The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 11, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 183 5 M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietos SUBSCerPTlD"VV RATES—Postage Free: | raily and 3 .$0.15 Tafly and Sunday CALL, one yeor, by mail.... 6.00 | Dafly and Sunday Ca. x months, by mail.. 3.00 | Deily «nd Sunday three months by mail 1.50 | Daily and Sunday CaLr, one month, by mail. .65 | 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Felephone. . i <oee o Maln—1868 | .. Main—1874 | Telephone. BRANCH OFFICES 530 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open until 8:30 o'clock. 1 839 Hayes strect; 713 Larkin streei: open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner onth and Mission streets; open entil 9 o'cloc 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clook. 118 Minth street; open untll 8 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTER! Rooms 51 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York Oty DAVID M. Special Agent. WE ESDAY The campaign waits on the State Com- mittee. | & | ns of falling out in the ‘ | There are no s Republic: The Senate has taken a second thought | and Cuba must wait. | In politics the Kentucky company is the | chinaman that must It begins to look as if there would be no | a1bitrator between Cuba and Spain excent the yellow fever. | If Buckley doesn’t have a hand in the | Democratic pie it will be only because there isn’t any pie. | This is to be & campaign for protection | to all the interests of the people as well as for their industries. King Humbert's troubles are by no means over. The Kaiser has announced an intention to visit him. The sentiment in fav. the State Committee teeling if it is not gratifie In passing the Cuban resolutions Con- gress may vet allow its resolve to pass also and sympathy will end in oratory. f a meeting of v turn into a hard Tie Republican party may as well adopt the b as an emblem this year, as it is surely going to break the record. If Cleveland will not recognize war in | Cuba he might at least recognize the mas- sacre and do what he can to check it. Until we get a new t vival of trade can touch the Government and over no possible re- the revenues of me the deficit. | g an expedition to Itis a pity that some Democratic leader hasn’t the nerve to stay in the Presiden- tial ring long enough to knock out -the third-term id For the sake of getting into office Rudini is willing to enter into war, and as & con- sequence he may have to get out of both before long by crawling. | Republican harmony will bring victory, the victory wilt bring protection and pro- | tection will bring prosperity, and that is what we are working for. The gold reserve is climbing up, but all the same the drain is going on at the rate of about $100,000 & day and before long it will be sliding down again. When subjected to expert éxamination, | the British blue book on the Venezuelan | question may prove hardly more important | than a yellow-back pamphlet. There is a growing belief that when the | Democratic Stale Committee meets, the Junta will cease to strut in peacock | feathers and begin to croak like a jackdaw. | The exposure of the tricks of the politi- | cal manipulators of the railroad has had | the good effect of putting all loyal Repub- | licans on guard, and the party camp is safe. 1t the members of the Republican State Committee will look back they will see they left a good deal of wood unsawed where they laid down the saw at the last | meeting. Any change in the postal system that will increase the cost of disseminating | books and magazines among the people would be less like an improvement than a relapse to barbarism. As the strikes have begun earlier than | usual this year there is reason to believe | they will be settled earlier and we won’t have so many to complicate the campaign as we had in the last Presidential election. Holcomb of Nebraska is more pleased to be mentioned for the Presidency than he would be to receive the Populist nomina- tion. The one is a pleasant vanity, but | the other would be only a vexation of | spirit. | Those Los Angeles fellows who are talk- ing of Morgan and Allen as 2 Presidentiai icket should stop to consider what kind | of race they could make with such a team | as an Alabama alligator and a Nebraska gopher. It seems did the snappers of the Baldwin Hotel meeting an injustice in saying they forged one of the proxies used in making a mejority of the committee. They were more enterprising than that, | They forged two. Saliebury was too prond to recoznize our Veneznelan Commission by sending a copy of the British blue book on the boundary question, but all the same he was discreet enough to send three copies where the commission can see them. It was right enough for the Senate to | ask the President for all the information | he has aboat Cuba, but the chances are he has nothing of note that has not been al- | ready published in the newspapers and made known to all the world. The March number of Womankind of Springfield, Ohio, in an article on the cul- tivation of spring flowers in that section says: “With our more decided rotation of