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2 tive of California, aged 19 years 4 months and days. : [ Friends and acquaintances are respect- fully invited to attend the funeral Tuesday, December 6, 186, at 1 _o'clock, from the mortuary chepel of the Golden Gate Under- taking Company, 2425 Mission street, near Twenty-first December 3, 1895, at his Alexander, be- his city, 0 Howard street, residence husband of Mary Roach, and father of loy John, Thomas, James F., Alexander P. and Mamie Roach, a native of County Cork, Ire- aged 73 yvears. (Fitchburg ong Island and Glen Cove, N. lease coOpy.) @7 Friends and. acquaintances are respect- illy invited to attend the funeral to-morrow (Monday), at 10 o'clock, from St. Patrick's ur Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. In this city, December 1, 1898, James, ed son of Mary and the late James A nd brother of Frank and Willlam Tait, a native of San Francisco, aged 28 yea! ends and acquaintarces ars respect- invited to attend the funeral this day ), at 1 o'clock. from his late resi- 2 Tehama strest, between First and thence to St. Brendan's Church, cor- Fremont and Harrison streets, for serv- terment Holy Cross Cemetery. IT—In San Rafael. December 8, 1858 . wife of James Wright. and ldren, a native of Cali- ARRIVED, day, December 3. hours frm Eureka. , Johannsen, — hours ay, December 3. Mendocino. mr Aloha, Jof Br bark Abby F end Port Towns- Harbor. Harbor. LOBOS—Dec. 3, p. m.—Weather ; wind NE; velocity 16 miles, DOM S Barbara Stmrs Arcata and Laura _Pike, for San Pedro Dec 3-—Stmr Se- chrs. Lucy and Una, for San Br stmr Monmouthshire, for Hong- ships Lydgate and Crown of Scot- Jas A schr -Schr Ivy, for San Francisco. Arrived Dec 3 hr Gotama, hence Nov 1§; N 1; schr Viking ,hence hr Daisy Rowe hence Nov 24 Y—Sailed Dec 3—Stmr Weeott, Dec 3—Schr Dec 3—Ba Harvester. il TRANSATLANTIC AMERS. Arrived Dec mr Campa- om Liverpool; stmr Alesia, from Mar- Thingvalla, for Christi- for Hamburg; stmr Etru- Scotta, for Antwerp Rotterdam. tmr Umbria, -Arrived Dec 3—Stmr Fuerst Bis- New York. N—Arrived Dec 3—Stmr Luca- ork. 3—Stmr Kalser Wi PLE helm 11, HAVRE or New York, iled Dec 3—Stmr La Champagne, York F OUTHAMPTON—Sailed Dec 3—Stmr Paris for New York. 2 HOTEL. Murray, Stockton Rodriguez, Fresno Maxwell, R Vista » Crosby, Pasadena i, Tacoma Goschen Chicago . Hanson, Omaha Stockton ot \I‘.nxnx'.ii!'l\u-ux-i M Balley, S Jose > C Mayfleld, N Y |Mrs Brown, S EC T alt Lake PALACE HOTEL. N Y |N W Blanchard, Cal n, Boston |F M McFarland, Cal avia V Love, Portsmouth Y |W L Clause & w, Pa Mansfield |M Eichengreen, 11l uff, N Y _|L Steln, N Y M Kraus, St Louis 3 Plerce, S Jose W Maynard, N Y M Hecht, Berkeley | J Hecht, Berkele: er, Chicago| C P Buth, U R W_Harris, ‘Portland| B B Bierers, U § N Mrs H Harrison, Va |A E de Recqples, Colo IF Lee, St Louls |J Friedenberg. N Y E A W] Cal M E T | 5 A White, Cal J C Clark & f, Spokane Walters, N ¥ A H Winter, Dawson {R W Taylor, Cal W J Wellington, GRAND Seattle Ld HOTEL. Mre Perrott, Woodbge J Willis & w, Seattle R C Johnson, A J Larson, Crandali, Sausalito|A E McClelland & w, A B Lemmon, S Rosa| Fairhaven F D Ryan, Sacto Miss McClelland,Fairh F L Coombs, Sacto H Armoury, Vancver J Bellew, San Jose |Mrs J Amos, N Y 3 Forward Jr. § Diego! Miss Eunice Amos,NY Mrs Thielson, Portind |J R King, Cal Mrs C Gibbon Ang|C W Adamson, Ci M Collins, L W P Matthe F A Thome, F Sharkey, N A Breckenr! C Erickson. Martinez J Turner, A A Riffie, Martinez Mr Balfour’ &w,Frndle 8 Jose|J D Carr. Belmont M S Basue & w, S Jse §'C_H Abbett, Oakland H Green, W _Radcliff, 'Watsonvll H L L Bluker, N Y Mrs Heintzetman, W Cutter, Marysville H Renjamin, Suisun Dr R Felt, Eureka Capt Whitney A Mathews, P P Dowd, Anj hicago Chicag J G Ritchi ac C Barker & w, C Lindsay & w.S Cira |G B McKee, S Jose |A de Rochebume Jrs J Eureka|H E Barber, Stockton Blaine |A J Larson, Lodl Beloit,Wis|G Thelfel & w, Newcsl W. P Hammon, Biggs |D Hollister, Courtland J'A Grant & w. N H|C C Clark, Napa J Payne, Portland | Miss L Clark, Napa T Ealland, Spokane |A McPike, St Helena Mrs A Ealland, Spkne|C Redmond, San Jose Mrs A Thornton, N Hp|M J Benn, St Louls Miss M Thornton,N Hp| G _Friedherger & wf, Miss J Thornton, N Hp| _Clements A J Osborn, Stockton |J Clapp, San Andreas —————— REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS. William and Catherine Fde to Catherine Ede, Market street, 68:6% NE of 6, W 62:6, S 30, E 21, § de Jr., lot on NE line of 2 NW of Folsom, NW 45:10 7} 10 John Keleher -or Kelleher to Henrletta and Michael Lacey, lot on SE line of Perry street, 500 SW of Fourth, SW 25 by SE 80; $10. Alameda County. B. J. Davis to Mary Davis, lot beginning at the SE corner of lot 34, block 2024, Whitcher Tract, Map 2. thence S 15:10 by W 90, being ortion block 2024, Whitcher Tract, Map 2, Oak- and; $10. James and Julia H. Davis to tame, lot on W line of Grove street, 32 N of Twenty-seventh or Park, N 43 by W 90, being lot 34 and N 18 feet lot 35 block 2024, same, Oakland, quit- claim deed; $5. Julla Manning to Elizabeth § line of Atlantic street, 74:3 by S 100:7, being lot 9, block 44 erty at Oakland Point, Oakland; gift. William P. and Mary A. Wilder to Lillie M. Quinlivin, lot on 2 of Willow, E 25 3ibbons’ prop- Ingarglola, ot 5, block C, Gaskill Tract, Oak- land Annex, quitclaim deed: $300. Emma E. Kirner to A. M. Speck, lot on W line of Pearl street, 200 N from N line or lands now or_formerly of Clarke and Ca > thence W 112 rpentier, by N 40, being portion Hays and Caperton Tract, Alameda: $10. Delia_ A. Collins to Charlotte A. Lawrence (wife of J.), 1ot on N line of Goss street, 105:7% W of Pine, W 25 by N 100, being lot 16, block %, map of lands at Ooakiand Point rallroad landing in Tract 406, Oakland; gift. Bank of Californla to Solon Pattee, lots 1, 2, € 10 9, except the N portion of lot § conveyed to §. N. Harrison, being portion of block 2121, Alden Tract at Temescal, Oakland Annex, quit- claim d $10. J. B. and Jane Moore to E. S. Angel, lot on corner of Moss avenue and Rubw street, 3 50:6, N 119:4, W 50, S 112 to beginning, be: ing lots 3 and 31, Oakland Rallroad Home- ;(::!d subject to mortgage, Oaklund Annex, N Emil A. and Elizabeth M. Benedict to Henry Pleitner, iot on SE corner of Merchant ave- nue and Vicksburg street, F 100 by § 123, being dots 1 and 2, block €, Judd Tract. formerly yortion Patterson homestead, Brooklyn Town- ship: & A en . and Christine §. Pleitner to Eliza- “beth Tenediet, lot on F line of Leise avenue. #40 N East Fourteenth street, N 50, E 136.43. § W 136.66 to berinning. being lot 30, block corrected map Linda Rosa Tract, Brooklyn ownship: $10. H. H. and Minnie A. Castle to San Francisco Favings Union, surrender of 472 d 329, of lot on line of Encinal avenue, 500 SE High street, ¥E 50 by NE 110, being lot 11, Hirschfeld Tract. Alameda; grant. 