The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 9, 1896, Page 6

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MONDAY. ——— e e e In the vocabulary of Abyssinia there is no such phrase as a drawn battle. It is getting to be so that an agitation in any part of the world produces a crisis in Europe. : Now that Paderewski has gone lots ot people will admit that his music is an acquired taste. Against oriental competition we need'the sword of bimetallism as well asthe shield of protection. There is now said to be a ‘‘moonshine trast,” independent sp and even illicit whisky has lost its | t The coming Republican victory casts a radiance before that brightens every pros- pect of trade and industry. We shall soon know whether Olney is capable of a really vigorous foreign policy or only of diplomatic hyperbole. | | It is plain to be seen the endless chain will never end until it drags the Cleveland administration clear through to perdition. There isa growing belief thatin England | itself the next political campaign will be | very largely a contest for protection and | bimetallism. The revival of things has now got far | enough along for a rumor to spring upin | the East that Mrs. Frank Leslie intends to | marry s gain. | If the report is true that the Rothschilds | paid §185,000 for a clock made by Louis XVI the royalty on such things must be unusually large. It is said that Cleveland is supporting | Carlisle for the Presidential nomination, | but it looks more like. trying to force him | into a slaughter-bouse. Judging from recent occurrences in | Abyssinia, Cuba, Transvaal and Formosa we have reached an age of the world when | liberty wins a victory at every lick. The New York Chamber of Commerce | declares the silver issue is dead, but the | Manufacturers’ Club of Philadelphia knows better and has joined the silver pro- 1f Andrew D. White is correct in saying “talk of war is a reversion to barbarism” | the world is in error, for the general belief has been that war is barbarism and the talk is civilization. —_— E Kentucky failed to repeal the Southern | Pacific charter, but there is still hope that | she will have virtue enough to elect agood | Republican anti-funding bill Senator be- fore the sun sets to-day. It is reported in New York that a sack of $300,000 has been sent to Albany to defeat an excise bill and fortunately nothing of that kind can happen in California.” We haveno Legislature in session. It is time for Senator Cullom’s friends to remember that, even if he does bear a close resemblance to Lincoln, there is no in- stance on record of a man getting into the Presidency who travels on his face, TR From the way the Eastern press writes of the proposed visit of Li Hung Chang, it is probable that when the famous heathen gets through with the reception await ing him in that section he will scorn a single veacock feather and demand the whole tail. As a majority of the Senators are in favor of silver coinage, Boston has raised the question whether it would not be just as well to abolish the Senate, but some day the Senators will vote according to Massachusetts ideas and then Boston will = { put the question by. It is said the Cuban debentures issued by the Spanish Government are held by foreign capitalists, and they are helping Spain to conguer the island, in order to save the money invested, and thus once more do tbe vested rights of gold interfere with the liberties of men. Payments through clearing-houses in- dicate a volume of current business about 25 per cent less than in 1893, and it is be- | coming more and more evident we shall not regain the full measure of Republican prosperity until we have restored the Re- publican system of protection. Itissaid that since his imprisonment John G. McKane, the noted contractor and volitical boss of Brookiyn, has saved the State of New York $17,000 by supervising the erection of prison buitdings, and the ques- tion arises whether he should be liberated for bis services or other contractors im- prisoned for the public benefit. A scheme has been started in the East to erect in New York City a bmlding to serve as National headquarters for the Republican party, the plan being to make the structure a notable one at a cost of about $5,000,000. Enthusiasm for the pro- ject is at white heat in New York and tapers off gradually to a black frost in Chicago. The dispute between France and Brazil on the dividing line between the latter country and French Guiana has a curious origin. The line was fixed by the treaty of Utrecht in 1713, and was declared to follow the *river of Vincinte Pizon.” No such eris now known to map-makers, and there is mo evidence what stream was meant when the treaty was made. Hence the diplomats have a hard job in settling ihe question, l OALL THE OOMMITTEE. roresiticks That the Republican State Central Com- mittee should be reassembled without loss of time has become a settled conviction. Its work has not been finished. The pre- liminary steps of the coming campaign must be taken with a certainty that shall breed confidence. From all over the State come expres- sions calling for the reconvening of the committee and the completion of its im- perfected work. The vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Boruck is in itself reason sufficient for the calling of the committee together and the election of a member to the vacant chair. There are, however, many reasons not necessary to be enumerated why the com- mittee should be convened and the lines for the prelimiary steps in the campaign straightened and doubt dispelled. e To take the first. step properly only means to make greater the victory thatis already certain. Call the committee. PROTECTING THE LAND. J. A. Edman presents in the Mining and Scientific Press an able exposition of the railroad land grant and the disastrous effect on public interests which the fund- ing of the Central Pacific debt would have. This phase of the funding fight has not hitherto received the attention which its importance . deserves. As Mr. Edman shows, an extensior to fifty or a hundred vears of the time for paying the debt would strike a very serious blow to the mining and agricultural interests ot Cali- fornia. Of the 18,426,000 acres granted to the Central Pacific, the California and Oregon, the Western Pacific and the Southern Pa- cific vatents have been issued for 5,328,246 acres, of which 1,105, patented in 1895, The Miners’ Association makes the following estimate of mineral lands in the odd sections of the grant: { Acres. 704,000 ,600.000 In the Central Pacific grant 1n the Calitornia Pacifi cific grant FTEOAER In the Southiern Pacific grant per cent of this land, being 729,000 acres, is now occupied and can be protected by the miners, and deducting this from the above, would leave nearly 8,000,000 acres of the best mineral land in the United. States to be absorbed by one railroad company. Granting to the Southern Pacific Company | a funding bill, extending thei1 lease of power virtually for 100 years, the well- | known ability of that corporation to orig- inate bold financial schemes would war- rant the belief that in the hands of a gigantic mining trust these lands would attain within twenty yearsa fabulous value, exceeding even the well-watered stock of the parent company, and representing more tangible assets than their present bonds. With the added possession of 15,- | 000,000 acres of agricultural land who can | foresee the future of such a corporation | and 1ts influence on our institutions?" Bir. Kdman’s suggestion is startling, but entirely within the bounds of possibility. That is to say, if the Government commiits itself to the policy contained in the fund- ing scheme it will be bound to issue | patents to the granted lands, or at least to | prejudice the rights of the publicin the contention raised by the Miners' Associa- tion. Mr. Edman makes another sugges- tion, which is submitted here without comment, but which should give reason for serious reflection. He says: ““When active steps were taken to oppose the approval by the General Land Otfice of the so-called free list filed by the South- ern Pacific Company during the spring of 895, the organs of the company began their attacks on hydraulic mining, in line with their old policy of disrupting by sec- tional prejudicesand in the hope of sowing dissensions 1n the association, among which many influential members were hy- draulic miners.” He says that in the im- pending conflict over land monopoly fos- tered by venal National legisiation *All citizens alike are interested, and especially the farmers of our State, who should never forget the Mussel Slough massacre and other crimes of the Southern Pacific against the bone and sinew of the State. Only in reconciling old differences and working side by side for the common good can a path to victory be found by the people.” AN INSPIRING EXAMPLE. After making himself famous in an Eastern State as the originafor of the Bur- bank potato, and after realizing that the harsh climate of the East placed a limit on his ambition to produce improved flowers and food plants by hybridization, Luther Burbank came to California in order to find a climate under which he could work unhampered by cold, and has become the most successful and famous hybridizer in the world. Simply because California is not sufficientiy old to realize the value of his work Mr. Burbank lives with us com- paratively unknown and obscure, but in the great centers of Europe and the East- ern States he is called the *‘wizard of hor- ticulture,” and is regarded as the greatest genius in his specialty that the world has known. His insignificant little farms at Santa Rosa—trifling patches of ground which would invite the scorn of the aver- age horticulturist—are the central point of an eager observation proceeding from every enlightened corner of the earth. The wonderful story of his achievements was told in part in THE Suxpay Cawnr, but nothing short of several vclumes would be able to set-forth completely the narrative | of his struggles and achievements, 1t is a suggestive fact. that when this ex- traordinary man produces by patient hy- bridization a distinctive flower, fruit or berry, and by long tests has made it a per- manent variety having some salient fea- ture of superiority over any other of its kind hitherto known, he never thinks of offering it to a California propagator. The stamp of his