seasons we cannot hope to rival California on the Southern Pacific Coast.” To this complexion has the railroad brought Enstern conception of our geograpby at last, ! | | | | seriously affect the busines A NEEDED MEETING. situation is considered the stronger grows the conviction that the State Central Uom- mittee should be called together again at as eariy a dale as possible. There is much work to be done in preparing for the cam- paign that can best be done by the State Cammittee, and some that can be per- formed only by that committee.” While this work remains undone there will be more or less confusion in the ranks and there is grave danger that out of the con- fusion dissensions may arise that will | prove serious complicationsin the condnct of the campaign later on, It is no reflection upon the members of the State Central Committee to say the work which the party expects of that body was inadequately done at the recent meet- ing. The committee was in session too short a time to give a comprehensive con- sideration to the preliminary work of pre- paring for a Presidential election. Even that short time, moreover, was mainly oc- | cupied by the proposal to take the control | of elections of delegates to the party con- vention out of the bands of the regular county committees and intrust it to com- mittees of Congressional distri Tais was so much of an innovation it naturally | distracted attention from other duties that should have been performed and the speedy adjournment left them undone. The confusion necessarily resulting from this state of affairs would soon have been evident under any-circumstances. It hap- pens, however, that certain events imme- diately followed the adjournment of the committee which largely increased the confusion and occasioned no little dissaiis- faction among loyal members of the party. The story of the snap meeting at the Bald- win Hotel and the attempt to get control of the committee of the Fourth Congres- sional District by means of forged proxies became known. Suspicions were awakened in other districts. The whole work done at the meeting of the State committee was reviewed, with the result that it was found the work had only been half done in some particulars and wholly 2eglected in others. There is nothing akin to the spirit of faction in the sentiment that now favors another meeting of the committee. Those who counsel that step are among the most loyal members of the party. They have no other object than to bring order out of confusion and assure harmouny where there is now danger of dissension. They desire that the committee, being the highest | anthority of the party in the State, should reassemble and remain in session long enough to e a full and fair considera- tion to all the 1ssues that come before it. In this plan all who have the welfare of the party at heart can unite and its adop- tion would undoubtedly lead to good re- sults. THE STRIKING PAINTERS. It is most unfortunate at thistime, when we are on the eve of extensive building operations, that there should have occurred g0 extensive a strike as that which the organized painters of the City have made. The union is sufficiently strong to put an end for the present to all repainting and possibly to building as well. This m s that all workers in the building trades will be affected, as well as material men and property-owners, and this in turn will of the City. The contention by the painters is that th are not being paid the regular mini- mum rate of $3a day for ordinary work and that some master painters are charg- ing builders the full rate and paying less. It is shown further that some contractors are paying the full rate from a sense of duty and right, and that while they are the best friends of the painters they are unable to compete with the others. In the reports submitted to the union appear the names of many master painters who express a perfect willingness to pay the | full rate if the others do; cnly a few de- ciare that they will not be dictated to, and a number announce that they will not sign the union rate card, as that would be recog- nition of the union. Altogether the situation is complicated and serious, but that is mo reason why patience, intelligence and good temper should not be able to adjust it satisfacto- rily. One result of the cutting that has been geing on is the employment of for- eigners at §1 a day. If this continues we may next expect Japanese to run out the Eurepeans with still Jower wages. It is v to the interest of tbe City that its own people should be given emnloyment, to the end that they may have money with which to live and prosper and build homes among us. This cannot be done unless some check is placed on the practices which have been in use hitherto. Such a situation as this does pot con- | cern alone those directly affected by it, but every resident of the City. Considerations both of business and humanity are in- volved. It would be proper for some strong body, such as the Merchants’ As- sociation or the Chamber of Commerce, to proffer its services as mediator, to make a thorough investigation of the case and to suggest a remedy, and it would be wise for the painters to recognize the value and | dignity of such a mediation and the im- vortance of the opportunity for bringing widely separated interests to a closer un- derstanding and sympathy. It is the right of every honest man to have an op- portunity for making such a living as his capabilities and willingness can secure, | and it is the duty cf every citizen to pro- tect him in the employment of that right. THE HIGHER WISDOM. 