The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1896, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free Daily and Sunday CALT, one week, by carrier.. Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall, Daily and Sunday OALL, six months, by mail.. 3. Daily end Sunday CAL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mai Sunday CaLL, one year, by mal WEEKLY CaLL, one year, by mail. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a_vacation ? 1§ #0, it is o trouble for us to forward THE CALL to your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier or left at Business Office will receive prompt attention. NO EXTRA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Felephone. . Main-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Celephone. .. Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES : 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until 2530 oclock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:80 o'clock. 713 Larkin street: open until 9:30 o'clock. £W. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open wntil 9 o'cloc 2518 Mission street: open until § o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : €08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 81 end 32, 84 Park Row, New York Cil DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent- SUNDAY... APRIL 19, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. After Santa Barbara comes Los An- geles, and she comes a-humming. Among our advertisements this morning you can find exactly what you have been looking for. Amid the distractions of local politics we must not forget the funding bill—that iniquity isn’t dead yet. It is about time for those who prophesied an early summer to go and join those who prophesied a dry winter. In their present mood if the Democrats should succeed in finding a Moses they would throw a brick at him. Congress has made the proper answer to the Cuban gquestion, but Cleveland con- tinues to treat it as a conundrum. The tariff guestion will never be settled in this country until the last factory is open and the last free-trader shut up. If San Francisco cannot get upa fes- tival of her own she can at least join in the dances and help to pay the piper. If the right men are sent to the St. Louis convention it will not be necessary to put them under the bonds of a pledge. Let us make it unanimous for an un- pledged delega‘ion to the St. Lowis con- vention and get ready to enjoy the festival season. From all accounts that come to us it seems that during her festival San Jose intends to put on as many arch ways as a coquette. The political philosopher who has just started in to establish a theory that Cleve- land isa hoodoo can hardly hope to get a copyright on it. Even after a Republican Congress has made it clear how to deal with the Cuban question Cleveland is too obstinate to go ahead and settle it. People who contend that an unpledged delegation to St, Lonis would be antagon- istic to McKinley ought to publish a dia- gram and show us how they figure it out, “Dematrimonialization” is a new word the New York Sun has sprung upon its readers, with the intention probably of starting a language equal to the corpora- tion of Greater New York. The attitude of California Republican- ism to the illustrious leaders of the party is that of loyalty to all and hostility to none, and 1t is in exactly that attitude she snould take her stand at St. Louis. The mention of Bayard in Virginiaas a candidate for the Presidency has been called a boom, but it was probably in- tended only as a courteous notice that Virginia is not in favor of any other Democrat. In addition to standing on his party platform the Democratic candidate for the Presidency this year will be expected to sit down on the record of the administra- tion, and naturally very few men feel capable of the feat. Having visited Washington and with his own eyes seen the ruins of Democracy and Clevelandism, it is believed that ‘Whitney never thought it worth while to ask the author of it all whether he in- tended to run again. It all Democratic factions are caused by troubled waters it will undoubtedly be of advantage to them to nominate Whitney and turn on the flow from the Standard Oil barrel, but if some of the factions should happen to be on fire at the time there would be a cataclysm. Senator Hill's statement that the poli- tician who is willing to put himself in the hands of his friends generally finds him- self in the hands of his enemiesis one of those bits of wisdom drawn from experi- ence which untried office-seekers had better paste in their hats and read every morning before they go out. According to the New York Mail and Ez- press, potatoes in the northern part of that State are so cheap they are frequently sold for $2 a ton and used for fuel, and yet such is the present bungling system of civiliza- tion that in New York City potatoes are too high for some people to afford, and they cannot get enough to eat. A Cuban sugar-planter now in: New York is reported to have explained the situation in Cuba by saying: “If we uhder- take 10 grind our cane the rebels burn our property; if we do not grind it General Weyler imprisons us.” It would seem that this situnation clearly calls for Uncle Sam’s interference to set it right. fhorusauniio e In the platform put forth by the Demo- cratic State Convention of Colorado. on