The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 28, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—$G per year by mail; by carrier, 150 r 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. i Are you going to the country on & vacation ? If £0, 1t 15 1o trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will Orders given to the carrier, or left at Business Oflice, 710 Market street, will Tecelve prompt attention. .MAY 28, 1895 Prepare for Memorial day. For a time we rest from fiestas. Anger is the insanity of impatience. ‘Whoever buys home goods helps home labor. About the hardest thing to reform is a reformer. R Every mineral spring in California is & sanitarium. The silurian’s deafness is his blindness. the result of Stanford and Berkeley are locking arms instead of horns. No man can be square whose life is a round of pleasures. When capital ceases to employ labor it becomes pernicio The supreme i turn of better ue of the day is the re- 'S, Perhaps Grover will try to float his book as another bond issue. TR | Those who do not work for good govern- ment do not deserve it. He laughs best who has the gayety to laugh at his own expense. Democratic leaders are making a tobog- gan slide of the silver question. Cranks may wrangle over the silver question, but statesmen will settle it. It now appears to be a fight between “gound money’’ and “honest money.” Everybody will be pleased with street improvements as soon as they are done. The sweet girl graduate of the colleges is the coming woman of the summer resort. The City prepares for a hcliday about the time country folks are busy picking | fruit. The Carson Mint scandal is slowly shak- | ing out its reefs and sailing on a wider | course. If Market street gives King Cobble a black eye the Twin Peaks will split with | laughter. Prosperity will never be complete until every workingman can find employment at good wages. He who understands the glories of trout- fishing knows how to cast his lines in pleasant places. The people who are trying to make ene- mies of gold and silver have a larger stock of brass than either. The first skyrocket fired at the Santa Cruz carnival will be caught on high by the Angel of Plenty The society man is preparing to revise dancing programmes by consulting the lists of graduating classes. Money spent in a foreign market may come back, but money spent in a home market never goes aw: Asit is said Cleveland is not satisfied with Carlisle we may reasonably doubt if Carlisle is satisfied with himself. There can never be a union of Central American States until there is first a union of the people in any one of the States. The only big pumpkins that California is pointing to these days are those that grow on the shoulders of unprogressive men. The spring weather fluctuates so much in the East that the people do not know whether to call it next summer or last winter. . S e The Memphis gold convention having proved a failure, Cleveland might have better success by calling the next one in London. The summer is singing blithe songs of welcome to those toilers of the city who go to seek health and happiness in the mountains. The forthcoming meetings of the State Horticultural Society will probably discuss the art of buading independence on an industry stock. e Rince the advance in the price of oil | the town, but they encourage domestic | understand the value of good government; OITY GOVERNMENT. | The work of the National Municipal League at its meeting at Cleveland on the 29th, 30th and 31st of this month ought to make interesting reading for San Fran- ciscans, for methods of city government wiil be very fully discussed. As yet but very few American cities have felt the pressure of the great municipal reform wave that has swept over Europe. London is one of the last great European cities to grasp the vital idea that has transformed Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and Bradford into comfortable cities, and is preparing to reform its own condition. It was Mr. Chamberlain himself who recently declared: “The people are beginning to appreciate the fact that municipal govern- ment is the most potent agent of social reform, and that it is the best instrument by which the wealth and the influence and the ability of the whole community can be concentrated and brought to bear in order to relieve the pressing wants of its least fortunate members, and in order to raise the general level and standard of the whole population.” Glasgow now claims to be the best gov- erned city in the world. It has acquired the ownership of the water, light and tramway service, and operates them at an amazingly low cost. It has a curiously organized government, the principal feature of which is an elective Corporation composed of seventy members, who are selected from the body of business men. Not only do they look after all the sani- tary conditions of the city, including pure water, perfect sewers, the destruction of sewage, smooth