The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 1, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JUNE 1,\1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—$3 per year by mall; by carrier, 15¢ per weei. SUNDAY CALL—#1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—$1.50 per year. The Esstern office 0f the¢ SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Bureau, Rhinelander building, Rose and Duane streets, New York. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are youn going to the country on & vacation? If 50, it 15 no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier, or left at Business Office, 710 Market street, will receive prompt attention. SATURDAY... JUNE 1, 1895 It is easier to sneer than to cheer. There is no such thing as negative good- ness. The gambler harnesses his hopes to the wind. No truth is all the truth if it is based upon a fad. The value of success should be measured by its method. A cross temper findsa pin stuek in every chair on which it sits. A good deed is only half good if no wor- thy motive prompts it. Now comes the Santa Cruz carnival and then the Fourth of July. The worst suspense in which the law can place a criminal is to hang him. To make sure of good reading for Sun- day, order the Sunday CALL to-day. Every man who makes his money in the home market should spend it there. Dia Whitney achieve this sudden great- ness or has it been thrust upon him? The cyclist who falls from his wheel can- not be convinced that he is well off. Men who look for a job that is as easy as rolling off a log generally land in the mud. tronomers have an airy way of de- ng that there is no atmosphere on ¢ Mars Five years from now we may expect some conclusion of the Durrant murder cases. By continually taking even short steps in the right direction men make great progress. There are few things in the world more deplorable than ability which is erippled by conceit. An Ysaye conservatory is an enterprise in which San Francisco can well afford to help Oakland. The problem of regarding the welfare of the unemployed rests upon the conscience of every citizen. It is still a matter of doubt whether the ‘Whitney boom is a real freshet or only a leak from a barrel. Some people are so careful that they raise an umbrella even when a shower of gold is threatened. As home is where the heart is, the sweet- ness of the home is determined by the cheer of the heart. The man who finds a reason to blame everybody has made the mistake of not beginning with himself. People with many anglesin their charac- ters are always getting hurt by striking ob- stacles in the highway of life. It was kind, courteous and considerate in McKinley to tell the New York people that Grant needs no monument. It is evident that the best way to secure Democratic leadership in these days is to go to Europe during the campaigns. 1t is a niggard patriotism that acknowl- edges the debt due to the veterans of the Grand Army only when they are dead. It would be singular if the exuberance of vegetation in California did not indicate a similar tendency in human development. The money question will be interesting to the American workingman only so long as the protective system enables him to earn money. The dedication of 2 monument to the Confederate dead at Chicago shows that the logic of war has given way to the senti. ment of peace. San Jose did well in arranging to receive Ysaye for an evening, but Oakland has done the proper thing by inviting him to make his home here. Chicago has got far enough along to dedicate a monument to the Confederate dead in her cemeteries, but New York has not even completed the tomb of Grant. The publication and wide circulation of the speeches made at the Yuba City meet- ing of horticulturists would be a a valua- ble textbook on the fruit industry of Cali- fornia. Although the very name of an Auditor indicates a verson who has ears, City Auditor Broderick has been stricken with a deafness that dismays the clamorers for City coin. The ingenious rascal at the Reno train accident who identified a killed tramp as Hickey, whom the police have been hunt- ing for a crime that he committed, had the misfortune to be suspected himself of being the needed Hickey, and has been since identified as that personage. It is notable that reports from all parts of the country show that Decoration day was more generally observed than ever, and that, as the ranks of the Grand Army thin with the passing years, the popular appreciation of the noble services of the veterans increases and deepens throughont the Republic. The revival of business in Wondland has brought about the revival of the Daily Re- porter under the management of Robert Lee. The new editor has not stopped to question whether the town is big enough to support three papers, but has started in with a determination to whoop up its growth and make it big enough. So long as our orchardists employ Chi- nese in the harvest because they find them more reliable than such white men as offer their services for this work, and so long 28 there are worthy men anxious to secure employment, there is somewhere a great fault that it is the duty of men and women having the good of the State at Leart to remedy. A OITY FESTIVAL, The finance committee of the Fourth of July celebration committee having made a call on the people for funds which may Permit of a celebration of unusual magnifi- cence, it is eminently proper that a gen- ©rous response be made, and that this oc- casion be accepted as a fitting one for the display of that pride and patriotism which bave been recently awakened among us. There will be time later to consider the matter of having a special festival season in San Francisco and of fixing & time for holding it, for sooner or later tnis is a mat- ter that must be attended to. Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Santa Rosa have fully demonstrated the usefuiness of these festi- vals, and have made them a prominent annual institution. Undoubtedly Santa Cruz will follow a similar course. New Orleans and Mobile have had their Mardi Gras festivals for many years, and could Dot be induced to abandon them; and Memphis and St. Louis have had equal success with their more recent ventures. The winter carnival of Montreal is the great pleasure institution of Canada, and the people would not abandon it for any consideration. The Midwinter Fair demonstrated the delights and success that would attend a midwinter carnival in S8an Francisco. That would be an excellent time to attract the residents of the frozen East, and it wonld find most of the farmers of California free to attend. On the other hand, the open- ing of the Mechanics’ Fair in the late summer or early autumn’ offers an oppor- tunity of another kind and not less advan- tageous in a different way. Again, some date immediately preceding Lent would have still other things to recommend it. Whatever season may be selected, there will always be a pleasant climate and a particular reason for rejoicing and a festi- val. Whether the great National holiday be selected, on which occasion there must be encountered competition with every other patriotic community in the State, or whether some time be chosen which shall not come in conflict with any other im- portant local celebration or some occasion which shall receive other than local cogni- zance, is a matter that will have to be de- termined. A SERIOUS CHARGE. The reasons given by A.T. Hatch, one of the most extensive fruit-growers in the State, in yesterday’s Cari for preferring Chinese and Japanese laborers to white men during harvest are that the yellow men do their own cooking, thus relieving him of that trouble, and are more reliable than white men. “I have tried white laborers,” he de- clares, “and with unsatisfactory results. One year I used whites exclusively in the harvest time, and found it unprofitable. At least one-third of the force was con- tinually getting locked up in the jail in Suisun for petty misdemeanors, and there was a great deal of trouble to keep afull crew. Iwas advertising and hunting for help all the time. Iemploy now allthe women and young people I can get, for they are relizble and cause no trouble, but the average California laborer is inferior to either Japanese or Chinese.” Mr. Hatch explains that this does not Tefer to his regular hands, who are excel- lent men. He adds his belief that nearly all the horticulturists have had this ex- perience and are pursuing this course. It was for the reason that boys and girls were known to be superior hands for fruit harvesting that the summer vacations of the public schools this year have been set to begin at the end of June instead of at the end of May, as was formerly the rule, It is eminently to the credit of these youngsters, and to thatof women also, that the orchardists hold their services in so high esteem, but as the harvesting of cherries and berries begins before the vacations we infer from Mr. Hatch's re- marks that sufficient of this labor cannot be secured, and that recourse must be had to Chinese and Japanese. The danger is that these will be retained even when the vacations release a sufficient number of boys and girls to do the work, that em- vloyment cannot be secured for all of them who desire and need it, and that Chinese and Japanese are securing the money which our own people ought, to have. The situation is extremely discouraging. We may suppose that in experimenting with white laborers the orchardists take them as they come, both professional tramps and earnest men out of employ- ment if there are any of these latter seek- ingemployment. e must not forget that idleness, whether voluntary or enforced, is the most demoralizing element that can be introduced into the average man’s life, and that in time it operates with blighting effect upon even the average steady man who leaves the restraining presence of his family and goes away in search of work. Thus enforced idleness does more harm to the character than to the pocket, and this makes the furnishing of employment one of the highest duties, both selfish and hu- manitarian, that organized society has to discharge. The scheme recently undertaken in this City for the organization of a co-operative commonwealth, one of whose main func- tions was to be a comprehensive employ- ment agency, has practically failed, largely because the leading business men of the City did not lead the enterprise and lend it the advantage of their superior wisdom. And yet, unless some such plan for col- lecting and distributing laborers and in- culcating in them a spirit of thrift, energy and hope be devised, one of the essentials of our growth will have been neglected. As so much of California’s prosperity is bound up in the labor problem, the various organizations which are working for the advancement of the State could not do bet~ ter than give it their most serious atten- tion. It is a manifest incongruity that where so much labor is needed and o many deserving men are out of employ- ment these two needs cannot be extin- guished. Cannot the Half-million Club as- sail the problem ? A FADED GLORY. The last prop has been knockea from under the greatness and mystery of Mars, which henceforth must hangin the heavens stark, dreary and inert, inspiring to war no longer and dashing to earth the fondest hopes of those dreamers of impossible things who were preparing to establish some sort of communication with our red- faced neighbor. For the latest astromoni- cal research has proved in various ways, by the spectroscope and otherwise, that although