1f it were not that an unusual combina- tion of soil and climate made farming in California more inviting than in any other part of the country, there would be just as | much reason for poverty and idleness in the cities of this State as in those of any other. It is simply because our people have not yet learned to appreciate their advantages over their kindred in the East- ern States that rural possibilities for mak- ing a comfortable living are neglected, and the young people flock to the cities for pre- carious and ill-paid employment. Work in most of the trades is becoming more and more uncertain, and in the lighter em- | ployments associated with mercantile busi- ness tne competition has run down wages | below the point of safety and comfort. All this time millions of fertile acres in California are lying untilled and the coun- try is importing enormous quantities of food products from foreign sources. The California Fruit-Grower publishes the fol- lowing list of such imports that need not be made if the resources of California were developed: 574,430,452 16,450,798 Figs, Ib 11,855,890 Lemons... . Oranges. ... Ralsins. 1ts 15,921,278 Prones. los .. 14,352,067 Other ruits, Almonds, 1b5. 7,808,374 Walnuts, ete. Rice, Ibs.. 219,513,383 Molusses, kalions. 18,075,879 Beans aud peas, b} Potatoes, bushels. 1,685,913 1,342,588 Most of these articles contemplatea con- siderable capital and a number of years to | produce a return, but others are crops of annual products that are staples and al- ways in demand and that can be produced on rented land at trifling cost. Of course it 1s not an easy task to undertake the business of a farmer, even on a small scale. It is not simply a matter of taking a piece of land, cultivating it and making a living from it. But the fact remains that an in- vestment of an agreed amount of energy and intelligence in a California farm will yield for a poor man many times the profit and comfort possible with inferior and un- certain employment in the cities, Besides, it is doing business for one’s seif, and that is what develops a man. It is more healthful than any city occupa- tion, and that means a conservation of vital forces for still greater tasks. All this is urged in view of the peculiar conaitions prevailing in California, and because by reason of them farming is a better busi- ness here than in any other part of the country, and offers better inducements to young men. MORGAN'S NEW PEROPOSITION. Senator Morgan, who has Been recently putting Mr. Huntington through so severe an examinetion, has sprung the sensation of the day in the matter of the Union and Central Pacific roads. He offers a scheme which provides for Government control and operation of the roads, the refunding of the first-mortgage debt at 3 per cent and the reduction of shares to the actual value of the property. The lines are to be operated as one in the interest of the Gov- ernment, of interstate and international commerce and of the debts owing to the Governnient and private creditors. Com- plete machinery for carrying out the plan is provided. Morgan’s proposition comes in the form of a resolution offered to the Senate direct- ing the Committee on Pacitic Roads to prepare and submit to the Senate a bill contairing the provisions outlined in his resolution. It is quite evident that one intention of the resolution is to check the intention of the committee to report a re- funding bill until the whole Senate has had an opportunity to examine the ques- tion, as the committeg cannot now report such a bill until Morgan has addressed the Senate on his resolution. His plan seems to be that in this way he can remove the Senate from the influences which are act- ing directly upon the committee, evidently believing that the larger body cannot be handled by the railroad lobby. The plan is exceedingly shrewd. The Alabama Senator has recently given exhaustive study to the subject and knows more about it than any other Eastern Senator. He is so thoroughly convinced of the in- iquity of the funding proposition that he believes the Senate generally needs only to know as much as he in order to reject it. This lends an entirely new phase to the whole subject. It removes from the Sen- ate the obligation of courtesy to the com- mittee and transfers the responsibility of Senatorial legislation to the body as a whole. But the shrewdness of the move lies even deeper than that. - By acuriousturn of affairs the Senate, for the first time in the history of the country, has suddenly ceased to be the more conservative branch of Congress and has become the more radical. This has been shown in recent acts concerning sil- ver, the Venezuelan boundary and the Cuban matter. This is explained on the ground that six