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26 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 15, 1896. X ETS CALIFORNA e O (4] FaEn i +OREIC e Shedey E tumbled over them again, | for the third time that month, in Gilroy; yet the moment we reached Hollis- ter those two young fellows turned up once more. My lady had made up her mind to rest the borses at Hidden Waters, Well! It/ was too much, to find that same couple resting alreadv when we got there. “Almost as good as an introduction,” | laughed the little chap with the curly black poll, which phrase so tickled her ladyship that she adopted them at once. They laid themselves, literally as figur- atively, at her fest, for it was very hot, and the shade of the old peppers where we were for the nonce camping was grateful to an and beast. | « ‘Hidden Waters'—the name sounds delightfully romantic,” said the taller and | fairer of the two. “Yes, but where are the waters? I do | not see any,” said the curly one. “Maybe there’'s a legend,” said her ladyship, with a wistful look over to her uncle and me. I was adam: = Her uncle fidgeted, for | he had just s eded in making bimself very comfortable. Yet to Lim (as to me) every wish of hers was as a sacred com- mand. Only when a fellow is thrown over for a couple of whipper-snippers never even properly introduced, I'll be hanged if one is going to jump up instanter, and in the Lot sun go and seazch for legends. She had her punishment ready. “Let us go and see,”” she said to the over- willing two. “There isa house yonder.” The taller insisted on holding an um- brella to keep the sun from roasting her. (“You're not_in it, my boy,” whispered her uncle, with a malicious grin.) For the shade, she thanked so sweetly that I could have punched his eyes out that minute. “Don’t disturb yourself, old darling,” she called out to her uncle as she departed, never vouchsafing me so much as one glance. LB ; “All right, my lady. You will get it for this.” 1 mentally noted, and noted. guess I noted to sleep, for the next thing noticeable by me was a loud *‘hallo!”’ from her uncle, who was on the side of the hill across the road. Then her ladyship frantically waved for me to come. 1 went. *‘Oh, the loveliest thing,” she beamed on me (and all her sins were wiped away that moment.) “Here’s the waters!” “Is they ?” I inquired. - “And the most beautiful watercress. We are going to stay with Mr. Grey for sup- per,” she said, thus introducing the owner | of the hidden waters and the watercress with a smile that won the old Californian’s heart. “Fancy a little lake on the hill- side hidden from view! No wonder the Indians called it Hidden Waters.” ‘“You are fortunate, Mr. Grey, to possess | such a treasure,” said her uncle. | Grey was tickled with thé genuine ap- preciation of his natural wonder. In | reality it was many springs which, by the formation of the hill, formed a lakeona | ledge on the hillside, truly, ‘“Hidden | ‘Waters,”” for we had camped opposite tb it, | vet failed to se it, though 1t was only hidden by being elevated above our rance of visi The taller of the two fellows was evidently a bit' of an artist, for he made a very good ard clever sketch of it with Grey in the foreground, and pre- sented it to her ladyship. She in turn | showed it to Grey, who seemed fascinated | with the sight of his own face. My lady | whispered something to the artist, upon | which he whipped out the pad asain and commenced sketching. This time my lady’s chin was in too. Of course he had | her head, but that chin—he caught the | jdentical aggressive pose of that chin, and passed the picture over to Grey. “Just to remind you we appreciate your \ hospitality,”’ said the artist. by a widely known name. Grey made nc attempt to conceal his de- Jight at the charming souvenir. guess supper’li_be 'bout ready,” he said, leading down the little trail, pointing out where pipes were watering the blackber- ries beyond. Her ladyship, to the neglect of the couple, not to gay her uncle and me, + t was signed | to the little fellow. | from “The Meistersinger.”) | only an old song, but — “Well, I | closely followed our host of the hour, ut- terly ignoring us all at suppertime, her sole attention bestowed on the host and hostess. That worthy couple, with that hearty, yea, Joving hospitality, the like un- known elsewhere in the world, but found all over California, in return plied her with ‘*Sech as it is” and “The most won- derful blackberries,’”” until she pleaded ex- haustion. How loath they were for her to leave them “so soon,” as if she and all of us were in- | vited guests leaving too soon, instead of each and all nothing else but intruders. My lady had such rare intuition she always divined how good a traveler’s story was to such of these that were martyrs to routine. I never knew whether she was at her best baiting or landing a story. Any- | way, she “*harmonized,”’ as she called it, by gomng over to the parlor organ, and | commenced ‘‘Maxeltown braes are bon- nie.” Aye and aye! As shesang weall thoudghr for one Annie Laurie, at: least, we could *‘lay us down and dee.’”” Then came | our great surprise. “Sing something, Serge,’ said the artist “What shall I sing?” he laughed. “‘Something decent and in English,” the other answered. 