The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 3, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES-Postage Free: Taily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Taily end Sunday CALL, one year, by mail X Daily ard Sunday CALL, sIX months, by mail. 8. Deily end Sunday CALL, threc months by mail 1.60 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. Sunday CaLL, one year, by mail.. WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mall BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Talephone.. Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone......... BRANCH OFFICES: 680 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open umtll §:20 o'clock. 889 Hayes street; open untll 9:30 o'clook. 717 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. EW. corner Sixteenth and Misslon streets; open 1] ¢ o'clock. 4015 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 416 Niuth street; open nntil 9 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: nd 82, 84 Park Row, New York City. v FOLTZ, Special Agent. Rooms 831 D. FEBRUARY 3, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. ———— Now that the silver discussion is over we return to straight politics. The Senate is now ready to discuss the emergency tariff and talk business. This will be a lively week in Washington and it won’t be dull in Frankfort, Ky. S i So long as the emergency tariff is kept waiting the emergency will stay with it. ‘With every new week there should bea new step taken toward the free market un- il we get there. Sooner or later the fight against down- town pooirooms will win and it maybe sooner than you think. The State Development Association is working without noise, but it is reaching far and achieving much. ‘We are not having the reform mass- meetings we had last year, but we are get- ting just as much reform. It might be worth while for the police to look around to see if any lottery ticket fiends are getting bold again. In other localities festivals come and fes- tivals go, but Truckee keeps her toboggan slide running as a steady job. As Democracy has no Presidential pos- sibilities it may have to putup with an impossibility and try Grover again. Don’t forget that local politics is worth attending to and studying even amid the excitemeat of Presidential elections, As the Speaker of the Ohio Legislature isnamed Sleeper, it ought to be an easy job to railroad any bill right over him. If the times are not so prosperous as we could wish they are at any rate good enough to silence the calamity howlers. Omaha is still working away for a Trans- Mississippi Exposition, and we may yet have to get in and help her make a success of it. The re-funding scheme occupies the mid- dle of the road to prosperity and Califor- nia must either crush it or be forced to the woods. There should be no delay in sending a reform tariff to Cleveland and putting upon him the responsibility of rejecting it if he dares. Tennessee has an oil boom, or rather there is an oil boom in the State, but the Standard Company owns all the land it spreads over. That this administration is tolerated at all is a proof the American people can stand a joke against themselves no matter how bad it is. The deficit in the revenues is not the only emergency that calls for a new tariff. Every unprotected industry makes the same demand. Illinois Democracy is so utterly petered ont it is believed there won’t be a man in the party with nerve enough left to try to beat Altgeld for a renomination. Even Kaiser William seems to have been forced to borrow money to get in the wild oat crop of hisyouth, and like all who do that kind of thing he borrowed trouble with it. Just at present Nebraska is pointing with pride to Senator Manderson, but as soon as the Republican Nationat Conven- tion opens she intends to make a dark horse of him. The New York Press says “the Demo- cratic party is only ward-meeting size,” but in this part of the country it cannot even fill the bill there without straining itself until it splits. ‘We shall hear a great deal in the coming campaign about the endless chain that de- pletes the gold reserve, but the people will bear in mind they heard nothing of it un- til the enactment of the deficis tariff. From the drift of sentiment at present it appears that in every State where there is to be an election for Governor this vear all the candidates will desire to make the race something of a good-roads movement. By way of preserving her oyster-beds from exnaustion Maryland is considering a proposition to permit individuals to oc- cupy not more than five acres of the beds each, provided they propagate oysters and keep up the supply. The recent bicycle show in New York is said to have impressed politicians with the strength of the wheelmen’s clubs and it is icted that all parties will make a bid for their votes by promising good roads in all parts of the State. According to a report of Labor Commis- sioner Meriwether of Missouri, the gross earnings of the street railways of St. Louis for the year 1895 were over 58 per cent on the actual investment, and exceeded the entire amount for which the roads were assessed for taxes. —_— Accordine to estimates made by the Im- migration Commission not less than 100,000 Canadians come into the United States every year and fully 50 per cent return as soon as the busy season is over and they have made a certain sum of money. The coming of these men of course crowds Americans out of a job, and it would seem to bea kind of visiting that ought to be discouraged, A NEW DEVELOPMENT. The House Committee on Pacific Roads has suddenly opened its eyes to the import- ance of the measure with which 1t is deal- ing, Congressman Maguire's presentation of the point raised by John T. Doyle of San Francisco, to the effect that the pri- ority of the first mortgage bonds over the Government’s