The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 30, 1895, Page 6

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Tt looks as if the octopus had the State in commi: All that the Railroad Commission does is to make more tal After this we may as well call Boston the Hub of Hospitality. It is the ship-owner who is careless, but the sailor who loses his life. How would it do to have a competing Board of Railroad Commissioners? It was a wise teacher who told the world: “If the tree yields no fruit cut 1t down.” As a farce of the day the Railroad Com- mission is equal to three ‘‘brass monkeys.” In addition to the burden of monopoly the people must also bear the burden of proof. Stanton’s pledge seems to have had a- mental reservation as big as a railroad reservation. Commissioner Clark sees his oppor- tunity, but evidently intends to pass on the other side. So long asthe Republican party holds Clark and Democracy holds Stanton honors are easy. It is hard to tell what the Railroad Com- mission wants, but, whcnever‘ve find it, we find it wanting. The sooner you go to the Mechanics’ Fair the sooner you will have an oppor- tunity to repeat the visit. If the commission cannot abolish the cinch of the monopoly the people can at least abolish the commission. As the Country Club has celebrated a “pink day,” it is a reasonable supposition that the night was painted red. The loss of the Bawnmore is another notice to ship-owners that overloading is a poor business in the long run. Free silver gota black eye in Pennsyl- vania on Wednesday, but Don Cameron and his friends are still in the ring. Olney’s foreign policy has done nothing as yet, but in the reports from Washington it has certainly become very promising. The Democratic pledge to reduce freight rates was a plank to stand on during the and a log toroll off afterward. When Bayard asks Ergland to arbitrate her dispute with Venezuela he should ask it in a way that will not lead to any back talk. Yben the opponents of Senator Quay that gentlemen they knew where they were, but they didn’t know what they were doing there. The detectives who have been hunting for Brady’s treasure are now prepared to swear that getting the sack is by no means the same as getting th The convention of Wes: Salt Lake solid for silver, and this assures the Tdact that the campaign for sound money in the Greater West isin safe hands. As the man nomina by the Nebraska Populists to head. the ticket this fall is 80 years old he can hardly hope to live to see the cess of the party: but perhaps he will come just as near it as anybody else. In nominating for Governor a young man who was born in the Territory the Republicans of Utah have done well. It is highly proper that the new State should come into the Union under the adminis- tration of her native s The grain-growers and all other shippers of the San Joaquin have the satisfaction of knowing that while the Railroad Commis- sioners flutter and splutter in useless talk the tracklayers of the competing road keep right along with tneir work. Senator Qua; ability as a political leader was never shown to better advan- tage than in the Harrisburg convention, when, after beating his opponents on a test vote, he graciously conceded them everything they wanted except the control of the party. Now that the American Bar Association is in convention it would confer 2 favor if it would devise some means of reforming the jury system and bringing it into har- mony with present conditions. There is no reason why we should drag the practice of the middle ages after us forever. Governor Hastings aptly sized up the political situation in Pennsylvania By say- ing the electricity generated by the fric- tion of rival factions in the Republican party would purify the atmosphere, and the resulting cyclone would sweep away the free-trade, debt-making Democracy. In ordering Tue CarL sent to her ad- dress Mrs. Susan L. Mills of Mills College writes as follows: “Itisdelightful to have such a clean paper that we can put before our young ladies without hesitation. I congratulate the editors of Tae CALL upon their success, and I wish them the in- creasing success which they deserve.” Tue CarL is pleased to have the indorse- ment of such a woman as Mrs, Mills, A MINING BOOM. 1f full credit may be given to the report from S8an Bernardino that a company with a paid-up capital of $2,000,000 has been or- ganized to work certain mines of the Yuma Desert the mining industry of California will receive a tremendous boom. The news is that the capital comes entirely from England and the Eastern States, and that the company has secured the San Ber- nardino mine, the Two Gilberts, the Ellerby, Going, Sophia, Pinther, Price and others in the vicinity of Twenty-nine Palms, and that it is ready to purchase and develop other promising properties. The manager is Dr. J. C. C. Price. If the known opportunities for digging wealth out of the ground in that regionare a safe guide in determining the truth of the news there can be no doubt of its reliability. Many of the gold and silver deposits in that section have been long known to be surpassingly rich, but the great obstacle to their develop- ment has been the absence of water and fuel. These properties have suffered under the identical conditions which have pro- hibited the agricultural development of the desert regions of California and Ari- zona in the vicinity of the Colorado River, and yet these millions of arid and barren acres could be made into a garden of sur- passing bounty by the application of water. 