The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 19, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRA CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. & i il Dally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier.$0.15 CaLl, one year, by mail... 6.00 ay CaLL, six months, by maii 3.00 CaLL, three months, by meil 1.50 ain—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS 517 Clay Street. ...Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery street, corner Ciay; open until Mission streef 116 Ninth street; of open until 9 o'clock. n until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: reau, Rhinelander 5, New York City. Rose and Duane THE SUMMER MONTHS. 1t ward THE CALL to ss you for you will ier, or left at et, will receive rouble for us to ¢ let it JULY 19, 1895 e State. 1s never become monotonous. and see Humboldt enjoy her- Go no! self. The next evil to suppress is the pool- hose who do not assail official corrup- encourage it Stockton may be called a slough city, but she is not stagnant, This is a good time for the Southern Pa- cific to repent and do better. The European war cloud has now taken the shape of a 2 i e is as much beauty and pleasure al g the redwoods as among the orange groves. Th The rich mines of Shasta County are as | inviting to the pick as is a green apple to 8 girl’s tooth. benefit a corporation to n 1 rivals and come What does it evade compe into opposition with law The old “‘cry” that has been for so longa feature of literature is now coming with strident emphasis out of Macedonia. The “steerers’” and “cappers’’ who haunt the corridors of the City Hall are not the o pests who thrive under that roof. As Lamont says he was not “looking for ghosts” on his Western trip, we may infer be has lost all hope of resurrecting Cleve- land. Windstorms and cloudbursts in Indiana o nature’s clamorous protests dence anywhere outside Cali- The proposition to manufacture a fuel from peat and petroleum is another step toward the solution of the coal problem in s can hardly be expected to practice conspicuous honesty until they have first cultivated a reasonable lack of mrrogance. In the matter of street sweeping, the Merchants’ Association and Superintend- ent Ashworth might make their competi- tion a species of co-operation. There is enough dairying done in Hum- boldt to enable Eureka to receive her vis- itors not with the milk of human kindness but the cream of hospitality. The most extraordinary situation in rope is presented in the denunciatory r which the widow of the murdered mbuloff is pointing at Prince Ferdinand. The only thing that giyes any appear- ance of reality to the talk of nominating Cleveland for a third term is the fact that Democracy has no other candidate in sight. it would be a profitable thing for the Market-street Railroad to change its sys- tem of doing business so as to make its extensions hereafter in accordance with the law. The people of the south side of town are not making a great deal of noiseat present, but they are doing more real work than the residents of all the rest of the City put together. It is somewhat surprising to read in the report of the Park Commissioners that a pine forest in that retreat of perfectly wholesome air is needed to “purify the atmosphere.” t is to be hoped that the co-operative scheme of the Mayors of Stockton, San Jose and Oakland to advertise their cities in the East will kindly omit reference to our Solid Eight. Active work on the Valley road has be- gun. Within thirty days three miles of track will be ready for the rails, and after that it won’t be long before Stockton hears the whistle blow. It will be interesting to observe whether Oakland will reduce the Southern Pacific Company’s assessment, and whether it will display as much ingenuity in the mat- ter as Sacramento. One of the best signs of a wise desire to restore prosperity is seen in the readiness with which many employers of labor are engaging the men who register at the State Free Labor Bureau. The fact that Santa Clara County is talk- ing of raising $20.000 to advertise her fruit industry shows how great the industry has become, and how capable the people are of handling it to advantage. The SBuperintendent of Streets has taken a long step toward retrieving his extra- ordinary’ position of antagonism for the Merchants’ Association by seeking the ad- vice and assistance of President Dohrmann. In attempting to get work for the unem- ployed, Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald has undertaken a ditficult task and ought to find cordial assistance from the employing class, for if it can be made successful the work will be one of great benefit to the Btate, A GREAT REDISCOVERY. Very striking evidence of the imperfec- tion of early mining methods in Califor- nia was given by an exhaustive article in yesterday’s CALL setting forth the wonder- ful advances that are being made in Plu- mas County. The tremendous excitement caused by the discovery of gold in that part of the State in the early '50's makes one of the most dramatic chapters in the history of California. Here and there, where the elements had worked a denuda- tion of the great lava flow which Lassens Peak had sent pouring down into the vast | basin which was afterward upheaved to form the western flank of the Sierra Ne- vada, prospectors found rich placer gold, | and there ensued the usual rus of miners and settlers and the uprearing of mush- room towns. When the partial working of surface diggings had led to poorer gravel the boom began to subside, and its end was completed by the fires which almost invariably finish the destruction of evan- escent mining camps. All this time the formidable capping of lava remained intact upon the rich gold- bearing beds of the prehistoric river. For countless ages before the eruption of Lassen this stately stream, grander than the Mississippi, has been flowing from some undetermined point in the far north, and it, or another following its general course, has been traced as far as the Mexi- can