The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 29, 1895, Page 13

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1595. 13 deserved idolatry, adora- enerous Sacramento River of ours—the river that saved the Nation with its The Sac: tion, it is this mento River, our Sacramento, is the most classic storied as well as most beautiful and fruitful of all the nvers of th continent. The St. Lawrence has been red with battle, the Merrimac has been made famous by her poets, the Hud- son is an artery of trade and gooaly to see as the seasons march to the south with ers of fire, the James has been famous ince the days of Pocahontas, but here and glory, golden and glittering harvests are and bave been from the first and must remain to the end of time. A million men, such men as the world bas not seen since the siege of Troy, have Sacramento and San Francisco. have a sewer before we build a house. There are four reasons why the classic old Sacramento River must be opened, | opened as the Clyde is opened to the ranite piers of Glasgow. The trust com- pany which opened the Clyde from Green- ock to Glasgow had but one good reaso: commerce. Here we have not onl one good reason for this great work b us, but the health, the lives, of the brave, good people of the great heart of California are at stake. Yes, I know no one li to be told that the mud has made malaria from one end of the land to the other; but it is the cold, ugly truth; mud for months and then malaria till mud comes again. That is a fact. The third reason is the boundless wealth of lands to be recovered and protected. ore let fall the sweat of their faces in this| 1 oo 8lone is enough. The California sacred Sacramento River of ours. Many a ‘1{1 Sy il brave man fought and fell, here.|ihere | "> 107Ith, and indeed the firat reason. is the mines. The mines must be opened are unmarked graves along the tributaries up to the very snowbanks of the Sierras. Ne every great general of our h from Fremont’s time down to th has battled here,and many a good man, obscure and old and forgotten now, fought here and bled here when those who read this were unborn or but babes in the cradle. I once saw the silver edge of this river made purple with the blood of such men, when they were brought down from the | battlefield at Castle Crags by comrades to wash their wounds. This wa ago last June. You see, as boy and man I know the Sacramento well, and I love it The hero of that day, Captain Gibson, 'still lives near there, a feeble and almost forgotten old man, one of many who made the storied Sacramento famous befole many of you were born. Let us no longer continue to dam this river and by so doing continue to damn ourselves and the State. There isa stronger 7 the world is aware of—healthy and con- tinuous, too. | Now let us get ontof town. “Letus look | into this thing,” as the man said to his | wife when they fell into the well. Last year some good and well-meaniag | man of San Francisco proposed sending | the thousands of poor men haunting the | souphouses, in a body to the mines of the | north. The mountain towns very prop- | erly protested; the plan fell through for | good reasons. But out of the idea good came. few of those unfortunate men, being practical old miners and really eager to work, contrived to get a little help here | and there, little parties of two or three or four of them together, by prom- | ising to share witn their backers, and so made their . way $o the| mines again and went to work. One of | these backers is to-day a very rich man from his small investment; some others have done well, and I have yet to hear of any one who helped the old miners out of town that has lost any money or any faith in his fellows by it. I sent two men, at less cost than the price of this sketch, and although they did not find a mine, as many others did, they took up a wood ranch, cut and sold wood, sent for their families and, meantime, got hold of some pigs and now have quite a little property under their acorn trees. Not to weary with detail, it is best right here to say that they returned the small sum as soon as | they earned it after they gave up pros- pecting. You see this inflow to the old mining camps compels a whole lot of other enter- prises. The miner must have meat, eggs, vegetables, so if the prospector don’t find a mine to share with the man who stakes him, he at least can find a home. Now, this is no new way at all. I reckon that in the old days there was hardly a merchant, hotel man or anybody else of account in San Francisco who did not have some sort of interest in from one to a dozen little prospecting parties in the monntains. And, truly, there