1t has always been merely a ma ter of turning the waters of the Colorado and its tributaries upon the desert, but as that would be an undertaking requiring great capital it has never been inaugurated. The advent of a rich mining company seems to promise a beginning toward the solution of great problems. About the mines in the desert settlements must spring and they must be supplied with water. The mining company must have water, and so the wedge enters. The in- formation at hand isnot sufficiently explicit to warrant extended speculation, but ap- parently a promise of wondrous things is given. ANOTHER WRECK. The great difficulty in obtaining news concerning the wreck of the Bawnmore on the Oregon coast has not made the cause of the disaster clear, but if the overloading of her deck had anything to do with it we have a repetition, on a reduced scale, of the Colima wreck. At the time the Bawnmore left this port Tue CALL pointed out the ex- traordinary disregard of safety which char- acterized her loading. On her spar deck, exposed to the winds and serving to catch all that came her way, were bulky and heavy objects, including a dozen street- cars, a tugboat, several thousand feet of lumber and other things. Besides weight- ing the steamer’s deck they were a chal- lenge to the beam winds which are con- stant on this coast. As a wind obstraction such a load might prove even more dan- gerous than by reason of its weight. Whether or not this deckload was dis- charged at some northern port before the steamer started on the southern trip the early dispatches do notinform us. It is notorious that a general feeling of uneasi- ness pervaded the water front when the Bawnmore sailed with her heavy deck- load, and that her wrecking was fully pre- dicted. The audacity of such a method of loading was rendered all the more promi- nent by the recent occurrence of the Colima disaster. We shall await full news of the Bawn- more wrecking with much interest. The perils which attend navigation on this coast are casily avertible, but it may re- quire more Colima and Bawnmore ex- periences to couvince our law-makers that a due regard for life and property calls for the placing of some restrictions on the greed of steamship companies. THE SILURIAN OBJECTS. The committee of South Side property- owners appointed to interview holders of lots aleng Folsom street on the subject of paving that thoroughfare from the water front to the southerly City limits has an- nounced an old but always interesting fact—that it is only large property-owners on the street who object to the improve- ment. All the small owners and the rail- way company are willing. The silurian’s | claws are fastened on Folsom street, as | upon every other important thoroughfare in the City. The silurian is the rich prop- erty-owner who objects to the improve- ment, advancement and prosperity of the City. In spite of those who are opposing the paving of Folsom street the work will be done, if the City authorities .come to the assistance of the property-owners. It will not be the influence of silurians that will defeat the project if it is defeated at all. This obstructionist is content to own in- ferior houses facing ill-paved streets, and | would rather have a small income from | bis property and be sure of that than make an investment which will greatly improye the value and income of his holdings. The proceedings in the Folsom-street matter will likely bring to public light the names of the silurians who own property on that street. The list should make very interesting reading, and the manner in which it is handled may be made a warn- ing to others of their 11k in various parts of the City. The miserable shanties which still disgrace Market street are a procla- mation of the silurianism of their owners, but a pressure which they cannot resist is bearing more and more heavily upon them every day. It is no wonder that our sav- ings and commercial banks are filled with money when rich owners of shanties on great thoroughfares can find no other use for their revenues. CALIFORNIA SWEET WINES. The growth of the California sweet-wine industry has been remarkable during the two last years. By this, of course, ismeant fortified wines. Last year’s output was 2,634,333 gallons, and, although only an estimate of this year’s production can be made at present, the internal revenue officers, who are in the position to know, predict that it will easily reach 3,000,000 gallons. Two causes have contributed to this. One is the benefit of the law releas- ing from an internal revenue tax spirits distilled in the winery for fortification uses, and the other is the rapidly increasing de- mand in the Eastern States. Although the fortified wines—port, sherry, angelica and muscat—are not table wines, and hence can never be advanced to 80 high a consumption, they have very ex- tended uses peculiar to them. As those made in California are the honest product of the grape, even including the brandy which-is used to fortify them, they are the purest and most wholesome sweet wines consumed in the United States, and for all the purposes to which sweet wines may be put are immeasurably superior to any im- ported articles of their class. Hence, as tonics, they are the very best that can be employed. The manufacture of sweet wines is a comparatively easy matter. Little of that infinite care in blending required in the making of light wines of the highest class is required, largely for the reason that as in the process of making them fermenta- tion isarrested ny the addition of brandy, - THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1895. and the wines retain the bulk of their fruity and aromatic essences, the more dainty and elusive qualities of fully fermented wines are overpowered and rendered un- necessary. The idea of a fortified wine is that of a rich, wholesome, sweet bever- age, possessing about half the intoxicating strength of whisky and about twice that of claret, and useful only when taken in small guantities as a tonic or a relish. It is an article far more easily introduced than fine light wines, as less education is required for an appreciation of its excel- lencies. Physicians who prescribe tonics of this order have alllearned in this part of the country that the California sweet wines are incomparably superior to all others, and this gives a hint as to the kind of mission- ary work that might be done in the East- ern States to secure the wider popularity of our products. The people of the East have hardly as yet waked to the fact that these wines are so good and healthful. The degraded articles which are imported from Europe have kept back a popularity which wholesome sweet