line. Wherever its ancient bed has been uncovered the richest gold-bearing gravel in the world has been found. It has been only within the last six years that the real secret of the old river has been learned, so far as its presence in Plumas County is concerned. Experts in geology were sent to study it, and they reported that in all probability the super- imposed masses of basalt covered treasures with which those in the exposed parts that were worked forty years ago could not compare. It required some courage to invest millions of doltars in tunnels and shafts to reach the old bed, but this was done, and the result has surpassed the highest expectations of the geologists who vredicted that gold would be found. And so Plumas County is giving the most eloquent proof of the fact that in all likelihood but an infinitesimal part of the gold which the soil of Califorma contains has ever been taken from it, and that as the years pass the discoveries and develop- ments ill grow in magnitnde. For | Plumas is only one of the numerous coun- ties lying in the trend of the mysterious old rivers that existed long before the Sierra were born. Where lies the vast original store of gold which it dragged from place and brought down to us may never be determined; but it is sufficient to know that the gold is here and that it is simply a matter of investing sufficient capital to find it and reap the rich rewards of its discovery. The great development of the mining industry in Plumas is most important in itself, and, extensive though it is, it is likely only a beginning in that region. An equally important aspect of the situa- tion 1s the lesson which it teaches with regard to gold mining generally. "This in- dustry is now in the beginning of a re- naissance which, when it is fully devel- oped, will throw into the shade the wonderful fame which the State enjoyed from the original discovery of the precious metal here. And there is not in all Christendom a stronger inducement for the investment of capital than there is to-day in the mining regions of the western Sierra slope. JAMES G. KENNEDY. The election of James G. Kennedy to the office of principal of the Normal School is a matter of more than ordinary gratifi- cation to all who are interested in the ed- ucational affairs of the City, and it is pleasing to note that his fitness for the place was so well recognized by the Board of Education that the selection was made by the strong majority of nine to three. Mr. Kennedy, in addition to his long ex- perience in educational work, is a born educator. He has the faculty of arousing in young minds an ambition to succeed and a genuine enthusiasm for learning. His force of character serves as a stimulus to those who come under its influence and enables him to control and direct his stu- dents, not only by the enforcement of a just discipline, but by awakening an ardor for study and the performance of school duties; so that in all schools where he bas been engaged he has been regarded by his pupils with a degree of loyalty that is rarely felt by young people for those in authority over them. Another faculty of importance to one who aspires to be a great teacher is pos- sessed by Mr. Kennedy. This is the faculty of continuing himself to be a studentanda learner in the wide field of educational work. His broad well-balanced mind is receptive to every right influence and has been growing continnally in its mastery of the complex problems of the profession he follows. There is not a stagnant idea in hismind. He not only leads others for- ward but goes forward himself, andisa successful teacher because he is so faithful and earnest a student in the art of teach- ing. Mr. Kennedy will bring to the work of his new office a mind ripened by the expe- rience of many years in various kinds of educational duties. His services in this city in connection with the Cogswell School and more lately as principal of the Franklin Grammar School are familiar to all who have paid any attention to our school work. The Board of Education, therefore, made no leap in the dark in electing him to the Normal School. He has been tried by many tests and never found wanting. His work is known. His reputeis established. Noman in the State is better fitted to preside over the Normal, and the school and students will be sure to profit by the choice. A SERIOUS LOSS. It.will probably not be at once that the Southern Pacific Company will realize the extent of the loss which it has suffered in the death of A. N. Towne. If ever a great corporation needed the influence of such a man as he, it is the one most hated by our people to-day. His wasa strange character. Evidently animated by a kindly and generous instinct, he was nevertheless one of the most efficient servants of the com- pany; and this means that he was an efficient instrumentality in carrying out the company’s policy. We all know what that is and always has been; but those who knew Mr. Towne well, cherished a belief that his wisdom and kindliness, and his evident appreciation of the ethical re- lations to the public which his powerful employers bore, were tolerated, if not con- doned, by them in view of the masterful ability which he displayed in directing the practical operations of the company, and that had it not been for him matters might have been much worse than they were. ‘With one exception (and thatisT. H. Goodman, the general passenger agent) he is the last one of the “old guard” for whom the very large number of operatives thrown in contact with him cherish a deep personal regard, and surely no better test of char- acter than that can be fonnd. It means that the humanities were large, free and I active within him, and this carries with it an explanation of the respect and confi- dence which the better part of the business community bestowed upon him. There is an abiding feeling that within the limits of his power he was the friend of the people, and that if his power had been greater the company would not have pur- sued a course which has blackened the nistory of California