The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 1, 1896, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 1396 OUBAN INDEPENDENCE. A more dignified or ressonable resolu- tion than that passed by the Senate with reference to Cuba could not have been | drawn. It declares the existence of a state —— | of war on the island, proclsims the strict . SHORTRIDG | nentrality of the United States, places the C"AR.E_:::,S,,, I:}m sr,,,im,s e belligerent rights both of Spain nm‘l‘ Cuba on a common footing and offers the friendly mediation of the United States for the recognition of Cubs’s independence. true that auring the debate some exceed- ingly severe attacks were made on the bar- barity of Spanish methods in treating the insurrec sts, but they were not, like the resolution, the fcrmal expression of the combined sentiment of the body; the SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: &y CALL, one week; by carrier..$0.15 ay CALL, One year, by mall . &y CALL, s!x TODLbs, by mall. 8.00 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, resolution stands for that, and it is the San Francisco, California. only thing of which Spain could take felephone. ... 3 ceceeen MAID—1888 | 0 onizance, EDITORIAL ROOMS: 1t is more than likely that the House 517 Clay Street. will coni in the resol The effect Felephone.... Main—1874 | of this would be an instruction to the President to offer his friendly offices to BRANCH OFFICES: = > 2 u Spain as a mediator with a view to secure corner Clay; open untll 1 8:30 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadwsy. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 51 &nd & P Tiow, New York Clty. DAVID M. F and the guestion of a war between and the United States as the result of st arefusal. There 1s a further & ibility that Spain may regard the resolutions passed by Congress as pro- ive of war and will at on That isa contingency not light! ce force the ly issne. | to be considered. It happens, curions] country has no settled | of this kind—there is do s, is an out-and-outer, nis ve pat the legisiative or nist; branch of the Gove: or both con- fornia thet the lap of| currently, should act. N clear that als, | Congress would have the power to coerce | President if he agreed with .lus\'e_the pgrcb. much is clear: the over- that leaves rattles all the i péopls ot £ mpathy with the would result ina d open ps r Truckee to come lide and join | ans free to em- n cause snd take up arms the island, and in t Cuba in ts will d States, with the g the isiand during on a hopeless war e prospect of lo e struggle, or carr gate the Cu TEE VALUE OF TREES. J. W. Freeman of Woodland has pub- ished an earnest appesl to the people of to give more heed to the plant- trees. He refers to the intelligent on which the Legislature of Illinois ven to the subject, and laments the t that we have no Arbor day in this tate, where a judicious abundance of suitable trees would be more valuable g Peovle who delight in combining sport, | 1ness and exercise shonld get on to the | than in any other State in the TUnion. He i Fresno when she bas a rabbit | mentions an instructive circumstance in | his own experience. TUpon buying a place = = - have | e Planted sn avenue of walnuts a mile O e e e s e |and s half in length, from the seed. Six 25 < ‘1‘ o Tonl cntarts st ‘_5"3__ | years afterward, when he was showing a e 3 " | prospective purchaser over the property, | the trees had attained such growth as to attract the purchaser and effect the trans- is sbout time for Uncle Sam to re- member that if King of Spzin is s | fer, for they represented 2 value of several beby the Queen Regent is a black-eyed | thousand dollars, woman. 1 Weall remember the movement led by Joaguin Miller & number of years ago, when he was trying so earnestly to rouse a tree-planting sentiment in this State, may be called an ‘‘organ” of the Southern Pacific of Kentucky out of cou: b tesy, but, really, it makes & nolse Liké 8 | ypich needs trees so baaly. The people of hurdy-gurdy. San Francisco became' deeply interested. w ver the grest mass of Republican The movement bore iruit in a great picnic on Goat Island. Thousanas of trees were |.planted that day, and the desolate island was soon to become an arboreal paradise. But ‘the-ensuing summer brought a fire that swept the island clean, and all the hopes of the year went up 1n smoke, That was the end of the tree-planting movement. Mr. Freeman - quotes an intellicent American traveler, who said that Ameri- | cans might weil emulate Europeans in the following matters: “The Ilove of the ople, both rich and poor, for the beauti- | ful in nature; the love of beautiful trees o eiinies It sec et St 4: end flowers, both in public and private, as smen who &re iri favor of bimetalhsm | €xhibited by the humble cottager and e opposed to -adopting it, he has | BORE the villages; railroad stationsin ] wisely in getting out of the ring, | England. France and Germany, showing i the neatness and good taste displayed with ‘As Whitney says he does not know what | climbing vines, trees -and plants, and the meant in” politics by a “‘movement” it | erandeur of their bounievards and parks.” may be as well 1o explain to him that in | He might well have added that this same voters sttend the primaries. there will never be sny complaint of & lack of honesty in them. The competing line will give.the people | g on the monopolyand le them io hold it -down-in .some at any rate. Everybody who is posted. is now aware that the Southern ic of Kentucky is the people’s rosd of California the worst of it. | is the Democratic camp. it means something | affection of Europeans extends to theirl crops, particularly their vines and fruit | that don’t go. = % 5 45 . | trees, and that it is a purely esthetic re- _Never before, at this season of a Presi | o,r9 the natural result of which is the dential election year, have politics been 80 | finect possible methods of husbandry. quiet 8snow. but the Very qUIStnesS Seems | mree planting in California might well ominous of a stormytime when the big | pe a matter of individusl enterprise, gov- i | erned by the simple consideration of com- The man who predicted the nomination mercial ner_mfizs. Itis much less expensive of Gartield hias now risen up to predict | 0. maintain country roads o s that of Cullom ; but there are people who | Shaded in summer by deciduous trees and donot believe that any modern prophet | MUCE pleasanter to travel them. A ju- canh make the turn twice. | dicious investment in trees for ornamental ARG A g | purposes, or, preferably, for purposes in From the guietness with which the Sal i which ornament and utility are combined, ion Army ‘1s managing the present di ;ndds & value which increases with time ulty in its government it is evident that | and which gives a larger return than any if there are any cranks in office the higher | other. The barren aspect of the California authorities know how to turn them off | plains is necessarily unpleasant to a promptly. at critical periods. stranger accustomed’ fo the abundant | verdure of the Eastern States. The land- owner who does not recognize the com- mercial value of trees can hardly expect to secure.the best results from the ordinary pursuits of agriculture. INSTABILITY OF LABOR. Should the announcement made by Pro- fessor H. A. Rowland of Johns Hopkins TUniversity of & wonderful invention in telegraphy develop the claims made by him for it a verv large number of tele- graphers will be thrown out of employ- ment. He is said to have devised & means for transmitting six different messages over the same wire in both directions and for sending 300 words a minute for each message, making a total of 1800 words a minute over the same wire. Even though the maximum be greatly reduced, it is evident that the ser- vices of many telegraphers can be dis- pensed with, and that these will have to seek other employment. They will be in the position of the hundreds of thousands of printers who huve been thrown out of employment by the invention of the lino- tvpe. To these may be added the thou- sands of operatives in other employments who have had to seek other work because of improvements in machinery. A great cause of dissatisfaction and suffering among workers has its beginning in this source. It is notan answer to the difficulty to €0 On one day the organ of the Boutbern Pacific- deciares the people’s road is & scheme of rapacious hypocrites; on the next -it declares itself .an advocate and booiner-oi the road, and on the third day everybody asks why these things are thus. k | Ii there be any truth in the story about & band of horses starvine to death in a barren field near Modesto because two men are guarreling about the cost of their jeed thefe is a good opportunity for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Asnimals to put itself in evidence and show | its good work. It was said a short time ago that the hode rays would not enavle any one to read the contents of an inclosed letter, but | it now teems they do, and as a con- sequence a German has invented an anti- | cathoae envelope. Thus one of the first * results of the new discovery is to mncrease the cost of correspondence and make life a little more expensive than it was. As the Senators after denouncing the | Spaniards as inbuman butchers, blood- | thirsty monstersand cruel demons gravely proceeded to pass a resolution asking | Spain to accept the “friendly offices” of | the United States in mediating for the | independence of Cuba, it is evident the £pirit of American humor can be infused into the stateliest formulas of diplomacy. Ttis| 3 ot t more re- | say that improved machinery cheapensa product and makes it easier for 21l to live, or that those thrown out of employment find other work in time. Itis in the re- adjustment that the wrench is felt. There iswork enough in the world for everyboay, and that must be so to the end of time. The great question is how to secure employ- ment that has a reasonable prospect of be- ing permanent. Without such an assur- | ance there must always be uneasiness and often severe hardship, and it is there