The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 17, 1896, Page 6

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No doubt the inactivity of Congress is masterly, but it isn’t a good servant and won't work. Uncle Sam doesn’t need a new financial as badly as he needs a new set hing has revived this win- ter except the wild clamor of last winter against the theater hat. The cathode ray comes just in time to enable the girls to see the brains of the dudes before they leap. The next thing we know we shall have to prohibit the cathode ray from running at large without a fender. The only way for old St. Valentine to revive his trade is to get up some kind of & frolicand call it a carnival. The administration is so proud of its latest loan that there 1s danger it will give | an encore without waiting for a call. We are not hearing so much about | tourists as we did a few years ago, but we | six months, by mail., 8.00 | | A WRONG IMPRESSION. The Argonaut, ordinarily so shrewd and careful, has evidently fallen into a mis- “ conception of THE CALL's position on the | railroad funding proposition. It says: “ THE CALL says that the Vanderbilt and | Gould interests intend to buy the Pacific | railways at foreclosure sale; that the Van- | derbilt and Gould set will oppose refund- | ing; that if the transcontinental railroads | pass into their hands it would- insure genuine competition with the Southern Pacific; that therefore THE CALL—as we understand it—is opposed to Government ownership, in order to bring about this sale to the Gould and Vanderbilt interests. | TrE Cavy had tried so earnestly to make | its position unmistakable that it confesses | to surprise over this misconception. It | trusts that the following statement cannot | be misunderstood : Tue CALL has never discussed the ques- | tion of Government ownership on its ! merits, nor the question of Goverament | operation, because neither of those ques- | tions has yet properly arisen. It has | deemed such discussions irrelevant, or at 1 most merely incidental, to the question of | collecting the Government debt owing by the aided roads, its belief being that such | collection would inevitably break the | Southern Pecific’s monopoly by one means | ior another. Several contingencies will | ! ensue upon the foreclosure of the Govern- | ment's mortgage, among them possibly | Government ownership and remotely Gov- | ernment operation—two quite distinct | propositions. It believes that to spring, at this time, the question of Government ownership, much less that of Government | operation, would be ili-advised, as likely to rouse in the East, which is ruled by a spirit more conservative than ours, an an- tagonism which will defeat foreclosure, pass the funding bill and fasten the pres- ent monopoly irrevocably upon our prog- ress. In Congressman Maguire’s published information that the Gould and Vander- bilt interests would likely be glad to buy | the Union and Central Pacific roads at | foreclosure sale THE CALL saw a probable | purchaser who not only would secure the | interests of the Government with regardi to its lien, but who would be clearly and | necessarily a genuine competitor of the Southern Pacitic. Besides accomplishing both those desired ends such a purchase at | foreclosure sale would hold the questions of Government ownership and averation in abeyance, thus withdrawing a challenge ! to Eastern conservatism and making | possible the defeat of a funding'scheme. | Hence it is evident that the Argonaut errs in assuming that TrE CALL “1s opposed to | Government ownership in order to bring about this sale to the Gould and Vander- bilt interests.” THE CALL, on its own a count, knows nothing about the desires or intentions of the Gould and Vanderbilt in- terests. It is merely, taking Congressman Maguire's word for that, and it considers the Gould and Vanderbilt interests merely are seeing a great many more settlers. | Once more we predict that the Senate | will really attend to business this week and once more we are not betting on it. By those whose vocabulary is up to date | the thing which Professor Roentgen has | precipitated upon us is called a ‘‘roent- | genograph.” | If there is any sleeping Democrat who | hes the Presidential nomination this 3 it is time for him to kick the cover off and get up. The goldbug organs in the East seem | divided between a desire to use Tillman’s | speech as 2 campaign document and a fear | that they may get hold of the pitchfork end of it. = ois allows a woman to he s lawyer | t not to be a judge, and now the women | lawyers of the Scate are trying to convince | the people that a law of that kind is not | worth practicing. If