The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 8, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL , WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor- SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Yally and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Datly and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail. Dally and S ay CALL, six months, by mal Daily and Sund CaLL, three months by mail Daily and £andsy CaLL, one month, by mail. Sunday CALL, Ope year, by mai WREKLY CaL1, one year, by mail. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Felephone .Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. €elephone.. ... Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICES 880 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open until #:30 o'clock. 330 Hayes street: open until §:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street: open until 9:80 o'clock. SW _corner Sixteenth #nd Mission streets; open eatll § o'clock. 2518 Mission etreet; open until @ 0'clock. 116 Miuth street; open until § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: New York City. -APRIL ¥, 1898 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL, e | Congress spoke loudly for Cuba, but not forcibly. n be ready to talk poli- Harrison wi! tics again. A 3-cent streetear fare to the suburbs i worth working for as a road improveme: There can be no doubt that Greece is moving. Those Olympic games are hot stuif. The Cuban filibusters are forcing the fight just now, and seem to be able to land at every lick. In the way of legislation -at present there seem to be as many snags in the Benate as Senators. 1f the war does not go beyond resolu- tions the Spanish Cortes can show itself as powerful as Congress. Concurrent resolutions are a good deal like fireworks—they make 1 brilliant flash, but that is the end of them. Grover's sole remaining defender in the Senate is David Bennett Hill, and he is a political hole in the ground. It Carlisle knows what he meant by his letter on the Presidential nomination it is more than any one else do: Cooks Inlet is wide open for those who seek Alaskan gold fields, but there is no great outlet in sight for them. The best thing Congress can do with the debts of the Pacific roads is to do nothing and let the law take its course. It is not enough for the California dele- gation to keep an eve on the refunding scheme. It should keep a foot on it. Once more the Spaniards have been sur- prised at the telegraph wire, and the Cu- bans have got in a report of a tory. Bradley of Kentucky is another of those favorite sons who cannot hold their own with both hands and a hamper-basket. So many Democrats are retiring from politics in these days there will soon be more of them in the woods than in the field. The only way for a Democrat to get out of faction fights this year is to set up as an independent and then vote the Republican ticket. Leaving California to hunt gold in Alaska is another illustration of the way some men drop the substance to grab for the shadow. Senator Wolcott was right in saying civil service reform is an acquired taste, and he might have added it is sometimesa ververted one, The San Pedro appropriation contest will have to be fought out in the Senate, and let us hope the good fight will lead to victory as well as glor; It is now certain that Americans will win many of the contests at the revived ! Olympic games, and can come home to rightly claim the title of world-beaters. There are many instances of communi- ties losing one improvement because they demanded two, but Los Angeles seems to have lost two ports by demanding only one. It is as sure as shooting that the recent wedding was not the only occasion in which Benjamin Harrison has found a happiness in the absence of his son, Rus- sell. Cleveland ignored the concurrent resolu- tions on Armenia, and it 1s likely he will ignore those on Cuba. Iznoring Congress and the country has become a fad with him, It was safe enough for Senator Alien to call Cleveland a mugwump, for there is no mugwump in the Benate to hurl back the charge with scorn and make him apologize. The funding bill fight might as well be brought off at this session as any other. The people are ready for it and would be glad to see the vote taken in time for them to revise it at the fall elections. All the votes in Congress against the Cuban resolutions came from the original thirteen States, and yet it is just from those States we should have expected the fullest sympathy witb any American country struggling for independence. Hepburn’s objection that the appropria- tion bill carries no pork for his district was valid enough to base a kick on. but all the same he should have made his kick be- fore the committee when he might have saved his bacon. Catchings is a Democrat, but he ad- mitted that the appropriation bill of this Republican Congress is the most scientific- ally drawn of any bill of the kind ever submitted tothe country in his time. Hep- burn of