hever wasa better time to invest in this way than now. Why, look here! A few years ago the gold and silver and copper mines were quoted at hundreds of millions. Have they been worked out? Not at ail. They have simply, as a rule, been abandoned. From the first it was quite the fashion to drop down to San Francisco and spend half the winter, and too often all the money, ani 5o the miners gradually left the moun- tains. Then came the quarrel between the farmers and miners, and mines were nbandbned. Yet they are worth ten times what theéy were then. Why? Because they, through the discovery of new ways of working otes, can be worked ever so many times cheaper. The ‘story of the Morgan Hill mine, Queensland, that reads like a romance, awaits repetition a thousand times over in the California Sierras. That fabulous mine was located and, for a long time, worked as & copper mine. It was abandoned, as our Hecla, Anaconda and other mines made copper-mining there profitless, as so many of our own copper, gold, silver and all other sorts of mines have been aban- doned. After a time, in the eighties, I be- lieve, it was worked for gold, a new pro- tess for smelting and separating the com- pound ores having been found. Last year the old Morgan Hill copper mine yielded more -than twelve million dollars, net, in gold. Now we have got to go back to our mines, and go back to stay; and we have zot to.go back right. That is, we have got io clear out the Sacramento River, clean it »ut like a sluice, so that ships can go up to Bacramento and gold can come down to s forty years | flow of brawn and_brain up this river to- | vy toward the oid abandoned mines than | milk—all sorts of things, and | ‘We must | save? | tha | | and the river must be opened in order to Idon’tknow, nordo I really care. I only know we are entitled to it, much or little, and more than that. Iknow we can get it if we demand, and persistently and unitedly demand, and demand it simply be- cause it is right, for this Nation means to do what is right in the main. The idea that money is thrown away when put out on public works is a babe’s idea. es of the globe, like Germany and France, pour out ter when oppressed by hard Red Sea canal, the Man- The times. chester, the great seaport of the Mediter- ranean—these are examples for us to fol- low, if we are too weak to lead. Anyway, we have got to open our mines once more. The population of California is not increasing as it should. Something good, courageous, great, shou!d be done, and done now. It is ccwardly, contempt- ible, to let men die in the mud like rats each year and do nothing. Itisa sin and shame to have the old miners turned out | and kept out of their mines in their last [ 1 “OLD GIB” (REUBEN P. GIBSON). fully open and keep open the mines. What years. It is ruinous to the State, too. We man will say that the wolf of want would have ever been neard at our doors if these | mines, even in the shiftless way in which they were being worked, had been kept open? And what man can say where our Nation would have been to-day had Cafi- fornia never poured out her heart’s blood, ruined her rivers, given her right arm and her left arm to defend the Nation! | Stands Scotland where she did? The | National capital would be to-day at Rich- mond, New Orleans—anywhere except at ion at all. at suc sacrifice of life, limb and fortune, shall we now hesitate to respectfully ask | | that this nation show some equity and at the same time gain vast profit and honor? The population of Glaszow when the | trust company was formed to open the | Clyde was but little above that of Sacra- | mento County to-day, but Glasgow is now 'onc of the greatest cities of the globe. | Fifty-five millions sterling was the sum in- ‘ volved, a vast sum in those days. But the profits, to say nothing of the good done,have been great from the first. The bondsareand | bave been 21l along at par with those of the empire, and they had no such grand | stream. as this of ours. I know the Clyde well, the home of my fathers. A | cousin there told me he could re- | member sitting in the wagon with his father waiting for the tide to go out | 80 as to drive across the Clyde near Glas- | gow. But now the proudest sea ships | grind their steel prows against the granite | walls of Glasgow. Look at Germany to- day, with the new canal to the Baltic, the | Elbe opened to Bremen and every great ship that sails the once muddy and ma- | larious Elbe paid to come and paid to go | by the enterprising and unconquered enemy of all the Cesars. Itell you candidly that despite ali our | brag we are forty years behind the age out | here. There are only two or three places in the State