5 ““All my songs are decent,” said the curly headed one with demure accentua- tion. “I-—" The taller interrupted his friend with | an explanation to the company. “He goes music, and if I bad not suggested differ- y, like as not he would be giving us Russian or Chinese, or some such.” lady nestled up to her hostess. She kneiy by instinct we were going to have a treat. (Besides bad she notargued he was a musician, for in Gilroy he was whistling He began “Kathleen Mavourneen, the gray dawn is breaking,”” and the pathos of that won- drous voice filled with emotion. Gradually the room was peopled—on the hair sofa her ladyship, her uncie and the hostess; the two ch: i by thechum and mysel ron a camp- ing a partial stool ; the h seat on the little table, where in state re- posed two gorgeously bound big books. The farmhand and a neighbor’s son and a neighbor’s daughter dropped in, but re- mained standing asif glue Who could resist? low. One song after another he poured forth in_that square, bare, artforsaken room. Urged on by his adoring chum to yet another effort, each more beautiful seemingly than the last. The chum, catching his cue from my lady’s eyes: “Tell them, Sergus,” said he. *Tell them how we plotted to see ‘Tannhauser.”” “Tell them yourself,” he answered jovially, finding a seat on the little ocg tagonal footstool by the fireplace. But, by the insistence of her ladyship, he totd us of the plot. Clive over there (nodding to the artist) and I have rooms together in San Fran- cisco. One month a littie while ago we had been very extravagant—spent a %reat deal of money—in fact, giving a little party, and going to two or three more. We both of us get a little money monthly from back East; not much, but we needn’t starve. Now we had a landlady that wasa jewel. She was a nonesuch for cleanliness.” The house was always full. § No wonder, for it was neat as wax. And'the food (on the European plan) was a thing to be con- tented with. Also she had a faculty of keeping our rooms clean and sweet with- out apparently disturbing either Clive's painting or my music. But on, she was a perfect terror on rent. | To the hour, in advance, her rent must be forthcoming, or you received your dismi sal then and there, from which there was no after appeal, though you offered her double. It was her idiosyncrasy. As she spoke slightly broken English we often wondered of what nationality she was. ‘We were together counting our resources, wondering if it would run to a little sup- ver afterward, for we were going to hear “Tannhauser” that night. As it happened we were both wild to seeit. Accident had ever kept us from hearing it in full, and | Clive is as Wagner-mad as Iam. (My laZy gave a patronizing little nod.) When all at once, the same thought came 10 both of us. Together we said: “What’s the day of the month? Gracious! n for all kinds of strange | to the wall. | Not he, the gifted fel- | It was our rent day.” No wonder Mrs, Trapp hed been dusting twice, never be- fore nad the rent been elsewhere but on the end of the mantel on rent day. ‘We gasped. We nad forgotten all about it. Our remittance came day after to-mor- row, and $10 must be forthcoming within the hour (we only rented the rooms and furnished them ourselves). ‘We turned out every pocket. There was but $9 75 between us, after finding the last 60 cents of it in coms from coats and vests and trousers in the wardrobe. It was the sum total. When Clive with a whoop re- membered the stamp-box. There were ten 2-centers only—and oh, ye «ods, a half dozen 1-centers. Clive tore the odd one off, and solemnly arranged the rent on the mantel. But “Tannhauser!” We dropped into a chair like whigped school-schildren, as miserable as could be. That opera we must see. For a moment we felt we could, to see “Tannhauser,” defy Mrs, Trapp—a dozen Mrs. Trapps. As quickly our bravery subsided. We knew her too well. Clive suddenly had a bright 1dea. ‘‘Sergus, we're saved. Cannot you sing | something softening to her, and when she is softened we will get Ler to wait another two days.” ““What is her country?"’ I said at once, falling into the plot, and catching at any straw. ‘:She's here, “Come in,” could. Her keen eyes at once saw the money on the mantel. "She entered smiling. Clive made her sit down, and in the neatest, cleverest way found out she was Flemish —a genuine Hollander. “‘Ah,” said he, showing her some Dutch sketches. *‘Ah, Sergus, you know you al- ways said that ‘Wier Nierlansch’ was the grandest national song ever written.” She glanced covertly at the mantel—it was all right. Icould scarcely control myself as I went to the piano and began to sing, but you see it was “Tannhauser’’ or die! So I piped grandly forth: "’ said Clive. said I, as unctiously as I 4 Uniyersity history of the California Indians. “Every year someof the students are employed assisting in some particular feature of the work. E In the last three years student exploring parties have exploited the Indian mounds at Castro and near Mountain View. From the former over thirty skeletons were re- moved, some of which were placed in the university museum. EDITOR TILLINGHAST. An Jowa Journalist on the Enormous Corn Crop—Ex-Governor Boies and Phil Armour. B. F. Tiilinghast, editor of the Daven- port (towa) Democrat, owned by the Rich- ardson brothers, and which position he bas held for many years, is at the Occi- dental. ‘Mr. Tillinghast has also for a long time been connected with the Chica- go Tribune, St. Louis Globe-Democrat and other papers as special correspondent. In this capacity he has reported some of the National conventions. He has also at different times been a contributor to lead- ing magazines. At the time the five ships were loaded with food and clothing for the Russian sufferers a few years ago Mr. Tillinghast filled the responsible position of making collections for them. As will be remem- bered, so spontaneous were the compli- ances with the requests that Mr. Tilling- hast was obliged to ask, at length, in sheer defense, that the public cease giving, for the ships could carry no more. Mr. Tillinghast is in California, he 8ays, to get a little rest after a long siege of hard work. He thinks he will stay about three weeks. He says as a general thing there is prosperity throughout lowa. ““There were 300,000,000 bushels of corn produced during the year just closed,” he said, “whick is about three times what the “Ah, mein Gott! To think you know that. | I have not heard it since I was so high. | | Ob me! ah me! ay me!” I sangon, warm- | ing up to the occasion. | When I had finisted she was in tears. “Ah,” said Clive, with a sigh like a | melodramatic actor, ‘‘when one is an exile from one’s country.” Here I pathetically | bezan an old Dutch thing, composed in | 1570, commencing thus: % « Let bim n whom old Dutch blood flows, untg.nted,free on | horses, cattle and hogs on wheat. LrEs 2 a strong; yield was the year before. At that time it was 80 scarce that it went up to 75 centsa bushel, and thousands on thousands of farmers ceased to use it. They Ied;lheir un- dreds on hundreds of thousandsof bushels of wheat were consumed 1n this way. “This year there has been such an enormous product of corn that the cribs extend for miles and miles along the g « 3 Comé aid vour sel Which sentiment seemed appropriate for the occasion. She blubbered audibly. | I turned round, and how I did it I ean | | not see, but I placed the case before her, | enlarging a little, making out that this | “Tannhauser” was .to us that which these | songs were to her. Our hearts yearned for it. We were in exile so to speak. There | was her rent. Still in giving her that, at | this hour, we were tearing our very heart | out, as it were. Our remittance wonld | come, but too late for “Tannhauser”’—day | after to-morrow. ‘We would not ask her to wait—but grief had been known to kill - people—so I softly turned again to theflpisno, and sang in pathos indescribable T ol's “Flanders. »” and God win aid Northwestern, Rock Island, Chicago, Bur- lington and Quincy and other railroads. The corn is especially plentiful along the line of the latter road. But there is so much of the product that all the farmers can get for it is 15 cents a bushel, delivered in cribs at the railroad. “Phil Armour has had his men out all over the State for months buying it at this figure, and cribbing it at the track. He has bought up millions of bushels in this way.” Mr. Tillinghast says ex-Governor Boies is living quietly on his farm in Grandy County. Some time since his daughter diea, to whom he was much attached, and this has affected him greatly. His wife died some years ago, and it was this daughter ves “Ach!” She stood up. We all stood up. “Young mens, I shail never forget—no, | never, never. You sing to me the songs of | mine own country. You played me of my | native land. Zis, then, is my mouey Then so—I thank you.”” And she took | up, stamps and all—and left the room with 1t. We have not yet seen ‘‘Tann- | hauser!” | How everybody did enjoy that tale, to be