The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 13, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1856. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Paily and Sundsy CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 D . one year, by mail..... 6.00 six months, by mail. .00 one month, by mal mail Daily and Sunday CAL Sunday CALL, one year, by WREKLY CALL, 0D ¥ BUSINES! 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californi Felephone... : L . Main—1868 | EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Ledephove. ... ot i ...Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 530 Montgomers strect, corner Clay; open until | 30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clook. 718 Larkin street: open until o'clock. | SW . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; opem | entil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 8 o'clock. 116 Minih street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : €08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 34 Park Row, New York Oity. DAVID M. FO pecial Agent. ARCH 18, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Russia will soon pocket Korea and have | a free hand to reach out for Armenia. has gone duck-shooting again. | with him is only an episode. Cleve Otficial The East will have the next President of course, but the great West will name him. | The straighter a funding scheme is for | the railroad the more crooked it is for ‘the | people The trouble with Kentucky is that she can never be dramatic without being melo- | dramatic. Olney may have put the hen of adminis- tration patronage on his little boom egg, | but it won’t hateh. | The Commercial Bank of San Jose will resume at once. 1t seems that it stopped only to take breath. beneath Me-+ Ohio this There is nothing - shaky Kinley’s feet in his own State. time is solid for keeps. In solidifying for McKinley the Ohio Republican Convention came very near freezing out the Foraker crowd. Kentuckv had better put up her kmfe. It is not worth while to carve up three or legislators to make one Senator. The Salvation Army will not run two circuses under one tent, and Ballington Booth will have to start a side show. Ii State Democracy s wise it will steer between Buckley and Rainey and allow neither of them to get a hand in the apple-cart. As Senator Hoar accused the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations of being sleepy, he probably jumped on it simply rted that big discoveries ave been made in British Colum- and it begins to look as if the world | full of it. Between Allison and McKinley at present | 1t is nip and tuck with even betiing as to which will be tuck and which will have to console himself with a nip. The thing that will grieve Cleveland | most in going out of office will be the loss of a Government cutter to take him on his duck-shooting and fishing trips. | In the absence of any other way of get- | ting a Presidential candidate the Demo- crats might start a balloting contestata | nickel & yote and turn the campaign into | 8 carnival. The success of the Abyssinians bas | stirred up the Dervishes to try to run the British out of Egyot, and before long Africa may be carrying the war into urope for a change. The Towa Republicans did well in adopt- ing the record of Senator Allison asa plat- form. There is no stronger one in this country and it is broad emough for all Republicans to stand on. The anarchists of this City who are talk- ing of organizing have evidently overlooked the fact that organization means harmony, government and work, and when these are established anarchy is destroyed. Senator Hoar says Olney is a “generous, square, honest, clear-headed, old-fashioned Yankee,” and on the strength of that puff the Olney boom will begin to inflate itself and sway in the air like & balloon. ““The way out of our misfortunes,” says Congressman Dolliver, “lies in giving back to the workingmen of the United | States the opportunity to do the work of the American peopte.” To that doctrine the whole Republican party says amen. The action of the Rhode Island Demo- cratic convention in adopting a platform confined to State issues and ignoring National affairs raises the question whether there is at this time either a National Democratic issue or a Nationai Democratic party. It is pleasing to note that all California Representatives in Congress are working together for the passage of the mineral- land bill. The fight in the Senate is going to be a hard one, and without unity of ef- fort on the part of Californians there would be no chance of winning. According to the latest reports the battle of Adowa was one of the most destructive in the annals of modern wars and may prove decisive of the fate of Central Africa for the rest of this generation. If Menelek has sufficient statesmanship to profit by his victory the independence of Abyssinia is virtually secure and the white conquest has reached the limit. 