The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 28, 1897, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1897 —_— TUESDAY > ~ JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PU&LICAmN OFFICE ..Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1588, EDITORIAL ROOMS... ...217 to 221 Stevenson stree Telephone Main 1874, . DECEMBER 28, 1897 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) Is served by carrlers in this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a week. By mall $6 per year; per month 65 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. One year, by mall, $1.60 OAKLAND OFFICE ... 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE......... Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE Rigde House C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent, BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, corner Glayi opep until 9:30 o'clock. 359 Hayes street; open until 930 o'clock. 621 MoAllister street; open until 9:30 o'tlock. 6i5 Larkln street: open until 9:30 o'clock. SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street; opep until ® o'clock. 123 Ninth street; open until9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street; opeg untll 930 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-secon apd Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'cloc! AMUSEMENTS. Baldwin—"The Juckiiugs.” Columbla—"At Gay Ovney Islaad.” California—*“An Interuational Mateh” Alcazar—*Tho Girl { Left Bebind Mo.” Moroseo's—Usicle Tom's Cadin.” Tivoli—Mother Goose. Orpheum—Vaudoville, The Chutes—Boston Ladies’ Military Band Oberon—Cosmopolitu Orchestra. Ingleside Prack—Races to-iay. Olympia—Stark’s Vienna Orchestra. THE TEACHERS’' CONVENTION. SAN FRANCISCO gives to the Teachers’ Convention as warm a welcome as was ever accorded to any visitors. Most of the mem- bers of the convention are Californians, and they of course are at home and among their own people. To those who come from other States the injunction will be “make yourself at home.” The ever gen- erous hospitality of the city will be more in evi- dence than usual on this occasion by reason of the her and the home. the convention will be ity and of interest to ves with the great subject The programme mapped out is elaborate and includes ures relating to every department of the varied field of school work. As the proceedings of 1 department are to be under the management of expert directors, the 1esults can hardly fail to be beneficial to those who participate in them and of advantage to the schools in which they are employed. California has a t right to be proud of the teachers of her public schools. Although in too | many localities school management is involved in politics, it is to the credit of the profession that almost no scandals arc connected with the teaching body. Corrupt boards of trustees, incompetent su- perintendents and janitors appointed in payment for political jobs are often heard of, but it is rare indeed that any wrong is imputed even by political parti- sanship to the men and women who do the work of teaching and training the youth of the State. It is no ordinary body of men and women who have kept themselves free from the taint of partisan- ship and jobbery in a profession so subject to ward politics as that of a school teacher in the average city in California. The fact that nearly the whole class of teachers is free not only from wrong but from suspicion of it is an evidence there is some- thing in the profession itself that is elevating and ennobling to those who practice it. It is also a proof that despite the incessant charges made against school trustees they seldom permit either partisanship or a desire for spoils to prompt them to make bad selection for the position of teachers. On the whole we shall see in the convention in our city a thousand evidences that our schools are in safe hands so far as teachers are concerned and will no doubt draw from the sight a resolve to free the schools from partisanship altogether. e ——— close association between the te The work to be done b of importance to the cor all who concern th of public education. widely There is nothing very serious in the charge of being a gentleman, although it has been brought against C. P. Bryan,'backed by proof which seems to be incontrovertible. Mr. Bryan has been named for Minister to China and an unexpected opposition to him has arisen, taking this peculiar form. It is quite true that Mr. Bryan wears decent clothes, behaves himself with propriety and has a suavity of manner indicating that he is educated and polite. The men who do not want him to have the position have not made out a case yet. They must first show that a gentleman cannot be a diplomat, and in this the records are against them. When people of this country are downcast they ought to cheer themselves by the contemplation of the blessed fact that the land is not under military rule. In the absence of war-lording there is a peace worth coming