The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 22, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor end Proprietor. — et i BSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Yelly and Sunday CALY, one week, by carrier..§0.15 Taily and Sur LL, one year, by mal 6.00 Dally and Sunday ix months, by mail.. 3.00 nree months by mail 1.50 ne month, by mail.. .65 y #nd Sunday CALL, Eunday CaLy, one vear, WEERLY CALL, One BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California, Qelephone.... ..Maln-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay BRANCH OFFICES $30 Montgomery street, corner Clay :80 o'clock. £59 Hayes street; open untl] 9: 717 Larkin street; open until €W corner Sixteenth and Missl w1l 8 o'clock. 4518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. 31® Ninih street; open until 8 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 82, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Telephone.... Epecial Agent. NUAF KS FOR ALL. ——— e e litia paraded, but there ts the blooms but The rain not only brings out the bloomers. Whenever Buckley retires into a hole he local Democracy in after him. Japanese competition is making the most inveterate free-traders blink again. t the best show in town the ild of Arts and Don’t forget th at present is that of Crait In the drama of the funding bill fight the real plot will not be revealed until the last act. Bayard's reply is just Jong enough to get a long way off from the thing he was replying to. The bisomer girl is simply & new woman with sense enough to take her ekirtsin out of the wet. "ampos may be s the Cuban war, but was never well in it. d to be well out of a matter of fact he The Monroe doctrine, as expounded by Senator Davis, not ouly covers the whole thing but tucks in all around. nues to work the e and effective- crisis of t hern' Pacific report comes up like Bar and will not down. The House Committee on Pacific Rail- ds will hear the protest of California let us hope it w so heed. In every H tington has many schemes for evad- ing his debts, but up to date he has not found a single one for paying them. on all the airs s a tendency as a sideshow. to regard Washingt This is a good time for interior cities to hold Venetian carnivals, for wherever there is a flood there ought to be a fair. me out of season is one way of e of the game law, but the t as well as the dealers. law can play is said to have got the Demo- by an expenditure ,of Ch cratic cc It less than $175. was on the bargain counter. Boies, C Olney and ic bull-ring ng Bayard home and does n nt public sentiment, Congress see to it that public sentiment goes e to him. tering its fights all irom a refunding scheme to a streetcar transfer in The monopoly over everythir in Washingto San Francisco. the Academy of Sciences is to give a series of popular lectures it will be something more to the average citizen than a fossil show. If the proposed organization of a dis- tinct silver party is carried out it will have no other effect than that of putting a cloud on the silver prospect. There can be no guestion that Mayor Sutro has stirred up Congress sufficiently to prevent the railroad lobby from making any deal on the dead quiet. The R funding bill seems to have been brought out just for show and it is another horse in the railroad stable that is expected to do the running. There is hardly lizely to be any great de- bate on the tariff question in this cam- paign, as there is too much of a defieit on the Democratic side of the argument. During the last two years of our Demo- cratic administration the excess of gold exports over gold imports at New York was $154,344,952, and the end is not yet in sight. Ohio Democrats are said to have found a Presidential candidate in a man named Ingalls who has a sack, but whether it is the man or the sack they intend to put-up is not clear. The debate on the Monroe doctrine gives the Senate the noblest theme for a great oration that has been offered to statesmen in this generation, and if any Senator is equal to it his speech will b mortal. The offer of the Harbor Commissioners of a site for a free market- should be ac- cepted, even though the place is not as central as conld be desired. In move- ments of this kind the main thing is to get started. Now that the report of the committee on the Dunraven charges has been made public and all the charges shown to be false, the Britisher should open his mouth just long enough to apologize and then shut up forever. The plea of Bayard that one of his offersive speeeches was misreported—that it was made in a humorous, post-prandial tone and that the reporters were confused, as some of the words of the speech were Latin—at once raises the question whether any man can be accounted a diplomatist who undertakes to talk Latin in an after- dinper speech. THERE IS NO EXCUSE. ] If there were conceivable good reasons, either on the score of justice or policy, for extending the debt of the Pacific roads, fair-minded persons could be found in abundant numbers to support such a scheme. In California, where of necessity | the case is better understood