The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 5, 1896, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 1896 Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: CALL, 0ne weelk, by carrier..$0.16 Daily and § Daily and S Daily and Sund Daily and Sund Eunduy WEkKLY C. 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Felephone. .. ... Maln—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Felephone.......... BRANCH OFFICE 630 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open untll 9:50 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 8:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin strect: open until 9:30 o'clock. EW _corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; opes entil 8 o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 8 o'clock 116 Minth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE 3 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 and 52, 34 Park Row, New York Olty. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Speclal Agent. .Main—-1874 SUNDAY THE CALL SPEAI Easter morning is with us, ry bonnet has a beauty in it. The churches will be full of loveliness to-day. Consider the lilies, how they blow—they don’t need trumpets. There is such a thing as striking too hard and making the iron too hot. re is but one woman question this iing: “Is my bonnet on straight?”’ spe occasionally buries the hatchet, be never washes off the war paint. Some of the noise of the coming month will be but a good deal of it will itics, cherries are ripe—a carload to cheer them up Cheer up ready gone BEast there. well admit that no spring w more sweet things in millinery \n campaign in this City er way and the emphasis e else. s necessary to illumi- ny old hat will do to bonnet to remember that s much virtue in old This is a good day there is some as in new ause of liberty may be truly said n the air of Cuba, for the cliimate is death to t It looks more and more asif a part ot paign this e Cu year will have I'en chances to one the Easter parade in tormy East will be ruffled by a bliz- :rd or froze out with a cold snap. her exults ) ch wi ss of style, put as for oman millinery and h aradiant loveli- man, he isn’tin it. s herc! Angeles has about arrived at the 1 be better to have Mr. Depew predicts such a glowing for our wine industry there can fail to be something of a profit in As Werler claims to be well satisfied ess of the war in Cuba it is as not undertaken the job by contract. e best country to mediate with Spain ler of her American colo- ngland. She knows how Now that Redwood has a big new clock on the tower of her High School building she can count on having a high time always in sight. Between the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies in France there is a gap big enough to dump a dozen Cabinets in with- out filling it up. There must be something wrong some- where, for while this is decidedly a bad vear for strikes we are getting more of them than usual. The British invaded Matabeleland in the expectation of finding gold, but as they found none it seems they must be holding on to 1t just for spite. Tekinz money from the people of Cali- fornia to contribute to Tammany cam- pagn fund is Huntington's latest way of showing he has money enough to burn a wet dog. The carload of Solano cherries which has eiready started East will be something more than a surp*ise party to the natives, It will astonish them and make them open their mouths. The beauty of the weatner is making everybody impatient for the festivals to begin, and the one that opens first wil have a big show of visitors from all the country round. The office-holders’ faction of the Demo- cratic party demands gold, while the ont- siders are willing to stand up for silver, but all of them are out for the stuff in one way or another. The New Hampshire squabble may now be considered settled, and in the New England band at the St. Louis convention there will be none bat Reed instruments playing in harmony. It has been discovered that Dean Hole’s book on his tour in America refers to our tirst President as George Augustuas Wash- ington and there seems to be no way to make him take it back. Eastern whitecaps are playing in bad Iuck this year, for three times in as many months in different parts of the country have their movements for reform been met with bullets and badly crippled. The Rev. Dr. Crane of Chicago is getting me on the strength of having adopted a better stat ose who { &= 0= e S RELonr S thun Sl e | Nation’s integrity and wealth. | | | the limits of its immediate pressure. EASTER IN OALIFORNIA. One is tempted to believe that a special sun is sent to rise in California on Easter morning, were it not that the same sun appears on Christmas day and the Jewish New Year, and is known to be a sun for all that makes for goodness and comfort and prosperity. Undoubtedly the same sun shines for all the world, but not with the genial mellowness that it sheds in the making of such comfortable aids and such | Rorgeous fruits and flowers as serve to proclaim its glories in California. There is no penitential season for this persistent guardian of our happiness. Its whole course is a round of FatTuesdays, with no succeeding Ash Wednesdays, no forty days of penitence. And it fabricates a be- coming Easter bonnet forall of its chil- dren every day in the year. To the earnest multitudes for whom a Lord is risen this day, FEaster Sunday comes with a special and noble grace. The commemoration of so touching and fruit- ful an event in the history of the world is made with a serious spirit of gladness which typifies an emersion from suffering to ease, and from sorrow to that chastened happiness out of which individual content and community sympathy are born. The beauty of it ail is the universal value of the ideas which the day