thousands of miles to enjoy. One little item in the current telegraph news detailing how an officer attacked with a sword a waiter who had presumed to present a bill for food consumed and adding that the officer was not arrested tells a whole volume. The unspeakable nerve of Spanish papers in ob- jecting to Cuba’s “savage” method of warfare is worth putting on exhibition. A nation whose ac- credited military representatives have progressed by the ungentle fashion of slaughtering wounded men found in hospitals would seem to be in a position to appreciate the beauty of silence or find some non- committal theme like weather or crops. Relatives of a man who recently died at the City and County Hospital are displeased with the. authori- ties there for having sawed the body, and they do not seem unreasonable about it, either.. A live patient at that institution has to suffer from neglect, but even the lack of funds wherewith to properly at- tend to the sick furnishes no excuse for indignity to the dead. Joe Chamberlain has administered a crushing re- buke to a Canadian official guilty of the wickedness of desiring to reduce postage. It's all right now, Joseph, but some day Canada will be so big that the experience of being laid across even so august a knee as your own will become irksome. Nothing published in France confirms the report: that Dreyfus is confined in a cage like a hyena at a menagerie. There exists a grave suspicion that the correspondents are lying—a fact at once surprising and reprehensible. ST Yellow journalism is making so much fuss over the {llness of Senator Hanna as to lead to th_e conclusion that the gentleman must be feeling particularly well. . NOW FOR A NEW CHARTER: T is not to be denied that the result of the election of Freeholders is disappointing to the hopes of conservative citizens. We are now in danger of having a charter framed on such radical lines that it will be rejected by the people and the whole reform the present duty of all earnest advocates of a better system of municipal government, and if the duty be success. As a first step in the direction of getting a charter antagonisms that have been generated in the contest over the election of Freeholders and go forward to genuine civic patriotism. The work of the Free- holders should be judged impartially by all citizens, avoid incorporating in the charter any of the features that led to the rejection of similar documents in the The Call opposed the convention ticket not because of objections personal to any candidate on the ticket, combinations known to be adverse to the public good. We confidently expect the majority at least of these their independence of cliques and gangs and to act for the welfare of the whole city. They have every- They have everything to lose by framing one that is cither socialistic in its nature or monarchical in its San Francisco needs a new charter. Many at- tempts have been made to procure one, but each in tail heavy expense and their rejection postpones econ- omy of municipal administration. It is therefore a the new Board of Frecholders. The peoplé demand of them a charter that can be accepted. The Free- ticular class. They must study the needs and the sen- timents of the whole people. If they do this they may work before them. i e ot OUR MINING COUNTIES. / \ ers, but for men to whom mining is a busi- ness of industry and skill rather than of inviting field. This fact we may expect to see com- pletely demonstrated at the coming smining expo- by the reports that come to us in the columns of the press of the mining counties. tions of papers published in the mining districts to learn the progress that is being made there. Every tion on the subject, and the golden items are treated in a way which shows they are not regarded as any- of the current news of the community. . In the edition of the Amador Ledger for Decem- from Calaveras County of the discovery of a rich ledge of quartz showing free gold in such quanti- ton will run far up into the thousands. In the same county the reworking of an old mine has uncovered for which there is a large demand for use in making various ornamental objects. quarries and work on them will begin at once. In one of the leading gold mines a vein has been struck amount of $114 10 per ton, and another mine which had been closed down for some time has reopened now to resume work at good wages. In El Dorado the presence is noted of a number tigating claims and mining property generally with a view to investments. It is further announced that chinery have made profitable many mines hitherto considered useless, and in consequence of this the in value. In Amador County the reports are equally good. important pieces of work carried out in various mines, from which rich results are expected. It is been prospected for the last six months has shown such good ore that the owners have bought stamp once. These items taken from a single paper giving a editor in the ordinary course of his news gathering