The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 13, 1895, Page 11

i E. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1895.. 11 WORRY ANDTHEN SUICIDE Hugo Frauenholz Took His Life at the Ocean Beach Yes- terday. DESPONDENCY THE CAUSE. le Was the Manager of the Bavaria Brewery Up to About Threé Tonths Ago. The loud report of a pistol shot on the ] b, about a mile and a half south ide of Hngo Frauenholz at ! o'clock yesterday afternoon. Up to ¢ months ago Frauenholz was the nagerof the Bavaria Brewery and ad- inistrator of the estate to which the but through mismanage- 1ess reverses a mortgage of S‘“!.Wfl. which had been on the property for some oreclosed, and in con- t his position. A brother of the dead man, Phillip >nholz the original owner of the Bavari and prior tohis death, which 1 1884, mortgaged his property for the above-mentioned amount to Ernest Schul ame due, and as e owner Tty was unable to pay off the was foreclosed and a bill of sale made out to Schultz, but Frauenholz Hugo Frauenholz. months in which to pay ndebtedness, and in that event the le was to be returned to him. three months’ grace allowed him by holder of the mortgage would bave up on the 20th of this month, and as ncial froubles made it impossible for 1 to meet the mortgage it is presumed became despondent and through was prompted to take his own ook a Clay-street car about r arriving at the beach ¢ irom nted portion of the who is a gripman was biking on the ins supposed the man ot to be a hunter, busy be- and body of the man, who rauenholz, just out of | as immediately notified y Coroner Hallett and his as- he body to the morgue to a native of Munich, He graduated from a e of medicine, but upon city he went into business tect. This business proving he went into the brewery and ness, purchasing the Bavaria loon on Bush street, but nine months he sold the saloon as the business of he brewery prevented him from looking after his other interes DISTRIBUTING SALMON EGGS. Ten Million Sent to the Sissons and Clackamas Hatcheries. The State’s fish hatchery at Battle Tehama County, wiil be closed out the 15th inst. for the season. This titution was opened just before run of salmon to the spawning grounds since then 10,000,000 salmon spawn been gathered. By the 15th millions sent to the Sissons hatchery on the oud River, where the eggs will be ched and the young fish liberated into headwaters of the Sacramento and ther rivers. Sissons is the best distribut- 1z point in the State. One million salmon eggs have been sent to the United States Commission’s hatch- ery at Clackamas, where they will be hatched and distributed into the tributar- ies of the Coiumbia River. They were not a gift. The United States Fish Com- mission gave the State Commiss eral million eggs of the early summer run. It was believed that there would be plenty of salmonin the Columbia this winter, and there was, but the United Sta tes Com- missioners could not secure them on ac- count of the faulty fish laws in Oregon, iich permitted the use of set nets and lines, wires, etc., and did not compel those who built dams across streams to con- struct fish laaders so the fish could go up to the spawning grounds. e ARTISTS WILL MEET. Contributors to the Searles Presentation zeceive a Call to the Art Institute. The local artists are going to hold a regular mass-meeting at the Art Institute next Monday afternoon, to consider how the gift that is being prepared for Edward F. Searles can be presented in the most ertistic shape. “If we undertake to give the thing at all we should be assured how it is to be done,” id Arthur Mathews, yesterday. “Mr. les is a man for whom I have the reatest respect and I do not want to see cheap-John sort of a presentation e to him. It would be a very poor compliment to present him with sketches iy or inartistically monnted.” n is shared by many of the artists who have already promised t the sketches for the portfolio, to ented as a Christmas present to rles. If the thingis to be done at il there must be art and style about the manner of its doing. Some one must be detailed to paint a title page, the artists must all put_their heads together to dis- r something original in the way of mounting. With these objects in view 2 cull will be issued to-day to ali tke local painters who are members of the Art In- stitute to meet there next Monday at4 P. . to arrange the details of the presenta- tion and appoint a committee to carry out the plans made at the meeting. A large and enthusiastic attendance s