with innumerable scandals. And sq it is that his death has fallen upon the State as the removal of a hope and stay. Beginning life under the hardest condi- tions and denied the advantages of an education, he nevertheless became an im- portant factor in the management of one of the most powerful institutions in the country; and that he so governed his con- duct as to retain the admiration and corfi- dence even of those who mistrusted his employers means that his character was of an uncommonly high order. His private life was clean and admirable, and his whole career is an eloquent illustration of the opportunities which all young men enjoy in our country to practice that fidel- ity to their employers and observe those obligations to society which lift them irom the ranks. THE EUREKA CARNIVAL From the results attained on the open- ing day, it is evident the carnival at Eureka will be one of the most successful and enjoyable of the brilliant series of fetes that has made the year notable to pleasure-seekers in California. Little doubt can be entertained that the succeeding days will be as gay as the first, and that all who are fortunate enough to be present will forever hereafter rank Eureka among the most aftractive festival cities in the State. The success of the carnival will be the more notable and the more pleasing be- cause heretofore Eureka has not been widely known as a pleasure resort. It is not on the line of tourist travel, nor does it attract many holiday visitors. In ar- ranging the festival, therefore, the people of Eureka have had none of those ad- vantages derived from the almost con- tinual presence of tourists and pleasure- seekers, which have been of such assistance to Los Angeles, Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara. What has been done at Eureka is, in the fullest sense, a local triumph, and will have the effect of giving to the city, and, indeed, to the whole county, a prestige it never had before. There is no reason in the nature of things why Humboldt should not be as ateractive to tourists and pleasure-seekers as Los Angeles. The north coast of Cali- fornia is as rich in charm and beauty as the south coast. The scenery presents an infinite variety of picturesque beauty, the climate is agreeable, and the opportunities for sport and pleasure are numerous. Eureka has done well in holding a car- nival on ascale large enough to attract public attention to its advantages of this kind, and good resulis are sure to follow. At first sight it may seem ot little advan- tage to a locality to be known as a place of pleasure resort, but it requires very little study to see that thisview is deceptive. The Americans are rapidly becoming an esthetic people. Some of the most flour- ishing places in the Union owe their pros- perity mainly to the attractions they have for tourists ana holiday visitors, No locality having any natural charm of this kind can afford to overlookit. Itcounts among the valuable resources of the com- munity, and in the long run Eureka will find that in devising her brilliant carnival with its pageants and its sports, she has done a good stroke of business as well as made a pleasant holiday. OUR SAVINGS BANKS. The tabulated report of the Bank Com- missioners on the business and condition of the savings banks of the City is exceed- ingly encouraging so far as the banks are concerned, for it shows that they were never sounder and that they have a very large amount of money on hand. Thus we find that the reserve fund in the aggregate has increased $1,000,000 since January 1 and that the deposits have increased $1,100,000 in the same time. There has been a decrease in loans on real estate to the amount of §632,000, and an increase of $400,000 in loans on stocks, bonds and war- rants. There has been an increase of near- 1y $34,000 in real estate holdings by the banks, but we are not informed by the re- port whether this was acquired or how. However flattering to the condition of the banks themselves, the showing is not good for the business of the City. Itshows that too much money is going into tnem instead of improvements, and that too little is being borrowed for investment and improvements. In other words con- fidence is not yet fully restored. It is true that some of the most important improve- ments in the history of the City are now going forward and are soon to begin, but they are the work of wealthy persons who have little or no use for savings banks. The report indicates that those of sméller means generally prefer to draw a small interest on a bank deposit and feel per- fectly secure than run any risk of mortgag- ing for improvements which may not turn out to be productive. In spite of the fact that real estate values are low and that there are many vacant houses of the cheaper kind in the City, it is noticeable that the more modern houses and those kept in the best repair are gen- erally occupied at an excellent rental. It is the vacant old houses that give the City so bad an appearance, When we observe such wealthy persons as the Parrotts and Claus Spreckels buying gilt-edge property and erecting thereon buildings which run into the millions for construction we have the best possible indication of confidence in the City—an example that those of smaller means cannot afford to ignore. FPERSONAL. Dr. G. W. Wood of the navy is at the Califor- nia. Assemblyman R. I Thomas of Nevada City is & guest at the Lick. Major J. R. Houghton, & capitalist of Chico, is staying at the Lick. E. P. Rogers and R. Drohn, railroad men of Portland, are at the Palace. R. C. Kuhn, a leading fruit-shipper of San Jose, is staying at the Palace. J. Flamant of the Bulletin has gone %o Parls, France, for an extended visit. 