The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 22, 1896, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1896. SUNDAY...................NOVEMBER 22, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Dally and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 Daily end Sunday CALL, six months, by mall.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CAxLi, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALY, one month, by mail.. .65 Sunday CALL, one year, by mail... WEEXLY CALL, one year, by mall BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San ¥Francisco, Telephone.... . EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone +er. Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 527 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until £:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 713 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. £W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open otil 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Minb street; open until 9 0'clock. 4 Market street, open till § o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 808 Broadway. EASTER! FFICE : Rooms 31 and 32, 34 R New York Clty. DAVID M. FOLT o Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e Make your plans for Thanksgiving. Don’t forget that charity is in season. Everybody ought to have turkey this year. This will be a busy week for house- keepers. Spread your Thanksgiving table with California delicacies. This week the Popocrats may lay aside thair crow—Uncle Sam has turkey enough for all. It will be a genuine National Thanksgiv- | ing this time, and all the people will have | reason for rejoicing in it. Senatorial fights in some of the States | are beginning to get hot enough to be | luminous all over the country. Sound-money Democrats in the Eastare said to be making their organizations per- manent, but for what purpose it would be hard to guess. It is asserted by a critic that if it were not for the Hebrews orchestral concerts in | New York would perish utterly, but the critic lives in Boston. The newspaper which goes into the | home and is read by the whole family is | the best paper in which to do your adver- | tising for family trade. It is noted in the East that football games this year have been remarkably free from slugging. The country seems to be improving in everything. The Texas peovle are boasting they will | lead the Union in progress during the decade, and it remains to be_seen whether we will permit them to do it. Philadelphia complains that her water supply has too much coal in it to drink and not enough to burn, and it would seem it is not even passable as firewater. It is asserted by a New England paper | that the girls of New York bave quit | chewing gum. We re.ret to say it is| sdded they have begun chewing tobacco. | Tt is said there is not a blade of grass left | in McKinley’s front yard, and it may be added there won’t be any grass left in the | streets of trade wken he Lecomes Presi- | aent. In the general rejoicing of the time there | is only one official voice ont of tune. The | - Thanksgiving proclamation of Governor Stone of Missouri was very low-spirited, and didn’t sound ha; Illinois is boasting of the recent comple- tion of what she calls the finest prison for women in the world and overlooks the fact that she should be ashamed of having 50 many women that need it. Boston was attacked by one-half the veople becanse her Art Commissioners re- jected the *“Dancing Bacchante'” and is now being attacked by the other hali be- cause her library trustees show signs of accepting it. The people of Kansas do not regret Bryan’s defeat very much, but what grinds them is the fact that the Mis- sourians are continually congratulating them on having come over to the Mis- souri side of politics. Harvard men are accused of conducting their correspondence on crimson paper, across the top of which, in letters of Yale blue, are inscribed the words ““To hell with Yale,” and thus does higher education im- prove the manners and refine the taste. It is said some of the most cordial let- ters recently received by McKinley are from men who declare they voted for Bryan, but are convinced by the rapid re- vival of business that McKinley’s elec- tion was essential to the welfare of the country. The people of Berlin, who have just closed an exhibit of the artistic and indus- trial productions of that city alone, are re- ceiving the congratulations of all Europe. It is said no city in the world, except Paris, could rival the exhibit, and it is doubtful if even Paris could equal it. Boston has been a little bit disturbed by the discovery that in ber most aristocratic ward, where the residents boast