The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 28, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 18Y6. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: | d Sunday CALL, one weel, by carrier..$0.15 4 Sunday CALL, One vear, by mail.... 6.00 nd Eunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 day CALZ, three months by mail 1.50 85 | ay CALL, one year, by mail. WEEKLY CALL, ODe year, b, arket Street, San Francisco, Californis, Calephone........... Main-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone...... .Main—1874 | BRANCH OFFICES: €30 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open umtd 9:80 o'clock. 389 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 717 Larkin street; open until 9:80 o'clock. | EW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open | § o'clock. | 18 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. i 318 Ninth street; open until 8 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: ! Rooms 31 and 82, S4 Park Row, New York City. | DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. | The dry-winter prophet was joking. } The storm center has shiited to Ken- tucky. Even the weather seems to have it in for the railroad. | =T | This is a good time to talk about river | improvements. Four railway accidents in one week are too many by four. | One memorial would be best, but three are better than no Defeat the refunding schemes and fore- closure will come of itself. Now is the time to start an umbrella fac- tory for the home market. The fiesta season has a good chance to open up with Venetian carnivals, Utah has taken her 'séat in the Senate and begun to make herself at home. The farmer puts his hand to the plow, but the rain makes him turn back again. It is about time for the railroad workers to get out of politics and attend to busi- ness. Even bourbon Democracy might get a move on if Keeley could make his motor work. S | The monopoly went out of its way to fight for spoils and finds 1t must fight for, It is now the turn of the King of Abys- sinia to stand up and speak his little ulti- matum. i The Weather Bureau should take notice there is a threatening possibility of over- doing the thing, Huntington had better leave hisfences | in Washnington for awhile and look after his bridges at home, The Cubans as well as the Spaniards are to have a new general, and in the game of war honors are easy. Tt would be money in the pocket of the moncpoly to discharge a few lobbyists and employ more trackwalkers. There is a growing probability that Ken- tucky may prove a very good sister to us on the funding bill proposition. The Senate will declare for silver and then the goldbugs will have a chahce to give us some more solemn warnings. Bismarck has opened his mouth:long enough to tell the world it was no hat of his that the Kaiser has heen talking through. The rainy evenings will at any rate serve the purpose of giving & man a chance to stay at home and get acquainted with his family. As the war ruffle has inclined England to talk of an alliance with the United States, it seems that our prodding must bave tickled her. There is a promise that the Senate will get the silver bill out of the way this week and be able to bring the emergency tariff to the front agai The Goebel bill in the Kentucky Legis- lature to repeal the Southern Pacific fran- chise may prove to be the little joker that will enchre the monopoly. Congress should do nothing whatever in regard to the debts of the Pacific railroads but leave the whole matter to the courts and let the law take its course. For the first eighteen days of this month the deficit in the revenues amounted to $7,285,306, and still the shortcomings of Democracy are not fully known. The consideration of the irrigation law by the Supreme Court at this time is hardly seasonable, but it will probably be 80 before the court gets through with it. According to Senator Hill no New York man will bave achance to get the Presi- dential nomination from either party this year. Cleveland seems to have put a hoo- doo not only on his party, but on the whole State. . The announcement that all the Amer- ican prisoners in the Transvaal bave been paroled except one emphasizes the.im- portance of protecting that one. There are some rules to which this country should allow no exceptions. It is worth noting the railroad bosses are not so eager to have the refunding scheme taken up at once by Coneress as they were a few weeks ago. They have heard the voice of the people speaking lately and have learned a lesson from it. The reported alliance between Russia and Turkey may not be altogether true, but the fact that the Sultan kept the Brit- ish Embassador waiting for an hourina cold antechamber before he gave him an audience is a clear proof that Turkey has found a backing somewhere that isn’t iriendly to Engiand. Injuries to property caused by lightning are common enough at the East, but here they are so rare the one at Haywards is quite a notable event, and the fact that it occurred in an electric ylant raises the question whether the artificial generation of electricity may not be having some ef- | who succeeds Colonel Mendell as Govern- | as abolish the danger of annual overflows. | Itistrue that the State has not done its | own part in the matter, but its negligence | important highways of commerce in the | b fect in producing electrical disturbances in the atmosphere. A TIMELY ARRIVAL. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles R. Suter, ment engineer for this State, has arrived with a storm whose depredations give eloquent proof of the need of hisintelli- gent services. He comes with sb-hand- some a record, both as an engineer'and a soldier, that uncommon. things are ex- pectea of him. He will have the advan- | tage of Colonel Mendell’s work and inves- i tigations, but more important than they will be the present evidence of his own senses with regard to the needs centering in our waterways. The rivers making down from the Sierra east and northeast of San Francisco to the bay are now raging and threatening. : These are the Yubg, Feather and Ameri- | can rivers, which, besides having an im- mense watershed, have suffered a great diminution of their carrying capacity and are thrown together et the most difficult point in the Sacramento Valley for re- straining their turbulence. The San Joa- quin does not behave in this fashion, partly because it has never been subjected to a filling process and partly because it is relieved by numerous great systems of irri- gation. Proper treatment of the Sacramento River would open it to navigation as well In neglecting its duty in the premises the Government is extending a benefit to the railroad company and injuring the State. is no excuse for that of the Government. Colonel Suter might turn his attention also to that part of the San Joaguin River lying between Stockton and San Pablo Bay. This tortnous and inadequate chan- nel might be made into one of the most country by a littie widening and straight- ening through easy ground. If so inviting an opportunity for developing rich native resources existed in any State east of the Mississippi we may be sure that an appro- vriation would be secured from Congress without deley. It devolves largely upon the Government's engineers to press the needs of the sec¢tions in which they have been stationed. The harbor of San Francisco, the Alviso Channel and Napa and Petaluma creeis are eagerly awaiting attention from Col- onel Suter. Meanwhile our citizens showd stir themselves and place all these mat- ters before him. Being new in the field he will the more readily appreciate the beauties of the State and the possibilities of its development. He has come at a most opportune time, and it is hoped that nothing showing an appreciation of the fact will be left undone: THE SENATE PROGRAMME. According to the Senatorial programme the silver bill will be disposed of this week, and it seems a foregone conclusion that the vote will be favorable to the measure by a majority of at least eight. This will dispose of the bond bill, for which the silver bill isa substitute, and the next measure before the SBenate will be the emergency tariff bill. Public interest in that measure is much greater than any felt in the bond bill, and it is to be hoped that when it is taken up there will be sufficient support given it to pass it with- out further delay. The need of a reform of the present tar- iff is indeed urgent. If we cannot bavea protective tariff we should at least have a tariff that will yield a revenue sufficient for the needs of the Government, and it is now certain the present tariff will not do that. There was, it istrue, a small surplus for the month of December, but during the present month the Government has again been running behind. 7The official report for the first eighteen daysof Janu- ary showsa defieit of $7,285,306. This may possibly be diminished by the receipts o: the lstter part of the month, but it is more likely to be increased, and the in- crease will in all probability go on for the rest of the fiscal year. These deficits occurring almost every month are so clearly the cause of the diffi- culty of maintaining the gold reserve that the country looks to Congress for a reform of the tariff as speedily as possible. Since the beginning of the present fiscal year the deficit has already exceeded $20,000,000 and barely six months have passed. At this rate we shall have a total deficit of about $40,000,000 to add to the Democratic in- crease of the National debt when the year closes next June, Certainly this condition of affairs calls for an immediate remedy, and since the House of Representives has 50 promptly prepared the way by passing the emergency tariff the Senate should no longer delay in acting upon it, The Democratic members of the Senate are mainly to blame for the delay in re- lieving the needs of the treasury by pass- ing the revised tariff bill. Senator Sher- man stated in debate last week that the Republicans in the Senate were prepared to vote the relief at once, and the state- ment was not contradicted. The Demo- crats and Populists have combined, how- ever, to block the way. They prefer to run the country into debt ratber than to give to our industries even the slight pro- tection the emergency tariff affords, This deadlock may be broken by the seating of the Utah Senators, and if so the country will immediately profit by the admission of that State to the Union. A WISE PRECAUTION. A circular has been issued calling a mass-meeting of the fruit-growers of Santa Clara at San Jose on the 8th of February. Itis signed by a large number of leading fruit-growers, and as it recites an ap- proaching condition of affairs which exists in other parts of the State it is deserving of wide attention. The meeting 1s called for the purpose of devising ways and means for extending the market of the fruits produced by the county. The circular recites the need of earnest and intelligent efforts to extend the market and adds: ‘“In 1895, with a crop below an average for the bearing acreage, with no foreign competition, with an export demand of some magnitude, and fruit of the best quality ever produced by us, the supply appeared to be amply suffi- cient to meet the wants of trade and con merce. It is believed by many, and it is approximately true, that but one-half of the planted acreage is in bearing. It must be remembered that the prune crop of 1894 was more than three times as large as that of 1890, and that that of 1897 or 1898 will be three times that of 1894, or upward of 10,000,000 pounds.’” To an alarmist it might seem that the calamity of overproduction stares the fruit- growers of the Santa Clara Valley in the face, and if such a danger ‘threatens them it menaces slso many other fruit-growers in the State. But the crop here under consideration is prunes. The profits of the industry in Santa Clara County bave been £0 generous that planting has steadily pro- ceeded, and the growers are now endeavor- ing to anticipate and make provision against the causes which some years ago stopped raisin-planting in Fresno County and orange-planting in the southern part of the State. In those two sections pro- duction was g0 rapidly expanded and the accessible area of consumption go suddenly |. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. overstocked that disaster overtook many growers, particularly in Fresno County, and in both sections extension of planted areas abruptly ceased. Santa Clara County has taken warning from those experiences and proposes to have a market ready for all the prunes it can produce. This market must be found or profits will disappear and stagnation ensue. If such a precaution had been taken in Fresno its marvelous progress of a few years ago would have proceeaed un- checked—the Southern Pacitic Company willing. That a profitable market can be found for all of the rare fruits which California can ever produce is a matter easily demonstrable with mathematical pre- cision, Of course the fearful burden of railroad charges, governed without re- straint by a powerful monopoly, is a pres- ent stumbling-block, but that is sur- mountable and in time will of necessity disappear. For that matter such of our fine products as are not perishable, as prunes, raisins, dried epricots, wines, and some others, have the ocean convenient, and all that we néed to do to protect those articles against ruinous extortion is to de- velop the facilities which the Pacific offers. A factor, therefore, in the extension of a market is a bettering of transportation facilities. The orange interests of South- ern California were redeemed from ruin by the advent of the Santa Fe road. Like- wise the raisin industry of Fresno will be rehabilitated by the Valley road. All of the drawbacks which appertain to fruit culture in California are artificial and re- movable by earnest and united effort. But the fruit-growers of the Santa Clara Val- ley should bear in mind that in devising ways and means for extending their market they must give just as severe at- tention to the question of transportation as to that of making known the merits of their products. With cheapened trans- portation would come an increase of the local consuming population. OONCERNING VESTED RIGHTS. The argument of the Southern Pacific against the passage of the bill before the Kentucky Legislature revoking the charter of the company is that such revocation would be a violation of vested rights. The whole question of the interference with the exercise of vested rights is not to be determined by the mere fact of their crea- ation and existence—the method of their exercise is a vital consideration. In vest- ing certain rights in the Southern Pacific Company the State of Kentucky reserved certain rights of its own. If these have been violated by the company it has for- feited the right to insist on its vested rignts in the premises. In the first place, the charter was ob- tained by fraud and deceit. Thatis to say, it was secured in the name of dummiesand not in those of the real beneficiaries; its terms did not contemplate the consolida- tion of the interests controlled by the Southern Pacific people; an understending of its ultimate purpose by the Legislature of Kentucky would undoubtedly have led it to deny the franchise as being danger- ous and opposed to public policy, and as being an euncroachment on the rights of other States; its terms have never been carried out with regard to the construction of a railroad through Kentucky and the maintenance of a general office in the State. The company secured its vested rights by fraud and has violated the terms under which it acquired them. TI1 it be claimed by the railroad that the proper tribunal for testing the validity of the franchise would be the courts, a re- gard for consistency should compel it to concede that it is imoroper for Congress to assume jurisdiction over the Pacific roads funded debt. The cases are very different, but still sufficiently similar to cover the cne proposition that if the legis- lative branch of government is not the proper one to interfere in the one case 1t is not in the other. Kentucky may have ex- press constitutional power to attack the charter through its Legislature. It is as- serted that such authority exists. If so, that may settle the question with regard to Kentucky and still leave the argu- ment good that any attempt by Con- gress to interfere in the matter of relieving the Pacific roads of the obligation which they assumed and deliberately violated through fraud is indefensible from the railroad’s own point of view. PERSONAL. A. M. Carpenter of Los Angeles is in the City. 0. A. Brown of Olympie arrived here yester- day. 2 James H. Thornton of San Simeon isin the City. R. H. Willey, an attorney of Monterey, 1s in the City. J. Burkman, 8 business man ot Seattle, i the Lick. it J. L. Gillis, the railroad official of Sacramento, isin town. Charles F. Irwin, an sttorney of Placerville, is in town. ‘William H. Mintzer, Mayor of Long Beach, is at the Russ. R. A. Hume of Spokane was among yester- day’s arrivals. The Rev. Samuel Hirst ot Vallejo is paying a ‘brief visit bere. R. C. Cordwell, a business man of Los Ange- les, is at the Russ. Colonel H. Trevelyan, the wealthy vineyard- ist of Fresno, is in the City. K 8. G. Spagnoli, & general merchant of Jack- son, Amador County, is at the