8. H. Rice, an attorney of Ukiah, came down yesterday and put up at the Grand. Silas Carle, a contractor of Sacramento, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Lick. R. M. Green, a merchant and mine-owner of Oroville, registered yesterday at the Grand. H. 8. Kirk, a leading wholesale merchant of Sacramento, and Mrs. Kirk, are at the Lick. Jesse D. Carr, capitalist, a well-known Demo- cratic politician of Salinas,is & guest at the Occidental. L. T. Hatfield, a well-known attorney of Sac- ramento and memberof the Assembly, was one of yesterday's arrivals at the Lick. Juan L. Marshall, a prominent merchant of Guaymas, Mexico, came into the City yester- day and registered at the Occidental. George E. P. Hull, the Turkish Consul, whose house was burned down early yesterday morn- ing, is, with his family, at the California. Massachusetts is one of the richest of the ‘Btates, having a valuation of real and sonal property amounting to $i,584,756,820. CIS 30 CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1895. BACK TO THE LAND. WILL 8, GREEN ADVOCATES THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PUBLIC FARMS. _ The matter of caring for the unemployed, of baving, in fact, no unemployed, is so easy of accomplishment, so inexpensive, that there is no excuse for having that army of the idle. While organized society has a right to defend itself against the vicious and the willfully idle by measures sufficiently stringent for the ac- complishment of the end, even to the taking of life, it has duties to perform that must be performed in a satisfactory manner before claim can be 1aid to a high civilization. By far the most important of these duties is to see to it that no man or woman shall suffer for the necessaries of life for want of an opportunity toearn them. Let justice be done and there will be small use for charity. The State of California is capable of feeding and clothing the whole present population of North America, and yet there are men and women here who have no opportunity to earn their bread. There are many who would not earn it if they had the opportunity, but this is 1o excuse for not giving that opportunity to those who would work. Those who would not should be summarily deslt with, even to the extent of the death penalty. To accomplish this much-desired end it is not necessary to enter into the realm of social- ism or of paternalism in the Government. “The earth and the fullness thereof” was given 0 men to subsist upon, and it was not in- tended by the good giver, be that-giver the personal God of the Christian or the ‘“‘nature” of the agnostic, that any one man, willing to apply the sweat of his brow, should be de- prived of the opportunity to reach forth his hand and partake of that fullness. It is through agriculture, through the process of planting the seed and watching and caring for the plant until it seed again, that sub- sistence comes to all; to those not engaged in that pursuit as well as those so engaged. Its results are certain or can be made very nearly 80. The spirit of chance-taking, of speculation, that is necessarily a part of nearly every busi- ness, except agriculture, kept the world mov- ng; but it has driven men from the plow; it has entered the domain of agriculture and has robbed it of its better qualities; it has dis- placed the rural home with the great landed estate; it has sought to monopolize the earth, the source to which everyliving creature must look for life; it has made the tramp, the army of unemployed; itisthe mainspring of prog- Tess, yet the source of a great evil. While this spirit of adventure, or, in plain English, this gambling manta, may not, should not, be checked all along the line of human ac- tion, its hand should pe stayed, its power abridged, when it touches agriculture, or those things upon which agriculture depends. For thirty years I have been fighting against the possibility of the monopoly of so important an adjunct to agriculture as water, and from this fight came the district frrigation law, imper- fect as itis, and against which the monopoly or gambling instinct seems to rebel. Now then: ‘The people on this earth own the earth, and collectively have a right so to control it as that it shall produce the maximum of those things necessary to human existence. No body of men calling itself the government can so usurp the functions of government as to grant the soil to anybody except for use; except under an arrangement to have it put to its highest use. In arguing the hydraulic mining ques- tion T have endeavored to show that California —the corporate body of the name—could not afford to have any one acre of land destroyed for many times the market value of the acre; could not afford to have all her acres destroyed for billions of gold, any more than & man could afford to have gll the members of his body, and finally his head, cut away for gold. The land 18 the very anatomy of the State. The same argument applies to the practice of allowing large bodies of land to be held from use, or even held from their highest use. Sup- pose every acre of 1and in this great State put to its highest use? How many ships, how many railroads, would be required to handle the commerce? How many men to do the necessary menufacturing? We could have here all the present population of this conti- nent and no one need go to bad hungry. There is no better way of starting the stream of human energy back into its proper and wholesome channels than by directing the army of the unemployed right back to the fountain whence flows the life current of all humanity. The process is simple; it is easy of accoraplishment, and will not only solve the unemployed problem, but will give an impetus back toward the farm that will be worth more than the cost; but the cost will be small. One acre of 1and can be made to feed bounti- fully more than five adult persons. Five per- sons working three hours a day on an acre can bring it to this production. Suppose, then, every county in the State had a farm upon which any one might go to earn a temporary living. On 100 acres 500 persons could make all they could eat. How many counties would have 500 if all had & farm? How easy to get 10 acres. The cost would be so trifling as to amount to nothing. The land and necessary buildings once secured, there would be no after-cost—the thing would run fitself. San Francisco ought to have 