of a superior intelligence and the highest brand of citizenship, there were the largest number of errors in voting and the great- est carelessness in counting the vote. | could be satisfied ata banquet whose every | profit from them, and moreover we must | | hat, also lis with the hypnotizer? That It is singular how cheerful and con- tented the whole country has become since the election. Every city we hava heard from 1s 80 well satisfied with the bloom and the beauty of its own chrysan- themum show that it does not envy the chrysanthemum show of any other town, Ba LA 4 Attention is called to the curious fact that our law makes no provision for noti- fying a President-elect of his election. Even after the electoral vote has been counted Congress sends no official notice of the result to the successful candidate. He has to get his information from the newspapers and rely on it. —_— Away over in Budapest is a critic who ‘proposes a sure means of deciding whether Shakespeare or Bacon wrote “King Lear.” The play was recently presented in that city, and the critic says if the tombs of the two rivals be opened it can be deter- mined who wrote the work by seeing ‘which one turned over in his grave, THANESGIVING WEEK. During this week the minds of the veople of the United States will be mainly directed to thoughts of thanksgiving and charity. These thoughts will be more cheerful than were those of any similar season for several years past. We have gone through along period of disaster and have confronted a grave National danger, but now the skies are clear and prospects are brizht, and as a consequence our feast- ing on Thursduy will be accompanied with genuine rejoicing and thankfulness. A thousand evidences bear witness to the fact that the period of hard times is over and a new period of prosperity has begun. It is, of course, well understood that we cannot return at one bound to the full height of an abundant prosperity that will assure work and wages for all and carry comfort and gladness to every house- hold, but enough has already been accom- plished in the way of reviving industry to give us reason for hoping that such pros- perity is not far distant, Enough of the effect of the hard times remains to make it incambent upon us to remember to provide this week for charity as well as thanksgiving. In a land so abundantly blessed as ours every home should have its share in the great Na- tional feast. If all who are well todo con- tribute but a little none would have to give much in order that the poor sbould bhave plenty. A remembrance of this should have a place to-day in the minds of all who are thinking of the preparations for the coming feast, and they should re- solve to assist in the task of making it a day of rejoicing in every household in the State. There are certainly brighter days and better conditions in store for the people of California. No State in all this much favored Republic has fairer prospects than oursand uo people a more certain assur- ance that their fields will be blessed with fruitfulness and the work of their hands rewarded with profit. Here then, if anywhere, should tte day be celebrated fervently and universally. It should be with us a day of complete rejoicing ana thankfulness, and rich and poor alike should have a share in both itssolemn and its festal observances. On a day set apart to commemorate the welfare of our industries it would be ap- propriate to spread the feast as far as pos- sible from the products of our own soil In the rich variety of her produce Califor- nia furnishes us with everything of deli- cacy best fitted to suit each particular taste and even the most dainty palates viand was gathered from the hills or val- leys of this profase land. The prosperity that is promised us is not to come as a free gift. It is dependent upon our energies and the right use of our advantages. We must make our indus- tries known if we would aerive the fullest support them ourselves if we would have | others esteem them. Let us, therefore, | celebrate our Thanksgiving day as far as possible by promoting those home indus- tries whose approaching prosperity is the cause of our rejoicing. LAW AND HYPNOTISM. A recent case in Georgia affords a curi- ous study in connection with the problems of hypnotism and moral responsibility. A man named Osbourne was hypnotized on the stage and made to believe that he was adog. He barked and bit a man’s hat to pleces A lawsuit resulted and the Georgia justice decided that the guilt Jay with the bypnotizer and made him pay for the hat. A few days later Osbourne committed a murder. He acted as if insane and re- peatedly declared that a dog had his soul. He appeared to have the idea that he must kill the dog to