The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 15, 1898, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1898. W. S. LEAKE, Manager. F. Address All Communications to PUBLICATION OFFICE Market and Third Sts., S. Telephone Main 186S. EDITORIAL ROOMS.. 217 to 221 Stevenson stree Telepho ain 1574 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL (DAILY AND SUNDAY) s served by carrlers in this city and surrounding towns for I5 cents a weck. By mail $6 per year; per month €5 cents. THE WEEKLY CALL. One year, by mail, $1.50 OAKLAND OFFICE .. 908 Broadway Eastern Representative, DAVID ALLEN. NEW YORK OFFICE.... Room 188, World Building WASHINGTON (D. C. OFFICE ......... Riggs House €. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES--527 Montgomery street, corner Cldy: cpen until 9:30 o'clock. 339 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 621 MoAlligter street; open until 9:30 c'clock. 615 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets: open until S o'clock. 2518 Mission strect: open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh st open until9 o'clock, 1505 Polk street cpen until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky streets; open until 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Orpheum—Vaud \—The Thalia German-Heorew Opera Co., to-morrow night on—Cosmopolitan Orchestra. Chutes—Chiquita and Vauaeville. : Skating Rink—Optical Illusions. 3 kland Racetrack—Races To-day. sing Park, 3 ary 1S, Horses. at corner Van Ness avenue ana ock. M@KE IT TWENTY THOUSAND. ONTRIBUTIONS to the fund for the Golden C Jubilee are reported to be coming in with in- creased liberality. The finance committee con- sicers that about $16,000 of sure money is in sight. This encourages the hope that the full sum required to carry out the festival according to the programme designed will be forthcoming. The amount needed is $20,000. It would be gratify- ing if the amount lacking in the contributions could be raised to-day so that on Monday the committee in charge could set about the week's work with free hands. The amount necessary to complete the fund is now comparatively small. Contrasted with the | greatness of San Francisco and the dignity of the | occasion to be celebrated it is virtually a trifle. It ought to be raised in half a day. San Francisco has invited the whole country to par- ticipate in the jubilee, and thousands of visitors from distant States will be here to witness it. Bands of pioneers who have been living in the East for years will make this an occasion for returning to the golden land where they worked in their youth. These will influence others to come. Moreover, the Californian tourist season is now at its height. The host of Americans who seek sunny lands every winter will find in the jubilee and the mining fair additional in- | ducements to visit San Francisco. | With all of these visitors to look on it will not do for us to fail in any particular. The American people are becoming critical of pageants. They have seen a great many of them, and the time has passed when anything in the way of a procession would be ac- cepted with approval. Only really artistic achieve- ments win praise in these days, and such get much more than mere praise. The festivals at New Orleans, St. Louis and other cities where true artistic parades are given are profitable from the standpoint of busi- ness as well as of pleasure. All arguments are on the side of liberality. We have undertaken the enterprise. We have raised enough money to assure a notable pageant. More is needed to accomplish a true artistic triumph. Help Make it $20,000 by sundown. GOLD IN THE E@AST. the fund at once. CONVINCING evidence of the return of pub- fl lic confidence in the monetary affairs of the country is afforded by reports in the Eastern papers of the reappearance of gold as a circulating medium in that section of the Union. So long as there was any fear of the triumph of the free silver agitators many persons hoarded gold, and in the East 1t went out of circulation altogether. Now that sound 1noney has achieved a complete triumph and return- ing prosperity on the gold basis has put an end to the cafeer cf the calamity howlers these hoards are being released and the long hidden money is returned to the channels of trade. As a result of the reappearance of gold in business uses it is noted that it has become so plentiful the New York Clearing-house has been settling balances in gold coin, and not long ago the treasury declined to pay the freight on one million of dollars of gold coin that certain San Francisco banks wished to ex- change for greenbacks. The hoarding of gold is vir- tually a thing of the past. It has gone with the panic | tions. THE PASSING OF DOLE. 