The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 16, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FEANCISCUO GALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. sily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier.§0.15 and Sunday CALI, one year, by mall... 6.00 y and Siunday CALL, six months, by mall 3.00 d Sunday CALL, three months, by mail 1.50 by mall .63 nd Sunday CALL. v CaLL, one year, by mail 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, one mall . 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. Telephone... SIS ...Maln—1868 Telephore.. ey Main—-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: F£0 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until D o°clock. 280 Haves street: open until 9:30 o'clock. 7 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open o'clock. ssion street; open until 8 o'clock. Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: , Rhinelander The Republican party pledged all the candidates to serve the people. d exports, but ore bonds. . de goods you Direct your 11 shopping in such a way as to help m 3 1 Francisco a home ioners having possible that during the hot| vigor foreign policy | yrie will now beat the Britan- e gets home, we will be bis spleen T tion conta Kier Hardie calls himself an agitator, but up to dz eches in this coun- | try have ha: Before there is any turther discussion of the third term, it zht be as well to find out whether Bowler would permit it, Tt is asserted by optimists that we will have good roads all over the country z soon as the farmer learns to ride the b e | The Railroad Com oners must not | neglect to prepare a record of evidence | that will sustain their decisions in the| courts. By way of a change from road conven- tions and road congre: Atlanta is going to have a road parliament. It is English, you know. Democratic stalwarts are clamoring to Cleveland to help Gorman in Maryland, but Cleveland continues to fish calmly by the summer sea. | Only the man who has kept a careful | tally-sheet can tell whether the Spaniards | or the Cubans are ahead on the victory | score up to date. Demccracy continues to hunt for a Pres- idential candidate who will stand still long enough to get something more than a negative out of him. As a last and finishing touch to her civi- | lization, Japan has organized a Stock Ex- change like that of New York, and is inno- | cent enough as yet to be proud of it. i 1i Commissioner Clark thinks he took | no pledge to reduce railway rates he is | mistaken. Every Republican official is pledged to do his duty 1o the people. | With the prevailing silver sentlmen:: among the people the chances against | Cleveland getting a renomination for the | Presidency are at least sixteen to one. If Cleveland makes another secret deal with the gold syndicate the idle talk of a | third term will quickly change to a talk of impeachment that will mean business. If the monometallists are right in saying there is gold enough for the business of the world, why is it that other nations and | Earopean bankers are always trying to get | ours? | Mrs, Lease may denounce the old man as much as she pleases, but unless she says | more about the new woman and the bloomer suit, the book will be a wasted | effort. | At a convention of real estate dealers at Selma, Kans., the other day, it was de- cided “Kansas should give the country an | object lesson,” so now we don’t know what | to look out for. l As some do not wish the tariff to be an | issue next year and some wish to evade | the silver question, perhaps the weather bureau would be kind enough to give us a campaign topic. The Mezican Herald, an able daily pub- lished in English, has been started in the City of Mexico and gives promise of being an effective advocate of American interests | gnd trade in that country. Bids for the next Republican National Convention are peing put forward by nearly every city of note in the East, but perhaps while they are worrying one an- other we will get away with the prize. As an illustration of the agricultural depression in England it is noted that an esiate bought some years ago for about $100,000 recently sold for $29,000. If there is any merit in falling prices free trade is evidently a good policy. The Lodi Review has issued a special edition in the form of a quarto of twenty- four pages, containing a handsomely illustrated description of ' San Joaquin County, which deserves a wide distribu- tion by reason of its merits asan adver- tisement of the resources and attrections of that section of the State. 