The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 21, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, _.DECEMBER 21, 1896 MONDAY. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Daily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..90.18 Daily and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mal Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .65 Bunday CaLL, 0ne year, by mail.. 1.50 WELELY CALL, 0no year, by mall. 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, £an Francisco, California. Telephone.. <eveeeen MalN—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone..... Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: £97 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open until £:70 o'clock. £59 Hayes street: open until 9:30 0'clook. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. &W .corner Sixieenth aud Mission streets; ex1il § o'clock. 2815 Mission street: open untll 9 0'clock. 167 Mnih sireet; open until 9 o'cloci * Jarkel sueet, open ull 9 o'clock. open OAKLAND OFFICE £U5 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms §1 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City DAVID M. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager. " THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e e e e Pick your presents promptly. Rush the Christmas shopping. There is always some fun in a crush. eyes open for California Keep your novelties. The Senate will to-day recognize Cuba enough to talk about her at any rate. The Senators would just as soon have a war with Spain as not. They are too otd to fight. Make your purchases during the day if you can and leave the evenings for those who can’t. Do your shopping promnotly and make way forothers. That is the politeness of the season. The Christmas CaLn will appear on Christmas day, but thisis the day to leave orders for it. To-day the hearings begin as to the relative merits of the San Pedro enter- prise and the Santa Monica job. Don’t postpone your holiday purchas- ing until Christmas eve. You will need that day for rest and recreation. There is one thing commendable about the attitude assumed by Senator Hill. It is clearly that of a man who doesn’t in- tend to stand in anbody’s way. The universality of the popular demand that our Government recognize the inde- pendence of Cuba seems a clear proof that the people have already recognized it. A number of Eastern papers have been accused of nominating their pet enemies for Cabinet positions just for the purpose of seeing other papsrs jump on them and macerate them. If the Central Pacific Company had ever intended to pay its dues to the Gov- ernment it would have arranged to do so before this. The funding scheme is a {randulent fake. The battle is over and the noise of the combat has been lost in the hum of reviy- ing industry, but lo! Boise of Iowa has arisen with a warwhoop for fiat money. Shall we never have peace? There is no land in the world where the joy of the Christmas season will be so universally diffused among the people as in California, but for all that there will be a need of charity here as well as elsewhere, It required five and a half months to pass the McKinley tariff and upward of eight months to pass the Wilson tariff, so ihe extra session will have a chance to make a record on speedy work in tariff making. The decision of Congress to take up the funding bill the first thing after the holi- days means, of course, that there will be no holidays for the monopoly workers. If they know how to make hay at all they will make it now. If theadvocates of good roads are any- where near correct in estimating that the people of the United States lose over $200,- 000,000 & year on bad roads it would pay to go over the highways carefully just to pick up the money. As if there were not problems enough in life to make it perplexing to the verge of confusion, the Chicago Record has sprung anew one by asking, “Why is it that nine- tenths of women in public life are more than thirty-six inches around the waist’’? According to the reportof the New York Board of Health there were 1125 deaths from sunstroke in that State during the month of August, and it appears, there- fore, that the summer season in the East sets in with even more severity than the blizzard period. The vehemence with which the gold standard papers in the East are denounc- ing the Republican Senators for appoint- ing a committee to devise legislation to promote bimetallism shows that they understand the movement is in earnest and means success. , There is no doubt anywhere that the Republican party will keep its pledge. President Harper of Chicago University innocently said in public the otber day that the experiment of leaving it optional with students to attend religious service had not been successful in that institution, and now nearly all the wise men in the country are informing him the failure was due to the fact that the experiment was tried in Chicago. Captain-General Weyler, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Cuba, is not hav- ing a pleasant life by any means. In ad- dition to the anxieties of* his office he has the further grief of knowing that his wife is lying aangerously ill at Barcelona and his eldest son is in the last stages of con- sumption. He has every reason in the world for desiring to o home, and no doubt the desire is with him continually. IMany people in the East who have be- lieved that Japanese competition isa hum- bug have been led to take a sober second « thought of the subject by the failure of a large manufacturing company of Miliord, Conn., whose trade has been destroyed by cheap Japanese straw mattings. 