wines are entitled to enjoy. Now that makersof light wines in California are again earning a comfort- able profit on their products that branch of the wine indusiry is made secure, but that does not prevent a far greater exten- sion of the output of sweet wines and the education of a market to the factof the excellence. A UNIQUE BANQUET. A banquet in which all the viands shall be of California production can be made a brilliant, picturesque and instructive ob- ject lesson, and the indorsement of the idea by the State Board of Trade, the Fruit Exchange, the Half-million Club, the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association and other organizations indicates the es- teem in which it is held by those most anxious to advance the interests of the State. The manager of the Woman’s Ex- change is to have charge of the affair, and the banquet is to be given at the California Hotel, September 27. The meager announcement of the ban- quet gives no information on some points that deserve attention. Is a price to be charged which will leave a profit? If so, who are to be the beneficiaries? Would it be better not to conduct it with a consid- erable profit in view, but principally for the purpose of educating as many persons as possible by making as low a charge as can be imposed with safety? Who is to be responsible for the whole affair, particu- larly with reference to such a selection of edibles as will give the widest representa- tion of California food products? This may prove the most important of all con- siderations, for selections will have to be made and preferences shown. Hard feel- ing might arise from the valuable adver- tising which some manufacturers and pro- ducers would enjoy at the expense of others. Evidently much wisdom and dis- cretion are required in this undertaking, and no mistakes should be made thata broad understanding and a large sense of responsibility can avert. Will any restrictions be placed on the number and standing of the persons who shall enjoy the feast? If so, who are to be the participants, what will be the basis of their choice and who will be charged with the responsibility of their se- lection? If the salient intention is to demonstrate how splendid a banquet can be served with California products, and 1f it is desired to make a complete showing, such a feast as would require almost a fabulous entrance charge could be easily planned. If the central idea is to be one of instruc- tion concerning the products of California it is conceivable that a plan very different from that of a banquet might be devised, and that the presence of the Mechanics’ Fair suggests the method. A large restau- rant conducted in connection with the fair and running from day to day might be made vastly more comprehensive and instructive than a banquet. It would re- quire a very long bill of fare to contain all the good thingsto eat which California produces, but such a bill itself would be documentary evidence of the State’s re- sources in this regard, and a separate price for each article in the bill would enable patrons to spend much or little, as their means permitted or inclinations suggested. The poor and the rich, the proletariat and the aristocracy, would thus all be placed on approximately equal terms. The walls of the restaurant could be filled with food articles of home production, showing them as they appear before and after cooking or serving. With theaid of flowers sucha resaurant might be made a bower of beauty as well as a school of instruction. The Mechanics’ Fair is mentioned because it is a headquarters for people from every section of the State. QUAY'S VIOTORY. The long contest agairst Senator Quay in Pennsylvania has been fought to a finish and the Senator has won. His majority on the first test ballot in the con- vention was large enough to be decisive, and thereafter no further opposition was made to him. - His election to the chair- manship of the State Central Committee was unanimous, and the management of the party and the conduct of the campaign will be under his direction. Mugwumps may denounce this as another “triumph of the boss,” but the majority of the Americun people will not so consider it. Senator Quay is not a boss, but 2 leader. He has not won his victory by packing a convention with office-hold- ers or filling it with ward strikers from the cities and the tools cf railroad corpo- rations. So far as these elements were in the convention at all, they were opposed to him. The principals in the fight against him were Governor Hastings, who controlled the official patronage of the State, the big corporations of Pennsylva- nia and the Phiiadelphia ring that holds the patronage of the city. Quay rallied to his support the intelligent masses-of the party and won the victory in the conven- tion because he stood for party organiza- tion against factional dissensions and party principles against mere quarrels over the spails of office. The character of the man and the nature of the object he sought were revealed in the use he made of his victory. When the ballot on the election of a temporary chair- man made it certain that the majority was with him and the battle was won, he at once moved that his chief opponent, Governor Hastings, be made permanent chairman. The nominations to the prin- cipal offices at stake were also conceded to the opposition. For himself and the stalwarts nothing was taken except the control of the State Central Committee. This wise action not only continues the organization of the party in the compe- tent hands of those who haye won so many victories in the past, but harmonizes the discontented and makes it certain that the full party vote will be polled this fall and another victory be added to the long list of Republican successes. ‘While Quay’s victory was gained in a purely local battle, it is in a certain sense gratifying to the better elements of the party everywhere. The surest way to get rid of bosses in politics is to follow leaders. So long as our Government con- tinues as it is, there must be political par- ties, and the parties must be organized. To effect that organization and control it, two radically different methods are open to politicians. One of these is the method of the boss. It isnarrow, mean and nearly always dishonest. It looks not beyond local successes and aims only at the spoils of office or the chance of plundering the taxpayers. The other isthe method of the leader. It is broad, statesmanlike and honorable. Itlooks to great National is- sues while carefully guarding the interests of municipalities, and holds men together by maintaining those great principles of public policy which are essential to the welfare both of the individual and of the Nation. . THE' CALL is opposed to all bosses, and particularly to Republican bosses. It has under the present management been prompt to denounce every Republican who in office has violated his pledges or been false to the people. 