represents. This, although the proportion of the people for whom it has most direct interest is not comprehensive, may be taken to explain ! the respect which it commands farbeyond It is almost as regnant as Christmas. The principles for which it stands will operate for the good of the race so long as error prevails, human reliance upon unseen and all-controlling forces is acknowledged and the need of humility and companion- ship are manifest. The fitness of the day to the natural con- ditions aiding its effectiveness is a con- spicuous quality of itsadvent in California. Though it is proper that our worldly ener- gies should have been kept in partial glumber for the more serious contempla- tion of possibilities lying beyond this life, it is equally proper that, having laid aside the penitential spirit, we should face with rejuvenated vigor the earthly problems that await our solving and that bear so close a relation to any conception of eternal happiness. No good thing can be adequately enjoyed unless it has been earned. No ship may be expected to come in that has not been gent out. Sitting in patient idleness at our doors is the great problem of discharging the trust which we accepted when we made our homes in California. We and we only know what high and lasting benefits may accrue to the race from our earnest and intelligent discharge of this obligation, and the knowledge that we alone are aware of our respousibility to ourselves and mankind should not cause us to avord a duty for the performance of which no outsiae pres- sure is brought to bear. Here we must establish the American center of intelli- gence and here plant the storehouse of our FOSTERING THE SUBURBS. The people of Belvedere have given the railroad to understand that any curtail- ment of the present service will be met by an independent line of ferry steamers be- tween that place and San Francisco and a connecting electric road to San Rafael. An interesting feature of the matter is that those who have submitted this ulti- matum have abundant capital to make their threat good, and doubtless would find the investment profitable. Unfor- tunately this is rarely the case. Asa rule city and country improvements made on the basis of what is assumed to be a per- manently established service are com- pletely at the mercy of transportation companies, and must suffer whatever losses may result from a change i1n the service or its total abolition. In the good time coming it may be deemed proper to require that transportation companies shouid share the risk with those whose invest- ments have been determined by an exist- ing transportation service. It is hardly right that the matter should be entirely one-sided. The whole region contiguous to San Francisco has claims as strong as they are varied. The corporate body of the people has never opposed the use of this region by the residents of the City for transient or permanent out-of-town homes. From Menlo Park, on the south, all the way round the eastern shore of the bay to San Rafael on the north, thousands of the wealthiest residents of San Francisco have established country homes or temporary resting places, and these suburban resorts constitute one of the most valuable attrac- tions of the City. San Rafael, Sausalito and Belvedere on the north, Berkeley, Oakland, Fruitvale and Alameda on the east, and the beauti- ful settlements lying becween Belmont and Palo Alto on the south attest the elegant taste and a true appreciation of California’s rarest charms on the part of San Francisco residents. By a fortunate circumstance all these places except those on the north enjoy a perfect service by reason of the fact that the Southern Pa- ciic Company has an interest in main- taining the service. A class of people similar to those served by it live in the northern settlements, and they are show- ing their grit and independence by an- nouncing that the conditions upon which they based their investments shall be maintained. It is encouraging to observe this spirit in Californians. Belvedere is unique as well as beautiful. The island is bathed in sunshine when San Francisco is wrapped in fog, and yet it enjoys every one of the comfortable and inspiriting features of the coast climate. A few miles back in the mountains nestles San Rafael with a totally different set of climatic conditions. These are identical with those of San Jose, where coast and interior influences are blended in perfect proportions. As a result Belvedere and San Rafael bave large numbers of wealthy residents whose financial interests are centered in San Francisco, and they will be doing the City a valuable service in see- ing that adequate transportation facilities are maintained. WORKING SOUTHWARD. The hanling of the first carload of grain over the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad last Friday was the begin- ning of the new era for the southern half of the great interior basin of California. It was only a short haul and the *““train’ con- sisted merely of a locomotive and onecar; but they were of Lhe best and latest de- sign, they were drawn over a track com- bining the most recent achievements in constructive engineering, and the load of grain was Jaid down at tidewater, where barges may take it cheaply to Port Costa to be loaded into deep-water ships for Liver- pool. That is an eloguent story, though short. . The function of the northern ter- minus of the Valley rosd ceases at Stock- ton. There water comnpetition and low rates are encountered. Thisis an advan- tage which the San Joaquin Valley has n editorial style’ in. the pulpit, from | never had an opportnnity in the past to which it 1s reasonable to infer he cuts his | enjoy. The only benefit that tidewaterat sermons short and prays in paragraphs. of the valley remote from Stockton was se- cured by bauling produce in