Wednesday is a plank declaring the policy “adopted and approved by the present ad- ministration has resulted in the greation of an enormous bonded debt in a period of profound peace, visiting a deadly blight on every industry, and carrying dis- couragement and dismay into the house- hold of every wealth-producer in the land.” And yet there are people who talk as if a third term for Cleveland were a political possibiiity, STAND UP FOR CALIFORNIA. lnoble results by the exercise of infiniulpersom wield a vast influence. Being{ The work of the National Republican Convention must necessarily center upon the construction of a platforra. :The party’s declaration of principles will fore- shadow the policy of the party when it shall take bold of the reins of ‘govern- ment. Moreover, the platform adopted at St. Louis will be in force and binding npon the party in all the States until the several States again meet in National convention. The East and the West.and the North and the South bave very many interests that are in common, but every section of the country has local interests of vast im- portance to 1t whith in some degree con- flict with the inteérests of all other sec- tions. Therefore the party's platform should be so constructed that.all interests will be harmonized. This can be done, but only after a clear and comprehensive presentation has been made of the needs and requirements of each section and a frank wiliingness evinced to make con- cessions here and there. This being true the importance of hav- ing the interests of California clearly and forcibly presented to the convention is evident. It may and it may not have oc- curred to the other sections of the country that California, and the whole- Pacific Coast as well, is very much in need of having her chanriels of commercial oper- ations and the avenues' of her trade pro- duction and interchange strengthened, but anyway a great opportunity to pre- sent and analyze these requirements will be afforded in the St. Louis convention, and it would be an inexcusable derelic- tion of duty on the part of California’s representatives in the convention if they should fail to stand and earnestly plead for their State. Some of the immediate needs of California are a liberally subsi- dized merchant marine, liberal appropri- ations for the improvement of rivers and harbors and coast defense, and a broad and comprehensive plan of irrigation. The agricultural, mining and commercial pros- perity of the State depends largely upon securing these things from the General Government. Butif we send our delegation to St. Louis under strict instructions to make the nom- ination of this or that candidate of para- mount importance will not they be shorn of all influence with the platform com- mittee first and finally with the conven- tion itself? Human nature is substan- tially the same everywhere, and it is rea- sonable to suppose that the nominee would not forget California if her dele- gates fought him through every ballot un- der instructions from their party. On the other hand, if he whom our delegates sup- port under instractions is nominated, he would not feel bound to go out of his way to serve California, because it probably would occur to him that California bhad secured enough in the nomination of her choice. If, however, our delegates go to see that a platform isnot constructed with- out considering the mneeds of California, and are free and untrammeled to espouse the cause of this State from every stand- point of argument and presentation, we may be sure that they will accomplish great good for this great commonwealth of ours—the State of California. In the name of sound business sense, and in the name of.the natural and undeniable claims of California upon the National Government, let our delegates go fully equipped to do their whole duty by their State. INEXHAUSTIBLE TREASURES, It is wonderful to read in the annual report of the Superintendent of the San Frarccisco Mint that out of the fifty-seven counties in the State thirty-three are regu- lar producers of gold. The amounts ran last year from $144 for Orange County to $1,789,815 for Nevada County. Eight pro- duced over half a million dollars each and five over a million each. The total was $15,334,317, besides $599,789 in silver. The gold area occupies the major part of the State, sweeping in a broad semicircle from the northern coast eastward, thence down the Sierra Nevada and ending in a broad base near the southern end of the State. This is a stretch of country 700 miles long and of a width varying from a few miles to more than a hundred. It covers all of the State except the great interior valleys and the coast mountains south of Eel River. In the gold territory there exists, besides the precious metals, inex- haustible stores of timber, & bewildering list of valuable minerals that have haraly | yet been touched, and millions of acres of as good farming land as can be found in the world. To mention the deposits of gold is but to begin the list of the treas- ures with which these magical mountains are filled, Even gold is found in every conceivable formation suited to its presence, and hence the methods of mining and extracting ap- vear in amazing variety. Extending all down the Pacific Coast, from the inacces- sible regions of Alaska far toward the sonthern extremity of South America, there is a vast tortuous wrinkle on