pavements and absolute cleanliness in every nook and corner of cleanliness and decency, require that each house shall have abundant sunshine and ventilation, establish picture galleries and libraries on a scale that no millionaire could afford, and private baths, parks, con- certs and recreation grounds for the free enjoyment of the peopic. The whole plan, in short, is to make the lives of the citizens as healthy and happy as possible. Asone writer puts it: *The Corpora- tion recognize three duties as being laid upon them: To fulfill their trust by economical administration of the city's finances; to improve public health, both physical and moral; and to give bright- ness and the possibility of happiness to civic life. There are few residents in Glas- gow to-day who are unwilling to admit that this rather ambitious programme has | been carried out to the full.” To contrast this condition of things with | that prevalent in San Francisco is to in- vite a blush to the cheeks of every citizen who cherishes the smallest civic pride. It is discouraging to reflect that the old vicious system is much more deeply rooted in the large cities than in the small. The government of Bradford isimmeas- urably superior to that of London, and Santa Cruz is vastly better managed than San Francisco. In attacking the problem | of municipal reform three great obstacles | must be conquered: First, a firmly in-| trenched political machinery that makes | of municipal mismanagement a profita business; second, lack of organization and | energy among the better classes who third, a strong body of non-progressive men of means, scientifically classed as silurians, whose native meanness and inade- | quate perception of broad and sound busi- ness principles causes them to regard im- provements as a waste of money and a temptation to municipal roguery. A SHAMEFUL CONDITION. Andrew McElroy, chairman of the Com- mittee on Buildings and Grounds of the San Francisco Board of Education, in an inter- view published in yesterday’s CALL gave some astonishing information of the shamefully bad condition in which many of the school buildings in the City are| maintained, and he declares that it will require an average of $3000 each to put the sixty or seventy houses in a wholesome | condition. Equally discouraging is his damaging assertion that School Directors in the past have given more time to the harrying of teachers than to the_ care of the buildings. If in the management of City public schools the teachers themselves should be permitted the exercise of a large influence there would be a far better condition of affairs. Most of them are women, and the fine organization of women makes them | peculiarly sensitive to the presence of con- ditions which make against health and comfort. And yet of all refined and edu- cated persons engaged in intellectual pur- suits they find themselves under the con- trol of a system which permits of no liberty of speech, no incentive to originality of thought, the least liberty of opinion and the smallest power in controlling their en- vironment. Itseems clear that while dis- cipline and a uniform scheme are neces- sary to their management, it would be wise to stimulate them in all possible ways, to make of them advisers instead of drudges and to expand them with encour- agement. Fortunately for San Francisco the su- perior natural drainage and the constancy of the ocean winds enable us to ignore with comparative impunity hygienic laws which elsewhere would bring down the severest penalties. But there is a limit to the for- bearance of nature, and it is noteworthy that about the only epigemics which attack the City are those which originate in the public schools, and which aredue to violation of ,hygienic sense. If every teacher in the department should be re- Kaiser William has been encouraging Ger- man scientists to discover a cheap substi- tute for petroleum. It would not be a laaghing matter to the Hawaiian Government if the deposed Queen should marry a Japanese Prince who could train the Mikado's eye on the islands. If the New Jersey man who claims to have discovered a method of producing light without heat wishes to put it to an extreme test he had better try it on the money question. Of the late New York Legislature it is said only one member was indicted for bribery, while three were investigated and declared to be strictly honest. The rest geem to be doubtful. g e R Memphis, having tried her hand’dis- astrously at a gold convention, has now called a silver convention, and it is wonder- ful how every Memphian face has bright- ened at the announcement. The new corporation organized in Santa Clara County to manufacture fruit juices and ship them away is one of the wisest and most promising plans fordevelopment and profit that have been devised. Civic pride lurks in the heart of every good citizen, but it is so timid that it has to be coaxed a little in order to emerge into the light, and then it is always delighted