Towa, though opposing tie biil, also conceded its scientific character, but he did not express it in that way. Hesaid “it has distributed the pork with even- ness.” The proposal to make the Southern Pa- cific Company of Kentucky responsible for the debt of the Central Pacific under the refunding scheme is absurd. The South- ern Pacific owns nothing except railroad leases and could very soon juggle those out of reach of the Government. If a surety is required it should be demanded from the private estates of the directors of the road. LOS ANGELES ROUSED. The resolutions adopted by the Free Harbor League of Los Angeles denouncing the withholding of an appropriation for the improvement of San Pedro harbor make some interesting assertions. Among them is coe to the effect that Mr. Hunt- ington owns a controlling share in the Atlantic and Pacific road bonds, and that this explains the failure of that line to en- ter the reorganization scheme of the Santa Fe. In short, Los Angeles now realizes that the one railroad which made its prog- ress possible stops at the Colorado River and that Southern California is completely ar the mercy of the Southern Pacific. The overlooking of S8an Pedro harbor and the improvement of Santa Monica would com- plete the hondage. This puts a new light on the case. One of the points made in the resolutions, that the progress of Northern California has been checked by the oppression of the Southern Pacific monopely, shows the im- portance of the estimate which Los An- s bas placed on the competition it has enjoyed in the past. It is a familiar fact that much of the prosperity of the sonth- ern end of the State was promoted by the Santa Fe, by reason not ajone of its com- petition with the Southern Pacific, but also of the intelligent advertising which it did in the Atlantic States within the influ- ence of its Eastern terminus. The settlers who went to BSouthern California were largely persons of means and refinement, and the result of their settlement is mani- fest in the beauty and thrift and high de- velopment of the Southern section. What Los Angeles has achieved under these cir- cumstances would have been the portion of Northern California under similar con- ditions. 1t was g great surprise to Northern Cali- fornia that the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce should recently have passed resolutions approving the funding bill. That measure will operate just as seriously against that section as the neglect of San Pedro in favor of Santa Monica, and for the same reason. It is difficult to see how the action taken by the citizens under the call of the Free Harbor League can be ex- vected to prove effective in Washington so long as the resolutions of the Chamber of Commerce are allowed to stand. That represents in a sense a division, and har- mony is what is needed now. Should the funding bill not"be passed and the roads made to submit to the operation of laws already in existence foreclosure proceed- ings will be brought and the property sold for the debt. This would result in the loss of the Central Pacific to the Southern Pacific system and would compel the Southern Pacific to make strenuous exer- tions to develop its territory in Southern Californit. Los Angeles hasa very large problem to solve, but it seems amply com- petent for the task. REGULATION OF FARES. Sentiment is evidently growing rapidly in favor of reduced fares and better service on the streetcar lines of San Francisco. The latest organization to take the matter up is the Ashbury Heights and Stanyan- street Improvement Club, which has ap- | ponted a special committee to pressnt a 3-cent fare proposition to Manager Viuing oi the Market-street Railway Company. It is an acknowledged fact that San Franciscans are the greatest streetcar patrons in the country in proportion to population. They spend about $4,000,000 a year in indulging their disinclination to walk, Inother cities where the mileage of the respective streetcar lines is no more than that of the lines operated in this City, afare lower than5 cents has been made, and has been found to pay. Commutation tickets entitling to fifteen rides have been sold for 50 cents and those entitling to thirty-two rides for $1. What has been done in cities where the riding population is less in proportion than here can certainly be done in this City, even though one important factor to the desired end is absent—ccmpetition. The franchise under which railways are granted the use of the most desirable portions of the most important | thoroughfares have been given without that they are public or semi-public insti- tutions. Being thus aided by the munici- pality they are certainly subject to regu- lation within reason and fairness. The Board of Super visors claim the right un- der certain limitations to fix the charge for water to private citizens, and they should certainly have the right, under proper re- strictions, to exercise the same power over the street railroads. Tuere is little hope of the railway company meking