wagons over terrible roads. Even that expensive and laborious course has been pursued with profit for many years. The Valley road will abolish that grievous practice neces- sary to profitable farming in the valley. The road has been completed to the Tuolumne River, contracts for finished construction have been let to Merced, and the grading contract for a distance of twenty-five miles beyond has been signed. All legal difficulties concerning rights ot way through incorporated cities and towns having been settled by the Supreme Court in favor of the new road, it is now only a matter of rapid construction and the secur- ing of necessary material. The few con- demnation suits for right of way over pri- vate properly will not operate asa hin- drance. Visalia is happy over the an- nouncement that the first of the lines to be constructed between Fresnoand Bakers- field will pass through that city. Had this great enterprise been launched on any factitious principle, it would not have been so eagerly welcomed as a deliv- erance from the burdens which have pre- vented the proper development of the mag- nificent empire which it traverses. Not only is it the work of strong capitalists of enterprise, energy and independence, but it is peculiarly fortunate in two other particulars. One is that the road traverses a region sufficientiy developed to give it an immediate traffic, which, under ordi- nary competition, would insure a profitable return at the start, and the other is the fact that it is eagerly wilcomed as a de- liverance from a ruinous monopoly, and hence will receive far more than the ordi- nary share of traffic. The financial fore- sight which led to this undertaking was an uncommon manifestation of business acumen on the part of Californians, and everybody will rejoice in the prosperity that must attend their enterprise. A MASSACHUSETTS INCIDENT. There has been recently a little transac- tion in Boston that will be of interest to this coast. Thke people of that city have been engaged for some time past in an ef- fort to bring about the erection of a larger and more commodious railway station than they now possess, and a good deal of negotiation concerning it has been going on among the citizens, the State authorities and the rail- way officials. The president of one of the roads interested, being about to leave Boston for a trip to California, was re- vorted to have said in an interview that the roads have done all they intend to do, and that *‘it now remains for the public to say whethier or not they will accept our proposition.” Such a statement from a railroad official in California would hardly occasion re- mark. In Massachusetts, however, it was regzarded as an insult, and promptly taken up. The Boston Journal, commenting on it, said: This reads a good deal like what is called in the diplomacy of nations an “ultimatum.” But, if Mr. Clark and his associates will pardon us tor saying so, the Journal believes that the ultimatum is the privilege not of the railroad, but of the people of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, acting throuch their Legisla- ture. The Legislature is not likely to rest con- tent with a “‘take it or leave it from corpora- tions which owe their existence to its acts. Mr. Clark iseasentially a Massachusetts man, but possibly his recent years of familiarity with the legislative methods of Connecticut in cases Involving railroads has caused him to forget the quality, the spirit and the sense of public obligation of the Legislature of Massa- chusetts. When President Clark read that eaitorial on his westward trip he hastened to tele- graph back an explanation and a partial denial, which the Journal accepted with a warning to the railway men that they were acting too independently anyway, and that it was time for them to under- stand that the settlement of all questions of the new depot which Boston needs de- pends not upon the officials of the roads, but upon the people of Massachusetts. President Clark, on his arrival in Cali- fornia, will be shown many things of which we are proud and which, no doubt, will impress him greatly. He will find here a delightful climate, a fertile soil and a land fruitful of prunes and railroad ulti- matums. Much that he sees will doubt- less entice him to forswear Boston and make his home with us, but let us hove that he will see nothing in the whole wide domain of California that will lead him “to forget the quality, the spirit and the sense of public obligation of the Legislae ture of Massachusetts.” FOR GOOD CITY PAVEMENTS. Within the next year San Francisco will in all probability witness a reformation in the condition of its street pavements that will result in their being a pleasureand a pride to our residents instead of a nui- sance and a disgrace, as many of them now are. Some of the most powerful forces of the community are now engaged in the attempt to bring about the change from streets paved with cob- bles, ruinous alike to vehicles and tem- pers, to those properly treated with bituminous rock. While the use of bituminous pavements was in its ex- perimental stage, there was much outery against its wearing qualities, but the tests it has undergone for the past ten years have shown that when laid accord- mg to spproved methods it is by far the most economical and satisfactory roadway that has been devised for city streets. How important and desirable the trans- formation of cobbled streets to bituminous is considered may be readily gathered from the simultaneous agitation, with that object in view, now being carried on by two of the most influential factors in- terestea in public improvements—the Merchants’ Association and the wheel- men. While the one is almost wholly interested from motives of pride in the appearance and condition of the City, the other’s interest is, while