that the evil lies. Every improvement in machinery for taking the place of band-lahor is a solemn notice to mankind to return to the natural and rational way of earning a livelihood— the cultivation of the soil. Whatever ma- chinery may accomplish in that industry, the time can never come when it will be | able to preventa man from drawing his ubsistence from the ground. Agricniture s the most stable of all employments, for its central idea is the home. It will never be possible to invent machinery to take the place of human intelligence in the nur- ben finally the raceis | to these facts all attention will be to the places offering the best nat- | cements for the pursuit, and those es in which the largest return of | rt and the greatest pleas in its exer- | cise are offered will receive the masses of | | the population. First in the rank of such | | place: this country stands California. BAROMETERS AND ORIMES. | Kobert Q. Grant, forecast officer at Pitts- | burg, has been setting forth a theory to the | | effect that crimes and sudden deaths bear | a close relation to a low atmospheric pres- | He bases his theory on the criminal jand sudden death record ior ten weeks, and certainly presents a very curious series of coincidences. But as the period covered | by his observations is exceedingly short it cannot be taken to have any value, The possible physiological effects of low atmospheric pressure are easily imagina- ble. Thus, persons who ascend from a low elevation to a high pass from a high at- mospheric pressure to a low. In such | cases very marked physiological effects are | noticeal The removal of the pressure to which the tissnes are accustomed often produces great bodily distress, including | partial deafness and a ringing in the ears, | and cften hemorrhage from those external parts which are but poorly protected by a skin covering, as the interior of the nose. It has frequently happened that travelers on the railroad crossing the high pass be- | tween Salt Lake and Denver, where the | elevation is about 11,000 jeet, have suffered greatly. some fainting, others becoming rical and still others developing 2 d form of temporary mania. Instances [ of distress are exceedingly rare, however, | in comparison with the number of persons | subjected to this change of altitude. Moreover the change in barometric | Tessure necessary to produce marked | ysiclogical effects in the case of chenge | | | | | | { | | P P in elevation is very much greater than | that produced by changes in atmospheric | conditions in a given loculity. Therefore | if Mr. Grant's theory has any substantial | foundation we should expect that a change | from a low to a very high elevation would vroduce much more clearly defined effects | and bence that they would be observable ina much larger proportion of persons. | That 1s to say, crimes and sudden death: should be comparatively numerous among ; those who go from a low elevation toa | high. | Assuming that a reduction of the at-| mospheric pressure does develop a crim- | | inal tendency, it is evident that the effect ‘;m' the reduced pressure cannot be deemed | limited to that form of nervous aberration, | | for doubtless Mr. Grant will not claim that | moral depravity under such circumstances | is anything more than a reflex of physical | disturbances. To take any other ground | would be to assume an occult relation pe- | tween atmospheric pressure and crime, and surely he would not think of doing that. Hence if crime is more prevalent under & low pressure disease zlso must be, particularly disorders of & nervous char- acter. TUnless his statistics prove these | cts they are worthless. VICTORIA'S REIGN. An anonymous writer in the Edinburgh Review for January has presented such a | well-written, clear-cut view of the reign of | Queen Victoria that no apology need be offered for drawing liverally upon the | stock of thought and erudition which be bas furnished. So complete is his article, so carefully prepared, -that it might be | transferred bodily to the Encyclopedia | Britannica and pass the criticism of the | compilers and reviewers of that celebrated publication. Let us stop and think a moment. In the course of the ensuing summer Queen | Victoria will complete the fifty-ninth year of her reign, and in the course of the fol- lowing autumn she will have reigned fora longer period than any monarch who ever occupied- the throne of the United King- dom. A reign covering nearly two gener- ations is sufficiently remarkable in itself, but the great festure of interest is the de- velopment which bas accompanied this long period of sovereignty, and which has wrought material changes in the worid which may well challenge a corresponding period in any known century. The world as it was sixty years ago, to use round numbers, and as it is now are very differ- ent propositions, and in the very fore- | front of progress and advancement has been Great Britain. There will be no zttempt in this article to repeat all the figures and statistics which bave been massed by the author of the Edinburgh