new States, Idabo, Mon- tana, Nevada, North Dakota, Wyoming and Utah, bave sent twelve virile and eager new Senators to Washington and only six Representatives. This has upset the balance of conservatism between the East and West and made the Senate more representative of the new vigor of the country than the House. Serator Morgan evidently has taken this altered condition of affairs into account and by proposing a radical measure which will serve as a chal- lenge to the conservatism of the East hopes to create an interest which will lead to a thorongh investigation. If these sur- misesof his motive are correct he has de- veloped an uncommon shrewdness and something important may be expected from his plan. In any event itcontem. plates the education of the Senate and that is what is most desired. "~ PERSONAL. Ben Wolf of San Jose isat the Cosmopolitan. Senator J. B. Gallagher of Nevada is at the Rus: E. Hyde, the banker, of Visalis, is in the City. J. Jeane, & business man of Winters, is in the City. Beziers of Dounmenez, France, is at the Palace. Deputy Sheriff D, Matthews of Salinas is at the Russ. J. A. Bohn, & merchant of Minneapolis, is at the Grand. J. W. Richards, a mine-owner of Aspen, Colo., is in town. John Papa, a wealthy resident of Towa City, is at the Russ, g J. Baer, a business man of Leadville, arrived here yesterday. John C. Dunlop of Virginia, Nevada, is among recent arrivals. M. H. Walsh, a real estate man of Sonora, isa guest at the Cosmopolitan. D. M. Dysart, a business man of Eureka, Humboldt Bay, is in the City. Edward W. Marsh of Bridgeport, Conn., is at the Palace, accompanied by his family. John Finnell, the early pioneer and exten- sive rancher of Tehama County, who owns some 80,000 acres, Is here on a business trip. Colonel J. A. Hardin, the wealthy cattleman whose residence is at Santa Rosa, and whose cattle are in Northern California and Nevada, isat the Russ, R. B, Markle, one of the ownersof the Alaska. Willoughby Gold Mining Company of Thurston Bay, Alaska, who arrived here a day or two 8go, has gone to Ukiah. Thomas Y. Gerdene of Washington, D.C., who as an agent of the Interior Dapartment i looking up some matters in reference to differ- ent land surveys, including some of the Benson surveys, is at the Oceidental. J.C. Savery of Des Moines, one of the best known hotel men of Iowa, is at the Occidental. For many years he conducted the Des Moines House at the State capital. He is widely known all through the Mississippi Valley. Professor Vander Naillen is on the eve of undertaking a short journey to Europe with the purpose of investigating the latest dis- coveries made fin electrical and kindred sciences. The professor, who is accompanied by Mrs. Vander Nailler, expects to return in three months. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 10.—Among recent arrivals are: A. L. Bigbee, Metropole; A. H. Butler and wife, Sturtevant; A. Dolgony, Hol- land; D. Lowenstein, Stuart; A, Parrish, Grand Union; H. C, Tuttle, St. Cloud. The Railroad’s Day Is Waning. San Jose Mercury. Mr. Huntington, with the aid of his news- papers, mostly Democratic, is making a des- perate attempt to obtain control of the Repub- lican organization in this State, but he ig doomed 10 aisappointment. The rallroad is not running tninfn n California quite as much as 1t was tormer. Improvement in the Air. Hanford Democrat. When some of the numerous electric-light plants, now budding into bloom along the Sierras from Grass Valley to Bakersfield, get into good worl 2 king-stoves and kerosene lam unvfilfle’efi:l e‘d to the cel- lars and the ol fi:“ shops. San Joaquin Valley wiil soon be the best 1it, best heated and most thoroughly irrigated section in the world. | AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Senor M, Russek is a happy man. He comes from a 1and without tramp, where farm la- borers receive 50 cents & day and board and lodge themselves for 15 cents, and where clerks in business-houses are paid salaries ranging from $50 to $150 per month, With boarding and lodging thrown in. “‘But whisper, amigo niio,”” adds Mr. Russek, “there are no clerkships vacant just now, so that it will not be necessary to start the flood of immigration in the direction of the land without a tramp. Clerks never resign aud they die there only of old age. Itisuna tierra feliz, is Jiminez, in the State of Chihuahus, Mexico.” Judging from Mr, Russek’s story it must, in- deed, be & happy land. Grain is cut with a nnyfl:lng but monotonous. The man who at 80 feels fully capable of performing the duties of & member of the United States Supreme Court, sixty-five years ago nursed cholera pa- tients in Smyrna, where he had gone when a boy of 14 with his sister, who was the wife of & missionary. He sat atdintier and saw a serv- ant, who had been waiting on the table, drop dead, while guests fled, shriekine “The plagte!” “The plague!” He found himself in San Francisco with $1 and a diploma entitlin him to practice law. The doliar he mulupheg by the sale of slxl{' newspapers he brought with him from New York. When the vigilance committee reorganized the mining camp of Marysville the members elected the voung lawyer