that we take any great inter- est in at all. Only last year we allowed hundreds, thousands of men to go hungry up and down the land hunting work. We hoped they would leave the country. I reckon some of them did. We not onty were cutting off our own fingers, but serenely bleeding to death. Meantime year after year the once proud and shining Sacramento River has come, all tears and mud, to the doors of our capi- tal, knocking and knocking and knocking, like an unheeded old tramp, asking the way to the sea. It is simply shameful, pitiful, deplorable to see this once glorious river, with all its tender traditions, tear- ing like mad through the orchards, homes of hard-toiling men, to find its' once peace- ful way to the Golden Gate. And noone to guide or help, only to dam! ‘How much money will it cost this Na- tion, which California gave her very life to Washington—if, indeed, we even had any | Therefore, having saved the country, and | have the garden of the earth rizht in the | heart of the State if we but dared to claim |and at once, 'want back pay. it and plant it. Were I the State I should begin this work of opening the Sacramento River, confident that the not un- grateful Nation would come right along to the rescue. One thing is certain, we will never have the old traditional good health here till it is at least begun; and as certain is it that we will never have opened the agricultural possibilities of the State to the world till it is done, nor will we ever know how many such mines as the Mor- gan Hill, with its $12,000,000 annual out- put, we have till we get back into the mines and look the thing over again, as | did the Morgan Hill men. Going up the Sacramento on the boat lately to look things over, although unfor- tunately we travel most of the river after nightfall, I asked an officer the probable cost of opening the stream. “Oh, a million; may be two millions. “Well, now, all I have to say is, if it takes ten, twenty, fifty, one hundred mii- lions, we are going to demand it, and we are going to get it, too.” The man walked away, looking back at me in the white moonlight as if he thought Iwas on my way to Stockton, or ought to be. But Iappeal to every man in the State, in the Union, to answer if, considering all the facts, this is not right. We lost our limbs, our health, fortune, to save the Union. We want our limbs restored, we want a pension, we And, to sum all up in a nutshell, it will pay the Nation as nothing | ever paid before, for it will fill our empty pockets with gold, and our empty ocean and bay with ships. JoaQuiN MILLER. Tra Kora Nur ror Sorpiers.—Experi- ments are being made with kola as a marching ration for soldiers. A marching or emergency ration is food sufficient to keep the soldier alive four days when the army iscut off from the base of suppliés. This ration is carried on the soldier’s back, like so much ammunition, and is never touched except in case of extrem- ity. It is therefore important that the food so carried should be nourishing, port- able, and adapted, as far as possible, to the needs of the average soldier on the march. Coffee has hitherto been used for this pur pose, and the tests in progress are to determine whether kola can be substituted for it with advantage. Coffee has a high therapeutic value. It keeps the soldier in good humor, and this always makes him a better fighter. An important consideration also is that the coffee drinker must boil _his water in order to drink his coffee, and in forced marches where the water is bad it is better for men to drink coffee ard water, necessarily boiled and therefore, free from the risk of infection, than to drink water straight. Kola has been proved to possess some remarkable characteristics. The troops of the Twelith Regiment of infan- try, at Laval, subsisted without the slight- est inconvenience or difficulty for forty hours on the nut, executing meanwhile a march of thirty-eight and a half miles in thirteen hours and fifteen minutes. Similar experiences have been noted at various military posts. The gen- eral reports show_that kola allays thirst and hunger and enormously Increases muscular strength, while instead of being attended by a bad after-effect it regulates the system in many and vital ways. An experiment was made with tne kola nut at Fort Sheridan, when two soldiers under- took to walk to Minneapolis and back, a distance of about twenty-five miles. The walk was taken in the hot sun. One sol- dier fed only on kola and the other ate and drank as usual. The kola proved the more satisfactory dier. The soldier who bad partaken of ordinary diet came in almost oveaome by the "heat and thor- ougkly tired and stiff