2a | interest, because it was known that Mr. stmr Furnessia, | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 4 98 PARNELL'S LIFE DULY DISCUSSED Interest in the Book of Barry O’Brien. VIEWS OF NOTED ENGLISHMEN | THEY EVIDENTLY FEARED THE ! IRISH LEADER. Dublin in the Throes of a General Election, for the Whole Cor- poration Is to Be Renewed in January. BY J. dJ. CLANCY. Special Correspondence of The Call. DUBLIN, Nov. 19.—“The Life of Par- nell,” by Barry O’'Brien, has been the subject of universal discusslon during the past week, both in England and in| Ireland. The work has been looked for- | ward to for some years past with great O'Brien had been seeking and had ob- tained exceptionally good information regarding the inner history of the great Irish leader and of the movement which he conducted. This expectation has not been disappointed, for the work is full from beginning to end of original mat- | ter, and although it will not change the | estimate which has hitherto been formed | of Parnell’s character and work it brings | | out the salient characters both of the | | | than ever. Among the new things which Barry O'Brien’s book reveals is the fact | which has hitherto not been made plain | before—namely, that the English politi- | cians with whom Parnell contended | throughout his public career had even a | higher opinion of his abilit! 1 of his | power than his own countrymen. Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Chamberlain, Mr. Brlgm,“ Sir Charles Dilke and many other prom- | inent English_statesmen have, in inter- | views with Mr. O'Brien, testified in| striking language and in various ways | to the greatness of the man as a politi- | cal leader. Mr. Gladstone called him “the | | most remarkable man,” “the most mar- ! | velous man,” “not the ablest man he had | | ever met, but quite the most remarkable | man of whom he had ever had experi- | ence.” Sir Charles Dilk testimony s, | perhaps, the most remarkable of " all. | “He always treated us,” said Dilke if we were dealing with a foreign pow- | that Parnell was so ! gE! er.” The fact is,” ; utterly different from all other Irish leaders in temperament and manners— | s0 much more like an Englishman to all outward appearances than an Irishmanu | that the English never really under- stood him and that they feared him in | consequence. Another fact clearly | brought out in Mr. O'Brien's book is that | he was a thorough and determined hater | of England throughout his whole career, |and this motive spring explains his whole policy. The result was that with- out an army at his back and with a country not half as determined as him- self, he imposed his will on both the| great English parties in succession Just as completely as if he had been a con- querer in_the field of battle. Barry O'Brien, it may be added, who has undertaken the writing of the life | of Parnell, is an Irishman at the English | Dar and has already distinguished nim- self in literature by several works deal- ing with the political history of Ireland during_the last sixty year: Although an Irish Nationalist he hag been on terms of intimate friendship ;\'Hh):fll th:} ‘:(‘—:g. English politicians for the pas ar- t!eul; of ‘[A’ centl:n‘y, and he has undoubtedly done more than a man's share in spread- ing true views in England on the Irish Question, especially by his latest work. We are already here in Dublin in the| throes of a general election. Under the new local government act the municipal franchise has been extended to the parlia- mentary level—in plain words, the elec- torate for municipal purposes has been in- creased from about 800 to mnearly 50,000, | | &na as a consequence the whole corporation of the city is to be renewed in January | next. The city is divided into fifteen wards, for each of which one Alderman and three Councillors have to be elected. Under ordinary circumstances this gen- eral election would probably have passed i over in a humdrum fashion and without any exciting circumstances, and there cer- tainly would not have been any disposi- tion to exclude from the corporation a fair representation of the minority. But, as 1 long since explained in The Call, an attempt was made last summer to cap- ture the Mayoralty of the tity for the Unionist party, and this fact has changed completely the whole current of affairs. The National party have felt that, while they could safely surrender many things, they could not surrender the chief place in Dublin, if not in Ireland, outside the Government, without running grave polit- ical risks. Accordingly, the whole electo- ral battle now in Dublin turns on the question of the Mayoralty. A universal determination has been arrived at among Nationalists to vote for no man unless he pledges himself distinctly not to vote either next year or any other year for a Unionist Lord Mavor—until home rule is conceded to Ireland. The very thought of opposition to this programme has aroused almost every ward in Dublin during the past week. During the last two or_ three days candidates have been cted at public meetings, all of whom have been obliged to take the pledge re- ferred to, and there can be no doubt from the feeling exhibited that they will all be elected, although some of their opponents have been men who have deserved well of the citizens in their capacity of corpo- rators, the only complaint ainst them, in fact, being that on the vital question of the Mayoralty they outraged the National feeling and opinion. More events of the same imd promise to come off during the coming week, the result being that the Reformed Corporation of Dublin will, for the first time in history, consist