Mars has an atmosphere, it is too attenuated for the support of life similar to that which obtains on earth. During centuries the “snow-cap” on Mars has been obseryed, and it has behaved identically as that on the earth, increasing in the Martian winter and diminishing to a in the Martian summer; but as it is clear that the atmosphere is too rare to support aqueous vapor sufficiently dense for rain or snow, the “snow-caps” are assumed to be merely successive layers of frost. Even Schiap- arelli’s “geminated canals” are most likely nothing but ridges of land. A corollary of the extreme rarefaction of the Martian atmosphere is that water would boil there at a temperature of 120 degrees. This would be insufficient for the™ l Wednesday afford an outline of the course | . boiling of potatoes, without which it is im possible to imagine a high ‘civilization. Science is a ruthless iconoclast. As- tronomy is steadily narrowing down the wonders of our little solar system and stripping it of those mysteries and marvels which ignorance manufactured out of hope and fear. There is now no posgible direc- tion in which we may turn in search of beings similar to us unless it be toward Venus, and there the greatest difficulties are encountered. THE CHICAGO EPISODE. From reports that come to us from all sections of the Union it appears that Deco- ration day was more generally observed by the people this year than ever before. As the war recedes into the distance of the past its true proportions become better understood. The popular appreciation of its importance in the history of the coun- try grows with time, and along with it comes to the people a truer comprehension of the services of the Grand Army and a profounder reverence for all that is signi- fied in the solemn ceremonies of the day. It is a significant fact at this very time when the devotion of the peonle to the great cause in which the Grand Army fought is beyond all question, that the citizens of the loyal city of Chicago should have erected a monument to those who bore arms against the Union, and dedi- cated it with great ceremony on Decora- tion day. To those who judge men and events by the strict rules of logic nothing could be more indefensible than this act. How can loyalty give an equal honor to those who saved the Union and those who sought to destroy it? To the stern moralist who holds all conduct subject to judgment by the immutable laws of right or wrong such a question can be answered only in one way; and yet it is beyond gainsaying that the people of Chicago who indorsed that dedication by their presence were animated by a loyalty and alove for the Union net less than ours, Men are not actuated always by the logic of the intellect. The sentiments of the heart prompt sometimes to actions which we feel to be good though reason fails to justify them. It was doubtless from the noble sentiment of joy in the re- stored Union and as symbol of fraternal fellowship between North and South that the monument was erected. It stands as a proof that the loyal North lives up to the sentiment of “malice toward none and charity for all,” and as such bears witness that in the abiding devotion of the people to the Union there is a willingness to show a lofty magnanimity to a fallen foe. It would be a mistake to suppose that this monument, which made so conspicu- ous a feature of the events of Thursday, will hold any permanent place in the ob- seryvances of the day hereafter. For those who fought to destroy the Union charity means forgetfulness as well as forgiveness. That monument will not long interest the American people. From it they will turn to those loftier monuments or fo those humble headstones that mark the graves of those whom we so appropriately call “the Nation’s dead.” Thither will the youth of the land be led generation after generation to learn lessons of loyalty and to be inspired for the performance of every patriotic duty. There will the great ora- tions be pronounced on each returning year. There will the people bear their fairest flowers as symbols of their high re- gard, and there will the Republic hold her most sacred ceremonies in the observance of Decoration day for all time to come. THE SUNDAY “ CALL." There are few things more beneficial in a general way than to start the week with a well-employed Sunday. The mind should be refreshed and rested from thoughts of work as well as the body from the exercise of labor. To this end nothing conduces more than a good newspaper which to the news of the day adds special articles on topics interesting tointelligent readers and instructive as well as entertaining. Such a paper will be found in the Sun- day CarL to-morrow. It contains among other things two notable articles of travel in out-of-the-way places of the earth—one being a narrative of a wonderful journey across Alaska, with descriptions of some of the characteristic features of our great possessions in that country, and the other an account of the Fiji 1slands as they are to-day. Another important article is an interview with Hiram Maxim, in which the great inventor gives a large amount of valuable information concerning warships, big guns and flying-machines. Appropriate to the memories awakened by the recent celebration of Decoration day is an account of General Rosecrans in battle, in which some of the ereat events of the war are described and the heroic deeds of the Grand Army and its leaders graphically pictured. The series of “Idyls of the Field” is continued in a charming sketch of the work of bees busy with their harvest in the gardens and fields. In addi- tion to these articles of travel, war and lit- erature, there is a varied miscellany of art, science, history and society, while the *‘Query Department” abounds with infor- mation of general