from the long walk. The other man, who had but recently left a sickbed, and had not fully regained his strength, was much the frest:er of the two and had suffered but little from the heat. Hesaid henever felt better, and he thought the walk had done him good. He ate two of the nuts on the way to Minneapolis and two on the way back, and he sat and rested while his companion ate and drank. He had not felt the need of other food. While these cases are well authenticate. a mili- tary authority of great experience advises extreme caution in experiments with kola nut, which, he says, is not by any means so harmless and so free from reaction as it is made out to be by persons interested in its sale. NEW LINE OF NDLSTR, A Book Publishing House Would Succeed in San Francisco. Books Issued Here Could Be Readily Placed on the Eastern Market. In the development of new industries, | affording employment for labor, capital and inteilect, THE CALL is recognized as an active agent. There is one line of indus- try that ought not to be overlooked, and that relates to the business of publishing books in San Francisco. At one time there was an impression in the United States that a book-publishing concern of the first rank could not live outside of Boston. but the success of publishing- houses in New York caused the illusion to | vanish. When Chicago, the metropolis of | the “wild and woolly West,”” first proposed | to publish books, New York and Bosion | smiled in derision, but now three of tha | largest book-publishing institutions of the country live in the city by Lake Michigan. St. Lounis proposes to enter the field, and | the best posted writers, authors and book men in California aver that there is no reason why San Francisco should not suc- ceed in this same field of enterprise. Yesterday Emile Bauer, manager of the San ¥Francisco News Company 1 think a California authors’ literary eries can be conducted in this When a ) that city ries of lterary works the miled with & good deal of sarcism at the ture, and predicied failure. Complete success, however, is the Tesult. ion that there is oruia literature. It is a mistake to su pose that Ca books cannot be placed in ['the East This is especiall; y { line of b 1can sa; ws Compeuy, in connection with the News Compan s all the f alure on 7l series by California authors which titled to second-class postage can wouid be 50 p) { Inorderto obtain the second class rate [ of 1 cent per pound through the muils, in- stead of paying the first-class rateof 8 cents, a book must be issued at least every | three wee! Some of the Kastern houses issue & book every w Itis the judgment of Mr.Bauer, Albert van der Naillen, Mr. Doxey, Lucius H. Foote, | and many others who have given the sub- | ject study, that a quarterly series could | easily enough be w. ted. Tt does not | follow that one euthor should supvly all | the copy for the series. As many authors | as desired could be represented. For ex- ample, General Foote mizht bave one, Miss Coolbith another, Bierce another, Van der Naillen one, and so on. If the demand justified the production, one book & month could be published. When the scheme was unfoided to General Foote vesterday he said: I am heartily in faver of 1t. There can be no doubt of its success. The subject Jias been cussed by the Literary Guiid of thisState. You know each member o s guild agrees to take at leastone copy of every Califorma book pub- lished, so that insures the publisher about 00 to begin with. Ina D. Coolbith’s bouk now with Houghton, Miflin & Co., of Boston. know that the publishers in the East will predict tailure for the enterprise in California, but they did the same when Chicago entered | the field. Then they deciared that it would be | the death of an author's work to issne a_book | n Chicago. ‘“We have,” they ¢aid, “the facili- | ties for reachiug the trade; we control the book | notices in the press, and if you leave us you | o to your own ruin.” In face of all obstacles | icago succeeded, and we can succeed in San | The type-setting, the illustrating, the printing, the binding and everything else can be done as well here as elsewhere. by experience that California authors would be the gainers by having their books published in San Francisco. Authors whose books have gome into the fourth edition have received nothing. The publishers settle when they get ready. Mr. Hard of the Boston Transcript in- vestigated for me the sales of one book, and I am convinced by his report that the account- ing by the publishing firm covered less than nnfi-i-luunh of the number of books actually sold. General Foote is now doing considerable literary work. A few days since