expected. To-morrow will be the last day of the Al expibition and the Art Institute. ———————— Stabbed With a Knife. Robert R. Johnson, a_colored man who lives on Second street, near Mission, was booked: at thirty the Cliff House | sent out of the State as an exchange and | | on the stage. Bar and then it was discovered that one of | two charges of assault with a deadly weavon. He wasin a saloon on the-corner of Third and MisSion streets and raised a_disturbance. The ;a;;ender attempted to eject himana called boliceman Ryan and Special Officer Costello (o elp him. Johnson drew a knife, and in the scutfle that followed Costello was stabbed in the left shoulder and the bartender was cut cver the right evebrow. Johnson was cut on the scalp and over the right eyebrow, as the officers had fo use their clubs. The three had :Llleir wounds dressed at the Receiving Hospi- HE KISSED THE BRIDE. Marriage of Ah Sun, Who Sets the ¥ashion in Chinatown’s Upper Tendom. Ah Sun, the king of the dudes of China- town, who is the leader of Oriental fash- onsin this City, was married yesterday, and Justice of the Peace Groezinger is congratulating himself for an experience that seldom falis to the lot of the bench. Soon aiter the Justice rapped for order in his courtroom yesterday he was in- formed that a bridal party was awaiting him in his chambers. On repairing there he found a select party of Chinese, num- bering forty or fifty, awaiting his coming, and was informed that he was expected to perform the ceremony in the most ap- proved American style. Ah Sun, who is one of the wealthiest denizens of Chinatown, evidently thought that kissing the bride was one essential portion of the marriage service, for he in- sisted on the Justice saluting the bride. The latter, who is the daughter of a wealthy Chinese merchant, demurred at first and modestly covered her face, but Justice Groezinger was not to be denied, and gave her the salute with due grace and courtesy. After the ceremony was over Ah Sun insisted on the Justice and Cupid from the marriage license office partaking of his hospitality at his home on Stockton street, and they were conveyed thither in one of the gayly decorated , hacks tbat had brought the bridal party to the City Hall. A banquet had been prepared at the house, and while the wine flowed and the bands were piaying popular Chinese airs the company on the happy culmination of the love affairs of Ah Sun and Ah Chung Loo, the bri He was aided in preter, who also trans Cupid Angels. Both Judge and marriage clerk were re- turned to the mew City Hall in hacks plentifully provided with champagne and tireworks. — e POSTMASTER ARRESTED. John Graham of Forest Home Charged With Detaining Letters. A charge of detaining letters has been made against John Graham, Postmaster at Forest Home, Amador County, and for this the Federal Grand Jury indicted him last Tuesday. He was brought to this Ci yesterday by Deputy United Srates Marshal Harris and taken before Commis- sioner Heacock, who fixed bis bonds at $1500. He procured the bail. A complaint against Grabham was first made to Postoffice Inspector Erwin by R. D. Thomas, the well-known mining man. Mr. Thomas had written letters to persons residing at Michizan Bar and some of them did not reach their destination. Besides that, certain information in the letters relating to ‘mining matters had leaked out somehow and suspicion of having opened them fastened upon | Graham. Mr. Erwin tried the customary tactics of sending decoy letters to catch his man. These were placed in the mail pouch at Plymouth and a detective was sent on, by stage, to do the rest. At Forest Home the pouch was taken into Graham’s office and afterward brought out again and placed It was opened at Michigan s efforts by an inter- lated the remarks of the decoy letters had disappeared. These facts were laid before the Grand Jury and Graham’s indictment and arrest followed. It is supposed that Graham’s motive was to secure valuable information about a pending mining deal. CLOCKS AND SIGNS. An Ordinance Decided Upon by the Street Commitee of the Supervisors. The Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors has decided upon an ordi- nance relating to transparencies and clocks located on public streets. measure which will be recommended to the board provides that electric lamps shall not exceed in size the lamps used by the Bdison Light and Power Company and shall not project over the street to ex- ceed 24 feet at the bottom and bear no inseription or sign. The electric transparent sizns shall not exceed in size 214 feet in width. 