the face of the earth, in the upheaval ot which the great layers of rock confining the internal vapors of the shrinking world were broken. Through these fissures the mighty forces beneath expended ' their energies, in some places producing stupendous volcanoes, in others slowly depositing precious min- erals ejected in & vaporous state. Glaciers likely brought down much of our placer gold from the far north; ancient rivers, later broken and lifted skyward by the great upheaval, certainly did. In addi- tion to these enormous deposits imported from a distance and left on the soil of Cal- ifornia, nature has maintained a local workshop of incredible size for the manu- facture of the precious minerals on our own soil. The geological history of gold in California is a splendid story. And yet gold is only one of the items of natural wealth possessed by the State. In most of the counties which produce it are orchards yielding fruits and wines of the rarest and ‘most valuable: kinds, and min- eral waters of a variety and curative effi- ciency greater than any part of Europe can boast. Over all these treasure-stores, only in the incipiency of their discovery, let alone their development, are conditions of climate which make existence among them pleasant, wholesome and inspiring. San Francisco, the metropolis and center of all these sources of wealth, and sitting with an open gate for the traffic of the Orient, is awaiting a greatness surpassing imagination. AN ALLURING HOPE. Professor Roentgen is said to be hopeful that the mysterious X.ray may be found to be an efficacious germicide. He does not doubt the assertion of Professors Pratt and Wightman, theindefatigable American investigators, that the ray is. fatal to the bacillus of diphtheria, and he is disap- pointed that the germ of cholera does not yield to its killing effect. He promises to pursue these lines of investigation, having provided himself with an excellent equip- ment for the work. The celerity with which the fertile and eager American mind turned its attention to this possible power of the ray is one of ‘the most interesting phases of the subject. ‘While the scientists of Europe achieve Dpatience and a calm devotion to science for its+ own sake, give the American student a hint and at once his imagination is inflated and his daring challenged. In spectacular scientific achievements, par- ticularly those - involving mechanics, Americans lead the world, but most of the groundwork of discoveries and inventions for the alleviation of suffering is laid in the patient laboratories: of the 0ld World. Professor Roentgen says he has already thought ‘of the- possibility discovered by Professors Pratt and Wightman, but with characteristic European slowness he has not yet made himself ready to begin the investigation. The idea staggers the im- agination. Whether the marvelous ray is a germicide by dynamic or by chemical ac- tion no one has ventured to say, if indeed a clear distinction could be drawn between the two operations in this case. Either view suggests bewildering possibilities. The microscope may assist in solving the problem, but the vista thus opened lies so near the ultimate reach of that wonderful instrument as to bring discovery within the haze of guessing. Comparing the marvelous advance that has been made since the ray was discovered with the length of time it was known to exist, and laying these treasures of achievement and time alongside those furnished by the wonderful advances in the manipulation of the electric current, we may weil stand with bated breath before the possibilities which the future holds. With all this tremendous expenditure of energy for the healing of disease, is there a commensurate movement for its prevention? In externals we have bril- liant inventions enough. We are begin- ning to comprehend the value of drainage and disinfection, but is there anything like a corresponding endeavor to master the science of intelligent individual living ? Until the scientific and reformatory forces separately at work join forces for the com- mon good, and the world comes to prefer substantial and wide-reaching to spectacu- lar and restricted results, we shall not see the dawn of intelligent progress. A OALIFORNIA IDYL. Among the idyls of Scottish life told by the author of “The Bonnie Brier Bush' for the enjoyment of all who delight *in fair passions and bountiful pities and loves without stain,” there is none which awakens a more responsive chord in the Leart of the reader than that which telis the story how the farmers of Drumtochty, in genuine kindliness, went forth to plow the fields of a neighbor who was too sick to plow them for. himself. This story, told with more than ordinary grace, has given the world a glimpse into the true heart of Scotland and revealed the life of the plain people there underone of its finest aspects. We have not yet had that faithful chron- icling of the minor events of life in Cali- fornia that has been given to those of Scotland, and consequently the ways of the world here seem harder and neighbors less kindly than they are in that land whose every gentle instinct has been made the theme of song and story by men of genius and of worth. There are abundant evi- dences, however, that all the finer facts of life are here and that only the coming of the true writer is needed to make it known to the world that California has