1000 acres; the other countiesshould have from 100 up to say 500, according to population. This farm should not in any sense be a ‘“poor farm.” There should be no tincture of charity connected with it. Any man with or without money should feel at liberty to go there while temporarily out of work. Let the young man who has saved s few hundred dollars feel that he can go there, deposit his money in the safe and go to work earning his living instead of spending his savings. Let it be emphatically a home for those temporarily out of work—nothing more. Within & few years these farms would be highly improved and each year would see added fertility to the soil. Here would be an opportunity offered to make an independent living—a living with no shadow of charity in it. After the opportunity shall thus be given, if any man shall still insist on making a nuisance of himself by being idle put him in the chaingang and make him break rock on the roads, and feed him on meal and water— but first give the opportunity. We have no right to condemn any men—no right to call any one a tramp or any other hard name—until we have given that man an opportunity to earnan honestliving. I know that as good men as you or I dare be have gone hungry in this great State of unbcunded resources, end all for the lack of an opportunity to apply the sweat of the brow to the problem of life. And after we get these farms going; after we can say that no man in this great California is hungry because of a lack of opportunity, we may look around ana ask why it may not be that there shall be an opportunity for each to earn more than bread. This inquiry may lead in the direction of the single tax, but, for one, Iam prepared to follow any thread that will lead out of the dark labyrinth into which we have drifted. ‘WILL 8. GREEN. San Francisco, July 18, 1895. PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION. D. ALLISON POINTS OUT A WAY TO ELECT GOOD MEN. Editor Call—S1R: In an editorial in to-day's Ca1y, under the heading “Harcourt’s Defeat,” yousay: “Since we cannot adopt the British system of giving a defeated leader a chance to geta seat from a safe constituency, it would seem the first thing for an able man to do who wishes a political career is to settle in some State where the people vote the same ticket right along.” Hardly, Mr. Editor. The first thing for such a man to do—supposing him to be honest—is to set about reforming our sys- tem of representation, which is admittedly worse than the ‘‘rotten” borough system of Great Britain, Seeing the results of a repre- sentative system that does not represent and under which it is impossible to have any- thing but misrepresentation, that permits & gang of petty scheming rascals (the product of the system and the property of a boss) to so manipulate political boundaries as to get the most dishonest results from & system essen- tially dishonest—it seems to me that his first duty would be to attack the system. If his honesty be not sufficient for this effort, I sup- pose he might materially advance his personal interests by inflicting himself on & community sufficiently stupia to have but one economic or political creed. The remedy for our misrepresentation that sends to our National and local legislatures political nobodies, or worse, instead ot McKin- l':yn and Wilsons, is proportional representa- on. With the Hare method of this system in op- eration a popular man could not be defeated. His election would not depend upon his ““wading through the mire and filth of a paliti- cal campaign” and pandering to the worst ele- ments among the voters. It would secure to all parties a just representation in the halls of legislation, practically eliminate the boss, and s0 elevate the moral tone of politics that repu- table citizens, instead of shunning it, would accept public office as an honorable distinc- tion. D. ALLISON. OFINIONS OF EDITORS. California bankers do not think the way that the Wall-street sharks want them to. Out of thirteen bank presidents interviewed in this State only three favored the maintenance of the present gold standard.—Los Angeles Record. This would be a pretty rocky old world for the most of us if all were actuated by the spirit of frugality, wasted nothing, and bought only what their aetual necessities demanded. Let us be thankful, men and brethren, for the ‘weakness of the flesh.—Tulare Register. Counting from the Fourth of July there are but twenty months more of this Cleveland administration. Blissful thought! Having lived out twenty-eight of the forty-eight months and three bond issues the country will somehow make & pucker to get through the remainder of the term.—Albuquerque (N. Mex.) Citizen. You can make up your mind that notwith- standing the blue ruin that has been threat- ening the country for more than a hundred years, our children and our children’s children and so on ad infinitum will find this a pretty good sort of & land to live in, though each suc- cessive generation will be firmly satisfied that things are going from bad to worse all the time.—Seattle Times. How does it become any concern of the indig- nant preachers of Chicago to what use Mrs. Stanford puts the money derived from the sale of Vina brandy? Those preachers can find & subject for the exercise of their indignant elo- quence nearer home than California. Money derived from licenses for the sale of liquor in the State of Ilinois goes to support the public schools of that State. Fines for ordinary mis- demeanor also go into the school fund. Would they think the public schools of Chicago nnfit for Chnistian youth on that sccount?—Stock- ton Independent. Work should not be allowed to lag on the bringing of the great National nominating conventions to California. San Franciscoisthe ideal convention city. There is & superabun- dance of hotel accommodations. The summers are cool and pleasant. No sweltering nights there. Railroadand telegraph and steamerand streetcar facilities are all of the best. San Francisco can have at least one of the conven- tions if her people will bestir themselves and keep everlastingly at it.