task, without any intention to show the industry as vet remains in the mining counties of California. This is still the best land in which a mining man to hold our mining exposition and make known the truth, to the miners and capitalists of the world. THE WOMAN AND THE DOGS. I ington says she has no apologies to offer. Certainly not. To whom should she offer alted nerve to defend her act in being in such a place, and thus places herself liable to criticism, sumption is in the idea that the public, save as repre- sented by the police, can have a possible interest in come to attend every dog fight which may be ar- ranged to dignify the nation’s capital; she is even two herself, as other sports have been known to do. All that can be reasonably asked of her is that she what her reasons may be or to hear more of her than that “Pug MecSwat and a lot of his pals have peace,” etc., etc. P . Hading upon her dog has been sold for $7000 the thought arises that the set of brains Jane used on movement nullified. To guard against that danger is rightly attended to there is still a chance to achieve acceptable to the people we must leave behind us all the task of charter making in a spirit of harmony and and the Frecholders themselves should be careful to past. but because it was apparently allied with forces and candidates, now that they have been elected, to assert thing to gain by framing a true American charter. forms. turn has failed. These failures are costly. They en- weighty responsibility that has been imposed upon holders must not frame a charter to suit some par- rely upon the cordial co-operation of The Call in the LASKA may be the place for mining boom- chance or speculation California is by far the more sition, but for the present it seems well established It is not necessary_to obtain special holiday edi- issue of those journals contains more or less informa- thing wonderful, but are reported as an ordinary part ber 17, for example, it is stated that reports come ties as to justify the conclusion that the value per a valuable deposit of large and brilliant crystals, In Tuolumne a lease has been made of marble which is fifty feet wide and carries gold to the and several hundred men who have been idle are of mining experts from other States who are inves- recent improvements in mining methods and ma- mining property of the county has largely increased Several of the news items of the Ledger relate to also noted in this county that a new mine which has mills and will set them up and begin operations at record for but a single week and compiled by the a whole, are striking evidences of the wealth that can invest his capital, and it is timely and opportune T UV — HE woman who attended a dog fight in Wash- them save to the dogs? She has, however, the ex- more or less of which is apt to be adverse. The pre- the movements of people of her sort. She is wel- welcome to‘ get down in the pit and fight a dog or shall not be led into believing the public care been duly fined for dog fighting, contrary to the When it is read that the collar bestowed by Jane the stage had an absolute rest while she was off duty. Agent Schuckman of Keswick is to be congratu- lated on having killed a robber. In the great scheme of things there is use for even a robber, and Mr. Schuckman has demonstrated what it is, The only thing to prevent young Mr. Huntington from getting another presidency or two seems to be that the supply of presidencies has been exhausted in his favor. @ LOST KEY. PEAKING of the suspected partition of S China, Senator Morgan says in a recent in- terview: : “Unless the powers now ambitious for territorial extension take into account the importance of American commercial relations with China it will be necessary for this Government to intervene in self defense.” That is just what Japan said con- cerning our ambitions for territorial extension in the annexation of Hawaii, and our statesmen of the Morgan kind scouted the idea of any other Govern- ment having any right to intervene to compel ob- servance of commercial treaties. But it is when Senator Morgan spreads himself on the map of the world that he excels as a sort of diplomatic poultice. In the same interview he says: “The German occupation of part of China and the prospective occupation of other parts by various European powers is an effort to complete a cordon of offense to American commerce from Vladivostok to Marseilles, or to Liverpool. The cordon is being stretched to contract a trade of 600,- 000,000 of people who have direct trade and inter- course with the Pacific Ocean.” Within a few days the Senator was insisting that all we needed to control the Pacific and its com- merce was the possession of Hawail. That was the "“key” and with it we were to unlock the trade of countries distant from us 8000 to 10,000 miles. Now he discovers that, regardless of that or any key, or any hot islands in the oceans, the pawers are stretching an offensive cordon from Siberia to the Mersey to shut us out of trade with the countries which let upon the Pacific. Referring to the trade statistics of the treasury | for 1896, it will be scen that we had foreign com- merce with the different divisions of the globe in the | following percentages: Europe........ .65.68 per cent. North America .14.65 per cent. South America. . 873 per cent. Qsin... .. 6.93 per cent. Oceanica. . 2.51 per cent. e R e e So that of our total foreign commerce of $1,662,- 331,612 for that year we had only $182,077,885 with the Pacific countries. The rest of it was with the Americas, unaffected by any key, and with the At- lantic countries, with which we have 65 per cent of otr total foreign trade, though we have no islands in that ocean to control it. A diagram of Senator Morgan’s foreign policy would be as interesting as the picture of a Chinese joke. But his amusing opportunism and reckless inconsistency expose the danger of changing our settled national policy to accommodate the curdled ideas of such men. He has tired the very air by oratory in support of the Monroe doctrine. That doctrine gives us the hegemony of this hemisphere, and its necessary counterbalance is that we keep out of the affairs of the other hemisphere. In them we have no right of inquiry except to protect American citizens domiciled there. The Senator’s position as to Hawaii reduces the Monroe doctrine to the level of Black Bart's flour sack, worn as a disguise for the purpose of robbery, and his idea that we may interfere in Asia “in the interest of our trade” destroys it altogether. Having in this last interview shown that posses- sion of Hawaii carries no control over Pacific trade, which he declares is being put under a cordon that reaches to Liverpool, we may next expect’ him to prove that if we take possession of Samoa we will have the key to the commerce of Great Britain. A LARGER NAVY NEEDED. importance of a large navy to nations whose commerce is extensive. Many ° countries have an interest in the Chinese trade, but it is prob- able that of all these interests none will be seriously considered except those which are backed up by warships as well as by diplomatic notes. The trade of the United States with the Chinese has not been very large comparatively, but it is one that has been continuously expanding and is full of promise. In the natural order of things if China were permitted to develop her commerce without interference on the part of foreign powers, the greater portion of her increasing trade would come to us. It is from this coast that all Chinese ports can be most easily and economically supplied with wheat, fruit, lumber and all forms of manufactured products. Our treaties with China give us opportunities for trade and our merchants are rapidly profiting by it. These treaties are now endangered by European aggression, and consequently the commerce is in danger. Our Government will of course make a protest, but it is doubtful if we can make the protest heeded without entering upon an alliance with some other power and binding ourselves to support that power in what it may demand in the way of privi- leges. All that stands in the way of a vigorous assertion of our rights in the Orient and a masteriul defensc of our interests in the Chinese trade is the lack of a navy. To meet the action of Germany and Russia in seizing Chinese ports Great Britain has dis- patched to the scene of action a fleet of seventeen ships. The United States has sent but one to increas® her squadron. We are powerful enough as a nation, but we are not sufficiently strong on the sea to exert the power at the point and at the time required to settle questions without vexatious delay. The issue is not one of jingoism. It is not a question of annexing a Chinese province as the European nations are doing, nor is it a question of saving China from spoliation. It is a simple ques- EVENTS occurring in China make clear the tion of protecting our trade interests without having | to enter upon entangling alliances to do it. The moral of the situation is plain. A navy is a necessary adjunct to commerce in these days. The industrial war between the nations becomes fiercer with each succeeding year. Great statesmen in Europe talk openly of a European union of customs duties to exclude American products from Europe altogether. They will exclude us from China and all Asia if they can. They may even attempt to ex- clude us from South America. It is a commercial war that confronts us and the United States should be prepared to fight it out in whatever shape it comes. e e e Everybody ought to be glad that the United States declines to make an alliance with England with a view to stealing territory in the far East. In the first place, this country has mostly refrained from rob- ‘bery, and in the second, if bent on acquiring spoils would want a different partner or a gilt edged bond. ———— There was nothing very dignified in the fight be- tween a lawyer and a Senator in a public office in Washington, but the lawyer showed himself