entirely, or almost entirely, of Nationalists. In one sense this will be regrettable, for, un- doubtedly, it would be desirable that there should be a respectable opposition in the corporation. Nothing is so heaithy as an opposition, and the “loyalist” minority in Dublin does contain a certain number of capable men. In another sense it is but a just retribution. For 250 years at least a small minority in Dublin, devoted to the English Government ruled the roost. During that time the minority in question not only Kept everything to themselves disposing of every office in their giff among themselves and their favorites, but committing the most dlsgraceful job- bery and corruption. In the last century the Orange corporators of Dublin assigned away whole streets of houses in after- dinner orgies to various persons for nom- inal considerations, they themselves, how- ever, having received bribes of consider- able’amounts. This is the origin of the vast Dublin estates of two or three Eng- lish noblemen, inclulling the Earl of Pem- broke, who has no other connection with Ireland. Al this, of course, is borne in mind by the citizens of Dublin to-day, and all things considered, it will be no wonder if it does not whet their appetite in the coming contests, especially when the ques- tion s between home rule and foreisn rule. ! The people of Saltillo, State of Coa- huila, Mexico, have called the atten- tion of the United States Government to the fact that the bodies of over 500 American soldiers lie in unmarked graves near that city. They were the victims of the battle of Buena Vista, the scene of which was fourteen miles from the neglected military cemetery. After the battle the dead were con- veyed to Saltillo- and interred, and an adnge wall was built around the grave- yard. — e The revenue cutter went and came, at an expense of $70, which may be reck- oned as the exact price of the oue lemon which Prince George squeezed | over his fish t evening at dinner. GREAT GLEE AT GRIDIRON CLUB Notable Dinner Given to Distinguished Guests. WAR HEROES ARE HONORED SHAFTER AND SCHLEY RECEIVE AN OVATION. The President and Several Distin- guished Foreigners Also Attend and Enjoy the Many Surprises. Spectal Dispatch to The Call, WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—The Gridiron Club to-night gave a most notable din- ner, entertaining distinguished guests from the United States, other parts of the world. In the com- pany were the President,Vice President, members of the Cabinet, the President of Costa Rica, the Premier of Canada, the entire Joint High American Com- mission, General Garcia, the most prominent officers of the army and navy, Senators, Representatives and many other distinguished men. More than 160 persons were assembled in the beautifully decorated dining hall of the Arlington Hotel. The dinner was in a measure conducted on lines of com- pliment and honor to men who dis- tinguished themselves by both land and | sea in the late war. Great ovations were | given to the President, Admiral Schley and General Shafter when they arose to speak, while other speakers received most generous consideration. Although the dinner was on the lines indicated, wit and burlesque were cleverly inter- spersed with the patriotic sentiments, so that at all times the guests were never allowed to get away from the Gridiron method of conducting a din- ner. President Frank H. Hosford presided | in an admirable manner. He was very fortunate in his introductions of promi- nent guests, and with sentiment, wit and satire conducted the features of the dinner to a most satisfactory conclu- sion. Speeches are always short at Gridiron dinners, and there was no exception to the rule to-night. Remarks were made by the President, the Vice President, President Iglesias of Costa Rica, Lord Herschel, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Secre- tary Hay, Secretdry Long, Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith, Admiral | Schley, General Shafter, General Gar- cia, Captain Sigsbee, Senator Lodge, Mr. Foster and others. The menu was in keeping with the other features of the evening. There were several pages in imitation of army orders, beginning with a procla- mation of the president of the club call- ing on volunteers (guests) to assist the regulars at the club at the engagement in the Arlington dining room from 8 to 12 o’clock. This was followed by a se- ries of orders in military style, direct- ing the various companies of the club to prepare the different features of the entertainment and to assume such duty as is usually performed by them. The guests were grouped in divisions of vol- unteers, and in orders very direct and explicit required to “keep in the line ot fire” during the entire engagement. A map of the battleground was one of 'the unique features, in which the va- rious divisions were represented as charging through the Champagne River toward the Table Heights, where they were supposed to have captured “Soon Won"” Hill. There were several quips in special order, directed at the kprominent guests of the evening. which added to the merry feature of the oc- casion. Among the features was a burlesque investigation of the conduct of the war, which conveyed some of the more hu- morous fancies of the real investiga- tion. Members of the committee brought in immense stacks of testimony. also large volumes of reports and different exhibits, which took off some of the guests and caused great amusement. The report concluded with the finding | that Spain got | that there was a war; licked and that the Anglo-Saxons .stood together. As this was done the American and British flags were un- furled as a compliment to the Canadian members of the Joint High Commis- sion. Another feature was the appearance of Uncle Sam with a number of colored children dressed to represent the Fili- pinos, and a play was made up on the new population which would be ac- quired by the Philippines becoming a part of the United States. A very laughable skit was the pres- entation of a horse to General H. V. Boynton, who is one of the charter members of the club. The horse was one of the stage variety, and its ap- pearance caused a great deal of hi- larity. STRUGGLE WITH A