claim had been forfeited by the failure of the Central Pacific to com- ply strictly with the conditions of the act authorizing it to issue such bonds, fell like a bombshell in the committee-room, and a sub-committee was at once appointed to inquire into the matter. One member of this sub-committee has intimated thatif the ground is found to be well taken the funding proposition will be at once drooped. Mr. Maguire thinks that the committee will [ikely require some kind of judicial determination of the question before it re- ports. How this may be secured no hint is given. Apparently, however, the proper procedure would be for the President to move in the premises. This would natur- ally take the whole question out of the hands of Congress, where it never had a proper place. Tkis appointment of a sub-committee not be merely a *‘blind.” It is con- ceivable that the committee is not willing to be made the tool of Mr. Huntington and that the education which is issuing from San Francisco is opening the eyes of the committee to a condition which it had never understood. It-is hard to believe that the Coneress of the United States would willingly be placed in the position that Mr. Huntington desires it should oc- cupy. Inany event this latest action of the Pacific Roads Committee affords us the first ray of hope from that source and emphasizes the value of the hard work which California and its loyal Representa- tives in Congress are doing. Mr. Huntington has made his prelim- inary appearance before the Senate com- mittee and has promised to make a full statement in a few days. He has fore- shadowed his intention to show that the security of the Central Pacific will be | ample in the event of the passage of a funding measure. As this is one of the smallest elements of the subject, and in no sense goes to the vital question in- volved, 1t will be interesting to observe the manner in which his argument is re- ceived. Evidently the great man is becoming uneasy, as his lawyer, Mr. Tweed, has in- formed the Senate committee that the company would be able to discharge its | obligations in fifty years, and has pro- duced figures to that purpose. Itseems to be a backing down from a demand for the Smith bill, which provides for an exten- sion of a hundred years. AN UNEXPECTED VETO. Mayor Sutro’s veto of the $35,000 appro- priation made by the Board of Supervis- ors for the paving of Folsom street was wholly unexpected and has thrown the | South Side into confusion. The ground of his veto was not that Folsom street did not need the improvement, but that the money was more urzently needed for the business streets. This may be a matter of opinion. Certainly the business streets for the most | vart are in a wretched condition, many of | them still being paved with that horrible remnant of a barbarous age, cobbles. Even Market street, which should be the best paved thoroughiare in the City, is inferior to many of the residence streets which have been paved in recent years. Whether or not the board will pass the appropriation over the Mayor’s veto is an- other matter and cannot be foretold. The whole situation, however, has proved ex- ceedingly and unexpectedly instructive. The lessons which we have learned from it | are these: First—The appropriation for the Folsom- street improvement was made solely as the result of the energetic, persistent and har- monious efforts of the property-owners and improvement clubs of the region south of Market street. This shows what can be accompiished by united and persistent effort. Secona—The claim made by that section of the City, to the effect that it had re- ceived nothing like its proportion of the appropriations for public improve- ments to which its pgreat taxable wealth entitled it, and that the bulk of the money devoted to such pur- poses had been expended in districts paying less taxes, while having a basis in justice to the extent of its right to a reas- onable share of appropriations, must be considered in connection with the fact that the districts to which the more extensive appropriations have been applied are com- paratively new. More than that, these improvements have been far superior to the original improvements made south of Market street. This raises the question as to whether it is or is not the duty of the municipality to help those who help themselves—to reward with good pub- lic improvements those sections in which the residents show most pride in their private improvements. Third—We have learned that by no sys. tem of creating funds by current taxation for needed improvements can the wants of the City be supplied. If all the accepted streets needing repaving were put in proper condition by current taxation the City would be swamped. If some way could be found for undoing the work of acceptance of former years in cases where the streets were wretchedly paved, and for compelling property owners to do the work afresh, the situation would be greatly simplified. The presentcondition of many of the most important thorcughfares is disgraceful. There isalwaysan opportunity for fronting owners to show sufficient pub- lic spirit to put their streetsin proper or- der, and that would be far simpler than bonding the City. But San Francisco has not yet attained to that eminence in the development of civic pride and business enterprise. POLITIOS AND BUSINESS. The vote taken upon the silver bill in the Senate on Saturday closps what may be called a dilatory episode in the proceedings of that body and leaves the way open for an immediate consideration of the emer- gency tariff. That measure ought cer- tainly to be pushed forward with as much speed as possible, for it not only concerns the revenues of the Nation but through the degree of protection it affords will ‘operate beneficially in restoring commer- cial confidence and stimulating the long- depressed industries of the