The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 24, 1896, Page 6

THE .SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Peafly and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 iy CALL, six months, by mafl.. 8.00 hree months by mafl 1.50 65 o Paily end Sunc day C. 1.50 Eonday CaLL, one vear, WEEKLY CALL, OB® Y 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californis. Felephone . .Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until :80 o'clock. 859 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:50 o'clock. £W . corner Stxteenth and Mission streets; open antfl @ o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 8 o'clock. 116 Minth street; open until 8 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTEfiN OFFICE : Roems S1 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Oity. We expect the Kentucky Senate to do the repeal act this week. Democrats had better give Dan St t a contract to pull off their faction fights. What the monopoly calls its “literary ans out to be more like a waste- et. ings may brighten as they take their flight, but business brightens as it comes our way. About the only effect of the Pattison boom so far has been to flatten outthat of Colonel Bill Morrison. paper bas It is true the tariff bill is before the Senate, but for all that the Senate might overtake it by frying hard. =Now that Mrs. Lease has broken the ice as a preacher we may expect to hear soon that she has made the water boil. The speeches in the Senate on the Cuban question were ringing, but unfortunately they didn’t ring the independence bell. The Democrats may at least console themselves by the thought that they have no Presidential boom that is crowding the season. It takes Kentucky a long time to elect | a Republican Senator, but then perhaps | e finds the operation too glorious to be ! ied. ! Now that Dan Stuart has succeeded with fistic carnival, he should go into poli- s and see if he can pull off & non-parti- san movement. South Africa may be the biggest gold- mining country in the world now, but when California gets her second wind she will take the lead again. hi The latest theorist on the money ques- tion is a Missourian, who announces him- se! favor of gold, silver, nickel, copper, | paper and “a leetle more counterfeit.”’ Since the pardoning board has been es- tablished im Ohio tue yearly number of pardons has been reduced two-thirds, and it is about time to call it a noa-pardoning board. 1f the Cubans cannot do enough for us to recognize their independence it might be a good plan for us to give them inde- pendence and see if they would recog- nize it. The final accounts of the Atlanta Expo- sition show a deficit of $29,806, but the ad- vertising and booming it received for that amount was well worth ten times the money Dallas proposes to celebrate next year the semi-centennial of the treaty of Guada- lupe-Hidalgo, and perhaps California will be ready to join in the frolic and carry off the prizes. From the way Cleveland’s friend Bene- dict works his mouth we can understand why the President never gave him an office. He would have been sure to put his foot in it. Republicans of the Southern States are in hopes of getting the Vice-Presidency vear, and Governor Bradley of Ken- y and H. Clay Evans of Tennessee have been put into training. It is not surprising to learn that the Re- publican and Populist fusion in North Carolina is showing signs of dissolution. This is not a good year either for non- partisans or combination partisans. Before spring is over we may expect some man to nse up and claim to have in- vented an X ray by which ke can photo- graph a convention hall 1n May and show who is going tc be nominated in it mext summer. Within two months of the present year Germany has given us the Roentgen pho- tograph, the Zeppelin airship and the Brand rifle operated by explosive gas, so that 1f we are to hold our supremacyin mechanical invention it is time for our wizards to get to work and do something. A committee of the New York Legisla- ture, appointed to investigate road im- provement, has reported that at present it costs 26 cents a mile to haul produce to market in that State, while with good roads the cost would be only 7 cents and the total saving would be $16,000,000. Thirty students of the University of Missouri who ripped up a plank sidewalk { fully to submit to these charges is a matter and carted the boards off have been sus- pended, but if they will come out to this City and tear up a' cobblestone pavement and carry the cobblestones away we will give them a diploma with the highest honors. There are so many candidates for the Presidency in the Republican party that little or no thought has been given to aspi- rants for the second place on the ticket. New Jersey, however, has a favorite son in the person of Mr. Hobart, whom she is booming for the Vice-Presidency, and is seeking, it is said, to make a combination with Allison. The Chicago Record deserves a gold- plated patent for the suggestion of a cathode-ray