interest. The CALL is noted for the fullness and accuracy of the Pacific Coast news, and the Sunday CaLL is especially rich in that particular. Full justice is done also to the news of the day in all parts of the world and to every event of current interest. No better provision for the right enjoy- ment of Sunday can be made, therefore, than to leave orders to-day for the Sunday CALL in order to be sure of recerving it. —_— WHITNEY'S LEADERSHIP, It seems we are to be called upon in all seriousness to look upon ex-Secretary ‘Whitney as the coming leader of the Democratic party. Indeed from the tone of our Democratic contemporary, the Ezxaminer, it might be inferred that he is already the. leader. To him, and not to the discredited man in the White House, are we to turn for instruction as to the plans and policies of Democracy, and from what he says are we to draw con- clusions of what the party platform will be in 1896. This condition of affairs is a curious illustration of the old saying that it 1s always the unexpected that happens, Whitney has not only been long retired from active politics, but for a consider- able time he has been out of the country. ‘While other Democrats were strenuously fighting for the party during the last campaign, and Hill with all the vigor in ‘him was leading a forlorn hope, Whitney was resting in ‘silken dalliance careless of the calls that were made upon him for help. Thedeserter in 1894 has come back to be hailed as a heaven-sent leader in 1895, and even the most stalwart Demo- crats seem ready to bow down and do him honor. If the Democrats choose to turn away from the leaders who have borne the brunt of battle in order to follow the man ‘who forsook them when they needed him most it is their business and not ours. Since they hail him as the leader we can dono more than watch to see what the new leadership promises. The sentiments expressed by him in the interview on his arzival in New York on he intends to pursue. First of all there will be the general argument for harmony, that the party cannot win if divided, and that if the leaders have any faith in their principles they should be willing to sink personal differences. Next he seeks to get rid of the fight over the tariff by eliminat- ing that question from the field of politics. He declares positively it will not be an issue in the coming campaign. Finally, he proposes to postpone the money ques- tion if possible. He says it is a scientific question on which opinions differ, but that sentiment in favor of bimetallism is grow- ing so rapidly in Europe we will only have to wait a few years to attain it by inter- national agreement? It will be seen that this is altogether a platform of postponement. Democratic dissensions, tariff revision, the increase of the revenue and the return to bimetallism areall to be laid over indefinitely until Whitney makes his race. Traly, this would be the pest platform Democracy could adopt, but it would hardly stand the pressure of a popular campaign. The statesman who has no other policy than that of ““wait a while,” will not find the American people inclined to stop and stay with him. There has been an evasion of great issues long enough, and the leader who will win in 1896 will be one who bids the people go forward. Democrats may possibly find comfort in Whitney’s words, but if they do it will be only because they are tired of the struggle and wish to lie down and sleep for a year or two. e PERSONAL. P. A. Buell of Stockton is in town. F. C. White, an attorney of Fresno, is at the Lick. J. S. Gilson, & rancher of Williams, is at the Russ. Rev. C. W. Brewer of Denver is in this City on & visit. Dr. D. E. Osborne of St. Helene fs staying at the Lick. James Gallagher, an attorney of Fresno, is at the Grand. % A. C. Hillman, 8 big fruit-grower of Davis, is at the Lick. B. C. Holly, & horseman of Vallejo, is a guest at the Grand. J. H. Durst of Wheatlanq registered yester- dey at the Baldwin. J. McAlpine, a mining man of Redding, is staying at the Grand. John Harpst, a leading lumberman of Arcata, registered yesterday at the Grand. William Holmes Sharp, & mining man of Downieville, is a guest at the Lick. H. Barman, & big stockman of Hopland, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Russ. J. W. Bailey, a mining man of Denver, was one of yesterday’s arrivald at the Palace. Frank L. Coombs of Naps, ex-Minister to Japan, registered yesterday at the Grand. G. F. Weeks, editor of the Californian at Ba- kersfield, registered yesterday at the Russ. J. W. Snyder, a leading rancher and mine- owner of Mariposa County, was one of yester- day’sarrivals at the Lick. Edwin F. Smith, secretary of the State Agri- cultural Society, came down from Sacramento vesterday and is at the Lick, H. A. McCraney, Deputy Clerk of the Supreme Court and editor of the Lake County Ava- lanche, came down from Sacramento yesterday and put up at the Grand. Irwin C. Stump, manager of the Hearst estate, arrived here yesterday with his family from New York, where he now makes his head- quarters. Heis staying at the Palace. He is on business and will return shortly. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS, There is not a place on earth, not even in Switzerland, that can compare with the glo- rious Yosemite Valley. No such inviting place for the tourist exists. A direet, quick, easy and pleasant communieation between the outside world and the Yésemite Valley, via Stockton, is something grand to contemplate. It means the bringing of a most eultured, re- fined, sympathetic and money-spending people into our very midstand all that follows from such influences.