approval upon it is sufficient for shrewd and wealthy propagators in the East and Europe,: and his price for a single new plant,- whether it be hun- dreds or thousands of dollars, fis paid without question. In the course of years these plants, by increase from suc- cessive propagations, fall in price to a fig- ure which a California grower is willing to pay,and thus finally become estab- lished in our gardens or orchards. In the meantime California -has received a vague credit for their origin, but that does not occurin a shape to make known suffi- ciently well those valuable climatic pe- culiarities which made the Burbank achievement possible; and California is the last section in the world to deriva di- | rect benefit from the immeasurably valua- ble work of one of its citizens. This single fact indicates the almost un- limited field for improvement in our hor- ticulture. This is not meant to detract ple bave already made and are constantly making, but merely to show, first, that | explain why the Standard Oil Company is | owners, California at large is not working to se- cure that credit for its climate to which' Mr. Burbank’s achievements entitle it, and, second, that the horticultural condi- tion of the State islosing a splendid op- portunity for improvement by failing to take prompt advantage of Mr. Burbank’s discoveries. The value of this may be ap- preciated when it is reflected thata new variety will yield far more generous re- turns unaer cultivation in California than in any other part of the world. But the greatest value of Mr. Burbank’s work is its inspiring example to others who may have the intelligence and perse- verance to take up the work and emulate his victories. There is no danger of ‘“‘ruin- ous competition’ in this exquisite art, for California is the one place in the world where it may be pursued under perfectly favorable conditions, and the demand for improved varieties must always be in- satiable. RATLROADS HAMPERED. An interesting condition, which explains in part the serious financial difficulties which have overtaken so many railroads in the Eastern Siates, has just been brought to light. 1t should be said at the start that railroad business under ordi- nary competition is a sure index of the in- dustrial condition of the people, and that as a rule combinations are formed only when business fallsto a low ebb. These combinations, effected to maintain a fictitious schedule of charges, attempt to accomplish by sheer force, and in oppo- sition to the friendly and co-operative relation which should exist between pro- duction and transportation, a result whica shall secure railroaa prosperity without reference to the prosperity of the country. The most injurious .results must neces- sarily follow, not the least of which is the dangerous political power which railroad combinations might be able to wield. - Elisha K. Kane, president of an Eastern railroad, has come forward with an ex- ‘planation of the hard times wnich have fallen upon the roads and forced some into bankruptey and many into combinations. It is simply that the low prices inevitably accompanying a low import tariff prevent shippers from utilizing all their available resources for producing articles for trans- ket Besides kerosene the company will make gasoline, and both oil and gasoline will ‘be put up in the usual style, five-gal- lon cans being preferred by the Pacific “Coast trade.” ‘Wekile all this activity is proceeding in the south the Paso Robles Record ‘an- nounces that some of the enterprising citizens of Parkfield and vicinity are tak- ing the preliminary steps to employ a company to prospect the oil fields of the upper Cholame Valley. It has long been known that the indications of tne exist- ence of petroleum in paying quantities are very' numerous there, but no thorough Pprospecting has been done, though some five.or six hundred feet have been bored at one place. It would not take much capital, properly directed, to open up tnose Parkfield oil where indications of unlim- ited oil and gas fields. There is no place in the State are more favorable. The Clovis (Fresno County) Herald has published an interesting description of the Fresno!Flume and Irrigation Company’s box factory. The plant can manufacture 25,000 feet of lumber a day into boxes, and is now running to its full capacity to sup- ply orange boxes for the southern end of the State. The lumber is brought forty- two miles in a flume from the mountains. The Riverside Enterprise, in the follow- ing.item, furnishes further evidence of the progressive spirit of Los Angeles; “In Los Angeles a company has been formed for the manufacture of furnace bottoms. { Rock suitable for its manufacture has been | found in the Big Black Mountain, near ‘West Riverside on the Provo tract. Both proprietors of the Riverside Land Com- pany have given the manufacturers per- mission to take all they desire.” The promoters of the Clear Lake Electric Power Company propose not only to fur- nish _electric power for all uses in Napa and Lake counties, but also to run an in- dependent electric road from Clear Lake to Tiburon. 