3 In- his speech before the Republican State Convention of Iowa Congressman Dolliver summed up the issue of the cam- paign tersely and accurately in saying, ‘‘the demand of the hour is for somebody who understands the everyday business of the Governmentof the United States—who can read the account-books on both sides— what we take in and what we pay out.” A dying legislator was carried into the Democratic caucus at Frankfort to give ike party nomination for Benator to Black. burn, another dying legislator called the gold-money Democrats around him and urged them to vote against Blackburn. aud it now looks as if there would be sev- eral other legislators dead or dying in Kentucky before he is either elected or de- | President Cleveland’s comm | more generous INVESTIGATING JAPAN. No more competent judge of economics, especially with reference to the effect of foreign competition and of tariff laws, can be found than Robert P. Porter, who is now in this City on his way to Japan. He goes to the land of the chrysanthemum as an individual student, and the result of his_ researches will prove useful for pur- poses of comparison with the report of_the commission which Congress has authorized the President to appoint for covering the same ground. Mr, Porter is an ardent pro- tectionist. 1t is not to be assumed that ion will run contrary to the free-trade policy of the administration, and hence Mr. Porter’s report will likely command more respectful attention than the one which the commis- sion may make. His experience as Super- vising Inspector of the Federal Census and as a member of the Tariff Commission qualifies him for exceptionally intelligent study in that field. There recently app ed in these columns a communication calling attention to the our alarm on the score of cheap competition with Japan is based merely on some extravagant boasts of an agent selling Japanese buttons in San Francisco, and that the pressure of competition has not yet been felt. That may be true, but it in no sense lessens the danger which the future holds. The conditions upon which the awakened industrial activity of Japan rest are the real source of anxiety. | Our people have no desire to compete with manufactured articles produced by skilled artisans to whom 25 cents a day is a munificent salary. In this City we have now a strike of painters in which one of the elements is the employment of Eu- ropeans at $1a The foundation upon which every trades union in this country restsis a demand for such wages as will insure the ordinary necessities and com- forts of life. It is the idea of protection brought home and enforced within the bounds of our own social compact. No member of & trades union can be consistent who does not extend to foreign competition the same prineiple which he raises against his own people at home. A protective tariff is designed to assure to Americans a ale of wages, a higher standard of living and a freer enjoyment of individual rights, privileges and freedom than are possible to the struggling and poverty-stricken masses of Europe and the Orient. The start which Japan has made is v an indication of the destructive ch it will institute againstus unless we suppress the opportunity which it now enjoys under a Democratic tariff. Itis the right and duty of Americans to maintain their own standard of living, and | protection is the only means for securing | that end. 4 GREAT BOULEVARD. As the widest and handsomest residence street in the City Van Ness avenue is en- titled to special attention. Not only has it these points of superiority, but it is nearly level, extends from Market street to the channel, is a necessary link in the grand chain of boulevards planned for the City, and is the only one of a width sufiicient for a strip of trees throughout its center. It is the improvement that the Van Ness Avenue Improvement Clab is now urging on the Street Committee of .the Board of Supervisors. The absence of trees in a city whose mild climate permits of luxurious vegetation is not a compliment to the taste and sagacity of the people. Trees are not plantea sim- ply because their shade is not needed. Their value for ornamental purposes has been as hopelessly disregarded as the op- portunity for cultivating flower gardens of surpassing beauty. In the middle of a wide street paved with bituminous rock trees and flowering shrubs would be anex- ceedingly pleasant ornament to the City, and would interfere with no one’s comfort on the score of excluding sunshine. The question of expense is the only one deserving consideration. This, with the co-operation of Golden Gate Park, would be smaller than in any other city. Saun Francisco needs more variety, and surely no better advertisement of its mild climate could be devised than the rich verdure and flowers of semi-tropic regions. HOAR AND THE OUBANS. Senator Hoar’s plea in the Senate for de- lay before further action on the Cuban resolutions wasa curious performance. It was of course ably presented, for the Sen- ator is an able man, and yet the very vigor of his argument served only to exhibit the more foreibly the inconsistency of the pol- icy he advocated. The first argument of the Senator was that the Senate had undertaken to act without due information concerning the affairs of Cuba and that it should now wait until information could be obtained from the State Department. To this ar- gument he added the further one that the Senate should not interfere with the func- tions of the State Department, but should respect the burdens and responsibilities borne by the executive. He added in con- clusion that all which the Senate has done so far in the matter has never been seri- ously intended to help the Cubans, but only to make material for use in the ap- proaching Presidential campaign. Though these arguments were made to appear strong by the force with which they were uttered they are essentially weak and futile. As Senator Sherman pointed out, the Senate, so far from acting with- out due information, had received from the State