The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 13, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1895. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, b; v and Sunday CALI, one 3 three months, by mai . one month, by mail y mail.... year, by mail. 5SS OFFICE: BUSINI 710 Market Street. vevene.. Main—1868 Telephone.. EDITORIAL ROOMS: Street. 517 Cli Telephone......... ....Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES 2 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until 30 o'clock. Tayes street: open until 9:80 o'clock. 717 Larkin sireet; open unt 0 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open pen until @ o'clock. 116 Ninth st 19 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadw 1. Rhinelander ew York City. Pacific States Advertis . Rose and Duane st THE SUMMER MONTHS. u going 1o it -ona vacation? If ‘s no trouble for us to forward THE CALL to youraddress. Do not let it miss you for you will Iniss it. Orders given to the Carrier, or left at Pusiness Office, 710 Market street, will Teceive The people are wronged when the law derided. Tt goes without saying the Dentists’ ban- quet was toothsome. It is hard to talk of a third term for Cleveland without smiling. No Supervisor can escape the reach of the law by getting out of touch with it. One clear clean victory won for the law will make’it easier to win every fight here- after. The next time the Cornell boys strike the Henley regatta they wiil have a better stroke. The Civic Federation deserves well of the people by the work it is doing for the general good. The establishment of a great coal-tar plant at the Potrero is another indication of good times. The Solid Eight no longer ask what the people are going to do about it. They have got an inkling. The Bankers’ Convention is no more solid on the money question than any other conventio It is evident the people of San Francisco do not intend the violation of law to be a soft snap any longer. The Southern Pacific exhibits its old- time enterprise in pre-empting Point Lobos avenue without right. ‘We may no longer doubt feminine cour- age when we observe progressive women calling themselves new. It is not against the extension of street railways but against the violation of law the people are protesting. It iz pleasing to know the Defender goes well in a light breeze, but we would prefer to see her knock the Valkyrie out on a hard blow. The Folsom plant is young, but is already green and flourishing, and in time its numerous branches will bear the richest kind of fruit. If there is any way of ascertaining who stole the Fair will human ingenuity might prove equal to the task of preventing such crimes in the future. The delightfully cool weather of the City is the most alluring invitation to pleasure that it would be possible for residents of the interior to receive. It is a curiosity of the law that a man who forges an order or a check is a crimi- nal, but that peddlers of forged lottery tickets cannot be held amenable. With the Valley road, the Folsom elec- trical plant and the Sequoia Carnival there are so many great things to celebrate that the ordinary citizen is bewildered. The best evidence of insanity in the casz of the man Fischer, who jumped from the ferry-boat, was that he did so because he imagined that a woman was pursuing him. It would be difficult to convince the public that a Supervisor who would sell out to the Southern Pacific is impregnable to the influence of a would-be policeman’s coin. The happy circumstance in connection with the Folsom electrical plant is that it is situated in the center of the great agri- cultural basin and can send out its arms in all directions. Since the Christian Endeavor Society is to hold its next international convention in San Francisco the National parties can hardly deny they have a good example to follow. In the copvention of colored men in Bouth Carolina to consider how it may be possible to retain the franchise the South- ern Democrats see a black cloud on the political horizon. 4 It is just as essential to the comfort of City residents to seek the heat of the mountains in summer as for that of tie residents of the heated interior to enjoy the delicious cool winds of the City. SRS S The statute providing for the sale of municipal franchises is as fair for the Mar- ket-street Railway Company as for any one else and the company has no reason to seek to evade it, tinless it has some unfair purpose. The organization of a new company to bnild a 6oast railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz in opposition to the South- ern Pacific makes the Solid Eight sigh to be Supervisors of San Mateo and Santa Cruz counties. While the Richmond Tract residents are so strongly in favor of red rock for mac- adam they seem to overlook the fact that itsuse in the park covers the foliage with a brick color that is as ugly asrougeon a milkmaid’s cheeks. The girls who are being voted for in the contest to decide. which shall serve as Queen of Eureka’s Sequoia Carnival are-ail so pretty that it would be difficult to vote for one without violating the conscience with regard to the others. FOR THE LAW. In the protest now being made against the action of the Board of Supervisors in attempting to evade the law regulating the sale of municipal franchises, there is no opposition to the extension of our street railways. The objection and the oppo- sition are directed solely to the violation of law. The men who are making the protest and will make a legal contest if it becomes necessary, have no other aim than that of vindicating the law and see- ing that justice is done in this City. It should be borne in mind that the statute which the eight Supervisors have sought to evade in the interests of the great corporation is not -oniy an estab- lished law and a just law, but it is a law necessary to the welfare of the commu- nity. It was not enacted without cause. It is not the outcome of freak legislation. ‘A long series of offenses committed in con- nection with the granting of municipal franchises, not in this City only, nor