The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 15, 1895, Page 20

THE®' SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15 1895 - CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. an and § nd Sux y and Sun v and § 0| ol <an Francisco, € nia. Telephone .. Main—1868 EI)ITORiAL ROOMS : 7 Street. .....Main—1874 CH OFFIC] , corner y: open until open unt ppen until 9 nth and Mission streets; open 15, 189 71HE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. The past week was gay, but the 1.'omingj will be gayer. Santa Claus is a great fellow for gift schemes, but he is no It is apparent the Sublime Porte bas limit to his sublimity, even in his own port. rism in a third-term | rere is no C: ent that substitutes a cuckoo for an ) nity has its difficulties— Arizona has her A and we have our Solid Eight. Study our advertisements to-day, and you will know where to get Christmas bar- gains to-morrow. During the coming week the Oakland exposition of home industries will claim attention and get it. Money talks openly, but boodle trans- acts business with a wink, even when it operates in the dark. nal Guard seems \ing Democracy. It es at the first tlutter. | worth going the rounds to inspect v novelties just to see the pretty | women who are looking at them. In the poultry show, in the holiday sea- iropean diplomacy there is | just now than Turkey. | T = | From the stormy time he is having on his hunting trip Clev 1d seems to be a Jonah for weather as well as for politics. The joy of the C from the Tact that planning for the happi- ness of others makes everybody happy. You can easily figure out to-day how to make your Christmas gifts fit your pocket- book, but to-morrow it will be different. The Grand Jury is trying to make the punishment of official corruption a boliday task, and the people should assist in the work. People who believe it is always the un- expected that happens are now telling their friends they do notexpect any Christ- mas gifts. The appearance of bears on the Colorado stock market is not surprising. Tender- foot speculators are very tempting meat and winter is at hand. IiThere is a growing beliei that while the top of the National Guard may be a trifle heavy in time of peace it would be light enough in time of war. The weather suits the shopping season, as if it were made for it, and, what is more, it 1s homemade, for no foreign country conld produce anything like it. In a recent gale in Boston a gustof wind struck a girl on a bicycle and blew her clear off the wheel, and yet some people talk about wind in San Francisco. ‘We d.d not think much at home of the State exhibit we sent to the Atlanta ex- | position, but just the same it astonished the East and captured the medals. The beautiful novelty catches your eye in the shop-windows, but when vou go in and try to get your hands on it it rises on the wings of price and soars out of sight. As rich gold discoveries are now reported from Argentina there is a brightening pros- | pect that silver may yet reach a parity | with the yellow metal despite the gold- | bugs. 1t now seems certain the Republicans | will reorganize the Senate, and before the | adjournment for Christmas both branches | of Congress will be in proper shape to do | business. | The cleaning of streets should include | the sweeping away of the fake poolrooms where the youth of the City is corrupted by gamblers and incited to recklessness and crime. 1t is said Cleveland went hunting to give Carlisle time to fix up his figures, so the Secretary probably intends to treat the | statistics of the Treasury as a kind of wax- work show. It is oue of the perverse freaks of the time that sends capital all over the world hunting for mining booms instead of bring- ing it to California to strike pay rock in legitimate business. The Japanese have now evacuated Port Arthur and the Oriental situation seems very much as it was before the war, with Korea still lying as a bone of contention to start the dogs of war again. As Belmont says, “I do not see how it will be possible to avoid much longer an- other 1ssue of bonds,” it is evident he is one of the fellows who look to Cleveland instead of watching Congress. It is now proposed to establish across the Santa Cruz Mountains a road with a grade easy enough for bicycles, and when completed Santa Cranz will be one of our | wheeling suburbs with the bloomer right in it with the bathing suit. There 1s very little rivalry among cities to obtain the Democratic National Conven- | suggestion will prove but the beginning of tion, and it is hard to understand why un- less it be on account of the prevailing | and rains occupying about one day in | | even in | position as secure as on a throne, and GLORIOUS WINTER DAYS. | It is a fact familiar to the residents of San Francisco that the