country. From the silver bill nothing is to be ex- pected. The Senators themselves can hardly have thougkt it of great im- portance, for even so stanch a supporter of free-silver coinage as Senator Stewart spoke of it as ‘‘a dress parade,” and those who were opposed did not thirk it worth while to make any very earnest efforts to beat it. It will have no effect whatever on legislation except 1o defeat the bond bill that was sent up from the House, and will probably have even less ou the course of Presidential politics. In fact, the vote in the Senate showed that party lines were not drawn upon it, and it is therefore im- vossible to make it a party issue in the campaign. ‘When the emergency tariff bill, how- ever, is taken up we shall have a different condition of affairs. That bill was carried through the House by an almost strictly party vote, and will have the effect of bringing the Senate back again to its rightful party divisions. It will line up on one side the men who are opposea to deficit revenues, excessive foreign imports, gold exports, increasing the bonaed debt, and leaving American industry exposed to the competition not only of Europe, but of the Orient. On the other side it will array the supporters of the administra- tion, and those Democrats who, though opposed to the administration, are stilt so blindly devoted to the fetish of free trade that they continue to cling to it, even though it bring disaster not only to the prestige of their party, but to the welfare of their country. In short, the closing up of the silver de- bate and the opening of the tariff discus- sion means the beginning of business legis- lation in the Senate. There will, of course, he much time yet given to the considera- tion of foreign politics and to oratory on the Monroe doctrine and the affairs of Cuba and Armenia, but in the main the time of the Senate will’ be occupied here- after either in redressing the tariff in the direction of the protective system orin the routine work of passing the usual ap- propriation bills. We are on the eve of the revival of straight politics, and with that is sure to come a more sanguine feel- ing 1 business circles. The people, as Senator Morrill said on Saturday, have confidence in the Republican party, and when they see its representatives reunited in the Senate as in the House, fighting earnestly for protection and not dividing on side issues, they will feel new assur- ances of the coming victory in the Presi- dential election, and in that assurance will enter upon business and enterprise with renewed hope and increased ardor. The dangers developed and damages wrought by the recent storm in California have been used as a lever by some of our exchanges to overturn any possibility of the rehsbilitation of hydraulic mining. The Sacramento Bee is exceedingly bitter in its denunciation of that industry, and makes these extraordinary declarations: “The rivers are filling up more and more every season, while hydraulic mining con- tinues to pour down its flood of debris. As much detritus is sifting down the streams and clogging up their beds as there ever was. Across the mouth of the Feather a great bar has been formed by the avalanche of debris hurled down the Yuba by the hydraulic mines and this has caused the Feather to back up until it has spread all over the adjacent country.” The Record-Union is by no means so ex- treme, but it takes the ground that hy- draulic mining is the cause of all the trouble, and the inference from its posi- tion is that this industry should not be tolerated hereafter under any circum- stances. Another of our interior ex- changes declares that the recent floods loosened great quantities of debris con- fined in the mountains by inadequate dams and sent them down into the valley. Botn the Record-Union and the Bee de- clare that there is great danger of the Sac- ramento leaving its banks permanently and establishing for itself a different course, thus leaving Sacramento off the water highway. The Record-Union proves the imminence of this danger by showing that the river runs along the crest of a ridge made by a filling up of its bed and the building of levees to restrain it. As the ostensible purpose of these two papers in pointing out these conditions and dangers is to call the attention of the Gov- ernment to the need of keeping the rivers open and making them fit for navigation, THE CALL heartily agrees with that pur- pose. The subject of hydraulic mining is one for future consideration—with the res- ervation that if it is true that the restrain- ing dams in use in the mountains are inefficient they should be promptly in- vestigated. These were constructed under the direction and with the sanction of com- petent Government engineers, and if there is any fault itis chargeable to them and not to the business of hydraulic mining. The Barham bill for the reclamation of the rivers seems to fit the needs of the situation admirably, and the Record-Union is eminently right in refuting the position taken by a paper in Southern California that the improvement of our rivers is merely a matter of local interest. The whole sentiment and influence of Califor- nia should be united on this subject. COAST EXOHANGES, Among the great movements of to-day in the direction of a development of Califor- nia’s natural resources are the conversion of water power into electrical energy and the discovery of petroleum deposiis. As both of these lines of inquiry go to the vital question of producing greatly needed vower at a minimum cost, and as fuel is expensive and the manufacturing re- sources of the State are held in check by reason of that fact, the development of these two sources of cheap power is a mat- ter of the greatest importance. The latest news in the line of oil discov- eries comes from the Pacific shores of San Mateo County. The vicinity of Halfmoon Bay has