Review article, but some of the salient points will be selected as illus- trative of the study and research put into the article upon which this one is admit- tedly based. For example, when the Queen came to the throne there were some { 26,000,000 persons living in- the United Kingdom, nearly 18,000,000 of wkom were in Great Britain and 8,000,000 of whom were in Ireland. In the present year there are probably 39,500,000 persons in the United Kingdom, but of these 35,000,000 will be in Great Britain and 4,500,000 in Ireland. Little wonder, then, that an Irish party continues to exist and that it professes, in season and out of season, that the interests of Ireland have been subordinated to those of England, Scot- land and Wales. But the striking feature of British devel- opment during the reign of Victoria, and the one which will interest the American people most, since we are and intend to continue to be the commercial rival of Great Britain, is her expansion outward. During the reign of the present Queen, England has increased her East Indian territory by 275,000 square miles, has occu- pied Aden, has created Hongkong, has se- curéd control of an additional 200,000 square milesin South Africa, and extendea a sphere of influence almost immeasur- able; has occupied Cyprus, and bas suc- ceeded to the administration of the affairs of Egypt, with an influence brought to bear on Turkey which even Russia has been unable to overcome. Buch is a hasty and incompiete summary of the extension of the power and suthority of the British ‘Empire within the reign of Queen Victoria, and, from the recent Transvaal incident, | wedge tnto the edge of one may say with confidence that the end is not yet. As to matenal and mechanical progress the story reads as though it might have been taken from the ‘‘Arabian Nights.” When ber Majesty ascended the throne there was only one railway in the king- dom. The railways now have a mileageof more than 20,000 miles, and their capital exceeds £1,000,000,000. They carry more than 900,000,000 passengers & year, without reckoning commuters, and the average fare does not exceed 1 penny per mile. This progress in land locomotion has been met and possibly surpassed by the advance on the sea. In 1840 the whole commercial navy of the nation consisted of about 23,- 000 vessels, the steam fleet then compris- ing only 770 vessels, with a capacity of 87,- 000 tons. At the end of 1894 the fonnage of thesteam vessels was nearly 6,000,000 tons, while the fonnage of the sailing vessels was only 8,000,000. Steam power has so greatly superseded sail power that 2 comparison is hardly possible, and, as a direct consequence, the building of wooden ships has fallen nearly into abeyance, as any one can see in our own harbor who will look at the Brivish ships that come here, And now a few words as to the Ameri- can side of the case. The writer of the article in guestion, and we quote him lit- erally, makes an unwilling argument in favor of the principle of protection to home industries. He says: “The unfor- tunzte British farmer has found it impos- sible to compete with distant countr.es, the rents of agricultu 21 land have every- where fallen and land in some places has actually been thrown out of cultivation.” The disciples of Richard Cobden and John Bright are reapiug as they sowed. They couid not see, for their selfishness blinded them, that the cheap loaf implied the cheap man, and that the one fatal error for a nation to make is to cheapen the wages of labor, and thereby bring about a degradation of manhood which a century will not avail to cure. This may suffice for a synopsis of-an ex- tremely well written and interesting article, though manifestly partisan and even prejudiced. The writer is obviously an adherent of the Manchester scuool, which puts cheapness in the first rank, | and asserts that if the workingman can purchase the nec es of life at u low figure it is a matter of inaifference what the rate of wages may be or what oppor- tunity be given him to improve his condi- tion in life. In this country & majority of the -American people think they know better, and because they think so the election of 1896 is already practically decided. AMERICAN. Recently, while reviewing tne study of geog- raphy, I made & most humiliating discovery, 10 Wit., the map of America &nd the map of the United States are no cal. While Amer- ica begine well up fn the Arctic ice fields and does mot stop until it sends an inguisitive 1l arctic seas the In truth, save United States is much sme for Alasl Iy be more than & walstcoat on North America alone, British Co- lumbie being the cont and Mexico and Central America the trousers. side from this there is South America, with Brezil, like & shawl or big dismonds across 330 & long scarf fluttering s side, once diffi- cult to keep in place, snd Guisns, & shoulder knot in ribbon of three colors, one loop prone 10 untying and exten r. Far be it from me to meke lightof the land that bore me. I am awsare thet ours is the greatest country in the world, containing wise and most