he re- ceived proofs from the Pall Mall Magazine of two accepted sonnets, and several of his %nems have been published recently in the oston Transcript. Albert Van der Naillen, author of “On the Heights of Himalay,” is an earnest ad- vocate of a San Francisco publishing- house. He has ready for the press a sequel to this work. In his judgment the work can be done as well here as in any Eastern city. The artistic talent for high-class illustration is avaitable, paper of the finest quality can be obtained. and all the me- chanical work can be done in the highest style of modern art. At present California authors are com- pelled to send their manuscripts to East- ern publishing-houses, and even when ac- cepted on first reading it takes a year for the book to make its appearance before the public. The time consumed in corre- ngondenceu interminable. The patience of the author is taxed in discussing terms of contract, changing contracts, reading proof, mnking necessary changes and sending back final proofs. To such an ex- tent has this inconvenience manifested it- self that many authors have been obliged to move East. Local authors say that a book-publishing house would create a new industry for San Francisco, as the printing, binding, litho- nrhmg, engraving, the production of ali-tone plates, would all done here. At the same time the author would have the guarantee that no more than the num- ber of thousand copies agreed upon to be printed would be issued, and we are sure that every facility of control would be af- forded him by the publishing-house in- trusted with his work. Thus the number of copies printed—and therefore the num- ber of copies sold entitling him to payment or royalty thereon, an item absolutely be- yond the author’s control when his book is pablished in the East—would become a matter of easy verilication here and en- tirely to his satisfaction. i | | | | rode, and he played cards. FOR HIS HONOR. AN EPISODE OF MODERN By a turn of chance a father and son were thrown together in one of the West- ern frontier posts, the father as colonel in command, the son as a second lieutenant in one of the four companies quartered there. When the order came which had brought them together, after the three vears which had gone by since the boy left West Point, it brought great but silent happiness to the stern and gloomy old sol- dier and a light-hearted pleasure to the young man; once more he would be with “dear old dad,” and besides, Jife must be rather exciting out there, and altogether worth a man’s while. And so he packed his traps in double-quick time, as a soldier must, and was off in twenty-four hours. The meeting between the two wasa strange | one. Effusive and very gay on the part of the young man, who made no effort to conceal his delight; stiff, even cold, on the part of the old man, whose very heart quivered with joy, and on whose stern and | bronzed face a light came which the boy | did not even see. The colonel was not a popular man. Hard and cold, rigidin the performance of | hisown duty, and with little symvathy | for fuilure on the part of his men, he was respected and, 1n a certain sense, admired, | but not loved; sternly just according to his own light, but narrow and intolerant. | With two passions—the exaggerated, hide. | bound honor of a soldier who believes his | ion to be the only one; the horor of | a strictly honest and very proud man, | FRONTIER MILITARY LIFE.! pistol on the table. There was no reply, and the colonel stood silent, straight and stern, but his face was gray and his iron mouth was drawn. Presently the boy raised his head and looked straight into his father’s eyes. For the first time in his life he understood. “Yes, father,” he said. The colonel stood a moment and then went out and shut the door. When he was half way across the parade ground he heard a pistol-shot, but hedid not o back. Jeax WriGHT in the Philistine. SHEEP-RAISING IN GEORGIA.—According to the story of a sheep-raiser from Georgia, | who has been telling all about his calling, | the life of a sheeprun in that State must | be full of variety. He says the profitson | sheep-raising vary much more than they | ought and they could be brought to a; higher and more uniform average if sys- | tematic sheep husbandry were introduced. | The range of profits run from 10 per cent, | under no management at all, to 25, 50 and sometimes 100 per cent on capi- tal invested. The prime object in| keeping sheep is wool, and old| sheep, when fat off the native pas-| “MY SON, TEXRE IS BUT CONE 1HING FOR YOU TO DO. 4XD EE LalD THE rISTOL UN THE EKNOW WHAT IT TABLE. is.» You jealous of the slightest stain upon his un- | impeachable