long been famous for its superior dairy products, but the value of these is threatened with eclipse. If the Southern Pacific Company carry out its present ap- parent intention of running a line across the mountains from the vicinity of Moun. tain View to the ocean the oil resources of the coast will find easy egress to San Francisco; but even should that fail we still have the free ocean route at com- mand. A company has been formed and boring bas pegun and the prospects are encouraging. Geological experts, while acknowledging abundant evidences of gold and oil de- posits in the Santa Cruz Mountains, have expressed a doubt that these valuable de- posits would be found in areas of sufficient size to make their development profitable, for the reason that the range was pro- duced by voleanic upheaval and is greatly broken and contorted as to rock stratifica- tion. However this may be, it is an es- tablished fact that oil wells of great promise were developed in the range and ‘were suppressed by the interference of the Standard OQil Company. Farther, at places in the mountains there are unlim- ited deposits of bituminous rock, or sand- mountains, cast up by the sea, which for ages have been saturated with petroleum that by exposure has parted with its vola- tite elements, leaving a residuum of bi- tumen as the binding element, which with the sand that it permeates constitutes bi- tuminous rock. This seems to give inde- pendent evidence of inexhaustible stores of petroleum, and it is a safe prediction that some dsy they will be tapped. Al- ready the great discoyeries of oil in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties have practically broken the Standard Oil monopoly in California—a monopoly which the Southern Pacific Company for many vears has assisted diligently to mainiain, & The Summerland Advance has been pub- lishing some exceedingly interesting mat- ter of late concerning the development of the oil industry in that part of Santa Bar- bara County. Taking the Eastern esti- mate of value, namely, that an oil well is worth $1000 for each barrel that it pro- duces a day, our exchange finds that the owners of wells there had made an in- credible profit on their investment. While some of the proprietors objected to the giving of information, apparently through fear that it micht create excitement and induce development beyond a safe limit, our contemporary learned sufficient to bresent a most interesting account. H. L. Williams, for instance, invested only $6000, and has already cleared that much, while announcing that he thinks his wells could be made to produce ten times as much as at present. Mr. Wilson, who invested $10,- 0’:)0 in developing wells, sold them, after six months’ work, for property that yields an annual rental of $4000. Qur contem- porary adds: “From an investment of $500 many have realized a monthly reve- nue of from $100 to $600 above expenses, without any labor after the wells are put down further than shipping the oil and re- ceiving the checks from the purchasers. Without doubt there is nothing on this coast in which there is greater profit than an oil well in Summerland. The certainty of the investment is another great item for consideration. When one commences to bore for oil he knows he's going to get it. There i3 no guess work or uncertainty in the matter. An oil well ought to bring its owner from $5 to $25 per day aboye ex- penses of operation. When a lot is util- ized to its full capacity it will net its owner from $500 to $2500 a month. A gold mine would not be as profitable as this: and an oil well can’t be ‘salted.” Noone ever failed in the oil business here; it is sure pay every time. The return of the stars to the sky is not more certain.” The reawakening of business activity at Downieville is promptly recognized by the establishment of a paper there called the Sierra Enterprise, published by Downer, Hill & Co. Senator Goucher’s long-expected paper has appeared at Fresno. It is called the Watchman, and its ambitious and difficult mission is the unitication of the Demo- cratic party. Gilroy has a bright new paper, the Tele- gram, edited by R. G. Einfalt, with the assistance of his talented wife. Having incorporated and thus made its position secure, the Stockton Record (daily and weekly) declares rightly ihat it has earned 1ts right to existence. The Free Press has invaded the journal- istic field of San Bernardino with so good success that 1t secured the city printing contract when it was only three issues old. In announcing its policy the new Lake County paper, the Putah Mail, says: *“We are not here to ‘run out’ or throw mud or any such foolishness; what we are here for is to improve the natural resources of Lake County by stimulating proper busi- ness methods, cleanliness in politics and social life, to help strengthen fraternal bonds, increase enterprises and try to secure the just division of the comforts of life.” The Santa Rosa Press has announced that, beginnieg with February, it will issue a semi-weekly edition at the price of a weekly, so as to give its country readers the benefit of the latest news. The Fresno Ezpositor furnishes this in- stance of the enterprise of Los Angeles and the valuable results which may be expected from an intelligent utilization of the enormous water power at present going to waste in California: “Los Angeles is always alive with propositions that point that way. She has had an eye on the trade of this valley, or a large portion of it. A few days ago a franchise was granted for electric lines reaching to the Kern County line,and also to a point on Kern River where power can be easily generated to propel cars over the Tehachapi range. Look out for the electric railroad in the near future.” The Board of Supervisors of Placer County has advertised for bids, receivable the 10th inst., for a contract to complete the new