down to the superior speed of the Mikado’s ships and thedeadly work of their rapid-fire batteries. The Chinavessels were without this class of weapon, consequently they received from five to eight shots to the one they were able to fire in re- turn gun for gun. TLe Japanese were able to steam around and around the enemy, practi- cally holding them at their mercy,and had their gunners oeen equal to those of Europe and America in point of marksmaaship their enemy would never have escaped annihilation in the first fight. The torpedo work on both sides was a failure, and both fleets, though well supplied with these effective projectiles, did comparatively nothing with them in their naval engagements. Another practical conclusion arrived at by Lord Brassey is the necessity of having the future war vessels, on going into action, totally without boats or any inflammable material on board. Hammocks or wooden fittings are almost sure to be set on fire by the bursting of shells, thus endangering the ship from a source that need notexist. In the matter ot the boats, they are I doubly useless, for if not splintered or burned by shelis, they become disabled by the concus- sion of the heavy guns on their own ship. One of the few practical lessons learned from this woeinlly unequal conflict is concentration of fire upon one ship ina fleet fight. A crip- pled vessel in the column isa terrible draw- back to the rest of the squadron and all their tactics must be deranged to protect her. The Japanese had several old shipsin their fleet which were & constant source of weakness to the others. The military tops of the vessels of which so much was expected were only heard of in this naval conflict when several of them were struck by shells, and all of their occu- pants killed. Their position up in the air in range of high-flying projectiles makes it almost impossible for them to escape duringa hot fire. Speaking of “end-on” as against “broadside’ fire, the authorbelievesin the greater efficiency of the latter. A ship should of course have an all-round fire, but it is the broadside that decides the fight. Moreover, a ship end-on affords a better target, because all the difficulties in shooting lie in the range, and ashot that would pass over a ship were she broadside-on would likely strike her if end-om, as that position gives, in fact, a margin of 100 yards more range to the shooter. Reverting again to the gun-fire work Lord Brassey says it would be interesting to know the speed of the gunners during the three hours’ hot action at Yalu. The Japanese ship Yoshino fired 1200 rounds from her broadside of seven guns, or 173 rounds each gun—almost one per minute. The Chinese ironclads Chen- Yuen and Ting-Yuen fired their eight 12-inch guns each twenty-five times,and their four 6-inch guns each sixty-seven times in the three hours. In the general discussion of navy-building the author of the Annual calls attention to the torpedo-boats—the fight-deciders of ship en- gagements—and their construction in all the navies of the world. He also mentions, in a sort of grim way, the need of torpedo-boat. destroyers, and the great need of these little craft to protect the fleet from the almost sure destruction by their smaller enemy. He advocates the building by Great Britain of two ships for every one constructed by her neigh- bors, as by that means only can she maintain herself on the seas. Lord Brassey strikes the keynote when he calls for the sail. Ships must, for purposes of economy as well as in cases of emergency, have that invaluable suxiliary— the canvas—and in this he is seconded by the best experienced men in the United States naval service. Summing up his conclusions, the author holds that the future vessel must be armored, must be speedy, must have quick-fire guns, SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Tommy—Let's play we're politicians and hold te. ‘?11(:;?;;?;'0, I can't. Ma won’t let me call names.