WILDCAT. “Speaking of wildcats,” said a sports- man, “let me tell you of an encounter I had last fall with one of those treacher- ous beasts. I had been out shooting along the banks of the Machias River in Maine, and late in the afternoon, when 1 was returning to my home in Whitney- ville, it came on to rain so hel\'llx that I was glad of the shelter a deserted lum- berman’s hut afforded. Being tired, I soon fell fast asleep. Three or four hours later 1 was aroused by a growl from Grouse, my dog, and on opening my eyes I saw at the entrance to the hut two of those much-talked-of ‘balls of fire’ into which wild animals’ eyes are transformed at night. My dog was game, and without any urging it went for the beast without a moment's hesitation. But Grouse was no match for his wiry antagonist, and as soon as it could the dog broke away and ran out of the hut bleeding, torn and yelp- ing with pain. # “‘Then, the wildcat's blood being up, it came In to have a tussle with me. I felt for my gun, but it had unfortunately been knocked out of reach during the fight be- tween the two animals, and the only wea‘}:m of defense I had was a large Jjackknife. This I quickly opened, and us the wildcat came near me 1 dodged it and plunged the knife well into its shoulder. e cut made the beast furi- ous, and it sprang for me with such vio- lence that I lost my footing and.fell. I, however, succeeded in throwin%the wild- cat from me, but not until it had bitten my hand badly. The pain made me dro the knife, and on regaining my feet ut my injured hand in my coat gocket and the first thing I felt was a box of red pepper which I had brought as sea- or my lunch. “This gave me an idea, and opening the box I poured some of the pepper into my hand, and just as the wildcat was com- ing toward me again 1 dashed the hot stuff into its eyes. Its howls of pain and rage showed that the feppel' had reached the desired spot, and I took advantage of this to rush out of the hut. “At the door I found my gun, and then locating the beast by the nalsi it made fired. Everything became still. After a little while I went in the hut and struck match. 1 was so scared at the size of the dead animal, which wel{h‘ed fifty pounds and was 3 feet § inches long, that 1 put for home and never thought of the hig bag of ‘game which I had left be- hind until I reached Whitneyville.”—New un. —————— Advances made on furniture and planos, with or without removal. J. Noonan, 1017-1023 Mission. —_——— Th : 7 : abouet screw of an Atlantic liner costs York Europe and | | | Among other matters will be the one of | profitable investment for the St NEWS OF THE MINES. The praetical business affairs of the California Miners’ Association will be considered and outlined at a meeting of the executive committee which will be convened some time this week by Presi- dent Neff, who returned to the city on Friday and took up the affairs of the assocfation along with other burdens which he shoulders as Lieutenant Gover- nor-elect. The real work of the associa- tion is done by its executive and sub- committees, and this first meeting of the executive committee will be an impor- tant one. At this meeting the steps to be taken concerning the many important matters of legislation which the associa- tion has in and will be considered. accepting a room for headquarters in the new ferry building kindly offered free by State Mineralogist A. 8. Cooper. The association will probably make its headquarters with the State Mining Bu- reau when that institution moves to the new ferry building early in the year. Meantime the headquarters will be at the office of Secretary E. H. Benjamin, 331 Pine street. When the Legislature meets one of its appropriation problems will be presented by the great mining industry of the State. This year the problem will bea dual one. It will have the State Mining Bureau and the Paris Exposition on its hands. A big properly displayed and well managed ex- hibit of the vast and varied mining re- sources of California with the proper ac- companiments_of adverusing literature, printed in various languages, maps, and pictures which would present the striking salient facts and draw attention to them and alert and intelligent men to do the rest, would do more at Paris in A. D. 1900 to draw hither the mine-hungry capitai of the world than anything which is with- in the province of the State to do at this period. The Paris Exposition will be the State's opportunity to advertise itself. and there is no feature of the State's re- sources which needs advertising more than its mines. The State Board of Trade not long ago made an exhibit of California’s fruits at the little Hamburg exposition. There has been no compila- tion or estimate of the benefits of that display, but ever since then the papers have contained stray notices of shipments of California fruit to Europe and letters of inquiry about California fruit, a:}d there is already an early mass of evi- dence that the horticuitural exhibit at th\? Hamburg Exposition was a decidedly €. The purpose of advertising California fruit in this manner is to create markets for produce shipped. The purpose in ad- vertising the mineral resources of the State is not to create a market for ores, but to induce capital to come this way and pour millions into developing mining properties. An_individual gold mine is never advergised unless some promoter is trying to sell shares in a company to the public, and this form of gold mining is a stranger to California. But when a min- ing. region is well advertised money flows into it. Money and men poured into the Klondike region wholly because of the ex- tent to which it was advertised. London capital has flowed into South Africa, West Australia_and British Columbia because these regions have been much talked about in financial and popular Jjournals. Colorado has enjoyed a large Inilow of Eastern and foreign capital because the | wonderful production of Cripple Creek | has advertised the State of Colorado as a | gold country. Colorado’s gold product is | now mainly yielded by the few square | miles of the Cripple Creek district, but a | mining property in Gunnison or some other Colorado county is easier to market in New York, Boston or London