courthouse, jail and hall of records. On the 12th of March the Board of Supervisors of Merced County will receive proposals for a high school building at Merced. The Cclusa Sun, always alert to its re- sponsibility, urges the people of that city to unite in an effort to secure a beet-sugar factory. It has published a list of far more than a hundred of the responsible citizens of Colusa who bave pledged them- selves to forward the enterprise. Itsin- troduction to the list is as follows: “It will be seen from the names appended hereto that the town of Colusa is going to come out right liberally for the erection of a sugar factory. The names appended are by no means all that will contribute, and they are given simply to show progress. It is to be hoped that the abundant rain and the spurt in the price of wheat will not re- store confidence to the extent of prevent- ing any one from helping the good work along. At the very best the river lands about Colusa are not so well adapted to the growth of wheat as the lands on the plains; and it has been evident for some years to observers of the world’s progress that we must have another staple than wheat, and in the opinion of the best men in this State there is no staple so good as sugar at all available to us. In the course of years it may be possible that Colusa might get a factory without any subsidy, but it is not wise to wait and take the chances. The landowners are the people most interested, and if they will come up as liberally as the town there will be no question of success. Do you suppose you could find a single man in a radius of eight miles of Watsonville who would have the factory taken away from there for five times the amount you are asked to subscribe?” The Livermore Herald has published a splendid special edition of twenty-four pages, printed on the costliest book paper and illustrated with the most artistic en- gravings. Its contents are so varied and so ably presented that it is impossible in a short space even to list them. No Califor- nia newspaper has ever achieved a more useful or pleasing success, and any resi- dent would be bestowing a benefit on Cali- fornia by sending a copy of this superb publication to some friend in the East. A FUTURE FCR SAILING VESSELS, One of the wealthiest ship-owners of Ger- ‘many, Carl Laeisz, president of the Hamburg- South American Steamship Company and board member of nearly every important Ger- man navigation company, is a firm believer in the future ofsailing vessels. That he is prac- tical in his confidence is to be seen in his own- ership of twelve four-masted ships, among them the Potosi, which is the largest salling yessel afloat. This great ship, which was launched on the Weser last year, is engaged in trade with Cnile, and has just returned to Hamburg from her first vo! to Iquique with a cargo of tons of nitrate, ha n accomplished the.rcund trip in five and a hufi months. The successful experiment of this German shipper should give encouragement to present an Ysm‘mmm owners of American sailing vessels 10 enter into competition with the numerous British and Scandinavian tramp steamers. A vast guantity of the objects of commerce consists of bulky. articles like min- eral fertilizers, ores, hides ana lumber, in the transportation ot which cheap rates of freight are more essential than speed. No matter how economically the steam ocean tramps may be run, they cannot successfully compete with seiling craft in the item of rates; for it costs less money to feed a crew with, salt beef and bardtack ‘than to feed a steamer’s: furnaces with coal. Moreover, & sailing vessel need not sacrifice one-half or more of her carrying capaeity to engine-room and coal-carrying space, and when cargoes ate scarce the sailing ship can be laid up, with no risk_of_deteriora- tion to machinery. Neither will the sailing tramp require as frequent cxpensive repairs as her steam rival. The confidence of Herr Laeisz rests upon a solid foundation, and the scudding clipper may agaiu become an im- portant though auxiliary factor in the world’s commerce.— Philadelphia Record. PERSONAL. E. C. Apperson of Santa Clara is at the Lick. Louis James and wife are at the Occidental. State Senator R. Linder of Tulare is at the Lick. J. 8. Templin, a mining man of Idaho, is at the Palace. Colonel J. 8. Templin, & mining msn of Idsho, is at the Palace. ¥ John Harpst, a lumber and mining man of Arcata, is at the Grand. B. A. Mattello, the rubber manufacturer, of New York, is at the California. C. B. Shephard, a prominent Boston mer- chant, is staying at the California. Ex-Assemblyman A. J. Bledsoe 1s down from Crescent City and is at the Grand. F. B. Jones of the United States navy is registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Franeis J. Semmes and C. F. Preston of the United States navy are at the Baldwin. Edward MoGettigah, the Sheriff, politician and ex-Supervisor of Vallejo, is at the Russ. C.B. Shephard, a Boston banker who is mak- ing a tour through the State, is at the Califor- nia. John A. Nukum, & well-known citizen and capitalist of Spokane, Wash., is at the Cosmo- politan. H. Hirshfeld, a capitalist and retired mer- chant of Bakersfield, is in town. He is regis. tered at the Lick. W. Lee Capps of the construction corps of the United States navy is here from Washington and is at the Palace. Mme. Tavary, Thea Dorre, Carl Martins and Mrs. Charles H. Pratt of the Tavary Opera Company are at the Baldwin. M. F. Nolan, well-known farmer and pro- moter of Tuolumne County interests, is & guest at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Thomes Barry, a Montana mine-owner of Peoria, 111, is at the Russ. He is establishing himself near Napa, where he has purchased some vineyard property. Sam Sussman, the New York banker, is at the Palace with his wife and four children. Mrs. Louis Wormser, the vidow of the New York banker, is with the party. 