'HE Hawaiian oligarchy is reported to intend Tscnding its chief, the Shah Dole, to Washington to lobby for annexation, for coolie labor, for separate laws not to be operative outside the islands; for the payment of the debts of his oligarchy, amount- ing to $4,000,000, by the American taxpayers, for $19 a ton protection on raw sugar which will transfer nearly $6,000,000 a year from the pockets of Ameri- can taxpayers to those of the island planters who hire coolie labor and pay Dole’s expenses. It is expected in Honolulu that the Shah’s appear- ance here will light the welkin with the coruscations of enthusiasm which wiil follow his progress to the Potomac on his errand to instruct the Congress of the United States in its duty. It is given out that he comes for the good of this country, which reminds us of the royal procession which followed the landing in London of George I. That princely Brunswicker could not speak English. In his train were a number of adipose Duchesses of uncertain refations to the court, one of whom was accomplished to the extent of a few words of the language of the country. At sight of the foreign looking outfit London temper broke out in the form of various remarks uncomplimentary to the new royalty. The accomplished Duchess at- tempted to set matters right by crying out: “Shentlemens, don’t pe so mat. We come for all your goods.” “Yes, and for our chattels, too, — you,” yelled back from the mob. > Shah Dole seems to be out for chattels, and the American taxpayer and wage earner is not just now enthusiastic over a promoter of higher taxes and lower wages. He comes as President of the Hawaiian republic, we are told. When was he elected? How many votes did he get? Were there other candidates?> Will he explain the method of electing Presidents in his re- public? Did the people elect a majority of the Con- stitutional Convention of Hawaii? Why has the num- ber of electors decreased from 14,000 to 28002 Does was 2 man in order to vote have to swear alle- giance to the constitution? Does not the constitution provide for annexation to the United States, and therefore does not every man who swears to support it take an oath to support annexa- tion? Does not this prove that out of a population of more than 100,000 there are only 2800 in favor of an- nexation, for only that number take the constitutional oath? Is Hawaii, then, a republic, resting on the consent of the governed, or is it an oligarchy, sustained by an armed force and maintained by the presence of an American man-of-war? This farcical Dole is no more President of a repub- lic than is Mir Mahmud of Beloochistan or his many wived Excellency, Sidi Ali of Tunis. Mr. Dole is not a promoter of republican institu- He is out for “the stuff.” He goes to Wash- ington as a Colonel Mazuma, and his appearance here on such an errand is a scandal that should be re- sented. Members of his oligarchy have preceded him and have worked for months unsuccessfully to rob Ammerican taxpayers of their money and the Hawaii- ans of their country. Their presence here on such an errand has been an insult to our people, and seli- 1especting members of Congress should resent it. HOSPITAL AND ZOO. T is reported that at the meeting of the Board of Supervisors on Monday Dr. Rottanzi will intro- duce a resolution providing for the construction of a new County Hospital upon the Almshouse tract. The resolution, according to the synopsis which has been given to the public, may be said to kill two birds with one stone. It puts a quietus upon the Mission 0 job by proposing to convert the present hospital | tract into a park and at the same time provides for the erection, as already stated, of a new County Hos- pital—an improvement that has long been needed. The tract at Twenty-sixth street comprises about ten acres. It is not very well situated for a park, but for a monkey garden it possesses distinct merit. It is located at the foot of a bluff and is bounded on three sides by civilization. ~ With proper improvements, therefore, the smellinseparable from a zoo could prob- ably be confined during any but very warm weather. The tract possesses another merit. It can be turned into a zoo or a park without much expense. The Supervisors may close the cross streets and the land thus acquired will cost nothing. This, of course, would cause dissatisfaction among the real estate men who have Mission park sites for sale, but their in- terests need not be considered by the Supervisors. The project of constructing a new County Hospital upon the Almshouse tract is one that ought to be en- couraged. The present hospital has been a disgrace to the city for over ten years. At the time it was con- ceived there was no intention that it should be any- thing more than a temporary affair. Its builders an- ticipated that long ere this it would be a thing of the past. But from year to year it has been sustained with repairs until it is now in very much the same situation as the one-horse shay was said to have been shortly before its collapse. It will be remembered that that famous vehicle ran until the last moment. Then its mainspring broke and it fell into a thousand pieces. that caused it. This condition of affairs is exactly what was pre- dicted by the sound money men during the campaign. 