her iayls not less lovely than those of the land of Burns and Scott. ‘While in the hurry of things and the great events of the day the press largely overlooks these little ‘‘enremembered acts of kindness that make the tenor of good men’s lives,” it is fortunate that here and there among the country weeklies there is an editor with an eye keen enough to see them, an instinct fine enough to value them, and an appreciation of them sufficient to give them space in the records of his papef. Editor Edes of the Morgan Hill Sun is one of these. He not only makes his paper one of the best in the country considering the size of the community that supports it, but he makes it a true chronicle of the life of peo- ple there, and accordingly : shows that neighborhood now and again under as- pects as idyllic and Arcadian as any that have been revealed to us since the days when Greece was young and the golden age prevailed, In the course of these weekly chronicles the Sun has recorded of Morgan Hill an event exactly similar to that which makes so grateful an idyl when told of Drum- tochty. A party of orchardists in that district went forth with their teams and as an act of neighborly good-will plowed the ten-acre orchard of their sick neighbor, ana then, not weary of well-doing, went fur- ther and plowed five acres for one man and six for another who happened to be behind in their work. The California incident is more notable than the Scottish one, because the people of Morgen Hill have not been life-long neignbors and old schoolmates bound by ties of kinship and marriage as were those of Drumtochty. They have known one another but a few years. The orchards planted when the town was founded have not yet ripened their first fruits. Nevertheless the community itself has already ripened the best fruits pof so- cial life, as is shown by this inci- dent. There is one moral to the sub- ject which should not be overlooked. If out of simple deeds of this kind Scottish writers can make tales that are read the wide world over, surely California writers can find in similar themes an opportunity to give the outsiders a truer conception of California life than by depicting it as made up of the rough scrambles of the mining camps and the coarse tragedies of evil natures. California should be known not only as the land of golden sunshine, fruits and mines, but of golden hearts as well. 'A GREAT OONVENTION. The opportunity offered the people of San rrancisco to secure the international convention of the United Society of Chris- tian Endeavor, to be held in July of next year, is one that the City cannot afford to neglect. At the last infernational conven- tion, held in Boston, the number of dele- gates in attendance was 50,000; it is thought that at least 30,000 may be ex- pected here. The amount of money asked for is only $25,000, which is one-fourth the amount so readily subscribed for the Re- publican National Convention. The great body of this useful organiza- tion is composed of earnest workers in the affairs of life—the upper “middle class,” educated, intelligent, leading clean and industrious lives and devoted to the pro- motion of correct living. It is a great army of enthusiastic yonng men and wo- men, representing the cream ot busy and useful humanity. Its influence is against vice and for industry, thrift and educa- tion. The comprehensive scope of its or- ganization prevents antagonisms engen. dered by sectarianism in the Christian faith. For the prosecution of its work it re- quires the ablest thinkers in science, art and economics, great instructors and lead- ers who are masters of their several pro- fessions. Their services are engaged as public lecturers, and in the approaching convention they will be assembled from teachers they are also students, and will be eager to learn and afterward to talk about the wonders of California. Their influence is all the more valuable from the fact that their pupils are glad to learn and to profitby theirknowledge. These pupils are largely the millions who are being in- structed in the colleges and universities of the world. The ‘“Endeavorers” themselves must make a close study of California in order to be consistent. It is part of their self- assumed duty to learn and teach every- thing that may benefit the race. If they should (as they certainly would) find in California superior natural conditions for the development of all that is highest and best in humian nature, they will preach and teach California throughout Christendom. They will tell the world of the wonderful spot where gold awaits the digging and the rarest fruits the planting, and where physical vigor, unhampered by adverse natural conditions, expands with mental growth and spiritual elevation. Their in- fluence would bring to California a popu- lation of sturdy, earnest, upright, God- fearing, educated and industrious people eager to assist us in solving the great prob- lems which await us and out of which priceless blessings to humanity will flow. A OONVENIENT FORM. THE CALL desires to draw particular at- tention not only to the increased size of to-day’s issue butalso to its convenient form. It will be observed that the thirty- two. pages appear in only two parts, in- stead of four or more, as is customary with other papers. - This prevents scattering and loss. [t may have been noticed that for nearly a year the weekday editions of Tue CALy, consisting of sixteen pages, have appeared in one part. This has been a great convenience to readers of the paper and is explained by the fact that THE CALL has the latest and most improved presses. PERSONAL. Dr. 0. H. Bolson of Stockton arrived here yesterday. Henry Whitcomb, a lumberman of Monterey, isin town. Zella A. Dixon of the University of Chicago is at the Occidental. J. H. Dugain, the Merced cattle-buyer, is & guest at the Cosmopolitan. 