at the praises it receives for its good looks. The Redlands orange-grower who sold his 27-acre crcp this year for §10,000, thus petting an interest of 25 per cent on his fnvestment, has his own opinion of hard times in the fruit-zrowing business of California. Z quired by the Board of Education to file his written opinion of the physical needs of the schools the department would learn many important things, in addition to the bad sanitary condition of the schools, of which it is now ignorant. If the schoolhouses are as bad as Mr. McElroy says they are they should receive prompt and adequate attention. In as- suming to educate its children the City cannot afford to imperil their health. And the thing that none of us should forget is that though children have wonderfully elastic vitality and, to all appearances, quickly recover from unwholesome sanita- tion, every outrage perpetrated upon their health will give an account of itself in the years to come. With all the natural con- ditions for producing the hardiest and most wholesome race in the world, it would be nothing short of criminal to nullify these beneficent influences and introduce an element of weakness at the very beginning of life. Every citizen of San Francisco is morally responsible for the smallest injury done to any of the thousands of children who attend the public schools. OUR TWO UNIVERSITIES. The selection of Professor T. R. Bacon of the University of California to deliver the baccalaureate address at the gradua- tion exercises of the Stanford University was happy and convincing evidence that the friendliest relations exist between these two great institutions. While no special reasons for unfriendly rivalry have ever arisen human nature has its weaknesses, the two institutions have their partisans to operate in the direction of antagonism, and few persons would have been surprised to observe an absence of good feeling. Ay the time of the founding of the Stanford University the friends of the State institu- tion somawhat bitterly complained that Leland Stanford might have put his bounty to better use by giving it to the State University, and thus enabled it to become one of the richest and greatest institutions in the world. There was some idle talk, further, to the effect that pique decided the millionaire on his course. But a better understanding has since come to prevail. Two special motives in- fluenced Senator Stanford. One was to perpetuate the memory of his son and only child, whose hope and ambition was to establish a great institution which should teach poor and ambitious children the use- ful vocations, the other was a knowledge of the fact that the scheme of a State uni- versity could not include to its full breadth the plan of a practical education which his own ideascontemplated. Thisrepresented the most advanced theories of a utilitarian education, in which even though the highest scholarship should be regarded, it was to be employed less for adorning effects than as having a direct bearing upon the practical concerns of life. That the presence of the Stanford Uni- versity has spurred the State University to higher achievements there is tangible reason to believe. The old troubles which formerly afflicted the latter and which grew out of conditions formerly deemed inseparable from the presence of a politi- cal element, are now matters of the past. The tone of Berkeley is high, clean and dignified, and its numerous technical col- leges are a guarantee that the leading pro- fessions in the State will be gnarded by a lofty standard. It is not to be expected, nor could it be advised, that another great university will be founded in California by a millionaire, nor that anything like the vast endow- ment—originally estimated at $20,000,000— with which Stanford started his university, will ever again be devoted by a California millionaire to one institution of learning. Yet it is eminently appropriate that the splendid examples set by Lick and Searles in their princely gifts to the State Uni- versity should be emulated by more million- aires in adding to the strength, efliciency and glory of the Berkeley institution. THE DEATH OF GRESHAM. The death of Secretary Gresham will re- vive in the public mind the many services he rendered his country before he became a member of Cleveland’s Cabinet. Men will recall that he wasa brave soldier, a just Judge and a statesman of eminence before he was called as Secretary of State to enter upon the performance of duties unfitted to his tastes, his talent or his training; and on this remembrance they will find abund- ant reason for doing honor to his memory. Among the men who, without previous military education or experience, entered the armies of the Union during the Civil War few achieved a higher or more de- served distinction than Gresham. Wise in counsel, resolute in action, daring under fire and cool at all times, he was one of those examples of citizen soldiery of whom the Republic is