winter months are pleasanter than the summer. This is so extraordinary a thing for a place lying north of the equator that it deserves analysis. A study of the conditions which produce it reveals curiously complex and an intensely interesting combination of natural forces, working with fixed and un- | failing recularity. The differences between our summers and winters are these: During the sum- mer a wind often rises in the afternoon and continues till sundown. To one not properly clad it is cold and disagreeable. Often it is' followed by a fog, which may persist throughout the night and last well | into the forenocon of the following day. | It is damp and chilly. Whatever injuri- ous or disagrecable effect the wind and | the fog may produce can be easily avoided by the of warm clothing, and if this is done their good effects may be enjoyed. These are very valuable, as may be in- ferred from the fact that they come directly and always from the ocean, and are neces- sarily pure, invigorating and laden with life-giving ozone. They are immensely better than showers or thunderstorms, Both wiad and fog disappear in winter, seven take their place. They have none of the characteristics of an Eastern summer rain, and are chilling only because they clude sunsbine. The intervals are filled with the softest and baimi days of an Eastern spring and brilliant calm nights, in which the stars have a wonderful luster | or the moon gives a dazziing light. Now | and then there isa frost, but the fact that callas, beliotropesand even bananas grow in the open air without much risk of damage shows that the frost cannot be severe. The difference between the temperature of summerand that of winter is slight. The winters often seem warmer, but that is because they have no winds. Hence | throughout the year one needs warm woolen clothing, and it is generally ammer, not to go out at night without a wrap. Strangers often take severe colds because they cannot realize the wisdom of wrapping up warmly against | the summer winds. The causes for this peculiar arrangement of conditions are these: During the sum- mer the winds come unfailingly from the | west and northwest, and hence have | passed over the cold water which comes down through Bering Sea from the Arctic Ocean to the Pacific. In winter the winds shift to the south, bringing up the warm climate of the tropics. If the conditions were reversed our winters would be as cold | as those of Lapland, and our summers as hot as those of Central America. That they are as they are, is one of the reasons of California’s uniqueness and charm. CHRISTMAS SHOPPING. Early in the present month the dis- patches from Berlin announced that the Empress of Germany and her children had gone the rounds of the shops and made their Christmas purchases. Her Imperial Majesty was wise. As 2 shopping woman she is now in a can watch the crushing crowdsof eager gift-seekers from now until Christmas eve with the serenity of one who has been | clever enough to distance the multitude | and get there first. | To undertake Christmas shopping a month before Christmas day would hardly be as commendable in this country as it seems to be in Berlin. Our shops have not displayed at that time the brilliant array of holiday novelties that come later, and those who seek gifts so early are likely to | get the remnants of last year instead o(i the newest inspiration of this. At present, | however, it is full time to get the Chris mas shopping well under way, and as far as possible it should be completed before the week closes. A crush is sometimes enjoyable, but it is never so to those who have a per- plexing business on hand. Now, the selec- tion of gifts suitable to the taste of the person for whom they are intended and at the same time within hearing distance of the talking power of the money of the giver is decidedly a matter of perplexity. It must be carried on with something of deliberation to produce good results, and ought therefore to be undertaken wben there is time enough to transact it with- out flurry and freedom enough in the shops to see things without being consid- ered & hog by some one who wishes your place at the counter. Bevond all question much of the pleas- ure of the great holiday is derived from the excitement of the shopping in prepara- tion for it. This is particularly so when, as at present, the weather is fine enough to make the open air a delight thaten- tices everybody to the streets. All of our main thoroughfares in these days are as joyous with gay and well-aressed crowds as if every afternoon were a festival. The splendor of the shop windows, bright with the beauty of innumer- able -flashing jewels and gems of rare art, is not more gladdening than the hap- piness that glows in the faces of those who pass from window to window and gaze