The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1904, Page 6

SR S ws From. Was s the bill for the creation of a i @istrict 1y Carifornia been through California’s Senators | ds of the would- | reated. Amons | for duty at the | District Attor- B. Woodworth and | oms Fred S. Stratton. | has signified a prefer- | ye1, but they say there is| ! time to think it over, as the will ha reach the enrolling this session [ i | { staried its devious way all rdly hie shado upon a good many ther bills about which s0 much has been sald that to the public ear they sounded the written law. The| Hepburr lliver bill that has occu- | pied House judiciary committee | r =0 many sittinge and filled (hP{ { ee room ard the surrounding each of them with excited par- sted here. Early adjourn- | ome more and more the | a bill with so | ywrnia has récently awaken- srest in this measure— grants to each State the right the importation of wines and | other States—and has up telegrams on the delegation urging its de- un- Kk of the B A short time ago, evidently impression that this was the , the wine makers of Cal- pleading for its passage. d bill is also scheduled d sledding and it is not d it will pass this session. The 1 fail, it is thought, by the| weight of ite own amendments. The big batch of Alaskan bills, for which a really heroic effort has been made, it is feared by its friends, may | have to wait over with the others. There'are a few technical bills, grant- right ing the to build bridges and the doubtless get through, r the others the chance is slim. wds of the bills are in hopes that House will accord the bunch an day,” as was done in the t n seven more or less im- rtant bills went through. Of these the most important to Alaska was the | one creating a new judicial division. This bill won through Senator Nel- son’s intelligent effort and knowledge of its need and in spite of influential opposition—which opposition is now at work in the House = Judge Wicker- sham of the third judicial division of Alaska, who has been in Washington nearly all winter, was an early cham- pion of the bill and had a provision inserted whereby the Judge of the third should become the Judge of | urth division when created by ming law. The fourth div- | ision ill bes j= chiefly the Yukon River and its yutaries, with the t at Eagle, and Judge Wickersham ferred the interior 2s a residence. It was under- stood that D. A. McKenzie was to be the United States Marshal of the new digtrict under Judge Wickersham. Re- cently a very important case was tried before Judge Wickersham_ involving a copper property owned by the Have- meyers and valued all the way from | $10.000.200 to $89,000,000.' Judgment was given for the Havemeyers. The case appealed, which presents the | of its poing back to Alaska for another trial. “Steve” Busch, who er of the property, not wish- ing this case 1o be reviewed by a Judge | to unfamiliar with it, has | in Washington all winter “knock- he bill creating the fourth divi- sion Schich carries Judge Wickersham into &rnther jurisdiction. Speaking of knocking, Judge Wicker- eham himself did some of this very Iy for several Alaska measures, vortant of which are the pro- 1 changes in the mining laws. He cated letting the mining laws vith thejr powers of attorney the rest of it. He said that 1 minimg laws applied LO! equally well “with the world | >, that they had been passed up-' | should not be changed. And for this session at least they will probsdly stand. The Indian appropriation bill which r d to the Senate yesterday | among other things of interest to California a provision that the Sec- retary of the Interior is authorized and directed to investigate as to the condi- tin cof non-reservation Indians of Northern California and report to the next Congress. This provision was in- serted by Senator Bard in response to many petitions coming from the North - ern California Indian Association. The Commiseioner of Indian Affairs will make his investigation anyhow, but the purpose of the provision in this bil is to bring the matter before Gongress and there get action. The Indian As- scciation wants the Government to give the Indians !and that they may have | homes. The petition to this has pro- voked a reply from the experts at the Carlisle School in very pronounced op- | P on and Acting Commissioner of | Irdian Affairs A. C. Tonner bas- writ- ten the Senators along somewhat the same line. He deprecates the reserva- {the bill 1s introduc: | Tuesday. |1t has | there shall be a reappraisement of value | | or that the price be made $1 25 or $1 SOI | gether for Eureka this yvear and to go | interest in the case here to die away. | Speculation as to the outcome is heard | of that once dreaded institution, who 'mune'l Minister of Foreign Affairs, is ..LI M tion syvstem for these Indians, which an allotment of land wouid resolve itself into, he believes.. Iowever, he says the allotting agents are at work ali the time and picking up pleces of