in this State only, but throughout the Union, afford conclusive proof that some law was needed regulating the methods by which such franchises were to be disposed of. Many States enacted such laws, and ours is one of the fairest and best. That it was needed is evidenced by thevery fact the monopoly is trying to evade it and will evade it if the people are not resolute in preventing the consummation of the fraud. The law is unequivocally fair in its terms. Practically it does no more than require public notice of every franchise petitioned for and the public sale of the franchise to the highest bidder. This works no wrong to any corporation. It simply puts an end to secret underhand methods of dealing with such matters. It prevents careless Supervisors from giving away valuable franchises without due consideration. It prevents individuals or corporations ob- taining for nothing franchises that others would be willing to pay for. Such a law is thoroughly just and expedient. It was worth enacting and it is worth sup- porting. As the law works no injustice to the Market-street company, why does that company seek to evade it? As it requires of Supervisors only that they should act publicly, fairly, squarely and honestly in the disposal of municipal franchises, why should Supervisors seek toevade it? Since it does justice, why should any just man try to dodge it? Since it protects the pub- lic welfare, why do those entrusted with the management of public affairs endeavor to override it? Since it was demanded by the people and was enacted in the interes of the people, why do the elect of the peo- ple sneak after some way to nuilify it? Since it means the public good, who can oppose it but the enemies of the public? Since it aims to prevent fraud and wrong, who in fighting for it can have any inter- est that is honest and just? THE LETTER-CARRIERS. As might have been expected, when a committee from the letter-carriers re- quested the Supervisors to compel the Market-street Railway Company to obey the law and transport them free when in the discharge of their duties, the Supervi- sors blandly refused to interfere. The communication presented by the carriers stated the case thus: “The Market-street Railway Company refuse to abide by the law passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor February 27, 1893, relative to letter-carriers riding free on street railway cars, and also the law passed by the Board of Supervisors compelling all street railway companies to allow letter-carriers to ride free of charge while on duty. The carriers have been thinking of making a test case. At the same time it would involve a great expense upon us which we feel would not be just, as the Market-street Company is violating the law.” Supervisor Hughes facetiously asked why the letter-carriers did not force the company to obey the law, and they prop- erly answered that the railway combine is not easily forced to do anything. The Su- pervisors decided to do nothing. At the same time the railway corbine cheerfully transports policemen and fire- men without any compelling for the rea- son that it owns property which they can protect. That is they carry free those public servants who can be of benefit to them, but require those to pay who do not serve them. Its own convenience, not that of the public, is the main concern. And vet no service would be more highly appre- ciated by the public than the prompt de- livery of the mails. The company might argue that if the Federal Government de- sires to expedite the work of the carriers it could easily afford carfare, and that the railway combine is under no obligation in the premises. This argument can have no effect in view of these considerations: That it is not the policy of the Government to pay carfare for the carriers nor the desire of the people that the Government should do so; that in this ‘matter there is a tacit co-operation between the Government and those cities enjoying a free delivery, and that the municipalities of the country, in part consideration of the great value of the railway franchises which they grant, re- quire the beneficiaries to transport letter- carriers free. For that matter it is rare that any such municipal regulation is made, for the reason that it is generally made unnecessary by the willingness of the railway companies to transport car- riers free, as a very important public con- venience. No such considerations have ever been known to affect the conduct of the Southern Pacific .Company and its branch enter- prises. Not only was a State law neces- sary in attempting to force the company to perform a public service that would not cripple its revenues (as carriers cannot af- ford to ride if they must pay), but this was backed by a municipal law to the same effect. Both of these laws the company refuses to obey, probably contending that they were intended to affect only those franchises granted after the passage of the laws. In any event, with that unfailing meanness which animates its whole bear- ing toward the public, it ignores the law and withholds a public benefit, the grant- ing of which would cost nothing. If these laws are enforcible they should be put in operation. In any event, the Market-street Railway Company should not be permitted the sole privilege of con- struing them. AN INDUSTRIAL TRIUMPH. .The whole State has cause to rejoice over the completion and transfer to it of the immense -electrical plant at Folsom. The histofy of this great undertaking has been repeatedly published and is familiar toall. The State is now in possession of ore of the greatest plants in the world for ‘the generation of electricity, but of far greater value than that bare consideration is the fact that to the extent of its appli- cability it is a complete solution of the fuel problem, which always has been a draw- back to the State. The principle represented in the Folsom _plant is the utilization of the power held by the perennial streams that flow down into the great valleys of the State from the Sierra Nevada. Thus the waters of the American River, which is