in- formed as to the vital spot in the statesman. With- out hesitation he reached for the jaw. THE GEORGE HARRIS OF “UNCLE TOM'S CABIN.” Lewls George Clark, the original of Harrlet Beecher Stowe's character of George Harrls in *“Uncle Tom's Cabin,” was all that the great novelist made him in her famous book. Clark, who passed away the other day at Lewlston, Ky., was 86 years old, and his last days were made comfortable by contributions sent him from all parts of RN RSN N N LEWIS GEORGE CLARK, of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ Fame. the world for the sake of the character fourths white. in Mrs. Stowe’s book. He was three- His mother was the daughter of Samuel Campbell, a Scottish slave owner of Kentucky, and his father was Danfel Clark, a pure-blooded Scotchman. slavery. courage. ) His maternal grandmother was a negress, and he was born He and his brother were sold to a Southern pianter, and the thought of the dreaded cotton flelds of the Bouth inspired the boys with in superhuman George broke away, and after incredible adventures succeeded in reaching Canada on horseback. There he was taken into the family of a niece of Mrs. Stowe, and there the authoress met him. and worked them into her great book. She listened to his storles of slave life, His owners in K | n Kentucky heard of him | tucky, and is almost a8 and attempted to get him back, but he baffled them and went into New BEngland, whers he was safe. There he made a living by lecturing. When the great war was at an end Clark returned to Kentucky a frée man. He lived near his old home since that time, and of late years was supported by kind-hearted persons, who gave him enough to keep body and soul together. A NEWSPAPER MARVEL. The San Francisco Call moved into its grand new bullding and issued from the new home {ts last Sunday's edition. It was an exceedingly handsome and vol- uminous one. There were 350,000 coples of elghty pages each printed. Could the fifteenth century inventor of printing have looked in unprepared on the scene witnessed at The Call building on Sat- urday night, could he have heard the rush and roar of machinery, and seen the mammoth printing presses, the linotypes and the thousand and one wonderful ad- juncts now necessary to a modern first- class printing office, he would have ap- preclated the feellngs of the people of his day when they, seeing the power of his printing press, ‘thought him leagued with the Spirit of Darkness. Only in that blazing tower of light there would be to him no suggestion of aid from any spirit of darkness.—Clear Lake Press. —_—— EXCELLED NOWHERE. The New Era edition of The San Fran- cisco Call, published last Sunday, was a triumph of journalism, and it is safe to say that nothing published in the United States, in honor of the holldays, will ex- cel it. Under its present ownership The Call ‘is flourishing, and its news is given without the slightest leaning to sens tionalism and is obtained from reliable sources. It is a great home journal, and a credit to the Pacific Coast. The elghty- page New Era edition is a masterpiece | of art and literary productions, and from | men of all shades of Folltl(‘nl opinion the | enterprise of The Call is sounded in the most complimentary terms.—Solano Re- publican. —_——— SPLENDID PIECE OF JOURNALISM. The New Era Edltion of the San Fran- | cisco Call, which made its appearance | last Sunday, is undoubtedly the most | splendid plece of journalism ever seen on | the Pacific Coast. It consisted of eighty pages, handsomely printed and embel- lished with numerous artistic illustra- tions. The subject matterthroughout is of the most Interesting character, a large portion of it pertaining to California, her institutions, industries and resources. The | other big San Francisco dailles will be‘ put to a lively pace to keep up with The Call under its new management.—Salinas Index. —————— DECLARED THE BEST. The New Era Edition of the San Fran- sisco Call, published Sunday last, is a valuable newspaper. Many of the citles and towns of the State were mentioned in a complimentary manner, and the gen- eral resources of the State praised. Judges of printing, who are not inclined to permit prejudice to enter and disturb their thoughts, will pronounce the New Era Call the best of the class yet issued on the Pacifi¢ Coast.—Marysville Demo- crat. —_————— BRIGHTER, ABLER THAN EVER. The New Era edition of The San Fran- clsco Call was a great paper. It appear- ed in a new and most attractive form, was well printed, superbly illustrated and filled with reading matter of the highest quality. - This edition, it 1s to be hoped, marks not only a new and better era for The Call, but for the whole dafly press of San Francisco. The Call, under its new management, is brighter and abler than ever and that it may continue to improve and prosper 1s our sincere wish.