3 feet in length and 3 feet in height. The signs must be placed on posis not less than 10 feet in height, erected just inside and next to the curb line, the bottom to be not less than 10 feet and not more than 12 feet above the sidewalk. Clock signs will be permitted, the clocks not to be more than 3 feet in diameter and to be 10 feet in height. The posts must be erected inside and next to tue curb. THE ART CONCERT. A Critical Audience at the Hopkins In- stitute Enjoys the Last Winter Musicale. The last concert of the Art Institute winter exhibition was given last night at the Hopkins mansion, on California street. There was a very large attendance of devotees of music and art, and every one present apparently enjoyed the excellent concert. The pictures were greatly admired and shared interest largely with the music, while a large number of visitors spent their time almost exclusively in the rooms reserved for the collection of masterpieces. The dispiay of local work, however, at- tracted considerable attention, particu- mong those who had a personal in- n the artists and these latest speci- ens of their work. The exhibition will close Saturday night, 50 to-day and to-morrow will offer the last opvortunity of viewing the great paintings on exhibition there. e e WITH A POCKET-KNIFE. of Phillip Button, Street Cigar-Dealer. Phillip Button, a cigar-dealer, was dis- covered yesterday morning lying under the counter of his stand, 1516} Polk street, with his throat cut. He had used a pocket-knife in his act of self-destruction. F. Codee of 1501 Polk street and some passers-by first noticed him, and _the Coroner’s office was notified. He lodged at 1505 Polk street. Neighbors say he has seemed very melancholy of lateand he has had poor health. Hewas a single man. Suicide a Polk- R Mr. McCoppin to Investigate. President W. J. Morrison of the Alamedas Shooting Club has complained to Postmaster McCoppin that two carriers of this City, J. L. Speller and J. E. Feeney, members of the Amethyst Gun Club, spent Sunday shooting in the Alameda Club's preserve Sonoma Slough.. Mr. MeCoppin is to on investigate. Carrier Feeney’s explanation is that Mr. Morrison acknowledged that he and his companion had a right to shoot on the slough and could not be stopped. He says they did not trespass upon the club’s pre- serve, but simply did what they had a perfect right to do under the decision of Judge Buckles. e North Beach Scaundal. Three of the principels in the North Beach scandals appesred in the Police Courts yester- day. James Hinshaw pleaded guilty in Judge Campbell’s court and sentence was deferred till to-day. The Judge intimated that he would' impose the full penalty, which is six months’ imprisonment and '$1000 fine. Eugene Par- diui snd Manuel Gomez were each held to an- swer béfore the Superior Court by Judge Low the City Prison carly yesterday morning o | in $5000 bonds. the Justice in a neat speech congratulated | The | PREFERS THE FODTLIGHTS, Miss La Faille, a Mission School- teacher, Grows Tired of Books. IS WELL KNOWN IN SOCIETY. Will Go East in a Few Weeks to Join the Heart of Maryland Company. Miss Rosella La Faille, a teacher in a | M: n public school, is about to abandon her books for the stage. ‘With the coming of the new year she will join the Heart of Maryland Com- pany at Washington. Miss La Failleis just 19 years old and has been a teacher in the public schools for the past two years. Her stage experi- ence dates back only six months, but that has been sufficient time to demonstrate re- markable histrionic ability. Studying under a local artist she has in less than half a year mastered such difficult charac- their desire to enter into the compact wished to receive answers from the other unions of the building trades before pro- ceeding further. A The committee having in charge the project for establishing a union building trades headquarters also met. Reports were made that several large and desirable buildings bad been offered at reasonable rentals. The committee will examine each offer carefully before making a selection. ————————— FOR CHEAPER POSTAGE. The One-Cent Letter Rate Will Be Gen- erally Indorsed. The movement by the National Board of Trade of Washington, D. C., for a reduc- tion in letter postage from 2 cents to 1 cent will be indorsed by the commercial bodies of this City. The special committee hav- ing this matter in hand sent aletter to Secretary B. M. Lelong of the State Board of Horticulture requesting