1o make the matters worse the company is consid- ering the advisability of sending their plant to Japan and carrying on the busi- ness in that country. % CHRISTMAS TRADING. From now until Thursday we shall have in our stores and shops the crush of the Christmas trade. Almost every place in which articles suitable for holiday gifts are sold will be thronged with people from early in the forenoon untif aslate at night as the shope are open. It istherefore im- portant that all skould be reminded to do their shopping as:speedily as possible, so as to avoid putting others to inconven- ience, discomfort and loss. All who can find the time should ‘do their trading during the day, so as to leave the stores in the evening free for those who are engaged in work all day and have no time to make their Christ was purchases until working hours are over. If those who have leisure in the day time will observe this rule, they will show a genuine Christmas thoughtfulness toward their less fortunate neighbors. They will give the working men and women of the City a fair chance to do their shopping with comfort, and thus enable them to fina more pleasure in 1t than would be the case if the stores were overcrowded. We have so frequently during the past month urged our people to purchase Cali- fornia novelties and dainties for Christmas gifts that it will seem to many like a wearisome insistence if we repeat it again. Nevertheless, this is counsel of a nature which can never be reiterated too often. If we are to make California a manufacturing State, we must patrcnize the products of its factories. 1t is from smalil beginnings that great things grow. Almost all the vast manufactories of the United States were begun on a small scale, and at first involved very little more than hand labor. We have a number of these small factories among us now, and if we give them proper support there can be no question they will grow into great establishments, whose products will find favor, markets and profits in all parts of the world. If you do not know what articles you wish to buy for Christmas, or, if knowing the article, you do not know where 1o ob- tain it, read our advertising columns. TrE CALL is recognizea by our merchants to be the newspaper of the homes of San Francisco, and they advertise in it all ar- ticles needed for the home. By a little study of these advertisements you will be able to find what you wish and know ex- actly where to get it. This will enable you to do your shopping with compara- tive ease and freedom. You will be saved from the weariness and the trouble of the crush and the crowds that throng tie stores from now until Christmas day, and yet will make as good bargains as any who spend whole days in the work of shopping. These then are the rules to follow: Do your trading eacly; purchase Californian goods where suitable to your needs, and read THE CaLy advertisements in order that you may know where to obtain any- thing you wish in the best quality ana at the lowest price. Follow these and you will not only find Christmas shopping a pleasure to yourself but you will help to make it pleasant to others, INTERSTATE OOMMEROE. That questions of interstate commerce will occupy a large part of the attention of Congress this winter is made evident by the importance given them in the messages of President Cleveland and Attorney-General Harmon and by the proceedings of the Senate committee which is intrusted with the subject. The workings of the Interstate Commerce Commission under the present law is certainly unsarisfactory, and it devolves upon Congress to determine what is needed to remedy the evil. A report of the commission itself points out to Congress that the general discon- tent with present transportation con- ditions is shown by petitions from many sections of the country for the enforce- ment of the statutes. The report con- firms the opinion of the Atiorney-General that the law is defective, and recommenas amending it so as to give greater force and finality to the findings and decisions of the commission in cases that come be- fore it. There are some, however, who believe the failure of the law is due toa lack of energy on the partof the Government. Ata session of the Senate committee on Thursday Senator Chandler is reported to have insisted that the Department of Justice has not pressed the law with suf- ficient vigor. Mr. Chandler stated the Attorney-General himself haa said the pooling agreement of certain roads was legal, and, when some doubt was ex- pressed by other Senators, Mr. Chandler produced a letter in which the