Department a full report of all correspondence on Cuban inatters, and this document has been before the Senate for more than two weeks. It is further- more a duty of the Senate to act with the President on the conduct of such matters as those under discussion, since the consti- tution expressly provides that it shall do so. g The issue is one on which the Senate should certainly decide promptly what course it intends to pursue. The struggle in Cuba is rapidly becoming a war of ex- termination. If our mediation is to be of any use to either combatant it should be offered at once and strongly enforced. Delay in such. case is of no valueto us, and it means death to Cuba. OUR DRIED FRUIT TRADE. Lyman R, Wing of Chicago has fur- nished THE CALL with some information concerning our marketing of dried fruits in the East, and it should receive the most serious attention from growers. The most valuable of his statements are that by a fortnitous circumstance, for which we deserve no special credit—namely, the failure of the French prune crop—we have virtuslly captured the prune market, and can hold it; that some of our growers have done all possible to injure the reputation of the State for producing superior fruits by crowding inferior products upon the mearket, and that many of our growers are so gulbible as to be deceived by the gircu- lars of Eastern dealers mot of the proper kind, who make alluring promises, which it is impossible to fulfill. This does not mean to say that the ex- cellent fruits which we send out fall short feated. of the best that Europe and the Eastern States produce, but that the poor fruits which we ship are offered so cheaply (and, of course, at a loss to the producer) that they are readily bought, and serve largely to establish the reputation of the State for the quality of its fruit. Considering the high rates of transportation there .is clearly no greater business folly than send- ing inferior fruits to the East. Thegrower will be fortunate if he secures sufficient from the sale to pay freight. On theother hand, good profits almost invariably re- sult from the marketing of prime fruits, and always so when some intelligence is employed in the selection of 'a consignee. Asa rule the preparation of our fruits for the market is altogether out of propor- tion to the natural excellence of the fruit; in short, much of our good fruit is spoiled in the drying merely through lack of in- telligent attention. In a State of rainless summers there is no excuse for this. The growers who never complain of the fruit industry are those who understand the art of preparing it for market. Mr. Wing’s assertion that much of our fruit is consigned to improper personsisa serious matter demanding investigation, It is the overshrewd grower who is gener- ally hurt by these delusive opportunities. Those who adhere to the methods of the organizations made to counteract all the evils of which Mr, Wing complains are those who secure. the best returns. If some growers are determined not to take advantage of the opportunities which their more intelligent neighbors have se- cured and are offering to all they might at least take steps to ascertain the reliability of the commission-houses to which they ship. No grower has the rightto injure the fruit business of the entire State by ship- ping inferior goods. It brings him no profit and injures many others. If he can- not produce good fruit and market it in- telligently he is not made for the business and should retire. M'DONALD'S ACQUITTAL. The prompt acquittal of R. H. McDonald on another of the charges made against him in connection with the wrecking of the Pacific Bank was exvected by those who have watched the cases agamnst him. Meanwkile, the fact remains that the bank was handled in such a way as to ruin it, and the fault must be somewhere. The outcome of the matter emphasizes the necessity jor enforcing the laws which exist for the protection of those having business with banks. These laws, besides being ample in themselves, are re-enforced by the general criminal statutes, and if they have been violated in the case of the Pacific Bank it is somebody’s duty either to enforce them or explain to the public wherein they have not been violated. The closing of the Pacific Bank came at the beginning of the financial depmession, and nearly precipitated a run on all the banks in town. Ore bank did suffer a ran and others heavy withdrawals, but prompt co-operation among all these institutions averted what might have been the most terrible disaster in the history of San Fran- cisco. Meanwhile, the newspapers, fully aware that there was no occasion for alarm, threw all their influence into the breach and helpea to save the day. One of the important duties of the Bank Commission is to avert such panics by maintaining a careful watch upon the banks. Wherea bank is looteq outright and its records falsified it is often impossi- ble for the Commission to discover the true state of affairs in time to save the assets, but in that event the criminal laws can be brought into play. The Paeific Bank failure was the most scandalous affair of the kind that ever oe~ curred in this State. It has been believed by many that whatevet may have been young McDonald’s lack of suspicion or shrewdness he was less guilty, if guilty at all, than a number of others whose names were freely used on the streets and in the newspapers. The whole story of that re- markable affair has never been published, and it seems to have a curious faculty for evading the searching process of the courts. Ifthe remaining charges against young McDonald are dismissed he will be in a position to tell the truth and see that justice isdone. If be does do so and has the courage to push the matter he may rely on the entire decent sentiment of the community for support and sympathy. CURRENT HUMOR. Bunson (to janitor)—So, Rastus, you claim that your father was a body servant to George Washington? Itseems to me that the father of our country had lots of 'em. Where was your father when Washington took a hack at the cherry tree? Rastus (stoutly)—He was drivin’ de hack, suh.