0. W. Wrigglsworth, owner of a gold mine at Amador City, is at the Russ. S. W. Dickinson and R. H. Wallis, well- known Merced business men, are at the Cos- mopolitan. F. Keil and F. A. Wurzbach, representing one of the largest hardware manufactories in New York City, are at the Grand. F. B. Weatherbee, owner of the large fruit cannery at Sebastopol, and 1nterested in many other industries there, is in the City. A. C. Hillman, manager of the famous Briggs ranch, near Davisville, on which an enormous amount of grain and frui is annu- ally produced, is among the arrivals at the Lick. W. C. Peacock, the wealthy merchant of Honolulu, accompanied by his family and half & dozen friends, returned from England, France and Germany yesterday after several months’ absence. They are at the Occidental. Mrs. Mabel Jenness Venter of Kansas City, now here, who talks about artistic dressand the vulgarisms we see in society, is a sister of Mabel Jenness-Miller, who made money here SIX Or seven years ago by discoursing on sim- ilar topies. Mrs. Venter is accompanied by her nandsome little son, a youth with thick, golden hair. Manuel Casin, the bold mariner and navi- gator who & few months ago departed on the Barclay Golden with the terrible Antonio Ezeta ' on’ & conquest of Salvador, has returned here in a contrite spirit.. His Rood sword reposes in its ‘sheath,- while the rust gathers upon. it. Manuel is understood to be out & large number of gaod simoleons, which fell into the hands directly and indirectly of Ezeta. Yet asthey did not get Salvador and did not dare venture near there, Senor Casin has no way of playing even, He aspired to be Vice-President. He has re- turned with a deep disgust on him and a dark browd taste in his mouth. Clarence E. Edwords, managing editor of the Kansas City Journal, owned by Congressman Van Horne, is in the City, accompanied by his wife. Mr. Edwords has worked very hard dur- ing the recent municipal eampaign, and has won a signal victory in the election of Mayor Jones and other Repnblicans. His work was 80 much appreciated by leading Republicans that they did what politicians rarely do, and that was to acknowledge by & written testimonial their gratitude for his services. Because of the hard work which he did in the campaign he is taking the present trip, and may extend his visit to Japan. He has never been in Cali- fornia before. He says Kansas City is growing steadily, and in a large semse is & world- beater. It has over 185 miles of street rail- ways, the largest of any city in the country. The editor is a physician by education, as he was by practice for several years. He is a graduate of Heidelberg. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 18.—At the West- minster, G. Bowman; Plaza, P. Barth, Mr. and Mrs. J. Stern, Miss F, M. Stern; Imperiel, J. J. Gottlob; Savoy, Mr. and Mrs. L. Sachs, Miss Sachs. UNPLEDGED DELEGATES. Oakland Tribune. California is about to have an opportunity to secure the greatest amount of influence for the National Repubican Convention soon to be held in St. Louis, In order to secure the great- est amount of influence the delegates should g0 to that convention unpledged for or against any man. Itis probable that a majority of the Republicans of the State are in favor of the nomination of McKinley. But they should go to the convention free to vote for him or for any other candidate who at that time may seem most available. With this freedom the votes of the California delegation may turn the scale in favor of some successful candidate. California will be want- ing many things of the next administration. 1t is assumed that it will be Republican. The delegates will in all probability attend a Presi- dent-making convention. Their influence will be recognized in & much greater degree if there is freedom to take advantage of the largest op- portunities. It would be an unfortu- nate circumstance it the delegation were tied up by pledges to support some one msan be- cause such pledges necessarily antagonize all other candidates. Fortunately, every name that has been prominently brought forward in connection with a nomination is that of a good man. California would be well served by either of such men as McKinley, Reed, Alli- son, Morton or Harrison. There may be even & greater number of names before the conven- tion. It certainly would not be a fortunate circumstance, if, by reason of pleages, the dele- gation from this State were compelled, tarough thick ana thin, to stand by an unsuccessful candidate. It is safe to promise that good men will be selected as delegates, who, having personal preferences, would be ready to sink these fora common good. California has been left out in the cold on many occasions because her in. fluence has not been sufficiently felt in Na- tional councils. Here is a golden opportunity. An unpledged delegation can make its in- fluence felt in this President-making conven- tion beyond all that could be exerted by a delegation tied up by pledges. Little Mrs. Justwed—And, do you know, my husband never even thinks of so much as go- ing for a scuttle of coal without first kissing me. 01d Mrs. Hornbeak—In about two years, my dear, you may consider yourself lucky if he gets the coal.