only oneof a vast number of these streams, are held by adam and made to run electrical genera- tors. At present the application of this enormous power is confined to Folsom, the Folsom prison and the city of Sacra- mento, but this is only a beginning both of the use of electricity generated by this plant and of the utilization of the power held by the Sierra streams. The advent of this power is particularly welcome just now when the natural dis- advantage under which we labor on the score of expensive coal isaggravated by the formation of a combination for advancing its price. The Folsom plant is to be operated at a cost which represents but a fraction of the expense of coal required to generate an equal power. This matter has not vet been determined, but it soon will be, and we are confident that the revela- tion which it will make will be one of the strongest of conceivable incentives for pushing forward on new lines of enterprise and development that will produce a com- plete revolution in some of the most im- portant concerns of our people. SUPPRESSING LOTTERIES. The recent arrests of lottery-ticket sellers by the police will have a wholesome effect in checking the evil. The sale of tickets in fact has already been very largely sup- pressed. It is no longer carrted on so openly as it was, and if arrests continue to be made the evil before long will be so far abated that theamount of money saved to the community, which would otherwise have gone to the lottery companies, will be no inconsiderable item in the annual increase of the wealth of the City. Itis hardly to be expected the lottery evil will ever be wholly eradicated. The lottery-ticket sellers may be accounted a kind of ve rmin on the body politic and we can no more get rid of them altogether than we can get rid of fleas. Nevertheless it is possible to keep a clean house practi- cally clear of fleas, and it is possible to keep the better portions of the City free from lottery peddlers. To get rid of ver- min it is necessary to clean out their breeding places, and to get rid of the ticket sellers we must make a clean sweep of the gangs that start the peddlers out. It may be difficult to reach these gangs, but it is not impossible. The police by keeping a good lookout may succeed in getting some of the big fellows in reach of the law and securing a cenviction. This would be better than convicting forty of the ped- dlers. In the meantime the work done so far has resulted in no little benefit and profit to the community and the better element of the people note with satisfac- tion the success achieved. A GERMAN VIEW. As the falling off in the emigration from the overpopulated States of Kurope to America has occasioned no little comment in Germany, where the population contin- ues to increase and some outlet for it is demanded, Louis Stern, United States Con- sul at Bamberg, bas reported to our Gov- ernment the summary of an article on the subject by Professor A. Niggl, which, hav- ing attracted much attention in that coun- try, is likely to prove of interest to Ame: cans, as an expression of German senti- ment on a subject of vastimportance tous. Afterarapid review of the great undevel- ovped resources of America and the appear- ance in our cities of those social evils which afflict Europe, Professor Niggl says: “To *develop the productiveness of North Amer- ica a greater density of population is re- quired; thousands of acres of fruitful land are still awaifing settlement. But what is wanted is an immigration of intelligence and activity, and not an invasion of ruined adventurers and laborers totally without the means of subsistence. * * * The rational guidance of immigration into the best channels is of course first of all the duty of America in serving her own inter- ests, nevertheless a well-organized and able society for that purpose in Germany would achieve valuable and permanent results. * % * America is no longer the land of Canaan for such as hope to achieve success by unbounded zeal for speculation, but on the other hand there are many professions in life, especially the pursuit of agriculture, that promise a happy future and modest fortunes to those who go to America in- spired by enthusiasm and industry.” It will be a good thing for this country if this view of America becomes generaily adopted throughout Europe. It is a true saying that what we want is “an immigra- tion of intelligence and activity and not an invasion of ruined adventurers and labor- ers without the means of subsistence.”” If any German society can assist in send- ing us the first it will find plenty of co- operation here, but we will rely on ourown Government and our own watchfulness to { keep out the invasion of the penniless and the ruined. “THE SUNDAY CALL/" Bright, breezy, graphic and interesting will be all the features of I'HE SUNDAY CALL to-morrow. The special articles will be of exceptional excellence and variety. At- torney John E. Richards, a new contribu- tor to the journalism of San Francisco, will entertain all who delight in graceful literature by “The Pipes of Pan,” a pas- toral of California. This writer ‘is illus- trated by Kahler. Dan O’Connell con- tributes a story of frontier life in Washing- ton, “The Heroine of Chehalis,” and a glimpse of Californian life will be found in Adeline Knapp's tale of “The Grub Stake Claim, With a Bear Story on the Side.” A picture of San Francisco in early days will interest all in “Reuben D. Strong’s Reminiscences,” by Ernest C. Stock, and the “Marvels of Modern Astronomy,” by Rose O’Halloran, will be found instructive as well as entertaining. In addition to these special features there will be the usual variety of notes and comments in the children’s page, the page for women, the Paris fashions, book reviews, the Query Column and other, regular departments. All the news of the day, asreported by The United Press, will, of course, be given con- cerning every portion of the world, and the local news will, as usual, be of that fullness which has earned for TrE CALL the title of the champion of Pacific Coast interests and Pacific Coast men. PROBLEMS OF THE NATION. There came to this country during the year ending on June 30, 255,325 immigrants. It would be of interest to know just how many of these people can read and write, and how soon the average man of them all, as & voter, will take part in shaping the destinies of this Nation. The Republic has nothing to fear from enlightened and honorable immigrants, but every one of the hundreds of thousands of ignorant and degraded who have flocked to these shores is and has been a menace to free institutions. A despotism may live with il- literacy at its base, but a republic cannot.