on each new splendor with a new admiration. To mingle with these crowds is to get in- | spirations of kindly sentiment toward all the world, ana it is not to be wondered that many shoppers delay to make pur- chases in order to have fresh excuses every day for a new promenade of the streets. This enjoyment of the crowds and the shops is natural, but it should not be in- dulged too far. Make your purchases early and then you can join the crowd of sightseers without being annoyed by the coming crush. The example of the | Empress of Germany in this respect is | worthy of imitation even in this land of freedom. There is nothing to be gained now by delay, while much may be lost, forin this as in all things else the first comer has the first choice. BEAUTIFY THE GROUNDS, The suggestion made by Regent Rein- stein and eagerly adopted by the students of the University of California, that they each give three or four days of manual labor on the university grounds, was an inspiration. Undoubtediy the students would have done this long ago bad the suggestion been made. As there are over 600 students their labor will save the State some thousands of dollars and produce a valuable result in putting these noHle grounds in attractive condition. It has always seemed an extraordinary fact that while the grounds of every other public institution in the State have received in- telligent attention, those of - the university have been persistently neglected. Re- cently the regents secured the co-opera- tion of Superintendent McLaren of Golden Gate Park, and as he is one of the most skillful gardeners in the world his directing aid will be important and the contribu- tions which we can make from thz park’s resources will be invaluable. We shall expect that Regent Reinstein’s a permanent system of student care of the grounds. There is no desire to make belief that the assembly will be more like a funeral gathering than a lively party. laborers of the ambitious younz men and women of the institution, but as | fact. gardening is one of the most wholesomg and fascinating occupations it will inevit- ably follow that the personal and fostering interest which the students will acquire from observing a beautiful creation of their own, growing and developing under their hands and by their efforts, will in- spire them with an affection for their work and an added pride in the institution, and that they will formulate a permanent plan for the care of the grounds and for a steady extension of their rare possibilities. And this purpose will be advanced in other ways. Many of the students are members of well-to-do families, and these will be led to contribute money for the work. Our more wealthy citizens will then be drawn into the movement. From landscape and flower gardening at the uni- versity the pride and ambition of the peo- ple, inspirzd by the students, will be urged to higher achievements. The inferior | woeden buildings of the university will be replaced with handsome stone structures, the material for which will be quarried from the boundless resources of the State. Statues will be erected and a local observ- atory subsidiary to the one on Mount Hamilton established. In their plan of organization the stu- dents will divide the work among them- selves intelligently according to the abil- ities and adaptabilities of each. The young men will do the harder work and the young women the lighter and daintier. A far- reaching effect will be to inculcate such a taste for floriculture throughout the State through dissemination by the students as will transform' California into the garden of flowers which nature intended that ku- man hands should make it. SURVEYING MINERAL LANDS, William H. Mills, through an interview published in Tue CaLy, has made a sug- gestion of very great value, as it bears directly on the contention that has arisen between the mining interests of California and the Southern Pacitic Company. It is that the Miners’ Associgtion should work for a scientific survey of the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, with a view to ascer- tain what lands are mineral-bearing, and that the entire slope ‘e platted. In this way, as he points out, immense quantities of gold would be at once discovered and mines developed. He thinks that the | work should be undertaken by Congress and that it could be done with an appro- priation of $250,000. There are many and very urgent and just reasons why this should be done and why itis the duty of the Government to do it. Mexicois a long way ahead of us in this matter, as it has been thoroughly urveyed and platted for mineral deposits. Hr, Mills gives some figures to show the bligations under which the Government rests to California. Down to June 30, 1893, it received in internal revenues from us over $84,000,000, and from