2 | series of fiestas which have been held | tion of the old-time Spanish. fiestas as pos- | too early to say that these will prove of- | of many kinds, boxing and the like. | large size of the gathering. ARTESIAN WATER SUPPLY. The movement of the Union for Practi- cal Progress in the direction of securing al ownership of the water supply has included an investigation into the matter of artesian water. It has been demonstrated that a generous supply of artesian water underlieg the peninsula of San Francisco, as the water works at the park are delivering 1,500,000 gallons daily from that source. ' It seems to be taken for granted that this indicates the feasibility of securing a supply of 30,000,000 a day for use by the entire City. This may or may not be true. One engineer has published figures show- ing that an artesian water supply can be 1ustalled for the City at a cost of $1,500,000, which is a little less than the annual revenue of the Spring Vailey Water Works. In all these calculations and speculations it is taken for granted that the artesian stores available will furnish the required amount. Evidently no water can compare with that from artesian sources for purity, and it is equally evident that surface water stored in open reservoirs must necessarily be more or less impure, whether or not un- wholesome, and that in the presence of any infectious disease in the transmission of which water can play a part it might become a source of great danger. Surmises as to the extent of the artesian store underneath the peninsula can be based solely upon a careful scientific study of the elements entering into the matter, inciuding borings to ascertain the pressure of water, the depth at which the greatest pressure is found, the trend, configuration and character of the rock stratifications, and an approximately close ascertainment ot the part of the contiguous country from which the water comes as the basis of -esti- mates concerning its volume. Thus, in the San Joaquin Valley there exist some wonderful artesian wells, and the pre- sumption is that they are fed by the heavy precipitation of the Sierra Nevada. This precipitation 1s in a great part snow, a larger proportion of which soaks into the earth than of rain, and the soaking is more constant and gradual and the supply of artesian water more certzin and continu- ous. Whence comes the artesian water under- | lying the peninsula? Does it come from S0 great a dnce as the Sierra Nevada, or from the Coast Range? 1f from the lat- ter, where the rare winter snows cut no figure in the question, and where winter rains quickly pass away in the form of tor- rential streams, could a sufficiently abund- ant and reliable flow be expected from artesian wells? Santa Clara County has had an interest- ing experience with artesian wells. Many years ago several prolific wells discharged above the surface in San Jose, but when an Eastern company some years later ac- quired a large tract of the Alviso marshes and sank artesian wells on the property and allowed them to remain flowing the level of the wells in San Jose dropped far below the surface. The Supervisors, in order to protect the San Jose wells, were finally compelled to cap those at Alviso. T goes to show that the sinking of wells | at Alviso, below San Jose, reduced the pressure on the wells at the latter place, and this in turn means that it reduced the supply which those wells had been re- ceiving. The sum of it all is that the water supplying those wells was limited in quantity. Investigation would proba- bly show that all these wells in Santa Clara County did not vield a sufficient quantity of water for San Francisco. And vet, suppose that the supply of water un- derneath this peninsula should come from the source supplying the Santa Clara wells. These suggestions are thrown out merely to induce the exercise of proper care. THE CarL, along with every other agency de- voted to the good of the City, is desirous of the best method of managing the water supply, and will heartily co-operate with those who exhibit the high wisdom which all the circumstances of the case require. The great festival at San Bernardino opens to-day. It wiil be the last of the throughout the State this summer, and the present indications are that it will be con- ducted on a splendid scale. The main in- tention is to make it as close a reproduc- sible, including some features which per- haps had been better omitted. But it is | fensive. In view of the fact that similar contests announced on former occasions in i other parts of the State proved innocuous, it is not likely that San Bernardino will make a mistake. A great pavilion and amphitheater have been constructed, for the festival will last | throughout the week, and many thousands | of visitors are expected. The general character of the entertainment will be so | different from that of other fiestas that it | will probably attract large numbers on | that account. The general idea is to have | a season of vigorous sports, including races | The special inducements in the way of | reduced rates offered by the railroad com- panies will contribute to the expected | San Bernar- | dino, always interesting, is particularly at- | tractive at this time of the year. It is separated from the rugged Sierra Madre | by one of the handsomest stretches of valley in California, and is included in the | great orange region which extends from | Santa Ana on the south through Riverside to the mountains on the north. Con- tiguous to it are Redlands, Riverside, Al- tadena, the San Gabriel Valley and Pasa- dena, and not far away is Los Angeles. The San Bernardino festival presents an opportunity for visiting at very small cost the whole of the wonderful garden that lies in the southern end of the State. A BOHEMIAN'S RUIN, The