—Dixon Tribune. —— e ——— MIRRORED CALIFORNIA'S INDUSTRIES. The New Era Edition of the San Fran- cisco Call published last Bunday was a magnificent example of modern newspa- per methods and abi.ty. Eighty pages of interesting matter, well written and beautifully illustrated, touched upon every phase of California’s industry and progression. The lithographic work has never been exceiled on the coast. This edition will be sent broadcast over the country, and will be a great advertise- ment of our resources.—Merced Star, —_———— NOTHING YELLOW @BOUT IT. The New Era Edition of The Call is all that its name Implies. €ertainly it Ind!- cates a new era in such publications. Every possible industry and interest of the State is discussed by men well in touch with their subject. It contains in- formation as well as some entertaining literature, and, best of all, there is abso- lutely nothing *“yellow” about it.—San Bernardino Sun. > ———— GOOD READING FOR @ MONTH. The New Era Call, which was issued last Sunday, contained elghty pages of Interesting reading matter pertaining to, the State. It was a splendid piece of ne aper enterprise, and a copy of it will furnish good reading matter for a month for anyone who has more time than business.—Merced Express. . Low's Horehound Cough Syrup for coughs and colds; price 10c. 417 Sansome street. % PERSONAL. Thomas H. Lynth, a lawyer of Fresno, 1s at the Occidental. R. 8. Taylor, a lawyer of Yreka, Is reg- | istered at the Grand. R. A. Thompson of Santa Rosa 1s a guest at the Occldental. Willlam McKinlay, a politiclan of Ne- vada City, is at the Lick. Lee L. Gray, a raisin-packer of Fresno, is staying at the Occidental. T. B. Dillon of the Columbia mine, Amador County, is at the Grand. James H. Howell, a surveyor Merced, is registered at the Lick. J. M. Wilmans, a mining man of Yuma, is making a brief visit at the Lick. Professor John J. Donovan of Santa Clara coilege 18 a guest at the Lick. C. M. Wheeler, a Eureka lawyer, is in town and has a room at the Occidental. | G. B. Baer, a merchant of Cloverdale, is among the late arrivals at the Grand. Frank Bartlett, and surveyor of Livermore, is Grand. H. A. C. Parker of London, traveling for pleasure, arrived yesterday at the Grand. General Cadwallader and Miss Cadwal- lader of Red Bluff are guests at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Holt, well-known residents of Vancouver, B. C., are at the Occidental. H. Z. Osborne, the Los Angeles jour- from at the nalist and Republican politiclan, is at | the Palace. Pat W. Murphy, the wealthy rancher of San Louis Obispo, arrived at the Bald- win yesterday. W. F. Peterson, a wholesale candy mer- chant of Sacramento, is at the Grand with his family. A. B. Smith of Fresno, manager there for Wellman, Peck & Co., wholesale grocers, is at the Grand. E. B. Edson of Gazelle, hotel proprie- tor, store-keeper, cattleman and mine- owner, is a guest at the Grand. Georgé W. Ross of Santa Rosa, now a resident of Circle City, Alaska, is among the late arrivals at the Grand. G. W. Boggs of Tracy is staying at the Russ during a holiday visit to his son, who is stationed at the Presidio. W. W. Seaman, assistant State Super- | intendent of Public Instruction, ahd Mrs, Seaman, of Sacramento, are at the Lick. J. R. Mason of Port Townsend, Wash., | agent of thc London Globe Insurance | Company, is a late arrival at the Occi- | dental. J. A. McLean of Sacramento and his brother, A. C. McLean of Redlands, part- ners in the contracting business, are guests at the’ Lick. J. B. Peakes, proprietor of the Pacific Ocean House at Santa Cruz, and former- Iy proprietor of the Yosemite House of Stockton, is a guest at the Palace. ' C. A. Rice, a mining man from King- man, Ariz.,, and formerly of Santa Cruz and earller of Arroyo Grande, arrived at the Lick yesterday accompanied by Mrs. Rice. Stuart Robson, the actor, will be a guest of the Occidental during his two weeks' engagement that opened night at the Baldwin. with him. | John Swett, the veteran educator, for | whom the John Swett grammar school was named, is in town from his vine- yard and home near Martinez. He is making his headquarters at the Lick. E. W. Crane, formerly champion pole- vaulter of Stanford University, is in town from the Hawalian Islands, where he is interested In electrical contracts. He will spend six weeks here before returning to Honolulu. Paul Downing, the well-known football player who not long since became son-in-law of Richard Stevenson, assist- ant manager of the purchasing and sup- last | Mrs. Robson is | plies department of the Southern Paci- | fic Company, has recently been promoted to manager of the big electrical power plant at Blue Lakes City. John W. Thompson, a graduate ot Stanford University, in charge of a big electrical concern at Monterey, Mexico, arrived here yesterday in response to the sad intelligence of the recent death of his father, late postmaster of Redwood, journalist and brother of ex-United States Minister Thompson of Santa Rosa, recently returned from his post in Brazil Dr. R. A. F. Penrose, the Arizona min- ing man and expert, several years since a well-known oarsman