—Jjudge. Perry Patettic (in the road)—W'y don’t you goin? De dog’s all right. Don’t you see him waggin’ his tail? Wayworn Watson (at the gate) — Yes, an’ he’s growlin’ at the same time. Idon’t know which end to believe.—Cincinnati Enquirer. She—He whistled as he went for want of thought. Of course it was & boy. You wouldn’t find & girl whistling for want of a thought. He—No; she wouldn’t whistle; she'd talk.— Indianapolis Journal. Many good people in Maine will sympathize with the Penobscot County man who attempted tospeak in town meeting on the subject that greatly interested him. “Fellow-citizens!” he sang out lustily as he arose—‘‘fellow-citizens!"” nd embarrassing pause, and then he added: “If I only had the ideas Iought to have on this subject, and had the-words to express those ideas, I think I could relieve my feel- How the crowd cheered as .he sat —Lewiston Journal. ter—T1ris roast isail burned. I can’tserve it to any one. Leandlord—Serve it to that gentleman and lady yonder. They are on their wedding jour- ney—they won’t notice. s Featherstone—I wonder if your sister real- izes, Willie, that during the last morith I have given her ten pounds of chocolates? . Willie—Of course she does. That's why she. is keeping ber engagement with Jim Burling & secret.—Spare Moments. : Commuter (meetipg humble neighbor)— Why, Cassidy, I'm surprised to meet yom in New York with no collar to your shirt! Mr. Cassidy—Sure, no wan knows me here. Commuter—Well, you never wear one in Lonelyville. Mr. Cassidy — Sure, every wan knows me there.—Puck. L Landiady (atdinner)—I see you have a good appetite, Mr. Newcomb. Mr. Newcomb — Yes, and if you look after dinner you -will see it still. —Philaaelphia Record. Guest (pushing them away from him)—I don’tlike the way you cook eggs at this restau- rant. Waiter—What's the trouble, sir? - Guest—You don’t cook them soon enough.— New York Weekly. Oratorical Pugilists and Pugilistic Ora- tors, Los Angeles Herald, To-day the difference between s .United States Senator and a pugilist is that t ch. of the fiery Senator is mostly. made up vio- lent and incessant shaking of the fists, while ;l‘z,ge gn‘;:h of :fte -lngxa:i cia -lmatgx‘e.r com- of countless orato: con! i a 4000-mile Recognize the Belligerents. ‘Woodland Democrat. If the Salvation Army is to be split in twain, of course it will be in order to recognfze Bal- :l;‘:wn Booth and his pretty wife as belliger- AROUND THE CORRIDORS. A mild sensation was created at the Palace yesterday when A. B. Deming, the Oakland evangelist and nominator of General Howara for the Presidency, walked in. He had his high hat placarded fore snd aft with huge pieces of tin on which were inscribed various quotations from the Seriptures. He inquired for A. M. Howard of Chicago, the son of General Howard. The young gentle- man had recontly arrived, and the venerable advocate of his father’s nomination desired to see him in regard to ways of furthering the campaign. The inscriptions on the hat were in red and black letters. . The first one read JRSUS' COMING 1S VERY NEAR. BLESSED ARE THEY WHO ARE EEADY. WATCHING AND WAITING. Search the Scriptures. On the rear tin plate, which loomed fully as’ high as its mate and looked like & veritable ‘bulletin-board, apters. Therefore, and Pray Always That Ye May Be Ac- guainted With and Escape All ’:"Mu Thiogs That Shall Gome to ass. 3 ‘Watch Ye, “I'm going to St, Louis,” said the old gentle- man. “How I will get there I do not know, granite weighing twenty-five tons. It is prob- able that the body of General Leggett will fimally be placed in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, The Czar of Russia has set aside 200,000 roubles (almost $100,000) to be distributed among the charitable institutions of Moscow, in honor of his coronation. His Majesty is taking great interest in the preparations for the ceremony. Among other things the famous old Kremlin is to be lighted with 500,000 lanterns, and 14,000 small electric lights are to illumine the tower. VIEWS OF ~ WESTERN EDITORS. A New Definition. . Los Angeles Herald. A pugllist is a thing of booty and a jaw for- ever. . Counting Chickens Before Hatched. Los Angeles Pimes. It is suggested that by the aid of the Roent- gen rays it will at last be possible for one to count his chickens before they are hatched. Needs a New Pilot. Stockton Record. It is quite significant that during the present administration there has scarcely been a day thatsome international dispute has not threai- ened to complicate this country. Unfortunate Financiering. National City Record. If the Democrats could wreck our finances the way they have done by having no financial A B Deming, the Eccentric Evangelist Who Is Booming General Howard for the Presidency. but I'll sirely be there, and General Howard will be nominated. I was saying to my friend Dodge & while ago that Dr. Brown