for the vurpose. . Another iffferesting bill that is to’ make the doubtful run for a finish this on is the biil for the diversion of purposes. It is now before the ee on Irrigation, and B. H. esident of the California De- nt Company, in whose interest ' d, was heard last The bill raises many interest- ing questions. The Colorado is a navi- gable stream, but this bill divert: velopm {about all the water and leaves the bed ! dry. But the Government has plans of its own for doing the same thing, so the vrotest on that account would not lie. The new Daniels bill is very briel and declares on this point to the effect that the water of the Colorado is more { vainable for irrigation than for naviga- tion and granting the right to all com- ers to divert it for the former purpose. The river as now diverted by the Cali-| | fornia Development Company is carried for some distance through Mexican ter- | ritory, where its waters are used also for irrigation, and then back into Cali- fornia, so that something of an inter- national question is raised.- The right | of the private company now working under a grant by the State to take the water in face of the large plan of the Federal Governmeng, upon which a !large sum of money has been expended, !is another one. They will all be weighed ! in committee. ¢ e e The California delegation has joined in a joint letter to Secretary Hitchcock asking him to exclude from Yosemite Nhtional Park certain lands embracing about 200,000 acres and attach the same to the Sierra forest reserve, the pur- pose being to bring the land under the forest reserve law of 1897 and enable the working of mines and other prop-| erty, some of which is held in private ownership. There are abont 50,000 acres | in the tract which can be turned to; good account, and none of it is of any | note in a scenic way. oA Representative Bell's bill as amended and recommended by the Secretary of! the Interior for the throwing open of a large tract of the Round Valley Indian | reservation is in the hands of the Pub- | lic Lands Committee of the House and | will be reported shortly. The bill pro- | | vides that the Jands shall be open for | homestead entries, actual settlers beln" | given preference and credited with lhe time they have already occupied (hem, and they to have five years to pay up. not been determined whethe an acre uniformiy. Bell and Gillette, who each have bills for public buildings of the $100,000 limit, the one for Santa Rosa and the other| at Eureka, have arranged to pull to-| in together for Santa Rosa next year. Of the $193,000 standing to the credit of the Sacramento River for im- | provement, no part of it can be made available by Congress until the War Department submits its estimates. Bell and others of the delegation are | working to secure a supplemental esti- mate at the hands of Colonel Heuer, in charge of the work on the river, to file with the committee, in view of the necessity created by the recent floods, s0 that the sundry civil bill will carry aid for the river. . e The interval in the Mormon investi- gation touching the séat of Senator Reed Smoot has not caused the deep - constantly and the judgment is very well divided. The emphatic declara- tion that the Senate has no choice in face of the evidence but to declare the seat vacant is met by the confident assertion that nothing has appeared to affect the defendant in the case and that there are no grounds whatever for unseating him. In the meantime Smoot occupies the contested seat daily and looks to be one of the most industrious Senators on the floor. It is said for him that he is considered of pleasing personality and that down at the Raleigh on Pennsylvania ave- nue, where he lives, he has many friends and is popular. It might be as well to call atten- tion to the fact that no Californian’'s name is in the famous Bristow report as having exerted undue influence to the undoing of the Postoffice Depart- ment. They are not all sure that the omission is creditable. —_————— Last of the Terrorists. The anniversary of the Paris com- mune of 1871 was duly celebrated on ‘Wednesday, March 16, by the survivors marched in procession to the Federal- ists’ wall at Pere la Chaise Cemetery and placed immortelles and red flowers on the graves of those who were exe- cuted by the Versailles troops under ! the command of Marquis de Gallifet. Everything passed off very quietly. Henri Rochefort was a prominent fig- ure with his snow-white locks. The group had the appearance of an assem- biy of venerable, highly respectable, re- tired officers. It is instructive to note the changes that have come over lhn' communists, who thirty-three years ago nearly succeeded in burning Paris. Paschal Grousset,. who was the com- a Conservative Republican Deputy and is known to thousands of French and English speaking beys as the author of beoks of travel and adventure under the pseudonyme of Andre Laurie. 