we win the fight against the funding | bill we will know that we can win other | Washington for the Pacific Coast, | ing the same tactics of working | and sticking te the job. ¥ cther Mayor Pingree of Detroit wishesa law depriving every man of a vote on election day who has not voted at bis party pri- | maries, and perhaps this may be the next | fad to be taken up by election reformers. The British have not only conceded our right to interfere in Venezuela but have | expressed a cordial wish that we would | help them interfere in Armenia. And some of them really seem to be unaware that they are overdoing the thing. ew ek A feature of the Queen’s speech not to be overlooked is the announcement that the condition of agriculture in England is disastrous beyond recemt experience. It is evident from this that free trade and the gold standard may be fun for some people but they are death to farmers. The lightning calculator of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat has figured out that if all the gold offered to the Government in the recent bond issiue were beaten out into gold foil it would gild a roadway fifty-six feet wide all around the worle. Just think of that for a boulevard. It is asserted that Senator Blackburn carries three rabbit’s feet given him by three beautiful young women, who as- sured him the rabbit was killed in a coun- try graveyard, over the grave of a mur- derer, in the dark of the moon, by a cross- eyed, red-headed, left-handed negro. A Chicago genius has invented a reform pipe through which a man can smoke without drawing the smoke into his month, but of course any one willing to accept such a radical reform as that would be just as willing to swear off and reform himself instead of bothering with the pipe. The movement toward the substitution of cremation for burial is reported to be making a steady progress in England, and in addition to the present ‘‘crematoria,” as They call them there, arrangements are now being made for the erection of five others in English cities and one in Edin- burgh. It is about time for boards of trade, chambers of commerce and industrial or- ganizations of all kinds to give the Senate notice that some measure of tariff reform s needed at this session and that'in the judgment of the people nothing can jus- tify a neglect to provide it promptly and effectively. The Democratic Senator who after talk- ing so loudiy about a tariff for revenue only now votes against the emergency bill, designed expressly to raise a revenue, cannot expect to save himself by de- nouncing Cleveland. In the judgmentof the people the free-trader is as bad as the cuckoo and equally injurious. It has been discovered in Chicago that there isn’t a saloon within a mile of the building selected for the Democratic Na- tional Convention, and, of course, as the city has guaranteed hospitality, it isina quandary from which there seems no es- cape, unless they move the building up to the saloon district or attach a distillery to | concerning the terrible fate of some Amer- | its laws. as the only solution of all the difficulties that has been presented. The Gould and | Vanderbilt interests ‘are no more to THE Carv than any other interests that might fit the situation as well. If this statement | of Tue CarL's position is not perfectly | clear it will cheerfully use every endeavor | to make it so. The Argonaut’s evident | admiration of Tak CALL makes it a pleas- ure to state the matter thus fully, in order that its position may not be misunder- | stood, at least by its friend ; A SERIOUS PROBLEM. The San Francisco Bulletin has recently | published a series of instructive articles | ican and English seamen and seal-fishers | caught poaching on Robben Island, a Rus- | sian possession, and sentenced to serve the full penalty of the Russian law, seven- teen years in a Siberian prison. Our con- | temporary asserts that the news of the matter was brought hither by the British schooner Saipan, that the high State au- | thorities of California declined to appeal to | the National Government for an investiga- tion, and that in the absence of that assist- ance a petition for an inquiry has been forwarded to Washington by several sea- captains of this port, and the friends and relatives of Edward Howe, a native Cali- fornian, who is named as one of the vic- tims of Russia’s terrible discipline. Assuming these facts to be true, and | basing that assumption on the Bulletin's reputation for care, we are confronted with a case of uncommon gravity. Ap- | parently Russia has acted strictly within It found men unlawfuily taking seals within its waters, and without con- cerning itself with international questions or the