Attorney- General gave an opinion that in an im- vortant case he had no doubt the pooling agreement was drawn witiin the points covered by Judge Symington in the trans- Missouri case. A curious obstacle in the way of enforcing the anti-trust and anti-pooling laws was stated by Mr. McFarlane, Assistant District Attorney of New York, who told the Senate committee that considerable difficulty was encountered in findin: Judges who were not disqualitied from trying such cases by reason of holding stock in some of the various companies who were parties to the suits. Itis reported that this statement *'seemed to surprise the committee,”” and that a discussion followed as to whether the Supreme Court Judees themselves were not disqualitied to try the case in question when it came before them. Taken altogether the whole interstate commerce regulation and the anti-trust laws seem to be in a condition of *‘con- fusion worse confounded.” It is not clear whether the blame for failure in the en- forcement of the acts to prevent trusts and pools is due to the Attorney-General, to Congréss, to the courts, to the Inter- state Commerce Commissivn or to the law. The only thing certain is that something is wrong, and that being so it devolves upon Congress to find out the cause of the evil and epply the remedy as promptly as possible. — PROGRESS IN IRELAND. The Irish Land Commission, which was brouzht into bemnz by the Gladstone act of 1881 for the purpose of dectding what was equitab'e between tenant and land- lord, has by later enactment been endowed with powers to loan money to tenants to the end that they might become own- ers of small land holdings. The report of the commissioners for the last fiscal year shows there were 1502 applications for advances for this purposs aggregating $2,501.875, of which 1461, amounting to $2,271,280, were granted. The whole amount of cash loans made by the com- mission since its creation has been $51,- 065,000. The total amount repaid by the purchasing tenants up to this time is $2,945,000, and they have paid $8,897,400 interest. This reveals the rate at which former tenarts are becoming proprietors, The figures of the report become remarkable when they tell of the small proportion of borrowers who have failed to pay up their | obligatiozs, Last fall when the install- ments were due from 5202 purchasers, only 61 failed to come up with the money. The friends of Government aia to land purchasers find in this a justification for past advocacy, and are encouraged to fur- ther efforts for the extension of facilities for the toilers to become owners of the land they till, Itis estimated that uader the operation of the new land act prob- ably five times as much money can be ad- vanced to borrowers, and there is little doubt there will be plenty of industrious, capaple and ambitious tenants who will seize the opportunity to possess homes. The other work of the Land Commis- sion in the fixation of what is rightful rent has been very important also. They vassed judgment on $31,500,000 cf rents charged, and reduced them a little over 20 per cent, thus saving to the tenants $6,500,000. The reductions make it clear that the Irish have been oppressed by their landlords, and that the Irish Land League had good reason for its birth in the great need of reform. There is also encouragement in the prospect of the appointment of a Minister of Agriculture and Industry for Ireland, who will have power to draw funds from the imperial exchequer for the develop- ment of the resources of the island. A non-partisan committee appointed by|Par- liament has been investigating the agri- cultural and industrial conditions of the country, and a movement is on foot to have such an office created to carry out the suggestions of the committee. By careful estimates the investigating committee has reached the conclusion that the Irish crops and livestock might be doubled in vaiue by improved methods of farming. Asanexample of the ways in which the new office would work for improvement, the practice of Belgium and Holland is recommended, where they have trained instructors to enlighten the farmers as to the best means of conduct- ing their industries. The farmers on the Continent produce crops of potatoes seven- fold as great per acre as thoss of the Irish. Itis believed that with proper at- tention the small farmers of Ireland can secure for themselves a good portion of the one hundred millions per annum which England sends to the Continent for the products of dairy and poultry yards. A GIFT TO LOS ANGELES. Los Angeles is not only plucky but lucky. Her citizens are not only enter- prising but generous. Her vpeople not only do much for themselves but for one another. She not only advances her wel- fare with diligence and public spirit, but she is the recipient of favors which ad- vance it still further. Her latest good fortune is the gift of 3000 acres of land in one body lying a little more than a mile from the city line, in- cluding in its scope what is described as ‘“‘a beautiful combination of hills and lovely dales with magnificent prospects and poetic retreats.” The description does