Grand, E. W. Thatcher, & prosperous business man of Albuquerque, N. Mex., is at the Grand. W. B, Gilbert of Oregon, United States Circuit Judge, arrived here yesterday end is at the Occidental. A. W. Wkitney, proprietor of a general store and mining interests at Safford, Ariz., is among recent arrivals at the Russ. C. M. Doggett, superintendent in Chicago of the Welle-Fargo Express Company, arrived here yesterday. He is at the Grand. A.D. Remington, the wealthy paper manu- facturer of Watertown, N. Y., formerly owner of the Evening Post, is at the Palace. Samuel Jackson, the attorney, of Fresno, who represents large English interests in the San Joaquin Velley, s here on a business trip. William Gillett, an orange-grower of Paler- mo, who formerly was engaged in the orange ‘business at Lake Wear, Fla., 1s at the Occi- dental. . J. M. Weatherwax, a weslthy business man of Aberdeen, Wash., is at the Grand. He owns large timber interests and extensive mills on the Chehalis River, and ships large quantities ©of lumber to this City. Mr. Weatherwax is also interested in many other enterprises. Alexander Hall, manager of the noted Iron Mountain mines, Shasta County, some months simce sold for e largs sum to New York and English capitalists, is at the Palace. He has been building & twelve-mile railroad to the mines from the California and Oregon road, ‘which is now nearly complzted, CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORE. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 27.—Jacob Muller ‘was among the passengers who sailed on the steamer Saale for Bremen. Among recent ar- rivals are: A. Adelsdorfer, A. Pierce, Hoffman ; P. C. Hunt, I. L. Requa, Netherland; W. C. Martin, J. C. Stubbs, Windsor; A.C. Schwein- Iut;:, Hoffman; S. R. Williams, Sturtevant; G. Rottbad, Holland; W. A. Ristenpart, Impe- rial; C. J. Ahlborn, M. Lewis, St. Denis; H. Ballenhagen, Belvedere; J. Bermingham, Gil- sey; J. L. Howard and wife, Holland; E. R. Mauzy, 8t. Cloud, 3 AIDED RAILROADS. MR. ESTEE SAYS THE GOVERNMENT HAS A RIGHT 10 PORECLOSE. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: 1 think at the present time it would be in- structive to the peovle to understand the legal status of the rairoads of the country wixich bave received aid from the Government of the United States. I therefore venture to guote from an act of Congress passed March 3, 1887, €htitled “An act authorizing an investigation of the books, accounts and methods of rail- roads which have received aid from the United States, and for other purposes.” This is especially important at this time by reason of “the other purposes” of the act mentioned in the enacting clause. Sections4 and 5 of that act read as follows: Sec. 4. That whenever in the opinion of the President it shall be necessary to the protection of the interests and the preservation of the security of the United States, in respect 01 its lien, mort- gage or other interest in any of the property of any or all of the several companies upon which a lien, mortgage or other incumbrance paramount o the right, title or interest of the United States for the same property, or any part of the same, may exist and be then lawfully liable to be enforced, the Secretary of the Treasury shall, under the direction of the President, redeem or otherwise clear off such paramount lien, mortgage or other incumbrauce, by paying the sums lawfully due in Tespect thereof out of the treasury. And the United States shall thereupon become and be subrogated to all rights and ‘securities theretofore pertaining to the debt, mortgage, lien orother incumbrance in respect of which such payment shall have béen made. x 1t shall be the' duty of the Attorney-Geferal, under the direction of the President, to take all such steps and proceedings in the conrts and oiher- wise as shall be needtul to redeem such lien, mort- gage or other incumbrance, and to protect and de- fend the rights and interests -of the United States in respect of the matters in this section mentioned. and to take steps to foreclose any morjgages or liens of the United States on any such railroad property. Sec. 6. That the sinking fands which are or may be held in the treasury for the sectrity of- the indebtedness of eltheror ali of said railroad com- anies may, in addition to the jnvestments, now Buthorized by law, be invested in any bonds of the United States heretofore issued for the ‘benefit of either or all of said companies, or in any of the first-mortgage bonds of eitherof said companies, which have been issued under the 8uthority of any law of the United States and secured by mort- gages on their roads and franchises which by any law of the United States bave been made mount to the mortgage, ien or other'security of the United States in respect of its advances o either of said companies, as provided by law. It will thus be seen that wheuever in the opinion of the President itis necessary to pro- tect and preserve the security of the United States in relation to any lien, mortgage or other interest the Secretary of the Treasury shall, under the direction of the President, re- deem or cliar off any paramount mortgage, lien or other incumbrance by paying the sums lawfully due tnereon. “And the United States,” says the statute, “shall therenpon become and be subrogated to all rights, and securities theretofore pertain- ing to the debt, mortgage, lien orother in- cumbrance,” etc, I have ventured to refer to this statute for the purpose of showing only that full power now rests in the President of the United States and in the Secretary of the Treasury, under direction of the President, to acquire and con- trol any of the railroads which the Govern- ment has aided in constructing; and to that end the Government would have the power to foreclose its second mortgages, to pay off and discharge the first