than any- | where else in the country, there is a unan- | imity of opinion against such a scheme, | and this opinion isentitled to respect from | the country at large and particularly from | Congress. | Nothing could be more deplorable than the bitter antagonism existing between the Southern Pacific Company and the peopie of California, for that very feeling, acting independently of the causes that have produced it, has been exceedingly in- jurious to the State. Such a condition of affairs exists in no other State of the Union. No other railroad in this country o bated and feared by the people whom erves. This cannot be explained on any as- sumption that the people of this State are unreasonable or that they cherish a preju- dice against capital. some of the largest and richest corpora- tions flourish here, and some of the strongest of them have the confidence and respect of the people. All that have been reasonable in their relations with the pub- | lic are treated with all due consideration. | But when a powerfal corporation, what- ever its business, follows the methods which have distinguished the conduct of the Southern Pacific, it must expect to | meet with the bitterest opposition that a common sense of outrage will in- spire. The people had already believed that the company had resorted to prac- tices of a character to outlaw it, but this impression was given tangible force by the irrefragable testimony brought.out in two of the most famous legal investigations ever held in this country. One was the Col- ton suit, in which the widow of one of the four men who built the Central Pacific sued the surviving partners for an accounting. In that trial disclosures of the most astounaing and staggering kind were made—among others thatC. P. Hunt- ington, over his own signature, coolly dis- cussed in letters addressed to Colton the regular business of controlling Congres- | sional legislation in favor of the company | by corrupt means. | Thatwasonly a small part of the infamies | discovered. The Pattison railroad inquiry | went further into material matters and ishowed how the people and the Govern- ment had been grossly swindled in the construction and management of the property. The wonder 1s less that an an- tagonism exists than that it is not far deeper and more relentless than itis. In comparison with the wrongs which they, the people, have suffered, the vigor of their present protest is yvery feeble and inade- quate. Itis upon their knowledge of the vast that their fears of the future are based. They know not only that the pas- sage of a funding bill would perpetuate | the evils which have oppressed them, but | that these evils will of necessity be in- creased. The Stateis now carrying a heav- ier burden than it can bear, and it is call- ing upon the country to save it from de- | i al exhibition given under the direction of the Guild of Arts and Crafts is a remarkably successiul beginning. The art of printing, from its origin to its latest | development, is the subject under present | review, and a surprisingly large and com- | prebensive collection of specimens has | been assembled. The exhibition has in its intrinsic beauties, aside from its industrial | interest, an attractiveness of a rare order. The guild is an association of enthusias- | tic promoters of esthetic advancement and | its membership embraces practical work- | ers in various lines of art and others who have sympathy for the movement thus un- dertaken. Itsusefulness can be made very extensive, the mere effect.of membership | in it conducing strongly to the advance- | ment of higher culture in matters within its scope. It can elevate the general standard of a taste in architecture, interior decoration, painting, prints, furnishings and many other things. At present, so far as we are informed, | iis purview' is limited to’those matters | which have a universal home and value. In time we shall expect it to expand its field to embrace artistic possibilities pe- culiar to California. There is abundant time for all that. Meanwhile it is very likely soon to be that - membership in this | guild will be regarded as a cachet of refine- ment. Still better than that wonld be its endowment by some wealthy Californian after some such generous fashion as that set by Mr. Searles with regard to the Hop- kins Institute of Art. The merit of such an attention will be determined by the conduct of the guild it~ self. Ifit discover 2 high order of business sense and keep down any possible tenden- cies toward internal jealousies it is sure to command respect and exercise power. It has the opportunity of doinga fine and lasting service to the people of the City, and as its spirit must be democratic it should be able to carry its benefits to all classes ready to accept them. CLEVELAND'S FOREIGN POLICY. Reports from Washington concerning the attitude of the administration toward Cuba are uncertain and somewhat conflict- ing. Itseems fairly assured, however, that a decided step of one kind or another is under consideration by the Cabinet and the rapid march of events in the island may lead to its aunouncement to