any reduc- tion on the strength of arguments for demands from private organizations. The present agitation, to result in anything tangible, should pe directed toward se- curing the necessary legislation to compel a reduction in rates. The returns from the traffic will certainly permit of lower fares without unjustly curtailing the income of stockholders. THE DEBRIS APPROPRIATION, No alarm need be felt over the sugges- tion that the §250,000 avpropriated by the California legislative act of 1893 for the construction of the debris restraining dams in the Sacramento and Feather rivers has already been expendad, and that hence the State cannot avail itself of the appropriation of an equal amount by Con- gress to be added to the State appropria- tion. Attorne; eneral Fitzgerald has given the opinion that the State appropria- tion is available. The only danger, since the House has passed the appropria- tion, 1s that an effort will be made to de- feat it in the Senate or to induce the Presi- dent to withhold his approval. It is evi- dent that the exhaustion of the general fund, into which the State appropriation was placed, could not extinguish the ap- propriation, which is still charged to the fund and is available every time the fund is repienisned. Still, while this is a seli- evident proposition here it may not be so cleariy understood at Washington. We may be sure, Lowever, that the friends of the appropriation who are now at Wash- ington will see that no misconception arises. In fact, the assurance is given that no hitch will occur. The appropriation means a great deal to California. The restrain- ing dams and the general scheme of drain- age provided for should be welcomed by the valley farmers as putting an end to the wash which is constantly occurring without the aid of hydraulic mining, and which is steadily filling up the rivers, de- stroying their value for navigation and creating the danger of annual inandations by the raising of the rivers above the con- tiguous lands. It will be welcomed by the hydraulic miners as permitting the re- habilitation of their industry without doing harm to the interests of others. The total State and Government appro- priation of $500,000 is a trifling sum in comparison with the security assured to farming lands and the rich output of gold from the hydraulic mines. As the miners will be required to pay 3 per cent of their gross earn- ings annually for the expenses of main- taining the works, the burden will not rest upon taxpayers at large, and as the the street | acts governing the case make both the State and the Government responsible for the wise, fair and able management of the matter, there need be no fear that any but good results will ensue. Thus one of the most important events in the history of the State is about to be accomplished. A vastamount of locked-up wealth is soon to be liberated for the benefit of all. AN IDLE MISSION. Whatever may have been the causes that provoked the anti-Semitic move- ment in Germany there is no evidence that they exist in the United States. The Jews of this cogntry are an intimate part of the body polftic. While their religion and the fact that most of the older He- brews speak the German language tend to make them a class to a certain extent in purely social matters, in business and poli- tics they stand shoulder to shoulder with the gentile population and represent a very important element in the strength and prosperity of the Nation. For this reason the mission of Herr Ahl- wardt, the anti-Semitic leader of the German Reichstag, is regarded asan idle escapade. He has been lecturing in this country against the Jews, but his efforts have fallen flat, having received no atten- tion from any source. It 1s, therefore, to be regretted that some indignant Jews at Hoboken, N. J., should have made a dem- onstration against him the other evening at the conclusion of his tirade abusing them. Itcan be easily understood that in this country, where they freely enjoy all the privileges accessible to any other citi- zens, they should feel a sense of outrage over the uncalled-for attack upon them; but it would bave been wiser had they abided by the general sympathy which their fellow-Americans have for them and ignored Herr Ahlwardt altogether. The histqry of Jewish oppression is one of the darkest that civilization records. Generally its virulence has been in pro- portion to the despotism of the country in which it has prospered. A remarkible trait of the Jewish character is its ready responsiveness to liberal conditions. Un- der the genial and free life of America it expands in proportion to its opportunities, and amply demonstrates the fact—which Europe might learn to its advantage—that oppression is the worst possible means for making useful citizens of a race. AN IMPORTANT MEETING. The State convention of Supervisors to be heid at San Jose on the 11th inst. will be the first of a series of annual meetings from which valuable results should be made to flow. The need of a uniform policy