perhaps more personal and selfish, no less a proper and commendable one. In the face of this move- ment, which has now gathered good heaa- way, and which is bound to gain in strength, it is aifficalt to see how, in making its appropriations for the next fiscal year, the Board of Supervisors can fail to provide funds for prosecuting this work of giving San Francisco more good roads. The scheme of the French syndicate of Egyptian bondholders to bring an action against the Debt Commission to pre- vent the expenditure of Egyptian money for the expedition up the Nile is good enough to deserve pushing along. Com- Pplicating international diplomacy by a law- suit and heading off a war by injunction is exactly the novelty that this end of the century wouid enjoy most. Out of 381 beef cattle shipped from Aus- tralia to England by the Augers only 32 reached that country alive and it is be- lieved the result has killed the trade even more effectually than the trip killel the cattle. Belvedere ani San Rafael are on the warpath, but are headed in the right di- rection. Closer communication with San | Stockton has ever brought to those parts | Francisco will improve them in every way. ) OBSERVATIONS AND REFLECTIONS. Crossing the bay the other morning I was not a little interested in watching a man feeding the seagulls. Having thought- fully provided himself with a loaf of bread, he crushed bits of it into little pasty balls and tossed them at the birdsas they passed, and soon had a spirited throng 1n the wake of the ferry-boat. Some of the birds, in their eagerness, flew quite close to where this good Samaritan was sitting, perilously balanced on the rail, and some, but not all, became quite expert in catching the dainty morsels on the fly, while others, missing again and again and having to descend each time to the water to scramble for what they got, soon learned their proper sphere and re- mained on a lower level, content to get as best they could the little which escaped the vigilance of their more capable com- panions. They knew their place and kept it. Very pretty were these little ships of the sea and the air, tossing and tacking and performing evolutions which Uncle Sam’s white squadrons might imitate in vain, but the inequality in capability was about as apparent among these featherect bipeds as among those other bipeds clad in worsteds and mohairs up in the strog- gling City. There is now and ever has been more or less discnssion relative to the natural in- equality of the sexes, and from this time on to next election day California is likely to hear much of it; but there is, at least, one particular in which it must be con- fessed that the wives and mothers of this great American commonality manifest an easy superiority over their husbands and brothers, and that is in their ability to handle hot dishes without physical dis- comfort. ‘““What! do you cail that hot?"” & woman will ask, in derision, as she takes from your agitated fingers a dish which has fairly scorched them, although you have done your best at shifting it from hand to hand and finger to finger; ‘‘why, I could hold that dish all day.” “Pity moveth the heart to love,” is an old proverb, and it may have been a true proverb in some time or place, but the pity your wife feels for you when she finds you dancing about, snapping your fingers, after having tried to adjust a lamp chim- ney set awry, or to take from the stove a hot-handled frying-pan—that sort of pity moves their heart to derisiveness of spirit. It must be admitted on behalf of women that they enjoy unrivaled good fortune in being able to keep out of jail. Vital sta- tistics compiled from the last census re- turns show that for every ten thousand men in America 23.6 of them were peep- ing from behind bars, while of each ten thousand women in our country only 2.10 are restrained of their liberty. Why should a class of beiugs so little restrained of their liberty be so solicitous for yet greater liberty ? Do they expect to keep altogether out of jail? I encountered a group of four or five men the other day standing interestedly about a little, shallow pool of water which had oozed from an adjacent hillside watch- ing a little hair-like, writhing object which one of the party had suspended on a iead pencil. There was much discussion as to what the object was, some averring that it was an infantile reptile; but at least two of the party asserted, and offered to back the assertion with good, hard coin, that the little object was not yet a snake but a horsehair turning into a snake. Straight- way my mind went back to my old swim- ming days when I, too, was boyishly cred- ulous and thought it possible for horse hairs to turn into snakes; but even in those days I proved the falsity of the popu- lar belief by plucking hairs from the tail of my pony and bottling them in water, putting them in watering troughs and watching them day by day for weeks and weeks, yet not one of them ever turned into a snake or anything at all, though watched never so closely. These grown- up men certainly ought to have known that spontaneous generation is an ex- vloded idea and that dead thingsdo not turn into live things to live and wriggle, as this little object unmistakably did, but there was not one in the crowd who was 80 confident of this that he dared accept the proffered wager. Of course the wrig- gler was nothing but a little brother earth worm, gordius by name, whose larve find a home within the bodies of spiders and other insects, hut the incident serves to show that men are but boys of a larger growth, not yet so familiar with science as to altogether escape boyish credulity. I was brought up on breakfast, dinner and supper and so were most Eastern and Western people, and these people are everywhere attended with dyspepsia. Farther south there are some people