—Puck. e Mrs. Greene—I really think it too bad for the men to poke fun at old maids. Surely, it is no fault of theirs. Mrs. White—Indeed it is, Did you ever know one who hadn’t remained all parts of the world. These distinguished | single from choice ?—Boston Transcript. / IN LESS SERIOUS MOOD. Richard Mansfield, the brilliant actor, whose genuine merits would seem to deserve more substantial recognition than has been accorded them at the hands of the public during the past week, had an exceedingly haughty not 0 say overbearing way about him up to a few years ago. He held tyranmic sway, as it were, behind the curtain, and it was common for stage menagers to take upon themseives exira pains to gratify Richard’s wishes and even his whims as far as their business went. In Spokane, Wash., however, Richard was taken sadly aback. There he came in con- tact with Jack Quinn, a sceme manager, who had been familiar in olden days with Booth and McCullough and who was & prince at his work. Jack always sought to avoid cause for complaint and especially did he so act in the case of Mansfleld. Buta kick was inevitable. A couple of scene-shifters, after some laborious work in the flies, came down to the rear of the stage breathing rather heavily as a result of their exertions. Mans- field chanced to, walk near them. He nearly froze them with & look. Then he summoned Quinn. he breathing of these men annoys me,” 8aid Richard. *‘I'd answer to the law if Istopped it,’” re- plied Jack, with ready wit. A stage-hand slipped and danced about a little in the effort to regain his balance. “Your men make too much noise with their feet,” exclaimed the actor. : ‘‘Hereafter they’ll walk on their hands,” was’ the response. Mansfield had no more use for Quinn and during the remainder of the engagement they spoke to each other only when it was abso. lutely necessary, The Nation has worried through nearly four years since, in a misguided moment, it placed the White House for the second time at the Qisposal of that ponderous individual whose physical immensity is so ill-proportioned to his intellectual capacity. Delegates and spec- tators shouted till the canvas of the -Chicago Wigwam swelled like the skin of an over- charged balloon at the mention of the only name that Democracy felt able to conjure Wwith. And how they did sing—under the lead- ersbip of that now departed Pennsylvanian, whose widest fame was in the fact that he originated the verses which Democracy has sorely regrettea that ever it closed its eyes o repeat: Grover, Grover, Four years more of Grover. Accidentally running across those linesin an old paper, the other day, the thought oc- curred to me that an edition ‘‘revised and cor- | rected up to date” might not fail altogether of appreciation among Democrats who were unremembered in the distribution of Federal loaves and fishes. Itcan’t be expected, how- ever, that they will snout witn that old-time enthusiasm, or even at all, the following lines, which (and it is ‘saying precious little for them) are fully up to the literary standard of the Wigwam verses: Grover, Grover, One year more of Grover! Out he goes, in we g0 For better food than clover! Grover swore to give us pie . _And cake the Nation over; Grover got the ple and cake; Ail he gave was—Grover! Gave it almost rough enough To tip the country over. Won't the Nation have it rich Once we're rid of Grover! Grover, Grover, Oue year more of Grover— Then the workshops will resume, Woetul times be over. Wages then will take a jump, Blest be every section, Soon as we are safe beneath The mgis of protection ! Labor’s face be joyous bright, Hardships gone with Grover; Nation be {tself when this One short year Is over. I have a country friend—a whole-souled, honest fellow—whose good-will I value even more highly than Governor Budd values the applause for which his grand-stand plays are ‘baited. A few days ago my country friend visited the City, and, incidentally, my first- floor'figt. The painters had just adorned the front doorsteps with an azure dress, and had placed & few boards temporarily across the ap- proach. from the sidewalk for a very obvious reason. Visitors, in the meantime, were wel- comed through a side door. My country friend came unexpectedly, crawled over the barri- | cade, slipped on the bottum step, recovered himself, and then, with a proud air, mastered the ascent to the door. “Oh!” exclaimed the horrified servant, “the steps are freshly painted.” “Don’t mention it,” said my good-natured {riend, “‘these shoes has been wearin’ nigh onto three years, and ain’t much, nohow.” Like all pleasures, the visit came to an end, and my relatives diplomatically sought to save the balance ot the work on those front steps. “Excuse me, but this is the shorter way out,” observed one of my relatives, moving toward the side door. “Jest a few extra steps won't tire me, I guess,” was the response; “I’ll jest mosey out the way I came.” “But yow'll get yourself all covered with paint, I fear.” “Don’t bother about me, now,” he laughed. “I don’t mind the paint a particle—it won't hurt these shoes, nohow.” And with a farewell wave of his hand he started down the steps, slipping and regaining his balance a number of times as he went, but always exhibiting a delightfully careless man- ner. I almost expected him to shout back, after he had fallen over the fence to the sidewalk (and after ruining a neat job and necessitating & recall of the painters), “Don’t you dare to think of buyin’ me mnew shoes—I wont wear ‘em.” Oh, summer girl, deceive not me! ‘Thy tale is music to mine ear; Yet am I warned, and much I fear To put my soulful trust in thee. 1f frauk thou art, thou wilt not move ‘Whilst I apply these Roentgen rays; Thou wilt not tremble while I gaze ‘The trueness of thy heart to prove. Oh, summer girl, forgive! 