distressing news comes from Lon- don that George Augustus Sala, well known in San Francisco, and for many years bearer in London of the jocose title of “Prince of Bohemians,” has fallen upon disaster, and in his old age finds himself bankrupt in health and pocket. He lost the comfortable savings of years in an endeavor to establish a paper of his own—a fatal ambition to which many of his kind bave vielded in an evil moment. Unlike Mark Twain, he cannot work now for a competency in his old age, and must face the end with an empty pocket and a blasted ambition. His mistake was in assuming that the | of i except a reputation for meanness, coward- | pine Club of Los Angeles has erected at | traverse the distance separating the orange strength of his name would insure the prosperity of his business venture. This has been tried over and over by men of his class, and almost invariably with the same result; and yet there perhaps is not a living writer of his kind who does not cherish the hope that at some time he will be his own master and the proprietor of a profitable business. The history of the publishing business bristies with instances of writers whose judgment on finance, business, war, public policy and many other concerns which affect the material affairs of mankind was intelligent and trustworthy, even sought by men specially trained in such matters; and yet these writers were wholly unable to make a practical application of their wis- dom. Itis denied to most mortals to have all the qualifications needed for the com- plete individual. More than that, business is a matter of daily practice, like music or athletics; and whatever may be the theories which enter into its conduct, they are generally held unconsciously by its followers and practiced through mental habit. That also explains the writer's efficiency as a thinker and writer. Itisall a matter of abilities concentrated on special occupations, to the end of acquir- ing a habit of thought and action. The able writer can do no better than fol- low the example of the business man in concentrating his capabilities on his voca- tion. For writing is as much a business as is trade or publishing. If inall cases it does not bring as comfortable financial re- wards there is a certain compensation in a broad grasp of the world and a larger pleas- ure in gratifications of a fine and wholie- some order. Itismore a desirefor freedom than for money that animates such men, and they rarely question their ability to exercise freedom with the wisdom that brings them the desired peace. Whutever may be the triumphs and the enjoyment of | power which the successful publisher may secure, they are accompanied with an in- finity of worries by which the writer whom he employs is not harassed. If every man should stick to his trade and aim for the highest position in it, he will likely have no reason for envying the power and money which some more emi- nent follower of some other trade has won by pursuing a similar course AN AMUSING DISCOVERY. | A suit has been brought in Oakland to recover the amounts due on certain notes given by the Davie Transportation Com- pany, which flourished a brief spell and died incontinently about twio years ago. The action has disclosed for the first time the names of the stockholders in the con- cern, and it is explained that these have been kept secret all this while for fear that the Southern Pacific Company would wreak vengeance on all who contributed to the support of the opposition line. This news in itself is sufficiently amusing without the additional information, gleaned from a reading of the list of shareholders, that some of them were professed friends of the great monopoly. It is hoped that the death of the opposition has served to ex- terminate whatever intention to wreak vengeance on its promoters the Southern Pacific may have been supposed to cherish, The two interesting deductions to be drawn from this disclosure are that certain citizens fear the Southern Pacific and that some of the old corporation’s professed friends will deliver a blow for the public good if they think there is no danger of be- ing discovered in the act. The quest‘imw} then arise, Does this condition of affairs exist elsewhere in the State? Can it be taken, if it does exist, to explain many things which otherwise would be inex- plicable? If old stories be accepted as true, there are merchants in California outside of Oakland who have been influenced by such considerations as those which are said to bave existed in our neighbor across the bay. It has been explained that this alone, worked out both by intimidation the recalcitrant and reward of the faithful, has been sufficient to explain the absence of competition in transportation. It is well enough to remember that such stories have been circulated, and it is im- portant to do all that is possible to make them appear absurd. We should hate to admit tnat in California a man can be found so lacking in the higher elements of manhood and the better gualifications for success in life as to have entertained a | fear, at any time in his life, of anything ice and disloyalty to his State and his| people. If bere and there such a man