Congress ir a very shorttime. E It is rather unfortunate that at this juncture the administration should be so much discredited by its home policy and so much out of favor with the people on the eve of a Presidential election. The situ- ation is such that many patrioticipeople will beled to suspect that the President is seeking to get up something like @ war excitementin order to distract atténtion from the serjous blunders commifted in his tariff and financial measures. If such a suspicion finds place in some quarters at home we may be sure it will be accepted as truth by not a few people -abroad. The natural result of such suspicions will be to weaken the effect of the language of the administration and make the possibility of war more probable than it wonld other- wise be. This weakness of the administration makes it imperative that both branches of Congress should give it prompt and effec- tive support. It is most satisfactory, | therefore, to note that in neither House has there been any notable attempt either to hamper the action of the President or to cast suspicior on hismotive. Theattitude of the Republican leaders has been thoroughly and constantly patriotic in the whole matter, Without condoning in the slightest degree the mischief caused by the free-trade deficit tariff and the offensive manner in which the bonded debt has been increased, all Republicans have heartily sustained the President in the general policy he has adopted toward the settle- ment of the foreign question. These facts must be borne in mind when the time comes for Congress to act upon apy policy Cleveland may adopt toward | tween Cuba and Spain may be arbitrated, | On ‘the contrary, | Cuba or the formal indorsement of resolu- tions defining the scope and limitof the Monroe doctrine. Such questions will, of course, cause differences of opinion on matters of detail, and therefore give rise to what may prove to be prolonged debates in both Houses. The discussion, however, will not imply any opposition to the Mon- roe doctrine as a principle, nor any attempt to weaken the administration in dealing with a foreign nation. However the debates may range the virtual una- nimity of sentiment on those two proposi- tions has been made evident and declared. 1t seems that the time has come when the United States must make clear to all the world the policy it intends to pursue as the controlling power of the Western hemisphere. It must make clear also the further fact that its Pan-American policy will be determined at Washington, and not by some court of arbitration held eisewhere. Matters of detail like the boundary line of Venezuela may be sub- mitted to arbitration. but the Monroe doctrine will not be. Questions ' of autonomy, independence or indemnity be- but the right of Spain to transfer the island to some European power will not be. On this hemisphere the United States is to be supreme, and Europe is not to be here at all. To that extent the country will support the administration against all foreign vowers, and will deal with the deficit tariff and bond syndicates as mat- ters of strictly home politic: KINDS OF MILLIONAIRES. The death of the man Rippey, who shot and tried to kill J. W. Mackay a year or two 2go, and who for the offense was con- victed of simple assault and sentenced to a short term of imprisonment in the County Jail, has brought to light a story to the effect-that Mr. Mackay had made arrangements o live in California -and employ his great fortune in the develop- ment of the State’s resources, but that he abandoned the idea in disgust when a jury of intelligent citizens brought in a verdict so manifestly unjust, and deter- mined to employ his great wealth in spme country where elementary justice is better understood and more impartially admin- istered. ‘With the merits of that case THE CALy has nothing to do. If it istrne that its determination decided a man of Mr. Mackay’s wealth, industry. and public spirit to witharaw from California the exercise of the power which we might have employed for its advancement the State has suffered a grievous misfortune, | and that is something which every good citizen will deplore, even though we may be able to outlive it. Butif that verdict was unjust it did not represent the spirit of the people, and it wonld be unfair on the part of Mr. Mackay to charge it to the intelligence, wisdom and justice of Cali- fornia. itis a significant fact that the million- aire who has not made his fortune by grinding the poor or setting traps for the avaricious and unwary, and who employs his fortune in great industries which afford sustenance to thousands and de- velop those natural resources from which the people draw their living, need have no fear of an assassin’s bullet or of an unjust verdict if a crank, attracted by his promi- nence, assaults him. It is the nature of things that strength, of whatever kind, employed for the benefit of the race, makes a popular idol of its possessor. | Money is one of the most tangible of all | forms of power, and its wise use brings as many blessings to its owner as to its bene- ficiaries. The people bave an instinct