at Harvard and subsequently a professor in the depart- ment of geology at Stanford, arrived at the Palace yvesterday with his partner, John Brockman. They are the owners of the richest mine in Arizona, for which, it 1s reported, they have refused an offer of several million dollars. G. W. Curtis, engineer of maintenance of way of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, after an absence of three a raflroad contractor | the | weeks, returned here Sunday night fro a tour of inspection of 4400 miles of t company’s roads in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico and Tg He reports that he found everything in remarkably good condition, with nothing unusual on the whole trip. C. F. McGlashan, a well-known resi- dent of Truckee and a former Southern California journalist, arrived yesterday at the Russ. Truckee will not have an ice carnival this winter, but the citizens, for their own pleasure, are to perfect ad natural toboggan slide near the town 4 mile in length and furnished with steam engine to draw the sleds to t top of the incline. This amuss m<-nt. will be started as soon as the snow falls and hardens. There is now good sleighing in Truckee with excellent ice, but there is no SNOW. —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. fASHINGTON, Dec. fl-:-C A. Bart, I\n‘?i F. A. Connell, San I‘Ean(‘lsc(), tional; 8. Elliott and w. L', Seals St. James; C. W. Gage and Francisco, £ William Clancy, San Francisco, Metr politan; Mrs. and Mi Oxnard, Sa N Sberle and Francisco, Normandie: R. M. Eber! nd W. J. Thompson, San Francisco, and 8. T. Graham, San Jo! Raleigh. —_——a——————— REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. In place of a man’s mind a woman has a thing that she guesses with. A man can be led, but not driven; a woman can be driven, but not led. Take motherhood away from femininity | and you have left a fancy petticoat. The average man would rather see a girl have the nosebleed than to see her cry. { rz girl 1s capable of a great deal as long as she isn’t sure that she is capable of etting a certain man. sA ggirl generally thinks she is old enough to wear a low-necked dress about two years before her mother lets her; and a mother generally thinks she i3 voung enough to about four years aft#l her Saught(:r wants her to.—New Y Press. 2 —_—————— BOGUS BLUE GRASS. Chicago Inter Ocean. The famous bluegrass region of Ken- tucky I8 in danger, and Congressman Settle, who defeated Colonel W. C. P. Breckinridge a year ago, wants Uncle Sam to extend his protecting arm and save it from the fraudulent Canadian bluegrass seed which is being imported in a way to drive out Kentucky blue- grass from its. native soill. Mr. Settle Savs that the seed men are importing Canadian bluegrass seed, which is cheap and worthless, and mixing it with Ken- tucky bluegrass seed, seiling the ml ture for the simon-pure Kentucky art cle. This mixed seed is sold even to farmers of the biuegrass region of Ke: angerous as the Canadian thistle. —_——————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS NO PREMIUM—Subscriber. No pre- mium is offered for a dime of the United States coined in 1829, FORESTRY.—M. J. 8., City. For infor- mation about forestry address the chief clerk of the Bureau of Forestry, Depart- ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. MAHER-SHARKEY. — Reader, City. The recent fight in New Yors City be- tween Maher and Sharkey was stopped by the police in the fourth round. TO THE FARALLONES.—H. E., City. | The distance from the CIliff House to the North Farallones is 26l miles, to the Middle Farallones 23% miles and to South Farallones 22% miles. JENNY LIND.—Jefferson, City. Jenny Lind (Goldschmidt) was born in Stock- holm October 6, i820. She died at Wynds Point, Malvern, November 2, 187. She first appeared at the Royal Theater, Stockholm, as Agatha in “Der Frei- schutz,” March 7, 188, Sang in German 1844-47; in England 1847-48; in America { 1850-52. She wa$ married to Otto Gold schmidt, a musical conductor and com | poser, in Boston, February 5, 1852. From 1883 to 1886 she was professor of singing at the Royal College of Music. PATENTS.—E. McL., City. If you de- sire to know if an article is patented you can ascertain that fact by looking over the Patent Office reports on flle in the | reference room of the Free Public Li- brary, or by writing to the Patent Office at Washington, D. C. Inventors put “patented” and the date of the issuance of patent on the articles they have in- vented to protect themselves. An inve | tor has tane right to place such informa- | tion on those articles for which he has | secured a patent, but to do so without having obtalned a patent is a violation of the law. —_————————— OVERBURDENED WITH ADVICE. They are still saylng unpleasant things about the United States in the German Parlinment. But as these sayings are evidently tmspired by envy of our super- for resources, we can endure them with equanimity. 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