mortgages and to practically purchase and control a continental railroad from the Pacific Ocean to the Missouri River. This matter was fully considered by our com- mittee when the report signed by me was re- cently made. The single point now should be to oppose and defeat refunding, and then de- mand that the law takes its course. Very re- spectiully. M. M. ESTEE. San Francisco, January 27, 1891 TAMALPAIS AND SAN RAFAEL. Deep in the bosom of the hills it lies, round about it they cast their protecting strength like mighty bulwarks, leaving no breach whereby the insidious fog may penetrate, to erwrap their cherished nursling in its cloak of ehilling cloud. As a giant among them sll stands Tamalpais, eway to the south, guarding the point where the cold white breath of ocean would first come crawling rounc. Tamalpais, which watches over the little town like a brooding spirnt, rugged in outline, ever varying in hue, with the weird humen counteusnce, hewn by na- ture’s hand, upon its crest, ever gazing, gazing up into the sky as if lost in serene contempla- tion of those inefiable mysteries which deepest searchings of heart and brain and agonies of vain desire cannot penetrate. Severed only by the waters of the bay from the busy center of Facific Coast life, he stands unruffled, like a hoary sire with his children, the little towns end villages of Marin County, gathered rever- entiy about his knees, among them San Rafael, the pride, the beauty and the eldest born. On the eastern side of the valley the hills fall away and the plainland slopes down to meet & broad expense of the beantiful, eury- ing bay, the ground sinking into a wilderness of reedy marshes along the shore. From the heights on the north the entire prnorama lies enrolled, the clustering houses round the cotrthouse and the scattered dwellings, vari- ous in colors and design, standing cooi amid green trees and a tropical wealth of blossom and palm. As one of the fairest stars in the galaxy of the Golden State it scems, when vjewod from this position at the hour of & summer svnser. Tamalpais, bold and clear in outline, stands in loity pride against the glowing sky, his base bathed in softest violet, his summit crowned with the rose and gold of the heaven- !y brilliance above. The nearer hills, their steep sides clothed in iheir mid- summer garment of dry grass-like shaggy yellow fur, reflect the colors in every clear har- monious shade, fading in the west'to the ten- derest neutral tint, and appearing over the far streak of water and more distant eastern heights in delicate touches of turquoise and amethyst. Below the radfant mountsin and his lesser glowing brothers come deep dis- tances of hazy olive green, more darkening tawny slopes, then the dotted dwellings em- bowered in green, and the purple bloom of fragile eucalyptus. Over the nestling town, Where lights ‘already twinkle, night begins to draw her dark, diaphanous veil. Above, in & celestial, transfucent sea, sails the silver shal- lop of the moon, and tiny stars float trembling, 80 lightly hung, snother quiver it seems will send them showering down among the flowers in drops of crystal dew. ETHEL LEWIS. il e S Ry THE LITTLE COUNTRY TOWN. You may talk about your citles And your big brick buildings tall, And your elevated rallroads And your fact'ries great and small; But the “rural rooster” lines up When it comes to counting joys, And the city chap's not in it ‘With the homespun country boys. Although we have no railroads Our quick transit can't be beat, And when we waut to travel Why—we get there with both feet; Our girls don’t dress in bloomers, Nor the boys smoke coflin nails, And we do all our drinking From a spring that never fals, Yes, we know that life in the cities Is 'said to be all joy, And to mingle with the busy world The hop: of every country boy, But as years fly swiftly onward And ibe sands of life run down, The heart will turn in longing To that little country town. And again you'll see the cottage Nestling there among the trees, And the tinkling of the cowbells Will come floating on the breeze; And the sweetheart of your childhood Long been gathered home to God— And lies sleepin’ 'neath the greensward Where the ox-eyed daisies nod— Will come to yon in memory, As you saw.her years ago, And again yowll hear the music Of the aweet voice, soft and low: ‘And as page and page-you are scanning, You'll find a page turned down, : “Some Loving Recollections Ofa Dear Old Country Town.” —Hazel Green (Ky.) Herald. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. A’ Greek merchant named Schilizzi has erected a Greek church in Parison the Rue" Bizet at a cost of $600,000. Jules Cheret’s posters have procured for him the commission to decorate one of the com- mittee-rooms of the Paris Hotel de Ville. Gilbert Stuart, whose portrait of Washington made him famous, wes buried 1n a charity grave on Boston Common sixty-six years ago. A Hungarjan scientific expedition under the lead of M. E. Szuley has just leit Budapest for Ceylon, where it will collegt zoological and ethnographical material. The Duke of York’s latest son is soon to be christened in London, and Queen Victoria will ‘be present at the ceremony. It issaid that the young bud of royalty will be named St. Felix, ashe was born near the church bearing that name in Norfolk. A 12-year-old colored boy preacher named Ralph Pixley has been conducting revival services in the district about Farmland, Ind., during the past week or two and has attracted great crowds of listeners and made many con- verts among the colored people. The most interesting physician of the present time in Eyrope is Herr Ast, the shepherd dogtor, who preseribesfor thousands of patients at Radbruch. He disgnoses disease by exam- ining a lock of the patient’s hair, and his uni- versal charge for advice