who were brought up on breakfast, lunch and dinner and dyspepsia among them is not so nearly universal; while in England and on the Continent, where all live by breakiasting. lunching and dining, dys- pepsia plagues the people little. Arethese facts coincidences or correlated incidents? Is it all in the names applied to our National meals which gives us our National disease, or do we eat our principal meal at the wrong time of day? I have reference to our great, home-living commonality and not to those who live at clubs and restaurants and so follow the English fashion. Expert testimony on this point is in order, but no Grahamite or vegetarian need apply. I refuse to believe in that gospel which teaches us that all good things to eat are bad to eatand all dis- tasteful products wholesome. ‘What becomes of all the people when times get hard? Did the reader e¥er notice how quickly *to let"” notices appear in the windows of dwellings, storerooms and downtown offices after a panic has fallen upon the country? What becomes of all the people who formerly occupied those dwellings, stores and offices? Are there not just as many people in the world be- fore a financial crisis as after? The late financial disaster was national and even international in its scope, but so was the phenomenal appearance of ‘‘to let” notices. And when good times come again how quickly all these vacant dwell- ings, stores and offices fill up and how soon others are required to be built! ‘Where do all the people come from who require them? Do they hibernate when business is bad and come out of their holes again only when business revives? That happiness is a matter of relative and not absolute conaition I wish to prove by introducing the testimony of a farmer friend, who for several years and with varying success has been ranching down in the San Joaquin. “If I can get a good crop this year,” he declared last fall after sowing his grain, “'I shall be able to pay off the mortgage on my ranch, and when that is once paid I shall be perfectly happy.” But the rains held off, the weather became cold and the prospects darkened. “If I can get even half acrop,” declared my farmer friend, *‘1 shall be able to meet my interest, square up some scat- tering bills and put in another crop, and I shall be happy.” Dry weather set in, the wheat dwindled and tbe season waxed late, but my farmer friend still insisted, *'If 1 can get my seed and feed back I shall be able to put in another crop next fall, my creditors will wait for their interest and bills, and I shall be bappy.” Then a norther struck that part of the valley, and blew his strugeling crop all out of the ground or covered it deep with sand, leav- ing my farmer friend with his labor for his pains, but, meeting him, he sald: “After all it will not cost me so very much to put in a crop next fall, for there being no crop of stubble in the way. I can put it in with Randall harrows, and so long as my good old wife does not dry up and blow away or the mortgage blow off the ranch, defrand- ing my creditors, I shall be happy.” This man is certainly not a calamity howler. A stranger within our gates preached in our church a little while ago and I went to hear him. He was an eloquent man and spoke with much earnestness, but he murdered our good American tongue more flagrantly than is the wont with an aver- age Western Congressman, and I said to myself: “If this man only possessed the advantages which culture alone can confer he would be a power in the pulpit.” A week or two later another stranger came witkin our gates and preached in our church. All that culture could do for a man culture had done for him. His hair was parted in the middle and his every at- tribute was in harmony therewith. His grammar was faultless, his diction ex- cellent and his enunciation so perfect that not a single syllable was slurred over, but each sound was given its proper valuation and that without apparent pedantry, his manner was easy and his gestures appro- priate, but for the life of me I can scarcely remember what the sermon was about, though it might appropriately have been something about ‘“Art for Art's sake rather than for the salvation of a human soul.” The perfection of mannerabsorbed the attention aimost to the exclusion of the matter of the discourse. Surely there is poor encouragement for preachers when excess of culture is as destructive of re- sults as the want of it. A group of tourists was recently viewing admiringly a pretty winter home belong- ing to a noted Bastern manufacturer of spool cotton when one of the group, thrusting his thumbs into the armboles of his vest, delivered himself as follows: ““The owner of this property is a talented and cuitured fraud, and he owes the pos- session of this beautiful cottage to a fraud committed upon every seamstress and housewife in the country. Each spool of his thread is warranted to hold out 200 yards, but it does not. It lacks twenty yards of it, and so he steals enough thread from each ten spools to make an eleventh, and the eleventh spool thus filched yields a sufficient sum in the course of a year or two to create this vision of beauty which now excites our admiration and envy.” This explanation had a semblance of prob- ability, and we believed, ail but one, for there was a doubting Thomas in the party who had the curiosity to go a store, pur- chase a spool of this man’s cotton thread and measure with exactness. Itoverran the 200 yards alleged on the end of the spool by just thirty feet. The dapper lit- tle gentleman clad in spotless linen, gray and aging, but alert and honest as one of his own spools of cotton, had not obtained his fine property by the disreputable de- vice suggested. The incident furnishes evidence to show that the opinion that there is nothing in the world of business but cunning and deceit