policy pursued by the United States and England in similar cases, it applied its law and imposed upon the offenders the fullest penalty.” This punishment is infinitely severer than that which the United States and England would impose. It is equivalent to death. It is well for cases like this ‘to arise, for they serve to measure degrees of civiliza- | tion and to modify the savagery of nations | which have only begun to lift their heads above the horizon of barbarity. The United States and England cannot afford to permit any country under the sun to inflict upon the people who claim their protection a severer penalty for the infrac- tion of ordinary rights than they them- | selves impose. To do otherwise would be to encourage barbdrism and reduce the potency of a civilized protection. The case will appear clearer upon taking into account the fact that three nations— the United States, England and Russia— have interests in the seal fisheries, and that England and the United States each turn over to the other by agreement, under the gnard of just lawsin common and a mutual system of surveillance, their re- spective subjects or eitizens who have vio- lated the law. Under that system poach- ing is treated fairly asan actof common theft, and the offender is punished in ac- cordance with his deserts. But neither of | these countries imposes a sentence of any- | thing like imprisonment in a Siberian prison for seventeen years, in comparison with which hanging would be merciful. If the combined power of the United States and England is not sufficient to pring Russia, by peaceful means, under the operation of civilized laws in the mat- ter of common theft, where the lives and liverty of Americans and Englishmen are imperiled, it would be better to abandon Bering Sea to the great White Czar and permit him to cut the throat of every fish- erman or navigator who .comes within sight of the Aleutian Islands. The peti- tion which has been forwarded to Wash- ington from California may be humble, but it cries aloud for common justice and the progress of the world. A SEOTIQNAL SPIRIT. An analysis of the vote by which ‘the electors of Berkeley defeated the proposi- tion to issue bonds for a wharf and school- houses develops a curious condition of af- fairs—one that, operating in & wider scope in Cahfornis, has done so much to retard the progress of the State. The people in the vicinity of the proposed wharf voted generously for the wharf bonds and took little interest in the schoolfiouses, as they the water mains that supply the edifice. were needed in a different part oi town, Conversely, the people in the districts | all that are habitable are gzood in their sev- | and earnest spiritof progress. | formed citizen, saya this of Mr. Center’s | | Orestimba creek, leaving a gap of only THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1896. needing the schoolhouses voted for the school bonds and neglected the whart, As a result the total vote was very light and the necessary two-thirds were not se- cured. That is, Berkeley cannot enjoy the increase in business, population ard prop- erty values which the construction of a wharf would have secured, and the authorities are unable to accommodate all the children who want to attend the pub- lic schools. The parents of these must move away in order to fina schools. It seems not to have occurred to the great body of the people that the entire community would have received a benetit from either of the two proposed improve- ments. Identical in character with this attitude is that strong sectional spirit which has existed in different major parts of California. It is true that this is break- ing down and that a broader wisdom and a genuine State pride are steadily growing, due largely to the efforts of the State Im- provement Committee; but now aud then. it has a sporadic outbreak, principally in newspapers, and it takes the old deplor- able form of making disparaging compari- sons between different parts of the State. Until this is wholly abandoned we cannot hope for all’ the good things to which our wealth of natural resources entitles us. The whole truth is this: No two of the larger sections of the State are alike, but eral ways. One has excellences and draw- backs® which are foreign to another. ' No comparison of any two in any one particu- lar is fair, but on the contrary is damag- ing, for the reason that it excludes the | vital broad issues involved. A section that might seem superior to one person might not to another. An industry that might flourish better in one section than another would not concern a person who desires to engage in some other industry. It is this wonderful variety of