so justly prond. Called by President Grant at the close of the war to fulfill the duties of a Judge of the United States court, he won on the bench honors not less notable than those gained on the fields of war. Again, as Postmaster-Gen- eral under President Arthur, he succeeded in the able performance of great duties to win the esteem and confidence of the peo- ple, and took rank among the foremost administrative statesmen of the country. The prestige achieved by these manifold services to the nation, added to his per- sonal integrity as a man, made him a prominent candidate for the Presidency. At several Republican conventions his nomination was among the possibilities of politics, and in 1888 it was at one time fairly probable that he would receive the nomination. Even at that time, however, it was known to the leaders of the party that his political course had become erratic, and the nomination went to Harrison. From that time forward Gresham’s politics became so un- certain that in 1892 while some of his friends still suggested him for the Republican nomination, not a few Popu- lists favored him as a candidate on their platform. It seems indeed reasonably certain he might have had the Populist nomination had he been willing to accept, it. It was while Gresham was occupying this uncertain position in the public mind that Cleveland appointed him Secretary of State, an office which he at once accept ed and in which bhe lost much of the prestige he once enjoyed. It can hardiy be doubted that history will indorse the judgment of contem- poraries that thisappointment and accept- ance was a mistake on both sides. As Gresham had never been a Democrat his | selection for the chief Cabinet office did not please the President’s party, and in a short time events proved that the new Sec- retary was out of place and had assumed duties he was not equal to. Over his bier, however, as we have said, men will not | review the mistakes of his later years. They wili recall only the glorious deeds of his career as a soldier, his honorable Ser- vice as a judge, his efficiency as Postmas- ter-General, his prominence as a citizen; and remembering his patriotism, his learn- ing and his personal integrity, will mourn for him as one whom the Republic has done well to honor. THE OHIO OONVENTION. The Republican State Convention which assembles at Zanesville, Ohio, to-day, will be watched with more than ordinary inter- est in all parts of the country. The pro- ceedings will be notable for various rea- sons. Ohio is one of the dominant States of the Union, and as a consequence her local politics have an important effect at all times upon National parties. At the present time, moreover, she is the home of an unusually large number of Republican leaders. No other single State has any- thing like such a galaxy as that made up of Sherman, McKinley, Foster and Fora- ker. Each of these men is within a meas- urable distance of the Presidency, and one of them at least seems fairly certain of at- taining it. The party convention in such acommonwealth and under such a leader- ship cannot fail to attract the attention of all who are interested in political affairs, and every step in its proceedings will be carefully scrutinized for evidences of the course which Ohio Republicans will take in the National Convention in 1896. ‘While there are so many leaders of al- most equal eminence in a single party con- tending for the same prizes or preferment there are sure to be rivalries. Even if the leaders themselves have no antagonisms, their followers are likely to be less har- monious. It is natural, therefore, there should be rumors of possible dissensions in the convention. These rumors, how- ever, we are sanguine will be disproved by the result. The Republican party is not made up of discordant factions. The rank and file as well as the leaders know the value of discipline and organization, and if they did not there would be enough in the present condition of the Democratic party to warn them of the folly of dissensions on the eve of a campaign. ‘While the local interest in the conven- tion will be directed mainly to the nomi- pation for Governor, that of the country at large will be concerned almost exclusively with the declaration of the platform on the money question. The action taken in Ohio will of course not be binding upon the party as a whole, for only the National Convention in 189 can do that, but it will still be regarded as an expression of the views of some of the greatest leaders of the party upon the policy which at this junc- ture ought to be pursued. That it will be substantially the same as that of the National platform of 1892 can be hurd}y questioned. That platform was a plain declaration for bimetallism as opposed to the exiremists who advocate either gold or silver monometallism, and affords there- fore a safe and secure standing for the con- servative elements of the country who are in favor neither of the schemes of Wall