8. M. Butler of Denver has just come up from his orange grove at Riverside and is at the Grand with his wife. He hasa large commis- sion and fruit business in Denver. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEQPLE. Among the directors of the First National Bank of Huntington, Ind., are two women, and one of them, Mrs. Sarah F. Dick, is the bank’s cashier. The young King of Spain is said to have grown hysterical over the Cuban situation and ‘weeps and wails at the prospect that he will become the Spa nish George III. Mme. Jeanne Hugo, the granddaughter of Victor Hugo, who was recently divorced from her husband, Alphonse Dauaet's son, is about to marry a young doctor of Paris, German sclentists and statesmen are rejofc- ing over the high honors conferred upon Major Wissmann, Governor of the German East Afri- can colonies, by the Sultan of Zanzibar. The committee of Rochester citizens recently appointed to raise funds for the ercction of a monument in that city to the memory of the late Frederick Douglass appeals to all patriotic citizens for aid. King Prempeh of Ashantee, who has just bowed the knee to the English, made only one condition before the complete surrender, and that was that on occasions of state he should be allowed to wear the uniform of an English colonel. The greatest bane of Queen Victoria’s exist. ence is the enormous amonnt of original “poetry” sent to her from all parts of the world. It is all read by her secretaries, and the best of it submitted to her Majesty and personelly acknowledged. On the recent birth of the royal grandson nearly Lialf a ton of manuscript verse was received at Windsor. Governor Bradley, the new Kentucky chief executive, isa man of very plain and demo- cratic manners. He was present in Lansing on County Court day wearing an old slouch hatand smoking the same corncob pipe that he has been smoking, so his friends allege, for twenty years. All the old farmers who knew him slapped him on the back and said, “Hello Billl” while one said: “He’s the same old Bill Bradley, and would ask you for a chew of ‘home-made’ as quick as ever before.” VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Always. San Jose Mercary. The poor we have always with us under a Democratic administration. A Question for Taxpayers. Alameda Telegram. Are grand juries useless? This is a question taxpayers will do well to ponder over. Cultivating the Corn Crop. Lodi Review Budget. A farmer is said to have waiked 500 miles fn cultivating one acre of corn. He thereupon sold his farm and moved to town, where he ‘walked 600 miles in a vain effort to find work. Not Meeting Much at AllL Kern County Echo. Acomplaint comes from Sacramento that the Code Commission is violating- the act creating it by holding its mebtings in San Francisco in- stead of in Secramento. But it seems to be nearer the truth that it is not meeting much atall. Two Decisions. The Petalumian. Our Supreme Court has lately decided that under the old Calitornia statutes, under which the Pacific Bank was incorporated, the stockholders are individually liable for their proportion of the debts of the bank. The Cen- tral Pacific Railroad was {ncorpos d_under the same law, but another court has decided in the Stanford case that the Stanford te, and of course Crocker and Huntington, are not responsible as stockholders of the Central Paci- fic tor their or any proportion of the debt. to the Government of the Central Pacific. We iry very hard to think that there is but one law for the rich and poor alike, but Providence has given us two eyes.and until they are merged into one we can’t help seeing both these decisions at the same time. HUMOR OF THE DAY. “Are the English so very slow?” “Slow? Why, my dear boy, they have just come down with tne Trilby epidemic!”—Puck, “Isn’t that a very slow horse of yours?"” “Well, he isn’t much for speed, but he easily frightened and runs away a good deal, 50 he gets there just the same.’’—Detroit Free Press. Serimpitt—Doctor, this bill of yours is pre- posterous—ridiculous! Dr. Chargem (blandiy)—Well, I don’t mind saying that it is absurdly low myself.—Harper's Bazar. He—Haven't yeu noticed how happy Mary Marbleton looks lately? I believe she is en- gaged. She—Either that or she has given up tight shoes,—Cincinnati Enquirer. “Why don’t you go to work?”’ asked the in- quisitive lady. “Idassen’t,” pleaded Dismal Dawson. “Me clothes is that tender 't if I moved in a hurry they’d fall to scraps.”’—Indianapolis Journal. “Did you fall?” said & man, rushing to the rescue of a woman who slipped on the icy pavement this morning. “Oh, no,” she said. ‘I just sat down tosee if a ;so‘:m find any four-leat clovers.”—Atchison obe. RUINED BY HIS MILLIONS. Not for a long time yet will the French pa- pers cease to talk about little Max Lebaudy, the youthful millionaire, says the New York Times. Notonly did he illustrate, both in his short life and in his premature death, the evil effects which wealth will occasionally produce, but his story furnishes a strange commentary on a certain most unpleasant phase of contem- porary French politics and morals. Lebaudy’s father made a colossal fortune in the sugar business. Some years ago the father died; leaving every member of the family more millions of francs than they well knew what 10 do with. There were three sonsin the family. Of these, two. already of age, came into posses- sion of their fortunes at once, and showed an inelination to use the goods the gods had given with that caution which usually passes for wisdom. Max was still & minor when his father’s death occurred, and the elder brothers saw to it that he had none too much money. He was an ambitious youth, however, with M. Max Lebaudy, thesYoung Frenchmen to Whom Riches Brought Ruin and Death. aspirations that ran chiefly toward horses, bicycles and athletic sports, but which