is about a quarter of a dollar. Colonel Stoffel, famous for his services at the French Embassy at Berlin before 1870, and the real author of the “Viede Casar,” is at work on Waterloo. e has obtained through the ae- scendants of General Foy a diary by that dis- tinguished soldier-politician which is said to be of some value. Jules Simon, 82 years old this month, says that the most exciting momentof his life was when he was trying 10 obtain & concession on tariff from a foreign diplomat with whom Pr. ident Grevy wes playing billlards. He whis- pered to Grevy to lose the game, but Grevy in- sisted on playing to win, and relented only when he observed that the Minister was in an- guish. Congressman Miles Crowley of Galveston, Tex., would furnish material for a highly spiced novel. He has been a cowboy, a steve- dore, and finelly a lawyer. - According to his own aecount, his business at one time was that ofa tramp, and many aride did he steal on freight trains in those days. He declares that he can drink more whisky than any other member of the House. Yvette Guilbert subscribed to a press clip- pings bureau when ske reached these shores. She intended to keep a scrapbook of notices connected with her artistic career in America. She has not recovered from her amazement at the energyand persistence of the American press. The number of clippings she has re- ceived has necessitated the purchase of five mcre scrapbooks, and Yvette has grown weary of scissors and mucilage. WM. W. STORY’S LATEST WORK. When Mr., Willism W. Story departed from this life, with the falling of the first autumn leaves at Vallombross, he had finished his work. With the weight of years and mourn- ing and sickness almost was obscured that natural gayety. that perpetual spring of vital enjoyment of life, which madé him such & charming personality. The recent death of the loved companion of his life had left him alone in spirit and he longed todepart. His work was done, as poet, man of letters and artist, and 1t was crowned st the last with the greatest achievement of all. In his bereave- ment all interest in life and ail power seemed to have gone, but it remained for love to work an- other miracle, to Tevive the benumbed powers for an effort which was to evoke his greatest genius, and to give the world & work which Tepresents his highest espirations and his most refined skill. He was induced by his friends, in order to draw his mind from prey- ing upon itself, to begin, the summer after her death, a monument to his wife. She, as he used to confess, had nlways been his inspira- tion. He had learned to depend upon her judgment, &nd to have every day in his studic the benefit of ber criticism upon the work of theday. This new work saved his life tem- N ‘\\‘&‘ A NEW STATUE OF GRAN:I' [4 magnificent equestrian statue of General U. S. Gran!, designed by William Ordway Partridge, is soon to be placed in front of the Union League Cheb house in Brooklyn, N.Y. Ecge | The above iliustration is rep.oduced fiom a drawing made for the Brookiyn porarily. He entered upon the task with en- thusiasm and with the clearest art- istic vision, and felt himself sustain by her presence. 8o lost was he at times in this illusion that at the close of a day of labor he expected her, as usual, to come in‘and criticize his work. When the door opened and he turned exgecumly with & smile from his eclay to ask the usual question and saw a face that was not hers, the pathos of the moment of disillusion was beyond woras. The monument was finished during the sum- mer and was put into marble before his last sickness. Itds to be placed next to the grave of Shelley, in the most poetic of cemeteries, under the walls of Rome. The situation, pe: haps, determined the character of the monu- ment. It consists of an aitar, upon which & female figure has cast herself, with tne head bowed forward upon the arms. The attitude is that of the abandonment of grief. Every line in the yielding marble ex- resses this with a power of glulicttz very sel- gflm reached by an artist before. Itis seen in the flowing robes of the figure, that abandon- ment of sorrow, and looked at from behind this impression of reality is perhaps most vivid. The stone seemed to me to flow most rhythmically in the measure of mourning. The monument is classically simple, but never before did Story put so much feeling into nn‘ Wwork, nor so.completely fuse his artistic skill in expression. In the opinion of sculptors whose judgment is of most_value this is the greatest of Story’s works.—From the “Editor’s Study,” by Charles Dudley Warner in Harper's Magazine for Februery. A MYSTERY SOLVED. MARE TWAIN WROTE “THE PERSONAL RECOL- LECTIONS OF JOAN OF ARC.” ' The authorship of “The Personal Recollec- tions of Joan of Are,” which has been appear- ing serislly in Harper’s Monthly during the last year and which has been credited to nearly every well-known author, is finally de- termined. Volume six of the National Cyelo- pedia of American Biography contains a new biography of Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), which enumerates this work in the list of his publications. CURRENT HUMOR. Johnny Highfly—Wear docks, do you? How do you make them stay up? Johnny’s Cousin Pete (from the country)— ‘With the calves of my legs, o’ course. Do you have to wear garters?—Chicago Record. “I want to buy & make-up box,” said the young merried men, ‘A make-up box?" the confectioner echoed. “We don't keep theatrical supplies.” “Imean a box of candy to take home to my wife. I promise¢ to be home three hours ago.”—Louisville Post. She—Your college is not turning out many surgeons now. He—No; we need them. We've got five foot- ball teams.—Whim Whams. Not Wholly Useless.