among the minor divisions of the State government is recognized by the statute requiring annual conventions of teachers in order to secure that result in popular education, but that does not by any 1eans cover all the needs of the State. State conventions of County As. sessors have already begun, but in the practical affairs of county government throuzh Boards of Supervisors there has always been an injurious divergence of volicies. It is impossible to frame a county-gevernment law that will operate | uniformly throughout the State. The need of a better understanding has at last been recognized by the Supervisors, | and without legal requirement they are going to make a praiseworthy effort to correct existing inequalities. The princi- sl matters to bLe brought before the approaching convention are those con- cerning roads and indigents. These are broad subiects and require wisdom in their treatment. The most important is that of roads. | getting the matter into intelligent shape. 1t is presumed that one or more members of the body wiil be present at the San Jose convention snd give their views. These have already been expressed desultorily at | the casual meetings held throughont the | State, and the members oif the bureau have outlined a scheme which they pro- pose to urge before the next Lecislature | for systematizing the matter. This should and carefully considered, as their decision will be a necessary step toward the passage of any law applying to the case. Good roads is one of the most pressing needs of the State. A DUCK-DRYING FACTORY. There are very few duck-drying institations |in California, and thoseare in the swamp lands about the bay. The largest is just a mile or so beyond Pinole station, and it is owned and operated by Henry Wilson, About two acres of land are devoted to the business, and a most ill-smelling one it is. There is & chanty in the middle of the drying yard, and Wilson lives in it aud does all the work of cleaning and preparing the ducks for drying. During the duck season there are thousands of birds hung on lines that are stretched across the yard on posts about five feet high. Wilson established his yard last October, and at first killed all the ducks that he dried him- seM. Buthunters in the vicinity soon learned that he would buy ducks, and in a short time Duck-Drying Yard on the Bay Shore Near Pinole, [Sketched by o ** Call" artist] Lo he had all he could doto prépare those brought to him, Wilson did not pay the best price, but then he was not overparticular as to how long the birds had been killed. There is little doubt but that many of the birds he dried last winter were sent to him after they had been on sale a week 1n San Franeisco. 1F The vrocess of drying the ducks is a simple one. Wilson makes no secret of 1t and any- bodyv is at liberty to enter his laboratory at any time. The birds are plucked of all feathers and cleaned, the head being leit on the body. They are then hung up to drain an_hour or so and then filled with salt that has been. heated and made as dry as possible. This is shaken off and the bird is hung on the line to dry. The first lew days they have to be taken in when there is any sign of rain, but when the flesh has commenced to harden they can be allowed to remain ontside in all kinds of weather until wanted. In six weeks they are ready for ship- ment, and it is said they willkeep an indefinite period after that. All of the ducks dried by Wilson are sold to Chinese merchants in this City. Numbers of them are consumed, but the hrfler quantity are sent to China. Theducks in the process of drying at first turn brown and then graduall become darker until they are almost as blac! as & piece of coal. . The State Bureau of Highways is steadily | | be presented to the assembled Supervisors | cost to the beneficiuries on the ground | AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Among the arrivals at the Occidental yester- day was C. Barrere, of Columbus, Ohio, & wealthy banker, who has for most of his life been conspicuously identified with leading banks in Columbus, Cincinnati and other Ohio cities. He has now retfred from work in the banks, though he yet retains large interests. For several vears he has been traveling in different parts of the country. Mrs. Barrere, Misses Mary and Jean and George N. Barrere are with him. He is for McKinley for President, 8s he says most of the men of his State are. “I think he will undoubtedly go into the con- vention at St. Louis with a larger vote than anybody else,” he continued, “but whether he can hold them; and add to them is the ques- tion. “Grant and Blaine both had the biggest vote of anybody at the opening of the conventions, but they failed of nomination, nevertheless. ButIam a Republican and protectionist, and naturally I feel like doing what I can formy, Ohio friend. Itlooks tome as though it would is far better known as Wesley’s than as Pleyel’s hymn. “From Greenland’s Icy Mountains” is Bishop Heber’s hymn; the composer is well- nigh forgotten. “‘Sweet