attachment to the opera-glass 80 thatit will ba possible to see through the theater hat. The patgat won't go, however, unless the ray is so graduated that it will pot also penetrate the padding of the play and give the public nothing but a bone show. RESULTS OF FORECLOSURE. A naive telegram from Washington ap- peared in Sunday’s Chronicle conterning the funding proposition. It speaks of a “new influence” that has arisen in bpposi- tion to funding, and adds: 2 ‘A stronger pressure is now being brought to bear than. ever before to have | the Government foreclose on the Pacific railroads. It isnot part of the scheme, however, that the Government shall con- trol and operate the roads. Itis nothing more or less than a plan to have the Gov- ernment foreclose, put up the roads at auction and then buy them in at the mini- | mum figure, which Congress will in all probability set. The Vanderbilts are the ones most generally mentioned as behind this movement, but it is possible that | &till another interest has its eye on having | a transcontinental line. A significant | statement was made by ex-Congressman | Coombs of Brooklyn, representing a pow- erful syndicate, when before the House Committee on Pacific Roads. He was a stanch advocate of the plan to foreclose on the Pacific roads, but was strongly opposed to the idea of Government control. He made a careful canvass of the situation, he said, and had been assured that in the event the Government did foreclose on the Pacific roads and put them up at auction | the sum of $120,000,000 would be offered for the Union Pacific or Central Pacific alone. He said that he could give no estimate ex- | cept on the system as a ‘whole.”’ Our contemporary editorially sheds light on the subject. After intimating that a | gigantic conspiracy has been formed to de- | feat refunding, place a low valuation on | the debtor roads and turn over the prop- erty to the Goulds and Vanderbilts, thus | robbing the Government of & large amount of money when it might recover the entire debt under the ‘refunding scheme, it charges that ‘‘the opponents of refunding are playing a very raw game.”” It asserts: ““They declare through their chosen mouth- pieces that the scheme to despoil the Gov- ernment 1s solely in the interest of Van- derbilt and Gould. We do not beleve this, but if they are right the situation isnot bettered. Gould and Vanderbilt are no | tore entitled to rob the people of the | United States than other persons with pre- | datory inclinations, and to argue that they | should be permitted to do so, as. the anti- | refunders are doing, indicates a serious in- capacity to distinguish between right and wrong, or a slavish desire to please men as | well able and willing to pay for attentions | and services asthe Vanderbilts and Goulds | nétoriously are.” | ‘Whether or not that intelligent, patriotic and overwhelming sentiment in California which opposes refunding is willing cheer- that must rest between our contemporary and its readers. THE CALL is positive that no conspiracy exists between the anti- funding sentiment of California” and the Goulds and Vanderbilts to rob the United | States. On the contrary, the adventof a prospective purchaser for the aided roads at a price which will cover the Govern- ment’s rights, with the further prospect of the Government’s ability to recover from | the private estates of the owners any deficit | that may be represented by a “minimum | price,” offers the only reasonable hope for | a recovery of the entire debt. It is diffi- | cult to imagine an intelligent Californian | who believes that refunding would secure | that end. Sale at foreclosure to antagonis- tic interests would effectually cure the | present evil of impairing the value of the | Government’s security by a diversion of | traffic from the aided lines, and would give | California what it needs above all things else, direct overland railway competition. Remove from the Central Pacific the bur- den of diversion and impairment under which it now suffers and it would be a far more productive property than itis. As| part of a line reaching to the Atlantic it | would be more valuable still. Best of all, its independent ownership and competitive | operation would be the making of San Francisco, waile refunding, for which our contemporary argues, would perpetuate the present monopoly and the evils which prohibit the progress of the State. AN UNWISE PRACTIOE. It is proposed to bring before the next session of the local Labor Convention a rosolution calling upon all labor organiza- tions to unite in efforts to secure better | treatment of street-railway employes in | this City than they are receiving. Mr. Burns, the advocate of the proposition,’| gives the information that gripmen, motor- men and condnctors are compelied to | serve fourteen hours a day, less a few | minutes devoted to a hasty luncheon. ] That these men, especially gripmen and motormen, are under a severe nervous strain in addition to their physical labors is evident when it is reflected that