0ther| survivors are Jules Meline, ex-Prime | Minister, whose Republicanism has a | strong tinge of Ciericalism; M. Clemen- l ceau, now Senator; M. Lockroy, ex- Minister of Marine; M. Barrere, the French Embassador at Rome, and! Henri Bauer, the dramatic critic. —— e Tn mnmfinc the forces at the dis- posal of the combatants in the coming fight between the Church of Englmd and Noncomformity, it is found th.z the latter will be at a great disadvan- | tage as they have not a single canon. ters of the Colorado River for ir-) = | against the apprabation of Mr. J. J. Hill. | man, yes, a trust criminal of the deepest dye, but he says Publication Office roen....MARCH 29, 1904 s e ¢ e HEARST ON CLEVELAND. AN it be possible that lhc quahty of Mr. Hearst's ‘ political virtue is being diluted by his Presidential ambition? A letter is printed on the editorial page of his paper attacking ex-President Cleveland because he appointed three of the Supreme Court Justices who dis- sented in the merger decision, and further because Mr. J. J. Hill after that decision announced his confidence in Air. Cleveland and his hope for his renomination. The letter bears the Hearst earmarks and evidence of having been prepared on purpose to furnish him the chance to administer a dose of poppy to Mr. Cleveland’s friends. This is done on the same principle as the doping | of the other fellow’s horse on the race track. * Mr. Cleve- jand represents the ultra conservatives and | Hearst ands for Hearst, playing for the support of all the radi- and at the same time anxious to lull the conserva- tives into a confident inaction. As Mr. Hearst has the advice of the most prominent artists in political tactics it is fair to assume that he is trying to put the conservatives to sleep in order that he may get delegates the while they dream. He is running for the nomination against Judge Parker, who has the happiness to have no record. Hearst, on the other hand, drags the chain of a record behind himend is desirous of dropping it or distracting from it the attention of the people. Memmbers of his own party are calling attention to that gecord as something that needs the services of the Board of Health and the sanitary inspectors. .With that phase of it Republicans have nothing to do. They feel that if the Democracy want that kind of a man Ilecarst is the kind of a man they want. The distrust of" the people projects beyond any Demodratic nominee to the party itself. Mr. Cleveland in” his day commanded the confidence of the country, but it stopped at him, be- cause his party repudiated him and in doing so refused to share the confidence of the people. So it is felt now that no matter how “safe” a candidate it may nominate, nothing can insure that the party will be safe for the country. That fact seems tosescape the managers.- It was plam— ly put by a supporter of Mr. Olney, in Boston, who said the proper policy was to elect a safe Democrat to the Presidency and at the same time be sure and maintain the Republican party in power in Congress. That dis- closes the policy of conservative Democrats whos feel that their party cannot be trasted and that national safe- ty lies in having a Republican Congress. Of course the plan is whimsical to a degree. But Mr. Hearst evidently desires conservative votes for himself and if he can be President does not care about Congress. So he is out with a handful of fresh salt to pickle the tail of the con- servative Democratic bird. Having addressed to himself an epistle attacking Mr. Cleveland he proceeds to-reply to it that the ex-President is not to blame for the opinions of his appointees to the Supreme bench, and it is wrong to expect him to stand sver them with a compelling club to enforce decisions in ine with any ‘view he may have. This exculpatory opinion is gilt up one side and down the other with at- tractions for the Cleveland Democrats. One notices im- mediately the difference between it and the brutally harsh criticisms of Colonel Bryan. Hearst is the Hetter politician. He volunteers also to defend Mr. Cleveland Hill is a bad bad men may approve a good man without injuring him, and really there is no evidence that Mr. Cleveland bowed toward Mr. Hill in acknowledgment of his compliments. It is almost touching this volunteer defense of the ex- President by one who wants to step into his shoes. But it is not always thus. In his New York Journal of March 31, 1898, Mr. Hearst attacked Cleviland by name, describing him as “a girthy Princeton person, who came to be no more, no less, than a living, breathing crime in breeches.” Preceding this climax there had been since 1806 a steady stream of denunciation of Cleveland from Mr. Hearst. He had been described as a mixture of Caligula and Nero, and the history of royal tyrants and of royal idiots was raked to find adequate terms of com- parison and then Mr. Hearst was obliged to confess that Cleveland had established a new record. Just why the offenses of the ex-President were made scarlet by being in breeches was not explained, but