of selection that is as potent as their appreciation and gratitude. As every man who is very rich must be well known, each one of them has his proper standing in the popular esti- mation; each has been tried by his own deeds, and the estimate of him is founded on a sense of common human justice. The people of California know all their great millionaires; know how these im- mense fortunes were made and how they are employed; know whether this em- ployment works a general benefit and has a foundation in right conduct, and stand as ready to reward as to punish. No man, however rich, is above the operation of this human pressure, and it is only the wise use of wealth that brings its pos- | sessor the finest and most lasting benefit. A BOSTON OPINION. It has been customary for the advocates of the gold standard to assert that the movem ent for the remonetization of silver is confined to the West, and has no sup- port whatever among the intelligent classes of the East. This assertion, though unfounded in fact, has been so often re- peated that many persons have accepted it as truth, and it is worth noting, there- fore, that even in Boston itself an in- fluential class of citizens is opposed to the retirement of greenbacks, even if the drain on the treasury should be such as to compel a resort to payments in silver. A clear declaration to that effect is found in the report of a committee appointed by the Massachusetts State Board of Trade to consider certain financial resolutions offered by the Mer- chants’ Association of Boston last De- cember. The report declares *it would not be policy for the United States treas- ury to redeem their notes outstanding in gold, that it would not be policy to issue gold-bearing bonds in payment thereof.” After an exhaustive review of the condi- tion of our finances as a basis for argu- ments to sustain the conclusion reached, the committee says: Does any merchant believe that it is wiser to withdraw non-interest-bearing notes and re- place them with those bearing interest? Would any bank withdraw its circulation, destroy its notes and remain in business? If the bankers of this country attempt to emulate the “syndi- cate,” and draw blood money from the Govern- ment, and otherwise embarrass it, it should be our duty, and we hope the pleasure of the Treasurer, to pay every demand in silver dol- lars, and the country would sustain him. It appears from the sunimary of the pro- ceedings of the meeting given in the Boston Journal that the report of the committee was not altogether pleasing and several speeches were made against it with the re- sult that the report was tabled. It there- fore cannot be taken as the opinion of the Massachusetts State Board of Trade. We may be sure, however, that those who wrote tho report are not the only solid men of Boston who hold the views it so tersely declares. There is not so much difference evidently between Fastern and Western sentiment as same people would have us believe, and the Boston committee was in thorough accord with the people of the Pacific Coast in saying that under the conditions named it should be our duty to DAy every claim against the Government in silver dollars. The cooking school maintained at u;:\l Atlanta Exposition by the State develo, ment committee, in which lessons and lectures on the art of cooking the food products of California were given, has re- sulted in a largely increased aemand for ourdried fruits from States where they were scarcely known before. Through the eagerness of customers to purchase, the merchants of Atlanta are now compelled to keep in stock all varieties of California dried and canned fruits. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. One of the best known naturalists of the Pacific Coest is George W. Dunn, for well onto fifty years engaged in hunting and collecting specimens. The range of his investigations has been from the British line to Panama. He has discovered & number of new speci- mens of insect life. Mr. Dunn, who is now 82 years old, recently spent some time fn the | Sierres near Truckee. He went to get conifera seeds, rare lily bulbs and butterfly tulips. He collected largely on Castle Peak, in the Sierras, which is over 8000 feet high. Sflngg the naturalist got back he has been searching among the gray sand dunes for curious bugs and insects of yarious kinds. He says the average person has no conception of the colonies of millions on millions of wonder- fully constructed ana beautifully colored in- sectsto be uncovered in these waste places. They are worth good sums of money, too, when caught and forwarded to different scientists of the country. The naturalist said yesterday : ““Perhaps the most cheerless and altogether gloomy view that we anywhere behold is in will agree with me a8 to the power, and any capable and ‘“new style’”’ mechanical con- structor will as readily consent, I am positive, to the ease of conversion of said power into ac- tion for the good of mankind upon an hour’s consultation thereon. % 1 have made a success of several of the inven- tions of Colonel A. W. von Schmidt (whose son T have the honor to be), and as well succeeded with inventions of my own. My whole life has been a séries of hard. practical coniests with Nature's great forces. I simply state these facts to establish my “right to the floor,” and I defy any 40-year-old man to show asthorough all-round training for such a matter as ‘:hur- nessing the tides of 8an Francisco heads” as I can prove. 