—Stockton Record. The home paper tells whatconcerns the home public. It tells of the things that make the locality; of the prospects, plans or develop- ments that mean money to the home readers. It tells of home progress, of people the reader knows, and the news of every kind in which he is directly concerned, so far ascomes to the editor’s knowledge. It covers a field which the city paper cannot touch and would not pay any attention to.—Inyo Register. It would be a master stroke of business for this Government to so adjust its regulations with regard to foreign immigration, that the plan of colonization should bring to these shores thousands of honest, capable people who ‘would benefit the land of their adoption and rigidly exclude that element which is certain to become a public nuisance and burden as soon &s admitted.—San Diego Union. The sentiment being worked up atSan Fran- cisco to unite Californians in the support of State industries will cause sadness in the hen- neriesof Kansas, the creameries of Nebraska, the packing-houses of Chicago, the flour mills of Minnesota, the manufactories of New Eng- land, and the jam centers of the 01d World.— San Diego Sum. The most that the wisest and best Govern- ment can do is togive the human herd the same opportunities for advancement; it cannot make them equal in any other way, and most Governments fail even in this particular.— Humboldt Standard. The wandering unemployed are having a hard time of iton this coast at present. They have work thrust at them wherever they go.— Fresno Republica: PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Mrs. I Hung Chang has 1000 servants, 2000 coats, 1200 pairs of trouserettes and 500 fur robes. Her feetare so small that she cannot walk and she dresses her hairin fifty different ways. A statue of Abraham Lincoln, by John Rogers, which has been set up in the Manchester (N. H.) Public Library, represents the President as studying a war map. The statue is one-third larger than life-size. 3 On May 4, the anniversary of the entrance of Martin Luther into the Wartburg at Eisenach, amonument to the memory of the reformer was unveiled in that city. It was the work of Doundorf of Stuttgart. The Emir of Bokhara, who has recently gone to a mineral water cure in the Caucasus for an affection of the feet, was obliged to obtain the permission of the Czar of Russia before leaving his own dominions. The widow of ex-President U. 8. Grant has taken rooms at Leland’s Ocean House for the season. Mrs. Grant has never visited Newport. but once, and'that was when Ler husband was President the first time, SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. It was in & geography lesson to standard I. inan elementary school. After speaking about boundaries of countries the teacher said: “Now suppose I was in France (pointing to that country) and I went into Germany, how could I tell when I left France and entered Germany?” One youngster, aged seven, immediately an- swered: ‘‘You would hear the German bands, please.”—London Tid-Bits. Doctor—I told you plainly that you should rub the brandy that I ordered for you about your stomach, and now you have drunk it. Patient—Yes, but you see, doctor, I have neverin my life cared much for externals.— Fliegende Blatter. “Well,” said the monkey to the organ- grinder as he sat on top of the organ, “I'm sim- Ply carried away with the music.—Philadel- phia Record. e Ix every receipt calling for baking pow- der better results and more wholesome food will be obtained by the use of Royal than any other, -because of its greater leavening strength and absolute purity. AROUND THE CORRIDORS, “Ido not believe in snake-charming,” said Willard Weinsen of Sacramento last evening at the Lick House, and a wide experience with people who make a practice of telling snake stories has taught me to take this kind of stuff with & grain of salt. But there. are snake stories and snake stories. The incident which Iamabout to relate can be vouched for by James D. Phelan of this City, Joe Winters of Sacramento, Philo Hersey, the hotel man at Cisco, and & dozen or twenty other men,8ll citizens of standing and repnte in their respec- tive communities. W. H. Carlson, Who has since been elected Mayor of San Diego, was also a member of the party,and he will no doubt recall the circumstance with a great deal of vividness because of the interest he manifested iu the performance. A crowd of us had gathered at Cisco three years ago in July. Many of the party were fishermen out for & few days’ sport, and we had been casting about for trout in the waters of the South Yuba, with varying degrees of suc- cess. Phelan and half a dozen friends had just returned from Fordyce dam, where they had been enjoying & week’s “still” fishing under the care of the old damkeeper. One evening after supper we were seated on the veranda of the hotel when & man came up the trail which leads down to the river carrying two coal-oil cans covered with gunny sacks. Philo Hersey, proprietor of the Cisco Hotel for the past ten years, had just come out of the dining-room, and as the man with the cans reached the veranda step he greeted him with, ‘‘Hello, Tom, what did you get?” Without so much as a glance at the ques tioner the man addressed as Tom placed his two eans under the veranda and then turned to Tetrace his steps down the trail. When about forty or fitty feet away he suddenly wheeled about and called back to Hersey, “I got only three, Phil; they are ugly to-day.” The man’s strange appearance and erratic actions were noticed at once by the boys, and & dozen pair of eyes turned inquiringly upon Hersey. Hersey was intently watching Tom as .he ambled down the trail, until he finally dis- appeared down theé slope,which stretches away to the marshy banks of the South Yuba. Then he turned to the company and said, “That is our snake-charmer, gentlemen. He has just re- turnéd from Red Mountain with three rattle- snakes. Sometimes he will bring back