during a great part of every day they must exer- cise the utmost watchfulness in’ gunarding human lives. Their position is, therefore, far more wearing than that of a person whose labor is not burdened with so heavy & responsibility and soceaseless a strain. It seems reasonable, therefore, to assume not only that the long hours are an exces- sive hardship on the men, but that their attention under the strain might lag and thus make accidents probable. As Mr. Burns says, *‘there would be fewer people killed and injured if the men in charge of the street cable and electric cars were not overworked.” Thisisa matter in which the public has a very close interest, apart from any humane considerations. affecting | the operatives themselves. It can bardly | be doubted that the profits of most of the streetcar companies would make shorter hours possible, Mr. Burps points out another matter that would seem to call for State regula- tion. He says there are 3000 streetcar operatives in San Francisco, and that each is required to deposit $25 with the com- | pany to cover possible damages and ais- honesty. This makes a fund of $75,000 on which the companies can draw interest. If this interest should be turned over to the men it would be oaly a trifle to each, but to the companies it means an income of about $4000 a year. That sum, less de- ductions by the companies for legitimate purposes, would be very useful to the men in an organized capacity, particularly asa pension fund or as a fund to insure against accident or death. This is a legitumate subject for legislative control. A NEW DISTURBANOE. That part of the Queen’s address to Par- liament which urged the adoption or methods for improving the condition of English farmers has bad an unexpected result. The first scheme proposed in Par- liament was the construction of light rail- roads to penetrate fhe agricultural dis- tricts. Then came the Minister of Agri- culture with a bill' absolutely and permanently protibiting the importation of live animals from any part of the world, the colonies inciuded. From all this has grown an expansion of the sub- ject to inciude the idea of a protective tariff, and hence an abandonment of the ancient free-trade idea to & considerable extent. 1t will be observed that not until im- provements were made in foreign agri- cultural methods and reductions were I made in transport charges on imported products did the farmers of England be- gin to experience a pinch and demand governmental consideration of their inter- ests. By an accident which was lucky for the free-trade sentiment of Great Britain her colonies were remote, and their compe- tition with home producers was not a seri- ous matter, Then England, giving more heed to the development and extension of her commerce and to the encouragement of her merchant marine than to the pros- perity of her farmers, aiming always to extend her influence and empire, steadily drove her home producers to the wall. This had a certain good effect on agricul- ture, for under such a pressure it was de- veloped more and more. At last, however, the limit seems to have been reached, and a grave political issue has been precipi- tated. & The idea of light tramways penetrating agricultural districts and of a movement to secure a reduction of internal charges for the transportation of farm products is most praiseworthy, .but it is merely evi- dence of the fact that free trade hasthreat- ened the ruin of agriculture in England, and that the proposed facilities for mar- keting farm products are simply an expe- dient to evade temporarily an inevitable falling back upon a protective tariff. We may expect that the manufacturing inter- ests of that country will give no present support to the protection movement, and | that the farmers will be left to make their fight alone. But England must sooner or later resort to a protective tariff, modified by judicious reciprogity. The idea cannot ripen all at once. Antagonisms with the colonies will have to be carefully guarded agairst, and any policy to secure-that har- mony will run the risk of antagonizing other countries. These embarrassments, it may be said in passing, do not exist in the case of the United States. GIVE THEM A COHANOE. It is generally understood that a consid- erable number of people bave come from Florida to California to assume their pre- vious occupation of orange-growing, hav- ing discovered that the uncertainties of the climate of Florida niake the under taking too hazardous and that it is at- tended with no profit. . To such newcomers a hearty welcome should be extended, even by those who are engaged in identically the sameline of busi- ness. They should be shown everything there is to be seen in California, for there can be no profound secret in orange cul- ture, and, more than this, every facility should be afforded them for the purchase of land and the planting out of orchards, | for, with Florida practically out of the | race, there need not be the slightest fear of overproduction in California oranges, provided