get back his soul, end then all would be weil again, Does the guiltof that murder, like the tearing up of the is the problem with which Georgia law as now to grapple. The courts of the near future will have to adopt some definite policy in dealing with pleas of insanity, kleptomania and bypnotism as excuses for crime. When it becomes as common to elaim impunity by setting up the excuse of hypnotic sug- | gestion as it is now to plead insanity per- haps juries will find their task such a puzzling one that they might as well cast lots for a decision. If men could have faith that in such a method of reaching a verdict, “The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord,” it would be a vast relief. As the public becomes more and more familiar with kieptomania and hypnotism as undoubted facts of life, then more and more will real criminals seek to prove that they are only victims of these strangely permitted evil influences. In many cases the fraud will be too transparent to cheat justice, but there will also be many in which there will seem so much danger of the condemnation ot the innocent that the mind would hesitate to risk a verdict of guilty. Great as will be the difficulties of the courts in declaring whether the caught perpetrator of a wrong is a criminal or victim, they will be mere trifles in com- parison with the difficultjes of the catch- 1ng and conviction of the true wrongdoer in a real case of criminal suggestion being obayed by a guiltless tool. When we learn how pliant the hypunotic subject is in the hands of his master, it is appalling to think of the immense power to do evil and escape punishment which this skill, coupled with a wicked heart, puts within the reach of the hypnotist. The claim is sometimes made that a person of good morals cannot, while un- der the influence of hypnotism, be made to do an immoral act. This is hard to be- lieve when we know that sensible people can be made to do the most ridiculous things while hypnotized. The whole sub- ject is involved in intellectual darkmess, and we ©an only trust that a fuller knowl- edge of the probletas involved will furnish | the ligh by which to solve them. —_— A CUONTIRMED PESSIMIST, Henry Watterson has clearly become a confirmed vpessimist. The ardor with which hie worshiped the star-eyed god- dess of reform a few years ago has given way to a gioomy despondency, and the tenor of all his written and spoken words in these days is like that of a new Jere-” miah prophesying woe to the country. The c/iange in the man has bgen some- thing remarkable. It is not long ago that he was oneof the most cheerful of our optimisis. It was a pleasure to read his words even in his most excited moods, for in the verve and vigor with which he de- nounced bis enemies there was always an element of sanguine hopefuiness in the triumph of good, which delighted even those who differed from him. To-day he seems to be as sullen and as hopeless as any Diogenes, and there is no longer any comfort in him even for his friends, In his latest declaration concerning the ‘polatical and social condition of the coun- try, he expresses no hope for the welfare of the people. The Republican policy of protection, he declares, ‘‘is at war with the genius of American institutions.” Populism he describes as “the gorgon of agrarianism.”” Democracy he sees to be hopelessly divided and demoralized. No- where can he find any party capable of saving the country fror the ruin which to his mind seems imminent. Mr. Watterson says that if the manu- facturers of the country could be induced to discard protection, they would be able to unite conservative men of all parties to rescue the people from monarchism. *‘But,” he adds, “with McKinley in the Presidency this secems impossible, and I confess I dread to think of the attempt to which he is committed of bringing back the McKinley duties.” All this is like the sound of & voice cry- ing in the wilderness denouncing woe upon the people unless they repent, but not offering them any guidance to lead them to repentance. Watterson believes the wealth of the East 1s to become as dangerous to the country as was slavery in the South, but sees no way by which to lead the Eastern plutocrats to abandon their pursuit of wealth any more than the Southern slaveholders could be induced to abandon the attempt to maintain slavery. When asked to give some advice to the Democratic party concerning what it should do in the immediate future, Mr. Watterson would only say: “What I would advise it to do and what it is likely to do are different matters. Perhaps it could not dq anything better by way of a starter than to appoint the next 8th of January as a day of fasting and prayer.” This piece of advice is perhaps