California that constitutes its greatest charm and value. Itisa “house of many mansions,” | in which every pursuitcan be followed and | every member of civilized humanity find a | congenial home and occuvation. Until we ourselves show by an abolition of the sectional spirit that we appreciate the marvelous breadth and variety of our re- sources it is folly to expect that we shall be able to convince strangers of the fact. Sectional pride is another matter. Itis right that a resident of one partof.the State should proclaim the attractions which have contributed to his bealth, wealth and happiness; but if in doing so he decries other sections he is proclaiming | himseif an enemy of the State and a worker -of harm o his immediate neigh- bors. The Berkeley incident betrays another unfortunate condition—lack of a unified That is the case in other places as well, and it dis- closes a lack of homogeneity. This isan obstacle to be studied and overcome. 00AST EXOHANGES. Santa Clara County is having an ex- traordinary boom in railroad-buildicg. Mention has been made in these columns of the steam road which is to connect San Jose with the Bay of San Francisco and of the electric road betiveen San Jose and Saratoga. The San Jose News now comes out with the information that John Center, a San Francisco capitalist, backer of R. H. Quiney, who owned a controlling interest in the road connecting San Jose and Alum Rock, has been compelled to take the property and is determined to put it on a | first-class footing. The road has barely paid interest, but if properly developed ought to be made a valuable enterprise. Our contemporary, quoting a well-in- | intentions: “I understand he will build it up—put on -new rolling-stock, equip it completely, furnish electricity as a motive power, if necessary, and operate it by the overhead system.” The News adds that as Mr. Center is not a railroad man he will put the property on the market as soon as | he has completely equipped and estab- lished it. This is an important line, as it connects San Jose with its beautiful park | and hot springs in the mountains seven | miles to the eastward, and passes throngh a charming section of the valley. While all these things are going forward the Newman (Stanislaus County) Tribune is urging that the residents of that county extend the Mount Hamilton wagon road over the mountains into. the San Joaquin Valley. This is an o]d project, but it has been almost forgotten for vears. ‘Santa Clara County,” says the Tribune, ‘has already built to the county line, and on our side the road runs several miles upthe about twenty miles to build. Little trouble would be experienced in the matter of right-of-way, for when the matter was talked of a couple of years ago some of the settlers offered to not only give the right, of-way, but would build the road through their own land, so anxious were they to get communication with the towns.” As stated by the Tribune, the two great points of interest in the State are the Yosemite Valley and the Lick Observatory, and as the Santa Clara end of the road now runs by the Lick Observatory, but a short time would elapse before stages would be run- ning from San Jose to the Yosemite Valley via the observatory. The Mount Hamil- ton road, twenty-six miles long, was built | by Santa Clara County at a cost of $83,000. It is admittedly the finest mountain road | in this part of California. Its extension over the range into the 8an Joaquin would make it one of the grandest and most use- ful scenic roads in the country. The petroleum industry of the State is staggering ahead op untried legs. The price at the Los Angeles wells has been | advanced to 50 cents a barrel, and the Los Angeles Journal makes this important an- nouncement: ‘It is believed that the Standard Oil Company will be in the field within a few days as a purchaser of the en- tire surplus at as good figures as 50 cents per barrel in well tanks. That company is expending between $25,000 and $30,000 for tanks and other equipments.” It adds: *Putting fragments of infor- mation into intelligible form, it seems not improbable that oil may advance tq 60 or 70 cents per barrel within a few weeks. The Standard Oil Company bases prices upon units of heat, and 1t is well known that oil of far superior gravity is obtained from the lower sands, but it takes money to drill down and:the business is rapidly getting into the hands of * conservative business men. Dufing the last three months eighty-six ‘wells have fallen .off one-third in produet; there is an ‘abun- dance of oil in the lower strata, but prices must - materially advance before more money will be expended in development.” The Whittier oil industry