because of the fame of Colorado’s Cripple Creek. And yet the little Cripple Creek district is as a'flea on an elephant compared with the wonderful and undeveloped mother lode of California. But ten per cent of California’s great gold product—$1,300,000,- 000—has come from quartz mines and it is a generally recognized truth among mining men that in California the surface has hardly been scratched. Quartz min- ing has but fairly begun in this State and even in placer mining there remain the ancient channels of the drift mines, esti- mated to contain billions, the great auriferous deposits yet to be worked by the hydraulic process and the many thousands of acres of auriferous gravel which appear to await the gold dredges, a form of the gold mining industry which has just reached its infancy in this State. There is thus plenty of room for ad- vertising the mining resources of the State with the purpose of luring this way capital to develop latent resources, em- ploy labor, build up towns and regions, ete. Gold is simply the chief among many mineral products which California has to | advertise. No other State in the Union has so long a list of economic minerals. An exhibit at an exhibition should take them all in and represent every county in the State. There is copper, silver, ofl, bitumen, antimony, fuller's earth, mar- ble, sulfmur. platinum, osmium, diamonds and all the rest. The product of the mineral industry in this State is now about $27, a year. Our mines need | advertising as much as our fruit, and the benefit would be even more sure and di- | rect. A Paris exhibit should represent the whole State and all its mineral re- sources, while giving gold the chief place, and it should from first to last be kept out of politics and kept in the hands of men who are not only mining men, but who know how to handle such a thing amid the competitive affairs of the world. “The Legislature should provide liberally for California’s mining exhibit at the Paris Exposition, and should allow the usual §: a year for the State Mining Bureau,” said State Mineralogist A. 8. Cooper yesterday when asked his opin- fon as to what the Legislature should do for the industry. Mr. Cooper is a mem- ber of the committee of the California Miners' Association on the Paris Expo- sition exhibit. “The Legislature should provide liber- ally for a general California exhibit at Paris, and no feature of that exhibit should have more liberal treatment than that representing the mineral industry. Every county in the State is interested in one way or another. When it comes to making up an exhibit, if the funds are provided to the extent of $25,000 or more, the Mining Bureau is ready to be drawn upon, and contributions can be had from all over the State if there is provided any guarantee that valuable specimens wiil be returned. The Mining Bureau needs at least its current appropriation of $50,000 for two vears. If this is given, about one-half of what is available be- yond the current office and museum ex- penses would probably go to complete the register of mines ana county mining maps of the State, which I consider to be the grealest present practical need of the in- ustry in the State. The rest would be devoted to speclal field work and to a se- ries of practical bulletins on chlorination, the cyanide process, and so on. One of the most striking new develop- ments of the week in the mining line w»?.s the story of a great and strong gas well struck in the Summerland oil field of Santa Barbara County, by the ocean shore. State Mineralogist Cooper, whose specialty as a mining engineer and geolo- st is in this line, says that he does not attach much importance to the discovery. This is because he expects this or any other natural gas well in the Coast Range to soon ‘‘peter out.”” The reason is a good geological one. ~When natural gas is tapped by boring into the earth t is found in a sort of natural reservoir at the top of strata folded in the shape of an in- verted bowl, the gas being confined, as in a retort in & porous stratum confined by Impervious strata. In Pennslyvania, Ohio and Indiana the drill that breaks ‘into such a retort that has been some millions of years in filling is likely to penetrate a reservoir that is fifty ‘or two hundred miles in diameter, Sspeaking with the roughness that goes with geological fold- ings. In such a case the supply is vast, though 1t will surely give out in time buf it may feed a Pitisburg for some fime. But in Californfa the foldings are abrupt and narrow. Here an anticlinal fold or a dome is always of small diameter. In the California Coast Range a long pent up supply of gas will progably be a few hundred feet, or at most a few miles, in extent, and will s06n be exhausted. 'To the geologist it cannot provide the expec- tations that are afforded by the vast] broader formations of the Eastern fiel The absence of natural gas in large sup- ply is to be regretted, for such a sup Py would take the industrial place of the great coal beds the State lacks, but the State Mineralogist says that any natural ggge:tr;kte h‘\)e tthe Coast Rl.nhge is likely to u ore even the paj through discussing it. Tapeusrmet Many Californians have recently made investments in some of the very promising British Columbian fields. The most re- cent one of note is one by the St. An- thony Exploration Company of Santa Bar- bara, of which J. T. Richards of that lace is president, and which has just ught the extensive bench and creek ¢l 8, water rights, timber s, tches, etc., of the Omineca Consol Mining Company, on n l‘éfi Germania Wwhich experienced an “excitement” be- tween 1868 and 1871, yielding over a million dollars in that time. The creek has been worked since in only a small way, and now California men have taken hold of the best of the old territory and arranped to work the large amount of territory on the scale and by the methods which have made California famous for its successful hydraulic. working of placer ground. A large amount of money will be invested in this operation, and, according to the Vic- toria Colonist, it means a new era for Omineca. At a meeting of the California Debris | Commission last week nine applications | to mine by the hydraulic process were