the most sensible thing that Mr. Watterson has said for a long time. Itgoes far toredeem all the rest of his pessimism. We do not share with him his doubts of the welfare of the country. We do agree with him, however, that the Democratic party is sadly in need of a wholesome repentance, and certainly nothing could more potently conduce to that end than for the party, as a whole, to celebrate the great Democratic anniversary next January not by exulting in the former triumphs of Andrew Jack- son, but by solemn fast of repentance and regret that they have so far fallen away from the Democracy he represented. THE FAMILY NEWSPAPER. We are indebted to our courteous con- temporary the Wasp for a kindly and ap- preciative criticism of the position which THE CALL occupies among the newspapers of the City. The sum and substance of its estimate is that THe CALL is recognized as the conservative, respectable family news- paper, and merits the recognition. The estimate thus given is of the more value because it comes from an expert in journalism, one who has had long experi- ence in the profession and has achieved in it a distinguished success. The public will, we believe, agree with the statement of the Wasp that THE CALL is the recog- nized family newspaper of the City, and in this agreement we find the assurance that our efforts to maintain the high rec- ord of the paper have been successiul. In thesedays of sensational journalism, when every form of fake seems permitted by the public taste, it is no slight thing to conduct a newspaper which is at once clean, conservative, entertaining and suc- cessful. This is what THE CALL aims to do. It carries into every home the news of the day fully and uccurately reported, but it carries there nothing which is cor- rupting or degrading. It is free from lot- tery advertisements and every form of degenerate journalism. It is for that rea- json that it is welcome to the home, and bas won the proud position of being the recognized family journal of San Fran- cisco. The Wasp goes on to point out the value of such a newspaper to legitimate busi- ness. It says: “Shrewd business men would rather have their advertisements in the journal read by 50,000 families than in one with a circulation of 100,000 among the floating population.” The rapid increase of advertising in THE CALL proves that the business portion of the community appre- ciates this particujgr value of a family newspaper. Itis tbe paper which is read in the home whose advertising columns are most carefully studied, and to the comprehension of this fact by business men is due much of the success THE CALL has attained. We are indebted to the Wasp for kindly calling the attention of the public to these facts. The oldest cartoon paper in colors in the United States and one of the best edited of our weeklies is certainly compes tent to pass judgment upon its contempo- raries, and praise from such a source never fails to be appreciated, not only by its re- civient, but by the public generally. —_— TIME ENOUGH. A citizen of Boston who has recently visited New York, apparently for ihe first time in some years, has written to the Boston Herald that New York is no longer the city of hurry and com:motion that it was in former years. The people have become quieter in manners and less hasty in action. He noted everywhere a great difference between the conditiors of to- day and what existed in former years. “I went,” said he, “into a restaurant at the so-called busy hour. There were mer- chants and brokers in plenty, but the waiters were not jogging them to make way for others, and there was leisurely eating. There was smoking at ease after the well-cooked dishes had been con- sumed. There was no excited conversa- tion. Ina word, there was peace.” It is scarcely necessary to say the Bos- tonian approved the new condition of affairs. A resident of the city of culture could hardly do otherwise. He must have found New York in fact even pleasanter for him at the time than his own Boston, for not only was there an absence of hurry and commotion, but there was also an ab- sence of any dispucation over the “Danc- ing Bacchante,” and therefore, for the time at least, New York is serener in her business than is Boston in her culture. It has been said by a wise man, “The older I grow the more convinced I am that there is an abundance of time.'’ Almost any man of mature years who gives himself leisure enough to consider life and its business will agree with that man. There is time enough to attend to everything without fretting ourselves if we will only take it wisely and use it well. It is related of the late Emory Storrsof Chicago that on returning from a trip to Europe he said: *The first month I was in England I belie that country was a hundred years behind Americs, because everything was done so slowly and there were 80 few facilities for the rapid trans- action of business; but after that time I concluded that America was one hundred years behind England, because we have not vet learned how to do our work like them without overtaxing our energies and exhausting our vitality.” There is in this statement of Mr. Storrs a lesson which the American peovle ought to learn. The peopleof California in par- ticular would do well to profit by it. Ex- ssive hurry is not a sign of the highest civilization. Itis not even an evidence of the best performance of the greatest amount of work. It is onlya proof that the overhurried individual has not yet learned that there is time ecough for all things. In Calfornia the climate at all seasons enables man to work with comfort both indoors and out. This fact gives him even more time for his labor than is enjoyed by the peoole of the East or of Europe. It ought therefore to condunce to the per- formance of work without hurry and com- motfon. Unfortunately it seems to have had the contrary effect. Nowhere is work rushed with such in- tense eagernessas here. The paceamounts to a serious evil and should be counter- acted as far as possible. Those men there- fore who can afford to set an example to their neighbors 1n this respect should do so. Let them go about their work without delay but also without hurry. Let them give to thelr fellow-citizens a practical illustration of the truth. “There is time enough.” PERSONAL W. H. Culmer of Salt Lake is here. Theodore Barker of Astoria is at the Lick. A. Ferguson of Helena, Mont., is in town. G. de Bougliss of Paris is again in the City. Dr. W. N. Finney of Lincoln is at the Russ. Dr. C. E. Fisher of Ckicago is at the Palace. J. T. A. Bawlby of Astoria is at the Occi- dental. F. H. Coyne of Angels Camp Is registered at the Palace. Congressman C., A. Barham of Ssnta Rosa is in the City. Scnator A.N. Andrews of Pomonsa is on & visit to the City, J. F. Anderson of San Jose was among yester- day’s arrivels here. J. W. Young of Salt Lake is among the ar- rivals at the Palace. James A. Davidson of Alaska was among yesterday’s arrivals. H. P. Whiteman, a business man of Boston, Mess., is 2t the Grand. C. 8. Churchill of Naps is in the City, accom panied by his family. F. 0. Downing, a business man of Portland, arrived nere yesterday. Robert F. Harrison, long of the Morongo mine, is at the Baldwin. W. F. Willfs of Carson, and editor of the Car son Tribune, 15 at the Russ. Mrs. Edward Medden of Sundown Hall, Eng- 1and, arrived here yesterday. L. E. Austin of Helena, Mont., an old miner, is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. John McFadden,a business man of Ssnta Ana, is among the arrivals here. J. R. Garrett, & business man of Marysville, is at the Lick, accompanied by Mrs. Garrett. A. E. Miller of Walla Walla, Wash., is among the latest arrivals the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Among the arrivals here is B. C. Kingsbury, & business and mining man of Spokane, Wash., L. 0. Eastman and L. J. Eastman and wife, wealthy people of Le Mars, Iows, are at the Grand. F. K. Davidson, owner of a general store at Tacoma, is here on a business trip and is at the Russ. Ex-Speaker J. C. Lynch of the State Legisla- ture bas arrived here from his home in Cuca mongo and is at the Baldwin. George R. Stewart, a wealthy grain and cat tle raiser of Crows Lanaing, is at the Grand, accompanied by Mrs, Stewart. A. D. Remington, the Watertown (N. Y.) pa- per manufacturer, formerly proprietor of the Evening Post, is at the Palace. L. A. Murrell, vineyardist of Fresno, accom- panied by his wife, is visiting the City and registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. M. H. Mestetter and Knowles Ferguson, of Minneapolis, Minn., are taking in the sights of the City and stopping at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. P. 8. Yorke and William Haétll, who have been mining for gold in Alaska for & year past, were among the arrivals from the north yes- terday. Superior Judge Bahrs, who has for some time been confined to his home with pneumo- nia, is 5o far recovered that he hopes to resume his place on the bench next Wednesday. 8. T.and S. J. Barton, early pioneers of the Sierra Valley, who are extensively engaged in rauching and cattle-raising, are at the Russ. They are among the wealthiest men in that part of the State. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 21.