the quality be maintained. For this reason we advise the extremest liberality to Florida orange-growers who purpose making their homes in Califor- | nia.. The great need of this State, from one end to the other, is people who'will till the soil inteliigently and economically, who will make homes for themselves, their children and their children’s chil- dren, and who will identify themselves with the State of their adoption. Every such newcomer 1s a missionary in behalf of California, snd his example and influ- ence will be invaluable because spontane- ous and unsolicited. Califorria, from north to south, wherever the sun shines and the water runs, wher- ever the orange tree will bourgeon and blossom, there should be extended the heartiest welcome to those who have dis- covered that there is a more favorable locality for orange-growing than the State of Florida, and who are prepared to assist us in developing the enormous natural resources of California. C00AS? EXCHANGES. Good results of the recent visits to all parts of the State made by members of the Bureau of Highways are becoming mani- fest in the more progressive communities. Ii the people co-operate with their Boards of Supervisors as they did in the following instance, narrated by the Los Angeles Times, the problem of good roads would be quickly solved : 3 ‘At last one community has found out | how to improve 1its roads. The people living north of this city, from the city lim- its to Tropico and Glendale, have devised a way to get good Toads out of their taxes. The plan is this: The taxpayers got to- gether and agreed to give so many days’ work with a team, or to pay so much money into a general fund. With this in hand they proposed to the Supervisors that thev would haul to the road any amount of good gravel the board would | shovel into their wagons, and spread after it had been put into the proper pilace. An excellent bed of disintegrated granite was uncovered at Tropico and the work was begun, The Board of Supervisors provide men to load the wagons and to level the gravelon theroad. A big line of teams is at work, and most of three miles from the city limits to the store at Tropico has been covered with a good coat of this, The re- sult is an ideal road.” The Riverside Enterprise notes a kindred spirit of progress on the part ot the Board of Supervisors of San Bernardino County. The board passed an order providing that signboards and posts be placed along all the roads on the desert section of that county, so that the travelers on these sandy as well as dangerous wastes might be safely guided to their destination. Fol- lowing this very sensible action, the board at its last meeting made arrangement for the locating of water-tanks on the des ert where the scant supply of spring water might be saved for the use of travelers. | Our contemporary says this of the good results that will follow: . “A well-known prospector of this city, in speaking of the work of the San Ber- nardino board, said that it would advance the development of the mines of that county many years.” The development of oil in various parts of the State is proceeding steadily under the stimulus of the profits which are ac- cruing to weéll-owners in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties. As a result of the operations in Fresno County the Vi- salia Delta notes the fact that a new town called Oil City has been started in the oil regions near Coalinga by Captain Barrett of Selma, and adds: “‘One well is being put down now and machinery ordered for three more. The first well is being driven for artesian water and will be sunk 2000 feet, if necessary; the other wells are for petroleum. The captain is from Pennsyl- vania and is familiar with_the oil busi- ness. Lately he made a trip East, visiting the oil regions of Pennsylvania and the principal cities of the East, and claims to have enlisted capital to carry on a very large business in the new town.” The Los Angeles Journal announces that Dr. P. G. Cotter, physician to the Territo- Prison at Yuma and chairman of the citizens’ committee which made arrange- ments for a right of way for the new Colo~ rado River canal through that town, has been visiting Los Angeles. He predicted that the irrigation facilities thus secured will increase the population of Yuma to 10,000 in five years and bring 80,000 acres of fertile semi-tropical fruit under cultiva- In every part of | tion. He gives these particulars of. the undertaking: “The canal will begin opposite Steven- son’s Island, in the Colorado River, ‘twenty-six miles above Yuma, taking the water required from that stream. It will TUn east along the mesa that skirts the Gila bottom to a point where the mesas on opposite sides of the Gila approach each other. There the water will be conyeyed under the river by means of immense in- verted syphons to the mesa on the south- ern side of the bottom lands. Thence a canal will follow the mesa west toward the Colorado River, passing through the town of Yuma, which is on the Colorado at the junction