'Tis clear My love, and mine alone, thou art! Fair sclence reads no truer heart! Let “X” make 2b 1, my dear. Old-timers in literary walks hereabout will recollect the genial Colonel Will Visscher, al- though many a year has flitted by since the colonel’s ever-present smile and joy-empur- pled nose were in evidence in this metropolis. While in the Northwest, half a dozen years ago, a guest of the colonel, it was my pleasure to attend a banquet at which Visscher was the lion of the evening. The bohemian vet- eran, a veteran bohemian, was in those days conducting & tri-weekly newspaper in a boom town, and living, temporarily, in bachelor style in an apartment adjoining his editorial room. An hour or so after retiring Visscher suddenly sprang out of bed, felt his way to the editorial desk, turned on the electricity, drew up a chair, grasped & pen and began wedding thought to paper. An idea for a poem had struck him and he made haste to indite & num- ber of verses. “Egad!” he exclaimed, as he dropped the ‘pen and settled back in his chair; “Egad, if I only had all the champagne I wanted I could write poetry as brilliant as ever you read, sah, and any quantity of it. Champagne makes me scintillate, sah—scintillate.” He recited the verses written & moment be- fore. They were certainly good. “That cham- pagne dinner did the work, sah,” explained the colonel. In Visscher's presence, the day following, I fold the story of the champagne poem. “Fact,” he admitted, “‘positive fact.” “Colonel,” put in anold friend who had been listening, “if a new gem of thought had been discovered in your mind by every bottle of champagne you have ever consumed, and if you had put every one of those gems into verse, you would long ago have written all around Shakespeare, Milton and Byron.” A Syndicate Letter, whose birthplace was an Eastern village, attained a rather flourishing condition. It had known suffering. Early in its career it had shivered from the effectsof cold receptions accorded by an Exacting Home Press. It was gifted, however, with the virtue of perseverance, and it said, “I may yet dis. cover some distant places where I shall not shrink before the Critical Frown, and where I may find preferment, by reason of the cheap- ‘ness. of my services, over Literature that is | dearer and of better parts.” The Syndicdte Letter underbid all rivals, and obtained many contracts to fill space at very low rates of com- pensation. . When the Exacting Press in the Eastern village heard what financial success the Syndicate Letter had met with it remarked, with a pitying look, “It is too bad that the Pressin those distant places should be acti- ated by no higher motive than that of filling space at the smallest cost. I care not for the acquaintance oi the Syndicate Letter, and when the people of those distant places learn to value good home productions in liter- ature more than the mediocre article with the stamp of importation upon it, then will the Syndicate Letter retireé to its native shade.” Should the Mayor appeal to the City Hall angel to advise him as to & wise course to pur- suein the Wilmerding School-site matter the City Hall angel—conveying a delicate hint by proffering the book of learning with one hand, while with the other she lifts high the torch of knowledge—would meake appropriate answer by saying nothing. A San Francisco Justice of the Peace is re- ported to have “held courtand rendered his decision in German.” Rather oad,'to be sure. There are some rare instances, however, where English-speaking Judges, unfamiliar with the classics, have rendered decisions that were (metaphorically) Greek. The Sunday barber-shop law is no more. The razor-wielder may now pass the morning of the Sabbath in meditating on the necessity of *'faith to be saved,” while for the afternoon he can lawfully switch to the consideration of “face to be shaved.” In a world of teeming beauties, scenic heights, emboywered vales, Where Zephyrus dwelleth heedless Of the roar of distant gales: Where the year is always summer, And the roses bloom for aye, And December's feast of flowers Vies with floral fetes of May; Whers unnumbered babbling streamlets Tell their stories to the breeze : When at times the feathered songsters Hush their chorus through the trees; Here, where nature Is Edenic, Where enchantment holds each view, Bards should sate with inspiration E’en as flowers drink the dews; Here, by beauty thus environed, Should the muse take readiest wing} (What's the matter? Not a poet! No—I don't profess to sing!) SHOULD BE FREE. Redding Free Press. In the matter of sending delegates to the National Republican Convention to St. Louis men of good sound sense and judgment and of