is advancing satisfactorily.. Of it the Journal says: “The new refinery at Chino .is only twelve or fifteen miles distant; and the Whittier product being of very licht gravity the refinery will make an important market for all the petroleum thatcan be produced. It is revorted that several drilling rigs may be taken from the Los Angeles field for development work in that promising territory. The highest gravity reached is above 30 per cent; the Los Angeles field runs from 12 to 18 per cent in first sand. There is a strong market for lubricating oils, and the proauct of the Southern Cali- fornia fields is sard to be & very superior article.” On the subject of petroleum for fuel the: Stockton Record furnishes the following interesting particulars: “The question of burning petrolenm on the river boats has been referred to the Government authori- ties. Some time ago the United Btates offi- cials compellea the Southern Pacific to stop burning crude oil both on their ferry- boats between San Francisco and Oakland and also on the big Solano plying between Port Costa and Benicia. Noaccidents had occurred and the railroad company be- lieved their apparatus was perfectly safe, but the Government would not issue them 8 license to carry passengers on the boats 80 long as crude oil was burned, the under- stood objection being the storing of the in- flammable fluid on board the boatsand consequently danger of explosions. Engi- neers deny that with the modern appli- ances any danger is attached to the carry- ing or burning of crude oil on passenger boats, and it is believed that the law is now such as will allow the river boatsto use it. If such is the case, and the test at the Union mills prove successful, it is likely the boats will be transformed into oil burners at once.” = The new paper at Santa Clara, the News, published by McKenney & Son, is receiv- ing deserved appreciation. The Pinole Times has resumed publica- tion with promising indications of success. The News is a diminutive but spicy paper started at Benicia by Messrs. Rulofson, | Opperman & Wade. The San Jose Mercury announces the dis- covery, or, rather, steps to develop, a coal ledge at the headwaters of Stevens Creek, in Santa Clara County, by 8. Weilbeimer of Mountain View. Our contemporary says: “The prospects are good, and Mr. Weilheimer is of the opinion thata good vein will soon be developed, and conse- quently has men employed doing the necessary work preparatory to substantial prospecting and development, The vein is located where access is easy, where water in plentiful and natural facilities good. The indications are that a bounti- ful supply of coal will be found, which will prove a valuable accession to the re- sources of Santa Clara County.” It is .proper to add that the Santa Cruz Moun- tains abound in lignite and” that the geo- graphical character of the range does not encourage the hope that true coal will be encountered. However, as Californiaisa State of surprises and wonders, and as Mr, Wellheimer is an intelligent and success- ful man, the presumption is that he knows what he 18 about. If the ledge should prove to be all that is expected it will cer- tainly be of incalculable value to the Santa Clara Valley. J. T. Brittan and J. L. Kennon have started a new paper at Willows, Colusa County, naming it the Transcript. It is brainy and energetic, and doubtless will be a valuable factor in the development of that surpassingly fertile agricultural section, The Redding Free Press makes this an- nouncement: ‘‘A newspaper will soon be established at Keswick. Dr. Kenneth Milliken, late of London, wili be editor and W. G. Harvey-Wray, formerly of Australia, will be his assistant. Both gentlemen possess considerable literary ability.” The Solano Republican enters its forty- first yolume with all the hove and spirit that characterized its youthful efforts. The San Bernardino Saturday Review says that the Columbia Colonization Com- pany of Chicago has come into charge of the old scheme for impounding the waters of the Mojave River at & point where they pour throngh the narrows near the town of Victor, and that this means the bringing under cultivation of a large tract of the Mojave plateau. The new company suc- ceeds also to the interests of the Hesperia Land and Water Company. Construction of the retaining dam will be commenced at once. The land is to be sold at $25 an dcre, including water. Our contemporary adds: ‘It is the intention of the company to foster stock-raising, believing that this will prove one of the most profitable in- vestments with perlectly sure and steady returns owing to the enormous quantity of water at their command. The reservoir will hold