— Fresno Republican. . ot It is quite proper that people of different nationalities who come to the United States for permanent residence shounld respect the flags and institutions of the Government from which they came.” But as citizens of the United States, or intending to become such, they should have but one flag—the flag of our country: The stars and stripes.—Salt Lake Herald. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. .“There is one thing I don't like” said Colonel K. B. ‘Brown, as he walked upand down the office of the Coso House last night, “and thatis the New Yorx Recorder’s attempt to change some of the good old stories that have been going the rounds ever since revolu- tionary days.” “Take, for instance, that yarn about Si and Rube trading. It is one of the original yarns that came over in the Mayflower. and I object to having it mutilated. Now, I remember just about the way it goes, and this isa true state- ment of the transaction: “Rube came in to Si's store with an egg that he said he wanted to swap for something and asked Si what he wanted to give for it. “Si looked round and said, ‘Well, I guess it’s worth a darning-needle.’ “S0 Rube traded the egg for a darning- needle. ‘¢‘0f course you always treat on the head of a transaction,’ said Rube. “0f course,’ said Si. “And Rube said, ‘I'll take some sherry.’ He poured out the wine and said, ‘Ineverdrink sherry without an egg.’ “So Si handed him over the egg that he traded for the darning-needle. “Rube broke the egg into the glass,and as he did so, he said, ‘Holy smoke, Si! It's got a double yelk! Another darning - needle, please!’”” PERSONAL. Dr. and Mrs, A. T. at the Grand. 8. M. Lasell, a leading merchant of Martinez, is & guest at the Grand. J. F. Coope, a wine man of Santa Cruz, is staying at the Celifornia. R. J. Hazen, an attorney of Modesto, regis- tered yesterday at the Grand. J. Clover, a leading merchant of Colusa, was one.of yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. Ex-Judge S. 8. Holl, an attorney of Sacra- mento, registered at the Grand yesterday. Edwin nford, a prominent attorney of Colusa, registered yesterday at the Grand. General J. W. B. Montgomery of Chico came down yesterday and is a guest at the Grand. Juan Sans, a leading merchant of Sonsonate, Salvador, and his wife are guests at the Cali- fornia. Frank Miller, cashier of the bank of D.O. Mills & Co. in Sacramento, is & guest at the California. Frank A. Kimball, the great olive-grower of Nutional City, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. Postmaster and Mrs. W. S. Leake of Sacra- mento came down from Sacramento yesterday weomb of Pasadena are -amd are staying at the Palace. Senora Concepclon de Llerana, wife of Dr. Jose Llerana of Guatemala, who was the candi- date of the Constitutional party for the Presi- @éncy of Guatemala, against Barrios, in 1891, | was one of the arrivalsy the San Jose yester- day. She registered at the Occidental with the Senoras Dolores de Monge and Rifugia de Sierra, whose husbands are prominent mer- chants of Guatemala. THE VALLEY RAILROAD. The disposition of the builders of the Valley Railroad was well shown when they awarded contracts for doing the work on the Stockton section of the road to local men. 1f they carry out that purpose throughout the proposed route they will do much to popularize their line. The auspicious beginning that has been made at Stockton should be an inspiration to Fresno to get actively at work doing what must be done to insure the road’s coming here and making this town its most important interior point in California. Itisgetting to be pretty near time for the citizens of Fresno to rise ell together, hold a meeting and put some life into this very important undertaking.—Fresno Expositor. The day of beginning work on the Valley road will be & grand day for Stockton. It will convince the last remaining doubtersof the reality of the enterprise. Stockton has vege- tated so long that there have been many who were unable to imagine a new condition or an increased rate of growth, but when the grading | of the road begins the last doubter will dis- | appear and the laying of rails will either kill or convert the most stubborn silurians who believe but still mourn the change that will deprive them of the luxuryof grumbling that Stockton is & dead town.—Stockton Independ- ent. Those who think that because there is little demand for property just now there never will be are greatly mistaken. Every storm and flood and blizzard; every day of blasting heat or destructive cold; every loss of crops and every damage to buildings in the Eastern States tends to drive the people to the Pacific Coast, where such evils are absolutely un- known. There is not a ten-acre lot in Santa Cldra Valley—nay, we may say from the moun- tain tops on the west to the mountain tops on the East, from Palo Alto to Gilroy—that will not one day have a home upon it and produce ample to support a family in comfort and luxury. We have as yet but scratched the sur- face of our magnificent soil, and we have not yet told the hundredth part of the advantages of cur splendid climate.—San Jose Herald. The future prosperity of Cuba depends abso- lutely upon release from dependence upon Spain and establishment of freedom of com- mercial intercourse with the United States. Gain by this change of relations would be mutual. Increased capacity of the isiand for consumption would open new markets for our manufactures, while smple supplies of raw products at cheap rates would foster many 1n- dustries in this country. For these business reasons we should wish well to the Cuban revolution.