occa- sionally, also, turned toward the facile divini- ties of the stage. All these tendencies seemed equally disreputable at the Hotel Lebaudy, and before long the boy came to be regarded as a sheep decidedly black. Then came the experience with the money-lenders, and these people advanced whatever sums he wished, asking in return only an_occasional signature atthe footof a piece of stamped paper. In- stantly began the wild, short race that ended the other day in the military hospital at Amelia-les-Bains. The boy’s ~extravagance soon sent his nickname, “le tit sucrier,” flying pretty nearly around the world. Eis horrified family tried to put him in an insane asylum and failed miserably. He was not mad, or even particularly vicious. His gener- osity equaled his extravagance and won for him innumerable parasites and a few friends. The story of his career does not need re- helliitl;lg. Ithas been told too often and too recently. Only the end of the story isat all out of the common. When it came time for Max Le- baudy to render the service which every able- bodied Frenchman owes, or, at least, is forced to pay, his country by serving in the army, the Parisian_press alinost with a single voice de- ciared that & way would be found to exempt the millionaire from the hardships which other conscripts undergo. o loud was this cry that no way was found. Instead. the cow- ardly officers under whom Lebnudi; served were 8o afraid lest the inevitable charges of bribery might stick that they treated the famous “‘sucrier” witlf outrageous severity. Privileges that a peasant conscript got for the asking were denied to his absurdly and dan- gerously rich comrade, Even wlen repeated examinations had disclosed that the young fellow was far advanced in eonsumption, and, therefore, entitled to an immediate discharge, fear of newspaper suspicions ana revilings silenced the very doctors, and the only favor they would show was to send the wretched victim of wealth to a hospital crowded with typhus patients just returned from the marshes of Madagascar. And there he died. Itisa remarkable story. A CONSERVATIVE. The garden beds 1 wandered by One bright and cheerful morn, When I found a new-fledged butterfiy A-sitting on a thorn— A'black and crimson butterfly, All doleful and forlorn. 1 thought that life could have no sung To infant butterflies, 80 I gazed on this unhappy thing With wonder and surprise, . While sadly with his waving wing He wiped his weeping eyes. Sald T, “What can the matter be? Why weepest thou so sore? With garden fair and suniight free And flowers in goodly store—" But he only turned away from me And burst into a roar. Cried he, “My legs are thin and few ‘Where once I had a swarm; Boft fuzzy fur. a joy to view, Once kept my body warm, Before these flappiug wing-things grew To hamper and deforg.’” At that outrageous bug I shot The fury of my eye: Said I, in scora all burning hot, In rage and anger high, ° “You ignominious idiot, ‘Those wings are made to fiy 1" “I do not want to fly,” said he; I only want to squirm ! And he dropped his wings dejectedly But still bis voice was firm; “I do not want to be a fly, 1 want to be & worm.'? 0 yesterday of unknown Iack! To-duy of unknown bliss! Ileft my fool in red and black, The last L saw was this— The creature mad y climbing back 1Ingo his chrysais. CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON. A NEW JACKET. The newest model in jackets is shown here and it certainly recommendsitself on the score of comfort as well as style, buttoning close up to the throat in the most sensible way; while 8 turn over collar, usually of velvet, finishes it. The handsomest suits for general wear are made in this shape, with a full skirt to mateh of mixed cheviot. 'A fitted waist of the same may be worn under this coat or a silk or fancy waist of plaid cashmere. The mixtures of ¢heviot show many combinations of color, and :g;l.l‘e;:eh‘;:gsfn:fi gow'xjn th.; silk lining is of s the goods. Two bully.nm hsle‘n the Cont i or & coat to be worn with any skirt, melton, tweed, plain cloth and chevlot{ in one color but many fanciful weaves are best liked. The collar should be of B Lot velvet showing an edge of ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, | ATTACEMENT—J. J. D., City. When an at- torney, on behalf of a client, commences an action againstan individual to recover on a claim alleged to be due he is not called upon o give the defendant notice that he intends to do 8o, or give notice that he intends to proceed to attecn any real estate the defendant may own or claim. MARE IsLaND—J. T. B., City. It 1s stated, but Answers 10 Correspondents has been unable to trace the assertion to & reliable source, that | Mare Island, Solano County, received its name t that in early days it wasa place cg:': 'l'.fi'e'h many breed’lng mares were t. If any ot the readers of this column can fur- nish the reason for the naming of that island the same will be published. CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN—Subscriber, City. Char- lotte Cushman, the actress, died on the 18th of February, 1876. She closed her theatrical career in the character of Lady Macbeth at the Globe Theater, Boston, May 15, 1875. InsTITUTE OF ART—B., Berkeley, Cal. The Hopkins Institute of Art is open every day in t Sundays, On the first Friday 1‘: ee::%e;gnclipno admission fee is charged, but on other days the admission fee 1s 25 cents. LoRD DUNRAVEN—J. 8., Menlo Park, Cal. Lord Dunraven, the yachtsman, was born February 2, 1841, at Adsre Abbey, England. He was cducated at Christ Church, Oxford, and entered the First Life Guard in 1865. After retiring from the Guard he devoted bimself to sports, yachting in particular. TRANSPARENT PICTURES—W. D. F., Nashua, Is In painting on glass so that it will be trans- parent the colors are laid on witha b]'u!hdnilg fixed by the processes usually employe