from the States alcalde, and it was thenceforward his duty to settle by judgment the disputes which up to that time had been appealed to the pistol and the knife. The al- calde served so well that he was sent to the California Legislature, and there he chal- Jenged & man who had insulted him to & duel. Senor M. Russck, a Happy Man, Who Comes From a Land Where Farmers Are Satisfied With 30 [Sketched from life ents a Day and Store Cierks Get $150 a Month. by a “Call artist.] sickle and all places of business are closed for an hour at noon for luncheon. They open in the morning at 7 o'clock and close in the even- ing at 8. Jiminez is a city of 7000 inhabitants, a Catholic church, a bull-ring, a plaza, a Ma- sonic temple and several public schools. There are also three hotels and several public meet- ing halls, wnich are utilized for entertain- ments by traveling dramatic and operatic com- panies. The buildings are of prick and adobe, and the climate, although warm, is healthful. Cot- ton, corn, wheat, beans snd an inferior quality of tobacco are the principal agricultural prod- ucts. In the neighborhood are many silver and lead mines. Life is slow but sure in Jiminez. The tastes of the people ure simple, and they have not yet been educated up to the point of yearning for the unattaineble. There is the church and the bull fight on Sunday, a concert in the plaza on Thursday and Sunday evenings, and the Lwang of the light guitar and the diamond flashes from the languid eyes of dark-skinned senor- itas every evening. Ay de mi! How one wishes that he were young and in Jiminez. 8. F. Loughborough, formerly a Renger, and an ex-Sheriff and ¢x-member of the New Mexico Legislature, is at the Grand. Mr." Loughborough, though appearing vet scarcely years old, has had a life full of dramatic incidents. He has contended, with the object of pre- serving order, against some of the most danger- ous outlaws that ever infested any country, and has been shot no less than three timeson asmany different occasions, while on others he has escaped amid storms of bullets. His experience began as a Ranger on the Staked Plains and along the Rio Grande. It was the business of himself and the other Rangers to detcct and arrest the smugglers of the border, hunt down the cattle and horse thieves and bring to justice in the speediest way the outlaws who fled to the Texas wilds from Eastern States. e Mr. Loughborough was just from Virginia, when partially as a matier of adventure he joined the Rangers. Like theother Rangers he flad fo furnishonis own_ horses necessary for ranging, his saddle, a rifle and shotgun and a brace of rapid-firing revolvers. For all this, and his services, he got the pay of $50 & month, which Texas has paid her Rangerssince she placed them on her border. Many & night Mr. Loughborough has slept outin the cold and snow of the open prairie, but even this was pleasanter than 1o be riding at. full tiit and suddenly come to adraw in which was camped a band of outlaws. That meant fight, and there was a rain of lead from one side to the other, till one side or the other met defeat. Then it was & question of count- ing the dead. 2 “I cannot tell what such an experience is like,” said Mr. Loughborough last nignt. “It is & new experience. There is nothing else like it. It is sublime and terrible, and with a quaking something like stage-iright, but after ibe first shots you think nothing more of it, and simply load and fight for all you are worth 1ill the end.” Mr. Loughborough : has also fought Co- manches and Apaches, He has obtained and Eressrved as relics ot those thrilling days some eaddresses and other trophles of the noted chiefs. Some of these relics can no longer be got on the border, for the Indians who wore them have been wiped out. He keeps them as souvenirs of the bloody days when, fnll of adventure and puis- ating with life, he rode his relays of ponies and braved death in a hundred ways. He couldn’t do it sgain, and says he couldn’t. That is, he has no wish for that kind of a life any more, He wonders how he escaped, and shudders when he thinks of the days upon days and months upon months that he rode over the wilds of the prairies. As a Sheriff in New Mexico hisexperiences were not always tame_either, and allin all he has had a career of danger that he woulan't care to repeat. Mr, Loughborough is not at all boastful. He is not that kind of a man, but of few word, d of modest ways. He is now rep- reseuting a large commercial house. Heisa nephew of Alex Loughborough. the attorney, of this City. He the duties of the Texas Rangers are almost exactly the same as those of the Canadian mounted police. JUSTICE STEPHEN J. FIELD Once a year the story goes out that Justice Field is going to retire, writes a Washington cerrespondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Asregularly the senior Associate Justice an- nounces tkat he has no idea of doing any such thing. A Justice of the United States Supreme Court who has served ten years and who has reached the age of 70 may retire on full pay. Mr. Justice Field has served thirty-three years, andin a few months he will be 80 years old. For ten years he has