had got <o well known now that he had better turn in and speak for General Howard. Everybody Tnow would come to hear him. “Some time ago, when I first made the nom- ination of General Howard in a large audi- ence of religious people, Dr. Brown said I ought to be locked up. But I went righton with the campaign. Igot out a lot of hand- bills sfter"that, and have pushed the campaign till now it cannot be enued except by General Howard’s nomination and election, “Ihad & vision about this. That's why I know it is all right. I fasted seven days. For seven days I didn’t est or drink, and I held out on the eighth, except to drink. The next day I broke the fast. During this fast I hed a most wonderful vision, and was told te go ahead with General Howard’s nomination. “I am going to see his son now, and arrange for certain details of the campaign.” Mr. Deming meantime sent up his card. After & while word came down that Mr. Howard was not in, and the old gentleman withdrew. This ‘was not, hovever, till he had delivered some parting words to different people about his cer- tainty of General floward’s nomination. A SONG OF JUNE. June, by thesun! June, by the raddy rose ‘That leans and yields her fragrance to the air; Jupe. by the drowsy hum 0t golden-belted bees, Ihu.fv ‘and come, Draining the sweets that luring blossoms bear, From odorous morn il balmy evening’s close. In other climes the blizzard biares and blows, The sleety Ice King lays his chilling hand D mountain, mend and moor; Thmn“l’loshive(m[ trees the uncurbed north winds ar, And mocking March, deriding the spent land, Fiings far and wide his universal snows. 0 land of sunshine! Valley of repose, My Santa Clara! Blue your mountains rise This blithe and biest March day; Thy snows are aimond blooms, that nod and sway With the warm breath of thy maternal skies, Upon whose breast the nestling cloudlets doze. June, each new dawn! June, where thy sunset glows O'er redwood and madrons, fern and vine, And wildwood blossomings; June, where the glad thrush from the alder sings, And where by banks and tangied eglantine Th’ exulting brook with laughter leaps aud flows. Ye who strive with flerce, elemental foes, The savage storm-biasts and the lightning's Haste hither, to our June! Fly hither, where all nature is atune, And winter, summer-guised, flower-garlanded, Smiles on the Land of the Perennial Rose! —FRED L. FoSTER. In Sun Jose Mercury. 8N JosE, Cal.. March 10, 1896. PARAGRAFHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Rev. C. A. Carter of St. Mary’s Church, Liverpool, England, has baptized 14,014 in- fants during the past seventeen years, an aver- age of sixteen a week. George Ebers, the German novelist, is one of the most notable of recent converts to Bud- dhism. Professor Ebers is one of the pro- foundest Orientalists in the world. Professor Poinacre of Paris, in his studies of the effect of the moon on the meteorology of the earth, has discovered that it has an in. fluence not only on the production of eycloues, but also on their direction. 1t has been noticed in Washington that since Seuator Quay launched his Presidential boom he appears in & black frock coat. Itissaid, indeed, that all favorite sons, as & rule, affect the black frock coat during the period of their favorite sonship. William Bradford, a stanch Republican of Louisyille, N. Y., said the other day: *My first vote was cast for ‘Fremont and freedom,’ 8dd if any one shall ever think it worth wkile to write my obituary, what 1 most wish they would say is: ‘He voted for John C.Fremont and twice for Abraham Lincoln.’” The most influential people in Europe are old. Queen Victoria is nearly 77, Lord Salis- bury is 65, Prince Hohenlohe is 71, Count Goluchowsky, the new Austrian Chancellor, is 65; Prince Lobanoff, the Russian Councilor, is 67; Siwnor Crispi, the late Italian Premfer, is 77; the Pope and Mr. Gladstone are 86, and Prince Bismarck is 81, The famous reinsman, W. H. Doble, who is dying, was the first man to drive a trotter faster than 2:17. The feat he accomplished in 1872 at Mystic Park, when he drove Goldsmith Maid egainst Lucy in 2:163, and beat by & quarter of a second the time his more famous | son, Budd Doble, had made with the Maid. AlL of nis sons have become celebrated drivers. Members of the Loyal Legion in Cleveland are about to raise funds for & monument to the late Major-General Mortimer D. Leggett. The monument will consist of & bowlder of policy what would it be if they had a settled financial policy? The probabilities are that there would soon be try it on. California’s Twin Curses. o Visalia Times. Land monopoly and railway monopoly are the twin evils which have for many years re- stricted the growth and retarded the develop- ment of Californtd. To their evil influence must be ascribed California’s lagging bebind such States as Kausas, Nebraska, Texas and no finances whatever to Tread Lightly. Los Angeles Expiess. The condition of affairs in Europe to-day is 80 disturbed that no one need be surprised ifa great European war closes the century as it closed the 1ast. One thing is certain, the pow- der is laid and evervthing is ready for the ex- plosiou, and it wiil be extraordinary if some one does not apply the match. Spain ¥s Angry. Los Angeles Record. Cuba free! Ifthat message should ever be flashed over the world every American would rejoice. Spain is angered by the patriotic and just action of the Senate. Spain was the first 1o recognize the Southern Confederacy in the dark days