half & dozen. You can call 1t snake-charming or any- thing else you wish, but the fact remains that the snakes will not bite him. James is his last name and he is employed as a section-hand on the railroad. He was born in Virginia, of cir- cus parents. His father was a lion-tamer and his mother was the snske woman with the same show. She was finally crushed to death by & big boa. He makes some money on his captures. A newspaper in San Francisco last year paid him $25 for five rattlers, and from various sources he receives orders. He is friendly, though, with the snakes more asa matter of habit than of business. Nearly all of his spare time he passes at the summit of Red Mountain, a spot known and dreaded all over the county as the lair of the largest rattlers in the State.” “How does he catch them?” asked Carlson, who had descended to the ground and was standing a safe distance away looking at the two sack-covered cans. “With his hands,” answered Hersey. “I tell you they will not touch him. 'He will pick up & rattlesnake as you would handle a frog or a trout.” Carlson looked up at Phelan, whose face wore & half sarcastic smile. “I don’t believe it,” said he. Do you, Jim?” “No,” replied Phelan. “T'll be hanged if Ido.” “Give us something easy, Hersey,” was the only comment of Joe Winters. And then every- body burst inta a roar of laughter, much to the discomfiture of our host, who looked "all the while as solemn as a Sphinx. “But it’s a fact, gentlemen,” persisted Hersey, whose face had grown very red and who rather resented the spirit of incredulity with which his tale was received. “If you are not afraid 1o go to Red Mountain,” he continued, “I wili prove what I say.” “Do you mean to tell me,” asked Phelan, “that this man Tom can pick up live rattle- snakes and carry them away without the danger of being bitten?”’ +J did not gay any such thing,” warmly re- torted Hersey. ¢Of course, there would always be a grave element of dauger. What I do say is this: This man will take up rattlesnakes from their ledge at Red Mountain, or wherever found, bere-handed, without the least show of fight on the part of ghe reptiles—a thing, by the way, that no mdn in this crowd would dare to do. AsIsaid before, I will prove it. We will all chip a dollar apiece and go with Tom to Red Mountain to-morrow.” This was finally agreed upon, but only seven out of the whole crowd could be prevailed upon to go. There was myself, Phelan, Carlson, Hersey, Winters, a drummer named Strauss, and & miner from over Dutch Flat way, whose name I have forgotten, and who, by the way, gave up the trip because only six horses and mules could be had. At 10 o’clock the next morning we set out for Red Mountain, about two and & hall miles from the hotel. Tom led the way on foot. He carrfed an oilcan and a small stick. After a long, hot climb we came in sight of the summit, which is crowned vy & bold shelving ledge entirely barren of vegeta- tion. When we had arrived at a distance of about 100 feet from the base or lower shelf of this ledge Tom held up his stick and Hersey called a halt. There we sat waiting for the show. We had not seen & sign of & rattlesnake, but we knew that the mountain was covered with them, and none of us felt very comfort- able, even though mounted. The snakeman walked on toward the ledge, then signaled again to Hersey and we drew a little nearer. In the stillness following this second halt we were introduced to the snake family of Red Mountain., Perhaps families would be better, for there were thousandsof them, and when disturbea by our advance guard, they rattled sometimes in concert, then one after another, raising thelr hideous heads from a reptile ridge, eight or ten feet in length, stretching along on a sun-baked shelf of the ledge, and made up of intertwined bodies by the thousands. Their rattling did not disconcert Tdm in the least. He walked boldly up to the ledge, and from this uncanny mass picked up a rattler about two feet long and put it in his can. Then another and another until he had captured five. The last one he took was about three feet long, the others were small. When he had finished he tled his sack over the can and walked back to where we sat on our animals. Phelan was bent upon shooting into the tan- gled mass on the ledge, but Tom begged him not to do it, and Hersey reiterated the protest with g0 much earnestness that they carried the day. Then we returned to the hotel under the good-natured raillery of Hersey, who was put to bed rather early that same right by the crowd to dream of snakes perchance. You can call it snake-charming or what you wish, 1 only know that I have not deviated in the slightest aegree from the facts. Tom is still alive, by the way, and still catching snakes. irwin C. Stump, manager of the Hearst estate and ex-chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, arrived yesterday. from New York, where he now makes his head- quarters. - His mission out here is to attend the wedding of his davghter to A.G. Hunt next Wednesday. Mr. Stump is accompaniad by his family and two daughters of Marcus Daily, the big miner, politician and race-horse owner of Montans, and they are sll staying at the Palace. Mr. Stump has earned a reputation as an able financier and was asked yesterday about the business outlook in the East. “Things are brighter,” he said. ‘Money is getting easier and securities are appreciating.” Speaking about the silver question he said: “The sentiment in New York isgrowingin favor of the free coinage of siiver among the ‘masses of the people. I believe that if a poll were taken to-day in that city a majority ‘would be found in favor of it. But the bond- ‘holders of Europe and the East will put up money to try to influence public sentiment. ‘The feeling in the East is that the Memphis