—At the St Cloud, C. D. Williams; Stuart, F.P. Jacobs, B. F. Neyer; Grand Union, H. C. Johnson; Metro- pole, G. W. Percy; Holland, J. W. Phillips, J. Asch. Messrs. F. F. Burns and Thomas Graham left the St. Cloud to sail on the Laco- nia for England. C.E. Mackey sailed on the same ship. THE FARMERS WERE TRUE. New York Post. ‘What has become of that great farmer vote that was going to turn the middle West, the States of Ohio, Indiana, Ilinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Jowa and Minnesota—over to Bry- an? It happens that all of these great agricul- tural States have gone tremendously the other way, and that whereas Indians, Illinois and Wisconsin gave Democratic majorities in 1892 and the others gave small Republican majori- ties, they have ioeked together this year with surprising unanimity. The figures are more eloquent than any comments, viz.: 1892, 1896, Pluralities. Pluralities. Re) Dem. Rep. 1.8:12 weeeee.. 88,728 . 6382 22179 26,093 lgadsl 0 100,000 3, 35,000 69,112 39,845 482,083 ........ Net Rq n plurality, 1892, 29,267. pe eh;." Republican gain 1n the middie West, 452,- Although the ciiies did their share in pro- ducing this mighty change it is nevertheless plain thatthe farmers were not touched to any perceptible degree by the free-silver craze or seduced by the promise that théy should pay their debis at 50 cents on the doliar. ————————] E. H. BLack, pamnter, 120 Eddy street. ——————————— CALIFORNTA Glace Fruits make a nice present, 50c1b in handsome basket. Townsend’s, * . ——————— BARGAINS In holiday suits. See J. Edlin, the Palace tailor, 617 Market street. o ——————————— EPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 510 Montgomery. * ———————————— Bhe—They say that the good die young. He—It isn’t s0. You are one of the most thoroughly good persons I ever knew. As she held the door open for him to pass out he realized that his compliment had fallen short by several degrees.—Cleveland Leader. A —_— e ] Through Sleeping Cars to Chicago. The Atlantic ana pacific Rallroad, Santa Fe Toute, will continue to run daly through from Oakiand to Chicago Puliman palace drawing-room, also upholstersd tourlst sleeping-cars, leaving every afiornoon. Lowest through rates to all points in the Unlted States, Canada, Mexico or Europe. Excursions through Boston leave every week. San Francisco ticket office, 844 Market street, Chronicle butlding. Telephone maln 1531 Oskland, 1118 Broadway. —————— Phillips’ Rock Isiand Exoursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rio Grande snd Rook Island Hailways. Through tourist sleeping-car to Ohicago and Boston. Mau- #ger and poriers accompany these excursions to Boston. For tickets, sleeping-car accommodations and farther inf address Clinton Jones, General Agent Kook Isiand Rallway, 30 Mont- gomery street. 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BERKELEY, Can, Nov. 2L—Experi- ments in the breeding of a new kind of sheep at the University of California agri- cultural experiment stations in Paso Robles and Tulare are now being carried on, which give great promise of com- pletely revolutionizing the mutton and wool industry on the Pacific Coast. ‘‘This new variety of sheep is the result of the cross-breeding of the Persian and merino. Their wool and meat are above the quality of any yet produced in California,”’ says ho may send ewes there, simply payving ;A')rothe ycost of the hay used, or sending hay with them. A number of large sheep- owners in Ban Luis Obispo, Monterey and Tulare have gladly availed themselves of these privileges, and one of these ra_ncherfs lately sold seventeen fleeces from his half- breed m.erinos for 4 cents a pound more than the ordinary market price. Half- breed bucks are being held at a very high price, and indeed we know of few, ornone, for sale. Allof the men who have this stock are deeply interested, and believe there is a great future before the half ard quarter strains, both on the wool and the mutton sides. A wether was slaughtered a few days ago at Paso Robles station, and photographs and statistics obtained te publish in'a bulletin. This animal was a cross between Per- sian.and a three-quarter Southdown, and | showed a very bi-h quality of mutton, | amply justifying furiher attention to this line of worik. The agricultural department has been told by many persons interested in sheep- breeding that the value of this stock to the Monterey and San Luis Obispo districts was undoubtedly much greater than “the entire cost of several experimental sta- tions for a lifetime.” Credit 1s, of course, due to Minister Beale, Mr. Bailey and to the General Government, as well as to the university; but the rapidity with which results have been reached at the experi- ment stations, and the fact that only here can breeders obtein free use of these valu- able and beautiful animals to improve their stock, justifies the higher praise o the agricultural department of our