to the imagination of Mr. Hearst it seemed that Roman crimes being committed without breeches were more to be condoned. But does he still hold these sartorial views of Mr. Cleveland in secret while defending him in public? Ambition has before now diluted antagonisms| and softened enmities, on the surface, but there are doubts that it ever neutralized them under the quick or in the marrow. The question now at issue is, Did Mr. Hearst talk from his marrow when he put Mr. Cleve- land’s breeches in evidence in 1898, or does he talk from it now when he rushes to his defense? The role of United States Senator does not appear to be in these days of inquiry, investigation and suspicion the most pleasant one in the world. Senator Dietrich has been turning all sorts of legislative cartwheels to straighten himself out, Senator Smoot has been uncom- fortably posing as an awful example, and now Senator Burton has been convicted on the' score that his rela- tions to the Postoffice have not been strictly honorable. As a house of refuge for the polmcnlly ambmorus the United States Senate will have to be reformed. ——— THE FLOWER SHOW. HE California Floral Society last week held its T winter show in the grand nave of the ferry depot. In no other place in the same latitude and at this season could such a show held for lack of the bloom that makes it attractive. While the outdoor flowers have been injured this year by rain, not in the time of bloom- ing at all, for that has all months for its season, but the rain somewhat dulls the bloom, yet the display of out- door flowers was gorgeous. The state of the season { here may be judged from a supplementary wild flower show, held at the same time in the children’s room of the Oakland Free Library, in which sixty different varieties of wild flowers were exhibited. - The Floral Society exhibited all the outdoor grown tulips, daffodils and other bulbous blooms, and violets, pansies, daisies and an enormous variety of flowers per- fected without shelter at a season when in similar lati- tude East the ground is combed by the bleak blasts of winter. The society is far too modest in its work, It gives these exhibitions semi-annuaily and uses them to cnhance the enthusiasm of its members and cultivate the taste of our people in flower culture. In fact these shows are events of the highest importance to all Cali- : fornia. They are part of the dividend we get out of our | climate as an asset. Our local public looks forward to I them with lively anticipation and epjoys them with as v s lively pleasure. Great crowds filled the vast room in which the exhibition was held last week and the mem- bers of the society were gflufied by this evidence of ap- preciation. But this show should be more widely advertised. If it were the winter tourists in the State would time their movements so as td attend it. At this season such blooiu is seen nowhere else. Florida has nothing that ap- ‘proaches it. No rival of California for winter travel can hope to present such-ul zm‘actmn It will therefore pay our hotels, business- men and transportation lines to aid the Floral Society in making its exhibition widely known. The East has to be continually educated in the facts about our climate. Our winter flowers and semi- tropical iruits are the books that must be s:u:hed and they are open all the year round. In a recent Tase in the Federal courts in this city an argument arose to determine whether or not a bribe | might be considered a legitimate inducement free from the eager suspicion-or punitive ictivities of the law. The | discussion is on a.level with the opinion of the rascal’ that considered an offer of $5 as a bribe and an offer of $300 as a business proposition. W utter weakness of the once formidable alliance between the radical Democrats and the Popu- lists on a platform of free silver, there was a notable outburst of activity among the politicians of the Southern States and the beginning of wkat promised to be a move- ment toward the éstablishment of a new era of Southern supremacy in Democratic councils. A famous conven- tion was held in Atlanta and the chief speakers of the occasion vied with one another in pointing out that the hour of opportunity had come f,r the South, since New York and New England leadersaip had been discredited by the Clevelaad administratio:= and Western leadership by the double i-ilure of Bryanis§a. Utterances o/, that kind were§so frequently made and were so uniforgnly well receiy@d throughout the South that it looked las if the SoutHern leaders were really going to makeia vigorous effoit to get control of the party councils §1nd shape the 3arty programme as had been done by their predecessdrs before the war. Of | late, however, nothing has been heard of those high re- solves. There is confusion in the Democratic camp and strife as usual between the radicals and the conserva- tives, but the South is not rushing forward to profit by ‘the opportunity to assert her leadership