street nor the vagaries of the Populists. FLYING MACHINES. The report of a fairly successful test made with the Langley flying machine | near Washington gives renewed encour- agement to thé hope that this generation may see such machines in practical use for purposes of pleasure trips at any rate, if not for freight-carrying and for long journeys. At the recent test thg machine is said to have risen easily, sailed for a thousand feet and alighted safely in the water. This in itself is no great achieve- ment, but it seems to have demonstrated the feasibility of greater results in the near future and renews interest in the rivalry between the Maxim and the Langley ma- chines as to which shall be first perfected. The day has gone by when experiments with flying machines were left to incom- vetent hands. Without counting the able men who in other countries are working in this direction, our own experimenters are men of whom much may be expected. Professor Langley is one of the foremost scientists in America and Hiram Maxim has in other inventions too fully shown his knowledge and mastery of mechanism for any one to doubt that he understands thoroughly all the factors of this problem and the difficulty of bringing them under human control. These men have made a careful investigation of the air currents and of the flight of birds. They know by what means the heavy body of the condor is sustained in the rarefied atmosphere a | thousand feet above the summits of the Andes, and knowing this they have confi- dence that human ingenuity can devise a mechanism which will enable men to make an almost equal flight. Even if it be conceded that the flying machine can never become a freight car- | rier nor a safe means of transport ACross | the ocean, there would still be a wide field | of usefulness forit. If it serves only such purposes as the bicycle it will be of im- mense advantage. To take a flying trip to San Jose would be a livelier recreation than the speedy bike affords, and would be a greater improvement than that which the wheel has made on the old fashion of foot | trudging. It is, of course, impossible to estimate how long it will be before we may expect | to see a flying machine in successful opera- tion. At the rate of progress with which the improvements have been made thus far it will be many years. It must not be | overlooked, however, that men of science working on other problems altogether may | discover some motive power that will en- | able the flying machine experimenters to master some of their greatest obstacles at | once. Moreover, it not infrequently hap- pens that men who aave pondered for years upon a difficult problem arrive at | last to such an intellectral tension on the | subject that the solutien comes to them suddenly like an inspiration or a dream in the night. Some such intuitive perception of the right thing to do may come to some experimenter in aeronauiics at any time, and then the problem woud be solved and the long desired machine would be realized as unexpectedly to the geaeral public as was the locomotive to the ast generaticn and the telephone to ours. REVOLUTIONARY EECORDS. According to a recent report, the State Department will ask Congresi at the next session for an appropriation tufiicient to | begin the work of publishing the records of the Revolution now in the hinds of the Government. It would seem this work should have been undertaken long ago. Many of the papers were obtaned at a great cost and could not be replucyd. Some of the more important show signs of de- terioration from age and handling Their preservation depends upon keeping them away from the public, and as a consquence the publication of copies of them bicomes imperative. In addition to the preservation yt the originals, another benefit will resultfrom the publication. It will be possible tdsup- ply all universities, historical societie{ and libraries of note with a complete set oi the records. This will be a benefit to studints in all sections of the Union. It will enable them to reach original sources of inforga- | tion concerning the Revolutionary perpd | without going to Washington, and br! this reason, if for none other, the Stae | Department is likely to find a hearty suj- port fronr all the libraries of the Union iy urging upon Congress the grant of thy needed appropriation. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. The man who dares to get in front of the free silver chariot will be crushed.—Vancouver (Wash.) Register. Those who have the greatest knowledge of the mineral resources of this section predict that in time Angels will be as prosperous as Virginia City was in its palmiest days.—Angels Herald. The Monroe doctrine is apparently a very pretty bauble to decorate a Fourth of July oration, but it does not seem to be worth a cent in the wear and tear of an international dis- pute.—Sacramento Bee. Now Arizona is the fruit paradise of the country, Here in the mouth of May we are shipping ripe apricots in large quantities to the Eastern market. This cannot be matched :y any part of the country.