integrity. The other passion | a carefully hidden but almost idolatrous | love for his son. There had been one other | passion. but she died. Within a month of his coming the young Jieutenant was the most popular | man at the post. He sang, he danced, he | He also drank rather more than was necessary. ‘Within two months it all palled upon him. Deadly ennui took possession of bhim. The great sunlit barren plains stretched out interminable. There were no Indians even to break the monotony. The iron routine of one day followed upon another with what seemed to him astupid, trivial and meaningless rezularity. So he stopped singing and dancing, and went on playing cards and drinking. Another thing that annoyed him was his father’s suppressed but uncomvpromising disap- proval. Inward the colonel’s soul writhed that his boy should blemish his record as a solaier in this way; he did not doubt his courage should the time come for prov- ing it, but in the meantime to show him- self a weak and foolish man was almost unbearable. He could not understand the boy, and he said nothing, which was per- haps unfortunate. Three weeks went by and the young lieutenant was deep in debt to the captain of another company, a sneering, black- faced fellow, who had risen from the ranks; gaining his promotions for the last fifteen years for acts of dare-devil bravery. He was not a pleasant man to owe to, par- ticularly if one was not too sure of being able to pay ip when the mnotes fell due. Another month and things were no better. It was in the early part of September and the flat plains stretched out parched and arid, the sun beat down piteously on the | summer. | er treeless little post, and the money to the captain had to be paid to-morrow. It was certainly a disagreeable situation, but they played hard and drank hard and the young lieutenant almost forgot that to- morrow was coming. But about 1 o’clock in the morning there was a row, and before many hours the whole post knew what was the matter. It does not take long for news to travel among a few hundred people, particularly g0 interesting and exciting a bit as this. For this gay young fellow, thisdashing young soldier, this &on of the stern old martinet of a colonel, had been caught cheating at cards, and was disgraced for- ever. The news got round and finally reached the colonel. It wasa brave man who told him. He waited an hour, and then put- ting a pistol in his holster he went acrass to his son’s quarters.. There was no an- swerto his knock, so he opened the door and went in. The boy was sitting at the table with his head buried in his arms. He did not look up when his father spoke, “‘My son, there is but one thing for you to do. You know what itis,” and he laid the tures — the woods—are sold for muttpn. The breed is the native or piney-woods, | crossed slightly with the merino grade. | They are worth from §1 25 to §2 a head. | The wool is sold to the merchants in the | nearest town. It is disposed of unwashed | and weighs from three to four pounds per fleece, according to the season and pas- tures. The sheep are sheared in early Lands sell at from $1 to $5 an acre. The surface 1s generally level and just rolling enough for drainage. The uplands are sandy soil, while the vailey of Flint River is a limestone soil and well | watered. Almost all the sheep in this sec- tion are turned into the woods, where they live the whole year upon wild s, wild oats, wiregrass, etc. When shearing time comes the flocks are hunted up, surrounded, sorted and sheared, and the lambs are looked to, docked and marked, and everything is turned loose agzain to run in the woods until the next year. The greatest hindrance to wool- firowing is the dog. The dogs have to e watched carefully or they kill large numbers of the sheep. The pinev- woods_hog also has a villainous reputa- tion. He will not only devour new-born lambs, but if a ewe is old or weak he will make short work of it. Some years the loss from dogs will run up to 10 per cent, and often more, owing to the prox- imity of turpentine camps, with their hordes of coon dogs, which are bred and owned by the negroes who work in the camps. The remedy for dogs and hogs is poison and the rifle. The native sneep is indigenous to the Georgian soil, and hav- ing such hardy, self-reliant, self-support- ¢ ing, valuable animals to rear, and at such a low cost for support, the wool-growers of Southern Georgia are the most independ- ent and prosperous sheep-raisers in Christendom. % NEXT TRIP OF LA TOURAINE. People Who Propose Going to the Med- iterranean Will Note This. The steamer La Touraine of the Cam- pagnie Generale Transatlantique (French line) will