considezed. On account of the dry sea son but few permits have been applied for during the summer and fall. Since the Caminetti law went into effect the com- mission has licensed 308 hydraulic mines and rejected 82 applications. This is ex- clusive of the nine under consideration. The manufacture of powder is, oddly, enabling the copper mine at Spencerville, Nevada County, to be busily worked. The ore contains er cent of sulphur and is used b?' the Glant Powder Company at Stege In the manufacture of sulphuric acid. For several months a number of teams have been busy hauling the ore to Wheatland, where It is shipped by rail. About 000 tons have been so shipped since last spring. The Columbus Mining Company has been organized at Coulterville, Mariposa County, to work a group of six mines on the mother lode in that region. The com- pany expects to develop a number _of properties. Two of its mines are the La- fayette and the Eureka No. 2, which were profitably worked to a depth of 150 feet until the shaft was destroyed by fire in 1872. Since then they have been idle. * The La Porte Gold Gravel Mining Com- }mny has completed a restraining dam 40 eet high on Rabbit Creek, near the town of LaPorte, Plumas County, and will be ready for extensive hydraulic operations before long. ‘Work in the new deep shaft and hoist- ing works at the Kennedy mine has be- gun. The improvements planned at this great mine are extensive and notable. According to the Colfax Sentinel a rich strike has been made in the drift mine of the Gold Run Gravel Company near Gold Run. A 600-foot extension of the old main tunnel has encountered a body of very rich blue gravel. The buried chan- nel is 150 feet wide and the gravel is taken out for five feet above bedrock. The com- Pflny owns 12,000 feet of channel, which s now tapped at the lower end. The fu- ture will see the development of a great property. The Argonaut, Amador County, has paid a tenth dividend, making a dividend record of $200,000-in ten months. If the Argonaut were at Cripple Creek the blow- ing about it wouldn't cease during the night, but California, with its mines all kept away from stock boards, hardly no- tices such home records. Indians have run into some good gravel diggings on the Tuolumne River, accord- ing to the Sonora Union-Democrat, and the bucks and squaws are “cleaning up” for the first time in their lives. Their mining operations are very primitive. PURSUED BYBILLOWSOF WHEAT Six thousand bushels of unsacked wheat got loose and went on a tear. It happened in the warehouse of the F. C. Ayres Mercantile Ccmpany yesterday afternoon. The - scenes that followed were something similar to those de- seribed by Victor Hugo when a cannon got loose from its fastenings on board ship and rolled and reared from one end of the gundeck to another until the ship was disabled and a number of its crew killed. wheat. In the rear of the Ayres warehouse are four great bins, built up from the ground floor and capable of < holding twenty-five carloads of wheat at a time. They are substantial affairs, and once a grain of wheat gets into them it is pretty likely to stay there, safe from rats and thieves, until its owners get ready to shovel it out again. About 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon the company’s bookkeeper, sitting in his office at the front of the building, | 100 feet or more from the bins, heard a terrific ripping, tearing, splintering sound, as if the whole end of the ware- house was being torn out by a monster hand. Before he had time to jump out of his chair this sound was succeeded by another, a rumbling, grumbling, roaring, moving noise, like the coming down of the cataract at Lodore or the approach of a hurricane. He rushed from the little box of an office out onto the main floor of the warehouse. He paused, gasped for breath and threw up his hands. What he saw was a giant wave of wheat flowing toward him, licking at | the very heels of a dozen laborers who had been at work near the bins and who were now fleeing for their lives. This wave flowed high, a foam of wheat snapping from its crest now and then and falling in a grainy spray on the heads of the pursued. Afterward the men ran whiskbrooms down their backs to brush the tickly wheat out. The ocean of wheat moved onward for a score of feet or more and then calmed down as suddenly as if a bar- rel of oil had been spread on its troubled waves. The bookkeeper yelled to the laboring men to stop running, .pulled his hands down to their accus- tomed pockets, took a deep breath and whistled. By and by the cloud of dust that had arisen drifted away and the bookkeeper and the laboring men could see what had happened. It didn’t take long. One of the stout beams had grown weak from the burden on its back and snap- ped in two. A hundred other stout beams had followed suit. There was nothing left for the imprisoned wheat to do but to make a rush for a less- confined resting place. There were 6000 bushels of it in the bin, and it was no wonder that its moving caused conster- nation. After the dozen laboring men had re- covered their wits and gone to work again the little bookkeeper in the front office sald the damage done would not exceed $50. All that was necessary to do to save the wheat was to sweep it up off the floor and put it in sacks.— Denver Republican. DR. PEPPER’S DILIGENCE. Perhaps more than_any other man in Philadelphia the late Dr. William Pepper possessed the rare facuity of doing sev- eral things at once and doing them all well. He had two secretaries, and man- aged to keep them busy even during office hours when a dozen patients were wait- ing to see him. It was no unusual sight to see him emerge from his office, and during the time the next patient was making his way to the inner sanctum Dr. Pepper would stand in the doorway and dictate a letter to one of the secretaries which might concern one of the man gubllc works in which he was interes ack into his office he would go to discuss symptoms and make an examination of his patient, and when the door opened again the other secretary would take down perhaps a portion of an article for a medrcal paper or advice to other ghy- sicians by whom Dr. Pepper had been called in consultation. Another remarkable faculty possessed by the eminent physician was his ability to sleep whenever he chose to lie down. He worked on an average eighteen hours a day, and when he began to feel the ef- fects of fatigue he would lie down on a couch or a sofa and be sound asleep in a minute or two. A nap of ten minutes would suffice for several hours’ work to follow. It is related of him that on one occasion he called to see a man suffering from some disease and. flndlnf him asleep, the doctor lay down by his side and was soon fast asieep also. Curlously enough, although as a physician he advo- cneqf perfect regularity at meals for his patients, he did not himself observe the rules he Jaid down for others. He ate when he found time, and his meals were often extraordinary combinations. He was once seen lunching at the Broad- street Statlon, dividing his attention be- tween roast beef and apple pie.