customs duties since 1850 over $218,000,000; from the sale of lands between 00,000 and and between $15,000,000 ard postage. This does not include the mil- lions in precious metals which the State has contributed to the welfare of the Nation. return for all this the Government as given us $5,938,000 for public buildings and $5,235.000 for the improvement of our rivers and harbors. As a simple act of justice we are entitled to much more. Therefore Mr. Mills adds thati to make the whole scheme complete the Government should establish on the straits of Carquinez metallurgical works at a cost of $5,000,000 to rival the world-famous institution at Swansea. These works should be for the treatment of all kinds of ores; if estab- lished they would bave a wonderful effect on the development of the gold-mining industry of the State. The suggestion is so fair and its be- neficent results would be so greav that neither its justice nor its wisdom can be doubted. The question as to whether great bodies of land in the State are mineral or agricultural hds always been and still is undetermined and a source of endless liti- gation and conflicts. The peculiar geology of the Stace accounts in large part for the The ancient gold-bearing rivers that flowed parallel to the axis of the Sierra were buried ages ago under heavy flows of lava. Where erosion has exposed the beds gold in abundance is found. To determine the course of these beds under the still superimposed lava would be a very valu- able work, but there are other phases of the case equally as important. IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Settlement of the Pico Claim. San Diego Union, It is announced that the old claim of Jose Pico, a son of the famous Governor of Califor- nia, against the State, amounting to thousands of dollars, is soon to be paid, This wili be gratifying toall who remember the valuable services rendered by this famous Spanish fam- ily. The Picos were very liberal in (heir deal- ings with the State in early aays. The sites of the San Quentin priso ckin asyinm and some other public tutions were gifts from the oid Governor, lately deceased, It is pleasant to know that one of the survivors of this historic family, himself far advanced in years and disabled 'by honorable wounds, is 10 Teceive payment of his claim against a oom. monweaith that owes so much to his father's generosity. Most Effective Diplomacy. Poriland Oregontan. There is no assurance of peace that is equal to the power and readiness to compel it. The most effective diplomacy ix that which 1s backed by force. Barchanded patriotism, though sdmirablé in theory, is no mateh for aggressiveness well armed. In a proper and prudent staie of defense, the Monroe doctrine would enforce itself; without this it may be necessary to fight for it. The Go!dnn State Was Benefited. Napa Reglster. California has lost the National Convention, but it has gained a whole lot of advertising. No better men could have been sent East to talk up our State—its climate, its wonderful resources, its hospitable people—than those elected to fight for convention honors. They re :nted coast interests in an effective end forceful way and their work will bear good fruit. Converting Horseflesh Into Pork, Winnemucca (Nev.) Silver State, Tom Rickey of Carson, 80 we are given to un- t killing eightcen horses o week and feeding them to the hogs. The meat is bofled in a caldron with grain and is very fattening, People who have tried horse steaks say that they are very palatable, a good deal better than tough beef. Phenomenal Coincidence. Whatcom (Wash.) Reverlle. Atleast ten papers have published, as orig- inal, the wonder of the young fellows entering college next year if their class will be known as '00. “Tecumseh’’ Would Not Be Bad. Alameda Telegram. What shall be the name ot Indian Territory when it knocks at the door for admission as a State in the Union LOS ANGELES CELERY. Los Angeles Record. One of the growing industries of Southern Californla is the raising of celery. The Santa Fe Railrond Comslny shlp{ed four carloads East Saturday, and these make a total of thirty forwarded &0 far this season, which id a much large: number than for the same period last year. The celery is grown on the peat lands near Santa Ana.” About 250 acres of it are now under cultivation, and this area is being in- crensed every year. The season lasts from_the middle of November until about March 1. Last year 150 ‘carloads were sent East,and that number will be doubled this year. The celery is what is known as the White Plume variety, and is in great demand in the Eastern mar- kets, ranking equal if not superior to the cele- brated Kalamazoo (Mich.) product. It will not be long before Southern California celery will be as well known throughouf the East as its CIRIgEs are now. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “May Irwin had a rather amusing and, fora | time, puzzling experience one evening during the 1ast week of the ran of * The Widow Jones’ at the Bijou Theater, New York,” said Ramsey | Morris, the playwright, at the Occidental Ho- | tel last night. “On the geeasion in question & number of bouquets had been thrown and passed over the | footlights and the actress had them carried to | her dressing-room. While changing her cos- tumes between the acts she gianced at the cards and notes that accompanied them. One | note, however, through being well pushed down among the flowers, escaped her attention. Meantime she bad been chatting with & young | lady, & non-professional, who had called on | | gotready to leave Eastern blizzards and hard | grubbing and move to God's country. all sorts of foolish questions, but the people are interested. Many visitors come to the val- ley, and I actually sell small ranches to about five Enstern families a month. A large pro- portion of the Eastern people who locate are people who have been out here hefore, liked the country, and in the course of a year of two That showsthe value to the State of getting excur- sionists to visit the coast. » “Now, talking about the big things we grow— that sweet potato is rather an ordinary one, Plenty like it grow there, and I remember one that weighed fifty-three pounds. Last year I had in my office & pumpkin that weighed 250 pounds, Visitors, mostly Easterners, would dig into it to see if it was real, and it rotted. I MISS IRWIN, WHO GOT MR. (From a photograph.] IRVING’S BOUQUET. her in her dressing-room. During the conver- sation this young Iady happened to mention | the fact that her mother was quite ill. “Miss Irwin grew sympathetic at once and, seizing a bouquet, the one which unfortunately contained the unopened note, said: ““Iam so sorry that your mother is ill. Tell | her that I sent Ler these flowers ana that Iwill call on her to-morrow.’ “The next morning Miss Irwin called early | on the tnvalid. Her young friend of the night before had gone on & premenade, but the old lady had evidently just awakened and was ex- | amining her bouquet, for irom the next room came very distinetly and angrily these words: | “«Whoever sent me these flowers must be | crazy or under the impression that I am e | fool.” « Miss Irwin scenting trouvle rushed into the room with & terrified * What's the matter?’ “*This.’ shrieked the old lady wrathfully, holding forth the note which she had discov ered in the bouquet. « Miss Irwin nervously grasped the paperand | read the words, which were &s follows: ‘I'have | seen your Hamlet and it’s great. I want to see your Macbeth and I'll be up to-night. An Ad- mirer.’ “The jolly May at once smoothed the old lady’s rufiled plumage by explaining that a bouquet evidently meant for Henry Irving at Abbey’s had beeu left at the Bijou by mistake, robably,’ added Miss Irwin, ‘ Sir Henry eived bouquets intended for me, with accompanying notes informing him that his “ Widow ' was fine.’ "’ There were doubters in the little knot of people at the Palace who heard Boswell M. | Blythe tell Inst evening in an ofi-hand, sincere | and matter-ot-fact way about the big beets and | potatoes that grow down in Los Angeles County, Boswell M. Blythe and His Ordinary California Sweet Potato. [Reproduced from a photograph.] where he lives, Mr, Blythe settled the potato matter by digging down into his pocket and producing a photograph showing himself shonldering a sweet-potato three or four feet long and weighing twenty-three pounds. Mr. Blythe is at the front of the ‘“Kentucky Blythes” and their renewed battle for the Blythe millions, He is the leading real-estate dealer of Downey, Los Angeles County, and is about as keenly interested in his wonderful little Los Nietos Valley as in the Blythe case. “The Los Nietos Valley is one of the finest gems of Bouthern California,” he declared. “It's filling up with Eastern people steadily, and, like the rest of the country down there, is growing faster than at any time since the boom. I think that my experience shows the value of advertising California in the East. Now I am interested in the Los Nietos Valley, only a few miles from Los Angeles, and to ad- vertise it T keep a neat exhibit of products at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, keep ads in the local and Los Angeles papers and send ecirculars deseriptive of the valley all over the East. I have sent East about 20,000 of those circulars in eighteen months. I send four or five to every address I can get, and they are read and passed around. Isend them te every Eastern name I see in the papers, and Iget names out of all sorts of Eastern papers. |.ed; ‘One result is an average of twenty letters of inquiry aday. Some are peculiar