—Portland Oregonian. The China Basin lease has been finally signed, the first cargo of rails has arrived, the Stockton right of way is secured—now what's the matter with making dirt fly until it rolls up in sheets as high as poplar trees? Golonel Jones can furnish diversion enough by talking of his Monterey road, but people generally want to see perspiration oozing from a million pores in actual labor on the Valley line— Tulare Register. Why should we not have trained jurles? Is it a safe method in doing justice to call upon men {0 pass upon difficult questions, some of them involving life and death, or the disposi- tion of much property, or the maintenance of human rights, who have not been trained by habit or study to close thinking and long-con- tinued mental application?—Sacramento Rec- ord-Union. Tt is greatly to the credit of the Republican party that it has so many men who are acknowledged to be thorougbly fitted for the Presidency. A party so well supplied with first-class leaders is sure to. succeed.—Ellens- Durg (Wash.) Capital. OPINIONS OF EDITORS. Under the heading “A Party Blunder” the Santa Rosa Republican says: Some members of the executive committee of the Repubiican State Central Committee held a meeting atSan Francisco Tuesday afternoon and, to draw it mildly, made asses of themselves &nd did their party injury. The meeting was not properly called. Common decency would suggest that when a meeting of such a body is to be held to pass upon important business all the members should be notified and should be given time to attend. This was not done in the instance re- ferred to. The writer is & member of the com- mittee. He was in 8an Francisco Monday and Wwas told that the committee meeting would be held Wednesday afternoon. No written notice whatever was received, but by Tuesday morn- ing’s papers it was announced that the meeting Wwas to be held that afternoon, and on that announcement it was not possible for a coun- try member to attend ghe meeting. The meeting was held to pass on the ap- pointment of A. E. Castle and Samuel Foster as Republican members of the Board of Election Commissioners of San Fran- cisco. These men had been' named by Mayor Sutro. They are universally recognized as honest and true men-—loyal to their party and {air to all. There should have been noquestion about their confirmation. There would have been no question about it if there had been a full meeting of the committee.» But this w not desired by the clique of the committee that arranged for the meeting Tuesday afternoon, and as a result the appointment of Mr. Foster was rejected. The committee consists of twenty-nine members. Eight of the members reside outside of San Francisco, and none of these were present. Only mine of the twenty- one resident members of the committee at- tendec the meeting, the others being out of the City probably, and but five of these voted to reject the appointment. We enter our pro- test against this star-chamber kind of business. Mr. Chairman Cornwall does himself no credit by such party management. He insults every fair-minded member of his party by so doing. Such disreputable political manipulation should be universally condemned. The country press should speak out in regard to such treachery and let the people know who are responsible for it. Under Republiean policy it was not difficult to get & revenue sufficient to support the Government and steadily reduce the public debt. Under Democratic policy it has been necessary to make three sales of bonds to get money, and the deficit continues at the rate of $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 a year, while labor finds but partial employment ana wages are reduced. The debate whether Republican policy or Democratic policy is better for the country can hardly be a serious one hereafter. —Portland Oregoriian. The deadly microbe has invaded everything worth having since he was discovered. We are now told that it is positively dangerous to eat the rind of any fruit, and that the annual death rate would be greatly reduced if all fruit were pared before being eaten. It is really too bad that our forefathers didn’t know about all these things in their day. But, then, they were spared a great deal of worriment by rea- son of their ignoranee, and this fact may have greatly prolonged their lives in meny in- stances.—Los Angeles Times. This is & memorable week in the history of the San Joaquin lley Railroad. The first cargo of steel rails has arrived, the China Basin lease has been concluded, and bids for the grading of the first section of tbe road and for supplying the necessary lumber have been re- ceived. When will a similar week come to the Sacramento Valley? How long, oh, how long. will our people wait before they get 8 move on? —Oroville Mercury. When the work of grading the Valley Rail- road in Tulare County begins then the times in this county will commence to improve rapidly. There are many enterprises in this county that will be started just assoon as the competing railroad is an assured fact, and from present appearances it will not be long until the directors will know where they want the réad 1o go, as the surveyors are working rapidly.— Visalia Times. Now that the China Basin lease is signed for the Valley road it is in order for this county to look after the Santa Clara branch and Pacheco Pass extension. The Alviso slough improve- ments and electric lines connecting Gilroy with it should also be discussed ireely and ways and means propositions considered. Gilroy must wake up or be left slumbering.