— ‘There doesn’t seem to be much use for you nowadays,” said the cod- fish, “since they have found so many substi- tutes for whalebone and blubber that come chenper.” ~No,” sighed the whale. “About all I am good for now is to furnish the pure codliver oil of commerce,”—Chicago Tribune. ““Your crime,” said the South Dakota Judge, “is absolutely Inexeusable. A man who will not take the trouble to get & divorce deserves no mercy.” And he gave the convicted bigamist the full penalty of the law.—Puck. “Johanna, don’t forget to dust the bric-a- brac.” *No, ma’am. Where do you keep the dust,”’— Detroit Free Press. Wright—Read my last novel? Reed—Yes. Kept me awake half the night, “Come off. You are trying to flatter me.” “Indeed I'm not. Tread it in the afternoon and fell asleep and when night came I was wakeful.”"—Cincinnati Enquirer, “Beans?” “No beans.” “Of course I do.” “Do what?'" “Know beans, Journal. you idiot.”—Indianapolls She—I do 50 much love winter, particularly the month of January. I wish it could last forever. He—Me, too. I've got a draft coming due the 1st of February.—New York Herald. L TRRt e iy ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ANNIE LAURIE—A. E. H., Dayisyille, Cal. The lady who writes over the name of Annie Laurie is Mrs. O. Black, the wife of a San Francisco newpaper man. SIZE OF A STAGE—A. G., City. The stage of the Grand Opera-house in this City is: Width 108 feet, depth 88 feet 6 inches. NEW YORK HARBOR—J. J. M., Hart, Shasta County, Cal. A vessel drawing thirty feet of water can enter the harbor of New York at low tide. The draught of the Campans is thirty- three feet. Crrizensurp—E. L. F., City. A man who is a citizen of the United States is entitled to hold a Government position irrespective of the fact that he has not resided & year within its ‘boundaries. No SPECIAL VALUE—G. L. T., City. A dime of 1894 is worth its face value only unless it is one of twenty-four coined during that year in the Mint in this City. The mark on those dimes is the letter S, under the wreath on the reverse side. PouND Liv1is—N. H., City. The poundmaster is still an official in the flesh. His jurisdiction extends on that territory between the Mission and Bernal Heights. 1i ne does not perform his duty a party who desires fo complain can do so béfore the Supervisors. E1GHT-0'CLOCK ORDER—A. T. L., City. There is & City ordinance that prohibits minors from congregating on the public streets after 8 o'clock at night. If the officers in the vicinity of your home do not disperse boys who annoy you, you heve a right to make a complaint be- fore the Police Commissioners. THE BLUE-BOOK—D., City. Answers to corre- spondents cannot inform you why the Secre- tary of State did not supply you with a copy of the Blue-Book of the’State. He is authorized to print a limited number only, and it may be that before you filed your application for one na?“z)‘)‘pllcafions prior to yours absorbed the e : Tipes—J. J. M., Hart, Shasta County, Cal. No meesurement of the tides at Battery Park, N. Y., are taken, but the register at Governors Island shows thet the mean rise is 4 feet.4 of an inch, spring tide 5 feet 2.1 inches, and neng 3 feet y iRy Bt Liverpool, Eng., the regis- ter shows 21 feet at neap tide and 31 feet at spring tide. CHANGE A Dav—A. H., City. Masters of vessels, in sailing from San Francisco to etther Australia or China, do not actually lose a day in transit, but after crossing the one hundred and eightieth parailel they change a day in order to keep their reckoning straight. A master of a vessel can lose & day only in making the circuit of the world. THE ARY SCHOOL—E. G., City. The following are the tuition fees in the school of design in the Hopking Institute of Art: Six dollars s month or $24 for the course from January 2 to May 15, or $48 for the full term in the antique life class (nude model), portrait class (drape mo’del) tn]d mo?e}l{l% ell;u. The‘ fee in the ainting class (sti.l iife and portraits), $8, $30 204 $00. The sehoot Speie on tha Burat August and closes on the 15th of May. IMMIGRATION—S., Saratoga, Cal. Since 1820 the years in which there has been the greatest immigration to the United States were: 1882, 788,992; 1881, 669,431 ; 1892, 623,084 ; 1883, 603,322; 1891, 550,319; 1888, 546,889; 1884, 518,322; 1893, 502,917. The other years show under thelast fiven figors. The immigratio in 1895 was 279,948, During the decade end~ ing 1890 the greatest number as_to national- itg wes: England, 64! : 381; Scotland, 149,856; Germll(i:{; 1,452,95! Norway and Sweden, 560,483; China, In China the year 1890 1s not imcluded. In the -pmeedln:g&eema the immigration from China was 122, The total in ten years, endi& 1890, was 6,704,845, of which the Unif Kingdom furnished 1,466,426; Europe, 4,725, 814; Asia, 63,932; Africa, 375; America, 422,848, and all other countries 25,759. CARNES’ EXPRESS—J. D. W., San Jose, Cal. Carnes’ express was a private company estab- lished in this City in 1864, for the purpose of delivering letters to all parts of the City, prior to the free delivery system by the postal au. thorities. The price of delivery was 5 cents, inside of Larkin street, and special rates out- side. The managers sold stamps, which were affixed to letters and dropped in boxes in va- flon;‘pnmofihe City. It was located at 428 Washington street, was operated Carnes, then by Dennis Gahagan and after- ward by W. E. Loomis, who changed the name Letter Express. The crimson stamps issued by Carnes L':e not of much value to collectors. Dealers offer them for 50 cents. The Carnes letter express did not have an ex- press business with the intexior. H UxcLE BaM—A. E. H.; Davisville, Cal. The origin of the-name Uncle Sam is as follows: During the war of 1812 Elbert Anderson of New York, & Government contractor, visited Troy, on the Hudson, where was conce_ntnted and where he purchased large quantities of provisions, beef, pork and the like. One