has ex- isted we may be sure that, as the master of his own affairs and a factor in the up- | building of his State, he has been a non- | entity, and hence his friendship for the great corporation could not have brought it a conspicuous benefit or done the State appreciable harm. However that may be with reference to the past, the time for it is gone and will never return. The organ- ization of the San Joaquin Valley Railroad has put a final stop to that, and awakened the pride and courage of all who may ever have faltered. A WONDERFUL CONTRAST. The completion of the Alpine section of the Mourt Lowe electric road in Southern California brings the terminus of the Jine to the snows which prevail on the moun- tain in winter. In recognition of the pleas- | ures made accessible by this fact, the Al- proposes to open this winter a seriesof | winter pastimes, made possible by the pres- ence of abundant snow. These will in-| clude sleighingand toboggan slides. Thus the remarkable fact is presented of winter pleasures in the heart of a semi-tropical | region. It will require but an hour to | the terminus a commodious clubhouse and | | groves and rose-gardens of the valley from the deep snows of winter. Apart from the vleasures which these delightful sports will yield, the persons | who avail themselves of the opportunity will receive health benefits of the most valuable kind. The whole coast of Cali- fornia presents so level thermal conditions and is withal so stimulating by reason of the presence of constant ocean winds, that it has long been a serious question with physicians whether it would not be better to make a change from the coast to the cold of the high BSierras for a short time during the winter. This does not mean to say that the heath of the people seems to require such a change, for that they are the soundest and healthiest people in the country admits of no denial. It is merely a question of attaining still better results that a short change to cold altitudes is suggested. The people of San Francisco have the grandest of all opportunities to make such a change, and bring with it a sharper con- trast and a greater variety of pleasures than are possible in the extreme southern end of the State. The railroad carries them to Truckee, whence Donner Lakeis distant only a few miles by a road which in winter makes the finest kind of sleigh- ing. Best of all, the lake freezes in winter, and thus presents a field for skating that cannot be surpassed. The Burlingame Club has demonstrated the eagerness with which the well-to-do people of the City take to wholesome outdoor sports in sum- mer. Itisa reasonable conclusion thata similar club might establish winter quar- ters at Truckee on the plan of the Los Angeles club, and so employ the advan- tages offered by Donner Lake. Besides the pleasure and health deriv- zble from such a source, the matter of edu- cation should not be overlooked. A native Californian in a very cold country finds OUR EXCHANGES. Among the communities of the State that look forward to a new growth in the new era because of the coming of a new spirit among the people is West Berkeley. In that community there was formed some time ago & progressive club, having for its purpose the accomplishment of the task of making West Berkeley a manufacturing center. Commenting on the work of the club the Berkeley Gazette says that already ‘“‘a site and machinery has been obtained for the manufacture of a bicycle, to be known as the Berkeley. This factory will be in operation in less than a month. and employment will be given to quite a num- ber of skilled mechanics and the force will be increased just as fast as the demand for wheels keeps up.” This speedy success in the work of the club is encouraging and certainly justifies the Gazette in saying: “Now that the ice has broken others will follow in quick succession and within another year the whistles will blow over a score of manufactories.” The fact that recent trade statistics show an apparent decrease in the per capita con- sumption of meat by the people of this country has led some writers to conclude that the struggle of life has become too hard for the American workingman of to-day to live in the style of a few years ago, and that beefsteaks and chops had been dropped from the breakfast table as a matter of economy. The Portland Ore- gonian however takes, as we con- sider, a truer view of the subject, and says: ‘“The American workingman has been learning that he can eat other teams, but it would be still iess creditable to her people if they should submit to ex- action when the remedy is so easy. The Advance is certainly preaching the right doctrine. Competition is the weapon with which to fight the would-be monopoly, and whether the competing power be a steam- boat, a railroad or a mule team, no sconer #ill it have struck its blow than the monopoly rates will come down, and after that they will stay down. Among the matters of public concern whose importance increases every year is that of the protection of our forests and according to the Independent Calistogian the work at present is inadequately done. It asserts “‘there are men actively engaged working in