—Tucson (Ariz.) tar. That the bicycle has cut severely into the traffic of the street railways, except inthe hilly districts, is very evident from the increased sale of bicycles by local deslers and the com- parative failure of increase in railway receipts in spite of the rapid increase of our popula~ tion.—Los Angeles Record. There will be no boom when the San Joaquin Velley Railroad is built, but there will be busi- ness. Any set of men who would undertake to duplicate the crazy and disastrous boom of eight years ago should be taken clear away from both rivers and drowned in some alkali slough like so many blind puppies.—Fresno Expositor. The public mind is a curiousstudy. Itseems to demand some impulse to stimulate action. The Napoleon craze has had a big run, and now that interest in that fad is subsiding it is rea- sonable to expect that the public mind will seek some other. Eastern papers appear to think that a similar movement, with Washing- ton as the central object, may be expected. That is a change that ought to be commended in this country, where too little is known about that Great American.—Woodland Democrat. MANY receipts as published still call for cream-of-tartar and soda, the old-fashioned way of raising. Modern cooking and ex- Pfifi oogh do nat‘ :nnsc'ti;nnl tg.is -? d ‘i’.{vd In all such recei; e Ro aking Powder hould be mb::iscnted without fuif AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “The Alaska Indian,” said Dr. Jules Prevost last evening at the Occidental, *is, without any doubt, more susceptible to the influences of civilization than the members of any other of the various tribes scattered over the An_merl- can continent. It is remarkable how environ- ment tells upon these people. They are al- ‘most wholly without the vicious instincts so prominently developed in the Indian char- acter by other climes,and perhaps it is due to this one fact that they so readily fall into the customs of civilization. The Chinese are com- monly spoken of as the most skillful imitators on esrth, but, as & matter of fact, they are not tobe compared with the Indians of Alaska. An Indian of average intelligence will give the Dbest Chinaman on earth cards and spades and beat him on anything from a dog- yoke to & clock. Just give them the tools, and they will duplicate anything that they see. For native ingenuity I have never seen their equals among any Other people. They are not alone imitators in the mechanic arts, but show marvelous adaptability in the acquisition of knowledge pertaining to cus- toms and morals. For generations they have lived in underground huts. No sooner did they see the cabins of the white man than they too took to surface habitations. Not a few of them, but thousands, at once recognized the advantages of a house of wood above ground. Now itis not good form to live underground, and the whole nation is rapidly acquiring com- fortable houses. It was the same way in the matter of personal cleanliness. They saw the white men use soap and water and they were not slow to fall into line. “Mentally they are certainly far superior to other American Indians. They acquire Eng- lish with great facility and learn to read and write in about half the time required for these accomplishments among the Sioux or Apaches. We often have visitors from settle- ments six or seven hundred miles away. They look with awe and wonder upon those of their kind who enjoy improved conditions of living at or near the mission. They see cabins in course of construction where bunks and blankets are used instead of a skin and the floor. The lesson is not lost upon them. They return to their settlements, and at once prac- tical results of their newly acquired ideas are | to be seen. No more sleeping on the floor—no more underground caves. In this way whole towns have been changed from squalid misery to 8 fair degree of comfort. Many of them are devout Christians. I have known an Indian to bring the dead body of his wife hundreds of miles over mountains and almost impassable rivers that she might have Christian burial at the mission. There are great things in store | for the Alaska Indian, for he is progressive and anxious for instruction in the arts of civiliza- tion.” “The press dispatch from Washington, which says that Governor Hughes of Arizona is to be retired from office on the report of Secret Ser- vice Inspector Oliver will come as a surprise to a good many people in Arizona,” said William Metzer of Globe at the Grand yes- terday. “Of course, the rumors have been thick relative to his removal for some time. He bas been in hot water ever since his appointment, and there have been complaints from a dozen sources, whether well founded or not I am not in a position to say. But this report from the Secret Service Inspector was generally sup- posed to contain matter favorable to Hughes and a complete