when full 186,000,000,000 gallons of water, or twenty-six times the present capacity of the famous Bear Valley reser- voir.” Shorb has an interesting new journal- istic venture called the Ramona Echoes, conducted as follows: Editor, Eileen Mirtchell; manager, Frankie Kellner; as- sistant manager, Laura Doah; reporters, Rachael Fisher, . Eda . Newlands, Ethel Fitch; publisher, Stella Boas. The Stockton Mail, in entering npon its thirty-third volume, gives this explana- tion of its remarkable success: “In all that it has undertaken it has been guided by consideration for the welfare of the people, and the indorsement and support that it has received in return has amply repeid it for its toils and sacrifices.’” R. C. Gillis has bought the interest of E. B. Woodworth in the Santa Monica Outlook, and promises to continue the good work which the paper has been doing in the past. In speaking of the newly constituted Gold Mining Exchange in this City the San Jose Herald says: ‘“There is no doubt that California is entering upon a new era of mining development. This has been stimulated here and elsewhere by changes in the monetary systems of the leading commercial nations. - Decreased produc- tion of silver has turned thousands of silver miners to gold prospecting and development. Improvements in the min- ing and milling of gold-bearing ores offer the promise of- profit in the case of many properties long known but herefofore con-- sidered not worth working. Further dis- coyeries are inevitable with awakened in- terest in gold-prospecting. The auriferous wealth of California has only been scratched in the opinion of many scien- tists and practical miners.” 3 The people of Kings County have dis- covered that because the county is new it is unknown under its présent name and is therefore suffering under a certain disad- vantage. Yet it is a singularly fertile and attractive county, and within the last few years large numbers of thrifty English families have settled therein and produced a pratifying development. The Hanford Democrat has this to say: “Hanford wants a beet sugar factory, she wants the Valley railroad, and settlers to occupy lands south of this city, Nome of these things can be_had by sitting down with folded hands, What is wanted is an active asso- ciation of business men to push such en- terprises and objects. While our city has a good name abroad, it is a singular fact that when Kings County is mentioued the listener will atmost invariably ask where the county is located. Our people want to do some advertising, and when Kings County becomes -as familiar 8 word as Hanford there will be a rush of people here to locate.” ° X The California Independent, styling itselt ‘'an interdenominational Christian news- paper,” has been started at Los Angeles. It is an attractive and able 12-page weekly. The Rev. P. H. Bodkin is editor. The Pheenix (Ariz.) Herald makes this imporant announcement: “It is not gen- erally known, even here in this county, that a huge electric plant is soon to gointo operation at the falls on the Consolidated canal. The most approved and modern machinery procurable has been installed in the most substantial manner, and the entire plant is now complete and in work- ing order, ready to turn out 500 Horse elec- trical power that can be transmitted any- where throughout the valley by wire. Such is the fact, however, and it means a whole Iot to the development of the valley. It makes it possible, and indeed quite | probable, that our street railroads and our valley local road may be operated by elec- tricity.” ‘The following evidence of the value of establishing local branches of building and loan associations is furnished by the Fullerton Tribune: ‘‘Wa have received in- | formation from a reliable source that with- in the next few weeks there will be erected in Fullerton at least eight neat residences and probably more. This fact is due largely to the establishment of a branch of the Pacific Loan and Building Association in this place. A number of our citizens have become identified with the a: ciation, which is the largest of its kind in the State.”” The Healdsburg Enterpriss says that the Magnolia cannery haschanged hands, and of the new proprietors remarks: *‘Fon- tana & Co., who will operate the cannery in the future, are the most extensive hand- lers of canned goods in California. Their Tesources are practically unlimited, and so Wwemay expect to find the new firm nperat- ing extensively if conditions be favorable. The cannery will be refitted throughout and put in excelient shape. “With two fruit-packing houses in opera- tion this season, Healdsburg will take on its old-time activity and business will