of’61. Spain would have danced with delight at the dismemberment of this Re- public. ng life to the Senators who have 4eclared for Cuban freedom! Advertising the Climate. Oakland Enquirer. Alameda County will lead off in the work of advertising the State by means of distributing the climatic map which has been published by the State Development Committee. The local committee, which includes a number of enter- prising citizens, has subscribed a sum of money sufficient to start the ball rolling, and the circnlation of several thousand copies of the map is assured as a consequence. How It Worked. Visalia Delta. Free-traders were profuse in their promises of good to result from the placing of wool on the free list and Wilson-Gormanizing the tariff. on woolen goods. They promised an increased demand and price for American wool, increased amount of woolen goods manuiactured and cheaper goods to the consumer. During the first fuli year under the said law American menufazturers lost $42,000,000 of the home trade and American wool-growers lost the sate ol 125,000,000 pounds of wool. Santa Monica’s Innovation. Alamcda Encinal, Down in Santa Monica the Board of Trustees have made a novel innovation in the order of business for their meetings. Whnen “new busi- ness” and other heads have been disposed of the president inquires: “Is there anything un- der the head of ‘good of the town?' " Usually some member wiil speak of a needed street or park improvement and_sometimes other city officers wili tell what they think ought to be | done to make the city more attractive. A MISS' SHIRT WAIST. The waist shown here is one of the most styl- ish shapes. The yoke back is cut deep enough at the top to extend well over the shoulder, forming a shallow yoke in front, to which the body is gathered. Batiste with cuffs and cotlar of white linen makes & very jaunty waist. The new fabrics for shirt waists show some startling combinattons of color, and very strik- ing designs of flowers conventionalized. These are often made up with a plain color which barmonizes for the cufts and collar. Very elaborately embroidered batiste in natural colors is used, and the result is very rich. The cuffs and collar are usuall: batiste to match, or of white. T oE Al "~ PERSONAL. Dr. Herman F. Fox of Brooksville, Ohio, is in town. E. Metcalf of Pheenix, Ariz., arrived here yes- terday. Coloniel E. G. Wheeler of San Jose isat the Palace. F. B. Granger, & hotel proprietor of Alvarado, is at the Russ. ‘William Corey, & manufacturer of Manches- ter is in the City. Dr. C. E. Munn of Honolulu was a passenger by the Alameda yesterday. Peter Lengfritz, the mining expertof Denver, 1s a guest at the Cosmopoliten. Mrs. Allen Herbert of Honolulu arrived here ‘Yesterday and is at the Oceidental. J. W. Bailey, an extensive shoe manufacturer of Worcester, Mass., is at the Grand. E. E. Harlow, the agricultural implement manufacturer of Stockton, is in town. Maurice Hazzan, a mining and business man of Chihuahus, is among recent arrivals. Colonel W. D. Barnes of New York arrived here yesterday. He is at the Ocecidental. Colonel Kilgour of the British army in India, is in the City, accompanied by Mrs. Kilgour. J. Mills Davies, one of the proprietors of the Los Angeles Express, arrived here yesterday. R. Weir, the capitaiist of Forrestville, is a zuest at the Cosmopolitan, accompanied by his family. Miss Y. Thebens, who has been visiting friends at Sacramento, has returned to her home here. M. Fredrick of Will & Finck left last night for New York, to be gone two months, in the interest of the firm. Louis Kahlbaum, manager of the Koloa plantation, Hawaii, was among the arrivals by yesterday’s steamer. Elijah Smith ot Empire City, Or., formerly president of the Oregon Railway and Naviga- tion Company, is in the City. Konig Irgaka of Japan, a graduate of Har- vard College, is en route to his native soil, and is staying at the Cosmopolitan. Charles C. Goodall of Rochester, N. Y., who has been on a visit to Honoluluy, is in the City. He will spend the winter in Los Angeles. Hon. William McCullough, a newspaper man of Auckland, New Zealand, and member of the New Zealand Parliament, is in the City. Paul Isenberg, who is at the head of the firm of Hochfeld & Co., general merchants and plantation owners in Hawaii, is at the Ocei- dental. Abbott Kinney of Los Angeles, who made a fortune from manufacturing cigarettes and returned to the city of Los Angeles to enjoy it, is at the Occidental. G. F. Swift and Edward Morris, the great pork and beef packers of Chicago, who are in- terested in the packing establishment at Baden, are in the City. Among the arrivals at the Russ are T.R. Brighton, 8. F. Devall, G. P.Slocum and E. Coffin, all old whaling captains, who are bound to the Arctic on various ships. J.R. Herod of the United States legation, Tokio, arrived here yesterday on the Ala- meda, accompanied by his wife and child. He is en route East on a leaveZoi absence. J. McMillen, owner of the Roche Harbor (Wash.) lime kilns, near Tacoma, the largest in the worla, is at the Occidental. These kilns have a capacity of 1500 barrels of lime a day. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., March 12.