1f ‘provided with proper hackinq, 1 would stake my life, if that were allowable, on pro- ducing a comparatively cheap and wholly e cient “curient motor” that would give my na- tive City of San Francisco the pre-eminence of the Pacific es & manufacturing center. Very respect{ully, EDWARD A. YON SCHMIDT. Mare Island, Jan. 20, 181 MATRIMONY. Avery old man, nearly 90 years of age, be- ing esked what he had done to live so long an- 7 E— T TS LT i. T i i George W. Dunn, the Octogenarian Naturalist Who Has Found Strange Colomics in the Sand Dunes. [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] the vast fields of ever-drifting sands that are so abundant eyerywhere along the ocean shore. They show no signs of animal lite, and only now and then in some depression or where there s a little moisture a little stunted vege- tation may be seen. “Yet the same dreary place is full of animal life. The insects are nearly always hidden in the sand, and are only seen running about when the wind has blown them from their hid- ing-places in the loose sand. There are many different families of insects living in harmony there. By brushing your hand through the sand you expose many to view, and all will commence to hide themselves agsin assoon as they find themselves uncovered. “They spend their whole lives covered with sand. They lay their eggs, the young are hatched, and the tarv® or young live in the same place. Some are carniverous, others live on vegetation. The most conspicueus insect found always in the sand is the beautiful His- ter sellatus, which is colored with bright-red and black markings, the red resembling a sad- dle, and thus taking its specific name. 2 “By making asweep through thesand with your hand several are brought to view, always {olding their legs against their body and lying still for some time as though dead. Later they cdmmence to bury themselves again in the sand. “Another very pretty insect, ofa shining black’ color, 1s the Hister sexstriatus. Itlives in the sand with the other insects of the same habits. There are many others, none very large, but among them one curiously marked Curculio, or snout beetle, the Trigonoscuta pilosa, of the same family s the Curculio, which is o de- structive to the plums. “The most curious of all 1s the Cicindela, or tiger beetle, 8o named from is voracious habits.. Their curious mark- ings resemble & tiger. The young ones live in the eand, while the mature insect may be seen on any sunny day running about on the sand and capturing and devouring ary insect smaller than itself. - They are very shy, and not easily taken. ‘One must have a net to take them with facility, They lay their eggs i the damp sand, and they are hatched there, the young making a hole in the damp sand and Temaining there, with their head just even with the surface of the ground. “In that position they capture any small in- sect that comes near enough for them to seize with their sharp jaws, and then drop down in the hole and eat their prey at their leisure. “The Cicindela hirticollis, or hairy-necked beetle, is another species that may be seen on almost any sunny day in the sand of the dunes, The young of the tiger beetle, or larve, is nide- ous in appearance. It hasa very large head, with very large jaws armed with teeth on the inside, with & large hump on its back which ends in & movable hook, which aids itin climbing up its deep hole to near the top, when italways lies in wait for some insect. They are 5o pugnacious that if you thrust a straw in the hole they will seize it and hang on till they suffer themselves to be drawn out. Many others could be mentioned which live together in seeming harmony, but of many different families.” THE NEW DIXIE, Oh, Dixie land is the land of honey, Eight-cent cotton an’ gilver money; Work away, Night an’ day— Work away down south in Dixie! The sun-bright fields are green with clover, Colonels still but the war is over; Work away, Night an’ ‘Work away down south in Dixie! The roses grow an’ the birds are ‘Whistles biow an’ the bells are rin Work away, Night an’ Work away down south in Dixie! The night was long but the daylight's breakin’; Buger 1o miue an'—what are you takin’? Work awa; Night an’ day— ‘Work away down south in Dixie! —Atlanta Constitution. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. UTILIZING THE TIDES. A San Francisco- Engineer Feels Confident That It Can Be Dcne. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: An item has recently been published regard- ing & “wave motor’” now buiiding at Capitola, Monterey Bay, which I hope—though do not believe—may be a suceess. However, whatever result may be achieved by this or other wave motors, there can be no shadow of a doubt that ‘‘current motors” fur- nish the cheapest power in the universe. 