that this body indorse the movement and secure the co- operation of other organizations and the general public of this City and State. The letter was published in Thursday’s CarL. Mr. Lelong stated yesterday that he had spoken to a number of prominent business men, who heartily indorse the project and will assist all in their power to carry it to asuccess. He will interview the officers | of the City and State Boards of Trade, the manufacturers’, merchants’ and similar as- sociations, with a view of having them take up the matter and co-operate with the National board. Mr. Lelong states that the postage expense account in all large busi- nesses is larger than is generally supposed. In the Horticultural Commission the ex- pense for postage stamps is between $1200 and §$1500 a year. The postage expense in MISS LA FAILLE. [From a photograph.] ters as Lady Macbeth, Paulinein “Lady of | Lyons,” and the not easy role of Marco in In the language of | & “The Marble Heart.” the stage, she is *up” inten different roles, though strongest in the ones enumerated. Occasionally Miss La Faille has taken part in private theatricals. The theater- going public will recall with pleasure her splendid rendition of Marco in *The Marble Heart,” given at the Busk-street Theater some few weeks ago. Miss La Faille is a beautiful woman, with a face delicately molded, yet full of fire. Shortly after Christmas she will make her appearance at one of the local theaters as Valentine in “The Celebrated Case.”” BUTCHERS REJOICING. A Hardship Regarding the Inspection of Exported Beef Has Been Removed by Secretary Morton. The export butchers of this State were considerably agitated over an order from the Department of Agriculture relating to the inspection of beef packed for ship- ment to foreign countries. The last Con- gress amended an act of 1891 and made it compulsory that all cattle slaughtered for export trade shouid be examined by a United States inspector and a certificate issued by that official that the meat was in perfect condition. Secretary J. Sterling Morton issued an order instructing exporters of beef as to the law and stating that the law would go into effect on January 1. The situation was explained to Secre- tary Morton in a letter from the Butchers’ Board of Trade and the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Association, and the re- quest was made that the time be_extended from January 1 to March 1. Yesterday i the following dispatch was received in this City: ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 12, 1895, 8. C. Hammond, Presideat Butchers’ Board of Trade, 320 Sanso . San Francisco—The order requiring a certificate of inspection to accom- peay export heef has been modified to go into effect March 1 instead of January 1. J. STERLING MORTON, Secretary. Asmay be expected the butchers and packers were greatly pleased, as it will giye an opportunity for making contracts with several foreign agents now in this City negotiating for California beef. e DOCEERY’S DISCOVERY. He Catches a Milkman Watering the Milk in His Cans From a Trongh. Milk Inspector Dockery made a discov- ery early yesterday morning that has ai- forded him great satisfaction. He knew that mitkmen had been tricking him by watering their milk after he had tested it and before delivering it to their customers. There is a larze trough on the corner of Lily avenue and Laguna street, and he caught J. W. Reynolds of the Woodland dairy in the act of mixing water from the trough with the milk in his cans. Dock- ery had met Reynolds’ wagon earlier in the morning, and had tested the milk and found it up to the standard. A warrant will be sworn out for his arrest this morn- ing. Dockery has received a letter to the ei- fect that a child between 4 and 5 years of age had died recently at 219 Pacific_street, and it was believed that impure milk was the cause of death, as the child had for months previous lived on a milk diet. Dockery has the name and address of the milkman, and if the statements in the let. ter are borne out by his investigation he will make an example of the milkman. BUILDING TRADES COUNCIL. Plans for Action and a General Work- ing Card Discussed. Another meeting preliminary to the formation of a puilding trades council was held last evening, and delegates represent- ing over 3500 union men were present. No definite plan of action was adopted regnrdin?l a universal working-card sys- tem, as t! e six unions who have signitied I {all large business houses is fully as large. Mr. Lelong