1t was well known to all in a position to watch in- telligently the movements of money that during the free silver scare many timid capitalists and cautious owners of small savings withdrew their gold from the banks and locked it up in safe deposit boxes or in secure places around their homes so as to be safe if the silver party should come into power. Knowing this, the intelligent student of events was able to pre- dict with confidence that as soon as the scare was over the gold would be put into circulation again. That which was foreseen has happened. The East does not use gold to any great extent, but all that it needs it has, and there is no longer a gold scarcity in any part of the country. One of the best results of the return of gold to easy circulation in the East will be the strengthening of the movement for complete monetary reform. It is better to make the changes necessary to adapt our financial system to the needs of business at this time when confidence is well assured and industry is prosperous than to put it off to some future day. The time to repair a roof is when the sun shines. We may not always have good times, and any attempt at mon- etary legislation in bad times would be sure to bring to the front a new set of agitators as pestiferous as those that disturbed the country during the Bryanite campaign. It is not clear at 'first glance why a collector, of good reputation, claiming to have been robbed by a It has been said that the sick poor of San Francisco are treated worse at the County Hospital than the city’s prisoners are treated at the county jails. This is a hard thing to say, but it is probably true. Even ii the doctors at the Twenty-sixth street institution were not political doctors, and even if the nurses and attendants were not politicians, it would be impos- sible to get anything in the shape of decent service out of the building. That structure never was much more than a barn. It is now saturated with disease germs and is a disgrace to the city. We think the Su- pervisors should give Dr. Rottanzi’s resolution the most serious attention. Caffery opposes the immigration bill now before the Senate. The gentleman hails from the State in which eleven foreigners were lynched one night with- in the memory of living children. Would not the re- strictive plan of regulating the character of the popu- lation be better than that of letting everybody in and then killing the undesirable? Or perhaps Senator rCaficw wants his constituents to have a little diver- tisement occasionally, although it is really more fun to hunt possums than aliens who may have to be paid for. L iy France may put Zola in jail, but even there he wouid go right on constructing novels. On the whole not much would be gained. And, anyhow, there are other people over there who seem more adapted, by moral qualities, to prison life. —— Perhaps the new primary law is not periect, but pair of footpads, should be at once accused by the |there is said to be something about it rendering diffi- police of having made up the tale. If the police think | cult the O'Donnell feat of climbing on the ticket. So there are no footpads in town they certainly ought | to a certain extent the people are sure to rise up and to read the papers. call the law blessed. THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG. OR several days The Call has had something to l: say concerning the jutebag business as con- ducted by the Prison Directors, and has, as must have been evident to the reader, not fully co- incided with the views of that body. There is a law supposed to govern the transactions of the directors, and the calmness with which they habitually ignored it demanded a protest. This law was designed to protect the farmer. Its evident purpose was to pre- vent the middleman from speculation in the products of the mill at San Quentin. Yet the Prison Direct- ors have been systematically playing into the hands of the middlemen. They have fixed the price so as to accommodate the middleman, the money-loaner, and to keep the farmer from participating in the benefits. Of course they appear to be indignant. They have been caught. There can be no defense of the practice of ar- bitrarily fixing the price of grainbags when the statutory provision is that this price shall be a cer- tain sum in addition to the absolute cost. There cer- tainly can be no defense