and full of could find bigger ones if I'd try, for 300-pound pumpkins are comparatively frequent. Ihave & watermelon at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce that weighs 100 pounds. I've knocked them all out in sweet potatoes and watermelons.” “I suppose you did those potatoes with a stump-puller,” said an auditor. ““Well, you'd better say that about our beets. Last year I had one five feetlong, that weighed 165 pounds. But I'll have bigger ones this year when the heets are pulled. Of course, some people don’t believe these big-pumpkin storfes, any more than an Easterner can be- lieve that down there we harvest from six to nine crops of alfalfa a year; but we do grow big things down there in Los Angeles County.” John Walsh, one of the piloneers of the rich Washington Gulch, Montana, whose home in recent times has been at Victoria, B. C., is at the Russ. Mr. Walsh has had experiencesin almost all the mining districts of the.coast. Helived in San Francisco thirty vearsago snd has only visited this City three times since. Recently he has spent four years in Europe, mostly in England and Ireland, as the profits of his mines and different investments therwise more than warranted this. Since he got back he has been visiting some of the new mining districts of British Colum- bia. “They think they are going to have the big- gest mining excitement there in the world,” said he. “They talk as though they were go- ing to have in the Kootenai, Slocan and Trail Creek districts other South Africas, Cripple Creeks and Coolgardies. hey have really got some good gold in Trail Creek, with a number of excellently pay- | ing mines, but there is 100 claims staked out toone that ‘pays. It is almost amusiaog how the finding of pieces of white rock anywhere are set forth as gold discoveries. “‘But the Slocan aund Trail districts are at- tracting much attention in London. When I was at Vancouver a few days two London ex- perts had arrived, one of them with $400,000 to invest. There were 100 men after him to sell claims. He got switched off, however, and was going to invest in Vancouver water power or something of that sort. “A good many people, however, from Eng- land who have arrived are putting money in the British Columbia districts, I was amazed to see how much money they had in London when I was over there. I didn’t Know there was €0 much money in the world. And they are scattering it in all parts of the world. “The statistics show that London throws away $100,000,000 a year in various schemes. Nota cent of it comes back. Yet they never squesl. They seem to like to lose money. They play one thing and another, and if they win, ali right, but if they don’tit’s just the same. They rather seem to enjoy losing as much as winning. “There are innumerable thousands of men in London who have incomes of £15,000 to £20.000 each a year above all expenses, and they scatter this to & large extent abroad in various schemes. The common people also come to the front each year with emormous sums. It was perfectly amazing to me, the freedom with which they spend what they have.” Mr. Walsh intends staying in San Francisco during the winter. LADY'® WAIST WITH YOKE AND BLOUSE FRONT. The box-pleated blouse variety of the separ- ate waists is at present the favorite, and the model here shown has another popular fea- ture—the yoke top. It is made over a fitted lining and fastens invisibly in the center front under the boxpleat, the yoke being hooked over on the left side. Some of the richest waists of silk made in this style have the yoke of embroidered batiste, with the lower sleeves of the same. A handsome waist of figured silk was made in this way, with the blouse front of chiffon, two colors being used. one over the other. Green of the mignonette tone and dull yellow are good combined in this way, with a. light silk showing these colors in the fig. ures. Dull rose and dull green make nnothegr pretty combination, and the use of a third color over two bright tones make a delightful rainbow effect. The collars of such waisis are made of the chiffon, the colors being inter- twined or 1aid one over the other. A wash silk waist after this model was tastefully trimmed with full ruffles of narrow valenciennes lace of a creamy tint, which outlined the yoke and iged the box pleat. Wash fabrics for morn- ing and evening wear make up charmingly with yokes of lace over & plain color, such as lain blue, with lace for the yoke and striped Elue and white for the restof the waist. A checked pink and brown was made with a waist of plain pink, the yoke and lower ulegvea being of the checked goods to match the skirt. | This idea might be carried out in any fabric of silk or wool. 4 % PERSONAL. H Dr. Stephens of Petaluma {5 here. H. E, McCrae of Moline, Ill, is a recent ar- rival. 0 - : A, Markham, the banker of Santa Rose; isin the City. 2 . Morris Trumbull of Chicago arrived here yesterday. . § ; E. M. Jones, a business man of Healdsburg, is at the Russ. y “ ¥ Drury Melone, the patriarch of Oak Knoll; is at the Palace. i H.J. Llewellyn, the attorney of St. Helena, is at the Lick. Superior Judge Horace L.Smith of Hanford is at the Grand. E. F. Musson, a business man of Haywards, is at the Occidental. C. P. Berry, a business man of Mountain View, is at the Russ. through the daily papers, that his work is et Ay Toview them with this in my mind I find it hard to refrain from wonderinz which of them will do most to keep him in re- membrance; but this is not the end for which Te labored, and the speculation is unworthy of the example of the man who walked his path in life with no lhon‘eht 1o any footprints on the sands of time. Whether his earnest faith- fulvessover a few things does or does not make him ruler over many things, his life needs no eompletion and no monument. No nged hath such to live as ye name life, That which began in him when he began 18 finished: he hath wrought the purpose through 0’ what did make him Man.” Huxley’s life-long. devotion to the task of teaching the right method of unn¥ our reason in the search for truth has been sofruitful that the success ot failure of his attempts to teach the mpplication of this method to specific problems is a matter of very subordinaté im- portance. E. H. BLACK, paintet, 120 Eddy street. — e ——————— A NICE present, California Glace Fruits, 50¢ 1b in Japanese baskets. Townsend’s. - ————————— There is no keeping up with the “lightning- change Emperor,” as the Kaiser is facetiously termed in England. As soldier, orator, painter, stage thanager. gwner and wearer of 109 uni- Ex-State Senator G. S. Berry of Lindsay is W. E. Hite, a merchant of Portland, is at. the Russ, accompanied by his wife. 4 J. C. Mangharn, an old resident of San _ tonio, Tex., is visiting this City. { John C. Wright of Indianapolisis here:on & visit, and is staying at the Palace. H. B. Field ot Mobile, Ala., is at the; Occi- dental, accompanied by his mother. E. E. Bain of Chicago, son of the millionaire wagon manufacturer, is at the Palace. D. J. Small, the chief of the Bouthern Pacific Railway'sshop at Sacramento, is in town. The Rev. F. H. White of London, England, is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife. Adjutant-General A. W. Barrett came down from Sacramento last night and is at the Cali- fornia. E.G. Flannagan, 'a general goods dealer of Marshfield, on Coos Bay, Oregon coast, is at the Lick. George J. Seybert, a mine-owner of Scotts Bar, of large experience. in digging for the precious metals, is in town. Jemes F. Wardner, the noted Pacific Coast mining man who has made many discoveries and been rich and poor many times, is at the Lick. Robert B. Maey, a mining man of Clifton, Ariz., one of the noted copper regions of the West, is here on a business trip. He is at the Grand. Ex-Senator Archibald Yell of Mendocino County came up from.Hanford yesterday, where he has been for some time. He is at the Baldwin. F. N. Steele of Pescadero, cne of the wealth- iest dairymen of that part of the coast and an extensive manufacturer of milk produets, ar- rived here yesterday. George M. Colburn, manager of the well- known Clifton House, Niagara Falls, where most of the dukes and other notables from everywhere stay, is at the Palace. Dr. Rupert Blue, assistant surgeon of the United States Marine Hospital service, has been allowed a month’s leave of absence. He will spend it at Galveston, Tex., with his wife's parents. Frank L. Coombs of Napa, ex-United States Minister to Japan, who has been frequently spoken of for Governor and who has served the State as a Senator and in other capacities, s at the Grand. Mr. Coombs is a native of Cali- fornia. A. L. Selig of Tulare Ci yesterday and left for exhibit at the Press | Club several dozen of the largest and finest | oranges and lemons seen here this season. They were all grown in Tulare County. Mr. Selig returnea home last night. Nicholas C. Den of Santa Barbara, son of Dr. Den, the first white settler at the aforesaid place, and nephew of Dr. Den, who died & few days ago at Los Angeles, is at the Oco* "= tal, accompanied by his daughter, ' - A. H. Den, is also there, accomper | bride, a young lady whom he mar W days ago at Sacremento. | The reorganization of the Natfonal Guard occurs at a most infelicitous moment in the careers of Bert Hecht and Sanford Goldstein, Both had accepted posts on the staff of Colonel Bush of the First, and had qualified for the dis- tinction by the purchase of brilliant uniforms, Yet, here cometh the Governor, who at one fell swoop sweeps their chief out of his com- mand and relegates them back into ervilian- dom. They were colonels but seven days. At the Concordia and Verein Clubs there is much symvoathy felt for both, and under proper guidance might take the shape of a properly engrossed expression of regret.