expects that there will not be:| ngle person on the Pacific Coast who s wi]l,oyposethemovegem. e . THE TELEGRAPH HABIT. Cranks Who Use the Wires for the Most Insignificant Messa ges. “‘All sort of cranks in the world,” said the girl in the telegraph office of a Broad- way hotel, ““but I think telegraph cranks are the queerest. Against the rules of the office to give away our business, youknow, but a body can generalize. “Do you know there are lots of men who have the telegraph habit? It is like the cigarette habit or the drink habit. When it once fastens on a man it is seldom he ever breaks himself of it until he’s ‘broke’ himself. That's a poor pun, but it’s true. *“If it wasn’t for the telegraph crank we wouldn’t begin to do the business we do. You'd be surprised to know the money some men dissipate in telegraphing on any and every excuse. “All sorts of state sccreis go over the wires, and important affairs are transacted by telegraph every day, besides the usual routine of deaths and weddings, and busi- | ness orders, and women starting on jour- neys notifying their iriends to meet them | at'the station. But the regular telegraph crank comes into the hotel and rushes into the office here and telegraphs half a dozen of his friends: ‘Arrived safely.’ “Next time, half an hour later, he wires them to address mail to him here. Shortly after that he advises them that he forgot to notify them that he will leave New York on Monday. After a while he changes his !dnind and wires that he will stay till Tues- ay. “‘The next morninz he worries because be has not heard from home, and wires them to ask if anything is the matter. He gets a letter by noon and wires again to say that the letter came safely by the next mail and he will answer by the afternoon post. *‘Maybe you think I exaggerate, but I don’t. Why, in a week a telegraph crank will often give me his entire pedigree and most of his family secrets. ‘A lot of men do their love-making by telegraph, and a lot more do their joking with business friends in the same way. Any amount of chaff goes over the wire at regular tariff rates. “‘Some men have a fad for sending wed- ding congratulations and death cou- dolences by telegraph to great people who probably never heard of them. = Ego- tism is at the bottom of most of this popu- lar kind of insanity. The man thinks it makes him look important to rush into a telegraph office as soon as he strikes the town and dash off a message. ‘‘Then some men are nervous, and it somehow acts as a sedative to Jet off steam on a telegraph blank. I hate a man who keeps asking such questions as, ‘Have you sent it?’ ‘How soon will it take to get there?’ ‘How soon will I get an answer?’ And menof business and common-sense, who ought 1o know better, ask those same questions over and over again. “The way people write telegrams makes me smile. "Iknow a millionaire who will work for five minutes to get what he has to say in ten words for a quarter. But usually people write around Robin Hood’s barn when they begin a telegram and use twice as many words as necessary. Women are the worst for that, but very few men or women seem to understand the art of brevity.” e — The Land Crab’s Value. A valuable ally of the field geologist is to be found in the land crab, as reported in Natural Science. Some_ time ago Mr. Stirling, Assistant Geological Surveyor of the colony of Victoria, Australia, sug- ggstgd that the work performed by this iminutive excavator in bringing up pieces of the rock forming the subsoil might help the miner to find coal seams, just as the burrowing wombat had disclosed stanifer- ous lode stuffin the Australian Alps. “The hint was taken. A young miner detected small pieces of coal around the burrow, of a crab, sank a shaft on the spot, and cut the coal seam four feet below the surface, From similar evidence the officers of the geological survey have traced outcrops in places 'where the rock was marked by allu- vium.’ DURRANT TO LINGER HERE Stay of Proceedings Granted by Judge Murphy for Twenty Days. TIME TO PREPARE EXCEPTIONS, The Defense to Submit Voluminous Documents to the Supreme Court. Durrant, the convicted murderer of Blanche Lamont, has been granted a stav of proceedings for twenty days, which means that he will not be taken to San Quentin just yet, but will be allowed to re- main in his present quarters in the County Jail. At first Judge Murphy refused to grant any extension of time, but after consult- ing with Justice Beatty of the Supreme Bench he reconsidered his action of the preceding day, and yesterday morning, after a private consultation in his cham- bers, he acceded to the request of defend- ant’s counsel, £ugene Deuprey and Gen- eral Dickinson. District Attorney Barnes was present at the conference. Judge Murphy’s refusal had béen pased on the Fredericks murder case, where the convicted man was already in prison when the request for a stay was made. Butit seems that in the case of Adams and of Coben extensions of time had been granted while they were yet in the County Jail. It was for the purpose of allowing the condemned man every chance that might justly be his that the trial Judge granted Messrs. Deuprey and Dickinson twenty days in which to prepare their very voluminous bill of exceptions to be pre- sented {o the Supreme Court, together with a complete copy of all the testimony in the long trial. That testimony must be arranged by the County Clerk and it will take time. The testimony and the ex- ceptions must go together before the higher court for an examination into the trial to see if any error has been committed or an injustice done Durrant. 1t will require the hardest kind of work to prepare the bill in the time granted, for it will be unusually long and comprehen- sive. But Judge Murphy did not propose to permit any unnecessary delay in the notorious case. Judge Murphy asserted vesterday that the attorneys must work conscientiously and rapidlg or the privilege will be with- drawn. There is a possibility, however, that he may have to extend the time a little to give counsel time to review all the cases that they will cite to enforce their exceptions. Eugene Deuprey declared that he can- not say what will be the principal excep- tions that will be made, for there are hun- dreds of them and they are all important. FUN FOR BANK OLERKS, When They Come Across a Check Adorned With a Portrait. A New Tork merchant has a portrait of himself engraved on his checks, so that when he.pays a bill his creditor has the additional satisfaction of gazing upon the counterfeit presentment of the payer. These checks go to different cities and pass through various banks and clearing- ‘houses. In the parlance of the variety actor, the bank clerks.!‘do not do a thing When tbe gentleman who thus adver- ‘tises himself has his deposit book settled atthe end of the month, and gets back his canceled checks, it i3 a question whether he is pleased or vexed. The portrait of each and every check is ornamented, and its facial expression changed in_a manner that is, to say the least, startling, and the more banks the check has passed throuch the greater the change. The first clerk through whose hands the paper passes will adorn the picture with a fierce mustache, the next will add a beard, the next a pair of goggles, and the next may chauge the aquiline nose to a retrousse. All the changes capable of being made are rung, and by the time the check gets back the self-advertiser doesn’t know him- self —or rather doesn’t know his picture.— New York Mail and Express. N i e How Snakes Eat Frogs. How a snake eats frogs is worth the tell- ing. The writer distinctly remembers wit- nessing a dramatic meal of this kind, in which, of course, the snake came out the winner, getting his dinner in excellent style and completely vanquishing the frog. ‘While a snake may seem, at first sight, an organism that is extraordinarily slow of comprehension, any well-regulated ophid- ian knows, nevertheless, exactly how to satisfy the wants of nature in the most ap- proved manner. A snake invariably grabs a frog by the hind legs. This preliminary struggie is one of the most {mpressive features of the combat. With a well-defined natural in- stinct the chief effort of the frog is to keep hisother hind leg far away from the snake's mouth, in_the hope that he may speedily exhaust his enemy’s strength, and also be- cause he feels that if his other hind leg is made captive he will have less power to fight. Once both hind legs are within the ser-, pent’s fangs the act of swallowing begins. Inch by inch the struggling frog is drawn further and further into the yawning ori- fice that ex‘;:ands at each gulp. The chan- nei through which the frog has to pass is gradually enlarged by slow eftorts on the snake’s part, accompanied by fiercer and filem" convulsions of the wretched wrig- er. The gullet of the snake inits natural proportions is quite large enough to con- tain the limbs of the frog, but as by fre- uent gulps the body is drawn further and urther into the gullet the difficulty of swallowing increases. Gradually the ophidian’s throat is distended, gradually the frogis compressed and drawn out. Finally the latter is double his normal length and half his circumference. As the process of expansion on the one hand and contraction on the other goes on, the frog is worked down little by little until the snake starts in on his afternoon nap.