refutation of the charges of his enemies, who, of course, were Tesponsible for the investigation. They have made a great cry because he appointed members of his family to places under the Government, but if I am not much mistaken, there is much of this sort of thing among officials higher than Hughes. It'sa poor man, indeed, who will not take care of his friends, in a political way, when the power to do =o is given him. “Hughes' unpopularity, in my opinion, comes from the fact that he changes his poli- tics every few years. Here again selfish mo- tives should not be charged ageinst him, for he has veered several times without having in ight any office, or without tne expectation of reward of any kind. “The rumored appointment of ex-Governor Zulick to succeed Hughes is hardly within the bounds of the probable, but it is hard to account sometimes for the turn of fortune in political warfare. He may have bridged the gulf which a short time ago was very stormy water between himself and Hoke Smith.” Baron C. de Choisy, who is out here for the Societe Industrielle des Sciences et des Mines, an immensely wealthy French syndicate that is purchasing some large quartz-mining prop- erties in this Stete, in speaking of the reason for seeking foreign investments, said the other day at the Palace: “There is a great deal of idle capital in France that must seek invest- ments abroad. We bave no such opportunities as you beve here. All our large railroads and other such public enterprises have been built up so that there is little opportunity for invest- ing in that way. So it is with the different lines of manufacturing. The surplus capital must go out of France, and & great deal is being invested now all over the world. There seems to be a great field here.” The Baron and Mr. de Bourgade, who came out with him, have satisfied themselves of the value of sev- eral large properties and will recommend their purchase. Ben Maddox of the Visalia Times is in town and is very enthusiastic over the outlook in his end of the 8an Jorquin Valley for this sea- son. Yesterday at the Grand he said: “In no part of the State will there be a better crop of { Wheat than in the upper end of San Joaquin Valiey. Infactthey have never before had snch crops even there. Thousends of acres will yield from fifteen to twenty-five bushels to the acre. With the way the price of wheat is go- ing up that means a great deal. There is the best of feeling in Visalia. The population has been increasing very fast the past two years. It is the most prosperous town in the State to- day. You couldn’t get & house to live in and there are a great many improvements going on ell the time and buildings being put up. One good sign is that we have hardly felt the hard times that the rest of the country has had.” SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. ‘The rooster crowed at the third night hour, He crowed at midpight, too; But to crow at 6 was beyond hls power, For the tramp got up at 2. —Washington Star. The little Boston boy was so plainly puffed p with juvenile vanity that her visitor noticed 1. “Robert seems unusually proud to-day,” e said. (Yes,” the fond mother answered, “he has o} his first pair of spectacles.”—Indiane; Sy pet ndianapolis henpecked husband called the servant- mad aside and said: “Look here, Robustina, T \told that my wife and dauglter are plan- Riy a trip to the Continent. Do you know Whdher I am going with them or not?"—Rich- monl Star. her—What is the gender of money? Sciplar—Feminine. Tesher (severely)—Why? Schilar—Because money talks.—Detroit Free Press, AT the vi forwar tor?” ‘‘Youdon’t know my ambition,” said the fond Diaware parent proudly. “I mean that he shallbe elected before his eightieth birth- day.”—Gricago Journal. \ Mrs. Gay—What s terrible thing has hap- pened to the Blacks! Mr. Black was coming home fron his club the other night and he fell down andbroke his leg 5o badly that he has had to haw it amputated. Mra. Gran—Lost his leg! Isn’t it awiul? And his ily saw so little of him before!— Boston Traiscript. 't you starting rather early,” inquired tor, ““to put that young boy of yours 85 & candidate for United States Sena- PEO! TALKED ABOUT. Prince Niciolas of Montenegro has written a diama in virse called “Prince Arabanet,” which will b performed soon st Cettinje, his carpital, and § to be translated into Russian, The Prince ha previously brought out another drama called %he Tsaritsa of the Balkans.” Altaough SirWilliam Jenner 1s in constant attendance upin Queen Victoria, he has no special fears of er breaking down at this time. Despite her rheimatism the Queen has & fond- ness for open-aildriving in all sorts of ‘weather, and she still keps her rooms cold and her ‘windows open. Sarah Orne Jevett, whose sketches end tales 50 endeeled her § the people of New England . was boh in South Berwick, Me., September 3, 1849. Yer father, Theodore Herman Jewett, Was & Piysician of great ability, and for many years filid a