—Amoug the recent arrivals are: W.C. Ralston, Holland; E. G. Schwarz, Astor; P. Dale, Westminster; S. Harris, Marlborough; J. Remusat and wife, Broadway Central; F. E. Nelson, St. Cloud. LIVES IN A WATER-TANK. Thirty years ago Tom Higgins was one of the best vaqueros in California. He had worked all oyor the State and was known as a man capable of doing anything to a steer that could be done with a lariat and horse. Nothing was good enough for Tom in those days and he was just as ready to fight as to eat. Now he makes his home 1n an abandoned water-tank and earns his living by catching and selling frogs. Tom’s last job was on the Lux estate in San Mateo County, but the cattle business was An 0ld Water-Tank Uscd as a House. [From a sketch.] abandoned there many years ago and he found himself without an occupation. He made sev- eral attempts at other work, but did socrlyA Then he seemed to get discouraged and hung around the old stables for a long time. Atlast they were torn dow he was without a home. Then he ppeared for a few years and at last came and took up bis resi- dence in a water-tank that in the old days used to furnish water for his horee. With ali his misfortunes Tom is not unhappy in his strange.home. He a comfori- able place and that he makes a fairliviug, with little work, from the marsh only & few hun- dred yards from his door. His ‘house’ is located in an isolated spot. It 18 not far from South San Francisco, but when he sits at his door he can only see a blank hill- side in front of him. by walking to the top of the hill, however, he can get a magnificent view of the surfounding country and that compensates him, he says. When he first came to the place he found the ruins of the old windmill tower lying on the ground ana with them made a very good roof. Some old tar-paper and rags made it perfectly watertight, After cutting & door and window Tom put in a stove, a few cooking utensils and a bed, and made himself comfortable. He does not have to do much to make a living asmany days his net will bring him in $5 or $6. That amount of money will buy provisions auvd :o- bacco for a long time, so that he can go to the top of the hill and dream of bygone days. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS—Subscriber, Chico. One section of the school law of this State says that “no publication of a sectarian, partisan or de- nominational character must be used in or distributed in any school, or be made a part of gress and sending on_the required fee thera must be sent wrie Librarian two complete copies of the work within a reasonable ttmei if not thecopyright is void and spom!lflr $25 -nwhu.”l‘o have s work nogyrinm l: any of the foreign countries in the o] % a;llon the work must be gfin\efid o :Ih:h :oi‘ o e couat! ‘wiic! )| s ifitis to {.’1‘!‘}‘. m-zov’;nfgountdes ‘besides the United States the publication must be simultaneéous. Two TaNkS—C. H. P.. Cornwall, Contra Costs County, Cal. If two tanks of different size but of the same height are filled with water and each has the same sized outlet tflhe wi:l“ »3‘11 escape from the one as fast as it does from the olhe,;-,.bm if one is built niinor than the other the pressure from the higher one would be greater than that from the smaller one. A column of water 12 inches high exerts a down- ward pressure of .48 of a pound to the square inch. A column two feet high exertsa prese sure of about .86, or double that of one ioot. To find the pressure in pounds persquare inch exerted by a column of water multiply the height of the column in feet by.43. To find the head multiply the pressure in pounds.per square ineh by 531, © o 3 VALUABLE COINS AND ANONYMOUS CORRE- SPONDENTS—G. J., Santa Cruz, Cal. Had you complied with the rules of this department re- quiring the full name and address of the cor- respondent an answer by mail would have been sent you, but as yon failed to do 80, the information asked cannot be given, for the seasou that this department does not advertise Anv business or individual. Correspondents who hide their identity under *Subseriber,” Constant Reader,” “J. G.” and the like should not feel disappointed if their communications are not noticed. A desire to obtain informae tion as to matters the inquirer wishes to be in- formed about is nothing that one need be ashamed of, and therefore there is no reason for concealing the name and address. Often it happens that the editor of this department wishes to correspond with a questioner im order to obtain a clearer idea of what is des sired, or to send a reply by mail when tha question is not one of general public interest, DESERTION—E. M., Oakland, Cal. The law of California says that williul desertion is the voluntary separation of one of the married parties from the other with intent to desert; that persistent refusal to have reasonable any school library; nor must any sectarian or denominational doetrine be taught therein.” The Bible is not used as a textbook in the pub- lic schools of this State. NEPHEW AND AUNT—J. C. M., Los Angeles, Cal. The law of this State prohibits the mar- riage of aunt and nephew, but that refers only to the line of consanguinity. The wife of a man’s uncle is only that man’s aunt by mar- riage, but not by the relationship contem- flued oy the law; therefore there would not any objection if both perties were agree- able, to & man marrying his uncle’s widow; thet is, from a legal standpoint. SLEEPING-CARS—P. O’D., East Oakland, Cal. In someof the sleeping-cars there are sections which have double sleeping accommodations, but as a general thing there are two berths in one section, one above the other. The berths are thrown up agsinst the side and roof of the car when not in use, and the car hasall the appearance of an elegantly furnished one. e rules of the road do noilimit