been entitied to the ben- efit of the retiring act. Why hasn’t he taken advantage ofit? Well, he comes of the toughest of Connecticut.stock, and the habit of work is strong upon him. He enjoys the labor of the bench. There is another reason for the tenacity with which the Justice holds on, if the gossip of the court circle may be considered. In one year more Mr. Justice Fieid will take his place in the m’“’r{:‘ the court as the Justice who sat upon the bench longer than any other Associ- ate Justice. Justice Story of Massachusetts sat thirty-four years. In two years more Justice Field will have sat longer than any Chief Justice in the history of the court. Chief Jus- tice Marsball sat thirty-five years. Justice Fieid proposes to pull out the longevity peg and stick it in at & ‘higher hole before he_re- tires, unless the greater Judge overrules. Itis the belief of the oircle that the vemerahle “father of the court”’ will attain his ambition. In the thirty-three years of his service Justice Fiela has seen four Chief Justices and twenty- three Associate Justices on the bench. Whata Span this means will be better understood When it 1s stated thatsince the foundation of the court in 1789 there have been only m}ht Chief Justices. The flfty-first Associate Jus- no:, Mr. Peckbam, took his seat & few days This distinction comes to Mr. Justice Fleld the nearing close of & career which has been Texas | | The man who carried the challenge was Brod- | erick, afterward killed by Terry in a_duel, but not until he had saved the life of Fieid in a | San Francisco hotel. A foreigner with some grievance suddenly threw back his cloak and raised a pistol to shoot Field. Broderick threw himself between them and pushed Field through the door and into the street. It is stranger than fiction thet the life of Field has been so intertwined with the lives of men who met violent dedths and_that he has come through to this peaceful old age without a scrateh, A charmed life he has certainly led. In 1857 he was elected a Justice of the Supreme Court of California. Two years later came the resignation of Terry as Chfef Justi because of the duel in which he killea S Broderick. Field succeeded Terry as Justice of the State court, and from that posi- tion he was taken by President Lincoln’s ap- ointment to the bench of the United States upreme Court. Only a few years ago the aths of Fleld and d agein, lerry was killed by a United States Deputy Marshal, who had been detailed as a body- guard to protect the Justtce from apprehended | assault by his old enemy. Mr. Justice Field hes been no deadh=ad on the bench, With his long service is identified some famous legislation. He gave the casting ths war. He wrote the opinion of the court which annulled the “ironclad” oath. His dis- senting opinions in_the confiscation cases, in the legal-tender tost and in the New Orleans slaughter-house litigatlon are classics in American law literature. Of the fifteen dis- tinguished men who formed the Electoral Commission which gave Hayes the Presidency over Tilden by a vote of 8107, nineteen years ago, only two are in active Jife'to-day. One is Senator Hoar of Mussachusetts, the other is Chief Justice Field. It is hardly necessary to say that the latter was one of the seven. In the mext Presidential campaign Mr. Justice Field was put forward as a_candidate for the Presidency. Al the next National Democratic convention in Cincinnati in 1580 he received 65 votes on the first ballot. And now when it might be supposed that the mind would lag as the steps do Justice Field is one of the most active participants in the proceedings of the court. No one of the nine follows the arguments with closer atten- ton. No one asks more questions. No one carries to his home and brings back to the consultation-room a bigger bundle of briefsas the faithful messenger who accompanies Jus- tice Field at all times can testify. 1In the court circle there is just now current a rumor that the memory of Justice Fleid occasionally fails him. The story which illustrates this is that recently a lawyer in arguing a case read from various authorities and in the midst of one citation was interrupted by Justice Field with the remark that what he had just read was nonsense from the legal point of view. In- quiry showed that the authority so sweepingly condemned was nothing less than an opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States which Mr. Field had himself rendered a quar- ter of & century or so ago. The story may be true or it may be one of those jokes which cer- tain waggish members of the court like to set in circulation, even at their own expense. SOMEBODY'S BABY. I see each morning as T pass A tiny bouse that’s on my way A pretty picture thiough the glass, A face that haunts me through the day. *Ti3 some one’s baby there who crows And stretches out his hands to me. He think'y I'm some one that he knows. I’'m not, but I should like to be. I'm not the only man who goes Along that street and glances in, But I'm the only one he shows. The very slightest interest fo. He's taught me one thing that 'd miss: His winning wass & seed have sown. 1'd give my freedom to be kissed By