— New York Mercury. — e The Ancestry of Daniel Webster. A famous anti-slavery orator once pube licly thanked Goa that Daniel Webster was not born in Massachusetts, and this was received with acclaiming shouts by the audience. Nordid they appear to notice any incongruity when the orator proceeded to ‘objurgate Webster, just as though he had been born in Boston and were a recreant descendant of Thomas Dudley. This is the common mistake—io judge Webster as a Puritan in origin, descent, inherited principles, education, and consequent responsibilities. He was no Puritan, nor did he ever pretend to be one. The Massachusetts Puritans, who came to Boston Bay in 1630, were East of England people. Daniel Webster’s ances- tors were irom the north of Engiand, and, coming six years later, entered New Hampshire by the Piscataqua and for gen- erations were dispersed alonf the skirmish line of civilization, remote from the Puri- tans of the bay, and shared neither in their glory nor in their shame. In Webster was no admixture of nation- ality, no crossing of plebeian with patrician blood. He was a genuine son of the soil, though not like Burns, of a soil alive with hundred generations of the dead, not of a soil like that about Boston, every sod of which was quickened with associations touching the heart and molding the char- acters of those born on it, bus of a soil on which his father’s footfall was the first of civilized man ever heard in that silent wilderness. He was a rustic, yet with marks of gentle blood in his shapely hands and feet, his well-proportioned limbs, and his high-bred face of no known type, un- like even his own brother, who was of Grecian form and face. _Of the Puritans neither by birth nor by circumstances, he possessed few of their virtues and none of their defects, and least of all their indomitable provinciality of thought and conduct. In this he stands 3\mg alone among the public men of his lay in New England. His spirit of na- tionality appeared so early in life that it indicated character rather than education. And the degm of the sentiment appears from this, that though born a Federalist, and from early manhood associated pro- fessionally and socially with someof the very able men prominent in the “Essex Junto”’ 'and in the Hartford convention, he neither accepted the principles nor imitated their conduct. Atno time was he a Southern man or a Northern man, but to the end of his life a National Feder- alist after the fashion of Washington.— Mullen Chamberlain in the Century. THOROUGHBREDS. Notes Taken at the Spreckels Stock Ranch. In the paddocks and stables of the A.B. Spreckels thoroughbred stock ranch near Nanpa are to be seen many ex-kingsand ex- queens of the racetrack wandering about in the inclosures, contentedly nibbling the fresh grass or aimlessly gazing at vacancy, while before their mental visions flit scores of erstwhile conquests. There, too, are a number or frisky equine infants who boast a long and noble lineage. They carenothing for their eventful future, for the time when multitudes will gather to witness their prowess and when their names will become bywords among men, but are content to toss up their heels, snort, bite and whinney in the exuberance of life ana youth. The ranch is devoted exclusively to the breeding and training of thoroughbreds. Heading the list is Idalium (own brother to Sir Modred and Cheviot), sired by Tra- ducer, first dam Idalia. He was purchased for $15,000. The following are some of the brood mares now with foal: tA‘l)lbie F, by Judge McKinstry, out of Lot- e Border Lassie, by Cheviot; her record for five-eighths of a mile is 59}/ sec. Bridal Veil, also by Cheviot, was a great two- year-old winner. Cattle Kate, by imp. tie C. Frisa, by Flood, out of Charlie, sire of Salvator. Sweet Peg%y, by imp. Kyrle_ Daly, winner of %hfi( Irish derby, out of Abis, deughter of Nor- olk. Patrick by St. Paul, out of Why Not by George Wilkes. Imported Atossa by Dunlap (winner of Mel- bourne cup), out of Catherine Wheel by Wei- lington. FEos Folly (full sister to Sinfax), by Wildidle, out of Fostress, greatest two-year-old winner of her year in California. Florence B by Jim Brown, out of Fun