gold convention was a failure. Cleveland and Carlisle are alarmed and have been doingall they could to try to stem the tide.” Gilbert MeM. Ross, who has been manager of the Upion and Keystone Copper mines at Cop- peropblis, Calaveras County, for several years, left to-day for Shasta County, where he will take charge of the Mountain mine, formerly known as the Irou Mountain mine. This is a sliver, 801d and copper property owned by an English syndicate, located fourteen miles from Red- ding. It employs quite a force of men. Owners of the property who have examined it liken 1t to the Rio Tinto lode in Spain, which is the largest mass of copper ore known in the world. If the present plans are carried out a branch rallroad will be built from the Southern Pa- cific’sline to the mountain mine and other extensive operations will be inaugurated. THE HEAVENS IN JUNE. As California is not favored with the long twilights of other climes the star-gazer can commence observations quite early even on the nights of June. At 8 P. M. the bright stars gleam forth in the dusk, and before an hour has passed thousands of orbs are glimmering down, thus leaving but a short interval be- tween the glory of day and the beauty of night. June is the month when the sun rises far in the northeast, comes near the zenith at noon nd sefs in the North Pacific, and when day- light lssts for fourteen hours and a hali—the longest duration in these latitudes. The full moon of June also has its seasonal characteristics. On the first of the month the half phase will appear at its mean altitude in the heavens; but the full moon of June 7 will be farther south than any full moon during the present year. Indeed, with the exception of the full moons of last summer which had a still lower altitude, it will be nearer to the southern horizon than any full moon for many years. The moons that hover picturesquely DIAGRAM 1. above the landscape are the fittest for the poet and the artist, but the astronomer sometimes prefers the orb that ascends the high heavens. However, the most interesting phenomena of the month will be the group of four planets— Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and - Mars—in the northwest, especially as they are just about to scatter on their various routes. Ranged in the order named in a slightly curving line 23 degrees in length extending obliquely from a point north of west, they can be easily recognized, Mercury being nearest to the horizon. The expression of «Tennyson “starry gemini,” is very strikingly appropriate at present, as they are all within the bounds of that constellation. Venus outspeeding Mars in their eastward course will be in conjunction with it on June 5, when they may be seen 47 minutes of anarc apart, but soon the smaller planet will be left far behind, and before the middle of the month both will have passed into the constellation of the Lion, 1t i3 not often that the retrograde motion of Mercury is so conspicuous as on this oceasion, when it can be noted with reference to the position of Jupiter. As Mercury is also near aphelion there is a two-fold reason why its motion may be easily observed, for it remains longer visible than usual. On June 4it will be above the horizon for nearly two hours after sunset, This is called its greatest eastern elonga- tion—that is, eastward from the sun. Diagram 1 represents the strange loop it describes on the heavens from the 1st| to the 30th; but it will have retrograded into the obscuring sunlight before the latter date. The arrows show the direction of its motion, and the three orbs exactly ou the loop show its positions on the 1st, 8th and 21st of the month. The orb inside the curve is Jupiter on the 8th, when in conjunction with DIAGRAM 2. Mercury. The latter rounds southward, seems to be stationary on the 17th, and then begins to go back westward, whence it came. The orb outside the loop is Jupiter on the 21st, as itis moving eastward. As Mercury is going back it passes Jupiter again at this point, though they are farther apart than at their previous conjunction. As these interesting motions require neither cir- cles nor telescopes to be observed, it is not sur- prising that the star-gazers of antiquity were | quite familiar with them and invented strange theories to account for the apparent planetary loops. The famous epicicles of Hipparchus and Ptolemy were the result. Turning toward the eastern sky we find the bright star Spica on the meridian after dusk, and a little to, the east is Saturn, both forming the base of an acute triangle extending north- ward, at the vertex of which is the bright star Arcturus. The branching outline of the Scor- pion rising in the southeast is not convenient for observation until & late hour. & In the evenings of June the ancient constel- lation of the Centaur can be seen ata season- able hour,as it is then on the meridian. In latitudes as far south as California it con- spicuous group in the summer sky as it emerges parily above the southern horizon. Disgram 2 represents the outline which is a starry record of one of the most grotesque fancies of the sages of antigquity. Wild beings, half man half horse, shaggy, fierce, swiit- footed and universally abhorred, are repre- sented by many Greek writers as having in- habited the mountain cavesin Thessaly during the remotest ages. Few ignored the weird tra- dition, while some maintained Its probability, but the wisest supposed them to be merely a mountain tribe skilled in the management of horses which were used in the pursuit of wild herds of cattle. In this case the historic group is & starry outline of the cowboy of antiquity. Apart from its mythological interest, it con- tains much that invites the attention of the astronomer; and its brightest star, & few de- grees below our horizon, is the nearest of all the fixed stars whose distances have been measured. RoSE O’HALLORAN, GRrOCERS' PICNIC, San Rafael, June 3. = ———————— BAcON Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * ——————— PLAIN mixed candies, 10¢1b. Townsend’s.