—Gilroy Gazette. H PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Ex-Chief of Police Byrnes of New York says that he has declined a proffer of $15,000 per annum by a foreign Government that requires his services. In 1866 the late Duke of Hamilton laid £180,000 to £6000 against Hermit for the Derby. Fortunately for him, friends inter- vened and the bet was canceled. Accu Atopie, a negro from the German col- ony of Togoland, Africa, is one of the best students in the scientific college in Cassel, Germany. Emperor William was once & stu- dent in the gymnasium there. Mother Mary Gonzags, who is said to be the oldest sister of charity in the United States, celebrated the sixty-ninth anniversary of her initiation into the order at Philadelphia on Friday. She is 85 years of age. Rev. Mr. Wheeler of New Brunswick, who rides a wheel on Sundays when he feels like it, has declared in his last sermon: *‘I see no more harm in & spin on one of our streets on a Sun- day afternoon than I do in & walk on the same.” The Italian Deputy and ex-Minister, Barnar- dino Grimaldi, speaks 200 words to theminute. “What a mercy,” exclaimed some one, “that Grimaldi was not born a girl!” “Yes,” replied the other, “fancy such & speaker growing up | to be somebody’s mother-in-law!” Colonel €pohr, in & German military news- paper, points out how frequent is the case in his country of horsetrainers forcing their ani- mals to indulge in alcoholic “pick-me-ups.” The writer declares that the effect of alcohol on horses is of & highly injurious nature. Although he is 85 years old, Senator Morrill of Vermont is said to have announced that he will accept another re-election at the end of his present term. His fifth term in the Senate will expire in March, 1887. Up to date he has served twenty-elght years in the Senate and twelve years in the Hotise. Over seventy years ago Joseph Dudley of Waterford, Me., conceived the idea of puttinga large clock outside of his house, over the en- trance to the place. For that length of time the clock has been running regularly, with the original works in it. Neither the rain nor the &now ever stops it, and it’s as regular as the sun. Five generations of one family are living near Hamilton, Obio. The oldest member is Mrs. Margaret Nash, who is 89 year old, and the youngest her great-great-grandchild, Ruby Cleveland, who is 7 months old. Mrs. Nash had seventeen children, and her daughter had fourteen. The grandmother of Ruby is only 34 years old and her mother s 17. It issaid that Arthur Balfour, the new leader of the House of Commons, never wears his hat in the House. When addressing the House he generally holds himself together by the lapels of his coat. Heis an extremely nervous man and moves about a good deal, both in his sest and on his feet. ile is indefatigable, alert, well posted, fearless and generally good humored in debate. The miracle of the Red Sea, which enabled the children of Israel to escape from Pharoah, has happened again, reports Major-General | Tulloch to the British Government. He has | been suyveying the route of the exodus and saw it with his own eyes last spring. A wind arose £0 fierce that within a few hours it had driven the entire waters of Lake Menzaleh out of sight beyond the horizon, leaving all the sailing vessels resting on the sand bed. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. He—That's just like a woman. She can’t view any question impartially. All on one side, just as sh e is on horseback. She—Yes, John; and haven’t you been on every public question the same way you ride on horseback?—Boston Transcript. He (reading)—And so they were married. That is the way all love matches end. She—Yes; they don’t burnlong.—Harlem Life. Magistrate—If you were there for no dishon- est purpose why were you in your stocking feet? Burglar—I heard there was sicknessin the family, your Worship.—Richmond State. Landlord (to guest)~How do you like the scenery, sir? Guest—It is beautiful. Landlord (to clerk)—John, add $6 to his bill for scenery.—Atlanta Constitution. He—Madam, your husband is liberal to a fault. She—I wish I were a fault.—Detroit Free Press. Hoax—That story of yours reminds me of a tramp. Joax—How so? Hoax—It won't wash.—Philadelphia Record. Friend—Do you know that I am at last begin- ning to understand your poetry? + Great magazine poet—Heavens! Is it then true that I am losing my cunning.—Syracuse Post. ““The actions of some of these reformers,” said the cornfed philosopher, “remind me much of the way my father used to pull weeds in the garden for about a minute tc show me how easy it was. Then he would go off and sit down in the shade and leave me to keep at it all the forenoen.”—Indianapolis Journal. Mrs. Cawker—Charlie got burned when he commenced to shoot off his Independence day firecrackers, but just as soon as I had tied up his finger he was out again shooting some more. Mr. Cawker—Oh, well, one good burn de- serves another.—Judge. . OUT-OF-TOWN PERSONALS. Castle Crags, July 10, 1895.—The arrivals from San Francisco the past week were: Mrs. C. L. Catherwood, Lawrence C. Hastings, Miss May Burns, Mrs, J. H. Jewett, Mr. and Mrs. Montgomery, S. Currey, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac W. Hellman, the Misses Florence and C. Hell- man, Mr. and Mrs. C. Kirkpatrick, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Irish, Miss Florence Irish, John W. Barnes, J. A. Folger, Mr. and Mrs. William F. Herrin, the Misses Carrie, Kate and Alice Herrin, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Van Fleet and children, Mr. and Mrs. M. Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Lewenthal, E. Walter, Homer King, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Web- William B. Bryan, Mr. and Mrs. Lilienthal, ~ B. Cheeney, Mr. P and Mrs. John J. Valentine and children, J. Levy, Mr. and Mrs, E. E. Washborn, Mrs. W. B. Morgan, W. E. Hale, J. E. Davis, Major T. F. John W. Klein, J. B. Sherrond, Mrs. J. mith, Miss Mary Condit-Smith, H. J. Edward H. Shéldon, Samuel Knight, G. F. Crocker, Jam fanseli, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Fisher, Miss Nora Hanley, Miss Helen Con- lon, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bayne, Walter Car- ter and daughter, Robert Carter, Miss Anna Wachter, M.ss Rose J. Walter, Miss May Hooper, Edear Carroll, Mrs. Rutherford, An- drew Martin, A. H. Rutheriord, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Badlam, C. E. Hayes, Mis Hugo Kothchild, William . J. Schotezee, Mr. and nborn, Miss' G n, Mrs. P. Highland S$prings, July 12, 189 following are the latest arrivals here: J. Hogg, W. H. McKenzie, J. J. MeKean, A. W. Shields, L. Silverman, Thomas Mikel, M. Mou- sen, C. B. Shaw, Flin Smith, M. Fitzgerald, A. = rs.F. B. G n, Mr. and Mrs. N Clief, Miss Bacon. L. Banks, M. R. Donohoe, R. E. Hicks, B. Banks, T. B. Bradford, P. Spear, Charles E. Mooser, J. OConnell, L. Deutsch, Mrs. Harding, Miss Harding, Mrs. Ballard, Mrs. I A. Lundy, Mrs. K. H. Cahoon, F. 1. Vassault, 8. Mann, Miss Maude Hood, Miss Maude Squire, Miss Myra Squire, Mrs. F. Hall, Miss Susie Hall, Miss “A. B. McBoyle, Miss J. Anderson, Miss E. Farwell, C. Farwell, L. H. Smith, G. ¥. Balcn, . E. Blair, R. Wallacé, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Tobin, W. J. Yore, Dr. C.F.Sullivan, L.C. Hansen, C. J. Eager, Mrs. M Miss M. Milton, Miss L. Waicott, L. Gaegs gel and party, Miss D. Rol .F. T.Robins, J. K. Dollison, Mr. and Mrs. A, W. Patrick, A. Cohn and daughter, Miss 8. Ford, Miss C. Ford, D. W. Morris, G. Morgan, A. C. Morrison, L. H. Peterson, G. W. Koch Jr., W. J. Whitney Temple, 'A. Skaife, Charles Leghton, J. Jellett,” M. W. Jellett, ‘Braoks, E. McDevitt, Mrs. L. M. Beaudry, L. M. Beau: iss I. A. Beaudry, Miss J. Fladran, J. H, and family, M. and M . Chapin, nlan, J. E. McMahan, Father Haggan. Hotel de Redwood, July 12, 1895. — The mountains still continue to be filled with visitors. Among the week’s arrivals at this hotel were: Mr. and Mrs. George Burke, Mrs. Fitzpatrick, Miss S. M. Thompson, Miss Etta Thompson, H. H. Owens, Miss Bertie Robbins, Miss Lida Robbins, Miss Mamie Robbins, Miss Ida Robbins, Miss Rosalind Bost, Mrs. Bost, Sammie Bost, Miss Jeannette C. Davis, Lieutenant R. II. Lamson, Miss Gertrude Lam- son, Miss Helen Lamson, Mrs. N. K. French and daughter, Sarah A. C. Bartlett, Mr. and Mrs. A.F. Barnard, Mr. and Mrs. W. Halbert and fumily, Mrs. Kern, Miss Marion Smith, Mrs. JIansem, Miss Marion Jansen, Miss May Troltret, E. Brang, Miss Brang, Mr. E. Hatch and family, Mrs. Kidley {r. and Mrs. Nichols and family, i Moore, Miss Gertie Smith, Miss Mae Mrs. A. J. Gove and family, William D. Brown, Laymance Wagner, ~Miss Crete Jomes,” C. B. Parcello, Miss_ Alice Brown, Jonn Lynam, Mr. and Mrs. Swanson and family, Mrs. Johnson A. T. Sloane, G. B. Sloane, arl ‘and son, Mrs. Asa Fisk, Mr. and Mrs. Westheimer, Mr. and_Mrs. Catlin and family, Miss Robertson, Miss Talcott, Miss Ethel Wagner, Miss Talbot, Miss Etta Talbot. Pescadero, July 10, 1895. —The following guests are staying at the Swanton House and Mrs. Ellis H. Holmes, Mr.and Mrs. B. Holbrook, Mr. and Mrs. Cephas Turner, Major McClung’s family, Mrs. Locke and daughter, Miss Spooner, Mrs. H. F. Cristy and daughter, Mrs. Leidy, Mr. and Mr daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Burnell, M. R. Gibbons, H. Walter Gibbons, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Sierbierst and two sons, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rolph and_son, John Pelton Hamilton, Ralph Hamilton, Fletcher Hamilton, Miss Clara Ham- i ss Alexandra Hamilion, Miss A. T. Crowley, Miss M. E. Crowley, Miss Laura Ham- ilton, Mies Ruth McNutt, Miss May Denman, Mr, and Mrs. C. R. Robbins, Dr. W. B. Lewitt and family, Mrs.'C. Giesting and children, San Franeisco; Mrs. Dr. Hammond, Oharles A. Wetmore_Jr., William M. Noyes, Livermore; Mr. and Mrs. George Thomas Page and child, San Rafael; Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Sweetzer, Mountain View; Ansel M. Easton, Charles H. Adams, George H. Ripley, G. Clinton Ripley, Burlingame. Deer Park Inn, Lake Tahoe, July 10, 1895.— The following guests are staying at the inn: Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Goodfellow, Mr. and Mrs. Colin M. Boyd, Judge and Mrs. Davis Louder- back and family, Mrs. W. J. Landers, Miss Ber- nice Landers, Masters Herbert and Marsden Landers, of San Francisco; Mrs. C. E. Palmer, Miss Bessie Palmer, Miss Ida Belle Palmer, Silas Palmer, Miss Edith Selby, Miss Rachel Vrooman, Miss Ethel Moore, of Oakland; C. J. Fox, Mrs. C. J. Fox, C. J. Fox Jr., Miss Beatrice Fox, of Berkeley; Miss Frances Hodgkinson, Master Norman Hodgkinson, Miss Anglon, Mrs. Hertz, Miss Regina Hertz, Mrs. James Cunningbam and family, San Francisco; Miss Brewer, Miss S. H. Brewer, San Mateo; Dr. Ed- ward R. Taylor, Harry W. Taylor, San Fran- cisco; Miss E. H. Hilton, Mrs. 'C. G. Samson, Dr. Timmerman, Oakland; Miss Sophie Ath- earn, Miss Katharine Stone, Miss Emily Van Orden, Dorville Libby, San Francisco. ZZtna Springs, July 10, 1895.—Ftna is a pleasant place these warm, midsummer days, and guests who are obliged from time to time to return to business and other duties else- ‘where leave with regret. But the arrivals more than balance the departures, so that there is always abundance of good company. Follow- ing are the most recent arrivals: Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Snook and son, John T. Bell, Staniey J. Bell, Oakland; L. H. F. McKee, M. Goldman, J.J. O'Brien, Eugene Unger, George F. Burnett, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel McCartney and child, Daye Wasserman, Arthur Schmitf , Mr. Kane and daughter, Mrs. F. A. Lux, Selma A. Lux, George A. Winterburn, Mrs, S. W. McPherson, San Francisco; Mrs. J. R. English, Vallejo; Mrs. M. B. McPike, Omaha; Miss M. Frie L. English, Vallejo; Mrs. R. W. Lemme and child, St. Helena. The Geysers, Sonoma County, July 12, 1895.— Late arrivals here are: J. H. Kleiser, Fannie Armstrong, Jennie . Marshall, Daisy A. Bethell, George W. Kleiser, Mrs. Robison, Gertrude I'Hommedun, Miss J. Broderick, James M. Hobbs, S. D. Block, A. Bloch, Mrs. Currie, Miss 'Donovan, C. Temple, C. E. Brooks, Miss M. L. Whelan, William B. Whe ian, $. Hausman, R. Weber, Mrs. Smith, Miss R. Smith, Miss A. Smith, Miss L. Sample, A. L. McCray, H. E. Smitn, L. B. Crowley, A. Rich, Miss R. Rich, Miss Grau, Miss Goebel, John'H. Boalt, H. Heyman, Mrs. M. Hess, Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Martens, Mrs. A. Martens, Mrs, H. Tietjen, George Rose, Mr. and Mrs. W A. Gray, W. W. Bush, L. H. Jacobs, W. H. Halsey, J. J. B. Agenti, A. C. Owens, C. A. Adams, Mr. 