of the way members of the board had of letting friends know when the price was about to be raised so as to enable them “to get in on the ground floor.” If De Pue and his asso- ciates choose to be aggrieved these columns are open to any explanation they may wish to make. The method has been particularly unfair to the farmer. It has forced him to make affidavits not | strictly in accord with facts. When the farmer | needed, say, 1000 bags and had not the money to se- cure them he has been obliged to go to the middle- man. From the middleman he got the necessary financial assistance. All he had to do was to swear that he needed 5000 or 10,000 bags. Then out of the goodness of his heart the middleman would make an advance sufficient to secure the amount asked. He would keep all but the small supply the farmer really needed, make the farmer pay freight on the entire lot, and then sell the balance at an advanced price, this being made possible by the board, who never failed to keep the middleman posted as to the extent to which the price was to jump and the time of jumping. For the great orders received from speculators there is absolutely no warrant in law. | In fact, the method used in ordering made a mock- ery of the statutory provision supposed to cover the matter, and, honestly administered, entirely com- | petent to cover it. The fact seems to be’ that the Prison Directors have made no effort to abide by the law, that they have favored their friends, sold in large quantities to speculators who had no right to | purchase, and have, in a word, set aside all legal re- strictions tending to govern their acts. Against the mass of evidence they can hardly present more than an apology and a declaration of intent to throw themselves upon the mercy of the public. They do not seem to have been guilty of wanton corruption but they have been careless. Perhaps without mean- ing to do so they have assumed a position superior to the law, and the time has arrived for them to come down. IMMICRATION QUESTION. THE EBATE in the Senate on the immigration re- | D striction bill progresses with a degree of de- liberation which threatens to postpone a vote to a date so far distant that thousands of unworthy immigrants may obtain access to the country before the desired educational restriction is imposed. On Tuesday Senator Fairchild made a speech in favor of the measure, and after he closed the Senate turned to other business. On Thursday Senator Cai- fery obtained recognition to speak against the bill and then once more the Senate turned to other busi- ness. The measure, in fact, is being treated as a sort of sandwich to other measures and is brought out only on occasions when there is an idle hour or so in the Senate chamber. Beneficial as the proposed restriction will be to all parts of the Union and universally popular as it is, it will not be passed without the employment of con- siderable vigor on the part of its advocates. There is a strong opposition to be overcome. Senator Caf- fery does not stand alone in his fight against the bill. He will have plenty of allies to assist in defeating it if possible, and he and they will leave no parliament- ary stone unturned in their efforts to accomplish that object. The source of the opposition is to be found in the great steamship companies which make large profits | out of the immigrant traffic. These companies are not going to lose the lucrative trade of importing im- migrants if they can help it, and are actively engaged in the task of bringing pressure to bear upon Con- gress in their interest. It will be remembered that last winter it was made known that foreign steamship companies were “per- niciously active” in their efforts to defeat the bill. H. Claussenius & Co., general Western agents of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company, sent a telegram to F. W. A. Pope of Milbank, South Da- kota, as follows mmigration bill comes up in the House Wednesday; wire your Congressman, our ex- pense, protesting against proposed exclusion and re- questing bill be defeated, informing him that vote in favor means defeat at next election.” In an interview with the Chicago Times-Herald Mr. Claussenius stated he had sent similar telegrams to over 200 persons. This open interference of foreign companies with American legislation aroused indigna- tion at the time and helped to defeat the object it was intended to serve. No such telegrams will be sent out this winter, nor will there be any other public manifestation of foreign interest in the affair. Nevertheless, the foreign oppo+ sition will find a way to make itself felt. It is, there- fore, timely to recall the Claussenius telegram. The people should be on guard. Demands for a speedy passage of the bill should be sent to Congress from all parts of the