not seem to be exaggerated, for the land lies partly on the frostless foothills bordering the Cahuenga Valley and partly in the level stretches of the Los Angeles river bottom. The gift will be the more gratefully re- ceived by the people of Los Angeles on account of the gracious and graceful way in which it was made. 1'ne donor, Mr. G. J. Griflith, says in his offer of the gift: In the course of twenty-three years’active business life in Califurnia I have become proudly attached to our beantiful city of Los Angeles, which, through 1ts great natursl ad- vantages and its matchliess climate, sveraging 800 sunny days in the year, is destined to soon becomes great metroyolis. The arduous work of these years has been rewarded with fair success, and, reengnizing the duty which one who has acquired some little wealth owes to ihe community in which he has prospered, and desiring to aid the advancement and happi- ness of the city that has been 1or so Jong ana always will be my home, I am impelled to make an offer, the acceptance of which by yourselves, acting for the people, I believe will be a source of enjoyment and pride to my | fellows and add a charm to our beloved city. It will be seen these words carry to Los Angelesa compliment as well as a gift. Tbey will recall to her people the con- sciousness of their possession of an elysian climate, a public spirit of great civic patriotism and a determination to make their city a metropolis for busines: and a paradise for pleasure-seekers. For a gift so charmingly given there can hardly fail to be the most profuse and sincere thankfuiness. Los Angeles has now & park of which she can be proud, and, moreover, another reason for boast- ing of the merits of her citizens as well as of the delights of her soil, scenery and sunshine. . NEWS OF FOREIGN N AVIES. H. M. S. Virago, torpedo-boat destroyer of 370 tons, made a successful trial in November last, making a mean speed during three hours of 30.05 knots and developing 6425 horse- power, or 425 in excess of the contract. She was builtand engined by Laird Brothers, Bir- kenhead. The two Japanese cruisers to be built by Cramps and the Union Iron Works are, ac- cording to the London Times, to be of 4760 tons displacemen , 405 feet 2 inches length over all, 396 ieet lenzth on water line, 49 feet beam end 17 feet 7 inches mean draught. Their armament will consist of two 8-inch rifles, ten 4.7-inch rapid firers, twelve 12- pounders, two 6 and two 2}4-pounders, and they will have five torpedo tubes. The ma- chinery will be two triple expansion engines of 15,500 horsepower, four double-ended and four single-end boilers carrying 165 pounds of steam. The stipulated speed is 22} knots, and the vesseis are to be completed in 1wo years, The question of increasing the personnel of the British navy is engrossing the attention of the Admiralty, and, of course, Lord Brassey. The latter recommends an old plan of his father set forth years ago in British Seamen. Under it long service in the navy will be maintained and a strong naval reserve wouid be formed in this manner: “Ship-owners are to be encouraged to enter boys, under engage- ment, at the end of their four years’ appren- ticeship, to do a year’s training in the nav! subsidy of $100 to be pald to the ship-owner and §75 to the boy, or $50 to the ship-owner and alike amount to the boy, who would re- turn to the mercantile marine as an A, B. and be kept efficient s a naval reserveman by one month’s annual drill.” The recent trial of the British cruiser Power- ful wae = decided success in all respects. At the four hours’ forced-draught triai she devel- oped 25,886 horsepower and a speed of 21.8 knots. The intended speed was 22 knots, but 8s the force of wind was 6 (equal toa pretty stiff gale) the officials were confident that the ship under more favorable coudisions wasable to make 22} knots. The boilers, which are of the Belleville type, worked without a hitch and carried 257 pounds of steam. Assoon as the forced trialhad terminated the ship began her four hour#’ trial under natural draughnt, during which 22,000 horsepower were easily maintained. The evolutions were equally sat- isfactory, the engines requiring only eleven to fifteen seconds in changing from tull-speed ac- tion to full-speed ahead and thirty seconds from full ahead to stop. Further exhaustive trials will be carried on with the ship. ey L A KICK AT FCOIBALL Savanoah Press. The gentleman from Carroll who has intro- duced into the Legislature a bill to prohibit football is on the right track. What in the name of common-sense is the use of educating boys if they are to be killed or maimed for life before &ey have won their sheepskins in | college? 