—Redlands Citrograph. The interests of the laboring men of the United States need a little protection, and the only way they get'any at all is to keep out for- eign laborers, who might, if not prevented, come here by the thousand under contracts which would virtually make them subjects of the corporations and trusts. There is a grow- ing number of people every year who favor shutting the gates against all foreign laborers for a given number of years, if not forever.— Fresno Expositor. THE INTERIOR PRESS. The Redlands Citrograph has begun its sev- enteenth volume. It bears a prosperous look and is not onlya well-edited paper, but a model of neatness and good taste ina typo- graphical sense. Its editor, Scipio Craig, de- clares that the Citrograph will devote its whole attention to exploiting the natural re- sources of that locality, “believing more firmiy than ever that Redlands is the best all-the- year-round locality on earth.” The Oroville Mercury is now thirteen years old. Itis one of the prominentand influential interior dailies, and has done good work in ad- vancing the interests of Oroville and Butte County. The Mercury expresses great faith in a prosperous future for that city and county. The Colusa Herald has exhibited commend- able enterprise in publishing a souvenir edi tion, containing an excellent bird's-eye view of Colusa County and & number of fine illustra- tions of towns, ranches aud public and private buildings in that county. The Stockton Record has been compelled to increase its size to meet the demands of its growing patronage. The Record has done re- markably well. It is only three monthsold and yet it boasts of the confidence and support of a wide-awake community in which two other enterprising dailies flourish. N. B, Shurtleff and A.F. Bremer have pur- chased a half interest in the Weaverville Jour- nal, and in company with the late sole proprie- tor, 8. L. Blake, propose that the Journal shall “become more than ever the exponentof the life, welfare, industry and best interests of the county.” - The Redlander is the name of a bright little paper published by Fay G. Flint and A. H. Corman, and which succeeds the Redlands Cricket, upon which itis a decided improve- ment in appearance as well as in name. HOME MANUFACTURES. The great need of this Pacific Coast country is manufactures, and they can only be encour- aged by the success of those already estab- lished. Purchase of articles made in this eity means employment for our mechanics, clerks and storekeepers. Emplfbyment for them fur- nishes the means of paying rent and buying more of the necessaries of life. By all means encourage the local manufacture of all com- modities.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The manufacturers of San Franelsco are try- ing to work up a demand for their goods by appealing to the patriotism of the people of the const. While they are doing this, however, the Eastern manufacturers are advertising in the coast papers and are selling their wares in a market that could be controlled by San Francisco if the business men of that town ‘would only profit by the methods employed by their competitors in the East. There are said to be 8000 manufacturing establishments in California, but it would puzzle any man in the San Joaquin Vslley to name a half dozen of them.—Visalia Times. SAID IN JEST. “PFolks,” said Uncle Eben, “am naturally selfish. It’s hah’d foh er man ter re’lize dat anybpdy else feels de hot weddah ez much ez he do.’—Washington Star. He read his doom in her look. ¢“No hope,” he muttered. He trembled and grew sick at heart. “No hope.” As in duty bound, he went and told the man- ager he couldn’t possibly pitch winning ball if he had to face that spectacled girl with the 450-volt glare.~Detroit Tribune. $Cannot we become one?” he pleaded ear- nestly. “That depends,” replied the new girl “Which one?"'—Life. ¥ First New Woman—That's a rotten ecigar you're smoking, Maude. Becond New Woman—Yes, my husband gave me a box of'em for Christmas, butif Idon’t smoke ’em it will break his heart.—Detroit News. Mrs. de Goode—What did the minister preach against to-day? Mr. de Goode (wearily)—He preached against time.—New York Weekly. Ethel (aged 4)—Did you kndw Adam named all the animals ? Frances (aged 3)—Did he name the elephant? Ethel—0f course he did. Frances (sfter s wondering panse)—How did he name the elephant? Ethel (in a superior tone)—Why, I suppose he looked at the elephant, and he said, “I think you look just like an elephant, and I guess I'll cell you—elephant.” That's the way he did it.—Harper's Bazar. . A New York Complication—*Hi, there!" ex- claimed Jimmy Burgle. “Whet's the matter?” asked his fellow- Pprisoner. “De warden’s locked hisself in and lost his keys. He wants you an’me ter help git'im out.”—Washington Star. “How do you like your new home?”’ asked the old resident of Hoxemyille. “I'm getting more and more stuck on it every minute,” said the new settler, struggling through the mud in his front yard.—Phila- delphia Record. ¢ THE QUERY COLUMN. THE MOTHER SHIPTON PROPHECY—A.S., City The following is the Mother Shipton prophecy, published in 1485: Carriages without horses shali €0, And accidents fill the world with woe. ‘Around the world thoughts shall iy In the twinkling of an eve. Waters shall yet more wonders do, Now strange, yet shall be true. The world upside down shall be, And gold be found at roof’s tree. Through bills man sball ride And no horse nor ass be at his side. Under water man shall walk, Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk. In the air man shall be seen In white, in black, in green. Iron in the water shall float As easy as a wooden boat. Gold shall be found 'mid stone In aland that's now unknown, Fire and water shall wonders do, England shall at last admit a Jew. And this world to an end shall come In eighteen hundred and elghty-one. ARCHITECTURE—M. J. 8., City. To become an architect the party wishing to learn that pro- fession should indenture with an architect. If living