country. The new restrictive meas- ure should be enacted in time to head off the rush of illitcrate immigrants this summer. The slayer of Actor Terriss is now in prison, to re- main “at the Queen’s pleasure.” The prisoner is in for life and he might as well make up his mind to it. To be kept from hanging by the plea of insanity in {COLLECTED IN | is at the Grand. England does not mean the privilege of roaming un- trammeled and occasionally killing a man just to show that the insanity is in good working order. Not a day passes without the record of at least one man swindled out of all his money by some game so old, so overworked and so familiar as to make the possibility of using it a marvel. How the victims re- frain from blowing out the gas long enough to give the bunko man a chance is a source of constant won- der. The Victoria (B. C.) Times gives scant evidence of being a newspaper, but it fairly bulges with informa- tion as to how other papers should be conducted. It is as well to be frank. The congratulations sent by Foraker to Hanna were hollower than a drum, 006 08 06 306 306 106 10020 06 06 0 10 10 106 08 10 10RO 100 06 00300 00 6 0N 000N U 0 N § PLAGIARISM I THE POLICE COURTS. gflfififififififififififinfi#fififififififififififififififlfi)}fififi “I am very glad,” said Judge Campbell, thoughtfully stroking his cele- brated beard, “that the newspapers are taking this matter up. It's poui- tively the baldest, crudest piece of work I ever saw. r of originality than to deliberately copy so well known a style as mine, he's not fit to preside over a police court. That's all there is to it. ¥ “If the copy was a gocd one, now, or even fairly correct, I wouldn't mind S0 much. But the sort of facetiae that Low and Joachimsen are getting oft these days is enough to make even a Judge swear. know how true it is—that these two Police Judges, disguised as reporters, have spent day after day in my court studying closely my manner, my style of repartee and the various degrees of wit that fit different occasions. I this is true, it only shows the stupidity of my facetious rivals, for their efforts are enough to disgust one forever with police court wit. ‘““That's the worst of this sort of thing. always be a horde of imitators. anything there will their efforts in duplicating the style thing that it's hard “That’s exactly it,” exclaimed the gible, I assure you. Low or Joachimsen. the corridor. laugh now at my jokes will question them. they appreciate real humor. elects Police Judges. “Look at this, now.” “Just glance over this jeu d'esprit of to the Klondike. Campbell with fine disgust. there's genius! “There’'s police reporter and used to haunt my injury! having a diploma from me? “And this thing of Joachimsen’s! gether, classed with those two funereal jesters tion can b ‘Well, all right. 9000000000000 00000000000000000000000000000000000000000060000000066 old age become dull and respectable.” CPP0POPO @ public’s taste for the real article—and—and then ‘where am I at?” “The unfortunate thing is that a style of witticism is so intangible a to get it patented,” said the sympathetic interviswer. Suppose Low or Joachimsen is starred by the news- paper that's fighting me. Of course, you and I know that neither of 'em can say a funny thing, no matter how hard they try, but the inartistic masses are likely to take these two frauds on the paper’s say so, and the conse- quences are that my courtroom will be deserted. ma’am comes to town for entertainment. Reporters in search of stories 'l move further down My reputation as chief jester will suffer, and the crowds who I know,” continued the Judge, his voice trembling with sincere emo- tion, “that there will always be a select circle to appreciate true merit, but the masses laugh because they have been told things are funny, not because And, incidentally, it isn't the select circle that The Judge drew out a morning paper folded so as to show an article on Judges Low and Joachimsen. Did you ever read anything so bad? man's own joke about its being as easy to wash gold as clothes, and Low hasn't any more originality than to follow up with that weak old chestnut about the story being unlike the client. “Why, Low told a friend of mine that he learned his style when he was It's enough to make a man go to law. for an injunction forbidding Low to joke; or if that couldn’t be done, for- bidding him from lowering the standard of my court by his pretense of Why, any clown could tell him that the obvious joke about Sousa and a march was to be avoided. know I actually contemplated when I read that changing my style alto- If this thing goes on I'll be driven to a wholly different role. r. “Say, I'll tell you something in confidence. Mind, it's not for publication. Now, it's a fact that Low has copies of everything that