0. E. Moore, superintendent of the company, estimates tkat in the city of Napa alone tnere is something over one thousand horsepower of machinery port. Besides this, many articles which are proauced must be treated as waste products, as they cannot be shipped to | market except at a loss. At the same | tume it is clear that any extension of the | producing area is impossible, and this | affects the development of the country. Again, a high tariff stimulates industries and at the same time induces an immigra- tion of foreign laborers fo secure the bet- | ter wages prevailing under such a tariff, | and that means an increase of travel aside | from that which our own people would furnish if prosperous. All industries along a line of road make traffic both ways, | and if they are crippled the traffic is in- | jured. As arulean increaseinthe amount of travel on a given train is clear promg and a decrease is a direct loss. While a high tariff would mean higher transporta- tion charges as well as higher prices for everything else, nevertheless the merein between railroad receipts and expendi- tures must be at least proportionately large. OQut of this margin the railroads pay their fixed charges. When the mar- gin becomes insufficient for that purpose equipment and construction cannot be in- creased, business is curtailed and opera- tives are discharged. These evident facts have no great local interest in California, in view of the fact that its transportation is a monovoly, but they constitute a strong argument for fore- closure of the railroad debt to the Govern- ment as well as for a protective tariff. SAN DIEGO'S CARNIVAL. 8an Diego has at last given its promised naval parade, and the scene—a nocturnal one, in which lsntern effects were pictur- esquely employed—is described as being surpassingly handsome and impressive. ‘The exhibition is worthy of special consid- eration, in view of the fact that it wasa novel and spectacular departure from the usual forms.of fetes and carnivals given by the cities of California. More important than that, however, is the attention which thisdisplay hasdrawn to the harbor of San Diego. This is one of the very few landlocked harbors indenting the formidable western coastof the United States. The dangerous character of the rocky shore in the absence of bays is heightened by the prevailing winds from the sea, and these conditions combine to secure ample protection against the in- vasion of points where bays do not exist. The points where.it is possible fora hostile fleet to make attacks are providentially few, and this means a comparatively small outlay necessary to establish armed de- fenses. The Bay of San Diego is oneof the most important of these. 1t is the Bay of San Frantisco in minia- tare. Each is a body of water lying parallel with the coast line, each is sep- arated from the ocean by a narrow tongue of land and each is .perfectly landlocked and safe. Every advantage that the Bay of San Francisco enjoys appertains to the Bay of San Diego on a smaller scale, with the exception of navigable rivers emptying into it. Forall its smaller size, however, the Bay of San Diego has ample accom- modation for all the shipping that a com- pact settlement of the region would re- quire. The value of these bays will become more and more apparent as the years pass. The time must inevitably come when the Pacific Ocean will de intelligently utilized ineforwarding the commercial and indus- trial prosperity of all that great region lying west of the Rocky Mountains, and then the few secure harbors through which the ocean is accessible will be centers of activity., Their adequate protection and improvement should receive the most in- teiligent and patriotic attention. It is discouraging to contemplate the utterly unprotected condition of San Diego Bay and appalling to imagine the harm which its seizure by an enemy would inflict. COAST EXOQHANGES. The Los Angeles Herald publishes some interesting facts concerning the develop- ment of the petroleum industry in that section. Quoting the Oil City (Pa.) Der- rick it shows that the product of the East- ern oil fields is 65,000 barrels a day, and that the yield of the Southeastern oil dis- trict is 35,000 barrels a month. This last- named amount was exactly the product of the Los Angeles district in February. Eastern vprices, however, are somewhat better than ours. The local consumption of oil in Southern California is growing rapidly. During the month 12,000 barrels were shipped away and 800 barrels were hauled away in wagons for local consump- tion. The Hotel Green at Pasadena uses 400 barrels a month. | | The Los Angeles Record says: “The | SBape: i ; n for | The Colusa Sun, discussing the prelimi- ill give | nary meeting held: by Reclamation Dis- s it will | trict 108 at Knights Landing for the pur- <an be pro- | pose of considering the digging of the me time to | much:-talked-of drainage canal, says that Locy bas some rea oil that is | a general feeling of confidence in the good from the brilliant progress which our peo- | unquestionably better than any similar | results Lacy oil refinery at Chino will be ope: business on the 10th inst. This w: the oil inCustry a great impetus, afford a market for all that duced in the south here for so come. Mr. product made in this country. This may buying so heavily for ‘fuel purposes.’ about two weeks the product of the } horsepower a month, ‘& total of $60,000 a In | reclamation of the land is feasible, both as 3 Puente | to the practicability of the work and as to company’s refinery will be upon the mar-] cost. At most it would not take more run by steam, costing not less than $5 a yéar. In his letter to the Napa Register hesays: “If this machinery can be run by electric power at one-third the present cost it would mean a saving of $40,000 a year.”! At the same time the Sacramento Bee comes cut with a serious charge against the Folsom Water-power Company. It will be remembered that when this com- pany started its gigantic plant for con- verting the power from the Folsom dam into electricity and took the current to Sacramento the people of that city held a grand celebration and were jubilant over the prospect of cheap power. But this has proved a delusion. The Bée says: “Some surprise has been manifested thut more local factories are not using the electric energy brought from the water wheels at Folsom. The railroad shops, the big flour- ing mills and.other power-using establish- ments making steam from coal costing from $6 to $8 per ton certainly ought to find an economy 1n the use of motors if the Folsom water power projectors were cor- rect in representing that the electric power would cost the consumer less than steam with coal at $1 50 per ton. Inquiry de- velops the fact, however, that all the in- stitutions likely to be benefited by a change of the kind have made careful investigation, and claim tbat they cannot secure a rate from the new power com- pany which cffers any economy over steam- power, while they would be compelled to throw aside expensive steam plants and purchase new electric motor plants, al- most equally expensive. “It is evident that any permanent ben- efit anticipated from the inauguration of the electric power here is likely to be de- stroyed by u continuance of such a policy on the part of the Folsom Water-power Company.” This is a very serious matter not only for Sacramento, but possibly, also, for users of power in Napa County. Speaking of California diamond mines, the Placerville Democrat-says: “The or- explorations puts a setting of rubies, dia- monds, sapphires and emeralds in the glit- tering prospect before us. Still better, it is from the jeweled hand of California that the rarest treasures are to be expected. And of all thediamond mines thus far ais- covered on the Pacific Coast,. those of Smiths Flat are- the best, if not the most noted. The diamond sharps will find no better indications on the continent.” The liberality with which Claus Spreck- els furnishes beet seed to all communi- ties that desire to experiment with sugar- beet culture recalls the fact that beet seed culture is going to become an industry. in itself. On this subjeet the Chino Valley Champion says: “The production of beet seed i3 going to be one of the coming ih- dustries in this valley. The natural con- ditions are highly favorable to the prodne- tion of a high-grade seed. The articles heretofore published in the Champion on this subject have attracted the attention of prominent European - beet-seed growers, with whom we are now in correspondence. The prospects are good that arrangements will be made this summer to start a beet- seed farm on the Chino ranch, at least on an experimental scale.” The importance of mining a factor of prosperity is fully understood at Ellens- burg, Wush. The Capital of that city says: “Times are said to be better in Spokane than anywhere in the State, and it is all due to one thing—mining. Spokane’s citi- zens have always encouraged and fostered the mining industry, and'she is reaping a legitimate harvest. Mining is the business now uppermost in the public mind, and it is in that direction the money is to be made.” The Sutter Creek Record publishes along list. of valuable building improvements soon to be made in that thriving town as the result of th >sperity which it is enjoying. ° prolpe. % The Los Angeles Journal says that the Pacific Wool Company is the name given to & new enterprise which is to wash and scour the wool product of Southern Cali- fornia. The capacity of the works will be 4,000,000 pounds a year, and oil will be used for fuel. In an interview a member of the company said: “These works will be of inestimable advantage to the sheep and wool industry in this pazt of the coun- try, and the wool, being scientifically cleansed, will be more eagerly sought for in the markets of the East. The wool will go to make up clothes, blankets, etc. We have been contemplating this . thing for some tire and have at last got it into to be secured prevails, and adds: *‘Speaking for itself and not for the land- the Sun declares that the thorough | ganization of capital and labor for further |- than. two years’ rent to do the work in a thorough maunner; but suppose it should take four years’ rent, would it not be a paying business? It isa great pity that the scheme could not be so enlarged as to take in the entire district above Butte Slough on the east and Knights Landing on the west.” The Mission News is & bright weekly paper just started at 2940 Mission street, this City, by W. J. and J. J. Reid. Judg- ing from the initial number it is certainly in competent hands. “Jim” Townsend, sometimes jocularly called *'Lying Jim” by reason of the mar- | velous fecundity and spomtaneity ot his imagination, has made the Homer Indez a semi-weekly. PERiON AL, Antone Watten of Pasadena is at the Cosmo- politan, S H. A, Jastro of Bakersfleld is here on legal business. 