1t has been & matter of wonder for a quarter of & century iast past that the superb current power of San Francisco heads has been allowed 1p waste its potentiality for human services. _Beln&u practical civil engineer, acquainted with the mechanical branch as well, serving for yeers as shipmaster, surfman and wrecker, having beid a license as “pilot from San Fran® ¢isco to sea and return,” I think myself enti- tled to express my long-settled conviction that the daily waste of the hundreds of thousands of horsepower, which could be so easily har- nessed, is little less than sacrilegious on the part of San Franeisco. The weves are uncertain, coy at times, and hard to harness always; while, on the con- trary, the tides are as regular as the stars in their course and easily controiled. An; mvifllor who knows the giant force and the resistless rush of the outpour from our great system of -bays and tributary rivers | swered: “When Icould sit I never stood. I married late, was a widower soon and never married again.” But a learned Bishop, who was married four times, thought differently, for he was so well pleased with his matrimons ial ventures that he placed this motto on the wedding-ring of his fourth marriege: “If I survive, Tl make it ive.” —Life, TO CHRISTEN THE KENTUCKY. The honor of christening the new battleship Kentucky has been bestowed by Secretary Her- bert on Miss Harrictte B. Richardson. Miss Richardson s a resident of Lexington and is considered as one of the most. beautiful belles of the Blue Grass State. She is5 feet 5 inches tall, of superb form, has hair of a light brown, gray eyes, aquiline nose, a beautiful mouth and pretty teeth. Her manner is charming. She is & briliient conversationalist and a most attentive listener. Her father, William Hall Richardson, Is the son of Marcus Richardson, whose father was Captain William Hall Rich- ardson of Revolutionary fame. Her mother was Miss Jane Shore Stamps, who was one of Bourbon County’s most noted beauties and a daugliter of Captain Thomas Stamps, & near relative of Jefferson Davis. Miss Richardson was born and raised within a few miles of Lexington, on her father’s beau- tiful blue-grass estate, Elk Hill, which adjoins the famous Dixiana Farm, where Major B. G. Thomas, the oldest breeder of thoroughbreds in America, raised all the horses that have made his name famous from one end of the country o the other. Miss Richardson was a reat pet of the oid Major when she wasa ittle girl, and she has often ridden King Ban, Felloweraft, Himyar and other noted horses some chrysanthemums. “I think Il ralse some next year myself. They ought to be just lovely to sprinkle clothes with.”—Indianapolis Journal. A Leap Year Opportunity.—She—Do you think it would be unmaidenly for & girl to pro- poseto a man? He—Certainly not—if shé is rich enough for two.—New York Sun. PERSONAL. C. 8. Adams of Tacoma arrived here yesterday. F. F. Carnduff, an attorney of Biggs, is at the Russ. Judge J. M. Walling of Nevada City is in town. General C, C. Royce of Chico is at the Cali- fornia. | John C.Oswald of Foochow is at the Ocei- dental. J. 8. Story, a business man of Sonoma City, is in town. J. H. Easterday, an attorney of Tacoma, is at the Russ. Joseph Voitlander of Krowach, Germany, is at the California. J.Tombs of Gratton, N.D.,is here, accorm- panied by his wife. Dr.Lewrence Voorhees of Chicago wasamong yesterday's arrivals. | W. C. Fisher, a cattle-grower of Reno, ar- rived here yesterday. 8. W. Eckels, the railroad man of Salt Lake, is among recent arrivals. T. H. Swansey, a merchant of Santa Cruz, errived here yesterday. William Wells, & druggist of Eureks, Hum- boldt Bay, is at the Grand. John Clemishaw, the wealthy vineyardist of Pleasanton, is at the Grand. C. E. Kreiss, a mine-owner of W ardner, Cceur d’Alene County, Idaho, is in the City. George T. Myer of Portland, a salmon-canner of the Columbia River and Puget Sound, ls in the City. Phil Metschan of Salem, Treasurer of Ore- gon, was among the arrivals here yesterday. He is at the Lick. C. W. Hawkins, president of a large corpora- tion et Haniord for the purchase of hay and grain, is in the City. Joseph Hill, one af the wealthiest cattle- owners of Nevada, whose home is at Winne- mucca, is at the Russ. R. D. Gilbert, one of the pioneers of Salem, Or., and long prominent in business and poli- tics there, is in the City. E. M. Greenway, well known in society circles, is lying at his residence seriously ill with congestion of the lungs. W. H. Falk of Arcata, owner of large Jumber-mills and a general supply store there, isin town, accompanied by his family. R. W. Bachrach, a tea-dealer and general business man of Calcutta and Hongkong, was among the arrivals by the Coptic yesterday. Rovert Barton, the youthful but successful manager of the Barton Opera-house of Fresno, is in the City booking new attractions for his theater. He will be at the Occidental for several days, John L. Truslow, the agent at Santa Barbara of the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, is in the City. It is said he may succeed C. H. Speer, who resigned lately from the position of assist- ant general passenger agent here. T. W. Eccles of Salt Lake, assistant general freight agent of the Union Pacific Railroad, is at the Palace, He was long connected ina prominent wey at Denver with the Rio Grande. He says business is improving in Salt Lake and Utah. The mines of the new district of Mercur are developing, where many big gold proper- ties have been opened. Elsewhere over the State the mining development is going for- ward. Last year the Union Pacific shipped from Salt Lake 40,000 tons of salt. The ship- pe1s dried it out of the waters of the Salt Lake, which are 20 per cent salt. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 21.—Among recent arrivals are: J.M. Chase, Grand Union; H. M. Hamnore, Hoffman; C. W. Warwede, Everett; G. C. Smith, Astor;. L. M. Simpson, West- minster; P. E. Hunt, Netherland; W. F. Wood, St. Denis; C. Berry, G. H. Berry, M. Berry and Westminster; G. Edwards; W. F. Piekstoul, W. H. Tyron and wife, Merlborough; J. P Langlorne, Holland; L. Merrito and wife, Hoffman. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. The failure of Sims Reeves, once England’s greatest tenor, is announced, with liabilities of over $3000. Poultney Bigelow has left Berlin without ob- taining an audience with Emperor Wiliiam. The latter was probably too busy answering the MISS HARRIETTE B. RICHARDSO! that haye made their home &t Dixiana. She is one of the best horsewomen in Kentucky, and it is her boast that she can ride any horse that any man can ride. She is fond of outdoor sports, and is one of the best rifle shots in the State.. She does not belong to the “new woman” cotorie, but believes that woman’s sphere is home, and that her highest alm ought to be to make man happy. 5 A Lexington correspondent of the New York World tells how Miss Richardson came to be selected to christen the big fighting ship. Her sister is the wife of Colonel James K. Forney of the United States Marine Corps, and the two sisters have received much social attention in Washington, New York and Brooklyn. Miss Richardson is an acquaintance of Secretary Herbert, and when Congressman Bennett of Brooklyn gave a little impromptu supper at the Shoreham after the opera was over, the Secretary proposed to Miss Richardson that she ehristen the new battleship Kentucky. She accepted the proposition, but insisted that it would be the proper thing to break a bottle of old Bourbon over her prow instead of the usual bottle of champegne. The Secretary saw the %ood taste in this, and immediately agreed to allow Miss Richardson to have her own way about the matter. Therefore, instead of cham- pagne, & bottle of forty-five-year-old Bourbo: whisky from the cellars of Major B. G. Thom: ‘will be broken over the Kentucky’s bow. CURRENT .HUMOR. “Ethel, were you out sleighing with the erm- less wonder last evening?”’ “Why, paps, what & question! What put such an idea into your head?”’ “I saw your escort holding the lines in his teeth,’'—Detroit Free Press. He—Have you a match? Iwant tolight my pipe. She—No. My wmatch-box is in my other bloomers.—New York Herald. “I wish them things wasn't so_high-priced,” nl.d Mrs. Ju.gon,_u lhg looked longingly at letters that grandma writes to see his old friend. Lord Rosebery is believed to be engaged apon the production of a novel. Dean Hole warns young English gentlemen that there is no room for them as farmers in America. Henry Labouchere is an expert mountaineer, and used to climb snowpeaks in the company of thelate Czar of Russia, with whom he was very intimate. The original study of “Little Billee” of “Trilby,” William Bayfield, s studying with a view to appearing in light opera. Mr, Bayfield is one of Alma Tademn’s best models. The suggestion has been made that the house of Rev. Dr. Samuel F. Smith, the author of “America,’ at Newton Center, Yass., be pur- chased and preserved as a memorial. Grdbowski is the suggestive name of the man who made the most money on the Russian turf this year. He has the best racing stable in the country, and cleared $60,000. “Woman” of London seys that the difficulty of gotting a fairly good likeness of the aueext:yin. limbs, use an BEAR IN MIND—Not tions is as good as the wife, M. Berry Jr., St. James; Mrs. P, F. Bush, | If you want a sure relief for Allcock’s creasesevery year. Foronething her Majesty is proverbially impeatient of the camera, and abso- Iutely refuses to pose longer than afew sec- onds. Then there is the difficulty of making her look as tall as possible 80d, besides all this, the photographer who has been “‘commanded never knows, up to the last moment, when or where her Majesty will consent to see him and “be taken.” "LADY'S CAPE. it lar, The shape of the eape shown here is circular, the kind that is so easily made and takes so little material. The outside and lining are cut exactly alike, basted togetner face to face, stitched together all around excepting at the neck. Itisthen turnei over and pressed on the edges and the cape is done, but for the neck-finishing. This is simplya straight band, over which is sown the ruche, either of l:ibboxi triple box-pleated, net with ribbons