was ever printed about me, and he pores over the things that I have said, study- ing them over and over again till he knows them by rote. Well,” the Judge laughed scornfully, “now, as to Joachimsen. Judge's voice sank to a shocked whisper—“his own prosecuting attorney told me that Joachimsen insists upon Graham’s learning a sort of prearranged dialogue, so that his cues may lead up to Joachimsen's opportunity. fact! I got it straight! Now, what do you think of that for a man who pre- tends to run his court as a spontaneous sideshow? ‘“‘However, as I said, I'm glad the newspapers are taking this thing up. If those spurious Campbells, those police court pretenders are not ashamed to continue their flagrant plagiarism in the face of public disapproval, why T've got to do one of two things—out-Campbell them or reform and in my His Honor mounted the bench. spat with elegance and precision into the very center of the nearest cuspidor, rapped upon his desk, and the curtain rose upon the only bona-fide police court farce in town. If 2 man hasn't mare I'm told—mind, I don’t b, 4 ‘Whenever an artist originates They not only 1ail in of the genius; they also spoil the Judge. “But the injury’s not intan- A pretty country school- Naturally to Where does she go? whether there’s anything funny in Low’s about the Chinaman who went Here's the patrol- It wit won't wash!” repeated Judge for you! There's brilliancy! court. If that isn’'t adding insult to I wonder if I couldn’t ask B O O O R R R R R R R OR RO RORCRORORORCR R S = R w Fu Fm §nd =3 ‘Why, do you To be is more than a man with my reputa- Graham told m here the It's a CPODPOOPDPPOPPPPOPOOOPPOODD THE CORRIDORS| D. B. Hodgson, the president of the is in the city for a short stay. Yesterday he called on Gen- eral Manager Kruttschnitt at the latter’s | office in the Southern Pacific building. A. Levinsky, a prominent attorney of Stockton, is at the Grand. David Starr Jordan has come up from Stanford, and is at the Occidental. C. E. Tinkham, manager of the Sierra Mill and Lumber Company of Chiro, .s a guest at the Grand. W. F. Miller, a leading attorney of | Portland, Or., is in the city with his bride, on their wedding tour. They are staying at the Palace. H. B. Clawson, the Mormon Bishop of | Salt Lake, is at the Baldwin. E. T. Benson, general auditor of the Oregon avigation Company, is in the city, accompanied by his wife. They are staying at the California. Colonel W. Forsyth has returned from his visit to the East, and is at the Occi- | dental, on his way to his home in Fresno. General M. W. Muller, commander of the Third Brigade, N. G. C., is registered at the California from Fresno. E. W. Hale of the large Sacramento house of Hale Brothers & Co. is at the Baldwin. H. W. Patton, one of the leading poli- ticians of Los Angeles, is staying at the Palace. F. Burtlen, a contractor of Livermore, V. A. McCully, U. 8. N,, is registered at the California. G. W. Huddelson, a wealthy resident of Chicago, who has large mining inter- ests in Arizona, is at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Gray have come up from Fresno are at the Occidental. A. H. Denny of Denny, Barr & Co., the big Etna firm, is at the Grand. Lieutenant F. H. Lefavor is at the Occidental from Mare Island. It is not an un- common thing for sessesescccece UNIQUE theatrical com- ADVANCE {' panies to have AGENTS. two advance agents ahead of * their enterprise, % one seven days ahead and the other three; but it re- mained for Ed W. Dunn, agent for Rich & Harris’ Courted Into Court Company, to arrive in San Francisco with twenty- five avaunt couriers as his assistants. Dunn conceived this scheme quite a num- ber of weeks ago, formulated it in Den- ver, perfected it in Salt Lake and carried it out on the Oakland ferry upon his ar- rival, much to the astonishment of the passengers on the Newark, which hap- pened to be the vessel which carried him over. The boat had hardly left its Oakland slip when Mr. Dunn quietly opened his traveling case and, extracting twenty- five silk pennants with the name of his attraction thereon, printed in a vermilion hue, proceeded to tie them to twenty- five crusts of bread which he had pre- pared, and, making his way to the stern of the steamer, quietly tossed one in the air In the midst of a bunch of seagulls. There was a whirl and a dive as the bird nailed the bread, and away went agent No. 1, with a silk pennant hanging from his beak. The other twenty-four were disposed of in rapid succession, and the novel sight of twenty-five of these birds circling in midair with silk banners at- tached to their bills is said to have been a sight certainly never before witnessed by overland passengers, one of whom was heard to remark, “Advance agents are certainly birds!"” eesesossceoeses Not long ago, THEY as