and Low”is by Ten- nyson; but the “Lest Chord” is by Sullivan. And 0 we might continue. % Perhaps the ouly test in these cases is whether the song owes its chief vitality to words or music. ‘Kathleen Mayourneen,” unset, would not have been thought to surpass many other similar poems. ‘“Home, Sweet Home.” no matter if a tune had never been found for it, would have still remained immor- tal. Yet there are instancesin which, as_ in “Sweet and Low,” the tune is at_least equal to the words; here the fame of the poet comes into gm)‘. On the other hand, there are tradi- tional folk songs superior to any words that have been set to them. But this is a special case. The best thing for & man to do who wishes to be remembered, is to write both words and music, like Stephen Foster. Otherwise there cannot be any real certainty for him with pos- terity.—Philedelphia Times. — England Wheeling Into Line. Oakland Echoes. Even the peopie of Great Britain are wheel- ing into the protection column, and many of ‘“Grant and Blaine both had the biggest vote, and McKinley’s experience may be the same as theirs,” said Banker C. Barrere. be a lively convention, one that will be memor- able. “Lfind a great many people from Ohio in | California, and many of them have residences | here. Ihave been for several weeks in South- | ern California, “Wilbur Parker, originally of Cleveland, and an ex-Ohio Senator, has bought a beautiful | home in the Harper tract, I think on Oakland avenue, in Los Angeles. The Wilshires, for- merly of Cineianati, are in Los Angeles also, 4nd are going to build a fine tourists’ hotel. | Mrs. Carpeater, the sister o Mr. Wilshire, has | aresidence there. They lived here for some years before investing down there. Over | Southern California there are a great many | people from Ohio. “‘Though I have been here for several weeks | 1 shall remain several weeks longer.” L. 8. Judd, a mine-owner of Mono County, in | the heights of the Siarras, near the northeast- i ern boundary of Yosemite Park, is at the Russ. He has just returned irom Chicago, where he has been conferring with his partner, E. W. Palmer, u resident of Chicago. Mr. Judd s he has come back prepared to rush work o his property. The first thing he will do will be to take up a concentrator and other machin- ery from this City to the value of about $3000, 50 he sa. “It's a concentrating proposition,” he con- tinued, as he explained the matter to a CALL representative yesterday. “We have a large ledge of low-grade silver and gold ore. There is a 10-stamp miil on the property now; in fact, we have twenty stamps there, but only | ten up. “The mine we have got is very high iu the mountains —9500 feet, es shown by the aneroid, and an 1mmense amount of snow falls there. Itis near the edge of the Yosemite and fifty-four miles southwest of Badie. *““We have a tunnel now in 374 feet to the ledge, which is tapped at a perpendicular depth of about 600 feet. We will work this year about twenty men. I am satisfied the concentrating machinery I have taken up wiil do great things for us. Concentrators have done wonders for Bodie, enabling miners there to work properties and make a profit where formerly they could not touch them except at a los Mr. Judd will leave for Mono County about Saturday. High over down, and over town, "The great sky rests. upholding Its dome of blue, of darkest hue, O'er mystic depths, enfolding Th’ unquief and quiet earth, That breathless wait the morning’s birth, See, in the far, the morning star Shine trembling, senward sinking; Hear, on the les, the aspen tree Sigh softly, mists indrinking. The white-walled town below the hill Sleeps, folded in nigat shadows chill. Across the heaven a cloudlet driven Foretells the stir of dawning, The saffron fiush, the rogeate blush, Announce the orning; Sudden, along the pale sea line, ‘The dawnlight runs, rose-red like wine. The sleeping hill wakes with the thrill Of sunrise warmly treading: The shadows gray it fas: away Before the gold o’erspreading. The lifting c: ce of earth’s voice Ascends, as waking hearis rejoice. Above the town the dark has flown, White walls, red roofs, are gleaming; ‘Through sun-kissed air, switt seabirds fare, To lonely uplands streaming. Seaward, the wavelets spring 10 meet The splendor of the morning's feet. —Pull Mall Gazette. THE AUTHORSHIP OF SONGS. As the author of “Kathleen Mavourneen” lies dying in Baltimore, kindly efforts are being made to soothe his last hours, and his immortal melody rises to all lips. Now, almost too late, the world is recollecting Crouch; but, though the recollection is tardy, the justice will be done his memory by linking his name and his melody together. He will stand as the author of “Kathleen Mavourneen.” Yet this acknowledgment does injustice, too, for it forgets Anne Crawford. who wrote the ballad over a century ago; and this gives rise to the question; Who is the author of a song? Is it the autnor of the words or the composer of the music? Of course in the ordinary case the composer