chivalrous men &nd beautiful end engaging women ; also wonders, natural ander- tificial, all due to the fact thet you and I, oiti- zens of the United Stetes, were born here. ' 1t is therefore positively mortifring to know that had we first seen the light of Patagonia we would have & similar Tight to call ourselves American, and to believe Patagonie, as doubi- less it is, the only counsry of the kind ever im- ported. I once read of an outlaw whose fether—so stated the paper containing the news—wasa Mexican, his mother an American lady. It is consoling to thus be assured of his mother’s sex, though that is beside the question. Was not his father also an American? If born in Mexico he was quite as much entitled 1o the nume as if he were a Californian or a Virgin- ian. Even the English speak of Canadians and Americans s being of & different race, but Canada they wouid say, aud correctly, t0o, in “She was born in the State: An exceedingly handsome young man from Bogots was ouce introduced 10 Me as & Span- jard. Had he been & womsan bhe might have been called a sperkling brunette, for his eyes, teeth and Lair a1l glistened in & dazzling man” ner. When termed & Spaniard his eyes bright- ened a degree or two more aud he said: “Pardon, 1 am & South American. His statement was absolutely correct, and although somewhat general, was as particular &8 he could make it without & chapter or two of explanation. South America usually Tesem- bles nothing so much as a kaleidoscope, and the neme of his country had recently been changed; but whatever €lse he may have been, he certainly was a South American. We are not modest enough to call ourselves North Americans, and. we rarely use the name except by general consent as & prefix to the word Indiau. It is small onder that until quite recently, as reiated in jest and story, English women were supposed to consider ail ‘Americans as Indians pure and simple. I re- member to have read when a child an expres- sion used, 1 believe, by Fanny Fern: ‘Poor little African.” She referred to & small negro who had been born in the United States, and who in consequence was not an African, but in & general sense of the word an American. The use of the word African, as applied to the negro, is especially misieading, for, although many negroes are Africans, all Africans are not negroes, Negrly everything beionging to the United States if designatec by this general and indefi- Lite term. _Even our flag is called the Ameri- can flag. We might, with equal consistency, speak of the German standard as the European flag; the ragged, Chinese triangle as the Asietic flag; or the red-and-white patchwork quiit of Morocco, with the shears that may have cut the pieces flung wide open across its center, the African fing. Even some encyclo- pedias give, among the fiags of all nations— great, medium and small—our stars and stripes with the words, “The American Flag,” in bola letters,and peneath, in characters so small as to be &lmost illegible, end these apologized for, in parenthesis (‘United States”). Why do they not Teverse this? 1 observe, however, that when they treat of America, they include the whole ‘Western Continent, in both map and text, and they do not mention any one flag as belonging to this whole continent. It may be that the term “Flag of the United States” is less eupho- nious and less brief than ‘The American Flag,” but it is at least correct, and is life so short we have not time to speak the truth? There are a few sensible exceptions to this fenernlly absurd rule, and here we touch the aw. Trough law mey have little 1o do with justice, it endeavors to be exact. We hear of American citizens, but when a foreigner tempts to become one he finds himself a cit- izen of the United Biates. The exvression “President ot America” would invite ridicule, and the “Americar constitution” would neces- serily be as miscellaneous as an omnibus bill. And, strange to say, it is not good form to speak of Washington 88 the ‘capitel of America.” S When our country and our great-grandsires were in their babylood, and America, save for its handinl of colonies. & Vegue terin repre- senting an unknown quantity, it was proper 10 call these colonies by this general name. But now that our Nation and our men have passed the age of petticosts and pinafores, let us not, with the comsummste egotism of a parvenu, monopolize the word America, but, sharing it with other Americans, our country by its name—United States. BEEBE A Commendable Feature. ¥resno Expositor. One of the most commendabie features of the Merchants’ and Manuiacturers’ Association of ‘San Francisco, as well as of the Hall-million Club of that City, is the determination, as ex- grelud in their resolutions and by-laws, that ome meanufactures and home productions must be patronized to the exclusion of Eastern and European manufactured — Too Hot for Huntington. Bauta Clara Journal. Mr. Huntington is not likely to make his i::?