S. H. Hamil- t BOUGHT § i mae fienoine THE . ter in the office TICKETS. of the Chicago and Northwest- ern, he was ap- proached by a peculiarly attired couple, who, after informing him of the fact that they were engaged in religious work, and assuring him that any favor granted them would be duly remembered by the Lord, demanded free transportation back to their home in one of the little towns of the interior of the State. They were both green enough to do for a St. Patrick’s day banner; but while the man was modest and unassuming, the woman was one of those who wish to appear to know it all. Mr. Hamilton told them that as he himself was afollower of Buddha it would | be_ impossible for him to grant what they wished, but he would advise them how | to proceed. “The richest man in the railroad busi- ness,” said Mr. Hamilton, “is John Guil, Who has $5000 in the bank; but I would not advise you to go to him, as he recently sustained heavy losses through his pas- sion for gambling. “Go down to the Central Pacific, and | there you will find my friend Billy Vice, | who is a leader in local church work, and | I am sure your modest request will be at once complied with.” The couple went to see Vice, and ac- quainted him with their desire, telling him who sent them. “There \is strict law against giving away passes,” said Mr. Vice, “but if you will let me sell you the tickets I will make you a present of a dozen cabinet photos taken by this camera (pointing to the phone), which I have for this par- ticular purpose.’ The couple sat down, while Billy turned the bell crank, and, after giving him the address to which they wished to have the proofs sent, purchased their tickets and departed. J. Buvkless and Mrs. S. J. Hill, tourists from Mississippi, are at Baldwin. George W. Lawrence, a well-known resident of Los Angeles, is a guest at the California. J. F. Condon, one of the leading mer- chants of Verdi, Nev., is staying at the Grand. E. W. Runyon, a heavy banker of Red Bluff, is at the Palace with his wife. Orlander Jones, a well-known club and sporting man of New York, is at the Pal- ace, accompanied by L. V. Bell, the fam- ous hatter. M. M. Looram, one of the heaviest bet- tors that follow the ponies, is registered at the Palace from New York. W. B. Jones, the Boston excursion agent, and W. A. Farrish, a wealthy min- ing man of Denver, are at the Palace. Robert Watt (first vice-president), W. B. Storey (engineer) and Secretary Alex- ander Mackie of the Valley road went over the line yesterday on a tour of in- spection. R. Tyther, formerly of Napa, is sick with pneumonia at the Windsor Hotel. two the eesececessessss The timber LOOKING lands of the FOR State are com- mencing to come TIMBER to the front. LAND. San Francisco has lately been visited by a num- ber of representatives of large Eastern capitalists seeking investments in that direction. They say that the forests of the East are about played out, every- thing that can be of much value commer- cially has been cut, and now the lumber- men have about got down to hooppoles, and timber with a four-inch square of working material is eagerly seized upon. A number of gentlemen have been out here lately with first-class credentials to show that they had the money to back them, but were deterred by the fear of storms from going into the mountains to see the timber properties that were offered them. They have returned East, but will again visit the coast as soon as the advancement of the season makes a prolonged trip to the mountains possi- ble. Among the offers made to these agents was one of 45,000 acres in Tuol- umne County. | CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—L. Weil of San Francisco is at the Hotel Manhattan, A. A. Son of San Franecisco is at the Nether- land Hotel and J. Steinberger of San Francisco is at the Hotel Imperial. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.—Mrs. Hatch, wife of the Hawaiian Minister, has re- turned from California and is at the Ar- lington Hotel. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. Erotics in woman is only an excuse for her erratics. All iove is about the same thing, and all soap tastes l.uka“ % You can always tell when you pass a dentist in the street by the inquiring way he looks at your teeth. It's a wise woman that can tell a man’s character by his necktie and a wiser one that can tell a woman’s at all. A man nds his time trying to get everything he wants and a woman spends er d.n'.n.n trying to want everything she can get. . | see whether 4 | v THE BREEZES EXPLAIN. Sharply the afternoon breezes - Came with an unwonted gait, Heedless of coughs and of sneezes, Rattling the houses and treezes, In a style to make us cuss fate, “What s it keeps you o merry?” 