gets the credit. Or sometimes, where com- gmer and poet are both well known, they will oth be remembered. But there are certain widely popular songsand hymns whose author- ship seems more or less defined by eircum- stances. Crouch, for instance, is the author of “Kathleen Mavourneen,” though Aumne Crawford wrote the words. John Howard Paine,on the other hand, is_the suthor of ‘“Home, Sweet Home,” though Sir Henr: Bllhn? sdapted the music. '“Jesus, Lover of My Soul, kening the prominent leaders and officials have dis- carded the free-trade fallacy and are strenuous advocates of the principle of protection. Since Japan has entered the race as a manufacturing n&tion, with cheap 10-cent-per-day labor, Eng- land fears for its own manufacturers, and sel- protection being the first law of nature, she is Wwheeling into the protection line. LADY’'S WAIST. The waist with yest or blouse front that ad- mits of a combination of fabrics, and of vari- ety, because this vest is removable, is a great and when it is combined with the coat back like the one shown here, it possesses another special feature of the season. The skirt back may be made separate, sewn to & band, which admits of more variety in the same waist, as without this it is a charming round w: A Dblack dotted green taffota had frills of lace down the seams of the muslin sleeves. The revers are also covered with black lace. The vest was of white satin, the stock front k satin. The ruche in was of the silk, a straight stripe, nolined, and laid in side pleats, i brown mohair had a vest of white chiffon with a frili of lace down on either side. The revers were of white satin covered with a spangled net. A waist of flax-colored batiste had a vest of white chiffon. A stock collar of violet velvet finished the neck. A band of the same was worn as a belt and folds of it finished the sleeves. The deep belc was omitted in front. The vest extends to the waist line, so the wide belt is not used if unbecoming. The belt at the back may be aiso omitted without spoiling the effect. The collar is a plain fitted one, which may be adorned in any way, a plain stoe collar of ribbon being chosen by most women. The sleeves are the melon shape, cut in six seetions. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. J. J. Hawes of Boston, now 88 years old, thinks that he is the oldest active photogra- pher in the United States. and fritls being of bis the bac Sir Franeis Scott, commander of the Ashan- tee expedition, has taken luncheon with Queen Victoria sfnce his return to England, and is now one of the lions of London. The late Russian General Tcherevin was the founder of the Okhrana or Czar's bodyguard, composed oi men of high rank or great wealth who were sworn to protect the person of Alex- ander IIL Lieutenant Andre, the Swedish officer who is to attempt to g0 to the Dorth poie in a balloon, has received applications- from more than a score of Swedish women who wish to join him in his perilous trip. A French newspaper publishes the following advertisement: “M.Emile Zola of Plambeuf, inventor of the spring nippers, notifies his customers that he has nothing in common with his namesake, Emile Zola, the writer. ‘When Count Herbert Bismarck telegraphed to his father, Prince Bismarck, that his latest baby was a girl, the Prince telegraphed back: ‘‘Have patience! Marie was only a girl.” Marie was the Prince's first born, and then came two sons. Pope Leo XIII has presented to the Queen Re- gent of Spain the Palazzo Altempo in Rome, which he purchased recentiy for 1,200,000 francs. The palace was formerly & monastery, and was rebuilt and decorated by Cardinal Marco Altempo. Speaker Reed, when he was at Bowdoin Col- lege, was & tall, lanky boy, who worked his way through college by teaching fchool dur- ing vacations. He was one of the fremost de- baters in college, and won many vietories for the Peucinian Society, to which he belonged. His graduation oration was on “The Fear of Death,” and it won for him the first English prize. PERSONAL. George Pearce of Santa Rosa is in town. Dr. A. M. Gardner of Naps is in this City. H. 8. Stephenson of Chicago is at the Cal- itornia. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas Flint of San Juan areat the Grand. 1. Horton, & ranch-owner of Livermore, is at the Grand. X T. F. Crosby, & business man of Ogden, Utah, is in this City. Dr. Joseph W. Yard, of Guadaloupe y Calvo, Mex., is at the Palace. A. J. Dryman of Redding, Clerk of Shasta County, is at the Russ: 0. A. Lowe of Woodland, cashier of the Bank of Yolo, is at the Grand. J. W. Wood, a merchant of Pasadena, is among recent arrivals here. Dr. Black of Sacramento, State Superintend- entof Schools, is at the Lick. Joseph D. Lynch, the journalist, of Los Angeles, arnived here yesterdey. The Rev. Father P. J. Jeram, president of the Eden Valley Colony, is at the Russ. A.J. Maas, & prominent merchant of Kansas City, is staying at the Cosmopolitan. J.S.8edam, a wealthy resident of Denver, is in the City, accompanied by his