hum.” PERSONAL. Dr. A. E. Osborne and wife of Eldridge are at the Grand. W. W. Middlecoff, & lawyer of Visalia, is at the Grand. Dr. C. L. Ruggles of Stockton isstopping at the Grand. D. Laughlin, s wealthy rancher of Maine Prairie, is'at the Russ. W. H. Richmond and wife of Auburn, Cal. are staying at the Cosmopolitan. Charles E. Coon, a wealthy real estate broker of Seattle, is registered at the Cosmopolitan, William Stoos and A. Drendel, two well- known stock-raisers of Naperville, Ill, are stopping at the Cosmopolitan. Marcus Mackenzie, the well-known mining man of Rufus, Or., 1s & guest at the Cosmopoli- tan, accompanied by his wife. Mesars. Foreman and Fannon, "comedians, late of the Empire Theater, London, and the Tivoli of Sydncy, arrived in the City yesterday. Adam Lee of Oldham, England, is at the Oc- cidental. Ina recent race for Parliament Mr. Lee received the highest vote of any of the Lib- eral candidates. W. N. Hires, he of the root beer, is at the Oc- cidental. He has been doing the English colo- nies in the Pacific and is returning to his home in Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Scott of New York, with their three sons, arrived from Australia yes- terday and ate stopping at the Occidertal. They are on their way home, after an absence of four years. Mr. Scott is vice-president of the | Equitable Insurance Company of New York. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 16.—G. E. Pan- coast, 8an Francisco, Riggs House; L. P. Snell, Los Angeles, Shoreham. A HORSE WITH A MUSTACHE. There is & horse with & mustache in town, says the New York Journal. This oddity's name is “Duke’’ and he is the star boarder at the livery stable of L. F. Lockridge,an under- taker of 310 East Twenty-sixth street. “Duke’s” mustaehe is & bona-fide affair of the most approved humen type. It is longand curly, like Mayor Patrick Gleason’s of Long Island City, and anybody would be proud of it “Duke” is heavy, thick-set, black, 15 hands high, and his ancestors came from Normandy. Nobody seems to know where “Duke” came “Duke” and His Mustache. from, except that he was bought in & horse market in West Twenty-fifth street and that his pedigree 1s problematical. According to experts who have carefully e: ined his teeth heis 8 years old and remarkably well devel- oped for his lficA “‘Duke’s” chief business is to take part in funerals. Occasionally he attends a wedding. At funerals ithe mustache has been known to oceasion much embarrassment to the'mourn- ers. Recently a widow was shocked at the hi- larity ot a group which she thought was di- rected at herself, instead of at the animal which was helping to draw hey carriage. That evening Duke had his upper lip shaved, but the mustache would not down. It burst forth the next morning and began to mature quicker and more profusely than any human mus- tache. It grew until Jim McMahon, stable- man and driver for Undertaker Lockridge, re- ceived orders to use the shears, To his other accomplishments McMahon now adds that of equine barber. Every morning he combs and cuts “Duke’s” glossy ‘black mane, but his real genius he reserves for “Duke’s” mustache, which he trims regularly and often, giving each end & jaunty upward turn for weddingsand a melancholy downward droop for funerals. As a matier of fact, *‘Duke” is made to wear his mustache in vari- ous styles. The other day when he np{aenred with it waxed at the ends, a la Colonel War- ing, he created quite a furor on the East Side, street-cleaners standing to attention and giv- ing the military satute. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. . Criticus—I don't believe thert’s much difter- ente between genius and insanity. A Struggling Author—Oh, yes, there is; the lunatic is at least sure of his board and clothes.—London Tit-Bits. “Why does the baggageman handle -these new trunks so carefully?” 5 “He doekn’t want them to have an old, trav- eled look, because the people who own ihem are just married and new trunks are e dea giveaway.”—Detroit Free Press. x “He stood at the top of the steps,” she said in telling about it afterward, “and I mustered up enough courage to say: ‘‘You know this is leap year.” “Yes. What then?” “Then he leaped and 1 since.”’—Chicago Post. _haven't seen him “It seems to me that you are writiug a good many mother-in-law jokes," remarked the crit- icsl friend. % “Yes,” replied Merriman; “if the market for them holds out I’ll be able to pay back some of the money my wife's mother was kind enough tolend us when we went to housekeeping.’