sure, and my lady was reminded of — Well! it was midnight when we got to Tres Pinos. PETER STUDLEY. HUNTING INDIAN RELICS, Stanford History Students Ex- plore Two Mounds Near This City. 1 t| Professor Barnes Collecting Data for a New Record of California Aborigines. Professor M. Sheldon Barnes and a party of five Stanford University students made explorations yesterday of two large Indian mounds in the vicinity of South 8an Francisco. Both mounds are nesr the San Bruno road, and one, about a half mile from the railroad station, is nearly 20 feet hizgh and was originally snaped something like a peanut, the base area being over a half acre. During the last two years, however, much of the rich, loamy earth, formed partly of crumbled clam shells, has been carted hway for fertilizing purposes. The symmetry of the aboriginal pile has thus been destroyed, but the excavations have left a broad lateral surface cut perpendicu. larly down near the greater summit. ‘The university party, therefore, began work with the heart of the mound almost ex- sed. Aftera very little digging a crumbling human skull, which afterward fell to pieces, was found, and with it were several of the larger bones of the Body, all very old and brittle and showing that they had been subjected to fire. * Miss liabel Miller, a member of the party, has for two years been making a special study of the historical aborigines of Northern California, It is her opinion that these Indians cremated their dead upon the mound, afterward covering the bodies with a layer of clam and mussel shells, As a result of her personal 1nvestigations a year ago Miss Miller has made a map of the northern part of the State, from Benicia northward, locating upon it all the ancient rancherias of the so-called ““Diggers.” She has in preparation two' articles for the Scientific Monthly of New York dealing with the Indian history of a large territory in and north of the Sacramento Valley, much of the data having been collected while on abuckboara tour of six weeks last summer, during which time she tray- eled and exvlored entirely alone. The extremely perishable state of the remains found in the first mound and the apparent absence of other relics caused the students to abandon the work in hoye of soon finding romething more tangible in the second mound, a lower but more ex- tensive pile on a hillside some two miles nearer this City. But their superficial pre- liminary excavations met with little better success, another crumbling part of a skele- ton and pieces of a ver{ thick skull with well-worn teeth being_the principal find, although, as in the first mouu{‘hita of stone mortars were unearthed. Yesterday's visit of inspection will prob- | ninth to Mission, alon, ably be followed by a thorough examina- tion of the larger mound and of another near by ata point called Chinese Camp, Where relics are said (o be visible through the squirrel holes in the mound. For over four years Professor Barnes has been collecting” material for a Stanford | no account allow his lnnd the Mission. O dear above all other, My Flemish land, My Flemisa 1and!! who acted as hostessat his home in the capital. “Recently the ex-Governor instructed his friends.” said Mr. Tiilinghast, “to on name to be pre- sented for any office. He was out of poli- ics, he said, for good. This especially re- ferred to the matter of the presentation of his namein the National convention. The old Governor seems to be failing. He is now about¥0 years of age.” L’ITALIA’S APPEAL. A Local Newspaper Asks the Colony’s Assistance for the Italian Wounded. L’ltalia, the well-known local Italian paver, has just opened a subscription list for the beuefit of the helpless and de- pendent relatives of the soldiers who have been slaughtered in Abyssinia. Inits ap- peal to the colony L'Italia says: “The number of victims has risen, ac- cording to reports, from 500 to 1000, from 1000 to 3000, ana from 3000 to 5000. The last seems to be the authentic number. “The families, the mothers, the wives and children of these valiant victims will see their loved ones no more, and, worse still, can no longer look to them for sup- port. Mourning for them is accompanied by the terrible prospect, of want. ‘‘And what of the wounded ? ““Their exact number is not known. but it has been proved that they are ‘many and that they are there awaiting help, Of them and of the families of the dead it is our duty, fellow-countrymen, to think. *“While the Italian Government thinks of vindicating the honor of our arms philan- thropists all over the world are more occu- pied in considering how they can aid the wounded, the mutilated, the poor wretches who are lying on comfortless cots in bastily improvised hospitals, mangled and shattered by bullets and lances. **The