by Fid- Kingston, out of Lot- imp. Musie, by Prince dle. Nellie Bell (sister of Faro) by Prince of Nor- folk, out of Avondile. Griselda by Bishop (sire of Racine, mile in 1:3914), out of Gonlady Exminster. Gle¢ by Cheviot, out of Glendew by Glen- garey. B Imported Yarranabbee by Hippocampus, out of Yotterino. Annie Buckingham by Stuyvesant, out of Daylight. Elmina (two-year-old stake winner) by old Calabar, out of Dynamite. : Zara by Marvellous, out of Stella by imported Kingston. Agnes B, by Glengarry. out of Ensue. Trapozted Repose. by Apremont, out of Ham- | mock. Tragic, by Tradewind (sire of Blizzard), out of sister to Lottery. Head Flower, by Flood, out of Rosetta. Nitouche, by Jim Flood, out of Mercedes by Lodi. h)[nrla F, by Leinster, out of Flush by Hiawa- tha, Annie Race, by Cape Race, out of Grizette by imported Highlander. Lady Clevelznd, |by King Alphonso, outof a daugiter of Eclf) Umatillo, by imported Cyrus, out of Piney Lewis by Longfellow. The aristocratic blue-blooded colts gath- ered about the feed troughs would make a study not unworthy of Rosa Bonheur, Among them are: Brown colt by Idalium, out of Griselda. Black colt by Idalium, out of Elmina. Bay colt by Idalium, out of Agnes B. Sorrel colt by Idaliut, out of Patricia. White-faced sorrel by Idalium, out of Dolly Varden. Black filly by Idalium, out of Frisa. Sorrel filly by Idalium, out of Nellie Bell. Bay filly by Prince of Norfolk, out of Lady Cleveland. : Bay filly by Saint Savior, out of Yarranab- ee. Black filly by Idalium, out of Florence B. Black filly by Idalium, out of Maria F. Black colt by Idatium, out of Annie Race. Sorrel filly by Chesterfield, out of Zura. Sorrel filly by Almont, out of Folly. Bay filly by Saint Savior, out of Atossa. Bay colt by John A, out of a daughter of Nor- folk. Sorrel colt by John A, out of a daughter of Magerbaud. Sorrel coit by Idelium, out of Glitter. In the training stable: Mozier (bay gelding 2 years old) by Flam- beau, out of Mozelle. Hazel Mask (chestnut filly 2 years old) by Saint Savior, put of Mineral. ‘A two-year+old chestnut stud by Flambeau, out of Not Idfe. Mavs (wo-yéerold bay flly) by Prince of Norfolk, ont of Lady Cleveland. Norphonso, bay gelding, full brother to aya. P{lmer‘ bay yearling, by Ecuador, out of Kitty Gunn. Frank James, chestnut yearling, by Ecuador, out of Tomato. A bay yearling gelding by Buckmaster, out of Fast Boy. A chestnut yearling colt by Buckmaster, out of Grizetie. : Isola (bay yearling filly) by Cyrus, out of Abbie F. ie F. Jim F (chestnut yearling gelding) by King Thomas, out of Maria F. Frisco (chestnut gelding) by Prince of Nor- folk, out of Frisca. A bay filly yearling by Apache, out of Virga. - A brown' filly yearling by Apache, out of uana. A chestnut filly yearling by Apache, out of Stockton Dole. Gracie S (two-year-old bay filly, full sister to Captain Skedance) by Cyrus, out of Getaway, ay filly yearling by Saint Savior, out of Elmina. Mr. Spreckels came into possession of this ranch in the spring of 1894. Since then the sound of saw and hammer has been continuous. Miles of fencing have been built. A D-shaped raceirack, 22 feet wide ard halfa mile in length, has been constructed, also a tank with a capa- city of 30,000 gallons, the water being pumped into it by a five-horsepower pe- troleum engine. The training stable, recently completed, is one of the handsomest and most com- plete in California. It is elliptically shaped and its size can be realized from the fact that encircling it there is an eighti of a mile exercising track, which is shel- tered by overhasnging eaves. In the central courta fountain is play- ing from a hufie basin of artificial stone. Within the building, which is two stories high, to assist ventilation and admit light, are forty stalls, each 12 by 14 feet,and a number of rooms for the use of employes. The nager, Mr. Mulky, is absent at Sacraménto, but the ranch is overseen by Messrs. C. C. Winchel and Charles Schaffer, to whom the Register reporter is indebted for courtesies,—Napa Register. ————— Is the Human Will a Chemical Agent ? Professor Ostwald, the eminent German chemist, contributes to the Leipziger Berichte a curious speculation which he calls a “chemical theory of the freedom of the will.” He regards it as impossible that all natural phenomena should be purely mechanical, as materialists would consider them, for mechanical processes are reversible—they will work backward as well as forward—while natural processes will not. 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