of the Gila. Beyond Yuma a tunnel 3000 feet in length will be cut through the mesa point, and at its mouth afall of eighteen feet will be obtained. From this enough power will be generated to supply the town of Yuma with electric lights and run electric street-car lines. To this point the length of the canal will be fifty-three miles. Water may then be.con- veyed along the Colorado to the line, and even into Mexico, for irrigating purposes in the rich bottom-lands. The total cost will be about $700,000, which is furnished by Pheenix and New York capitalists. The first few mules of the canal will follow an old slough or prehistoric canal that runs from the Colorado along the mesa. Engi- neers say it must have been a canal built many years ago. This is indicated by the regularity of the banks and the lines of cottonwood growing thereon.” An evidence of the progress of Los An- geles is furnished by the Los Angeles Jour- nal, which in its issue of the 20th inst. gives a full account of the extension made by the Los Angeles Iron and Steel Com- pany for the manufacture of galvanized iron. Last week *‘the first sheet of galvan- ized iron made entirely—that is, rolled as well as galvanized—west of St. Louis was turned out.” Inorder to make this im- provement the company sold $10,000 worth | of stock. The plant is the fifth of its kind } in existence, being a new invention of | English origin.. Its valuable feature is its use of petroleum instead of coke for fuel. Now that Santa Rosa has successtully carried out its plan of establishing public water works by the issuance of bonds it is | encouraging to read the following in the | Alameda Encinal: *“The proposition to | bond Suisun for $42,000 to acquire lands, water rights of way necessary for the con- | struction and completion of public water 1 | works was submitted to the voters of that | town yesterday and was carried by a vote | 0f145 to 6. The present water supply, | | controlied by the Suisun and Fairfield | Water Company, is inadequate &nd the | ! peovle demanded a water supply to be owned and controlled by the town. Bonds | | will be . issued for’ the *sum mentioned, | | bearing interest at 5 per cent. -Suisun has | | paid the present company $151,792 in | thirty years.” | AROUND THE CQORRIDORS. Among promoters of mines, of which there 8 & host in San Francisco, few are better known in the mountain States and Territories than N. C. Cleary of Colorado, who because he was once a practicing lawyer is known as Judge Cleary. He and Hugh McDoaald of Montana not long since sold the Iron Mountain mine, near Red- ding, to New York and London people. Mr. Cleary is now at the Palace. He is traveling about nearly all the time. If he is not somewhere in the West examin- ing & mine he is usually in 8t. Louis, Chicago, New York or London unloading it. In the early days of Leadville Judge Cleary Was a conspicuous figure there. He there got that taste for mining whieh has clung to him ot a bank in Seattle, and who for over 8 yes has been interested in lumber and streetcar | enterprises in Guatemala, arrived here yester- | day. He is at the Grand. i A. Schwarzmany, one of the founders and present owners of the pictorial weekly, Puck, returned here yesterday from Santa Cruz, Mon- terey, Mount Hamilton and other points. He is accomparied by his wife and son, Miss Jan- necky and Edward A. Cale. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE: THE BOUNDING BILLOW. A FORMER. OWNER PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE OLD | CRAFT'S GOOD QUALITIES. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—8r®: | Your very interesting account of the end of N. C. Cleary, the Attorney of the Carbonate Days, Now Promoter of Mines. |Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] ever since and caused him to forsake the law for good. ] He is a tallman, in middle life, or a few vears beyond. In the flush days of the big carbonate camp, as Leaaville was called, there were | many hotiy contested mining suits. Loss of | life was almost always incidental to the final | | The Contra Costa News, noting the fact | that Antioch has organized a Boardof | Trade, is urging its citizens to follow that | example. There certainly can be no ade- | quate progress without intelligent co- | operation, and the communities which neglect that duty cannot hope to keep | pace with more energetic towns. | The San Jose Mercury says that Milpitas | is soon to have a vegetable cannery. The | town is situated in a region admirably suited to the growing of vegetables, the | | gardens which are already in existence giving abundant returns, It is a deplor- | able fact that most of the large quantities | of canned vegetables consumed in Cali- fornia are shipped hither from the Eastern States, when local canners, with so favor- | |able a climate to assist them, could | | produce a much better article at a lower | price and with generous vrofits. Milpitas isin the heart of the most densely popu- | lated section of California; it has perfect | conditions