1t has done this in the interests of the publicand in the interests of the Republican party itself. It there- fore notes Quay’s victory with satisfaction, and indulges the belief that the same re- sults will be accomplishea in California at the next Republican convention by the overthrow of the bosses and the advance- ment of true leaders, ALDERMEN ADOPT A FLAG. 1f the people of New York on the 5th of next September see a body of men, most of them sleek and well fed, some of them lean and hungry looking, marching down Broadway to the music of a band and carrying at the head of the procession & milk-white flag, with some red and blue in the middle of it, they will know that they are looking at the Board of Aldermen starting on their picnic, says the New York Sun. They may not know any of the marchers by sight, but the flag will be the symbol which AT FA .cafi\po Loep < - IS x Me ¥ W x A THE NEW YORK ALDERMEN'S NEW FLAG. will put them on. That flag, by the way, has been a source of a trial and tribulation to the members of the board, but that's all over with now. because a design has been favorably adopt- ed bv the board. The flag will be milk-white, that is the body of it, to' signify purity, it is supposed. In the middle of it will be a lot of red stars, thirty-one of them, one for each Alderman, accepted in compromise for the thirty-one designs. The stars will be arranged in the shape of an oval, and in the middle of the oval, done in red and blue, will be the coat of arms of this city—an Indian, a sailor, the wings of 8 windmil, & bea- ver’s nest, a fish, a couple of kegs and an eagle, ut together in the usual haphazard fashion. ust which parts will be blue and which red hasn’t been decided yet, but it was necessary to have two colors because the Mayor’s flag has & similer design done in solid blue, and it would never do for the Aldermen to poach on his Honor’s territory. Then above the picture will be the words (done in blue), ‘“‘Board of Aldermen,” and below, also in blue, “New York City,” all of which isto be surrounded by the halo of stars. UP-TO-DATE IDEAS. An interesting steamer is just about to be started on some lakes a few miles distant from Copenhagen, the peculiar feature being that the steamer has to make & short journey over- land, the two lakes being divided by a strip of land. Across this a railway has been con- structed, crossing & high road, which necessi- tates & gradient on ‘both sides of 1.50, the metals being ordinary rails. At the two ends the rails have been carried into and under the water on a wooden structure. By means of piles the steamer is guided on to the rails, which correspond in position with two wheels fixed on each side of the steamer. The steamer goes then on to the rails at full “speed’” and travels up the rails on the one side and down the incline on the other into the water, where the propeller again takes over its function. The engine is comparatively powerful, and in addition to the usual propeller shaft there is another shaft, which by means of a chain works the wheels with which the steamer crosses the rails. The boat aiso has a powerful brake to moderate its speed down the incline. The steamer is 44 feet long, capable of holding seventy passengers, and the engine indicates 27 horsepower. All the trials have passed off perfectly and eatisfactorily. PERSONAL. 8. F. Gill, a banker of Salinas, is at the Occie dental. R. L. Fulton and wife, of Reno, Nev., are in the City. H. Krait, a banker of Red Bluff, is staying at the Lick. F. C. Lusk, a leading attorney of Chico, is at the Palace. V.J. Woodward, a banker of Fresno, isa guest at the Lick. > W. D. Pennycock of the Vallejo Chroaicle is at the Occidental. : G. W. Chandler, a fruitman of Santa Cruz, is & guest &t the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ruddell returned from their trip to Alaska yesterday. George E. Fair, a warehouseman of Gonzales, registered at the Lick yesterday. Frank H. Buck, a big fruit-raiser of Vaca- ville, and his family are at the Palace. D. Hirschfeld, a merchant of Bakersfield, was one of yesterday's arrivals at the Lick. T. Daniel Frawley, the actor, arrived here yesterday and registered at the Palace. J. B. Peares, proprietor of the Yosemito House, came down from Stockton yesterday and registered at the Lick. J. A. McMutrie, a railroad contractor, cut- ting tunnels on the coast line of the Southern Pacific, came up from Guadalupe yesterday end put up at the Palace. Clarence H. Howard, secretary and manager of the Pintsch Lighting Company of St. Louis, and his wife are at the Palace. They will re- main on the coast about three weeks. Henry Gannett, chief of the Topographical Survey of the United States Geological Survey, arrived here yesterday on his annual tour of inspection and is & guest at the Occidental. J. Kruttschmitt, general maneger; W. G. Van Vleck, general superintendent, and 8. F, B. Morse, general passenger agent of the At- lantic system of the Southern Pacific Company, who have come out to discuss railroad business with the officials at this end, arrived here yes- terday in a private car and are staying at the Palace, Edward I. Wolfe leaves for Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday. Mr. Wolfe is the first vice-grand president of the Grand Lodge of the Indepen- dent Order of B'nai B'rith of the Pacific Coast, and will attend the Supreme Lodge session of the Order of Chosen Friends in Cleveiand, and go to Washington, Toronto and Boston before his return. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 29.—Californians registered at hotels to-day: San Francisco—H. Alexander, W. P. Lynch, Grand Union; A.J. Bien, H. B. Brandt Jr., Morton House; A. E. Magill, Grand; J. Levy, Savoy. Los Angeles— Mrs. H. Smith, Netherland; J. H. Bohn, H. J. Krommer, Grand Union; H. Mayberg, Belve- dere. Bacramento, W. J. Kleinsorge, Astor. Alameds, R. A. Pickett, Morton House. CALIFORNIANS IN UTAH. BALE LAKE, UTaR, Aug. 29.—At the Knuts- ford—J. Fred Schlingman, H. Arnhold, A. J. Bowie, San Franeisco. At the Templeton—F. Greenwalt, San Francisco. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. J. A. Finch, who is the prime mover in the big chicken hatchery to be put up near Napa, had for many years a large plant near Wash- ington, D. C. The incubators were so arranged that they would hold 4000 eggs in sections of 200 each. Each day & tray of 200 eggs would be put In and 200 chicks taken out. It took twenty-one days for the eggs to hatch. “One day,” said Mr. Finch yesterday, “a TNewspaper man came out look at the place and my foreman, who was something of a wag, told him that the great advantage of our ineu- bators over the old style of hatching was that they would hatch out eggs in twenty-four hours. This the newspaper man would not believe. However, he was induced to wait and see the operation. So he was shown the 200 €ggs put into each of the big incubators in the evening, and next day when he saw the trays of young chicks taken out he was convinced. He went back to Washington and wrote up an account of how eggs could be hatched in twenty-four hours. Idon’t think he ever took much 1nterest in the industry after that.”” Henry Ganzett of the United States Geologi- cal Survey arrived here yesterday. He isthe chief of the Topographical Survey and is mak- | ing his annual survey tour of inspection. Yes- terday he was in conference at the Occidental Hotel with Richard M. Goode in charge of the survey in this State. Speaking of the work be- ing done in this State, he said: “Topographical surveys have been made of about a quarter of the area of this State. Most of the work has been done from the northern boundary line, down along the Sierras to about this latitude, and also along the Coast Range and about here. We have two parties in the field surveying now, one about San Luis Obispo and the other surveying the country 2bout Mount Hamilton, San Jose and Palo Alto. Of course, the work is necessarily slow and it will take several years to complete the topographical survey of the State.”” Mr. Goode, in speaking of the geological work of the Federal Government here, said: “A very small part of the area of this State has been gone over by the geologists. The policy of the Government, however, is to extend the work as fast as permissible. Most of the work is be- ing done in the gold belt and other mineral districts. There are now three parties at work—one about Colfax, another near Sonora and the third in the Coast Range. This latter work is in charge of Professor Lawson of the State University. It is proposed to take up soon & survey of the State. This work, it is probable, will be in the hands of A. Becker, who was for a time a proiessor in Berkeley, and is now in Alaska.” Min Keung 8ik, a nephew of the King of{ Korea, arrived here yesterday on his way home. He is a young man of about 20 years of age, who came to this country gome six months 2go to siudy and has been in Washington, D. C.,since. A few days ago he received a cable from home announcing that his mother was very ill and was not expected to live long. The young Prince is hurrying home to her bedside. A GLIMPSE AT SECOND SIGHT. Several years ago I made a campaign on the platform with George W. Cable. In Montreal we were honored with & reception. It began at 2 o’clock in the afternoon in a long drawing- room in the Windsor Hotel. Mr. Cable and I stood at one end of this room,and the ladies and gentlemen entered it at the otherend, crossed it at that end, then came up the long lett-hand side, shook hands with us,said a word or two, and passed on in the usual way. My sight is of the telescopic sort, and I pres- ently recognized a familiar face among the throng of strangers drifting in at the distant door,and I said to myself, with surprise and high gratification, “That is Mrs. R.; I had for- otten that she was a Canadian.” She had een a great friend of mine in Carson City, Nev., in the early days. I had not seen her or heard of her for twenty years; I had not been thinking about her; there was nothing to lug~ gest her to me, nothing to bring her to my mind; in fact, to me she had long ago ceased to exist, and had disappeared from my conscious- ness. But I knew her instantly, and I saw her so clearly that I was able to note some of the particulars of her dress,and did note them, and they remained in my mind. I was impa- tient for her to come. In the midst of the hand-shakings I snatched glimpses of her and noted her progress with the slow-moving file across the end of the room, then I saw her start up the side, and this gave me & full front view of her face. I saw her last when she was within twenty-five feet of me. For an hour I kept thinking she must still be in_the room somewhere and would come at last, but I was disappointed. “'Een Tarrived in the lecture-hall that even- ing some one said: “Come into the waiting- room; there's a friend of yours there who ‘wants to see you. You'll not be introduced— you are to do the recognizing without help if you can.” 1 said to myself, “It is Mrs. R.; Isha'n’t have any trouble.” here were perhaps ten ladies lgresem, all seated. In the midst of them was Mrs. R., as had expected. She was dressed exactly as she was when I had seen her in the afternoon. I went forward and shook hands with her and called her by name, and said, “I knew you the moment you appeared at the reception this afternoon.” She looked surprised, and said: “Butl was not at the reception. Ihave just arrived from Quebec, and have not been in town an hour.” It was my turn to be surprised now. I said: “Ican’t helpit. Igive you my word of honor that it is as [ say. Isaw you at the re- ception, and you were dressed precisely as you are now. When they told me & moment ago that I should find a friend in this room, your image rose before me, dress and ali, justas I had seen you at the reception.” Those are the facts. She was not at the re- ception at 1], or any where near it; but Isaw her there, nevertheless, and most clearly and unmistakably. To that I could make oath. How is one to explain this? I was not think- ing of her at the time; had not thought of her jor years, Butshe had been thinking of me, no doubt; did her thought flit through leagues of air to me and bring with 1t that clear and pleasant vision of herself? I think s0. That was and remains my sole experience in the matter of apparitions—I mean appari- tions that come when one i (ostensibly) awake. Icould have been asleep for & moment; the apparition could have been the creature of & dream. Still, that is nothing to the point; the feature of interest is the happening of the thing just at that time, instead of at an earlier or later time, which is argument thatits origin lay in thought-transferrence.—From “Mental Telegraphy Again,” by Mark Twain in Harper's Magazine for September. IT BEGINS TO TELL. The Menufacturers’ and Producers’ Associa- tion has hardly made a start yet on the tre- mendous work they have mapped out for themselves. Buteven the preliminaries have met a response.. The initial articles that have appeared in the City and interior press are already being felt. The tradesmen are cater- ing to the new sentiment. Signs are now to be seen in many shop windows giving special prominence to the fact thet they carry home- manufactures. The clothing and shoe busi- ness has responded with & rush, and the two clothing-houses and the shoehouse that are now doing the biggest local business did not cut any particular figure two years ago, but have jumped right to the front on the single argument extensively advertised through the newspapers that their shoes and clothing are manufactured in California. A few years azo there was little, if eny, ready-made clothing made in this State, Now the bulk of it is made here, and at Eastern prices. And this is soin scores ot lines. California manufacturers are duplicating Eastern qualities and prices and the people are meeting them royally with de- mands for goods that bear the impress of the local producer.—Pacific Typograph. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Second Lieutenant Charles D. Hine of the Sixth Infantry, who graduated from West Point in the class of 1891, has tendered his resignation to accept an appointment as a brakeman on the Big Four under an agree- ment with the raflroad company that if he shows adaptability for the business he will re- ceive promotion. Mr. Hine was appointed to the military academy from Virginia, but has of the orders of the Black Eagle, conferred by the German Emperor, and of Hubert, sent by the Prince Regent of Bavaria. Senator Gorman of Maryland drinks nothing stronger than Apollinaris, and his opponents in Baltimore have come to the conclusion that water is invigorating. Miss Alice Strauss, daughter of the “Waltz King,” Johann Strauss, has become engaged to the painter Marquis Feri Beyros. IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS. The entire country will be gratified to learn that “Nebraska’s corn crop is all right,” since the annual wail of semi-starvation from some of the more rainless sections of that State has been both distressing and annoying for some years. It is a question, however, whether an occasional year of plenty in a usually drought- stricken country is not a crowning calamity to its peovle. It certainly keeps them in a land where nature seldom indorses their efforts to make a living in agricultural pursuits, when they would, but for the occasional plenteous year, be forced to seek homes elsewhere.—Port- land Oregonian. The State Board of Agriculture has addea nothing to the information concerning the profits of wheat-growing in California by pub- lishing figures based on less than 100 replies to its eirculars asking for statistics. And the returns of the Department of Agriculture are no less misleading. It is nota fact that the average yield of California wheat farms is only thirteen bushels an acre, It is a fact, how- ever, that the growing of wheat no longer pays. It is the “little farm well tilled” and devoted toa variety of products that makes the inde- pendent farmer of to-day.~San Jose Mercury. Big howl from the papers over the canning of horse-meat in Oregon. Why? A horse is as clean a feeder as an ox, and far and away cleaner than the hog or chicken. Label it clearly and plainly horse-meat, exercise super- vision over it to see that it is healthy and not diseased, and let the people have cheap meat if they wantit. The howl of the papers is simply playing to the galleries. Healthy horse-meat is healthy human food, and there is no good reason why it should not be utilized under its proper name.—Redlands Citrograph. The Sir Knights who started in a special train for the East yesterday went prepared to exemplify that Californian hospitality that so astonishes and delights the Eastern brethren. In the baggage-car attached to the train was packed away great stores of good things that will be as free as the sir is to all comers. The people in the East cannot understand this reckless hospitality. It captures them quicker and impresses them deeper than any other trait of the old-time Californian.—Alameda Daily Argus. California cities which are in need of im- provements, as almost all of them are, will never finas more auspicious time than the present for carrying out their desired under- takings. Good municipal bonds are in in- creased demand, and the amount of capital that is seeking investments of this sort is prac tically unlimited. If the people of this State take savantage of their opportunities, the coming year will show wonderful growth and development.