the forests of the State, away up in the high Sierras—where the tender- footed commissioners never go, because they would have to go on foot and climb some steep lava steppes—on lands that be- long to the State and on which grows some of the finest and most valuable sugar- pine there isin the country, and these men are felling these grand monarchs of the Sierras for no other purpose than to split up the butts into shakes for a few cents per 100.” If this statement is correct the Cal- istogian is right in calling for the appoint- ment of an active forester who knows the mountains and is vigorous enough to get about in them and protect the State for- ests. There is, of course, a deep-rooted ob- jection to increasing the number of State officials, but this might be easily avoided by dispensing with one or two of those we now have, but whom we could well spare. - That the people of King—s County should HON. JOSEPH ARAM. This venerable gentleman, now a resident of San Jose, was a member of the first Constitutional Convention of California. things than meat to equally as good ad-)go down to the seacoast every summer vantage. Oatmeal has supplanted fried | fora change isin the judgment of the meat to a great extent, and to the great | Hanford Sentinel good enough as far as it himself deplorably helpless. He cannot engage in any of the outdoor winter sports because he has not learned them, and is likely to suffer physically frora the cold. A few short winter seasons at Truckee would educate and harden him. gain of the life of the people. cheaper. Rice is more in demand and within easier reach. Bread is better and cheaper. Perhaps, more than all, there is incalculable gain in the extension of fruit consumption to the tables of the masses. Fruit is a staple article of table use, in- | stead of the between-meal luxury it used | | to be.” It may be said of this view that even if the American has taken to cereals and fruit as a substitute to a large extent for meat, as a matter of forced economy, be will have noreason to regretit. Thanks to the prolific orchards of the Pacific Coast, fruit is sufiiciently abundant for all, and the more largely it is consumed, the better | will be the health of tbe people and the | finer their enjoyment of life. The Harbor Commissioners have doubt- less received a multitude of suggestions in regard to the material to be used in the construction of the ferry depot at the foot of Market street, but that is no reason they should not receive more. The Bridgeport Chronicle-Union, for example, declares: “They should decide to use our Bridgeport travertine, the most beautiful and lasting building material in the world. The build- ing is for all time—or as long as it will | last—and the best of everything should be putin.” Whether the Bridgeport traver- tine is really the most beautiful and last- ing building material in the world is a subject which may be thought debatable in other localities having building mate- rial to sell, but none can question the right of the Chronicle-Union to speak up for the home product and speak boldiy. may not get this particular order for the travertine, but it has certainly given the material a good ad. and helped to make a market for it. The reduction in freight rates made by the Southern Pacific Company on ship- ments from all points between San Luis Obispo and Guadalupe has afforded the San Luis Obispo Tribune an opportunity to teach the people of that section a clear lesson on the value of competition. It points out that Mr. Huntington has him- self explained that the reduction was made simply as a matter of business, in view of the competition of the Pacific Coast Steam- ship Company, which, if the old rates con- tinued, would secure all the grain ship- ments from the southern portion of this county. In reducing the rates Mr. Hunt- ington was careful to make them appiy only to points that are far enough south to have the advantage of shipment by water from Port Harford. The lesson should be learned by the shippers of eyery _section of the State. Alllocalities do not enjoy the advantage of competition by water, but the work\now going on in the San Joaquin shows they can have com- peting railroads, and that the power of breaking the cinch of the monopoly is in their own hands. ‘While waiting for a competing railroad the San Benito Advance urges the people of that section to employ their idle hours to haul the hay crop to market. With hay at $6 a ton, it says, the railway charges eat up one-third of the amount, leaving no profit for farmers. A proof of the ad- vantage of using teams for transportation, it says, ‘‘can be found in the Alliance mule team, which delivers flour to Santa Cruz, returns to Hollister loaded with lumber and thence to Gilroy with grain. Not a dingle mile is traveled empty, and the team isalong way ahead of railroad rates.”” It is not to the credit of California that in this age of the world any portion of her people outside the mountains should be compelled to make long hauls with mule 1t | | very effective in practice. Sugar is | goes, but to bring the matter up to the standard of perfect goodness, it demands | that seacoast people should go to Kings