—Chicago Record. H.—Is your boy fond of bocks? D.— !eiy. Igave hima copy of “Robinson Crusoe” the other day and he got lots of fun out of it. H —I didn’t know he conld read. D.—He can’t read, but he tears the pages out and makes boats of them. Oh, yes, he’s fond of books.—Carlisle (Tenn.) Indian Helper. Gaggs—I don’t see why everybody calls Misq Uptodate clever. I think she is very dull. Waggs—That is very strange, for I heard she cut you yesterday in the street. «Isn’t it singular,” he remarked, “that you area brunette when both of your parents are 50 very light?” “That is very easily explained,” she rejoined, Rising from the low divan where she had been reclining, she threw s lump of conl on_the fire, “You see,” she explained, while winsome dimples enwrapped her countenance in witchery. “Iwas born ina flat where babies were prohibited and had to be kept dark.”—De- troit Tribune. Wife—My dear, I need a little more of this stuff and some trimming to match. I wish you would drop into Bigg, Sale & Co.’s and get it. Husband (a smart fellow)—Let me see. Oh, § know. That’s the store where they have so many pretty girls, isn’t it ? Wife—Y-e-s. Husband—Yes, I remember. That blond girl at the trimming counter knows your tastes and will doubtless select just the sort of trimming you want—I mean the girl with the golden hair, alabaster skin, blue eyes and sweet little— ‘Wife—There are & number of thingsI want downtown. Never mind, dear, 'll go and get them myself.—New York Weekly. The Pea Pod. Twelve lovers of music have organized a soe clety called The Pea Pod, consisting of Mrs, Elizabeth Cook, Mrs. Millie Mann, Dr. M. E. Van Meter, Rev. Donald Ross, Dr. I. M. House tan, Dr. W. G. Thomas, Miss Bertha Hollmann, Dr. Mattner, George Mann, Miss Gertie Cohn, Miss Rexbie Roller, Miss Vinnecombe. Thid society has discovered the most rapid and easy method of cultivating a taste for good music— it is to educate, educate, educate—not only tha juveniles, but adults. The soclety purposes to form classes free to all, young and old, to teacl them to read at sight, sing at sight and play a§ sightany given musical subject. Books wil beopen for enrollment of classes June 15 a Paul Von Janks’ College, 1812} Castro street; at the Colleie of Music, Tooms 13, 14 and 15, Mercantile Library, Van Ness and Golden G-c1 avenues, from 1210 2 P. ». Examinations wil be made bi-annually. Any one passing the ex- aminations will begiven a free scholarship i; either of the colleges extending over a four: ears’ course in piano, violin, vocal, languages, art, etc. Monthly concerts will be given byl the best artists in the city, to which all of the patrons of the club will be admitted free. E. H. BLACK, painter, 114 Eddy street. = e Ashton, 411 Montgomery.® — —————— CALIFORNIA Glace fruits, 50¢1b. Townsend’s.® RENTS collected. e ——— . Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * — PUREST imported cognaecs, Holland gin and cordials for family use. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Market street. L Little is known of Shakespeare’s mother, but she must have been a good woman, He makes one of his characters say: [ had not so much of man in me; butallmy mother came into my eyes and gave ma up to tears.” —————— Species of snakes that are enemies of ona another in captivity will coil up into their winter sleep in the same bundle. ————— HAVE you ever noticed how your system seems to crave for special assistance in the spring? Just the help most needed is given by Hood’s Sarsapa- rilla. It gives nerve, mental and bodily strength, —————— WE recommend the use of Dr. Siegert's Angos- tura Bitters to our friends who suffer with dyspep- sia. ————— Ir afflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaae Thomph son’s Eye Water. Druggists sell it at 25 cents. NEW TO-DAY. WE ARE SHOWING AN ELEa GANT _ASSORTMENT THE LATEST AND MOST DESIRABLE WAISTS