* e NEW novelties in picture frames, very pretty and moderate in price. Sanborn,Vail & Co. * NEW TO-DAY. SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING k FOR MAN, BOY OR CHILD, AT “PRICES WITHOUT PROFIT,” SELLS VERY RAPIDLY. IF YOU WISH TO BENEFIT BY THESE RARE OFFERS YOU MUST MAKE YOUR VISIT VERY SOON. THERE ARE REMAINING. OPEN TO-NIGHT UNTIL 10. BROWN=== Wholesale Manufacturers Props. Oregor City Woolen Mills Fine Clothing For Man, Boy or Child RETAILED At Wholesale Prices 121-123 SANSOME STREET, Bet. Bush and Pine Sts, ALL BLUE SIGNS ceocececeavTUTBDW STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIRS OF THE Commercial Union Insurance Company F LONDON, ENGLAND, ON THE 31ST DAY ot December, A. ing on that day, as missioner of the e of California, pursuant ta the provisions of sections 610 and 611 of the Polite ical Code, condensed as per blank farnished by the | commissioner. | CAPITAL, Amount of capital stock, paid up in cash --.$ 1,250,000 00 ASSETS. Real estate owned by compa $ 2,166,641 48 Loans on bond and mortgage. 346,887 T4 Cash market value of all stocks and bords owned by compan: .. 5,084,911 00 Amount of loans secured by pledge ©of bonds, stocks and other market- able securities as collateral 216,250 87 h in company’s offi Cash In banks.. 1,780,068 16 Interest due and accrued on all stocks and 10aDS. ................. Z 2,748 22 Interest due-and accrued on bonds and mortgages s 347470 Premiums in d c- tion 1,835,296 50 BIlIS 1 66,778 75 8,437,617 20 482,282 29 3,563 66 2,761 43 for fire and marine risks. . Total assets, life department. ... . Sundry offices for guarantees and reinsurance on losses already pald. Rents and interest du el Stamps on hand Total assets Losses adjusted and unpaid ; losses | in process of adjuostment or in | suspense; losses 1, includ- ing expenses .. % Gross premiums on fire ning one year or less, § surance 50 per cent; gross pre- | miums on fire risks running more than one year, $.... rein- | surance z 53 premjiums on and navigation risks, insurance 100 per cent: gross premiuins on marine time risks, insurance 50 per cent. under life department... ", Cash dividends remaining unpaid.. All other demsnds against the com- pany _.... ‘Total liabilities. . 743,525 00 1,879,575 00 905,000 00 8,437,617 20 1,990 66 2,343,481 98 — $14,311,189 83 INCOM Net ¢ash actually received for fire $5,480,416 64 rine preminms haat 1,142,798 18 Received for interest on bonds and mortgages e~ . Received for interest and dividends on bonds, stocks, loans, and from all other sources. 333,210 8 Received for incom partment . Received for 1 1,215,981 84 446 58 e Er— Total income......... 8,1 208 EXPENDITUR! Net amount paid for fire losses (| cluding losses of previons FOMERY:2xos 5o ehor 6o bt 3,535,247 94 Net amount pai for marine I '8 (including §.... losses of previons years). B 866,151 27 Dividends to stockholders. 811,587 48 Paid or ailowed for comm brokerage, .. 8697764 Paid for sal es r charges for_officers. clerks, etc. ; paid for State, National and+ 1,581,181 1@ local taxes: all other payments and expenditures....... Total expenditure of life depart- ment.. aren 56,207 4} e 1352 83 MaBINE, Total expenditures. Losses incurred during the year...............5$3,394,368 00 $664,301 0Q RISES AND PREMIUMS. |_FIRE RISKS. |_PREMIUMS, Net amount of risks| written during the| year. ..|$1,895,302,890 87,325,385 33 Net amount of risks expired during the| 1,414,855,792| 5,402,795 20 December31,1894| 879,785,674 8,869.010 85 e FINEST sauternes, haut-sauternes and dessert wines. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Market street.* —————— REGULATE your gas, stop breaking globes, save 20 to 40 per cent. Gas Consumers’ Asso- ciation, 816 Post street, established 1878, = —————— LEDGERS, journals, cash, record and day books |MABINE BISKS| PREMIUMS. Net amount of risks’ ‘written during lh!,. 362,848,475/ 81,665, b PR e | ,848,475181,665,71 Net amount of isks * o expired during the | year 350,257,490, 1,649,870 00 Net amount in force December31,1894| 89,123,950, 944,665 00 in any binding desired. Price from 15 cents $1 per 100 pages. Sanborn, Vail & Co. 5 .'.a —————— Fireworks Glven Away Wi'.IIi‘ every boy’s suit purchased at the old IXLfrom June 1 to July 4. Box co 0 e Pacific Coast, 616 to street, corner of Commercial. 9 (lKen:.y —————r— There is general commendation of the pro- ject of the Bohemian Club of Pittsburg to erect & memorial to Stephen G. Foster, who wrote “Oh, Susannah,” the “Old Folks at Home" and, best of all, “The Old Kentucky Home." Foster wrote altogether about 125 songs, all of them meritorious. e THE way o give strength to the weak and tired body Is to purify the blood. Hood's Sarsaparilla the only true blood purifier, makes pure blood and gives health, Try it now. ———————— MANY causes induce gray hair, but PARKER'S Haz BALSAX brings back the youthful color. HINDERCORNS, the best cure for corns, 15 cts. ————————— UsE Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bltters, the world- renowned South American appetizer and Invigora- tor of axquisite flavor. JOHN TROTTER, Chairman, H. MANN, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of April, 1895. G.F. WARREN, Notary Public. PACIFIC COAST BRANCH OFFICH 301 California Street. C. F. MULLINS, Manager. 25 OFFICE 27 =L ] DESKS. 51 $24.00 —DROPPED— $24.00 GEO. H. FULLER DESK CO., 638 and 640 Mission Street. ~ GRANITE MONUMENTS MANUFACTURED AND IMPORTED n} Jfl“s Bflus. & c“-, Cor. Second and Branvan Sts., §. F. ——— . 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