undoubted loyalty to sound Republican doc- trines should be left untrammeled, without being pledged to any certain candidate or course of procedure, otherwise the California delegation will cut butasmall figure in the proceedingsof the convention, Circumstances are bound to arise in which delegates handi- AROUND THE CORRIDORS. One of the strange and entirely unique char. ‘acters ofone of the old and now rapidly ad- veneing gold camps is W. P. Gaither, known by the sokriquet of “Tennessee.” Indeed, by this lest name and not by the other is he known thropghout the various mining towns ‘of Tuolumne, Calaveras, Mariposa and other counties. “Tennessee’” lives at Angels, and itis said that there is no. man, woman or child in trouble that “Tennessee” does not at once set out to render aid to in some way. He has raised many & Ssubscription in a modest way for the sick, and he has devoted & great desl of time personally to those who are ailing. Every woman in the camp is his friend and he is usually found choring around, trying to do something to make somebody happy. It would appear that Dickens’ story of the ““Cherryble Brothers” and their charities was finding a living illustration in Angels, only that ‘“Tennessee” is nocapitalist, as they were, and simply does whathe can, as the widow did on an oceasion long ago. Not long since “Tennessee” raised & fund fora needy woman who came by the stage to Angels to' find her husband. The husband was not there. She was entirely out of money, andso Tennessee, the refuge of all Angelsin hours of momentary Sorrow,set about to see what could be done for her, Of course her wants were provided for. ‘ James F. Wardner, the former owner of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines, who has been in every leading camp from the Black Hills to the coast, to Africa and elsewhere, is in the City from Angels. He says Tennessee is the most remarkable producthe has ever seen in the various mining camps. 1 have been in all of them and have seen all kinds of 0dd men,” he said, “but Tennessee is the most singular of them all. He cams from Tennessee—Memphis, 1 believe, and that's why they call him Tennessee. He is about 40 years old and has lived up in the hills a good many years. He knows all the camps, trails and claims, and the quickest way to get there, *‘Recause of his knowledge of the country he is often employed to carry telegrams and do | ali kinds of erramds, and he does everything with & promptness that has won the coufi- dence of every one. He has also acted &s a guide a great deal, and has piloted many people to the Calaveras Big Trees. Of course he gets a little something for all this, but he gives all his money away in aid of unfor- tunates as soon as he gets it. “But he is no loafer. He does something for all he gets. But it doesn't take much to keep him. “He’is the oddest study I ever saw. They call him everything from a blank fool to the greatest humanitarian. Its just as you take him. Just now he is taking care ofa lamb—feeding it by a nursing-bottle. “But I must tell you a joke on Tennessee. To begin with, he has a glass eye. Well, the other day he was watering a ho¥se at the watering trough, when his eye dropped out and fell into the water. Somebody had put a big cattish in “Tennessee,” Otherwise W. P. Gaither, the Strange Man of Angels, Who 1Is Always Caring for the Sick and Unfortunate. 2 [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] capped with fronclad instructions will be pow- erless to wield any appreciable influence. Our delegates should be left free to exercise their judgment as occasion requires. LADY'S SHIRT WAIST WITH SAILOR COLLAR. Though shown here as a yachting waist, for which the model is'also appropriate, the pat- tern includes a standing collar with Piccadilly points, intended for making regular shirt ‘waists with starched cuffs and collar. A suit of duck or Galatea cloth made like the illustration is charming for the seaside. y:lc.h‘seng dress, flannels or serge are -ES:; A biue serge, with collar of wh trimmed with blue braid, is very efl:cn%: ;‘i:lv‘;:l): this i:‘:mped blue and white tie would be very n‘l 5 or shirt waists of percale, chambray, 1i and flnxhnm, this pattern will _be nl::{:d vfi; stylish. The neck may be bound, and' the Pic- c;i%uy collar be made separate of white linen, another of the same goods, n by collar-buttons as men’-' counr:ourb:; gitaatid [ there, and that fish didn’t do & thing but grab that eye and swallow it. It was the funniest thing, and Tennessee was so_nonplussed at the fish getting his eve he didn’t know what todo. Of course that fish was slain and the eye recovered. 11“One striking thing about Tennessee 1s his gentleness. He treats all women with the greatest kindness, as, in fact, he does all peo- ple, especially those who are sick or with out means. He doesn’t save 25 Centsa month— gives everything away. But Tennessee is no tramp, either. He is always neat in his appear- ance. Strange man, Tennessee! I never saw the like of him."” The Rooster Lost His Voice. ‘Woodland Mail. Those Cleveland roosters that were carried around in the hats of workingmen three years ago have entitely disappeareda. It would re- quire a man with a great deal of nerve to ap- ar on the streets now with one of them. The ilson bill has killed the Democratic rooster market. ———— E. H. 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