is too commonly received and unthinkingly anurtnix.;adl., A.J. P, A DISCARDED CURIO. On the corner of Gold and Montgomery streets there is an enormous piece of petrified wood lying close to the chrbstone. Atene time it was considered a great curiosity, but now the owners are unable to give it away. It is about twenty-five years since the petri- faction arrived in San Francisco. It was sent asapresentto the Ploneers by Sam Brannan, who obtained it from thecalcedony forest near Calistoga. It was with greatdificulty that it was brought to this City, as it had to be hauled for many miles over a country where there were no roads. The work of getting it from the forest was no small job, as men and tools had to be sent there specially for the purpose. When the curio reached San Francisco it was Pul on public exhibition and nearly everybody n town went to take a look at it. “The officers Plece of Petrified Wood Lying on the Corner of Gold and Montgomery Streets. [Sketched by a *“ Cail™ artist.] ot the Pioneers had a place built for it in the old hall where everybody was at liberty to see it, and it remained there until the time of the moving to the new quarters, about eight years ago. By this time the piece of petrified wood was no longer a curio, as travel to the forest had been made easy and hundreds of speci- mens of the same kind were in the City. At any rate the Pioneers did not think that it was worth moving and left it behind them. The new occupants of the building did not want it in the way,and so had it carried out to the sidewalk, where it has remained ever since. The abandoned curio has exactly the appear- ance of a piece of wood, but it weighs over 300 unds. 1t is of the calcedony formation. It orms a blcck about three feet long and two feet wide at one end, tapering almost to a point at the other. One end, where it was broken from the large piece in the forest, has the ap- pearance of stone, but the other portions re- tain the most minute details of the original material, each bit of fiber and every knot hole showing perfectly. PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. Since ex-Senator Butler has retired from Congress he has built up the most lucrative law practice in South Carolina. Guy’'s Hospital in London is in financial straits. The Prince of Wales has undertaken to raise by subscription the 2,500,000 it needs. S Sir Edwin Arnold boasts that he has written more than 8000 editorial leaders averaging over a column in length in the course of his work for the London Telegraph. The late Congressman William H. Crain of Texas was one of the best classical scholars ever sent to Congress. It issaid that he knew the “Iliad” and the great Greek tragedies al- most by heart. George Eliot's only memorial at Nuneaton, her native, is a steam fire-engine named after her. Her admirers, who do not like the asso- ciation with a fire-extinguisher, wish to sub- stitute a free public library in her name. The Hartford Courant claims that the Widow Watson of Hartford, who did business in that place about one hundred and twenty years ago, was the first woman editor in this coun- try. The lady was the owner, editor and pub- lisher of the Courant. Nubar Pasha bas been informed that the Queen has created him a Knight Grand Com- mander of the order of the Starof India to mark the value which she attaches to his ser- vices in Egypt, and his share in maintaining cordial relations between the British and the Egyptisn Governments. PERSONAL. H. B. Joyce of Seattle is at the Palace. D. B. Clark of Los Angeles is in the City. E. A. Nelson of New Mexico is at the Grand. J. G. McLean, a business man of Seattle, is in town. G. F. Brophy of Portland, Or., is at the Grand. Dr. George W. Wood of Stockton is at the Cal- ifornia. H. Sissons, & business man of Tacoms, is at the Russ. ‘W. Davis and wife of Chicago are guests at the Cosmopolitan. 8. 8. Gould, a business man of Stockton, is at the Cosmopolitan. Professor Robert F. Pennells of Chicago ar- rived here yesterday. C. B. Bogue, a weal thy real estate dealer of Chicago, arrived here last night. T. L. Harrington, a leading commission dealer of Seattle, is at the Grand. P. F. Morey of Portland is among those who registered yesterday at the Palace. Frank Bulkeley Smith, a wealthy resident of Worcester, Mass., is on a visit here. William H. Taylor, & mining man of the Rogue River Valley, Or., is at the Palace. Frank Belcher, the talented vocalist and popular Native Son, left last evening for New York. J. H. White, a wealthy business man of Texas, {s at the Lick, accompanied by his wife and son. W.W.Woodhull, pay inspector in the United States army, arrived here 1ast nightand isat the Palace. Postmaster Frank McCoppin has sent in his application for membership in the Merchants’ Association. William Swan, owner of an extensive gold mine at Sierra Buttes, Sierra County, is a guest at the Cosmopolitan. Captain §. D. Dean of the United States army at Fort Custer, Mont., errived here yesterday, accompanied by Mrs. Dean. J. C. Powers, a leading banker of Rochester, N. Y., is at the California Mrs. Powers’ mother and grandmother. C. B. Weatherwax of Aberdeen, Wash., who is interested in mills and timber lands on the Chehalis River and Grays Harbor, and Who ships large quantities of lumber to this City, is at the Grand. The Marquis Yamagati, Field Marshal of Japan and hero of the recent war, will leave with his suite on the early train to-day for the East and Russia. All his baggage was ticketed for the trip last evening. Harrison Gray Otis, editor of the Los An- geles Times, came up from the south last night to attend the dinner by the Union League Club to Chauncey M. Depew. Mr. Otis is regis- tered at the Occidental. Charles P. Clark, a rich resident of New Haven, Conn,, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife and Misses Carita and Sadie J. Clark and the following triends: Miss Alice Hatch, Miss Edith R. Palmer, Miss Sarah A, Breslin, Mr. and Mrs. N. W. Rice and Miss A. T. Rice. Mrs. S. W. Smith, chaperon of the Stanford girls’ basket-ball team, and the aforesaid team, are the guests of the California. Mrs. Smith insisted on her usual dietary rules, and al- lowed her pretty charges to be fed only on beef and mutton. This is the rigid course the lady has pursued ever since the Stanford girls went into training for the purpose of eventually besting the Berkeley girls. T. G. Menley, a wealthy real-estate owner and business man of Minneapolis, is at the Cal- ifornia. He was in California in 1850, having come to get gold. He remained for a time, se- cured some of the yellow metal and went East again. The changes here, he says,since his youthful days are so enormous and so unusual in every way as to scarcely be credible, with- out actually viewing them. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 4 —H. Nathan is in town on & buying trip. Grand Union, Miss B. L. Bates; Imperial, J.and Miss Malowansky; Brunswick, B, Hoeffecker; Netherlands, W. P. Shaw; Westminster, C. T. Gray. Bernard Paulson and Max Keppel arrived in on the Spree from Bremen. LOVIN’ YOU. Think it was this time last year, Under skies o’ biue, ‘When I whispered, Sally, dear: “I'm a-lovin’ you!" Think the violets was out— Some red roses, t0o; One thing. though. ’s beyond all doubts 1 was lovin’ you! Sorter think you pinned a Twinklin with the dew, On my heart. an'—goodness knows I was lovin' you! Birds was singin’ to the skies, Rivers ripplin’, t An’ you read it in'my I'was lovin’ you! Al the worl’ looked bright an’ sweet— Nothin' else to do But to dream there at you feet, Jesta-lovin’ you! Think it was this time last year, Under skies o’ blue, ‘When you answered, Sally, dear: “I'm a-lovin’ you!” —FRANK L. STANTON. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Mr. Spatts—If there are microbes in kisses, what disease do they produce? Mr. Kilduff — Palpitation of the heart.— Truth, “Neither rhyme nor reason. Now, what could that be, I wonder?” “Why, poetry, of course, you stupid!”—In. dianapolis Journal. Teacher—Tommy, what is meant by “nutri- tious food?” Tommy—Something to eat that ain’t got no taste to it.—Indianapolis Journal. Crusty—So you're going to be married, eh? What will you do when the wolf comes to your door? N. R. Getic—I'll et my wife feed him home- made biscuits, and then I'll scll his skin.— Philadelphia Record. —_— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. STATE FLOWERS—W. K., Oakland, Cal. The following are State flowers, as adoptea by the vote of the school children, in the respective States named: Alabama, golden rod; Colo- rado columbine; Delaware, peach blossom; Idaho, syringa; Iowa, rose; Maine, pine cone and tassei; Minnesota, moccasin flower; Mon. tana, bitter root; Nebrasks, golden rod; New York, rose; North Dakota, wild ros Okla- homa Terrltor{x, mistletoe; Oregon, golden rod; Utah, sego lily; Vermont, red clover. ECORING IN CASINO—R. A. J., Redwood City, In the game of and H. A, B, Saratoga, Cal. which s player casino there are eleven points must make before he can win. If pla; it can be made a twenty-one vfr tyl:lrr‘t;-'or:: point game. In countingin casino Where the Pplayers are about tie and each makes enough 10 g0 out the points made are counteq as fol. lows: Cards, spades, little casino, big casino, aces. The first ace iogo out is the one thaf goes with cards—that is the ace that corre- m&\:l With the suit of which there is most in EQUINOCTIAL —E. W., Meridian, County, Cal. Professor R. H. Scott of London watched closely for equinoctial &tor:; during a period of fourteen years di:;;'vc.r:: thatout of forty-five storms during the m th Sareh whish 1o tac SaSd on, tho TN of s e date o nox, aid out of cighteen in fh'ah:z;';?filgregi' tember only one occurred on the 234 of tp, month, the date of the autumnal equiis’ That would seem 1o establish the eqsriin that there is a equinoctial storme. ular fallacy in regard to Sutter ‘THE CONFED] nn\ —H. B! - M. C., Red and Enquicer, City. Great sl d Britain by procls- | son's Eve mation of neutrality recognized the Southern Confederacy on the 13th of May, 1861. '"?fi: did the same on the 10th of June, 8| “ntm.‘hll 7th of June and Portugal on the 29th 0 hln’fl. Russia expressed the hope “that the Nm‘ll bgne South would show their high political wis o by making peace soon.” Brazil jssued & pl"“d lamation of neutrality early in the war s: o every important nation, but none in Aieect terms declared the Southern States as belliger ents. EveLasars—V. C. 8., City. Nature has in- tended that each person should have a certain number of hairs to form eyelashes and you should be satisfied with what nature has en- dowed you and not endeavor to increase th‘s growth. There are preparations that it is claimed wiil dye eyelashes, but Answers to Correspondents cannot recommend any, nor will an expression be given of the value of the soap you name for the complexion. PAssPORTS—S. 8., City. If you desire a pass- port to go to Russia or Siberia, address a com- munication tothe Department of State, Pass- port Division, Washington, D. C., inclosing $1 in currency, postal money order or postal note. Passports are issued only to citizens of the United States, and they are good for two years and no longer. The applicant, if native born, must make affidavit before a notary public or justice of the peace, and forward it with tl}s application; if citizen by virtue of father’s naturalization, the application must be ac- companied by the affidavit of the applicaut and that of one other citizen who knows the fact that the applicant 1s ' citizen by virtue of his father's naturalization; if a nllnnll;ed citizen, his papers must be sent on, and