—Phila- delphia Record. The experiment of raising sugar cane in Delaware has been tried by Dr. Ar- %flr T. Neale of the Delaware College xperimental Station. It is said that the sugar from cane grown in Delaware will yield 3200 pounds of the refined product to the acre, compared with gww unds, the best results from beets 5 Only, nobody was killed by the i v ted, | ahjored | DR, PIERCE’S REMEDIES ‘DREAMS WHICH COME TRUE | People Who Are “Warned in a Dream.” | *Dreams are true while they last, And do we not live in dreams?" There are people who believe that every dream has some peculiar and personal significance. Whenever they | dream they consult a dream book to | find whether the things dreamed of were favorable or unfavorable to their | fortunes. There are other matter-of- | fact people who refer dreams to physi- cal conditions, who ascribe them as d!d“ Solomon to “the multitude of affairs,” or in a more modern spirit to a de- ranged condition of the stomach. These people have a dream book, too. Its | title is the People’s Common Sense | Medical Adviser. And when they dream they turn the pages of Dr. Pierce’s famous work to find out what the cause of the disturbed condition is, and what they must do to correct it. They realize that healthful sleep is a dreamless sleep, and in so far as the sleep is broken by dreams, so far there are physical conditions health. A pathological consideration of dreams would reveal that in certain cases dreams of a related character are associated with certain specific forms of disease. Severe stomach derangement ‘with its com- plications involving the di- gestive tract and the liver, will frequently breed dreams of violent struggle, such as the illustration portrays. You dream that you are on the slippery, crumbling verge of a precipice, grappling with all your strength against some madman who seeks to hurl you down to death. | | You wake in a profuse | perspiration, your heart | beating violently as | from the effects of an | actual struggle. If you consult THE SCIENTIFIC DREAM BOOK It will tell you that your dream was a sign that your stomach needed in- stant attention, or it might be fulfilled in a fearful wrestling match with the monster Dis- ease on the edge of the precipice of death. The trouble is that people in this con- dition are often content to seek some palliative, some tablet or other, which | will relieve the immediate trouble. This merely hides the symptoms. It temporarily stops the manifestation of | disease, but it does nothing to cure the ailment. A man might as well suppose that he could stop the flight of time by stopping his watch, as to imagine he has stopped disease by stopping | symptoms. | . The need in such a condition is a rad- | ical remedy, a remedy which will begin with the cause cf the trouble and reach out to the various effects. The need is | of a remedy which can be counted on to | eure, and in curing to re-establish the | entire system on a sound basis of | this many physicians have tried and | one physician has succeeded. It has been the pleasure of Dr. R. V. Pierce, | chief consulting physician to the Inva- lids' Hotel and Surgical Institute of . Buffalo, N. Y., to have devised and | placed at the service of humanity that | healing preparation, Dr. Plerce’s Golden | Medical Discovery. The success of this medicine In curing diseases of the | stomach and alimentary and nutritive | systems places it above every known | remedy available to the sick and suffer- | ing. The action of this remedy is en- tirely philosophic. Its ingredients, care- | fully scught in years of patient experi- ment and compounded with the most exact skill, are chosen with regard to their alterative, properties, properties which give the “Discovery” the power to alter or change the morbid or un- | healthy condition of the several or- | gans upon which the health of the en- | tire body depends. Experiment and ex- perience have established the fact that a large percentage of diseases have their origin in a deranged condition of the stomach, the organs of digestion and nutrition and- the blood-making glands. | of the liver, the lungs, the heart, the | kidneys and the nervous system were not cured when the organs specially | affected were directly treated. But | when the treatment was directed to the | alteration of the conditions of the stomach, the digestive and nutritive tracts and the blood-making glands, | these remote diseases of heart, liver, kidneys, lungs and nerves were cured as the stomach was cured. On this ex- perience was based the axiom first for- mulated by Dr. Pierce: “DISEASES WHICH ORIGINATE IN THE STOMACH MUST BE CURED THROUGH THE STOMACH.” 1 proposition. Take an illustration in the | flower garden at your home. There’s a | rose, for example. Its leaves begin to curl, its petals to droop, it does not | grow. You know that the life of the | plant comes from the soil. It's in the soil you must look for the cause of the failing rose tree. You can give the rose :. supporting staff, a crutch to lean on, but while this suppcrts the rose it won’t save it. It still droops and weak- ens. Go down inte the soil, search out the cause at the roots. It's from the soil that the flower gets its nourishment, its life, its strength, its color. In the soil lies the secret of its disease. What the soil is to the plant the blood is to the ! body—the source of vitality. It is | from the blood that come the strength | of body, brightness of brain, clearness of complexion, which are the supreme | signs of health. And the blood out of | which the whole physical fabric df the | body is built is manufactured in the { laboratory of the stomach and its as- sociated organs, and depends both as to quantity and quality on the condition | of these organs to properly provide | pure blood. 