‘r!:n home in Californis. Itis too hot here | in Cincinnati, Buffalo, Boston, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. John Coughlin, one of the cattle kings of Oregon, whose home isat Paisley, Lake County, in that State, but whose cattle rosm over the three corners of Oregon, California and Nevada isat the Lick. & Mr. Coughlin bt been forover a dozen years in the busine: He has a great many beeves snd stock cattle, as well s cows, and is one of the best posted men who have range interests, He says there are 100 many catile at present. else the price of beef would be higher. “Itwas worth 5 cents last fall,” said he, ‘‘and is very lttle higher now. Usually the price of beei increases in winter, and it ought to, for it costs abont §2 50 & besd each month for hay, and the cattle don’t take on any flesh to amount to anything, either—just about enough to pay for the care. “The people of the Pacific Coast don’t con- stme as much beef as they did five years 8go. ice house in the Mission. He has :p:r,nhtcd, and says with pride that he bas made everything by his own toil. Kill the Lotterie: San Jose Mercury. The so-called investment companies, which are simply lotteries in disguise, will nereafter be denied the use of the mails. The lotteries are having a hard time these dnyu{,‘u?la w:;: rspapers in the country to follow :]xln‘vg;lremx& ‘H}E,ECAL'L and the Mercury in ex- cluding sll lottery advertisements und an- pouncements from their columns, every lottery would soon be compelled to go out of exist- ence. —_— . ¥rance Awake, America Asleep. California Fruit Grower. While the Americgn people and the Ameri- can Congress are dawdling away valuable time regarding the Nicaragus canal the Frenchmen are actively pushing the Panamacansl inspite |Sketched from life John Coughlin, the Cattle King of Oregon, Now at the Lick House. by a “Call” artist.] No, not even with the increase of population. The eddition of populetion is little children. They don't eat anything. “It is big mining camps and logging outfits loggers or miners will eat more beef than 5000 persons in & town or city. They eat almost nothing but beef, generally spesking, snd they’ve got to have it to sustain. them in their hard physical toil. “It is singuler to me that more attention is not paid to cattle. vested in the business on the Pacific Coast than in eny other industry. There are enor- mous herds or bends in many places in the various States and Territories, and, in fact, out- cattle. “Our beef is much better and cheaper than the beef of the East is,85 & rule. The same quaiity of beef here is at least 2 cents higher New York and other cities. “There hasn’t been any money in cattle in Californis, or elsewhere on the coast, for some time. Lots of men who once ownzad big berds, end men represented rich, have got out of the oul. There wasn't margin enongh. “This has been & great year for stock on the the Rocky Mountains, probebly, than has ever been known. Whether itis dry next summer depends somewhat on whether we get Tain.” TO WORK IS HIS DELIGHT. “ COLONEL” DUQUESNE, THE STRONGEST MAN O THE WATER FRONT. “Colonel ” Duguesne is the strongest man on the water front and has held that title for over twenty-five years. He is over 70 years old now, but there isnot & man in the prime of life about the wharves who can do as much work as be can. Furthermore, the colonel is proud -of hik ability and says he likes to work. ‘Where the *‘colonel ” got his title is a mys- tery, but just after the war he drifted mto San Francisco. He said that he came from the wilds of Missouri and was willing to do any- thing to make a living, from fighting to “’tending store.” There was & demsand for Colonel Duquesne. [Sketched from life by @ “Call” artiat.] laborers at the time, and the colonel was soon et work loading. and unlording ships. He ‘would carry twice as much as any of his fel- low-workmen and do it in less time, 50 he was soon known as the “strong” man. He was sober and steady and neverout of employment, 80 that he soon saved enough to go into the draying business and has been at it ever since. Colonel Duguesne made more &t the busi- Tess than others, becanse, as he 'did most of the work himself, he did not have to employ much help. Stories are told of some of his feats of strength that seem incredible. On one occasion he bhad to put a 15-horsepower tubular boiler on his truck. Buch a job gen- erally takes about four men, but the colonel @id it by himseli. He easily lifted one end of the boiler and slipped & few blocks under- neath. Then he put a rope around it that ne made fast to the blocks in the front of his wagon, and by & few good pulls the boiler rolled up the planks just to the place he wanted it. To lift 400 pounds is considered a great feat of strength, but the colonel can do that, and 1so carry it some distance. He once loaded &l his truck with ten mahogany logs tuat weighed nearly 300 nds each and hed to be m‘gned When he had finished a by- ‘That was 8 mighty big job for you, colonel.” % “Not so very big,” the colonel said. “You see, 11ike to doa neat bit of viork once in & while.” Colonel anlnelne has s strong face, that greatly resembles Joseph Jefferson’s. His | ure is