189s. AROUND THE CORRIDORS D. Shaw, who is known in the leading min- ing camps from Leadville to the Pacific Ocean, is at the Lick. Mr. Shaw, after being some time in the great Carbonate camp of Colorado, went to Butte, Mont., and tWo years ago he went to Rossland, B. C., where, a5 for- werly, he engaged in the hotel business. He owns the Shaw Hotel and the Butte Ho- telin that camp, and frankly admits that he is making a lot of money. But1've been in n cold country now a good many years,” said Mr. Shaw, “and I want to getout somewhere where it’s warmer. So I'm going down in afew days,to Guatemala to have s little look around there. My hotels are going on just the same. There’s lots of the Mill City for the past week with a threat. enea attack of pneumonia. Doaglas 8. Cone, a capitalist and rancher of Red Bluff, is among the recent arrivals at the Palace. Supervisor E. McGettigan of Solano County is in town from Vallejo and has headquartersat the Russ. Colonel H. Trevelyan, & wine merchant and vineyardist of Fresno, registered at the Palace yesterday. F. Draz of the Apoliinaris firm of Charles Gray & Co. of New York, arrived at the Palace last night. Mrs. D. F. Verdenal of New York, wife of the newspaper correspondent whose gossipy notes on Sen Franciscans in Gotham are familiar IR Epeils D. SHAW, Famous as a Hotel-Keeper in Many Mining Camps. |Sketched from Uife by a *‘Call” artist.] people 1n our family to run them. One of the reasons why I wanted to get down here is be- ceuse I wanted to see the old flag once more. “But that’s a good district. You know, the experts who went in there five or Six years ago all turned it down. But the people there went right along developing it till they’ve got plenty of ore. “It’s a big proposition, but it’s low grade, and as you go down it gets better. It shows, besides the gold, 5 o 8 per cent of copper, and you know that’s always good. “No, it's not very coid there, nothing like so cold as Butte. Last winter there was only one time when the thermometer went below zero. That time it was six below. “Jim Wardner, the famous miner and town- builder, walked into my place up there this summer, and as he held the penin this hand ready to register, I said: ‘Well, I am glad to see you, Jim.” He didn’t recognize me, and I added that the last time Isaw him was twenty- six years ago in Cottonwood, when he was booming some propositions there. It wasa regular reunion we had. “‘Wardner has just sold the Colona mine to Montreal parties and made a stake again. He is between Montreal and Rossland now. Weardner has an enormous number of friends all over the West, and it is no trouble for him to get hold of & pretty fair mine. Everybody is glad he has caught on again.” MY FRIEND—THE PROSPECTOR. 1f T were to write for the papers to print What sere I indite, { onine t was written that way 1'm writing to you, Where no critic’s Iances are buried, 11 touch the taut s'ring ot my Iyre and sing Of the bst-hearted man in the world. Hark back to the prospect In Pover!;‘ Guloh, ‘Before you found dirt that wou'd pav, When the hope in your breast, like the gold in the west, Burned brightest at close of the day. 1¢ 1 were but rich, or if you were still poor, And we sat where your cabin smoke curled. ‘Then in unstinied lavs I cvuid poat out the nralse the besi-hearted man in the world, L —Cy Warman, io New York Sun. PERSONAL. W. H. Pyburn of Salinas is at the saldwin. W. 8 Montgomery, U. 8. N., is at the Palace. M. Stenge, & merchantof Dixon, is at the Lick. P. C. Drescher, a Sacramento grocer, is at the California. Rev. George Chase of Chicago is visiting at the Palacc, J. G. Cidro, a mining man from Jamestown, is at the Russ. Sam V. Rucker, & San Jose merchant, is a guest at the Palace. H. M. Albery, an attorney of Colusa, is a late arrival at the Grand. State Senator R. H. Flint of San Juan is reg- istered at the Palace. R.J. R. Aden, the Vallejo merchant, is regis: tered at the Baldwin. Arpad Voliner, & miner of Triunfo, Mexico, is & guest at the Russ. James E. Dye, & mining man of Jackson, is on a visii at the Grand. J. M. Baker, a mining man ot Copperopolis, is on & visit at the Russ, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Thompson of Fort Bragg are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. F. M. Brown is down from Vallejo and s ing at the Cosmopolitan Hotel Professor H. C. Nash, librarian of Stanford University, is at the California. J. Ross Trayner, an orchardist of Marysville, arrived at the Grand last night. Judge A. P. Cathin of Sacramento is among yestecday’s arrivals at the Lick. W. W. Chapin, a merchant of Sacramento, arrived at the Palace yesterday. H. W. Crabb, an orchardist of Oakville, is making a short visit at the Grand. J. W. Roper, an insurance agentand wheat broker of CLico, isa guest at the Grand. A. C. Rosendale, a merchant of Pacific Grove, registered yesterday at the Grand. Thomas Coucl,who is extensively interested in Montana mines, is a guest at the Palace. K. Caspar, who is building the electric-light plant at Vallejo, is at the Lick with his wife. Lewis A. Spitzer, County Assessor of Santa Clars, is at the Grand, registered from San Jose. County Clerk G. M. Foote of San Benito County is at the Grand, registered from Hol- lster, C. M. Collier, & silk importer of Kobe, Japan, arrived at the Palace yesterday, westward bound. I & Bostwick, the Stockton grain-dealer and capitalist, has been confined (o his home in here, arrived yesterday at the Occidental from the East. Dr. H. C. Myers, assistant professor of chem- 1stry at Stanford