they will be returned with the Rfis!pol‘l. The IR‘- plicant is required to state his occupation lél place of permanent legal residence, and to de- claro that he goes abroad for temporary sojourn and intends to return to the Unite States with the purpose of residing and per- forming the duties of citizenship therein. A blank form, to be filled out by the applicant, can be obtained from the Department of State by writing for it. If the applicant is to be accompanied by his wife, minor children or servant, it will be sufficient to state the names and ages of such persons and their relation- ship to the applicant, when a single passport for the whole will suffice. THE BEAR—J. R., City. The screw propeller Bear, now in the revenue service of the United States Government, was purchased in 1884 from Greive & Co. of Greenock for the purpose of sending her nortn in search for A. W. Greely, the Arctic explorer, and his paréy. It was the Alert that was presented to the Gov- ernment to be one of the vessels on the expedi- tion. The Bear was built in Dundee, Scotland, by A.Stephen & Son for R. Bteele in 1874. Her length is 190 fect, breadth 29:9 feet and depth 18:8 feet. Her tonnage is 714 tons. She is now rated as a firsi-class ves- sel, carries four guns and was transferred from the United States navy to the revenue service in the latter part of 1885 and reached this const in 1886. She carries eight officers and forty men. When the Government decided to um{ a rellef expedition after Greely ihe Secretary of the Navy made arrangements for the purchase of the Bear and the Thetis, both vessels having been specially built for the whaling business in the Arciic seas and con- structed to meet ice floes and run into ice. At the same time the British Government offered the Alert without conditions as a gift to the United States, it being understood that she was to be used as one of the ves- sels of the expedition. The Bear was on the voyage from Greenock to St Johns, Newfoundland, when the offer to pur- chase her was made. She was the sister ship of the Proteus that carried the Nares expedi- tion in search of the north pole. She was pu chased for $100,000, was delivered in New York February 11,1884, and was at once taken to the Brooklyn' Navy-yard, where she wes strengthened. Captain Ash, who brought her from St. Johns, was named her ice pilo:. She was the first of the vessels of the expedition to leave. She sailed April 23 with Lieutenant W. H. Emery as commander and with a crew of thirty-four.” She reached the spot near where Greely and the other six survivors were dis- covered and rescued by the party that was on board of her. After the return of the Bear she was turned over by the Sccretary of the Navy to the Revenue Department and she has been in that service ever since. . A FANCY SILK WAIST. The Marie Antoinette fichu is one of the ac- cepted accessories in waist trimming. It is especially liked for theater and evening waists and for house dresses. A perfectly plain dress is made into quite an elaborate affair by t addition of a soft, graceful fichu. And such.a plain waist should be owned by every woman who likes variety, and especially those whose income does not allow of the many extra waists which are such a comfort. A simple trimming of ribbon may be made adjustable by taking one strip for the center front; thi is joined to the chon collar and the flboel: belt, which are both finished with enormous bows at the back; two other piecesof ribbon, four inches longer than the shoulder seam, are sewed to the collar at the shoulder; the other ends are 1aid in points, which extend over the sleeves. This_ trimming of ribbon may be made very elaborate by sewing brightspangles on all the edges. Or mark ends, with & spool for & guide, down the center, and outline these with spangles or beads. Another mode of trimming is to have revers Art(} a sailor collar made removable. A black salin or crepon waist may be made very useful in this way. Have collax and revers of a fancy n t colors, with an ed, "%:md ?;blz, lack icmfl;:'n. S e ri N trimming may be of geran velvet ribbon with black spangles og of bfl:{ satin 1msbon with bright hsu- or green spangles, ichu may be of the black crepon ed; with pleatings of yellow china A1k or un:'g :::}Eht china silk with ruffies of mousseline de 3 e E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. * ———— CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50c Ib. Townsend's.* ———egng v EPECIAL information daily to manutacturers, business houses and public men by the Prasi Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * —————— “Idonot like the expression ‘a quiet wed- ding,’ Mr. Scripps,” said the editor to his new reporter. ‘‘You know that in society there are D0 noisy weddings.” “But this was & quieter wedding than usual,” replied the reporter. “In what way?” “The parties were deaf-mutes, and they married by the useof the sign language. Judge. “I HAVE fourd Hood's Pllls uvequaled. I always keep them in the house and reommend themto my friends.” Mrs. Vernon Upton, 738 Pine st., San Francisco, Cal. ——————— Take the Northern Pacific to all points East. Lowest rates to Minnesota and Dakots polnts. Upholstered tourist-cars, Puliman palace and din- ingcars on all trains. Two fast through trains daily; time to Chicago shortened six hours. For tickets aud Information call on T. K. Stateler, 638 Market street, San Francisco. edtimns fey s BT Avrv persons aficted with dyspepsta will finq immediate relief and snre cure by using Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters. ——————— Ir amicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac Thom, ‘Water. Druggists sell It at 25 cents. you want a sure relief for o limbs, use an ~ains in the buk,side,chm,of Allcock’s BEAR IN M N ountesfei fimkngoodl:sbt—he”mo“ffiemo‘c ts and imita-