so well proportioned that he does not look as 1arge as he really is. He is always good natured and heppy in his work, and ‘ever Teady to give assistance to a friend. Since he has been in San Francisco he has ac- cumulated a fortune of over $75.000 and owns that consume beef. Itissafe to say that 1000 | There is more money in- | side of the cities, elmost everybody bas some | business—been hammered down -and knocked | range. There is less snow on the west side of | | of the mountains of money alresdy sunk in thet enterprise. The Panamea Star says that 4362 men are now employed in the work of re- | construction on the isthmus. PERSONAL. Senator John H. Beard of Niles is in town. J. N. Russell o Petersburg is at the Grand. Dr. Charles A. MeQuestinis at the Occidental. T. Carlton Ross of San Jose is athe Cosmopol- itan. J. H. Cave and J. E. Hancock of San Jose are in the 5. John Markley of the State Board of Equaliza- | tion is &t the Lick. Sheriff George S. McKenzie of Naps is here | on & brief visit. | -A. Leery,s well-known mining man of Au- | burn, is in the City. A. H. Mallory, & well-known capitalist of Portland, is in town. James S. Reed, s capitalist of Portland, ar- rived here yesterdar. George H. Wells, & business man of Grest Fal! Minn., is in town. J. P. Dorsey, the mine-owner, ot Grass Val- ley, arrived here yesterday. D. Lubin, the widely-known business man of Sacramento, is at the Grand. Patrick Phelan, & Salt Lake City capitalist, is stopping at the Cosmopolitan. W. B. Thompson, commissary at Folsom Prison, arrived here last night. Professor J. M. Scharberle, theastronomer of Mount Hamilton, is on & visit here. H.J. Smsll, superintendent of the raflroad shop at Sacramento, is at the Grand. Dr. G. P. Gehring of Washington, D. C., is at the Russ, accompanied by his family. W. F. Detart, superintendent of the Zeile mine, Amador County, is at the Lick. Thomas Wells, Treasurer of Soncra, Tuo- | lumne County, is registered st the Cosmopoli- tan. Warren Richardson, an extensive timber land and sawmill owner of Truckee, is here on 8 business trip. Mrs. Jeremiah Ryan, wife of the well-known capitalist of Fresno,is & guestat the Cosmo- politan with ner family. Lene C. Gilliam of Spokane, who is interested | in some mining enterprises near Coulterville Mariposa County, is 1n the City. S C. G. Betts of Spokane,who is interested with James F, Wardner in mines on the mother lode in Mariposa County, is at the Lick. John Brennock of Chicago, who owns several jumping horses and is & partner in several en- terprises with Ed Corrigan, is at the Palace. Ex-United States Senator J. R. McPherson of New Jersey has returned heré from Monterey, Santa Cruz and other points with his family and friends aud is at the Palace. Andre and Max Lazard, the millionare bankers of Paris, who arrived here a few days &go, have gone to Birmingham fora short visit. They will return in two or three days. J.M. Weatherwax, the weathy lumberman of Washington, who owns large mills at Aber- deen, on the Chehalis River, and thousands of acres of fine fir. pine and spruce timber, is & guest of the Grand. A number of Raymond & Whitcomb ex- cursionists arrived here yesterday w«nd are at the Palace. They are from various Eastern States. Amongthem are Hon. F. E. Richards and wife and Hon. A. F. Crockett and wite and Miss Anna Crokett. 3 Among the Sacramento men who are in this City to attend the meeting of the Republican State Central Committee are the following: District Attorney Frank D. Ryan, True Scott, William Beckmsn, Senator E. C. Hart, J. H. Batcher and Biily Govan. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Feb. 29.—Among recent arrivels are: J. C. Paine, Broadway Central; H. D. Stone and wife, St.James; Captain A. Woodside and wife, Astor; G.Young, West- minster; 8. Beer, Hoffman; W. 8. Martin, Hol- land; F. Watson, 8t. Cloud. Mrs. J. D. Hooker and Miss Hooker of Los Angeles were among the passengers who sailed on the steamship ‘Werra for Alexandria. e MAY CAUSE A SMILE. Green (to Black, who is preparing for a con- tinental trip)—How do you get on with your language, oid fellow? ‘ Black—Capitally; why, I've got s that I can think in French. ey .Green—Well, that’s & blessing, for it's more then you could ever do in ~] ey English.—Imndon An Englishman was boasting toan American thet they hed & book in the British Museum which was once owned by Cicero. “‘Ob, that =in’t nothin’!” retorted the Amer- In the museum in Bosting they’ve got :;le lesd pencil that Noah used to check off the animals that went into the ark.”—London Spare Moments. «Be mine,” be implored. % “ggo late,” she gnswered in & trembling: yoice. He buried his his posom. e fr:1"';“00 gll-fired late,” the womun repested. «You might have said that three hours ago.. The idea of weiting until 1 n’clock_ inthe mora;! bg'everth'eleu they were mrn:d.