professorship in the medical det partmeniof Bowdoin College. Congresman Patterson of Tennessee, the leader ofithe sound money element in the South, is | tall, large-boned, heavy-set man, now well \Gvanced in years, He hasa deep, rich voice, nd is a fine orator. His old party associates iTennessee consider him an apos- tate on accomt of his vigorous sound money campaign thoughout the Southern cities. The youngCrown Prince of Germany re- cently demotitrated his primacy in the im- perial nurser\ by thrashing his younger brothers. Kaiyr Wilhelm entered, and, pick- ing up the heilypparent in one hand and a birch rod in he other, quietly remarked: “Now that you Rve shown your brothers who is Crown Princey{ will show you who is Em- peror.” P\RSONALS. Dr. C. E. Rea of htaluma is at the Grand, R. D. Saffald, anytiorney of Napa, is at the Lick. John Pollard, a calleman of Ferndale, is at the Grand. W. Levy, & merchan of Woodland, is at the Baldwin. E. B. Hornung, & mejhant of Marysville, is | at the Grand. W. H. McKenzie, a baker of Fresno, is regis- tered at the Lick. V. 8. McClatchy of theSacramento Bee is a guest at the California. C. 8. Fitch, a mining mn of Sonora, regis- tered yesterday at the Lick John G. Ritchie, managelof the “Alabama’ Company, is at the Baldwin, George Russell, a cattlemn of Reno, Nev., registered at the Lick yesterqy. L. H. Abramofsky, a mercant of Jackson, Amador County, is at the Grag, General Nelson, late of St. Luis, Mo., regis- tered yesterday at the Oceideni], Cherles M. Cassin, an attorne)of Santa Cruz, registered yesterday at the Gran, Professor Maxwell Sommervilléof the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania is at the’alace. W. A. Anderson, an attorney ofSacramento, ‘was one of yesterday’s arrivals at ye Lick. E. Carl Bann, superintendent oithe Indus- trial School at Ione, is a guest at th\Grand. R. C. Clayton, a well-known minng man of Clayton, was one of yesterday's arrinls at the Lick. L. T. Hatfield, an attorney of Satamento, came down yesterday, and is & guet at the Lick. E.J. Cahill, a civil engineer from §n Mar- tin, was one of yesterday’s arrival at the Grand. Senator E. C. Voorheis and his wife and daughter of Sutter Creek registerdl at the Balawin. Chevalier Ghisi, the Italian Consul & Shang- hai, came in yesterdey on the Chin on his way home, and is at the Occidental. John Buekingham, Deputy United Staes Col- lector of Internal Revenue at Ukiah came down yesterday and is a guest at the Grayd, Louis Weinberger, & big commission mer- chant dealing in California fruits, of Ney Or- leans, was one of yesterday's arrivals atthe Grand. Mayor Robert Effey of Santa Cruz and M- ager John T. Sullivan of the Ocean Beach Heel came up vesterday to attend the meeting of he | San Francisco committee on the Venetian Va- ter Carnival at the Union League Club, at both registered at the Grand. THE VALLEY RAILROAL, Proposals Received for Three Hundred Thousand Red- wood Ties. A Committee From Visalla Holds a Conference With the Directors of the Road. The construction committee of the Val- ley road. consisting of John D. Spreckels, Leon Sloss and Captain Payson, met at the company’'s office on Market street at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon and opened bids for 300,000 railroad ties. Thirty-five proposals were received. The bids ranged in price from 30 to 45 cents. To-day at 2 o’clock the directors will | meet and award the contract to the lowest | responsible bidder. All the bidders are ! Pacific Coast men, but some of the pro- | posals come from Oregon contractors. | Chicf Engineer Storey yesterday sent o | Fresno a party of ten surveyors, headed | by E. E. Tucker. The party wili work south to Visalia on the preliminary sur- vey. Another party is in the field working toward Hanford. The surveyors working south from Stock- ton moved yesterday to the Stanislaus River. They have completed moce than Ihal: the work from Stockton to the Stanis- aus. . Three parties are now in the field push- ing the work right along. | A\ committee from Visalia, consisting of | Messrs. Stewart and Maddox, came up yes- | terday for a conference with the directors | of the road. They desired to ascertain | definitely what the” directors want, Visalia to do in order to secure advantages of the | road. Mr. Watt talked with them, and, it | is understood, gave them the information desired. | . At the meeting of the directors to-day final action will probably be taken on the lease of China Basin. ——————— SERUNG A LEAX AT SEA. Arrival of the American Ship James Nesmith From New York. The American ship James Nesmith ar- rived in port yesterday morning 146 days from New York. When she was out three days she encountered a circular storm and sgrung aleak. All hands were ordered to the pumps, and were kept there day and night until the storm abated. Five days later an off-shore gale struck the ship, and put her almost on her beamends. 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