for a change. To effect this result it says in earnest exhortation to the people of the county: “Let us go to work and advertise our sunshine, our glorious balmy nights, our tonic-laden lake breezes and famous artesian waters.” The exhortation should not pass unheeded. A variety in summer resorts is one of the needs of every Ameri- can State. Every man in this country who has a dollar feels a longing every summer for change, and in the absence of any resort that stands as high as four aces, no one can overlook the advantage of trying Kings. As a means of carrying out more ef- fectively the plan of organizing ‘home industry clubs’” throughout the State the Independent Calistogian suggests that the Manufacturers’ Association ‘“get up by- laws and printed matter that would make the formation of such clubs easy,” and says: “The club system that we have in our mind would permit the various locali- ties to get their local interests before the association. Thus, the fruit, wine and other important industries of Calistoga should, in turn, through the local ciub, zet the ear of the Manufacturers’ Association and their active aid in the correction of abuses or regulation of faulty trade condi- tions. With reciprocal interest the club system could be made a success.”” The suggestions are certainly worth the fullest consideration of the Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation, as the proposed plan might prove While Mariposa County has been gener- ally regarded as distinctively a mining section, the Mariposa Gazette declares “‘there is probably no other county in the State which offers such favorable opening for agriculture.”” The valleys are said to contain land capable of producing almost any kind of California product, there is an abundance of water for irrigation, and, as the Gazette says: ‘ Add to these ad- vantages the consideration that instead of $50 to $200 an acre demanded in other sec- tions, our lands can be had for $2 50 to $15, and it is at once demonstrated that supe- rior inducements exist for those who desire to engage in agriculture.”” These aspects of our mountain and mining counties ought to be more often considered than they are. There is ample room in them for the thousands that cannot afford to pay high prices for land, but who have the desire and the energy to make homes of their own; and this fact cannot be too often repeated, nor made too widely known. THOUGHTS OF EASTERN EDITORS. For a Short Campaign. If we would have & pure electorate with men voting according to their convictions as little time as possible must be afforded for corrup- tion, for money is powerful and men are weak. Let the campaign cover time enough for the issues to be well comprehended and six weeks will be found ample for that. All the rest is more fuss and feathers and noise and fraud.— Chicago Times-Heral A New Light Machine. 4 H. B. Cox, the Hartford electrician, who claims to have discovered a way to turn heat into electricity, has sold his patents to an Eng- lish company and will remove there to conduct the manufacture of the machines, for 10,000 of which an_order has already been given. Hartford could have retained the manufacture for $25,000, but her capitalists refused to raise it.—New Bediord Stan It Was a Dead Lock. There is such a thing as locking up valuables 80 tight you cannot get at them, justas it is possible to hide things so that you cannot find them. A man in Sharon, Ps., locked up his safe so well he could not open it. He tried dynamite. Blew the safe to atoms; blew $500 in greenbacks into g!ece!, also $5000 in se- curities, and practicelly destroyed two houses. —Philadelphia News. The One Thing Lacking. In his report on the contagious diseases of the cinch bug covering -four years, just issned by the State Entomologist, we see no reference to appendicitis. The cinch bug has rheuma- tism, cerebro-spinal meningitis, eroup and other plebeian complaints, but can it be pos- sible that it has no vermiform appendix?— Chicago Times-Herald. A Chicago Incident. A woman walking along Illinois street past & house where an eviction was taking place was hit on the head by a carpet which fell from an upper window. On recovering she romptly knocked down & man who was stand- ng in the doorway of the house. Thus was her injury avenged and the law of gravitation reproved.—Chicago News. A Good Step. In taking steps to investigate the Cheng-Tu riots without waiting for England. the State Department is showing a good American spirit. There is no good reason why an inves- tigation of this outrage should be delayed until next winter, and this Government should be able to reach conclusions without consult- ing with any other. American interests abroad are entitled to the fullest measure of protec- tion, and a few examples of promptand inde- pendent action will be of value in showing the world that we are ready and able to afforti such protection.