University, is a guest at the California. G. W. Mann, the well-known mining expert of Duluth, Minn., is registered at the Cosmo- politen Hotel. J. B. Sanford, the Mendocino County As- sembiyman, is down from Ukish and isstay- iug at the Russ. Tod Sloan, the well-known jockey, arrived at the Baldwin yesterday afternoon from San Antonio, Texas. Isidor Alexander, s San Francisco news- paper correspondent at Sacramento, arrived at the Lick last night. E. H. Winchester of Portsmouth, N. H., ar- rived from the East last night and registered at the Occidental with his wife. Mrs. I. D. McLennan, son and two daughters, of New York City, are among the latest ar- rivals at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. Henry H. Ward of Rochester, N. Y., a natur- alist completing a tour of the world, is emong the recent arrivals at the California. J. J. O’Neil), one of the firm of paper manu- facturers with mills in Lebanon, Or., and at Soquel, Santa Cruz County, arrived at the Grand yesterday from Lebanon, Or. Miss Blanche Davis, Miss Lolo Davis and their brother, George Davis, arrived at the Occiden. tal yesterday irom a visit to New York. They are on their way home to Carson City, Nev. G. B. Griffith of Los Angeles, who recen tly gave 1800 acres on the outskirts of Los An- geles for a city park, reputed the largest in the world, is at the Baldwin with his family. Major C. E. Warden of the Klamath Indian Reservation, left for the East last night, and Captain J. D. Applegate returned to the reser- vation, after completing a visit here atthe Grand. C. 0. Burton, grand secretary of the Ameri- can Legion of Honor, returned from the East last Saturday evening, where he has been on business of the order. On his way back he made & call on President-elect William Me- Kinley. Commodore Harry Gillig of the Larchmont Yacht Club, Will Barton, composer of popular songs, and Frank L. Unger, arrived yesterday from New York. They came across the conti- nent to attcnd the Christmas high jinks of the Bohemian Club. - Mrs. Willlam Fahey, wife of William Fahey, proprietor of the Cosmopolitan Hotel, accoms panied by her son, John Fahey, leit the City yesterday for Sonora, Tuolumne County, to at. tend the funeral of her sister, Miss Mary Fahey, whose demise, 50 rapid on the death of her father (who died on the 8d of iast Novem- ber), has made her loss felt the more acutely, Hosts of friends have called to tender their sympathy on her deep bereavement. —_— NEWSPAPER PLEASANTRY. Tom—I don’t know whether she sings or not, Juck—She doesn’t. I heard her.—~Spare Moments. Hoax—What! You buying a bioyoler I thought you detested them. Joax—So 1 do, but I've been run overlong enough. Now I'm going to have my revenge, —Spare Moments. Old-fashioned Mother—I don't know what you girls see in theso rough-looking fooiball players to worship. The Girls—O mother! just see how beautis {ully bzutal they look I-Pugk, “Did you read that touching story of iha little boy who saved his mother from a bloods thirsty Jon?” “No. How did it happen " “Why the lion ate the little boy." =Chisaga Record. Miss Keedlick—Ethel oan't be after money, She has broken hor engagement with thay wealthy plumber, Miss Fosdick—Don't be 106 #ure, Hhe jilted him for a man who owni & bloyele-repairi ng shop.—Spare Momen ts, — Miss Parvenue (vmlln, in Toston)=We bes long to a very honorable family, Miss Beaconlite—Indeed { Miss Parvenue — Yos, papa bullt an ane cestral mansion last summer ab A cost of $250,000.~Cle' d Leader, ’ Pa—Well, Johnny, how do you 1ike sehoolt Johnny--Oh, the sohool's all 0. K., but the teacher doesn't know noihin', “Doesn’t know anything? Why de you say that?" “’Cause she' Scottish-Ame e e—— mr&g:n; A COL 1N oall DAY, lln: umlho'?n'c}:s:‘m"hm ae?ufl ‘m Always Asking e queations, ' 1, T0 OPEN UP THE MOTHER LODE A Great Enterprise for Amador, Calaveras and Tuolumne. Project on Foot to Operate an Eiectric Road in These Counties. It Will B: a Feeder for the Sierra Pacific to Be Built From Stockton. In connection with the Sierra Pacific Railroad, whick is to run out of Stockton into the mining section about Iorty-fl_ve miles eastward, another great enterprise is projected, and one tbat will greatly tend to revolutionize the present situ- ation along the mother lode of Cali- fornia, extending through the counties of Amador, Calaveras and Tuolnmng. The great factor will be the immense electric-power plant being put up on the Mokelumne River by an Engli.sn syndi- cate represented by Prince Pqnmtovuki. This will have a capacity sufficient to fur- nish power for all the mines in .thn lo- cality and also for ths latest gro;ec§ con- templated—that is, an electric railway about thirty miles long, to be operated between Jackson, San Andreas, and along the mother lode to the north and south of these towns. The proposed electric road will be tapped by the Sierra Pacific Railroad at a point somewhere between Jackson and San Andreas. J. W. Hartzell, who has been engaged to secure a right of way for the électric line, is now in S8an Francisco on a busi- ness visit. He is most enthusiastic on the subject. His headquarters are at Jack- son. 3 “Water power,” said Mr. Hartzell, “is now mostly used by the mines, and the great trouble is that this power has always been controiled by the larger mines, and the smaller mines and those in which prospecting was to be done have not been able to get sufficient power to properly operate them. This electric plant of the English syndicate will fur- nish all the power required. Among the towns that will be greatly benetited by the new order of things are Jackson, San An- dreas, Amador City, Sutter Creek and, in fact, all the towns in that section. 