wife. H. N. Seaton, the general merchant and pol- itician, of Arbuckle, arrived here yesterdey. William M. Hamilton, representing a lead- ing house of Chiceago, is at the Cosmopolitan. Scipio Craig, editor of the Redlands Citro- graph, is 1 the City, accompanied by his wife. Among the recent arrivals here is George Ohleyer of Yuba City, proprietor of the Sutter County Farmer. E. M. Young, a mining and business man of Silver City, N. M., was among yesterday’s ar- rivals at the Palace. Captain W. A. Nevills, one of the owners of the famous Rawhide mine near Sonora, who has operated with remarkable success in the mother lode, arrived in this City yesterday. Captain C. T. Church of the sloop X Ray of Moro Bay, San Luis Obispo County, is at the Cosmopolitan on his way to Cooks Inlet. He joins tbe Ducy party, which sails on the steamer Albion on the 14th. John White of New York, a noted copper ore buyer who trades among the mountain States and Territories, is among the recent arrivals here. Copper has advanced so materially lately that & mine of it is prized as highly as a g0ld mine, and the demand for copper is heavy. G. A. Treadwell, the superintendent of the Red Hill gold mine, Nevada City, owned by a company at Glasgow, ~cotlaud, is at the Occi- dental. He brought down with him a large valise containing many magnificent speci- mens of gold nuegets, leaf gold and gold in almost any and every conceivable shupe. The specimens were examined last night with much interest. William E. Gates, proprietor of the Cleve- 1and (Ohio) Daily Abstract, is here en route to Japan to investigate the economic conditions there. He wants to find out what danger the United States may be in, if any, from the com- vetition in the manufacture of goods. His theory is that if this country would adopt free coinage competition would, at any rate, cease to be dangerous. Officers of the State Grange held its regular monthly meeting at the Russ yesterday and transacted routine business. Among those present were these: W. W.Greer of Sacra- mento, master; Don Mills of Santa Rosa, sec- retary; George Ohleyer of Yuba City, lecturer; and. Cyrus Jones of San Jose, B. F. Walton of Yuba City, and George P. Loucks of Pacheco, constituting the executive committee. Regent 1. W. Heilman of the State University, the president of the Nevada Bank and Union Trust Company, has gone on a six months’ trip abroad. He expects to sail from New York April23. Itishisfirstvacation in years. It was his intention to go to Europe last year, but his banking interests here and at Los Angeles pre- vented. He intends to putin a good deal of nis time traveling in the different foreign countries. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 7.—The St. Paul takes out Maurice Casey, Mrs. Casey and in- fant end Master Maurice. Miss Patricia H. Cosgrove is in the party, also Miss Katharine Dillon, Louis Hirsch and Frank M. Brindle. Among recent arrivals are: Sturtevant, C. Abbott; Ashland, C. F. von Bergen; Hoffman, A. Goldberg; Warwick, J. B. Roberts, Miss L. Royce; St. Cloud, H. S.'Wood; Netherland, L. B. Ashington, Misses Ashington; Astor, O. Blankart, W. P. Harrold, Barrett Whepselder ; Holland, A. B. Williamson. ANSWERS TO COR RESPONDENTS. “THE KERNEL”—W. L., City. “The Kernel” severed his connection with THE CALL in 1892. Cannot g1ve you his present address. TuE BROOKLYN—M. E. G, City. The ship Brooklyn, that was owned by Samuel Bran- nan, arrived in this City on the 31st of July, 1846. QUEEN VICTORTA—W. L., City. The height of Queen Victoria is about 5 feet 6 inches; the Prince of Wales is about 5 feet 84 inches in height. CONSUL TO SYDNEY—W., City. The United States Consul to Syduey, N. 8. W., is George W. Bell, appointed from’ the Siate of Wash- ington. REDUCTION OF POSTAGE—M. M., City. The postage wns reduced from 3 to 2 cents by an act passed March 2, 1883, and which went into effect in October of that year. D1GESTION—C. J. 8., Veterans’ Home, Yount- ville, Cal. It takes two hours to digest raw exes, three lours when they are soft-boiled and three hours and a half when either fried or hard-boiled; roast or stewed oysters or clams from three hours and & quarter to three hours and & half. BARBER-8HOP La’ —Barber, City. The law requiring barber-shops to close at 12 o'clock, noon, on Sundaysand holidays has been tested in the Police Court and the case, in which the law was upheld, is on_appeal in the Superior Court. It has never been brought before the Supreme Court of this State. THE NAVAL BATTALION—J. J. K., City. The Naval Battalion is part of the National Guard of the State of California, and the same rules apply to joining a battalion as those which govern the other branches of the service. The first requisite is that the party desiring to join shall be a citizen of the United States and that he is physically fitted for the service. If you desire to join, send your application to the commander of one of the companies, AN ATTORNEY'S DutY—J. D., City. Ifa per- son engages an attorney, entrusts him with his business, gives him information in Tegard 10 a case he has pending in court, becomes dis- satisfied with th, pays him for services ren- dered, and then hires another attorney, the first attorney would not have the right to go into court and divulge the information he re. coived in a proiessional way, and would not dare to do such & thing unless he wanted to be disberred for unprofessional conduct, CURSE OF ECO1LAND—J., City. The nine of diamonds is called the curse of Scotland ang there are several expianations of this, 1. The nine of diamonds, in the game of Pope Joan, is called the Pope, the anti-Christ of the Seofen reformers. 