in'this City he should do so with one Wwho is a member of the San Francisco Chapter of the American Architects. The first year the student will have to work without compensa- tion, the second year the pay is $5 & month, then it increases and aiter the fourth year his services will command a good price.” During the four years he can attend a course of in- struction given under the auspices of the San Francisco Chapter, which among other things include lessons in geometrical and flat, as weil as ornamental, drawing. FATHER'S NATURALIZATION—S., City. Ifa for- eigner comes to the United States and brings minor children with him and becomes a citi- zen during the minority of those chiidren, chat acvof the father makes the childrencitizens of the State in which he received his final papers and of the United States. That being the case, the children would not, after becomfng of age have to apply for “‘citizen’s papers.” SAvINGS BANK Linit—J. J. H,, C!ty. Insome of the Btatesof the Union the amount of money that any savings bank may accept from an in- dividual depositor is regulated bf law, but in California no such law exisis. In this City each bank, through its directors, names the amounnt of depusits 1t will receive from & de- positor. BEAUTIFUL SNow—S., “City. You can find a copy of J. W. Waison’s “Beautiful Snow” in the Free Library of this City. The Query Column cannot reproduce it. To BHANGHAI—Mrs, M. G., City. It takes the mails from 22 to 23 days to go from San Fran- eisco to Shanghai. The distance by the short- est mail route is 6740 miles. MARY ANDERSON—)L., Cornwall, Contra Costa, Cal. Mary Anderson, the actress, is not dead. OUT-OF-TOWN PERSONALS. Monterey, Cal., July 18.—The following are the San Francisco arrivals for the past week at the Hotel del Monte: Mrs. M. B. M. Toland, Mr. and Mrs. D. T, Murphy, C. R. Hansen, Miss Carrie Taylor, W. Morgan, Mrs. Mears, C. H. Morgan, General and_ Mrs. J. H. Williamson, Mr. and Mrs. B. Hart, Mr.and Mrs. L. Michaels, Mrs. R. Cayne, Mrs, McKinstry, Mrs. L. Casserly, Miss Frances McKinstry, Miss Casserly, Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Hoe, Mrs. 3.D. Yost, M1s. H. H. Seaton, Paul Yost, Mr. and Mrs.’J. D. Fry, Miss Alice Greenbaui, E. D. Piexotto, Mrs. F. Thorp, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Barnett, Master Thorp, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. ‘an Seuden, Dr. and Mrs. V. J. Stearns, J. H. vilder, Mrs. P, Davis, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Pope, Miss Dayis, Mrs. A. J. Pope, Richard Hellman, Mrs. R. C. Woolworth, Miss Woolworth. Some of the army officers and_their ladies now stationed here are: General Forsyth and the Misses Williamson, Colonel Shaiter, Colonel Young, Colonel Patterson, Captain O’Connell, Lieutenant and Mrs. Bell, Lieutenant and Mrs. Starr, Mrs. McCormick, Lieutenant and Mrs. Kirkman, Lieutenant and Mrs. Detchmendy, Lieutenants Landis, Rondiez, Green, Winm, Kuhn, Faison, Cloman, Kilburm, Croxton, Noble, Craiton, Kilbourne, Wilcox, Brant, Bent, Binns, Ferris. Sausalito, July 18.—The following are regis- tered at the El Monte: J. P. Herndon and wife, H. 8. Judah, J. Foley and wife, J. P. McElroy and wife, John J. Cassidy, Captain J. Lee, Julian Harries, A. C. Hirschfeld, George H. Luce, Miss F. C. Aiken, C. 8. Aiken, Mrs. D. Roberts and family, Mrs. E.F. Flemming, Miss May G. Tarpey 4. L. Brown, Dr. Trask, Mrs. Wolft and chiid, Mrs. R. W. Hent, Miss Corrinne Barry, Miss K. Stepheus, W. I. Rosenblatt, mum;llsxm n, Miss Kate Riley, Miss Lily Meader, Mrs. J. Wal- ter, R. B. Rothschila, C. E. Eagan, Mrs. S. Korn and family, Mrs. J. Folger, 8. W, Dixon and family, R. B. Smnxnm, ¥. W, Reade, S. K. Overgaarde, C. W. Edgecumbe, E. L. Yanke, B. E. Boyns, J. C. Msgee, Mrs. Danziger and fam- 1ly, Miss L. Manning and Miss Gertrude Walter. Hotel Metropole, Avalon, Catalina, Cal., July 16, 1895.—George A. Beam, San Bernardino; W. F. Taylor, Southern Pacific Company, San Francisco; J. D. Simpson, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Sessions, Los Angeles; Mrs. E. E. Hathaway, Julia M. Patton, Colorado City; Mrs. Luella Smith, Mrs. Elizabeth Reene, San Jose; F. H. Lowe &nd family, Pasadena. New York, N. Y., July 18.—The Californians registered at the hotels to-day were: San Francisco—Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Booth, Fifth . I, Harrold, Coleman;; R. B. Mitchell, Astol 0. Peck, Holland; H. Saro, Morton House, California—Miss M. Hull, Park avenue; E. B. Crane, Broadway Central. Otto, Everett. Santa Bar- bara, Dr. G. BIOGRAPHY IN PARAGRAPHS, Richard Reddicks, a colored man of Pitts- ‘burg, says he is 130 years of age. He claims to have seen General Washington. The Duke de Morny, it is said, kas spent $60,000 in fitting up & wandering photograph studio and proposes to take 1,000,000 photo- graphs in a few week: Captain R. R. Rice, a noted turfman and Arkansas cotton-planter, has whiskers so long that they extend below hisknees and endanger" his equilibrium when he gets excited. Prince Oscar of Prussia, the young son of the Emperor, had his first tooth pulled the other day. Itwas the birthday of his English gov- erness, and among other presents he sent the tooth to the lady as a gift. Thomas McKean of Philadelphia has given $50,000 to the Unlversity of Pennsylvania in Tesponse to Provost Harrison’s appeal for $5,000,000 for buildings, equipment and en- dowment. This is Mr. McKean’s second con- tribution, as he gave an equal amount a few months ago. The gift is without restrictions. Fusataro Tokano thinks the contentment of the lower classes of Japanese a great misfor- tune. Their artistic simplicity, which for- elgners admire, he considers a great obstacle to progress, and he thinks it the imperative duty of Japanese friends of humanity to sgitate until Japanese labor becomes as discontented as American. Descartes’ works are to be published in a complete edition for the first time by a com- mittee of French scholars, aided by the Gov- ernment. Prinung will begin next year, and, itis hoped, will be finished by 1900. The