State institution. FREE PUBLI0 LIBRARY. Statistics of Interest—New Books That Have Recently Been Added. Since the new elevator for the use of the Free Public Library has been put in oper- ation there has been a marked increase in the number of patrons. During the monthsof October there were 1ssued from The New Kind of Sheep With Which the Berkeley Professors ‘ : Are Experimenting. Director Shinn of the experiment stations. The first sample of wool recently brought to San Francisco sold at an advance of 4 cents per pound on the usual price re- ceived. And as to the meat, it is hara, tender and marbled to perfection. In an interview to-day Director Shinn gave the following to a CALL correspond- ent for publication: The University of California at two of its experiment stations—at Tulare and Paso Robles—is making some remarkable experiments with crosses of Persian sheep, and the results in the minds of pragtical breeders promise to create several very valuable industries, in which California must take the lead. In plain English, there is probably lots of money for pro- gressive sheepmen along these new lines. The original pair of Persiar sheep are now at Paso Robles. The flock there— full-bloods and crosses—now consists of seven, and another flock has been started in Tulare station. A third flock will soon be established at the station near Pomona. The following notes from a union report of 1893 written by myself gives something of the history of the importation: One of the most promising of the re- cent acquisitions of the California experi- ment stations consists of a pair of the famous broad-tailed sheep of the Orient. The history of the importation is interest- ing. Hon, Truxton Beale of California, a son of General Beale, was appointed United States Minister to Persia. All Californians know the famous Beale ranch in the Tejon Pass, Kern County, one of the historic landmarks of the Pacific Coast, and especially attractive to breed- ers of fine sheep, cattle and horses. It was natural that a member of the Beale family in public life should attempt to do something for the livestock interests of his own State. He obtaired for the United States Department of Agri- culture fifteen of the best specimens of the pure-blood sheep of Asia, callea the As- trachan, though the latter name belongs to a variety. The proper name of the breed is the Bayazit broad-tailed sheep of Kurdistan, Persia. ‘“‘Minister Beale wrote to California and laced the shipment in the hands of C. P, ailey of San Jose for distribution, and the university obtained a pair of sheep, which were sent to Paso Robles and placed in charge of the foreman there. Mr. Bailey wrote under aate of October 381, 1892, nyinf: “The more I see of these sheep the bet- ter I am satisfied that they are really quite an acquisition to California mutton-breed- ers. They are as ‘tough’ as mules. Not one has died since they left Persia, and seven out of eight of the ewes have had lambs since they started, all of which are alive and thriving. One lamb, sixty days old, weighed fifty pounds, live ‘weight. One that was dropped here ten days ago weighed thirteen pounds at one day old. I believe that by crossing these bucks on the common Merino sheep of California, we will get as big lambs at three months old as onlinu{ Merino lambs are at six months old. am arranging to try this cross-breeding in Nevada.” The ‘‘broadtail” is the same breed of sheep that General George Washington received from Asia a century and that was used by the Custis family to help found the noted *“‘Arlington longwools’’ of Virginia. It issurprising that tfin breed has not been used oftener as a cross. It is the sheep mentioned in the Bible, and is the only sheep illustrated on the ancient monuments of Media, Persia and Assyria. Itissaid that there isno better mutton sheep in the world. The tail is chiefly a mass of fat, weighing from 10 to 40 pounds. Good sheep ready for the butcher ought to average 90 to 100 pounds, besides the fatty appendage. Thelargest are found in the Ararat provinces of Kurdistan, where often found dragging around -wheeled carts, which support the tails, The more slender and beautiful B-ynimed is smaller, but the fleece is finer, soft skin of one variety of the broad-tails is covered with a short, curly fleece, the “‘Astrachan wool”” used by the Circassians. The sheep as bred at the station show three distin ct lines of development—some are nearly white, some are reddish brown and some are black or nearly so. The breed is not yet fixed. By crosses with Cotswolds or Southdowns, superior mutton of very early maturity is obtained, together with a desirable wool. By crossing with werinos a more profitable wool is secured. Both lines are well