2 “T. 8. Bullock is authority for saying that work will be commenced on the con- struction of the Sierra Pacific from Stock- ton as soon as the rights of way are se- cured from Stockton to the mother lode. As soon as this work is begun the right of way for an eleciric road will b+ securea along the mother lode. Mr. Bullock is largeiy interesied in botb projects. *One great advantage of these projects will be that trains leaving the mother lode at 1 p. M. will make connection at Stock- ton with the boat leaving there that after- roon for San Francisco. The California Navigation and Improvement Company shall see fit, but no money will be given in any case. Here is the long programme, suggestive at least of full money’s worth: Overture, Sacred Heart College Orchestra, under the diréction of Professor Schernster introductory reaarks, Eugene F. Lacy, pre dent of the Young Men’s Society; contralto solo, “Thou Art My Life” (Macheroni), Mrs. L. Steffani; Delsarie system of dramatic expres- sion, Miss Ruby Stimpson; soprano solo, Mrs. 8. J. Tully; clarionet obligato, Muster Leonard Tully (planoaccompanist, Mrs. Waldo Rucker); comic recitation, George W, Calvert; vocal duet, “The Lovers’ Quarrel,” Herbert C. Wickes and Miss Jeanette Coleman; comic songs, W. J. Hynes; mandolin selections, the Misses Clara Bader, Clotilde Devlin, Nettie Johnson, Florence uire, Mamie Greunan, Anhie Baxker,Angela Devlin and Mabel Johnson ; vocal olo, **For All Eternity” (Macheroni), Dr. T. A. ottanzi; monologue, Professor C. b. Newton: soprano tolo—Adam’s “Noel Miss Annie tenor solo—Deuza’s Star of My i, by J. H. Desmond; selections—Sacred Heart College Orchestra. An amusing one. act farce, “The Insurance Agent,” with tie following cast of characters: Jerry Mahoney, alias Mr. X., the insurance agent, by J. (' O’Donnell; Anthony Henn, & very determined man, by Wilijam T. Fl{nn: Joshua Ticke telegraph operator, by William Wallace; Misy Matilda, Mr. Henn’s sister, by Miss Alice C, Minner; Jessie Henn, Mr. Henu's daughter, by Miss Nellie Maguire; Molly, the maid with the treacherous memory, by Miss Charlotte £ Johnston. ———— KINDERGARTEN ANNIVERSARY, That of Central M. E. Church Joyously Celebrated. At Central Church Saturday aiternoon there was a time of joy and delight for the members of the kindergarten school, There was a loaded Christmas-tree, with “joys” for all. The principal, Miss Susis Abbott, assisted by Miss S. Ward, Mrs, Abbott and others, had arranged a de- lightful programme, and through the gea- erosity of the Kings’ Daughters of the church and Mrs. J. C. Jordan, W. Abbott and C. B. Perkins each little tot was sup- glied, the girls with a doll, the boys with a ute,and all with candies and books. It was indeed a time of cheer and happiness, and all—parents and children—went home n;prier, full of sunshine and good will to all. —_— LADY'S SKIRT WITH CIRCULAR { ‘FRONT AND GODET BACK, For making skirt of plaids, checks ana stripes, the shape with a circular front and godet back is preferred to all others, as it saves the trouble of matching at the seams, for all the seams in this shape are hidden, falling as they do in between the godet folds, the front being in one piece. The seams join- ing it to the back are also hidden in the folds, Novel effects can be obtained by cutting striped goods with stripes up and down in front. This brings the stripes bias at the sides, The backs are then cut stripes straight up and down the center of each godet, or with the stripes crosswise. A tall woman will find it becoming to cut with the stripes going around the tront. Materials of checks, plaids or stripes made after this model look weil with waists of plain material, with sleeves to match the skirt, the waist made with blouse effect in front, and full over a fitted lining in the back. A jacket waist of plain goods is aiso stylish, wearing a blousc to mateh the skirt. A plaid silk in light colors with biack chiffon /STOCKTON has agreed to put on a8 passenger boat to make the trip between Stockton and San Francisco in four hours. » “The building of the electric road will be very expensive owing to the uneven character of the counuy it will pass through. It will probably cost $10,000 a mile, but it will undoubtedly prove a pay- ing investment as it will give that section of country an almost direct outiet to tide- water and to San Francisco and make it possible to handle all the products of that region to much better advantage. It will also, of course, greatly stimulate develop~ ment of all kinds in the counties through which the mother lode