1" "It is here that the healing properties ‘of “Golden Medical Discovery” come i into play. It restores the power of as- similation so that the requisite nourish- ment is provided for the separate parts of the body—nerve, muscle, blood and bone. It pushes off and casts out the inert and useless matter which polsons the blood and clogs the system. It makes new blood, pure in quality, abundant in quantity, which pours a healthful tide through the whole cir- culatory system. It makes sound flesh and healthy fat, not the flabby fat and flesh which result from the use unfavorable to - its | | { health. To provide such a medicine as | It was found that affections | This would seem to be a self-evident | DR. PIERCE'S REMEDIES - 0E’S - REMEDIES = of the nauseous preparations of cod liver oil, and their mitigated emulsions. “THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE.” Moses said it. Sclence affirms it. We have never gone beyond that sim) le definition of physical life. We nevlr shall. When life falters we must/ lo K to the blood. When life fails we must find the cause in the blood.: What then will strengthen life? Necessarily puré blood. It does not matter where the assault of disease is made, the require- ment is the same; sufficient pure blood to build the. walls of the body in strength against the invader. In its action on the blood-making glands Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery fills all the requisites of a perfect medicine for the blood. It supplies the weak lungs with new blood, and pure blood, and puts them in a condition to throw off disease. It supplies the various or- gans with the required pabulum from the blood, and they get strong and do their work perfectly without strain. Then work becomes pleasure and sleep is dreamless. The general signs of a dangerous dis- turbance of the stomach and its affili- ated organs are uneasiness and fullness in the region of the stomdch, impa- tience, irritability, depression of spirits and anxiety. The appetite fails, food doesn’t “‘taste good,” there's a bitter taste in the mouth, the breath is offen- sive, the head aches, the sleep is dis- turbed, the complexion is sallow. Not all these symptoms will be present in any individual case, but any of them mark the proximity of the sufferer to the danger line of disease. Whenever these symptoms appear the sure, short | way to regain health is to commence | the use of the "‘Golden Medical covery."” | “I am happy to say that your won- | derful medicines have saved my life,” writes Mrs. Bettie Jaco of Pine Mills, | Wood County, Texas. “I suffered nearly three years. Words cannot express what I endured. I had pains through my chest and all through my body. I also had pain in back and head. Was so nervous at times could hardly go about. No one can imagine what I endured. I felt every morning when I got up that I could not live to see the sun go down at night. I had two of the best doctors our country affords. They attended me for six months, but did me no good. I only took four bottles of Dr. Pierce's ‘Golden Medical Discovery’ and one of ‘Favorite Prescription’ and two vials of the ‘Pleasant Pellets” Now my health is better than it has been in four years. My weight was 115 and now I weigh | 141 pounds. I have recommended Dr. | Pierce's medicines to many of my | friends, for I believe they will do all that is claimed for them. The medi- cines saved my life when I had given up all hope. It appeared that I could | see death staring me in the face all the | time.” “I can say to you one bottle of your ‘Golden Medical Discovery’ has cured me sound and well, after suffering two long years with stomach disease.” writes W. H. Braswell of McAdenville, Gaston Co., N.'C. “My_health is worth all the world to me. I will praise -you as long as I live.” There is positively no drop of alcohol, whisky or other intoxicant in Doctor Pierce’'s Golden Medical Discovery. It contains no opium or other narcot. drug, neither sugar nor syrup, which are sometimes injurious to weak diges- tions. Without any of these ingredi- ents the ‘Discovery” -preserves its pleasant flavor and healing properties in perfection in any climate and under all conditions. Profit is paramount with some deal- ers. It is profit only which leads them to substitute other and inferior, untried medicines for Dr. Pierce’s Golden Med- ical Discovery with its splendid record of cures. Sensible people will decline to experiment with strange medicines. The “Discovery” is @ remedy proved and tried. Anything is “just as.good” for the dealer if it pays him. Nothing is “just as good" for you.unless it will cure you. No medicin® has so great a record of c'ges as Dr. Plerce’s Golden. Medical T § overy. Therefore refuse all substitutes. We are ‘“fearfully and wonderfully made,” yet how ignorant we are of the intricacies of the maryvelous mechanism of the body. Every day sees men and women take the first step in the path of physical suffering and mental misery for lack of the one warning word of wisdom, which would reveal their dan- ger. That word, timely in its utterance, clear in its meaning, cémplete, in its comprehensiveness, is what the “Peo- . ple’s Common Sense Medical Adviser” has for every man and woman, old or young. This great book is given away by the author, Dr. Plerce, without any cost whatever to the recipient except the expense of mailing only. Send 21 1-cent stamps for the paper edition, or 31 stamps for the edition in cloth. Ad. N.Y. VHIS WELL-KNOWN AND . 'l Bpechlol !.tncura[ ann:. Ne BEUMAI”EO})A‘P- eaven oniy. Boo Wenkiieues of e, freer Grer 20 on ermsmind S S e, Tt Hours hdnn’tmmd-cud.\y' ¥ conidentia. ¢ “(;rlddn- . ROSCOE McNULTY, M. D, VY, Kearny St., San Emel.e. CaL dress Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffal.