The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 19, 1896, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 1896. ARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Pnulrlr!or. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Pally and Sunday CALL, 0new ¥ carrier..$0.15 and Sunday CALT, One 3 6.00 Ca11, six months, by mall.. 3.00 ths by mail 1.50 .63 1.50 1.00 end Sunda; d Sunday C, r, by ma WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mafl San Francisco, California. Felephone.. . 5 e Main—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: Clay Street. Selephone.. Main-1874 €80 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open uatll | $:20 o'clock. 589 Hayes street; open untll 9:30 o'clock. 717 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. EW . corver Sixteenth and Mission streets; open 16 o'clock. 4618 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 316 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 608 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. _JANUARY 19, 188 TIHE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. —— e Sweet is sunshine after rain. The convention d the proper thing, v rous policies are always in demand. The free market w Eome product home to help to bring the ou. What we call a flood 1n California wouldn't be a freshet However loudly money may talk in the next campaign the deficit will talk louder. One of the good effects of the rain has been to put all the dry winter prophets in soak. Now that the Senators have applauded a prayer for free Cuba they should try to live up to it. We may now start the festivals, for as e returns the flowers has saved Campos by recalling he can save his army by pursu- e tact s are about over and the ttling into shape tle annexation between the B h and the the native African ry. ses to give e a means at this will protect her rld. olicy on the part of is not war, but it mus! carried into Africa just the same. stake of Krueger to mix rican miners up with British raiders t be made to sort them out The srrest of American miners gives Olney a chance is hand ia the I by putting his foot s with which some hem one would suppose he great: of novelties c city committee of Boston of §5860 07 from the last cam- paign, and. consequently, is in good shape to indorse Grover. ve been something a receptive candidate in the ! market, or else the leap year lucky for him. A new aspirant for fame has risen up to declare the A can people suffer more from the drug it than they do from either aleohol or tobacco. y owes it to society to an- ince at once whether leay ar pro- diplomatic hyperbole. ng squadron of Great uld come to the West Indies it would be only a Dunraven trip, for it could take no prizes in these waters. consider the qu tariff along unite the nations of this hemisphere. stion of a Pan-American The courtesies of the Presidential cam- paign have begu y for Governor Mor- ton. Itisasserted that he wears an im- ported wig instead of home-grown hair. Cleveland should deal with the Trans- Government direct and not through the medicm of England. If Krueger is sovereign enough to arrest American citi- zens he is also sufficiently sovereign to be held responsible and made to turn them ioose. Professor Francis B. Crocker, the well- known inventor, claims that electrical mechanism has now reached a point where it is possible to supply large cities with all necessary power, heat and light from dynamos ten miles away, thus avoiding the use of coal and enabling the rhost crowded communities to have an atmos- phere free from smoke and soot. New York has always supposed herself to be the shipping port for all the grain that comes down the lakes to Buffalo, but it now appears that while the grain re- ceipts at the lake city were 14,000,000 bushels more in the year 1895 than in the year 1880, the receipts at New York were about 46,000,000 bushels less last year than they were fifteen years ago. It is generally supposed that some of all kinds of people are out of work in New York, but an artist who wished a model and advertised for a “‘tall, distinguished- looking gentleman, about 40, aristocratic face, stylish clothes, for series of illustra. tions, liberal compensation,’” failed to get him. There may be men of that kind out of a job, but they do not pose as models, The Galveston-Dallas News has issued a handsome supplement giving portraits of the staff of the paper, and in addition thereto a notable array of men and women of Texas who have been subscribers and readers of the News for forty years or more. The number of these old subscribers is quite large, and all of them have the hearty look which proves that the News must be very healthy reading. are to be regarded as ultimatums or h other plans of the kind to ! THE CONVENTION. The convention of yesterday did its work promptly and did it well. It was at once aggressive and conserva- tive. It did all that was needed to attest California’s earnest opposition to any form of a funding scheme and did not | weaken the strenzth and justice of that position by attempting to go further. The action taken and the resolutions adopt- ed can be ratified and indorsed by | men of all shades of opinion. They do not undertake to declare what the Gov- ernment should do with the road after the defeat of the refunding scheme. They de- mand simply the enforcement of the law against the railroad plutocrats as against the poorest citizen, and that is all Califor- nia asks or needs for her welfare and prosperity. A convention of this kind may be in full truthfulness said to be representative of the people of the State. It wasa meeting of business men called to consider a public, who proceeded to perform their work with a business-like precision and | directne: It stuck strictly to the task before it and turned aside for no other Iis e whatever. Even those who may have ‘iw hed the convention had gone further | will certainly support it as far as it {did go. We are among those who hold | that it went far enough--thatitdid exactly | the right thing in the right way with the | right spint and at the right time. The whole tenor of the resolutions from the first “whereas” to the closing expres- sion of resolve is honest, virile, straight- forward and just. They enter a solemn vrotest against any refunding bill what- ever and they request of the Govern- ment the beginning of foreclosure | proceedings at once. This is all that needs to be done at this juncture. New prob- {lems may arise in the future, but these can be dealt with in the future. | The issue now is clearly embodied in the resolutions. There remains to | the people the plain duty of supporting | the work of the convention by co-operating | vigorously with the committee appointed to carry it on. The prospects are pro- pitious. The people are united, the cause is just, able leaders are to the front, and with resolute action the victory will be ours. A VOICE FROM THE PAST. he United States Circuit Court has been engaged during the past week in listening to the reading of the record of the Pattison Railway Commissionasa por- tion of the evidence introduced on behalf of the People of California in the pending action to enjoin their Railroad Commis- sioners from performing the duties im- | posed by the express terms of the State constitution. The situation is somewhat singular. The court 1s occupied in hearing the declara- tions of the controlling spirits of the Central and Southern Pacific i railroads, made undcr oath almost ten years ago before a Congressional Committee, and now exhumed from the dusty archives of the past to be used 4 overwhelming force against these two corporations, although the lips of all of | the then living witnesses, save one, are now closed in death., The incident illus- trates aptly the truth embodied in the | poem of “Eugene Aram’s Dream’’— | So wills the fierce avenging sprite, | Till blood for blood atones; Aye, though Le's buried in a cave { ‘And trodden down with stones, | And years bave rotted off his flesh, H The world shall see his bones. The Pattison Railway Commission was one of the most remarkable bodies which ever met in California, made an inquisi- tion or formulated a report. It was an absolutely honest and perfectly fear- 4 less Congressional committee, appointed and equipped with power to investigate the scandals which had arisen over the construction of the Pacific railroads and | of which the stench had blown east- ward and into the halls of Con- |gress until some inquiry into their n and nature became a public ne- | cessity. At the instance of Pattison of | Penvsylvania the commission was ap- pointed with himself at the head. It came | to California, and during the years of | 1836-87 conducted the investigation which | is now finding its way into the records of the Federal courts. For a | time the magnates of the railroad felt | themselves bound to submit to examina- | tion and testified with a certain degree of freedom. But they soon discovered that the Lkeenness of scent | which Pattison sought for truth was more than their record of dis- honesty could endure and they then ap- pealed to certain of their pliant tools upon the bench of the Federal courts for protec- | tion. 1t granted. The Pattison com- mission was told that it could not force testimony from unwilling lips or compel | the production of incriminating records, |and the commission was obliged, re- | luctantly, to forego its effort, and base its | report upon the evidence already ad- duced. That report, which was prob- ably written by Pattison himseli, one of the most scathing arraignments of the Pacific railroads which has ever been put to print. The present Federal court may feel impelled to refuse it admission case, but its conclusions, based as they are upon the declarations of the railroad builders themselves, it should hesitate to disagree with or disregard. There have been some singular things developed recently with reference to this report. It is contained in several volumes of public records, and at one time was easy of access upon the shelves of local libraries. Strange to say, from every pub- lic library and from many semi-public places such as newspaper offices these volumes have mysteriously disappeared until it is now almost an impossibility to find a complete set of the reportsin this City. In view of this fact 1t is interesting to learn that the substance of the commission’s work is to be made a portion of the record of the Federal court, from which it is hardly credible to believe the same interested larcenist will have the audacity to attempt its abstraction. POSTAL SAVINGS. In past years whenever an attempt to pass a postal-savings scheme through Con- gress failed the cry was raised that the de- feat represented the influence of the banks. We have not observed that attention has been called to any such opposition in the case of the postal-savings measures which have been recently introduced in Congress. The logic of the case is antagonistic toany assumption of bank opposition, for the reason that as the interest proposed to be paid by the Government is much smaller than that paid by savings banks a postal- saving account would more than likely be transferred to savings banks after it had reached a size sufficient for bank-account purposes. As arule economy and its extreme ex- pression, penuriousness, are the result of necessity. Celifornians scorned to use any coin smaller than a 25-cent piece until op- portunities for making a great deal of money with little effort became restricted. The same rule applies to small savings; matter of most important business to the | is | asa partof the evidence in the pending | they are not likely to be made by prosper- ous persons. At the same time it is well to teach children the importance of say- ing, and hence it is in the education of the young that a postal-saving institution would have one of its highest uses. The best plan in overation in Kurope may be illustrated by using the names of American coins in describing it. A person may deposit a sum as small as a cent. An account is opened with him.. Forhis cent he is given acard divided into ten com- partments, each the size of a one-cent stamp, and a cent stamp which the post- master aflixes to the card. For ten cents the entire card is thus filled, and 1n ex- change for it the depositor receives acard divided into ten compartments, each de- signed to receive ten ten-cent stamps. Upon surrendering his one-cent card he is given a ten-cent card with one of the com- | partments filled with a ten-cent stamp. | When this card is filled he surrenders it and receives another card divided into ten compartments, but each represents $1, and one of the compartments is filled with a §1 stamp in exchange for the filled ten-cent card which he has surrendered. The next card has $10 compartments. The system is so simple thatany child can understand it, our decimal system making it peculiarly applicable to this country. ‘Whether or not any of the bills before | Congress embody this plan we are not informed, but if not it should be presented, { ana the measure could find no more suita- ble advocates than the great labor organi- zations of the country. THE NATIONAL CONVENTIONS. The contest among the larger cities of | the East for the Democratic Natfonal Con- vention became, toward the close, a rivalry between Chicago and St. Louis, and re- sulted in the success of the former. The { result is regarded as something of a vic- tory for the gold wing of the party. Cer- tain it is that the New York influence, when it was found imvossible to carry the | convention to that city, was exerted on behalf of Chicago, and, as New York is de- | voted to the gold interest, it is not likely that her choice between the rival cities | was determined solely by geographical considerations. Now that the calls for both of the great | National conventions have been issued, | Presidential politics will rapidly increase = in interest until it becomes the absorbing | issue of the time. It seems evident that | we are to have a campaign widely differ- ent from any that have taken place since the war. The breaking up of the Sold South is but one of the many proofs of the changed conditions that politicians and statesmen will have to confrontin making | the canvass. Along with these changes in | conditions there will be changes in the | 1ssues that are to be discussed, and, ac- | cordingly, the campaign will have the | interest of novelty added to that of the usual excitement of oratory and proces- sions. It is satisfactory to note that all the changes which have taken place either in conditions or in issues have been strength- | ening to the Republican party. The break | in the solid South, that stronzhold of | Bourbon Democracy, has not been more | complete than the break in Democracy i self. The very fact that the selection of a | site for holding the National Convention factions of the party is an evidence of how | far the factional divisions are carried, and | how easy it is to rouse them to antagonism | on any subject upon which the party asa | whole is called upon to decide and to act. Both conventions will in all probability | be unusually exciting this year, but there | will be a wide difference between the two in the causes of the excitement, and that | difference will illustrate the contrast that | exists betweel. the conditions of the par- | | ties themselves. In the Republican Con- | vention there will be harmony in the mak- ing of the platform, and the interest will | lie in the struggle to decide among many able leaders as to which shall be chosen for the Presidency. In such a contest there will be much vigor and much enthu- | siasm, but no sign of those dissensions | that weaken a party at the beginning of a | campaien. Very different will be the con- | tests that will rage in the Democratic Con- vention. No great popular leaders will vie with one another for victory there. The contests will be over the principles of the platform, and if they end without causing | the convention to break up in confusion it | will ke only because one faction or the other is willing to carry compromises to the verge of subserviency. WANRTED—A VOLCANO. A valued correspondent, whose imagina- l tion has been fired by the news that Kil- | auea, the famous Hawaiian volcano, is| again active, writes to secure the opinion { of Tae CALL on the probability of renewed activity in one or more of the ancient vol- canoes which constitute such remarkable features of the topography of California, | ard expresses a hope that such a happen- | ing will occur to aad to the already long | list of the State’s attractions. He in-| geniously arguds that “‘in Mexico we have active volcanoes to the left of us, in Alaska an active volcano to the right of us, in the Sandwich Islands an active volcano in front of us, and at home many desolate and dreary old craters that sit sullen, de- | crepid and silent.” [ It is in the nature of all thingsearthly to | be born, to live and to die, Thisisastrue | of whimsies, humors and forms of badinage | as of races, dynasties and volcanoes. Read- ing the story of the rocks of California we | find that our great volcanoes have been | slumbering for a longer time thar Vesu- | vius and AEtna were ever known to remain | asleep, and this gives us cause to despair} of their awakening. Bince scientists have | disposed, in a rather high-handed manner, | of the connection between volcanoes and earthquakes, which may crack badly built houtes, 1t might be pleasant to have Shasta, or Lassens Peak, or St. Helena | “‘belch forth fire, smoke and lava,” but it | is sufliciently interesting to reflect on the | wonderful things that our volcanoes did while they were in business. | The greatest of them all was Shasta, bnt‘ the most wonderful was St. Helena, which is so near San Francisco that it may be seen from the higher eminences about the City. While Shasta, commencing on a plain 3000 feet above the level of the sea, built a beautiful symmetrical cone nearly 12,000 feet above the plain, St. Helena re- versed the course of a river and created a petrified forest. And this, in the slow fashion of geology in telling its tales, was only the other day—that is to say, many thousands of years ago. In the early days, before Dana saw ante- lope come down to the water’s edge on the Marin shore and gaze curiously at the ship which passed through the Goiden Gate with the author of “Two Years Be- fore the Mast,” Russian River flowed almost directly westward to the sea. About the same time the volcano emitted an in- conceivable amount of ashes, which sifted through and completely buried a forest of redwoods near Calistoga. The ashes piled far above the tree summits, and in the course of the ages the trees were siiicified. Then came the eroding rains, washing the ashes away and leaving the stone trees standing till an earthquake overturned and was regarded as a contest between rival | * shattered them; but they lie there to-day, silently telling their marvelous history. No active volcano in California could be more wonderful than the easily read his- tory which they wrote before they died. AN "ALLURING WORD. The various schemes which have been recently devised for securing the wealth of old that all reason teaches us must lie in the beds of the rivers which come down from the old hydraulic and placer gold fields are remindful of the appropriateness of the word ‘“golden” in its application to so many objects and conditions in Cali- fornia, and particularly to the Golden Gate. Itisa curious fact that vellow is the predominating color in California. Overshadowing all other colors is the yel- low of the sunshine—a pecutiar and dis- tinctive characteristic of the natural light. The prevalent hue of the soil is yellow, and in summer the plams are carpeted with the most gorgeous of all yellow flowers, the amapoia, or eschscholtzia, or California poppy, asone’s jaw may be best fitted to the name; and the gold of our | mines is more yellow than that which any other part of the world has ever produced except ancient Etruria. 'Tha configuration of major California discloses two great valleys forming a con- tinuous plain 500 miles long and sixty miles wide, besides a number of smaller valleys draining to the common basin into which the two great valieys pour their yellow wealth, This place of common assembly is the bay of San Francisco, and the bay opens to the great ocean through the Golden Gate. Through this gateway, s0 happily named, flows the great yellow treasure in infinite variety, but mearly always yellow, to every corner of the earth. Through the long years of gold-mining 1 the area which drains through tke Golden Gate there has been carried down constantly a stream of gold which the me- chanical genius of men has not been able to impound. It lies strawn along the beds of the rivers, it freights the bottom of the bay of San Francisco, it adds to the rigid- ity of the bar that guards the Golden Gate in a wide segment of a circle twenty miles to sea. During inconceivable ages preced- | ing the era of gold-mining the streams had been carrying down this precious treasure and depositing it wherever it could find a resting place. Wherever the lava cap cov- ering the beds of the ancient gold-bearing rivers had been worn away the rains had washed out the gold and sent it down the streams and out through the Golden Gate. Everything that works to the dislodging and developing of the natural resources that lie in the soil of the yellow plains and underneath the russet of the hills and mountains back of them partakes of the color and value of gold. This must all pass through San Francisco to be prepared and refined and made useful, and in that fact resides the coming greatness of the City. PERSONAL. John 8. McMillen of Roche Harbor, Wash., arrived here yesterday. General Manager Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pacific has returned from a trip over the Shasta route. -Judge F. T. Baldwin of Stockton, who has been unwell for several weeks at the Palace, is 11 improv. It is expected he will soon be e to leave the hotel. C. 1. Speers, for six years past assistant pas- senger agent of the Atlantic and Pacific, has resigned, the resignation to take effect Feb- ruary 1. Mr. Speers returned irom Chicago yesterda: Casper Whitney, for & long time connected with Harper's Weekly as a writer, principally on sporting matters, is on his way here from New York. He is a member of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 18.—Among recent arrivals are: P. Greenberg, Broadway Central; G. Radston, Coleman; Mrs. Austin, Gerlach; R. Mauzy, Holland; L. F. Monteagle, Brunswick; I.H.Morse and wife, St. James; R. Neviller, Sturtevant; H.O0.Smith, Plaza; I P. Eisenbach, St. Cloud; 8. C. Leggatt, Marl. d; S, borough; E. W. Linforth, Park Avenue. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Kopak—E. 8., Livermore, Alameda County Cal. Kodsk is an arbitrary word, constructed for trademark purposes. The word was used as a verb by Mrs. General Collins in her work on Alaska, published about three years ago. SANTA BARBARA LANDS—F. B. and others, City and elsewhere. For information about yocant Government lands In the vieinity of Senta Ynez, Santa Barbara County, communi- cations shonld be addressed to the United States Land Office at Los Angeles. A person ing tolocate on Government land should tview the land and determine for himself if 1t will suit his purpose. NEVADA Crry—S., Santa Barbara, Cal. The distance from San Francisco to Nevada City, Nevada County, in this State, is 144 miles by rail to Colfax, thence 22 miles by rail orstage to evada Ci The population of the place is a little over 2500, The fare is, rail $5 05, stage F225. w0 papers, the Tranderint and Herald, are published there. vada City is the center of a mining district where mines are worked. STATES AND TERRITORTES—S., C: There were thirteen originel States in the Union, the last of which, Rhode Jsland, ratified the constitu- tion May 29, 1790. Since then thirty-two States have been admitted, making fort; now in the Union. There are now’ five Terri- tories, namely: New Mexico, Arizona, Indian, Alaska and " Oklahema, and one district, namely, the District of Columbia. The States e n ince 1890 are: Idaho, July 13. 186 yoming, July 11, 1890, and Utah, Jan 1896. CooN—E. S., Livermore, Cal. Coon as ap- plied to en individual was an Americanism first used during the early days of the Whig party, and was intended to apply to & sly indi- vidual. Bigelow papers, first series, has the following: Firat place I've been consid’ble in barrooms and saloons A-getherin’ public sentiment 'mongst Democrats and coons. The term was afterward applied to colored men, though not in an offensive sense. ECIROCUITON—E. §., Livermore, Cal. Elec- trocution is a modern word coined from elec- tricute, which was adopted to signify the in- of the death penalty by means of y. When that method of death pen- alty was suggested it was desired to have a name for it, and it was suggested that the word execute be added to electri, making the compound word electri-execute, but that was contracted te electricute, and a writer on a New York paper improved on that by chang- ing the word to electrocution, Philologists condemn the word electrocute, but it seems to have been accepted by many newspapers. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Dies the insurgent yell! The Cubans all are routed; Away they flee pell-mell— An outcome Spain ne'er doubted. ‘What, ho! a change is flashed ! And Spain's distress is dire— Her final hope is dashea! "The Cubans hold the wire! The disappearance of Dr. Fritz Friedmann from Berlin has caused a sensation in Ger- many. Friedmann was a great criminal law- yer and made $50,000 a year from his profes- sion. He was, however, always in financial difficulties. He made & speech at & banquet one night recently and has not been seen since. Maude—Young Huggins’ engagement wasa very short one. Mabel—Is it broken already? “It was broken the very night he proposed.” “You don't say.” “Yes; you see Huggins stutters frightfully, and it took him nearly twenty minutes to pro- Pose, and aiter he got tnrough the girl spoiled everything by exclaiming ‘This is so sudden.’ Huggins thought she was ying him."— Ynnkersstlmgun. e AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “I say, there must be a reason for every- thing. Don’t you know?” Mr. Partington then lapsed into silence and renewed work on a portrait of Judge McKin- stry, upon which he was engaged. “Do you know”—another touch on his Honor’s eye—“why art is in such a bad way here in”—puts one brush in his mouth and tries another—“San Francisco?”” “Why?” inquired the visitor mechanieally. “Why? Because the people do mot under- stand it. Yes; that's why. Dear me, my lad, no other cause.”” “What's to be done in the matter?'’ “Umph. Simple enough. - Give us public art galleries. Ah, excuse me. Give them art galleries. Isay. That wasbuta bitof a play, you know, However’—another long silence, during which Mr. Partington painted vigor- ously—*“as I was about to say, there is a reason for everything. As a matter of fact, though, on second thought I said that once before. Well”—squints at the portrait methodically— “that is the reason we, or rather they, know so little about art.” *‘What 1s the reason?” ‘‘Because we ‘have no galleries in which to educate them. Look here,” and the artist put Caltfornia. In Texas he bought thonsands of acres at nominal prices, and with the advance in land values became immensely wealthy. He is now & bank director in Austin, Tex. But among strangers he set himself assiduously to learn reading and writing, and ' succeeded splendidly.” Kelleher put up at the Lick House while visiting San Francisco. The clerk wrote his nams incorrectly upon the register. “That’s not right,” Kelleher remarked curtly. “Will you please correct it?" asked the clerk. I don't care how its spelled in California; that's good enough—we'll let it go at that.” VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Finances and Firearms. Mountain View Register. Even if this country needed an official hun- ter and fisherman, $50,000 & year would be too much salary to pay. That Naval Demonstration. Oakland Enquirer. The great general who marched three hun- dred thousand men up & hill and then marched them down again will soon have an imitator in the ruler of the Queer's navee. A powerful fleet has been assembled at Portsmouth, ready to sail anywhere, but there is no place in which 1 SAY,” [Sketched by a SAID MR. PARTINGTON, “Call” artist.] his paints and brushes aside for a few mo- | ments, “let me tell you something. InE land, France, Germany, Italy, and in fact most | all countries where art is recognized at all, the Government fosters and assists in the esiab- lishment of art galleries. Why, they even go 50 far as to expend considerable sums of money 10 fill them with the best pictures obtainable. “Now consider for a moment the effect such an institution would have on the public mind? It should be made so attractive that the la man would find 1t worth while 10 go there and study with his eye. How many people are here to-dsy who know the elemetits of good painting? Few. They have to be taught. I suppose if any one heard me say this there would at once be an exception taken, but itis i true, nevertheless. Aye, indeed it is. “Mark you. Would there mot be a better | market if the buyers understood? I venture | to say that there is many a bit of work that | will be sold for a song some day, not because | it is only worth a song, but because there are more singers than there are admirers. Let some embryo genius paint & picture that has the divine touch in it, something that is worth a better price than it brings, and it needs the approval of the entire population to sell it for | anything like the amount it is really entitled | to. Pshaw. I say the people do not know. | How can they? The Art Association is all | £00d enough in its way, but it is filled with local work, and artists all of one quarter are not ifkely to see many remarkabla traits in | their neighbors. “Isay,” hie resumed, switching with wonder- | ful rapidity from the chief topic, “Do you know the Judge? Is the portrait good of him? | Jolly fellow, the Judge.” | In & moment he was looking into the face and painting away again as though the Judge | was on the point ot getting off the canvas if | the finishing touches were not applied before sunset. The visitor smiled, shook hands with the artist and went out. Wiiliam Kelleher, a pioneer of California, celebrated far and near in the earlier days of the State’s history for his hospitality and his admiration and emulation of the manners of old Spanish dons, returned recently from Texas 10 spend some time among friends here, People who knew Kelleher had almost for- gotten him, and many had thought bim dead, for in a quarter of & century not a word had been heard from the singular pioneer who came back to Callfornia as he had left. The | only diifference was Kelleher had amassed halt a million or more dollars in his absence from Celifornia, and was, therefore, a very rich man when he appeared suddenly among old-time friends with quite as much mystery as when he left. One of Kelleher's old associates told an in- teresting story about him the other day. It made Kelleher a hero of romance. “Thirty years ago he lived in Pacheco Valley, up in Contra Costa County,” said the vener. able pioneer. “The boys used to call him the ‘don.’ He was & typical old-time Californian Spaniard and his home in Pacheco Valley a typical old- time Spanish hacienda. That is as far as hos- pitality went and the style of living that Kel- leher kept up. Every one was welcome there, | rich or poor; tramp, peddler or millionaire, it was all the same. The wayfarer in Pacheco Valley knew the house, and its fame was spread far and near. Kelleher was a veritable don in that country. To offer him money for his hospitality would be an insult. Yet, with all this generosity and free and open way of living, Kelleher acquired wealth as a rancher. “More than a quarter of a century ago when he grew independently rich and was at the height of his popularity, he was induced by friends to run for the Legislature. But there was one thing he had forgotten. Kelleher could not write, and that crushed him. What do you think his political opponents did? They posted big signs all over the district like this: 'William Kelleher, his signature, X.” “The big X defeated Kelleher so padly that it is needed, or could do any good, except Con- stantinople, but Salisbury will notsend it there 10 coerce the Turk, and $o there will be noth- ing for the fleet aiter it has put to sea, but to turn arot and sail back to Portsmouth, A great man is Lord Selisbury, end Chamberiain 15 his prophet. If They Will Be Good. Woodland Mail. Our English cousins are now quite anxious to get permission to come over and play in our ard again. Such permission should not be granted until they solemnly promise to behave themselves in the future. Jonathan Is So Shy. Woodland Democrat. Now comes the report that England, by in- trigue, 18 trying to gain control of the Nicara- guan canal.” The ownership of that canai be- | longs to the United States by right of predom- | inant interests. Honest Methods and No Bribes. ‘Watsonville Rustler. The agitation in favorof good government should be continued until every man in public office who accepts bribes in the shape of com- missions, or gives bribes in the shape of special favors, is placed in the category to:which he be- longs—the roll of grand and petit larcenists. A DAINTY NIGHTGOWN. The lingerie of to-day is affected most de- cidedly by the prevailing styles, edding much to its picturesqueness and detracting none from its comiort, for the large sleeve is in nightdresses & great comfort and certainly wears well, saving the strain on the yoke often occasioned by fitted dresses. The gown shown here is made with a yoke back; a very shallow yoke in front holds the gathers in place. This is finished in some gowns by a small mrn-over. collar, which may | become ne nsible. This may be made very pretty bn;'o:;:leflng the large coliar of lawn, or the col- v be of colored batiste, which washes v ell. Veiry elaborate gowns of nainsook are tucked down the front or trimmed with narrow inser- tion. P his same shape is seen in misses’ lounging- m{és, which mnpy be of any material from the cheap outing flannels to silk wadded or lined vith flannel. “A dainty gown of pink flanuel had the large collar of white batiste trimmed with & Darrow edge of Valenciennes lace and insertion to match brought but hali an inch from the dge. 3 R outing flannel of blue with white stripes had a round coller of white China silk, edged with a rufile of lace, g Another of wool chailie with a yellow flrymr»r on a white ground had a collarof yellow China silk with lawn and insertion of Valenciennes. il Sl A LAUGH IN CHURCH. She sat on the sliding cushio: The dear, wee woman of fou iny slippers, er the floor. he had promised— And 50, with her big, brown eyes, She stared at the meeting-house windows And counted the crawling flies. She looked far up at the preacher, But she thought of the honey-bees at the blossoms trees. heap, Three sleek, round puppies, with fringy ears, Lay snuggled and fast asleep. Such soft, warm bodies to cuddle, Such gueer little hearts to beat, Such switt, round tongues to kiss, h sprawling, cushiony feet. -ould feel in her clasping finger e touch of the satiny skin, And a cold, wet nose exploring The dimples under her chin. Then a sudden ripple of laughter Ran over the parted lips S0 quick that she could not catch 1t With her rosy finger-tips. The people whispered, “Bless the child,” As each one waked from a nap, But the dear, wee woman hid her face For shame in her mother’s lap. —London Amusing Journal, THE BICYCLE AND THE RAILROAD. The great bicycle army of the Empire State is in the saddle at Albany, we understand, and proposes to scorch through the corridors of the Capitol and into the very presence of the Legislature, prepared to dismount only when it has secured surrender to 1ts proposition that the bicycle is baggage so far as the railroads are concerned. On the other hand we are in- formed that the raiiroads have steam up and propose to make no stops until they are face to face with the enemy, prepared to contest the right of way through the Legislature on any such proposition. Here, then, is an interest- ing opportunity for a collision, the echoes of which will be heard in the spring, when the highways and byways of the suburbs are in condition to woo the pneumatic tire Itisan old contest and a wordy one. Iten- gaged our atlention in the summer and fall, as it promises to engage our attention during the winter. We lesrn that Assemblyman Arm- strong of Rochester has concealed about him a bill to amend section 44 of chapter 31 of the laws of the State which relates to the regula- tion of railroad business, by declaring bicycles smpanied by owners to be baggage and sub- ject to the same liebilitie icycles to be transported free where the passenger releases the corporation from such liability, otherwise a charge of not less than 10 cents, and not to exceed 2 horized. clist in briet is that he is seldom accompanied by other bag- gage and as he is entitled by his ticket to 100 vounds there is no just reason why his wheel shoula not be carried without charge in a baggage-car. The raiload argues that if bi- eycies are to be designated as baggage it will essary for the owners to crate them 50 that they can be handled as such and piled up in the cars; otherwise the companies would be subjected to great hardship, for the reason that bicycles must be treated with great car and cannot be viled one upon another. They insist thi y justified in levying ira charge e floor of & car can be used for tl g for the use of two or more cars where one would for the same number of 1 s. 1 argument Is used in the hand cles at statio for the reason piled high the trucks, whi must be handled se 1y, greatly incre the cost to the railroads. It will thus be seen that each side of the con- troversy is pretty well intrenched, and we wil’ await the veraict of legislative wisdom with the same acute interest that must consume the wheelmen. Possibly much will depend upon the number of legislators at Albany who pos- sess bicycles. w York Mail and are PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. It is seid that the favorite di cess of Wales is Yorkshi h of the Prin- e pudding. A man named Simmons works in Warsaw, Mo., for a man named Green, and signs letters, *Green, per Simmons.” William Biack, the novel writer, is also a portrait painter, an enthusiastic botanist and an ell-round sportsman. The Sultan’s personal expenditure is almost nil, yet he is perhaps the wealthiest of the de- scendants of the Caliph. Costaki Anthopoulos Pache, the new Turkish Embassador to England, is a heavily built man, whose bearded face dispiays intelligence and determination. In diplomatic uniform he makes a handsome figure. The Queen of Portugal is & remarkable woman. She has been studying medicine and has passed her third examination. Her medi- cal library is the best of its kind in Portugal, She reads French, English, Spanish and Italian and takes all the leading medical reviews pub~ lished in these languages. She corresponds with eminent physicians on special subjects. She teaches her eldest son botany and the uses af the microscope. it St A E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. * —————— STRONG hoarhound candy,15c1b. Townsend’s.® ————— SPECIAL Information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Presy Clippiug Burean (Allen 510 Montigomery. * — e Mr. Gladstone has presented to Hughes, s sergeant of constabulary who has juse retired from duty in the Hawarden district, after many years of service, a copy of his work, “‘The Im. pregnable Rock of Holy Seripture,” inscribed “For Auld Lang Syne, W. E. Gladstone.” REEUMATISM Is caused by Iactic acid n the blood It appears as lameness in the back or stiffness in the arms and limbs. Neutralize the lactic actd by purifying the blood by taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, e~ UsE Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters, the world- renowned South American appetizer and Invigora- tor of exquisite flavor. e Ir affiicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thomp- son’s Eye Water. Druggists sell ¢ at 25 cents. —————— To REDUCE your weight,use Vrettos’ Belt. e ——— Joseoh Cook, who is at Clifton Springs, N. Y is'nervous, weak and sleepless. Since his re- cent breakdown he has lost nearly a hundred pounds. be made of embroidery or the goods. The yoke- points may ve edged with a ruffle of the same embroidery. Other gowns have a large round or square collar of the goods or of all over embroidery, or of alternate stripes of lace and the goods. For ordinary use a gown of white muslin is If you want a sure relief for limbs, use an with the ridicule it brought he pulled up his stakes and got out. He sold his farm and the growing crops, closed his hospitable house and ,eft it to a stranger, and moved far away from BEAR IN MIND—Not one tions is as good as the genuine. Allcock’s of the host of counterfeits and imita~ NEW TO-DAY. Sunday, January 19th. Direct from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Pure, Sweet, real Apple Cider, 20 cents quart. Complete lists at your command. Largest Department Store. SMITHS’ CASH STORE, 414, 416, 418 FRONT ST, 6. F. ~ains in the back, side, chest, or Porous Plaster