stitched on it, also box-pleated, or of chiffon, four 3-inch \\'iideuplecfis beigg dgubled and gath- ered very full to the neckband. A cnpg of brown velvet, edged all around with & fringe of sable, had a 4-inch strig of velvet pleated into the neck, the top edge with the sable. This was worn over & longar cape .of grgwn cloth, which made at oncea warm and dressy wrap. % A cape of green W‘l‘:et after this model was edged with Persian lamb fur and worn over & black cloth cape. Such a wrap isdelightful for the theater, where the heavy plain cloth_cape can be laid aside and the rich top worn. Then, also, it makes a complete garment of itself for milder days and aifords an easy and com- peratively cheap way of remodeling a plain cape. It also makes it possible at little ex- pense to have a dressy wrap and a plain one, if the cloth cape be provided with a separate ruffle collar for morning wear. Black velvet is oiten chosen for these capes. A lace collar or. points of lace are much used for trimming with edges of sable STRONG hoarhound candy,15¢1b. Townsend's.* T SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and pubiic men by the Presy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. — - ———— Mrs. Leyi P. Morton is said to haves weak ness for slippers, shoes and boots, of which she has so many that she could wear a dtfferent pair each day of ihe year. They are of kid, suede, silk, satin—some embroidered insilver, others in gold. THE human system isgiven tone and renewed vigor by Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which strengthens the organs of the stomach and aids digestion. In fact, the whole body is Invigorated by Hood’s. e e “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fitty years by millions of moths ers for their children while Teething with pertect success. 1t soothes the child, softens the gums, al- lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and fs the best remedy for Diarrhaeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For saleby Druggists in every part of the world. Be sureand ask for Mrs. Winsiow's Soothing Syrup. 33 + bottle. —_———— CoRONADO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry, sof and mild, and is_entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, lucluding fifteen days’ board ac the Hotel dal Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 perday. Apply 4 New Montgomery-st., San Fracisco. SBLGT0T ile L NEGLECT of the hair brings baldness. Use PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM and your hair will always retain Its youthul color and life. — To REDUCE your weight,use Vretios’ Belt, He—I'm airaid I couldn’t make you happy, darling, on only $2000 a year. She—Oh, it’s plenty. With economy I can dress on $1500; and just think, desr, we can have all the restfor household expenses! NEW TO-DAY. BROKE THE TOBACCO TRUST.. Tobacco Manufacturers Losing Ten Millions a Year. Great Excitement in St. Louis—No Pos- sibility of Preventing Still Greater Loss in ’96. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 21.—Colonel Wm. Kir- choff, General Western Manager of the American Tobacco Company, has been a user of tobacco all his life, and for years has smoked as many as twenty cigars daily. After using a few boxes of No-To- Bac the desire for tobacco is completely gone and he is wonderfully improved in health. His cure is attracting a great deal of attention and comment, and many prominent St. Louis business men are fols lowing his example. People are just waking up to the fact that the continued use of tobacco is very injurious. An interview with Mr. H. L. Kramer, the originator of No-To-Bac, develops the fact that within three years it has reached an enormous sale, almost entirely upon merit alone. Over 1,000,000 boxes of g”o To-Bac have been sold and 300,000 tobacco- users cured. At the present rate No-To- Bae will cure in 96 from 200,000 to 300,000, and, as Mr. Kramer says: *Itis always the worst cases that want a_care—those who baye chewed and smoked from boyhood, some of them thirty, forty and fifty years, and we even have Tecords of cures after sixty years of tobacco-using. So you can see that, if they are spending an average of $50 a year (this is a small amount), the cure of 200,000 tobacco-users in '96 would result in the loss of the sale of tobacco amounting to over $10,000,000, which wil be saved to the cured.” .: No-To-Bac s truly a medical wonder, for: it not only destroys the desire for tobacco but invigorates the nervous system and marvelously increases weight and strength. Like all great successes, No-To-Bac has many imitations and substitutes, and the §ublic should be warned against them., o-To-Bac is the original tobacco-habit cure, and is sold underan absolute guaran- tee Lo cure the tobacco habit by your own druggist. | Wednesday, Jan. 23d. To-day only. Guava Jelly (Allen’s, San Diego), delicate for in- valids, 20c jars to-day go at 12c. Complete lists at your command. Largest Department Store. SMITHS? CaAsH STORE, 414,416, 418 FRONT ST,, §, ~ains in the back, side, chest, or Plaster‘ one of the host of ts i e counterfeits and imita.