—Pittsburg Dispatch. In Bleeding Kansas. Within its borders there is always a feast ora famine, a chill or & fever. One year it produces such crops that the price of grain is depressed the world over, and another year it is so devas- tated by a drought or drenched by tempests that not enough grain is grown for seed. Once or twice the grasshoppers have made an on- slaught upon it, devouring everything visibly reen but the inhabitants. In one half of the tate it never rains, and in the other half when it does rain it brings a flood. It is always at extremes, and such it has been for forty-one years, when Stephen A. Douglas first organized it asa Territory and broke down the Missouri compromise.—Chicago Times-Herald. The Next Campaign. Business men want to shorten Presidential campaigns, the politicians want to lengthen them if any change at all is made, and the masses of the people are not taking sides one way or the other. The conventions of 1896 probably will meet at about she usual time. - Dining Room Decorations. - Madam Christine Nilsson having covered the walls of her dining room with hotel bills which she has paid, a New York actor has gone one better by adorning his with those which he still owes.—Evening Sun. The Window Glass Truste The capital of the window glass trust is said to be $25,000,000. They will give to seaboard jobbers a differential of 724 per cent in order 10 kill foreign competition. Thil;hn of using & differential in order to head off formidable competitors is apparently borrowed from the Texas Railroad Commissfon.—Galveston News. ARGCUND THE CORRIDORS. Yesterday aiternoon as Judge Joschimsen left his Police Court a broad smile spread over his face, and he ehuckled to himself as thoug he had just heard the best joke in the world. It is, by the way, nothing unusual to hear the Judge break out in laughter at the most unex- pected times, and as a rule there is generally some pretty good reason for it. “Can’t you tell me that joke, Judge?” said County Clerk Curry, who happened to be sweeping along the corridors with the well- known Curry stride. “Certainly. Come back a minute and I'l1 let you in on the ground floor. I was just think- ing of & very funny thing that happened up in Nevada years ago when I was practicing law. The Etate at that time was full of humorists and good fellows, and nothing was ever thought of taking liberty with en old friend, no matter how hard you hit him. Well,as1 was about to say, several lawyers, myself among others, were congregated in a court- room in Virginia City one day when in walked a fellow we used to call Metalliferous Murphy. He was & mining expert and a pretty sharp fel- low. Charley de Long happened to be one of the party, and at that time he had justre- ceived the portfolio of Minister to Japan. Poor JUDGE JOACHIMSEN GOZS BACK A FEW YEARS. [Sketched from life for “*The Cald” by Nankivell.] Charley; he is dead now. Mighty good fellow, Curry. You never knew him, did you? Well, to go on. Murphy took De Long in carefully and said: “‘What's the matter, Charley? I thought you were Minister to Japan.’ 1801 am, answered De Long. ««Well, whatare you doing here? Has the office been declared vacant?’ “No; Mr. Van Valkenberg is still Minister, and will be in charge until I arrive.” «(Oh,yes, I see,’ said Murphy, extracting a cigar from De Long’s pocket, ‘the office won't be vacant until you get there.’” At this juncture the Judge burst into a fit of laughter that he had been working up all morning. “Isn’t that the best thing you ever heard, Curry?”’ said he. “Yes, that’s top notch, Judge, and reminds me of the story of the conversation that passed between the Governor of North Carolina and the Governor of South Carolina.” “That's riglit, Charley. That's right. Your story is the best. I see the point, Charley. All right. Be with you in a moment.” Shortly afterward the two officials were seen on Mc- Allister street, each smiling at the joke of the other. PERSONAL. J. L. Jansen, a cattle man of Ukiah, is at the Russ. Major Frank McLaughlin of Oroville is at the P Joseph Keller, 8 merchant of Eureka, isat the Russ. E. C. Loftus, s mining man of Sonora, is at the Grand. J. F. Parks, a mining man of Amador, is at the Grand. Charles A. Swisler, a merchant of Placerville, is at the Grand. Dr.apd Mrs. W. H. Hawley of Aurora, I, are at the Grand. Mr.and Mrs. F. B. Smith of Santa Barbara are at the Grand. Howard A. Harris of the Fowler Ensign is a guest at the Russ. % Arthur Dinkelspiel, a merchant'of Fresno, is 8L the Occidental. A, L. Levinsky, an attorney of Stockton, isa guest at the Grand. - Judge Peter B.Grosscup, United States Dis- trict Judge of the northern district of Tllinofs, who issued the injunction during the great strikes of last yeer, for disobeying which Eu= gene Debs was sentenced to six months’ im- prisonment for contempt, is'at the Palace with his wife and daughter. Alfred V. la Motte, a vineyardist of Glen Ellen, is at the Grand. % E. S. Golyer, a mining man of Salt Lake, is staying the Occide: V. 8. McClatchey of the Sacramento Bee 18 staying at the California. @. Martin, a merchant of Volta, and his family are guests at the Lick. W. F. Knox Jr, a banker of Sacramento, registered at the Grand yesterday. P.E. G. Hunter of the big Miller & Lux ranch at Bakersfield is at the Russ, Dr. J.W. Adams and wife and Charles A. Adams of New Orleans are at the Grand, F. Roldan, a prominent merchant of Mazat- lan, Mexico, registered at the Occidental