0. L. Henderson, & prominent business man of Vallejo, is at the'Baldwin. William 8. Jack, an extensive property-owner of Peoria, Ill, is at the Russ. Supervisor W.'P. McFaull of Ukiah, Mendo- cino County, is at the Grand. Frank H. Webstér, wine and raisin grower of Minturn, is stopping at the Grand. Henry Housely, & wealthy mining man of Denver, registered at the Cosmopolitan. E. M, Hadley, the well-kknown railroad man of Ogden, is stopping at the Cosmopolitan, D. McC. French, chiet engineer of the revenue cutter Rush, is registered at the Cosmopolitan. @John W. Lehman, the well-known artist cf Dubuque, Iowa, is stopping at the Cosmopol i tan. W. J. Doherty, one of Bakersfleld’s landed- proprietors, s stopping at the Baldwin for a few days, Alired Williams, s merchant of Seattle, is here with his family ona vacation. They are at the California. Allen ‘Towle of Towle's station, Cal., after whom the station was named, is here on busi- ness. He isstopping at the Grand. J. C. Savery, a merchant of Des Moines, Iows, is visiting San Francisco, partly on business and partly on pleasure. He is at the Occi- dental. Maurice Parker of Alasks, who has just re- turned from a trip to Ireland, where he has been reviewing tha scenes of his youth, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan en route to Alaska. Dr. H. H. Thrall, the well-known dentist, is seriously ill at his residence, 619 Pine street. Last Thursday evening he siipped and fell in |, front of his home, and the iall resvlted in con- cussion of the brain, which brought on partial paralysis of the rightside. of his body. Dr. George Terrill is in attendance upon him five times a day, but has no hopes of his ultimate |- recovery. Dr. Thrall is an old resident of this City, o.‘!e of its pioneers,and- hes a very large circle of acqueintances. He is a prominent Knight Templar and ex-lieutenant-colonel or the National Guard. = SHOOTING STARS. Across the strings of memory A zephyr breathes from out the past, When vouth believed the shooting stars That might athwart the heavens cast. They told him that the sonl-feit wish Asked, while still glowed the flashing brand, Were sure to {all—a wondrous gift— Within faith’s suppliesting band. How many dreams of love and Wealth— How many hopes of name and fame ‘With boyish trust—so s00n outgrown— * Were loaded on each flitting flame, Say ’twas the credence of the fool, - A farce wher - foily played chief part— It had what too much atier lacks, The earnesu service of the heart. And »o of all those radiant ships ‘That one time sped o'er seas of alr And piled up high with golden dreams. Struck Age's rock and foundered there, Hung in the sanctum of the soul, Where death can only force the bar, Alone remains that joy we knew And lived when dreaming of the staz. —Philadelphia Times. A CUBAN FORT. The moet invulnerable and curious of all the forts erected in Cuba are made of old steam boilers. At every factory of any age there were | a number of worn-out bollers which had been thrown aside. Each was about thirty feet long and six feet in diameter, and made of steel five- eighths to three-quarters of an inch thick These were taken in hand at the machine- shops, the braces and heads were knocked out Fort Made of an Old Boiler. and a doorway and loopholes cutin them. They ‘were then carried to the tops of -knolls and set up on end and braced in place with railroad iron. Three floors were put in each, and a lad- der was hung egainst the inside of the shell as a means of communication from top to bogtom. These novel forts are so secure when the'steel door is once elosed upon the garrison thatsome ot the planters have lost confidence in them foroutposts. They believe that the men of their garrisons feel such confidence tnat they %o o sleep as soon as they get inside. Notwithstanding all these preparations the insurgents keep tne guards of the plantations busy, and some one gets killed on one side or the other every few days, and but one factory in the region is grinding cane. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Maud—Are you a bachelor, Mr. Grumpy ? 01d Grumpy (decidedly)—Yes, I am, and I al- ‘ways have been.—Princeton Tiger. He—I love you more than myself, darling. She—That’s not saying much. You are al- giving yourself away.—Pick-Me-Up, Mrs. Brown—How would you define “tact”? Mrs. Jones—I should say tact is the ability to make your husband believe that he 1s having his own way.—Puck. “J took out $10,000 insurance on my life to- dsy,” said the meek man. “I suppose you will live for sixty or seventy yearsnow,” said his wife in an ag§rieved tone.— Indisnapelis Journal. Uncle Josh—There’s lots of money dropped in ‘Wall street, ain’t there? Nephew—Lots of it, Uncle Josh—And it’s all dropped by folks that's tryin’ to pick it un.