com- mittee nsks for help in collecting copies of let- ters and manuscripts preserved in public libraries and private collections. Among the treasures in Lord Rosebery’s house are a mantelpiece from Reubens’ house, the chandeliers from the Doge’s palace and tapestries that belonged to Cardinal Mazarin. These were Rothschild treasures, and on the death of Baron Meyer de Rothschild in 1874 they came into the possession of Hannah de Rothschild, Lord Rosebery’s wife. Mr. Arthur James Balfour is not the onl noteworthy member of his family. His eoldel{ brother, Frank, says the Boston Transeript, who was, perhaps, the ablest of the family, had made such a reputation at thirty as a biologist that a special professorship was established at Cambridge for him, and after his death, which was caused by a fall in the Alps, a scholarship was founded in his name. There are two brothers now living; one, Geraid Baliour, who has just been made Chief Secretary for Ireland, wes for seven years a fellow of Cambridge, where he studied philosophy; the other, Eus- tace, has go iar done nothing remarkable. Both these brothers are members of Parliament and politicians, The oldest sister is the wife ot Professor 8idgwick, the economist, and is pres ident of Newnham College and one of the best known women in England. She founded that college, and has been its president for three years, teaching mathematics, in which she takes very high rank. Another sister is also a fine mathematictan; she is the wife of Lord Rayleigh, the scientist and discoverer of argon, and helps her husband in his researches and his mathematical investigations. A third sis- ter is the housekeeper, friend and companion of the leader of the Commons, and is & woman of fine intellect and scholarship. BERNAL RANCHO TITLES A Supreme Court Decision in One of the OIld Time Land Fights. . THE LAW OF BOUNDARY LINES. Justice Harrison on Rights of Grant= ors and Grantees Along Tidal Streams. The Supreme Court yesterday handed down a decision in the case of A. C. Free- man et al. vs. Bellegarde etal. to quiet title to lands in the Bernal Rancho. The judgment of the lower court in favor of Freeman has been affirmed, except as it related to two of the defendants, Thomas and Luty, for whom a new trial is olrdered. This action is to determine the right to the portions of the land between the south shore of Islais Creek and the bed of the stream. The stream empties into San Francisco Bay and the water ebbs and flows for some distance above its mouth. At the line of the disputed land nearest the bay the creek is 300 feet wide at ordi- nary tides, and the point that is c‘overed and uncovered by the tides has a width of 150 feet between the bank of the stream and the ordinary low-water line. At high tide the water nearest the bay isabout three feet deep, and at a point below the lands in controversy there 1s at low tide no water in the creek, thus rendering the creek a mere basin which is filled and emptied by the ebb and flow of the tide. e patent_for the Bernal ranch covers the bed of Islais Creek and the land on both banks. The title of the plaintiffs was derived by them through foreclosure of a mortgage given by the Bernals to J. Mora Moss and a subsequeni conveyance from the grantees of Moss to John Hewston. The litigation was about the construction of descriptions given in the mortgage. Showing that the center line of the creek is the proper boundary in the case, Justice Harrison thus expounds thes law: The call in the mortgage {0 mouth of creek” rendered the thread of the creek the boundary of theland mortgaged. In the absence of any qualifying term, the designation in & convey- ance of any physical object or monument as a boundary 1mplies the middle or central of such boundary; as, for instance, i boundary be a road or highway or a stream, the thread of the road or stream will be in- tended. A private grant isto be interpreted in favor of the grantee,and if the grantor is the owner of the monument or boundary des- ignated in his grant, his conveyance will be held to extend to the middleline or central voint of such monument or boundary.. This rule is not changed by reason of the fact thata stream which is designated as & boun- dary isa tidal stream, if the grantor of the land is the owner of the bed of such stream. * * * The title to the beds of tidal streams is ordinarily vested in the sovereign, and in such a case a grant from the sovereign will be con- strued to extend only to high-water mark, when the grant is bounded by tidal waters. A grant from the soverelgn is t0 be interpreted in avor of the grantor, contrary to the rule for interpreting grants to privaté individuals; but if, as in the present cage, the sovereign has parted with the title to the land beneath the stream & grant of the riparian lands by the owner must receive the same construction as & grant by him of any other riparian lands. | After reviewing the details of the specific case under consideration, Justice Harrison continues: The term *“‘shore” in its ordinary use signi« fies the land is periodically covered and un- covered by the tide, but it is sometimesapplied toa river or pond as synonymous with bank. In the absence of any gualification, a grant bounded by the “shore” of & river, when the rantor is the owner of the river, conveys the d up to the lowest point of the shore at an time, order that the grantes may at il times have access to the stream by wimh the land is bounded. 1t is competent, however, for the grantor to 80 designate the line on the shore which shall constitute the boundll? that there shall be no uncertainty in its location, and in such case the line of high or low water mark would be immaterial in determining the extent of the grant. Many property-owners are concerned in the decision of the case that has called for this expression of the law, but the Superior Court conclusions are maintained except in the cases of Thomas and Luty. The claims of these men are not founded on the Bernal grant to Moss. 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