yes- terday. C.W. Stinger, assistant ticket agent of the Southern Pacific at Portland, is a guest at the Occidental. L. Borgwards, Sheriff of Kern County, came up from Bakersfield yesterday and registered at the Russ. General B, W. Sheehan of the Sacramento Record-Union came down yesterday and put up at the Occidental. W. B. Gilbert, United States Disirict Judge, came down from Portland yesterday and regis- tered at the Occidental. Elizabeth Mellor of Brooklyn and Agnes 8. Sowle of Hagaman, N. Y. mMissionaries to Alaska, are at the Occidental. PEOFLE OF PROMINENCE. Lord Salisbury, the new British Premier, weighs about 280 pounds. The Czar has sent 1000 francs for the pro- posed monument to Marshal Canrobert at St. Cere, France. The subscription list already amounts to 60,000 francs. The manuseript of Gray’s *‘Elegy” remainead in the author's hand seven years, receiving touches here and there, and would not have been published then had not a copy loaned to a friend been printed. “James Logan of Greene Township, who was robbed of $950 some years ago, does nearly all his farm-work by hand,” says the Greenville (Pa.) Advance-Argus. “This season he cut all his hay with an old-fashioned scythe. The ten or twelve tons of hay harvested he carried in on his back, not even using a fork.” Messrs. Lloyd Lowndes Jr. and ‘Richard T. Lowndes, the twin sons of Mr. Lloyd Lowndes, Republican nominee for Governor of Maryland, are 23 years old. Each is 6 feet 1 inch in heigkt and weighs 170 pounds. They are fine looking fellows, are almost the exact counters part of each other and are members of the senior class at Yale. The Liberals of Montreal have decided to erect a monument in memory of the late Honore Mercier, Prime Minister of the Province of Quebec. This has roused the ire of journals ists of the opposite stripe, and a bitter war i3 now in progress. The Toronto Mail and Em- pire says thet ‘“the question at once arises ‘whether the monument will stand as a public recognition of what his country owes him orof what he owes his country.” The chief sign of old age in Barthelemy Saint-Hilaire, the veteran French scholar, is his defective eyesight. Otherwise he is in excellent health, the result of a life of self. denial. How rigorous this was in his youth may be inferred from the fact that when he was a Government clerk he lived on $40 a year for seVeral years, and when he was elected a professor in the College of France, he was earning only $400 a year. He lost his place as rector of this college because he did not answer & dinner invitation sent him by Louis Napoleon in 1851. Lord Limerick, who is known at the Carlton Club in London &s “The Little Man,” has just been appointed captein of that fine and pic- turesque corps of veterans known as the Yeo- men of the Guard, more popularly styled «Beefeaters,”” and who &t ali court and state functions act as palace guards and as body guards to Queen Victoria. In former days, when she used to attend the theater in state, two of them, halberd in hand, wou.d stand on the stage, immediately below the royal box. Lord Limerick’s office carries with {ta salary 01 $6000 & year, besides numerous allowances. SOME SMILES IN SECRET. “What luck did you have fishing?” asked the man who had no voeation. “Tough,” groaned the lazy man. “The fish bit so fast that I had no chance to enjoy myself at all.”—Indianapolis Journal. 01d Mercator (to little Billy Ducks, just left school, who applies for situation as office-boy, and produces testimonial from clergyman)— “We don’t want you on Sundays, my good little boy. Have you a reference from any one who knows you on weekdays?”’—Sydney Bul- letin. “Do you think she loves him?” “Desperately.” “Why desperately 2" “Because he is her lastchance.”—London Tit-Bits. The grammar class was on the floor. “In the sentence, ‘I love you,’ what is the mood of the verb?” asked the teacher. “‘Sentimental mood,” replied one of the large girls, who had spent most of the summer atthe seashore.—Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph, Dora—Mr. Spooner says he always feels like a fish out of water when he is with me. Cora—Then you've hooked him, have you?— Harper’s Bazar. “Why don’t you marry that girl? Sheiss real pearl.” ‘“ah, yes, but I don’t like the mother of pearl.”—Fliegende Blaetter. “Yes,” said Mrs. Hunnimune, “Ilearned to cook without any difficulty at all. There was only one trouble about it.” “What was that?"” “Educating my husband’s appetite.”~Wash- ington Star. Van Jay—Miss Meeks called me a fool. 1 look like & fool? Millicent—No, you do not. I don’t think she judged you by her looks.—Brooklyn Eagle. Do “How time goes,” he said as the clock struck 11. “It's the only thing that does go,” she an- swered wearily; and he took the hint.—Detroit Free Press. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A F1ure Too. MucH—D. G., City. In the answer given recently as to the nationality of the soldiers who served in the Union arufy, by mistake in type setting one figure too much was set in the number of natives of Ireland Wwho took partin the wars. The number was 144,200 instead of 1,444,200 as printed. 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