—The Wave. An- unty was in the City | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 14.—Mrs. Bateman and C. B. Wingate were aming the passengers who sailed on the steamship Etruria for Liver- pool. Among recent arrivals are: F. A. Frank, Holland; T.J. Swift and wife, Grand Union; F. Toplitz, Gilsey; M. 8. Eisner and W. J. McArdle, Marlborough; C. Gruber, Plaza; H.Law, Ashland; H.D. Percival, Ven- dome; F. J. Voss, Hofftman. Mr. and ' Mrs. Charles H. Hammond, Upper Lake, Cal., are guests of Miss Alice Lee Roosevelt of Oyster Bav, L.I. They are at the Windsor. Miss J. L, Stone and Mrs. F. G. Sanborn left the West- minster Hotel to sail for Europe. Mrs. J. M. Peck of Munchen, Germeny, is with them. They sailed on the Kaiser Wilhelm. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. MR. WRIGHT'S POSITION DEFINED. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 13, 1895. Editor Call: In your reportof the proceed- ings of the Miners' Association’s executive committee on Thursday night it is stated that 1made the motion to adopt the bill which was finally adopted by the committee. ~This is an error. Three bills were under consideration. The first was known as the ‘“committee bill,” or “Idaho-Montana act,” along the lines of which it was framed. The second was known as the “Singer bill,” being the one proposed on the part of the railroad company. The third was known as the “compromise bill,"” being | the one -prepared by the special committee | with a view of framing some measure which would bring some relief to the miners and at | the same time not meet the violent opposition | of the railroad. The compromise bill was the | one under discussion. My motion was to sub- | stitute the first or Idaho-Montana bill in place of the compromise bill. My motion was de- feated and it was the compromise bill which was adopted. JouxN M. WRIGHT. ——— A REVIEW OF HUXLEY'S ESSAYS. Dr. W. K. Brooks, in the Forum. Huxley’s essays are 50 far from a miscellany that they remind one of a fair landscape stretching from the' rugged heights of contro- versy over meadows filled with the flowers of literature and through fielas and orchards loaded with the ripe fruits of science, all vital- ized by a clear stream, sometimes welling up In great gushes of truth, sometimes wandering in silence under the verdure which. it nour- ishes, but always there for all who wish to drink of it. All the essays either set forth the results which have been won or may be hoped for from the application of this golden rule, or else theg teach our moral obligation to sus- pend judgment on ?uesflnm to which we are unable to apply it, however great our desire for answers. In the long run their value will depend on the success which attends this purpose—the purggle to which their author tells us he had subordinated whatever hope he may have had of scientific fame: but they have other claims to consideration. All are good reading; in all we continvally come across profound truth put into words so apt and pithy that we store them away in our m"r&dps as permanent additions to our stock of wisdom. Since I began this account of the new edition | cor; forms, he is famfliar to all of us. Still l.\fls':\lm jesty has “another forthcoming attraotion,” in the language of the profession which heaffects. The Kaiser’s Y¥ery latest” is in the character of esthefic ‘Aress-promoter. He is very anxious, it seems, to have his court as pictur- esquelooking.es possible, and to thisend he has given opders that a certain number of courtiers shall attend state ceremonies in costumes which #hall be fac-similes of those worn by Venetian Senators in the Middle Ages. The Emperor’s talent forstage management is as- serting itself in private life, and if he does not tire of this latest whim the Prpssian court promises to be the most picturesque in Europe. —————— SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers. business houses and pubiic men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. —_— e — Mme. Sarah Bernhardt has broken the record for extravagance in stage dresses. Her latest addition to her theatrical wardrobe cost the neat little sum of $7500. It isof ivory satin, decorated with diamonds ana turquoise, the train being iined with ermine. The skins of 200 animals_ were required to line the train, and the turquoise band on the skirt contains 1800 stones, so it will be seen that Mme. Bern- Dbardt got her ivory satin gown at & compeara- tive bargain. WHEN catarrh gains a firm hold on the system It has very dangerous tendencies, being liable to de- velop into consumption. 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