Russians and the Freach are plan- ning—and they do well--to send aid to the wounded Abyssinians. The Italians must think of the Ttalian wounded. The Ital- ian colony of St. Petersburg has already sent 10,000 roubles to the Italian Red Cross Society and subscription lists have been opened in New York and many other cities in the United States. *The sad anxiety with which the resident Italians- awaited news of the disaster proves clearly how much love and devo- tion they cherish for their mother countr: and for her sons. Therefore, full of Iaitz and hope, and sure of interpreting the sentiment of our readers, we open, in the columns of L'Itgli1, a subsecription list, the proceeds of which will be used to aid the wounded and the families of the dead in Africa. All can and should contribute, the poor with a few cents, the well to do with larger sums. *‘The money will be sent to Italy for immediate distribution. Subscriptions can be sent to our office, 629 Washington street, or to Postoffice box 25564. The names of donors will be published day by day in L'Italia.” A NEW CAR LINE. Electric-Cars Will Run Direct ¥rom North Beach to the Mission. A new line of electric-cars will be intro- duced in a few days by the Market-street Railway Company between North Beach It will be opened as s00n as the cars, thirteen in all, shall have been painted yellow to distinguish tbem from the dark-green cars of the North Beach and Thirg street route. The line will begin at Twenty-ninth and Sanchez streets and run along Twenty- Mission to Third, thence north across Market to Kearny, along Kearny to Broadway, to Eastand along East to the ferries. This is understood to be a concession to the Merchants’ Association, which wants a transfer service between the Kearny- street and Market-street cars. ‘| Martin Gleason, who CATILE N QUARANTINE California Livestock Stopped at Ogden by the In- spectors. FEDERAL LAW WAS VIOLATED. The Animals Were Smuggled Over the Border and Sent East Against the Rules. A large trainload of cattle from Amadee, Lassen County, was stopped at Ogden Fri- day by the United States Inspector of Ani- mals. The livestock was en route to Chicago, and to all appearances was in perfect condition. In spite of the evident sound health of the cattie the entire ship- ment was piaced under a ban of quaran- tine. The reason given was that all California this year is quarantined on its livestock. It seems that the Southern Pacific re- ceived the train at Reno trom the Reno and Amadee Railway, and did not know that the cattle had crossed the boundary line from Lassen County. The shippers stole the cattle train over the border, and, as Nevada livestock, it was transported spectors discovered that the cattle had come from California, and as they were traveling in violation of quarantine and sanitary laws, the animais were held sub- ject to the order of the shippers. According to an act of Congress for the establishment of a Bureau of Animal In- dustry to prevent the exportation of dis- eased cattle and other food animals, splenetic or Southern fever exists among cattle, or rather is said to exist, in Cali- fornia and the Southern States as follows: All that country lying south of or below a southeasterly along the boundary line of said State of California to the southeastern corner of said State, thence southerly along the west- ern boundary line of Arizona to the southwest corner of Arizona, thence along the southern boundary lines of Arizona and New Mexico to the soutneastern corner of New Mexico, thence northerly along the eastern boundary of New Mexico to the southern line of the State of lines of Colorado and KansMs to the south- along the western boundary line of Missouri to the southwestern corner of Mis- souri, thence easterly along the southern boundary line of Missouri to the Mississippi River, thence southerly along the Mississippi River to the southern boundary line of Tennes- see, thence easterly aiong said boundary line to the southwestern cornerof Polk County, Tennessee, thence northerly along the eastern | boundary line of Tennessee to the southern boundary line of Virginia, thence west along said boundary line to the boundary line of Kentucky at the western point of Virginia, thence northerly along said boundary line to the northernmost point of Virginia, thence southerly along said boundary line to the northeast corner of Viginia where it joins the southeastern corner of Maryland at the Atlan- tic Ocean. From February 15 to November 15 each year no cattle are allowed to be trans- ported from this area to other parts of the United States, except in disinfected cars, by rail for immediate slaughter and under strict quarantine conditions, one of which is as follows: All cars carrying cattle from said area shafl