enameling ;a!];ulny. That {s” the colors are applied in & thin layer to the surface of the nu. which is then heated until the coloring g enameling. In magic lantern nhdtl:_‘s the pictures are fixed with transparent varnish. SAFETY—E. G. §., Livermore, Cal. Safety, as applied to bicycles, is a term that was given to the present style of wheels to distinguish them from the ordinary. The old-style wheel was dangerous, because so many who rode them took a header, and when the low wheels were invented, some one commenting upon the new machine remarked, ‘‘thav’s & safety, for no one can take s header with that.” Hence the name. THE Four HUNDRED—E. G. 8., Livermore, Ala- meda County, Cel. “The Four Hundred” was a term applied to the number of people in New York City who, according to Ward McAllister, the leader of the bon ton, made up what is known as society. That is, when he first used the expression he asserted that there were but 400 people in the Empire City who could be classed as society. Since that expression was first used the number has increased. To WED—Ells, St. Helens, Napa County, Cal. This correspondent asked if it ‘‘would be proper for me to wed a gentleman fifteen years older than myself. I am of age myself and he is a respectable man eand has no bad habits.”” Answers to Correspondents eannot well interfere in sffairs of the heart, but will say that there would not be any impropriety in & maiden marrying & man_fifteen years her senfor, provided she loved him and she be- llevsd that he would make her & good hus- band. FILING A MAP—Subseriber, Cal. If the map of an addition is filed with a County Recorder by any one but the owner of the land, and sab- sequently the owner of that land sells prop- erty in that addition and in the deed inserts “As per map now on file in the office of the County Recorder,” that would bind bim. Streets and highways aud roads become public roperty by dedication and by condemnation. ‘Phe question asked is one that would require a judicial determination and this department does not undertake to express opinions as to what a court of law mignt decide in the appli- cation of the facts to the law or the law 10 the facts. INCORPORATING—J. C. J., Livermore, Alameda County, Cal. A business firm wishing to in- corporate as & private corporation usually secures the services of an attorney to prepare the papers, which must show the name, pur- pose, piace where the business 1s to be carried on, the term of duration (not to exceed fiily years), the number of directors and the amount of capital stock. A corporation is formed in this State by five or more persons. The ma- jority of the number must be residents of the tate. The fee for registering articles of incor- poration with the County Clerk is $1. If it is desired that the same shall be recorded the cost may depend on the length of the docu- ment. TENDERLOIN Districr—S8., City. The term “tenderloin district” is not usually understood. Itoriginated with a captain of police of New York City some years ago. In speaking of the transfer of two other captains, one from & dis- trict in which the best class of geople lived, and in which very little police duty beyond patrolling the streets had 10 be done, to another district, in which_there was a rowdy element and constant need of the police, he said: “That fellow now is going to get all the tenderloin and the other will get the rump part.” This expression was afterward construed by people who did not understand the origin of the phrase to mean a district in which & certain class of women live. It has been so comstrued in this City and is applied to any section\where such are to be found. THE WAR OF 1812—D. D., City. The editor of the foreign paper that recenily declared that ¥ during the war of 1812, or the second war be- tween England and the United States, the English were always victorious on land and sea, and that the United States had to sue for eace, is evidently not acquainted with the acts of history. The United States did not sue for peace. Peace was first suggested by Russia, England refused to accept the offer of Russia, decfiding to act of its own motion, and ap- pointed commissioners, who met American commissioners at Ghent in 1814, and aiter con- siderable discussion peace was declared, but before the news of peace arrived Jackson won bis brilliant victory at New Orleans. On the waters the Americans won thirteen out of fif teen battles, includlng Perry’s victory on Lake Erie in 1813. In battles on land nefther side gained much advantage. THE STATE OF EUROPE. A “correspondent ot the New York Sun sends to that paper & curious verse describing the condition of Europe more than 150 years ago. The lines were written at & banquet given in Rome in 1738 to Sir Robert Walpole by Car- dinal Altien, The map of Europe has changed somewhat since then and some of the powers mentioned have disappeared. The lines were written in French, but the following is a trans. lation: Germany fears all; Austria risks al Mayence gives all; Portuzal sees all; England would like to boss allj Spain embroils all; Savoy suspects all; Russia meddles in all; Holland gets all France stirs up all: Jesulits are everywhere; Rome blesses all. 1 God does not 100k out for all ‘The devil will get away with alll TOWNSEND'S California glace fruits, 50c. Ib, ® ————————— EPECIAL information daily to manutacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —_———— Johannis Asa table water it is unsurpassed.—London Hospital Gazette. . —————— Lord Roberts, “Little Bobs,”” says that military bands are of great use to infant: regiments. Footsore troops forget thel fatigue when the bands play. WHAT Hood’s Sarsaparilla has done for others 1t can and will do for you. A fair trial of Hood's Sar- saparilla will convince you of the entire truth of the above statement. 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