—Puck. “Talk of man,” roared the female emanci- pator. “What has man ever done for woman?” “Furnished & model for her to imitate,’” said a voice in the rear of the hall, and then an awful quiet refjgned.—Adams Freeman. She—If you never meet me, would you have loved some other girl as much as you do me? & no—xy‘ darlingif I had never met .you, I believe I would have committed suicide.— Truth. ¥ The Pastor (a dyspeptic, taking dinner with the family)~Thank you, Mrs. Brown. I'd like to have another piece of pie,butI will have to B8y N0, ‘Willie Brown (in great s me! Did your mother tell you not to take & second piece, too?—Boston Journal: A San Antonio bridal couple were traveling in Mexico. She was very romantic- and being at the hotel in Monterey, she sald: - “‘How lovely and romantic it ishere. Do hear the sound of the castanets?” “That's not castanets. A man in the mext Toom has chills and fever,and you hear his teeth chattering.”—Texas Siftings, 3 We are meking a good many shinglesand some an im petus to the shingle business lately. The | shin gles that are going East are fancy ones. simply astonishing the amount there is. I don’t know whether it will soon be a better AROUND THE CORRIDORS. * Sherift . R. Brown, the white-bearded offi- cial of Humboldt County, is at the Russ. He is one of the earliest pioneers of the coast, and has in his time arrested some of the most no- torious stage-robbers and cattle-thieves that have .infested the mountain regions of Cali- fornia. Mr. Brown has been Sheriff a great many years. From 1861 to 1874 he served as Sheriff in Klamath County, end when that county disorganized he became Sheriff of Humboldt. He has held the latter position eighteen years, and has been Sheriff for the entire time of 31 years. The veteran Sheriff comes to San Francisco every once in awhile, He is known to many thousands of people. ; The Sheriff is a firm believer in the future of Humboldt. Yesterday he told how things ‘were moving on there. * . “Lumbering is our most important indus- try,” he said, “and next to that isdairying: we “X.,” requesting that the money should be distributed among the various charitable or- ganizations connected with tne church. Professor Petrie, the Egyptologist, has en- gaged the services of Miss Annie Pitie to copy the frescoes in certain tombs he hopes to dis- cover near Thebes. Miss Pirfe is a half-sister of Archibald Forbes, the well-known war cor- respondent. B Lady Aberdeen enjoys intensely listening to the. Parliamentary debates in Ottawa, She sits beside the Speaker, dressed in purple vel- vet, following the proceedings closely, but, like a true diplomat, never disclosing by word or.look on which side her own sympathies may be enlisted. . Cleveland lives a much quieter life at th?ah\'\s'hge House than she did during her hus- band’s first term of office. Her most intimate friends have been Miss Leiter (now Mrs. George “Curzon), Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnson and Miss J. R. Brown, the Veteran Sheriff of Humboldt County, Form Is on a Visit Here. s erly of Klamath, Who [Skatched from life by a “Call” artist) sell a great deal of butter. We also produces 1arge amount of beef. The wool industry cuts some figure too, but thatis hight. “Just now we are starting up a good many mills. Thelumbering interests are reviving. of them are going Esst. There has been quite “There is an enormous amount of redwond | up there as yet untouched in any way. Itis price or not. - “Lately several buyers have come in from the timber sections of the East. They have been looking around, and I believe in some instances they bought timber. The redwoods are now attracting attention., I think tie market-ought to improve. “As for Eureka, the chief town of that region | it now has. between 7000 and 8000 people. There is some building going on and it isrea- sonably prosperous. “Iheve lived there a long time and likethe place. Tomy mind Eureka is one of the pleas- antest cities to live in in Californla.” Thomas R. Brown, a well-known business man and politician of Seattle, has been travel- ing for the past two months for the betterment of his health, and has finally landed ir the Lick House. He was in Prescott, Ariz., fora while in search of that dry air which is found in afl its untamed and uncaged robustness in Arizona and Fresno. He said last night that Arizona was not to his liking. He found its vaunted health resort to be adead, level piece of country traversed by wide and deep irrigation ditches which impressed him with the dread of malaria in the summer time, and that is why he chose to leave the country before the summer, with 120 de- grees Fahrenheit in the shade, could have an opportunity of pre-empting any of his adipose tissue. He was informed, however, that there was no malaria there. He prefers California, and | told a wide cirele of listeners last night that he diseavered in the Julian mining district in Ban Diego County one of the finest sections for apples thaét he ever saw west-of the Rock: Mountains. - Tt is situated sixty miles east ot San Diego City, 4600 feet above the level of theé sea, where there are copious falls of snow and rain in the winter time. Here he found several thriving apple orchards, manyof