bear placards stating that said cars contain “‘southern cattle,” and each of the waybills of said shl{)mentl shall have a note upon its face with a similar statement. Whenever any cat- tle have come from said sres and shall be re shipped from any point at which they have been unioaded to other points of destination, the cars carrying said animals shall bear simi- lar placards with likestatements, and the way- bills be so stamped. At whatever point these cattle are unloaded they must be placed in separate pens, to which no other cattle shall | Dbe admitted. i California_cattle are classed under the | | comprehensive head of ‘‘southern” to con- form with this law. ‘THe train stopped at | Ozden was not so labeled, and the shipper consequently failed of his purpose to get his stock through to Chicago. Freight of- ficials of the Southern Pacific Company say that the quarantine is not a matter of much importance in this State since but a few trains of carttle are sent East from California every year. PRISN DIRECTORS MEET Escape to Be Severely Punished. The Men Who Cut a Hole in the Prison Wall Will Wear the “Red Shirt” Danger Signal, : convicts who ajtempted to escape from Ban Quentin, were up before the Board of | Prison Directors yesterday for punish- ment. Though they had spent a month in the dungeon already for their offense, they were still tullen and unrepentant and | neither would admit his guilt. The testi- | mony against them was conclusive, how- ever, for both were employed in the fire- room and one of them had charge of the pumps behind which the hole was cut in the wall. Hunter was deprived of all his credits and Downing’s case was laid over | for & month for further consideration. The attempt of these men to escape was described in THE CALL at the time of its ! discovery. A hole large enough to permit | the passace of the largest man had been | cut in the wall of the fireroom at a point in a blind atley, where boilers and steam- pumps hid it from casual view. Leading ' outward from this nole was a long tunnel, which reached the surface near one of the guardhouses where arms are stored, and only the timely discovery of the warden prevented a desperdte break for freedom. Henceforth, however,.these are marked men. and in addjtion to other punith | ments. they will in future wear the con- vict’s badge of disgrace—the red shirt as- signgd to those who are considered espe- cial® dangerous. . Other convicts guilty of minor infrac- tions of grlson rules suffered at the hands of the board yesterday. William Long pleaded guilty to having opium in his possession and was deprived of all his credits. ‘Thomas Adams, who had secreted money given him by a visitor with intent to apply it to immoral purposes, lost his | credits and had the nqmey conflsclted.} lost sixty days' credits a year ago for fighting, petitioned for their restoration, as he was not the ag- g"“tm;l at the time. His prayer was granted. Warden Hale reported 4,000,136 bags on hand; sales since the last meeting, 208,- 000; contracted for, 300,000. He has sold 20,000 more sugar hags to Allen & Lewis of San Francisco at $5 50, a cut of 40 cents in the price of Calcurta bags. 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It has already done me more i?"d than all the medicines I ever tried.” CAPTAIN HENRY BECK, schooner Newark, 240 Montgomery st., San Francisco. ‘‘Your Belt has cured me of Varicocele and weak: - ! stande ing” L L. JACCARD, SanTeandro 0ol o Of fnenlystz yean® stan ‘The Belt has cured me of Nervous Debility that was so 1 t walk.'? THOS. RAY, american Exchange Hotel, San i‘nncisca A T na ‘VCan You Doubt It ? " Every day iresh evidence of the wonderful cures performed by Dr. S_anden’_s Electric Belt is shown. People are outgrowing the habit of using drugs, as they have found by experience that Electricity is the all-powerful force of Nature’s vitality, and uothing else will cure disease. Dr.. Sanden’s Electric Belt Is now established as a permanent institution in San Francisco. Its cures are being heard of, and people who once scofféd at Electric Belts, owing to the cheap, hashed-up imitations that have'been sold hbx.'e in the past, are now its strongest champions. A moment’s examination and a test of its power shows the differ- ence between the genuine, late-improved appliance and the old style. The new patented regulator on the Dr. Sanden Belts is worth ita weight in gold. Get the book, “THREE CLA.SES OF MEN,” x&:'x:fleo list and full information. free. By mail. It is securely sealed. Call oe . SANDEN BLECOTRIC CO., 630 MARKET Si., OPPOSITE PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO. Office Hours—8 A. M. to 8:30 P. M.; Sundays, 10 to 1. LOS ANGELES, CAL SeNloms AT TLAND, OR. 204 South Broadway, I umumuwfl streets