of soil and climate, and but | | trifling transportation charges to the con- | suming centers, A vegetable cannery | there ought to prove highly successful. Such an institution will raise local values, extend local industries, increase the popu- lation and add to the general prosperity. The Crockett Record indicates an invit- | ing opportunity for the profitable invest- | ment of outside capital in the erection of ;hous&s there. The town has not a suffi- | | cient number for its needs. Land is held | at reasonable prices and rents are high. There is rail and water communication with San Francisco. -This is only one of scores of ways in which money can be vrofitably invested in California. Recently TrE CaLL, quoting the Citro- graph, announced that Redlands is soon to have electric lights. The fact is that Redlands has had electric lights for two Kx;m:l a halt years and that it is now pre- paring to supply Riverside. The Enterprise, published at Baden, calls attention to two important industries which are in operation and projected there and which bear an important relation to the City. These are the pottery, pipe and terra-cotta works of Steiger Sons and the ‘Wallace brick works. Our contemporary adds: “These recently acquired indus- tries not only represent a large amount of capital invested and a large number of operatives employed here, but their pres- | ence is an additional inducement to other investors and factories to locate at this voint. Bricks, teara-cotta and sewer pipe are staple articles in the line of building material,” The Bee has been making careful esti- mates of the population of Sacramento and announces that it is bétween 30,000 and 35,000 and steadily increasing. The Santa Rosa Republican, in its issue of the 15th, published a bandsomely illus- trated page devoted to the admirably ap- pointed high school of that progressive city. e The Contra Costa Newa is receiving gen- erous congratulations for its recently in- stalled illustrating facilities. The Fresno Republican announces that W. J. Deater, editor of the Madera Tribune, hassecured control of ex-Senator Goucher’s paper, the Watchman, recently started at Fresno. Gavin D. High, anaccomplished journal- ist well known in San Francisco, has bought the Oakland Times, reduced its size and improved its qualify, and is de- termined to make & good and deserving paper of it v The Modesto Herald has s fashionable and highly becoming new dress. The Fruit Review is a new and attractive Ppaper at South Pasadena. % £ The Los Banos Enlerprisé makes this original announcement: “With this edition the Los Banos Enterprise completes its fifth year of its existence on earth,” Our sprightly contemporary maintains a discreet - silence with reference to tne place of its former publication. Political Equality Club, . The Political Equality Club will hold a meet- ing in St. George's Hall on Mason street to- morrow night, on which occasion the Rev. Mr. Cruzan will deliver an addtess, which will be ‘o:gm to discussion by thos oral Bociety of the club, led by Mrs. Ander- son, will render vocal selections. | Ashville branch of the Chicago and North- | itisin the last stages of deeay. The present. settlement of title. i It was by the trial of such cases and the backing of prospectors, which is a common custom of nearly all residents of such mining | regions, that Mr. Cleary came to throw away | his law books altogether. He has recenuy | spent some time in Montana, where he has | been examining a big property. John T. Fish of Milwaukee, attorney of the westeru Railroad, is at the Occidental accom- panied by his wife and son. | Mr. Fish is one of the best-known men in hat part of the country. He says Wisconsin is soon to be redistricted, as the Democrats | when in power didalot of gerrymandering, and Governor William H. Upham, recently ed, has to set things right again. Governor Peck has now gone off lectur- ing,” said Mr. Fish, “and’ Mr. Hoard, who was Governor before him, is giving all his atten- tion to the dairy business and running his weekly paper, which is eonfined to that sub- ject. Mr. Peck has sold out his Sun, and is no longer in the newspaper business,” Mr. Fish will be in California several weeks. He cdame by way of Cheyenne and Ogden and will return by Tacowa, where he has some legal business to transact. NOVEL CHICKEN-HOUSE. Down on the water front, close to the Arctic 0il Works, is one of the most peculiar chicken- houses to be found anywhere. It is the hull of a sloop, pulled up high and dry, and it an- swers the purpose admirably, The vessel has evidently been a Wreck for a long time, as ° owner, D. E. Brotze, saw it on the beach and ‘“jumped” it. The craft is about twenty-five feet long and the whole interior is devoted to the comiort of a flock of chickens. The bunks have bLeen partitioned off and maxe lovely | nests, where any rinmber of “biddies” can lay or set to their heart's content. The butt of the mast still standing has been | the Bounding Billow reached me in & round- about way, The old bark was built originally for general freighting purposes, but because of | speed soon became a fixture in tne fruit trade | and for many vears was owned by Alpheus | Hardy & Co. of this city. She was by them em- ployed ia the Mediterranean business between | this city and Malaga and Messina and was & great favorite, bringing her cargoes in good | condition and with remarkably short average | passages. Being a good sea boat and generaily a lucky ship she.was also a favorite among | masters and seamen, and it was with great | postn, 1 borrow 20 marks from you; that would represent capital. — re. g—ggeb: !l“fi.:r a while you would be trying to get your money back. That would be labor.