extends.” PARAGRAPH> aBOUI PEOPLE. Dr. Daniel G. Brinton has proved that the first battle on American soil in whizh horses ‘were used was that at Cintla, in Tobasco, Mex- ieo, in March, 1519. The pipe smoked by the new Shah of Persia on state occasions is set with aiamonds, rubies and emeralds of the costliest kind, and is stated to be worth as much as $400, 000. Otto Shobert, a German machinist who lives in Brooklyn, is & claimant on behalf of his wife of a fortune left by the East Indian nabob named Paul Hofman, who died without leav- ing & will, Mrs. Shobert is his niece. The for tune is said to be $50,000,000. There is being exhibited just now at Brussels a dinner service in glass, manufactured in the Val St. Lambert works to the order of Li Hung Chang, Itconsists of 860 places, enough for &n elaborate banquet of sixty guests, the pure erytal being lined with rose colorn President Harper of tha University of Chi. cngo said the other day that tour years of ex- porimenting with voluntary attendance of re. liglous services bad prepared him to admit that the xuccess of the expeiiment had not been great. Corneling Vanderbilt has always been the £00d young man of the Vanderbilt family, A witty (though not altogether oharitable) oler- Eyman who onoe met him at dinner remarked afterward that Cornelius ‘'would undoubtedly be the Vanderblit family's representative in heaven, " Mra, Georgia Drow Morrill, anative of Ply- Mmouth, Mass, & woman of literary ability and & wriler and editor in historical fields, died at Owego, N. Y, Iast week. Mrs, Merrill was & greal-great-granddaughter of General John Glover of Marblehead, Mass., the head of the Aweriean artillery service in the revolutions AEY WAR, FOR THE DESERVING POOR. A Diversified Entertalnment at Native Bous’ Hall To-Night for Ohurisy, A lively, diversitied entertainm LN bracing musical, theatrical, humorous and dramatic features, will be given at Native Bons' Hall on Mason streat this evening by the Young Men's Soolety of 8i, Pat rivk's Cburch, assisted by the best talent of both sexes available in the parish, The proceeds resulting from a nominal ade mission fee will be divided equally be- tween the two simply charitable societies of the church, the 8t Vincent de Paul amv and the Bociety of Ladies of By these two societies the money will be #pent in supplying the worthy poor of the sh with such necessaries as may be ost required. Fuel, clothing and {ood will be supplied where proper committees bodice makes s handsome & gown as can be desired. This skirt pattern is appropriate for making n):;;:y material, and may be worn with any waist. LARGE, handsome basket and four pounds of our iamous broken candy, 50c. Townsend’s. * —————— TIME to send your Eastern friends Cal. glace {ruits, 50¢ Ib.; handsome bkts. Townsend’s, * —————— 4 1bs. famous broken candy, handsome bkts., B50c. Townsend’s, Palace building. L4 EPECIAL information daily to manufacturere, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monigomery. * —_—————— The new peer, the Marquis of Granby, is one of the handsomest men that ever sat in Par- liament, Phillips’ Kock Island Excursions Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rig Grande and Rock Island Rallways. Through tourist sleeping-cars to Chicago and Boston. Man. sger and porters accompany these excursio~s to Boston. For tickets. sleeping-car accommodations and furtber information, address Clinton Jones, General Agent Kook Island Rallway, 30 Monp §Omery street. Ean Franciseo *Mrs. Winslow’'s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothers for their children white Teething withper- fect success. It sooihesthe child, softens ithegums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether ars- ing from tee.hing orother causes. For sale by drag~ glsts In every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup. 25C a botule, e e CoroNADO.—Atmosphere is perfactly dry, soft and mild, being entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, Including fifteen days’ board a: the Hotel dal Coronado, $65: longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Moutgomery st., San Franoisco. — e — AYER's Cherry Pectoral, if used according to direc'lons, is a speedy cure for colds. Ask your druggist for Ayer's Almanac. —————————— Blynkins—A girl who can sing just as soon as she gets up in the moraning must have a sweet disposition. Wynkins—Not necessarily. She may haves grudge against somepody in the neighbor- hood.—Baltimore News. NEW TO-DAY. Scott’s Emulsion is Cod- liver Oil prepared as 2 foods At the same time, it is @ blood maker, a nerve tonic and an up-builder. But principally it is a food for tired and weak digestions; for those who are not getting the fat they should from their ordinary food; for chil- dren whom nothing seems to nourish; for all who are fat-starved and thin. It is pleasant to take; at least, it is not unpleasant. Children like it and ask for more, s have a “just as good " kind. lsn% :r,mqm)“:m ‘enough for you 8 Purely vegutable, mi'd and reijab.e. Lure all dis- orde \ Nsmnnkuwr Bowels, CHE, BILIOU NESS. R P ¥ Nas, umtu. Sold Price by all drugglsis -