of the inspectors of these articles was Samuel Wilson, who superintended a large number olu\lol‘k- men, and who was generally known as ‘‘Uncle Sam.” The articles selectes b& the contractor were marked E. A. and U. 8. One of the work- men who was marking the packages, when asked by some of his fellow-workmen the meu;- ing of the mark, replied that he thought it meant Elbert ' Anderson and Uncle Sam, alluding to Uncle Sam Wilson. At that time but 1mfia was known of the abbreviation of United States to U. S., and when it was dis- covered that a mistake had been made by the workman, it was thoughta good thinj ’Ia nAme everything marked U. 8. nele Sam.” Wilson died in New York in 1854 aged 84 ye in noticing his death the Albany Argu what is stated as the origin of the term Sam as the sobriquet of the United States. RAILROAD Coymissions—W. B., Campbell, Fresno County, Cal. The following is a list of the States that have Railroad Commissioners and the names of the differgnt secretaries: Alabama, C. P. Jackson, Montgomery; Arkan- sas, H. B. Armistead, Little Rock; California, S. Newman, San Francisco; Colorado, H. Hamill, Denver; Georgia, J. D. Massey, At- lante; Illinois, J. W. Yantis, Springfield; In- to the City diena, W. D. Owen, Indianavolis; Iows, W. W. Ainsworth, Des Moines; Kansas, B. F. Flanniken, Topeka; Kentucky, D. C. Hardin, Frankfort; Maine, E. C. Farring- ton, Augusta; Massachusetts, W. A. Crafts. Bos- ton; Michigan, E. A. Rundell, Lansing; Minne- sota, A. K. Telsherg, St. Paul; Mississippi, 8. L. McLanrin, Jackson; Missouri, James Harding, Jefferson City; Nebraska, J. W. Johnson, Lil coln; New Hampshire, H. M. Putney (Chair- man) Manchester; New York, C. R. de Freest, Albany; North Carolina, H. C. Brown, Raleigh; North™ Dakota, J. E. Pheian, Bismarck; Ohio, J. H. Wierick, Columbus; Oregop, L. Baker, Portland; Pznnsf‘lvlmn, 1. B. Brown, Harris- burg; Rhode Isiand, E. L. Freeman, Provi- dence (commissioner); South Caroli: - Bartlett, Columbia; South Daketa, C. Joh son, Watertown; Texas, J. J. Arthur, Austin; Vermont, F. C. Smith, St. Albans; Virginis, E. G. Eckers, Richmond; Wisconsin, Jere C. Mur- phy, Madison. A PERFECT LOUNGING ROBE. White eider-down was the material used in making this useful and graceful gown. It was lined tbroughout with pale blue china silk (the hood being lined with the same) and had a blue silk girdle, with cords to mateh, holding the fullness of the sleeves in place. White flannel or serge makes a most sensible garment, 83 it may easily be laundered at home. A binding of pale yellow washable rib- bon can be used on all the edges,and not de- tract from its economy, for this so-called wash- able ribbon really washes, and does away with the expense of sending these garments to the cleaners. A blue eider-down simply bound with white ribbon is dainty. The hood is lined with white china silk, which also washes well. A io"m of pink, blue and tan striped flannel bad bindings of blue, with blue hood lining and girdle. A dream in pink was of roll fia; nel, with silk bindings, girdle and lining 8| in the same shade. White flannel with a lining of primrose yel. low china silk isa combination that is artistie and can also be washed with good results. Bright red eider-down makes a very servicea- ble gown, which does not s0il so readily as the more delicate colors, but is still E""y. Satin ribbon of the same shade, an inch wide, is used to bind the edges. A girdle of the same shade ofsatin ribbon three inches wide is chosen in- stead of silk cord. The cheaper outing flannels make very use- ful and inexpensive bath or longinggowns, and v:r{‘dnmy combinations are possible. Plain Turkish toweling is chosen by many, and is simply hemmed or bound with cotton raid. Such a gown as this is 80 simply made, and may be made 50 cheaply at home that every woman who appreciates comfort and neatness will have one, for the cost will not exceed $150—ten yards of outing flannel at 1€ cents and one yard of narrow ribbon to bin the hood. The girdle may be omitted. The front is seamless.” The backis cut in two pieces. The sleeve is cut in-one piece. CABLE-CAR DIFFICULTIES. Exasperated Citizen—Look here, I want to make a complaint against your confounded cable-cars, Yesterday I got caught in a block- ade and had to sitand wait for nearly an hour. Superintendent—That’s just like you fellow: never satisfied. Why, another man just cam in and complained that the cars went 8o fast he couldn't get on.—New York Life, — e CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend's.* ——————— EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clivping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * ————— HUSBAND'S Caleined Magnesia. Four first- premium medals awarded. More agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other yag- nesia. For sale only in bottles with registered trademark label. e e —_— Wife—You saw Mre. Browner last evening? Husband—Yes; but not to speak to.. Wife—What astoryl They tell me you were sit{ing with her for more than two hours. usbend—True; but it was she who did the talking.—Boston Transeript. i e CATARRH is @ constitutional disease. It requires a constitutional remedy which will build up the sys- tem and make pure blood. Experience proves that such a remedy is found in Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Y THE most efficacious stimulant to excite the appetite are Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters. Be- ‘ware of counterfeits. ———————— “BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES” are un- equaled for clearing the voice. Public speakers and singers the world over use them, NEW TO-DAY. Tuesday, Jan. 28th. To-day only. Ladies’ All-Wool Fine Scarlet Undervests or Pants, 28 to 38, good at $1.50. To-day’s price 85¢. SMITHS' CASH STore, 414,415, 418 FRONT ST, 8, F,