worth a breeder's notice. If Astrachan is desired, the dark colors should be developed and the light colors weeded out; if high-grade wool is | wanted the contrary plan is n The bucks at the experiment station are at the free service of all sheep-owners the main and branch libraries, five in number, 28,805 volumes for home use and for library use 15,093 volumes. The aver- age daily delivery at the main library was 1145 volumes. he aggregate of volumes | in all the libraries is 89,663, One hundred | and eighty-three volumes have been added recently, and many of these are most valuable for students. Th-y embrace philosophy and religion, sociology, science and useful arts, fine arts, literature, traval and description, biography and history. There are also some wor=s of fiction and books for the young. | The library bulletin for the current | month has an index of articles on Christ- | mas plays and poems for Christmas and a long list of references for the study of United States history. This list has 118 references and it will be continued next month. . LADY'S WAIST WITH BIAS SEAM- LESS BACK AND FRONT FAST- ENING IN CENTER FRONT. A model peculiarly adapted to the artistic making of striped materials, but equally coarming in plain fabrios, is this bias seamless waist, and a skirt which may be cut with bias seams 8o that stripes or plaids may be notchea, or with the side gore cut as usual witha straight edge in front. The skirt has a front gore, over side gore and ! four back gores, which may be laid in box | Ppleats or gathered at the belt. . The waist has a fitted lining and sleeve ?:M almost to the armsize, with & puffat the P ———— NEVADA BANK TAXES, Paid Under Protest, and Now Demand Is Made for the Money. The Nevada Bank of San Francisco has sued the City and County of San Fran- cisco to secure a return of $20,613 06 taxes on personal property paid under protest. The total so paid by the bank was $28 - 403 25, of which amount only $770919 is admitted to be due, and a return of the balance is demanded. As a basis for its suit the Nevada Bank alleges that although 1t was assessed on $2,030,616, the sum of $1,474,257 ought to be deducted from the total, because the $1.474,257 was actually on deposit with different banking institutions outside of the State of California, and was therefore beyond the jurisdiction of the Assessor at the time he made the le:ly. Before the tax was paid the bank insti- tuted a suit to prevent the collection of 23 nsnnment, in which proceediig they ed. / P — BACON-MINETTI CONOERT. An Interestiny Musical Event at the Association Auditorium Next Saturday. An excellent programme has been pre- pared for the Bacon-Minetti concert, which takes place atthe Association Auditorium on the afternoon of the 28th inst. These concerts have become quits an in- stitution among a large circle of San Francisco music-lovers, a the success which they are meeting with is well de- served. ————— Blew Out the Gas, Patrick McNeil, a guest at the International Hotel, blew out the gas in his room Friday nightand went to bed. About7 o'clock yes- ter day morning he was found nnoonlctnmynd gent to the Recerving Hospital, where he grad- ually recovered. MeNell is a stnblemes in Ukiuh and ca. i v Oaupand came to this City Thursday night VARIED AND PIQUANT. Characteristics of the Sixth of the Bloomfield-Zeisler Piano Recitals. Mrs. Fannie Bioomfield-Zelsler's sixth piano recital was given yesterday after- moon at the Metropolitan Temple. The entertainment was like preceding recitals of the series in the matter of enthusiasm and in the rendering of a miscellaneous programme. All of the work was oAt cut and musicianly. A dash ‘of Men. delssohn and another dash of Rubinstein gave piquancy to the whole. Then there was also some of the quaint music from Gluck’s *‘Orpheus”—nothing particularly difficult to execute, but requiring a refinea and sensitive mind for its interpretation, The customary Beethoven sonate was Op. 10, No. 2. Take the Zeisler series all through, enough sonatas by Beethoven have been interpreted to give a very fair knowledge to a novice of the peculiarities of the noble old tone master. Mendels- sohn’s familiar "Sginning Song’’ was per- formed with dash and delicacy, and rougnt out again, as an encore piece, the R'rofriun Margh," which Mrs. Bloomfield- Zeisler performs particularly well, and of which she is evidently very fond. Itis announced that she will play at the Baldwin next Sunday night, and two copcertos are set down for performance. This ought to show the broader side of her culture, The event will be generally awaited with interest and with an equal degree of curiosity. ———————————————————— NEW TO-DAY. 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