1 asked with desire to know. “Your conduet is impolite, ve Each nose is as red as a cher And each has a vearning to blow. “Why swirl you so blithely the paper? Why raise such a racket and dust? Why cut up dido and caper? You're only a pestilent vapor, Yet act like a fiend on a bust.” Pausing the breezes made answer: * “Tis true, we harrow the soul, But have a good reason to prance, To cavort and bellow and dance. s For haven’t ~ou heard about Dol “We're told he is coming this way, sir, Bringing his whiskers along: That's why we're jolly and gay, sir, Among those whiskers we'll play, sir, We're in training now to get strong. e OTABLES. NOTES ABOUT 1 The new British peerage just fssued shows that no less than 530 new names have been added during the past jubilee year as privy councilors, peers, baronets and knights of the various orders of chiv- alry. Miss Hamilton, M.D., the English doctor at the court of the Ameer of Afghanistan, says that a few of the chief ladies in Cabul can read and write, but hardly a single one outside the capital can do so. The Rev. D. Anderson, a negro preach- er in Georgia, has created a sensation by a defense of ly: g. which he contends is sometimes justifiable. Some persons of his own color have threatened to try it on him. The BDritish Registrar-General, Dr. Totham, has issued a supplemental re- port sho g the influence of occupation upon male mortality. The clergy had the healthiest lives, and after them came in turn lawyers, doctors and farmers. Dr. Sanarelli has delivered a lecture in Montevideo, in which he stated that he had discovered a serum which proved effective against yellow fever in the animals he experimented with, and that it will probably cure the same disease in human beings. A marble memorial tablet to Beethoven has been put up by a committee of musical people in one of his favorite haunts at the Helementhal in Baden, i where he spent much time in 1824 and 1825. A Vienna sculptor is at work on a relief of the composer, which will go on the stone, and the unveiling is expected to take place next spring. FL SIlEiSV(r)F FUN. Mrs. Greene—Th: band is awfully sweet Don’t you hate her? Mrs. Brown—On the contrary, I condole with her.—Boston Transeript. y say that your hus- on Miss Gray. Adelbert—I cawn’t say that I'm feeling nachuwal this eve; I've got a beastly cold in my head, don’tyerknow? Geraldine- ind, Addy. grumble. f it’s only a cold, something.—Richmond Dispatch. Don’t it's Tramp—Is there anything around here that a poor man could do to earn a meal of vittles? Lady es. Step back this— Tramp—All right, then, I haven’t time to stop.—Cleveland L der. “I'm very much afraid Miss Passeigh i3 in love,” said one young woman. “I'm sure she doesn’t anything to replied the other. But I found her just now with a pencil and paper figuring for dear life to goes into 1838 without leav- = ashington Star. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. ITS VALUE—E. H., City. pieces of 182 m. dealers at from $7 no premium offered. NEWSPAPER POSTAGE—E. B, Tay- lor, Shasta County, Cal.—The postage on transient papers is 1 cent for each four ounces or fraction thereof. CH IQUITA—Reader, Oakland, Cal. Chi- h, is feminine and means i pronounced as if written, “tche-kee-tah.” The mascul is chiquito. MRS. GROVER CLEVELAND—M. M, City. Miss Frances Folsom, who married Grover Cleveland, was born July 21, 1864, in Buffalo, N. Y. She was married to Mr. Cleveland June 2, 188 THE NATIONAL RECORDER—M. G., City. According to the latest issued newspaper directory of the United States, July, 1847, the National Recorder was still ‘published in Washington, D. C. HYDROPHOBIA—J. W., City. The reason that a dog attacked with hydro- phobia is killed is to prevent it from biting any one who might be in its way. There is'no law in this State on that subject. GOLDENSON'S AGE—A. S., exander Goldenson, who was San Francisco September 14, murder of Mamie Kelly, wa time of his death, aged 20 months. HOMES FOR AGED—E. A. and Mi G. H., City. The following are a the homes for aged people: Hebr for Aged and Disabled, street; Home for Aged and males, Rincon place, Hospital; Old People” Francisco (Crocker’s Old Pe Pine and Pierce streets; Lick C Home, University Mound Tract; tenheim, Fruitvale, Alameda Count Protestant Episcopal Old Ladies' Hom Golden Gate avenue, between l.ott st and Masonic avenue. 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HINDERCORNS, the best cure for coras, 15 cis. —_———— “BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES" are un. equaled for clearing the voice. Publlc speakers and singers the world over use them. —_—— Mistress—Do you call this sponge cake? Why, it's as hard as it can be. New Cook—Yes, mum; that's the way a sponge is before it's wet. Soak it in you tea, mum.—Boston Traveler. NEW TO-DAY. Did you ever taste doughnuts » made with Royal Baking Powder ?