them from twenty-five to thirty years old and in prolific bearing. -Owing to the snows and the cold of the winter season and the light atmosphere and suave temperature of the summer the trees are free from the codlin moth, the scale and the other ills that the apple is heir to. The fruit he praises highly for its excellent flayor and appearance. Mr. Gunn, who has an 80-acre apple orchard in- that region, informed Mr. Brown that he averaged from 82}4 cents to $1 15 per box for his apples delivered in San Diego. The fruit is hauled by wagon tb the Cuyamaca railroad terminus at Foster, which is twenty-five miles from San Diego. When Mr. Brown was in Phenix he saw Whitelaw Reid, the New York journalist, who is spending the winter there. Mr. Reid's health is improving wonderfully in the land of the cactus. Mr. Brown said that when he left Seattle the <closing down of & large number of shingle and lumber mills had made times very dull in that part of the country. —— PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Pini, the champion fencer of France, is a great personage at present. He fs a short, thick-set man, with arms extremely long for m size and a chest deep enough for & man six 't tall. Lord Wolseley, sddressing the brigade of guards, strongly recommended every soldier to learn how to box. There is unothing, he said, that required more pluck and nothing so likely to bring out the fine qualitiesof an athlete. : e Five Congressmen affect thé boutnnoiere. Johnson of Califorpia wears a pink carnation; Pickler of Dakota a small rose; Quigg of New York'a violet; Richardson of Tennessee some- times a rosebud. Nearly all the Congressmen Elizabeth Lockwood, all of whom have often visited the Clevelands. FROM WESTERN SANCTUMS. The War Cry. Eanta Clara Jouraal. The Salvation Army is up in arms and the | war cry seems now to be “America for Ameri- cans.”’ Bank Notes in Circulation, Oakland Enquirer. One effect of the issue of the gew Government bonds which perhaps was not forescen, sk though it is a natural consequence, i largé increase in the circulation of Nationa] banks. Harrison’s Faith and Experfefice. Santa Cruz Sentinel. Dr. Samuel Johnson described a second mar- riegé as “a trfiumph of faith over experience.” | Both parties to the approaching ex-Presidential nuptials have had experience, and both still have faith. Tired of Democratic Doctrine. Sutsun Courier. The sugar-beet growers of Pajaro and Salinas valleys, regardiess of party affiliations, are in favor of protection to American industries, since Cleveland’s tarift tinkering has cost themt $1 a ton on their beets. Pingree’s Proposition. Santa Cruz Penny Press. It Mayor Pingree’s plan of allowing the poor to cultivate idle land free of charge will do away with pauperism in Detroit, as it u.tml.lfi is doing, it will do away with pauperism over the land if everywhere put in force: California Will Soon Be Free. Santa Cruz Penny Press. Kentucky is wearing a Southern Pacific eol- lar, but it does not fit. California has been for years wearing the entire Huntington harness, &nd pulling some big loads. But just now Calie fornia is making an endeavor to kick out of the traces, and by the powers of Congress I hope she will suceeed. LADY'S COAT BASQUE. The charming waist shown here is one of the new coat waists. It is made with a fitted back, the front being cut off at the top to reveal the under waist of silk, which form a blouse in iront. The sleeves are laid in folds at the top. The exquisite new velvets are used for suc waists, with fa: silks of the same tone. A multi-colored velvet which is toned down by & royal blue pile, has silk with background oL the same blue with bright-colored lines and igures. A closh gown of green has a blue and green silk blouse, with feathers of the samq the throstier e e tones for CALIFORNTA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend's® ——————— EPECIAL information daily to manufacturs:s. usiness houses and public Clipping Bureau (Allex}"»), ufi::w;o‘:'l:;.”'i ‘wear some sort of a military button or decora- tion. Floquet was very much of a lady's man—a delightful flirt,as he was sometimes called. He was proficient in complimentary small talkand a deft flatterer. His sense ot smeil was go delicate that if blindfolded he could identify any lady who came to his wife's recep- tions by the perfume sho used. For the nineteenth year in succession a ban of Eugland note for 500 has been vlaced in the offertory box at St. Mary's.Church, Kil- burn, England, by a benevolent person un- | knoown. The notehas on each.occasion been | accompanicd by a small slip of paper, signed_ ————— Mr. Lard—Mr. Fresh, your late.this morning Mr. Fresh—Yes, sir; we've got a new baby at our house. - Mr. Lard—Um-er-well, don't let t occur again.—New York Herald. . ———— MARCEH, April, May are the best months the blood and build up the aystem. non's.m such an important matier. Ty B 's Sarsapa- riila with the advent of Qpfln;* 525 CORONADO.—Atmosphere is pertectly dry, soft and miid, and. s entirely free from the mists com- ‘mon furiher north. W'Iflp tickets, by steam- ship, lncluding fifteen days’ boand at the Hotel dat Coronado, 8601 lenger stay $2 50 Al 4 New Montgomery st., San inmw M