IN ENTIRELY NEW AND smokeless powder, and must be protected by torpedo-boats and torpedo-boat destroyers. —_— PERSONAL. Dr. J. M. Blodgett of Lodi is at the Grand. Senator E. C. Seymour of San Bernardino is in town. Dr. Wakefleld of San Jose is staying at the Occldental. W.F. Knox, 2 lumberman of Sacramento, is at the Grand. ‘W. P. McFaul, Assessor of Mendocino County, 1s at the Grand. Sheriff W. C. Conroy of Placer County is stop- ing at the Russ. J. P. Mayne, & merchant of Fresno, is regis- tered at the Lick. George W. Hamilton, an attorney of Auburn, is visiting in town. Thomas H. Lynch, a merchant of Fresno, is staying at the Lick. 8. G. Little, & banker of Bakersfield, arrived yesterday at the Russ. V. Courtois, & vineyardist of Santa Rosa, registered at the Grand. Creighton Churchill of the navy registered yesterday at the Occidental. Judge G. W. Nichol of Sonora came in yester- day and is at the Occidental. H. C. Lechner and Ben Leet, merchants of Fresno, are guests at the Lick. Angus McKay, & mining man of and Mrs. McKay are at the Lick. John Gallegos Jr.,a vineyardist of Mission San Jose, registered at the Palace. Stanton L. Carter, an attorney of Fresno,was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Lick. E. Avery McCarthy, who has been in Los An- geles for over two weeks, has returned. 8. A. Knapp, & prominent merchant of Haw- thorne, Nev., arrived in town yesterday. C. C. Walker, ex-State Treasurer of Nevada, arrived from Eureka yesterday and is staying at the Palace. Frank Miller, cashler of the bank of D. O. Mills & Co., in Sacramento, came down yester- day and put up at the California. R. B. Marshall of the United States Geologi- calSurvey returned yesterday from Washing- ton, where he has been several months, and is at the Occidental. Charles MacVeagh of New York, son of Wayne MacVeagh, United States Minister to Italy, and his family arrived from Santa Bar- bera yesterday and registered at the Palace. Mr. MacVeagh has been in Southern Cafilornia for about a year for the benefit of his health, which is much improved, and he is now on his way home. Grass Valley, Dr. Bliss, the agent of the Palestine explora- ton fund, has discovered a ruined town east of the Dead Sea. EXCLUSIVE DESIGNS, THE FOLLOWING ARE A FEW OF OUR_SPECIAL VALUES FOR THIS WEEK: LADIES' CHANGEABLE DRESDEN SILK WAISTS, with extra large sleeves, London front. crushed collar and : colors—old rose, green and brown effects; lined and boned§ sizes, 34 to 38, Special Price, $7.50 Each. REGULAR VALUE, $10 50, LADIES' CORDED SILK WAISTS, with extrs large sleeves: crushed collar and belt; colors— lavender, light blue, pink, grayand bluett lined and no?ea: sizes, Ba 10 46, Special Price, $6.25 Each. REGULAR VALUE, 88 50, LADIES’ TAN INDIA SILK WAISTS, with exs tra large gleeves, London front, crushed collap and belt: these waists are lined and bonedj sizes, 34 to 40. i .50 Each. Spoctal prxfééusfusz VALUE, 87 50, LADIES' SILK SHIRT WAISTS, made of firsg quality wash silks, with two detachable collars; We have them fn preity atripes, atd black and white, and_white, and White check. and In_ solid lavender, pink, lighg blue, red, white and black. 3.50 Each. Special Price, $. GsDOD o ATSO A MOST COMPLETE LINE OF TADIES' COTTON SHIRT WAISTS, In pretty stripes and solid pink, blue, tan and red; sizes, 32 to 40. Special Prices, 75¢ to $2 Each. THE BEST VALUES EVER OFFERED. WE HAVE THE LEADING STYLES IN LADIES’ SILK AND LAWN BOWS, knots, four in-hands and Windsor ties. IN OUR Ribbon Dep’t SPECIAL SALE OF 3000 yards No. 22 (3 inches wide) all-sllk 1n’all colors, including black, nl.) o 20c a Yard. Hosiery Dep’t SPECIAL SALE THIS WEEK. 50c Hosiery for 35c a Pair. We offer a special purchase of 1000 dozen Lad Lisle Thread Hose in plain, R ibbed 1o Black, tan sad RAls oy} half at 350 Regular Price, 50c a Pair. NEWMAN & LEVINSON, 125, 127, 129 and 13t Kearny Street and 209 Sutter Street. .