—Zeitgeist. Family déct(\r—Y(mr wife needs outdoor ex- ercise more than anything else. y Husband—But she won’t go out. WhatamI to do? 2 “Give her plenty of money to shop with.”— | New York Weekly. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. DELAFIELD—). H nta Ross, Cal. F.S. Delafield of New York is stopping at the Palace in this City POSTOFFICE AND ROUTE—O. S. T., Asphalta, Cal. A post route is established assoon asa postotlice is established. & It is proper to acknowledge letters of sympathy, also toac- knowledge by letter the receipt of floral trib- ute sent with the name of the sender. No REVENUE—F. C., City. England does not receive any revenue from either of the Aus- tralian colonies or from New Zealand. On the tontrary, they are an expense to the home Government. SANDOW AND THE LION D. 8., Napa, Cal. Sandow, the strong man, did not wrestle with Parnell, the lion in Boone's show at the Mid- winter Fair, for the reason that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals pre- vented the proposed exhibifion. THE IRISH FLA6—K. F., City. One of the old soldiers who was at the first battle of Bull Run and wasa member of the famous Sixty- ninth of New York says that the Jrish brigade on the Union side carried the Irish flag, and that in the same fight the Louisiana Tigers also carried the Irish flag. Hearts—H. J. L., City. In playing a game of hearts, three-handed, for a stake a corner and the drinks, the first man out to pay for the drinks and the lowest man to win_the money. 1f A has 4 points to go B has7 and C 9, and A should get 7 hearts, B none and C 6. B being the lowest man would take the stakes. THE Horsesnow—= J. F.,City. “Herrmann, the Great,” was at the horseshow held here in the first week of last December. At the same time he was giving performances at the Cali- fornia. Herrmann, while a certain perform- ance at the theater in which he did not take part was being given, drove to the horse- show and there drove some of his horses in competition for colors. He returned to the theater in time to appear in the number an- nounced. Ipors—C. M. D., Mountain View, Cal. The English, as a Government, did not engage in the manufacture of idols for the natives of the East Indies and by such traffic derive a large revenue. The Government does not allow any of the people of the East Indies a large sum of money annually to keep their idols in order and in that way keep the natives in subjec- tion. The British Government does not inter- fere with the religion of the people of the East Indies, except in so far as to prevent hu- man sacrifices, such as the burning of widows on funeral pyres or the use of the juggernaut. ExAMINATION—]. L. B., Shasta, Cal. Answers to Correspondents cannot furnish the desired information as to who it was that obtained the highest percentage on civil service examina- tion in the customs service for two reasons. First, no record is kept of “the highest pe centage attained by any applicant,” and se ond, because to obtain that fact it would re qk:“m an examination of the records for more than ten years, and none of the clerksin the department can devote the time from his other duties required to make such an examin- ation. reluctance that she was finally gold. It was her fate to be forced from the fruit trade as well as from her whaling course by | steam. . “Pity that & — blacksmith’s shop should | spoil a good ship hke her,” one of her old | masters sa | That she was a good ship is evidenced by the fact that she has outlived all of the older men | &nd business houses that ouce were interested in her. Itisa pleasure to know that the old crait maintained her reputation for “wind jamming," speed and luck in the North Pacific | as well as in the North Atlantic. Peace to her | ashes. Yours truly, ALPHEUS H. HARDY. Boston, Mass., Fébrnary 13, 1896. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. H. Farmer of Masontown, Pa., has the com- pass which was used by Colonel Alexander McLean in completing the survey of the famous Mason and Dixon lipe. Ex-Empréss Eugenie has given to the Musee des Arts. Decoratifs the plans and designs meade for the ornamentation of her private apartments in the Tuileries. Prince Emmanuel d'Orleans, whois engaged to be married to the Princess Henrlette, elder daughter of the Comte de Flandre, is the only son of the Duc d’Alencon, and his mother is a sister of the Empress o Austria. : Professor Janssen and his corps of assistants are now winter-bound in their observatory on the summit of Mount Blanc. They will remain there, cut off from mankind, until late in the spring. They keep in touch with the world by means of the telegraph. The late Prince Henry of Battenberg’s chief passion was music. He was fond in conversa- tion of comparing nations according to their appreciation of music. He once remarked to afew friends at Nice that nothing could be A NOVEL [Sketched by a ’7 A HENCOOP. “Call” artist.]’ stranged with a crosspiece that makes a ve: convenient roost for use in the daytime. The sternpost has been knocked out, leaving a door of good size for chickens who do not care to fly to the deck and come down the companion- way. There is every convenience the most ex- acting hen or rooster could desire. The entire fiock seem in good health and spirits and make goad use of their odd home. Several broods of young chicks have just arrived and seem contented with the place and are likely to re- main, PERSONAL. Herberto Moran, a business man of Salvador, isin town. J. Jerome Smith, a merchant of Stockton, is in the City. Dr. E, N. Crooks of Santa Barbara arrived here yesterday. D. M. Griffith, & well-known commercial man of Boston, is &t the Cosmopolitan. Colonel Park Henshaw of Chico is at the Oc- cidental, accompanied by his wife. J. Goldstein, the wealthy manufacturer, of Virginia City is at the Cosmopolitan. ‘W. Peterson, the merchant and vineyardist, of Santa Rosa is among recent arrivals. Colonel Josiah Work, one of the first citizens of Redcliife, Pa., is on a pleasure tour, and is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. Augustus Keller of Marysville, who is attend- ing the election of officers of the Knights of Pythias, is stopping at the Cosmopolitan. L, H, Griffith, who was formerly proprietor Ty | done towards civilizing the Chinese until their ear for music had been cultivated. The German Emperor is generally dressed by -f) in the morning. The Queen Regent of Spain is ready for the day's business at 7 sharp, King Humbert of Italy rises at 6, as do also the King of Sweden and King Charles of Rouma. nia. The Empress Elizabeth of Austria takes herl:)&th at4 A. M. and then starts out on long walks. CURRENT 'HUMOR. * A collecting agency in New York is run by women exclusively, which seems to disprove the adage & woman'’s work is never dum.— Texas Siftings, ‘‘How tedious it is playing whist with such & partner as that Miss Gadabout!” . “Yes, I believe that girl would ask the Angel Gebriel ‘What's trumps’ ”’?- -Detroit Free Press He salled away to the Fiji isles, But he was not slain on the ghore, Nor fattened ahead for a cannibal spread, As others had been befora: But he met with a far more terrible fate "Than those who had lost their lives, For the chieftain grim took fancy to him, And gave him & hundred wives.—Life. A—Political economy is a ticklish subject. A man has to be wideawake to understand all sbout it. For instance, the very ideas of qepital and labor— HUMAN Hate—H. A., Naps, Cal. Dandruff is a disease of the scalp, generally speaking, though it attacks other partsof the human body. Itisclaimed that it has a tendency to accelerate baldness in cases where there i1sa predisposition to baldness. The turning of hair to gray is one of the wonders of nature and it ‘is doubtiul if there is any certain method that will prevent hair from turning that way. Not having experimented, Answers to Correspondents is unabie to state whether salt will preserve the color of the hair. It is elaimed that the use of electricity will destroy permanently the hair on the face without in- jury to the skin. Upon all such matters indi- viduals sheuld consult reliable persons who have made it a study. FOR THE LITTLE TOTS. A dainty little gown for infants is shown here. The walst is cut with a round yoke, which is of tucked nainsook with insertions of Valenciennes lace. The epaulette ruffles ot embroidery are on the edges of this yoke. The waist is gathered back and front, and is sawed to a band, from which the skirt also hangs. The full bishop sleeves are after the latest models. For state occasions little dresses of white Japanese silk, with ruffles of the same, have insertions of Valenciennes lace let in. | PALACE mixed candies, 15¢ 1b. Townsend. * —_————— EPECTAL Information daily to manufsoturers, business houses and public men by the Prasy Clivping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monfgomery. * ———————— Two hale nonogenarians, Mr. and Mrs. Moulder, of Honey Creek, Ind., celebrated the gmh anniversary of their marriage last week. A this season a good blood medicine is needed togive strength and a feeling of health and vigor to the whole system. To do this nothing equals Hood's Sarsaparilla. Try It. CoRoNADO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry, sofs and mild, and is entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. 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