—San Diego Union. In the last political campaign it was asserted that Mr. Fitzgerald was lazy and that as a member of the Supreme Court he did not pre- pare his share of the decisions rendered by that body. This charge will not lie against him since he became Attorney-General. At the rate he hes been giving opinions for some time it would seem that if his conclusions are correct there is little need of & Supreme Court in California.—Santa Rosa Republican. California has been invited to take partina good many expositions and exhibitions and fairs lately. The most recent invitation asks her to join in a food-products exhibition to be held in New York next October. In the line of good things to eatshe certainly holds a fore- most place. This is a good opportunity to dis- play her manifold gifts from Providence in that direction.—Los Angeles Times. Ensenada, Baja California, wul have a new shoe factory in full running order in a short time, and we learn that the major portion of the output is to be marketed in the United States. Why has not Redlands a shoe factory and & tannery? Power is cheap, living ditto, bides and tanning material plentiful. What's the matter with our local capitalists?—Red- 1ands Citrograph. ‘The Manufacturers’ and Producers’ agitation in 8an Francisco has at least accomplished two things: It has shown California, first, that she can make things of her own, and that she will have to advertise them to sell them even to her own people. These are two things worth knowing on the start, and thelr learning is hopeful of the future.—Pasadena Star. The people are yearning with a fearfully tiresome yearn for a party in charge that will not have to hire the Rothschild-Morgan syndi- cate to keep the gold reserve in the treasury. Never before in the history of the country was there such an impatience for the arrival of the time of the general election.—Salem (Or.) Statesman, The wife of ex-President Casimir-Perier of France has organized & movement against birds’ wings and breasts for decorative pur- poses. This movement ought to spread all over the world. The sacrifice of birds upon the aliar of feminine vanity is a disgrace to our civilization (so called).—Los Angeles Times. That “pernicious activity” in politics on the part of Federal office-holders, which was con- sidered reprehensible under the first Cleveland regime, is sought for and stimulated by the ad- ministration. Strange, isn’t it?—San Bernar- dino Review. Good .approaches, good streets, good side- walks, good water, good sewerage,good schools, good fire and police departments, attractive parks and the like—these are the things wnich invite prosperity, and—other things being equal—make it.—San Luis Obispo Tribune. Spain’s proposal to pay the Mora claim with- out interest is a reminder that under our ami- able foreign policy the claim hLas almost reached the point where the beneficiaries would rather have the interest than the princi- pal.—Phenix (Ariz.) Gazette. The low price of wheat has perhaps had one good effect in encouraging men to work small farms instead of going into aebt to become land poor.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. If Nevada is the daughter of Californis, the Silver State ought to be proud of its mother.— Los Angetes Record. OFPINIONS OF EASTERN EDITORS. Inspiring but Costly. It is no doubt an inspiring spectacle to see six of the finest vessels of the navy escorting the Secretary of the Navy up and down the Atlantic Coast, attending & garden party at Bar Harbor, a flower show at Portland, & liv- ing-picture exhibition at Portland and the Knights Temvlar Conclave at Boston. It adds very materially to the pageantry of these events, gives over 2000 officers and men in the navy an opportunity to indulge in social recrea- tion and costs the Government only about 40,000 a week.—Chicago Inter Ocean.’ Danger Ahead. The high exchange rates exacted by the syn~ dicate seriously complicates the #ituation, and it is & surprising thing that the banking-houses outside of the syndicate are unable to sell exchange down from the present rate, which is the highest upon record. "It is to be feared that 8 heavy demand for liquidation in stocks will soon oceur as the result of the Government's growing deficit, the persistent export of gold long had an ambition to join the ranks of rail- roed men and hopes Ly starting at the bottom round he may ultimately become a superin- tendent. Rev. John Jasper, the tamous colored preacher of Richmond, Va., who has proved to his own satisfaction that “de sun do move,” is now 83 years old. He has been married four times. At the close of the war Mr. Jasper had 73 cents in his pocket and owed $42 house rent. He hassaved, it is sa1d, about $5000. John L Blair, the New Jersey railroad man, who is said to have more than $25,000,000 in- vested in Western railroads, boasts that he has never bought a road merely for specula- tion, and that none of his money has béen made by bulling or bearing stocks. The Emperor of Japan has received through the German Embassador at Tokio the insignia and the excessively high raf = New York Mail m: lxgpuu.m $ Vsl Ice-Water for Siuners. The aiscovery that sinners will drink ice- Water with eagerness when they can get it on & hot Sunday has been made under conditions which leave no possible doubt that it 18 a fact. They mron{efl the place where it was dispensed an ingenious and benevolen! publican and continued to drink it s ht until tne police drove them away on the ground that their conduct constituted a_dis- g'\;:mnu of the blue-law Sabbath.—New York That Is the Question. Is young Allen Thurman bound by the Ohio platform? IsJ. Sterling Morton bound by the Nebraska platform? Are Congressman Catch- ings and Governor Stone bound by the Missis sippt fl:&(omr Whom does_the Iowa plat form bind? When the Pertle Springs Conven« tion sent congratulations to Joe Blackburn for ing the Kentucky platform, a_question of degetritln imy rtw{nvni!ed and it will not lown.