make a second trip to the Med- iterranean and Orient, leaving New York on February 4, 1896. The itinerary will be as follows: New York to Lisbon, Gibraltar, Algiers, Bizerta, Island of Malta, Athens, Alexandria, Port Said, Jaifa, Beyreuth, Smyrna, Co staminoPle. Messina, Palermo, Naples, Monte Carlo, Marsellles, Palma, Malaga, Gibraltar and New York. The whole trip will last about sixty days. The manage- ment says that the service will be splen- did, and every luxury possible afforded the Hls!engers. All information and particulars can be obtained at the office of Messrs. J. F, Fugazi & Co., Pacific Coast agents, 5 Mont~ gomery avenue, San Francisco, Cal. COLORELS MUST EXPLAIN Militia Captains Wrathy Over the Reduction in Allow= ances. They Have Demanded Old-Time Amounts, and They Expect Them Pald on Monday. The National Guard in several parts of the State, particularly this part, is threat- ened with a very serious controversy within the next few days and it is the sole topic of discussion in the citizen-soldier armories. The colonels in the numerous regiments were the gentlemen who acqui- esced in the reduction of company allow- ances during the memorable months in which the board of reorganization was at work. At that time it was seriously in- tended to eliminate a number of compa~ nies from the roster in order that the reduced appropriation might properly cover everything. National guardsmen generally saw the necessity and the wis- dom of such a reduction ugfil it leaked out that this and that regiment would have to be reduced to battalion size to bring the National Guard within the ap- propriation limits. The colonels protested very vigorously against the reduction in size of their own commands, but the board of reorganiza= tion was obdurate. The generals on the board held conference after conference to try to arrive at some arrangement which might satisfy the regimental commanders. Finally the board proceeded to enume- rate such regiments as had been selected to suffer. This was becoming serious for the colonels, and they immediately joined forces to determine on a way out of the trouble. It was tinally resolved that they should propose to the board of reorganiza- tion that every company in their respect- | ive commands would consent to accept $73 | instead of $100 a month as the State al- lowance for armory rents and other mili- tary expenses. This proposition proved an’ admirable way out of the difficulty. The board of reorganization accepted it. The company commanders knew nothing of this famous victory the colonels won. | When news of it did reach them their pro- | test was even more vigorous than the one the colonels made at the outset. There | were indignation meetings and mutter- | ings of rebellion in company quarters and | all manner of dissatisfaction and revolt. | Forit was the captains who were to suffer | and their companies would have to suffer with them. They vowed trouble for the colonels and the day has just about ar- rived. On October 1 the quarterly allowances will be paid to the companies in the | National Guard. As a rule the captains have ignored the arrangemeni made b, | the colonels and bave forwarded their old- | time demands. These call for $100 for each company, and there is not enough money in the appropriation to pay such sums. Moreover, the colonels offered to accept $75, and it is very likely that the captains’ demands will be returned to them with official information that $75 is the limit in the new allowance game. Just what the captains may do about it is what the fuss is going to be about, and no cne can tell anything vet. Undoubtedly the colonels will be called to account by | the company chiefs and asked to explain | upon what authority they reduced ' the company allowances. It is rumored in | some of the City armories that the row | will_proceed so far that a few of the com- panies may leave the service. Captain Filmer of Company B of the | First_Infantry said yesterday: “I was | surprised when I heard that Colonel Bush | had consented to reduce the compan | allowances to §75. Nothing had been sais | to me about it, and I knew of the matter ouly when the newspapers mentioned it. 1 have forwarded the usual demand for | $100, and I propose to get it or know the | reason why. My company cannot get along on $75, and we will be obliged to pro- test vigorously against such an unwar- ranted reduction.” Captain Filmer's remarks express the sentiment of the captains generally. On Monday next the demards will be- come payable. The most RINALDO BROS.& ood % Tobacco ever sold orthe money Ior 25centa—l0cents straght-2for25cents PACIFIC COAST s AGENTS. 300-302 Battery Strect. S