—Deucif Tribune. R 5 3 “Well,” said Colonel Yerger of Dalls l?ok- ing up from his paper, *‘a seat in the Néw York Stock Exchange has just been told. for $30,- 000.” B “Great Beott,” commented Mrs. Yerger, 'who 1s going to play?” Bifag “Play!” ;’0 ed Yerger, “what would they. play for at the stock exchange? Blv’e you got &n idea that it is & kind of .a concert?” “Well, I thought Paderewskior some other great musician was going to plsy 8 pianc,or . seats wouldn’t be so high."—Texas Siftings. face in bishands: Hope fled “Got on your husbend’s cravat, haven’t you?”’ asked a neighbor of Mrs. Bilkins. replied Mrs. B., sadly; “it’s the only tie there is between us now.”’—Harlem Life. Visitor from Harlem—I do wish my husband would agree to move out here! Suburbsu Friend— Well, there are msany things you might not like— & Visitor—Yes, but just look at the size of your close rooklyn Life. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. The following strains of blood are said to be united in young Prince Edward of York: Nor- man, Flemish, Scotch, Sexon, Spanish, French, English, German and Denish. The Duke of Sutherland owns nearly the whoie of the county of Sutherlsnd. The sres of the county is 1,297,846 acres, and the terri- tory clsimed by the Duke is 1,176,454 acres. Sir Mackenzie Bowell, Premier of Canade, began life asa printer’s devil, worked at the typogrephicel trade for many yesrs, bought & paper with his savings and so got-into poli- tics. 8ir Douglas Straight, the new editor of the Pall Mall Gezette, was called to the bar in 1865. After s practice of some years at.the 014 Bailey, he went to Allahabed as & Judge, whence he returned in 1881 with a pension. Louis P. Noros of the ill-fated Jeannette, whose oilskin trousers, alleged to have been found in Greenland, were one of the-articles upon which Dr. Nansen based his polar current theory, lives in Fall River, Mass. He says he believes the trousers were reslly his and thinks Nansen was right. Miss Lucella Williams, who died. recently at South Deerfieid, Mass., was one of two sisters who founded the famous Hampton (Va.) school for negro end Indian’ children. She also es- teblished the Stanton Institute at Jacksonville, Fle., and, with her sister, who is still living, labored there for seven years with great suc- cess. General John S. Williams, celebrated . ms “Cerro Gordo Williams,” is 73 years old, but heis passing & very lively and vigorous old egeon his Kentucky estate. He appesred in Louisville the other day to diepose of thirty hogsheads of tobacco which he had raised on his farm end for which he secured good prices. Those who met him complimented him on his activity. DAINTY NIGHTGOWN (R LOUNG- ING ROBE. The charming gown shown here besrs the impress of the empire style. 1t is & model used both for lounging robes and night dresses. For the latter it may be made of & veriety of f Ties from muslin or flannelette 1o chine silk. In the latter meterial it is shown for trous- sesux trimmed with butter-colored or white lace; ribbons of bright but delicate .tones are run through the lace, which confines the front below the bust. A very dsinty-gown in nainsook had trim- mings of narrow vellow Valenciennes lace with bands of fine Hamburg -embroidery. & Colored lawns and batistes with white em- broidery or lace, either white. or yel:ow, s7e very dsinty. The batistes-especially will be found quife satisfactory, for they launder besutifully. A lounging robe of twilled French flannel of & medium pink i dainty with trimmings of white lace with blue ribbons. run under. A vioiet and white checked flannel with white Iace and violet ribbons is another pretty com bination. . - 5 A gown of pink and greenstriped ‘wool had the square voke top of green satin ribbon, with frills of Fin\ chiffon. 3 4 One of the daintiest creations in the way of & lounging robe Was seen in ar elaborate trous- seaux; It was of white flantiel. the square voke being of white satin ribbon, with ‘& border of sable on either edgé. At the outer edge a frill of white chiffon hung. The belt was of white ribbon. . P 5 E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddystreet. - * ‘TOTRISTS are invited to call and examine our California glace fruits, only 50 cents & poun: in Japanese baskets. Townsend's, 627 Market. ——————— EPECIAL information daily to manutacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monigomery. * P O QA “Seen Bill Brown when I was up to town,” said the man with the gum boots, settling him- selfon the salt barrel, ‘“conductin’ a street: car.” “I thought Bill was goin’into business fer hisself,” said the grocer. S “Wal, I allow he is to some extent, but the compeny &in't got onio it yew. —Cincinnati Engquirer. - “I Hap several pimples on my face and a large boll on one hand. I began taking Hood's Sefsapa- rilla and after using three bottles I was cured.” J. ‘W. Johnson, 3 South Broderick st., San Francisco. —_———— D SIEGERT'S Angostura Bitters, the celebrated appetizer and invigorator of the digestive organs s now used all over the world. e Ir afflicted with sore eyés use Dr. fsaac Thomp- son’s Eye Water. Druggistssell it at 25 cents. Limbs, tions is as good as the nm;mtnmrdidhwhmmk,-m,chest,or Allcock’s BEAR IN MIND—Not one of the host of counterfeits and imita- geauine, Porous Plaster