—St. Louis Republic. © A Case of If. That is to say, Campbell is the only Western Democrat in sight who has any chance to C8D- ture the Presidential candidaey in 1896, and his chance depends altogether on the run which he makes for Governor this year. If he cuts down the Republican !)lumllty to 25,000 or 30,000 he will be the logical candidate next year. If he reduces it to 18,000 or 20,000 he will sweep the convention.—St. Louis Globe- Democrat. : Demoecracy in Ohio. What has the Democratic party of Ohio really accomplished in the last two years? Ohio was Republican in 1892 by 1000 votes. In 1893 it was Republican by 80,000 votes, and in 1894 Dby 137,000 votes. Do the Demoerats of Ohio point_with pride and satisfaction to this complishment?—Cleveland News and Herald. Olney’s Weak Point. Secretary Olney's weakest point as a Presi- dential candidate is his connection with the Cabinet of the most unfortunate administra- tion in American history. If Mr. Olney, by some stroke of genuine strength and patriot- ism, can cause its “luck to turn” he might be seriously considered.—Boston Journal. A Thrice Told Tale. It occurs to us that The Associated Pr(,.?s might drop those negroes out in Texf«s: Their diseases, thei# clothing, their condition and their pitiful experience have been described ty times, and there is no particular :g)!!:'tn tw‘?ll'ngthe wires should be burdened with it again.—Nashville American. Forgot to Congratulate. J. C. Bimpson, editor of the Linn Creek Reveille, was married recently. Last wf(*nk he his item: “On account of space ulbn‘éfl;f\?nr: last week, the Reveille forgot to congratulate itself on the fact that we got mar- ried'. We won't let it occur again. ——fmwun Editor. Wanamaker’s Girls. Female employes of John Wndmmn]((ler's_ Is':r(),m at Philadelphia have organized, and will de- and better wages and that floor-walkers ceaso their petty acts of tyranny.—Cleveland (Ohio) Railroad Telegrapher. Consoling Thoughts. A few years without marriages wjill allow the new woman to calm herself and will also allow the people who are now on earth to get a good start of their progeny.—Brooklyn Eagle. Detroit Streetcars. Detroit has a 3-cent fare on her street rail- ways, with transfers thrown in. One run can be made of twenty-two miles for 3 cents.—New Haven News. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. HieH Ses—M. W, City. The reason the German sailor who, while on the high seas, as- saulted the captain of the German ship Alice, was not tried in this City for the crime, was that the United States did not have jurisdic- tion of the case. If a German on board a Ger- man ship commits a crime that is punishable by fine, he may be tried before the German Consul at any port which the vessel may visit on her voyage; butif the crime involves imprisonment or severe penalty, he must be taken to German territory for trial. By the treaty between the United States and Germany when & hlgh-irnde offense is committed on the high seas either Government will, upon the arrival of & vessel of the other nation, take charge of the prisoner and hold him in cu:- tody until the vessel is ready to return to ti nearest port at which the accused can be triec CONGRESSMEN—Alva, Alameda, Cal. Repr sentatives to Congress are elected for two y: and thelr term expires at noon on the 4th « March of each odd numbered year. The terrn of the new Congressmen from Celifornia com- menced on the 4th of last March. John A. Barham succeeds Geary from the First District, Grove L. Johngon succéeds Caminetti from the $econd, S. G. Hilborn succeeds English from the Third, James G. Maguire and Eugene F. Loud succeed themselves from the Fourth and Fifth, J. McLachlin suceeeds Cannon from the Sixth and W. W. Bowers suczeeds himself from the Seventh District. NorMaL ScHOOLS—O. T. 8., Oakland, Cal. There are three Normal Schools in the State— one at San Jose, the other at Chico and the third at Los Angeles. The principals reside in the places where the &chools ere located. At San Jose the principal is C. W. Childs; Chico, Edward T. Pierce, and Los Angeles, Ira More. In San Francisco there is a normal class [ocated in the old High School building, on Powell street, near Clay. Two BurLpiNgs—H. M. S., City. The build- ings that were on the site now occupied by the Chroniele building were removed in Novem- ber, 1888. Work on the new building was commenced immediately thereafter and pro- ressed steadily until the 1st of January, {890,whennwascomple(ed. The dills build> ing was commenced October 4, 1890, and was completed in January, 1893, UNIoN SoLpIERS—W. T. B., City. The records of the oftice of the adjutant-general show that during the Civil War there were in_the Union army 1,523,300 natives of the United States, or 75.48 per cent; 176,800 natives of Germany, or 8.76 per cent, and 144,200 natives of Ireland, or 7.14 per cent. CRIBBAGE—M. G., City. If in a gameof crib- bage A plays 8, B plays 7 with fifteen two, then A plays 6, A can claim & run of 3, but if B fol- lows with a7 he canuot claim a run of 3. ParpoN—T. 0.8, City. If a prisoner ispar- doned before the expiration of Lis term of im- prisonment in this State that act restores him 1o &1l his civil rights. BACK DATE—G. 8, City. The 3d of May, 1874, fell on Sunday. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. “What would you do if you were hounded and boned and dunned and threatened by a creditor, all for a little bill of $2 502" “Hang me if I wouldn’t pay it!” “Thank you, old man—thank you; I hadn't thought of that!” . “I would send you a kiss, papa,” wrote little Lucy, who was away on & visit, “but I have been eating onions.”—Chicago Tribune. Mrs. Blood (to the colonel, who has returned from fignting a duel)—Oh, colonel, you look distressed; is it possible you have injured your antagonist? Colonel Blood—A devilish sight worse, my dear. Ikilled a valuable mule in an adjoin- ing lot and I s’pose I'll have to pey for him.— Texas Siftings. * The Lady Cycler—George, how do I look in my new bloomers? George (promptly)—Hideous. The Lady Cycler (with joy)—George, dear, how good of you to say so. Papa—Did you ask God to give you your daily bread this morning? 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