— ‘Washington Star, ¥ -Euro; AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Lord Talbot Clifton, the wealthy patron of White Hat McCarty, believes in caricature. He considers it the highest form of portraiture and occasionally takes a hand in it himself. ° One afternoon while talking with some gen- tlemen at the Palace Hotel his eyes fell upon three of his countrymen who had just arrived from the other side. * “By jove,” he exclaimed, “give me a pencil and paper somebody, while I caricature those feliows."” : The material called for wes supplied him and he straightway went to work defining and exaggerating the features of the new ar- | 1ar was of bine Ghiv;nhfilk,nt:dged with a nar- i -pleating of the sane. "’X’ kpli:lianpm rzlg-green eashmere, w“hh:-l;f | collar of plaid silk and anotner of white y |is v ective. = | 5 \ach dresses of gingham are !huwn.‘r;\e\ylh | collars of the same, trimmed with embroidery. Blue cambric, with collar of white pique o a pretty combination, and white plq‘ledl, w" | Gollat of blue or pink cambric, is always dainty. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. | Bismarek is largely interested in the manu- | tacture of paper. | President Felix Faure always breaks up his | dinner perties promptly at 10 o'clock, in order LORD TALBOT CLIFTON WAITING FOR A CAB. [From a caricature made before his lordship suffered the loss of his beard.] rivals. When the sketches were finished they ‘Were most remarkable pieces of drawing in- asmuch as every feature was retained notwith- standing the fact that the faces were twisted 1n all sorts of shapes. They were passed around and finally fell into the possession of some one who thought they were good enough to keep. Sinee that time he has refused to enter into the sport again and is quite contented to joke over the caricatures drawn of himself. When .they are good he 1aughs heartily over tnem, but a touch of bad drawing is to him like a red rag-to a mad bull. VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Wheat Is Likely to Rise. Lompoc Journal. If you would make a correct diagnesis of the an war fever all you have to do is to the American wheat market. wate Aspiring Politicians. Ontario Record. Pomona had 100 candidates for the position ofletter-carrier & few days ago, and now it is rumored that half of the ninety-seven dis- appointed aspirants for honor along this line aspire for a seat in the Assembly. The Monroe Doctrine. Los Angeles Express. Professor Adler defimes matrimony &s & “treaty of perpetual peace between husband and wife”’ When the mother-in-law comes and violates the Monroe doctrine then Pro- fessor Adler’s idea goes by the board. Let No Guilty Man Escape. Stockton Indepesdent. Even those who do not approve the resoln- tions of the last Legislature on the refunding bill are indignant at the way the document was ‘‘burked.” When a clerk usurps the veto power by suppressing the record he should be severely punished. Governor Budd should in- stitute an investigation of the suppression of those resolutions and endeavor to have the guilty person punished. LITTLE GIRL'S DRESS. A simple little gown with a baby waist but- toned in the back is shown here. The sim. | plicity of the design in combination with its picturesqueness recommends it. The collar may be made detachable, which is & feature always appreeiated, as two collars may be used, making variety, and if one is washable the usefulness of the gown is doubled. A brown and white wool dress had one collar of brown satin, witit & band of heavy creamy lace laid an inch from the edge. The other collar was of sheer white lawn, trimmed with Valenciennes lace. A brown and light blue mixture in wool had & collar ‘of three rows o} lain brown cioth trimmed with narrow gilt braid. A second col- 1o retire early, and for the same reason de- elines ail invitations to dine out. Professor Virchow has been noinated Com- mander of the Legion of Honor by the French Government. Among the 1000 persons making up the pop- ulation of Alfred, Me., are twenty-four be- | tween the ages of 80 and 90 vears. i caxliuay | George W. Vanderbilt is establishing on his { estate at Biltmore, tn North Carolina, & scien- tific collection of dried plants in connection with an arboretum and scientifically managed forest. Dr. William Awdry, Bishop-Suffragan of | soutbampton, Englend, has accepted an ap- pointment as Anglican Bishop of Japan, the Society for the Propogation of the Gospel in | Foreign Parts having offered to provide the support. The Rev. Sir John Warren Hayes, Bart., who recently died at the age of ninety-seven at Newlands, England, was the oldest clergyman of the Church of England. He was the senior Freemason of England for several years. TLe baronetey becomes extinet by his death. STrONG hoarhound candy, 15¢. 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