passengers 1o the car in which his berth is: the traveler isallowed to move from one end of the train to the other, but for sleeping purposes is re- stricted to the berth secured. Cars are graded into classes by the rates of fare charged, and she accommodatious are according to price. CopyrIGHT—H. C., City. If A and B write an opera, one writing the music and the other the libretto, each may lndmlduuly copyright his work or they may jointly copyright it. After filing the title I{d the uhnfl:;l %! Con- matrimonial intercourse as husband and wife, when health or physical conditions do not make such refusal reasonaly necessary, or the refusal of either party to dwell in the same house with the other, when there is nojust cause for such refusal, is desertion. There is no limitation for commencing an sction for divorce except when the cause alleged ig adultery and the action i not commenced within two years after the commission of the act or after the discovery by the injured party; when the cause of action is for felony and the action is not commenced before the expir. ation of two vears after pardon, or the termin« at‘on of the period of sentence; in all other cases where there is an unreasonable lapse of tinre before the commencement of the action, Unreasonable lapse of time is such a delay in commencing an action as_establishes the pres sumption that there has been a connivance, collusion, or condonation of the offense, or a full acquiescence of the same with intent to continue the marriage relations notwithstand- ing the commission of the offense. A divorce must not be granted unless the plaintiff hus been a resident of the State for the period of six months next preceding the commencment of the action. The law does not require that the plaint!ff shall have resided six months in one county of the State beiore commencing the actibn. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend's.* - ——— 50 LS. choice prunes $1. Sbarboro & Co., grocers, 531 Washington street. . Somewhat. Santa Cruz Sentinel. A community is judged by the character of newspapers it sustains. ————————— EPECIAL Information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Prass Clipping Bureau (Alien's), 510 Montgomery. * e — Grover Has Just Learned. Souora Banner. The latest is that President Cleveland has reached the conclusion that he could not be elected to a third term. The people have known that for some time. HusBaND's Calcined Magnesia, four first prem. jum medals awarded. More agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other magnesia, For sale only in bottles with registered trade- mark labels. o —————— About Time, Salinas Owl. Itis about time for the United States tp e» come aggressive. We have permitted our sub- jects to be ill-treated abroad and the American flag insulted with impunity by every nation on earth, until they had begun to look upon Uncle Sam as a great lubber!y boy who was too good-natured to resent an insult and too cow- ardly to fight. Cafe Zinkand Souvenir. Charles A. Zinkand has in acfivek}lreznrfllicn an illustrated souvenir of the Cafe Zinkand, Large photo-engravings have been made, showing all the several departments. As a work of art it will be in all respects the finest of its kind ever issued in California. John F. Uhlhorn has charge of the compilation, and it will be of much interest to the public, as the visitors and patrons of this model resiaurant can have the best cuisine and service, while the charges are no higher than other public resorts and restaurants. - i e A Remarkable Contrast. San Diego Union. There is & remarkable contrast between the noisy demonstrations with which the Spaniards are displaying their animosity toward the United Statés and the calmness with which the people of this Nation contemplate the situation., THE chief reason for the marvelous success of | Hood's Sarsaparilla is found in the medicine itselt, | 1t is merit that wins. It stands to-day unequaled for purifying the blood. ——————————— ~ CoroNADO.—Atmosphere is pertectly dry, sofs and mild, and is entirely free from the mists com- mon urther north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, Including fifteen days’ board at the Hotel del Coronado, $60: longer stay $250 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Francisco. e — ‘Which Horn of the Dilemma? Galt Gazette. Shirking his taxes is no new trick for Mr. Huntington. In 1861 he wes assessed at somes thing over $8000. In 1862 he appeared before the Board of Supervisors and told a pititul tale of poverty and asked reduction. His sssesse ment was cut down to something over $6000. Yet Mr.Huntington under oath before the e ate committee said he was worth $1,000,000 that time. Which is the lie—the tale of pove! in 1862 or the million dollars? You are & sa rogue, Mr. Huntington. ' —————————————————————— NEW TO-DAY. | NCCIDENT AT THE PARK, A BICYCLER FELL AND HURT HIS KNEE. HE GROANED WITH PAIN, ALL THE WHEELS STOPPED. A CROWD GATHERED, One said, “Put on Raw Meat,” others cried, «Call the patrol-wagon, quick 1" Then came & man :rho READS THE NEWSPAPERS, And thus knows all there is going. HE JUMPED OFF HIS WHEEL And took a bottle from the toolbox. “Let me get to him and he will soon RIDE HIS WHEEL HOME.” He vathed the hurts with Mitchell's Magio Lotion. GRINS SUCCEEDED GROANS]}' AND WENT OFF ON HIS WHEEL, | Try it if you ACHE OR GET HURT, HAVE NEURALGIA, TONSILITIS OR A SORE THROAT, And see how surprised and happy you will Any druggist can get it for you. "’i