such a baby of my 0w’ —Ladies’ Home Journal. AN ARCHITECTURAL ORNAMENT. One of the oddest and most incongruous architectural ornaments to be seen in San F' cisco is on a building on the corner of Mason and Bush streets. Itisintended to represent a sheaf of wheat and occupies an entire panel eight by twelve feet on the second story of the Sculptured Sheaf of Wheat Used as a Building Ornament. [From a sketch.] building. From all that can be learned from old tenants of the place there was no particu- lar reason for putting it there. The “sheaf" is not what would be called a wo;l;r of u‘Ll lgx mdlyu rogornonad ung .3: u looks more eaves than ;nn‘:." The most striking thing about it is vote in the famous test-oath case soon after | its enormous size. Accurate measurements cannot be obtained readily; but from compari- sons with the cornice and windows it looks to be at least ten feet high. The lower portion of the sheaf, r?reunung the straw, is about three feet wide and the heads spreat out about five feet. Only half of the sheaf shows, but that is sculptured in proportion and sticks out about two feet_from the Plnel. Taken alto- gether the effect produced of grotesque- ness rather than beauty. The sheaf of wheat was modeled in clay by an Italian and afterwards cast in plaster. He worked onjtalong time and when it was at last placed in position he was very proud of the results of his efforts. There is considerable carving and plaster ornamention on other parts of the building, but it was all of about the same quality as the sheaf of wheat. No attempt has been made to keep the different ornaments in Rroponlon toone another. Within five feet of the sheaf of wheat, ten feet high, there is a lion’s head occupying a panel about eighteen inches square. Tue building was erected by C. Rafou, its present owner, about 1855, and at the time was considered a magnificeat structure. It was the first large brick building to be erected in the neighborhood and sandhsils surrounded it on ail sides. Bush street was then little more than a few surveyors’ stakes and & name on the city map, HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Inspector—You don’t carry enough life-pre- servers. Steamboat Man—Oh, I guess there are enough for the people who would think of them in an emergency.—Puck. Ragson Tatters—You don’t know what it is, pardner, ter be t'rowed down by everybody, ‘wid no frien’s nor nottin’. The Other—Don’t I? I'm a baseball umpire.— Philadelphia Record. “Were these apples grown in the penitentiary or the workhouse?” asked the cheerful idiot. “Neither,” answered the confectioner. “Then why nave you marked them ‘From one sent up? "—Indianopolis Journel. Mrs. Bowers—I do wish you would go to church with me occasionally. How are people to know that ]l am married if they never see you with me? Mr. Bowers—Easy! Take the children with you.—Puck. Teacher—Thomas, I saw you laugh just now. What were you laughing about? Tommy—I was just thinkin’ about some- thing. “You have no business thinking during school hours. Don’t let it occur again.”’— London Answers. ‘I see,” seid Mrs. Fogg, “that nervous disor- ders are cansed by the piano.” ‘““And does the paper say that the principal sufferers are not the persons who do the play- ing?” replied Mr. Fogg. ‘Propably not, how- ever. Whatis the use of saying what eyery- body knows?”"—Boston Transeript. Fair Patient—Is there no way of telling ex- actly what is the matter with me, doctor? Doctor—Only & post-mortem examination can reveal that. She—Then for heaven’s sake mske one. I don’t see why I should be at all squeamish at sucha time as this.—London Tid-Bits. A SIMPLE DRESSING SACQUE. The dressing sacque shown here is cut on ex- ceedingly simple lines. The front is seamless. The back has the center forms and side body cut in one, thus making only three seams back of the under arm seam. The round collar is | joined to it by a simple seam, which is hidden in between the collar and sack. Ablue flannel, with black zigzag lines, had a {rill of black chiffon around the collar; bows of black satin ribbon were used to hold the edges of the front together. A new method of buttoning a garment and yet avoiding button- holes (the bugbear of many a home dress- maker) is shown on this garment. A silk cord is sewn just inside the edge, which at intervals forms tiny loops just large enough to allow the buttons to slip througn. A sacque of mignonette green cashmere had all the edges buttonhole stitched in scallops with black silk. The collar was further adorned by a narrow ruffle of black lace. For spring and summer wear wash fabrics are preferred. Pink batiste, with a rufile of Valenciennes lace on the edge of the collar and down the front. White and biue duck, with trimmings of creamy white lace in bands set on collar and around the edges, is effective and serviceabie. Brown hollands, with trimmings of white, is equaily useful and can be brightened up by bows of rose pink, light olive green or tur- quoise blue. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CATHODE X RAYs—J.A. R., San Lorenzo, Cal, Why the ray from the Crookes tube will pene- trate steel and flesh and not bone has not yet been determined, but experiments are being made with & View to ascertaining that fact. The explanation given up to this time is that “the bones of the hand show as distinguished from the flesh because they retard the rays more than the flesh.” EN6LISH INHERITANCE—M. R., Oakland, Cel. Aliens cannot inherit real property in Eng- land, though they be the direct heirs. A child of British parents who happened to be born in the United States, for instance, while the par- ents were traveling, and was aiterward taken back to English_territory and in time adopted his father’s citizenship, would, despite the fact of birth in a foreign country, be consid- ered a British subjeet, and in such case, it is said, be entitled to inherit. THE CHINA STEAMER—T. P., City. The fast- est time made by the steamer China of the Pa- cific Mail line from this port to Yokohama was twelve days and ior!f-flva minutes. This steamer, the finest that is now running to the Orient from this port. is 4940 tous gross and 4697 net re%!ter. Her measurement is 440.4 length, 48.1 beam and 32.8 depth. The length of her promenade deck is 220 feet. She is a three-decker, four-masted and was ouilt by the Fairfield Company at Glasgow in 1889, GENT—E. G. 8, Livermore, Cal. “Gent’ was originally, it is believed, a contraction of gen- teel. Subsequently it was used as a cpntrac- tion of gentleman, until Thackeray by his pun- gent satire drove this word as a contraction of gentleman almost_completely out of use. In the ““Canterbury Tales,” by "Chaucer, in Mil- ler's tale occur these words: ‘As.any wesil her body gent and small,” Spenser, who livea from 1553 to 1599,in his “Faerie Queen"” Wwrol * Well, worthie impe! said then the And pupil fit for such a tutor’s hand, He Joved &3 was his lot, a lady gent. In Madame Knight's journal, 1704, there is “Law yon, sais she, it’s right gent; do - w7 tia dréadal pretey. ol e SO WDk hese show that the writers of th used the contraction in sense of g:::e:li.m%:l later years it was used in the sense of gentle- man, butitisno more properto be used in thatsense than it is to viation of pantaloons, —° PoDiS 8881 abbre- WEST POINT—W. L., Alameda, Cal. How enter West Point has been amswered in th‘lg department so often that almost every person in the State ought to know by this time what lady gent he requirements are. Write to the Congress- !‘:nln f‘}om your district and he will (urfl':g you with & circular of information that will tell you all you want to know about the military academy and the qualifications necessary for entering. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. The late Dr. Van Dyck, the Syrian missions ary, spent his last days translating Ben Hur into Arabic. This celebrated story has also been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Bohemian and Armenian, and published in raised letters for the blind. Gertrude Simmons, the Indian girl chosen to represent her college, Earlham, at the Indiana State oratorical contest, is & bright young woman of 22, with straight black hair, dark face and other Indian attributes. She speaks English without accent and with faultless articulation. Barre, the sculptor and engraver who died recently in Paris at the age of 85, de- signed the coins issued by Napoleon III in 1852. His best busts are those of Pius IX, Napoleon II and members of the Bonaparte family. .One of his latest busts was that of Mme. Jane Hading. Explorer Nansen is married to an accom- plished woman, who after his deperture in search of the north pole quietly settled down in Christiania to her duties as & teacher of vocal and instrumental music. The Nansens own & pretcy little house, in which Dr. Nansen does nearly all his work as astudent. The Nansens are very popular in Christiania. The executors of Cardinal Bonaparte have decided to sell at anction his personal effects. Among these are the throne of Napoleon the Great; the emall table upon which the Em- peror wrote at St. Helena; two carpets which once belonged to Mme. Lactitia, the mother of Napoieon, and s beautiful miniature of the Empress Josephiue. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend’ Zeooead SoFT chewing molasscs candy. Townsend’s.® el il EPECTAL information daily to manufactarers, business houses and public men by the Prast Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Monfgomery, * ————— NEw goods all over the store. Don’t think of old styles or old prices. What$1 used to buy, 75 cents, and even 50 cent; likely to purchase now. -We have many new things in Pictures, Frames, Artists’ Materials, Leather Goods, Sta- tionery, Lamps and Shades, Artificial Flowers and Toilet Articles. which the public is invited to see. Everybody welcome at all times. £an- born, Vail & Co. . = . Mrs. Chaffice—Johnny, I have discovered that you have taken more cake than Igave ou. 2 Johnnie—Yes, ma; I made believe there was another little boy spending the day with me.— Texas Siiter. —— e To purify the blood, restore the lost appetite and build up the whole system take Hood's Sarsa- parilla. The necessity of a Spring medicine is universally admitted. Take only Hood’s. 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