'and Mrs. F. P. Weeks. Tallac House, Lake Tahoe, July 10, 1895.— The following were the arrivals here during the past week: Mr.and Mrs. L. W. Blinn, Mr, and Mrs. F.D. Stimson, Mrs. W. H. Stimson, Charles 8. Tallmadge, Los Angeles; Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Conwell, R. P. Keating and the Misses Keating, Virginia City; John N. Young and son, San Diego; Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Meek, San Lorenzo; Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Stone, San Leandro; Mr. and Mrs. E. W.Stanfeld; Santa Cruz; L. L. Elrod, Carson; Mrs. C. W. Howard and family, Miss Nicholson, Oakland; Mr. and Mrs. Wigram, New Zealand; L. Brewer, Mex- ico; Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Tyson, Alameda. Anderson Springs, July 12, 1895.—Among the late arrivals here are Charles Albert Ad- ams, J.J.B. Argenti, H. C. Owens, Byron D. Bent, E. C. Merrill, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Herbert, Mrs. Orme, Miss Emma Fennessy, Miss Ida Brown, Miss Annie Fitz-Maurice, MissL. W. Dearborn, F. J. Vassault, L. S. Va Mann, Jack Tasker, J. Murphy, IYel:r';“!L‘éns::: Mrs. J. Mahoney, Miss L. Mahoney, Miss F. Gorman, James Kelley, ?Mrs. J. C. Wade, Mrs. M, McCue, James F. Meabe, Mrs, Feeney, the Misses Feeney, M. J. Welch, M. L. Rudich. Avalon, Catalina Island, Cal.. July 12.—Re- cent arrivals at the Hotel Metropole from San Francisco include: J. Dinkelspiel, Henry Meyer, wife and daughter, A. Rosenberg, Mr. and Mrs. H. 8. Lincoln, M. H. Robinson, Miss B. Benson. From Oakland—Mrs. F. L. Van Denburgh, Miss B. Van Denburgh. From Sacra- mento—A. J. Johnston, E. 8. Hadley. From San Jose—Miss Winnie McLaughlin, Miss Scheller. From Fresno—Mr. and Mrs. Lee L. Gray, Widber Makes Changes. Treasurer Widber yesterday appointed Max Warschauer bookkeeper of the office, vice De 1a Montanya, promoted to chief deputy. Peter Devely,who was formerly a deputy clerk in the Sheriff’s office, was made a feé clerk. Mr. Widber has still another appointment to make in the fee department, but he says that he will not avail himself of the privilege until business maxes it absolutely necessa=y. weet and two | POET WINED AND DINED Cfiarles Warren Stoddard Wel- comed Home by the Bird of Wisdom. SWEET MUSIC AND KIND TALK, Messages of Gocd Will From Rud- yard Kipling and E. W. Townsend. The dinner at the Bohemian Ciub last evening in honor of Charles Warren Stod- dard will Lave a place in the ‘“Annals of Bohemia.” The poet was one of the founders of the club. and several of his oid-time associates are still members of the institution. Flowers constituted the chief decoration of the table. A cartoon painted by Joseph D. Strong in 1878, to commemorate a Ladies' Jinks, (Ai'\\‘hlkl the subject was “Sweethearts and Wives,” and the sire, Mr. Stoddard, held the posts of distinction among the pictures of the banquet hall. The banquet was a spirited function, there being in it much of what is called “go.” The music was inspiring, all the places reserved were filled, and the enthu- siasm attained such a pitch of good-feeling that Daniel O'Connell was impeiled to vary the order of exercises and welcome his” brother poet before the roast. Then he gracefully placed the control of cere. monies in the hands and head of Joseph 1. Redding, who subsequently presided with rare tact and animation. . Responding to Mr. Redding’s remar of weicome, Mr. Stoddard said that he h: two messages to give to the club. T first from Ned Townsend,whose wor were: “You are going to Bohemia. Tell them for me that I am all and alw toeirs.” aer. The second was from Rudyard Kiplh whose words were: *‘Do not forget to giv my love to the members of the Bohemia: Club. They were good to me, and I neve shall forget them.” The poet remarked incidentally that if Rudyard Kipling had ever been quoted by any newspaper as saying aught against the Bohemian Club, he had not been cor- rectly quoted. 2 The messages were received with ap- propriate applause and delight, whic moved the poet to fervently wish that Townsend and Kipling were present. Sweet and merry music, and much of it, came in from time to time. George T. Bromiey read an original poem, and sang several verses of it. Nearly everybody that wanted to make a speech got an op- portunity to talk, and a great deal of the talk was happy, witty and kind. And champagne did bubble. 3 The people attending the dinner wers Ed H. Hamilton, Daniel O’Connell, D. M Delmas, W. G. Stafford, J. D. Strong, Edgar A Mizner, J. D. Redding, Evan J. Coleman, Hor ace G. Platt, Hugh M. Burke, Jam son, George T. Bromley, George William Sproule, Harry N. Gray, r Dimond, William Greer Harrison, J. F. Shee- han, William Forsytb, Louis Sloss Jr., Bo! Walter, Joseph Austin, A. Gerberding, M Wiggin, Charles B. Stone, Edgar D. P H. J. Stewart, W. G. Curtis, C. J. F ter, Dr. Arnold, Sidney M. Smith, J L. Beard, John Stanton, A. Jouilin, D. de V. Graham, Jeremiah Lyneh, Louis Schmidr, Bénjamin R. Swan. R. H. Fletcher, Chartes Robinson, C. Wethered, Selim E. Woodworth, Thomas Rickard, Frank Coffin, Harry Martinez, Dr. W. J. Younger, nshing, Laurie Bun- ten, George W. Nagle, David Bush, J. M. Hamil- ton, H. N.Clement and William Forsythe. The dinner was projected by a commit- tee consisting of Daniel O’Connell, one of the few surviving charter members of the club, Joseph Austin, J. D. Strong, C. J. Foster and Hugh M. Burke. It was in- formal throughout. 5 ke cess CALIFORNIA Glace fruits, 50c 1b, Townsend's.* B e e Baco Printing Gompany, 508 Clay strass. e e — TRY our ‘‘Atlas Bourbon” and you will want none other. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Market.* e Ocean Excursions. Steamship Pomona, to Santa Cruz and Mon- terey, leaves Saturdays, 4 . M., due back Mon- days, 5 4. M. Ticket office, 4 New Montgomery street. » e Mrs. Gray—Strange that you should consult Dr. Jalap when your husband is a physician. Mrs. Black—I find it more helpful to consult Dr. Jalap. 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