2. In the game of commette, jn- troduced by Queen Mary, the nine of diamonds is the great winuing card, and the game was the curse of Scotland because it was the ruf; . The word-curse is e. v?o: ne of diamonds is Andrew’s cross; d do,as well, this - Some say that of many families. ruption of cross, and the ni so0 arranged as to_form a St, but as the nine of hearts wou] explanation is not tenable. 4. i i the it was on_the nine, of diamonds that “Butcher Duke” wrote his cruel ordef after th': battle of Culloden; but the term nggeml” have been in yogue at that period, as the. e nicknamed Justice Clark Ormistone‘‘The e of Diamonds” (1715). 5. Itisalso said thfi‘c‘oh refers to the detestation eatertained in et land towerd John Dalrymple, first Ear Stair, on_account of his concern in the mas- sacre of Glencoe and for which he had to "i sign office in 1695. The heraldic bearing o this individual was, “or, on a saltire nznr?, nine lozenges of the field.” These lozenges resemble the nine of dismonds, hence the pop- ular phrase, “the curse of Scotland. HUMOR OF THE HOUR. “They need more men for the American navy,” said Mr. Dukane to & man who had told him a story of misfortune, “and I think you ought to enlist as seaman on one of the steel cruisers. You are particularly adapted for such a life.” “Why?” «“You areso accustomed to hara ships.”— Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. She—Why, Charles, how can you call Miss James plain? 1 wishI was only balf as good- 1o0king. He—You are, Hattie, and you know it—Lon- don Tit-Bits. Witherby—I understand that you had a birthdsy party at your house the other night. Who was there? Plankington—Two doctors and & nurse.— New York Truth. New Yorker—I tell you, Jones is just coining money outin Omaha. Traveling Englishman (overhearing and writing in notebook)—Counterfeiting is so ex- tensively practiced in the United States that the citizens openly speak of it on the street.— Puck. CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ Ib. Townsend'sa® EPECIAL information daily to manufacturet business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. -—— How to Secure Protection. San Jose Mercury. - The sugar-planters of the South want pro- tection, and it remains to be seen whether they will vote for the party that will give it to the “I HAVE found Hood's Pills unequaled. I always keep them in the honse and recommend themto my friends.” Mrs. Vermon Uptan, 735 Pine st., San Francisco, Cal. ———————— Take the Northern Pacific to all points East. Lowest rates to Minnesota and Dakota polnts. Upholstered tourist-cars, Pullman palace and Gins ing cars on all trains.” Two fast through trains daily; time to Chicago shortened six hours. For tickets and information call on T. K. Stateler, 638 Market street, San Francisco. L e————— . “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup’” Has been used over 50 years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfeot suc- cess. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Drug- gists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Sobthing Syrup. 25¢ & bottle. —————— CORONADO.—Atmosphere is perfectly dry, sofé and mild, and s entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam~ ship, including fifteen days’ board at the Hotel del Coronado, $60: longer stay $2 50 perday. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Francisca. He Bought the Seed. Bakersfield Callforntan. His mightiness Secretary Morton has atlast been dragooned into contracting for $70,000 worth of seeds for free distribution. It is dol- lars to doughnuts, though, that he will find some way of showing his innate meanness be- fore he gets through with the business. NEW TO-DAY. MONEY SAVING PRICES Money-Saving Dishes. 55 MONEY SAVERS. Lunchb Buckets, Coffee Pots, Cream Pitohers, Oatmeal Bowls, Custara Cups, sKgonan, Plates, Dairy Pans, Hand Basins, each or 6 1or 25¢. 1 OcC MONEY SAVERS. Berry Dishes, Milk Pails, MeatDish, Dish Pa Mustard bots, Ve%luble Dish, Salad mi'x:'. 10¢ each or 3 for 25¢. TEA SETS. Pleces complete for 12 Persons Pure White, Delicate Blue, Brown and Rich Gold Spray Decorations, Maney-Saving Prices, per se: 225, 2.50. 2&5. 3.00, 3.75. 415 DINNER SETS. oplacas complete for 6 Persons Pure White, Delicate Blue, Brown and Rich Gold Spray Decorations. Money-Saving Prices, per set DINNER SETS. 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