and re-establish harmony among the contending factions. On the con- trary, her statesmen, her politicians, her press and her people seem to be utterly incapable of furnishing a ra- tional platform or a competent leader for the distracted party. During the early months of the movement for a re- vival - of Southern leadership the Atlanta Constitution | was one of the stalwart advocates of the policy. It treated the convegtion in Atlanta as one of the great political events of the time and prophesied important things to come from the reassertion of Southern states- manship in Democratic councils. All is changed now. The Constitution would have the South stand aside and let the North and the West decide the | policy and the platform. In a recent appeal for, harmony it declined to take sides between even such extremes as Parker and Hedrst and said: “The Consti- tution is for the man who can win. Since the doubtful States are the deciding factors in all calculations as to Democratic success, their preferences must now, natur- ally, be given prime consideration by those States which, iike Georgia, will roll up the usual Democratic majority, whoever may be nominated.” The sentiment thus stated appears to be shared by a majority of the Southern papers and politicians, but there are some exceptions, Here and there a vigorous protest against the yellow candidate is made. Thus in South Carolina the Greenville News is quoted as saying: “If any South Carolina Democrat believes' that Hearst is the kind of man to rule this country, or who imagines that his private character is above reproach, we promise to make him dizzy with the revelation of certain things seen during the Spanish-American War if he will kindly call at this office.” The Richmond Times has much the same to say of the Hearst boom and adds, “It would be suicide for any political party to nominate such a man.” + The voices of protest, however, while emphahc enough, are not numerous, and, as the Constitution intimates, the South will stand for whoever is nominated, even though it mean political suicide. In fact, some of the Southern papers treat the subject flippantly as if they took no pride in Democratic virtue and felt no shame in the pos- sibility of a disgrace to it. Thus a Mississippi paper says: “There is one good thing about the Hearst boom in the South—it is circulating a lot of the coin of the realm”; while the Nashville Banner is quoted as saying: “Evidently Mr. Hearst does not place so much stress on records as he does on money.” That is the way the much talked of “Southern oppor- tunity” is being evaded by men who lack courage to seize it.. There is no question of the opportunity. It exists beyond a doubt. Unfortunately there can be no leader- ship without leaders and the South has not any with courage eneugh or following enough to profit by the ad- vantage offered. THE WAVERING SOUTH. HEN the second defeat of Bryan revealed the | Executions in penalty for malefactions, various and hideous, are proceeding with dread frequency in Seoul and will give fitting introduction to the horrors of siege and war to the inhabitants that are left after the law concludes its course of death. The extravagance with which natiort dissipate life in times of war is not unlike the conduct of a pauper that recklessly gives wings to new found wealth. One of the territorial officers of Hawaii has gone | wrong and to the credit of gambling has laid the debit ‘of a heavy defalcation of public funds. It seems that no experience is able to prove to she weak that even as a piece of selfishness, as a mere matter of self-protection, if nothing else, honesty is the best policy. The more p«hhc the affair the more widespread is his disgrace. —— i If the conservative Democrats have not yet got a dark horse’ pxcked out for the Presidential race they would better sét about advertising for proposals, for it looks now as if the bxuut freak advertiser would get the nomination. A local minister remarked reverently the other day | .. that God knew what Ji: ~7as about when he made man in his own image. The evidence will have :o\ be stronger to modify our opinion of some men that . how y X ts TALKR OF Ounce of Prevention. ' “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” says the old saw. Cap'a | thousand miles from heré, is mightily {of the same opinion. Cap'n Elihu had the misfortune re- Iccmly to have all of his upper teeth | knocked out by a clumsily handled oar ‘and he had to hie himself to a dentist’s | .hory foundry and have a nice “plate” | made for his upper jaw. Within a| (\veek after he had acquired his bog.xs molars something happened. While the | |erew of his boat was practiciag the | 'drill out in the briny waves where the a swing under water before the craft “! righted, Cap'n Elibu lost his teeth. | Thirty plunks gone! | Cap’'n Elihu had to have the teeth | so he went down and purchased a new 'mray Then an idea penetrated his) | cerebrum. The next morning, before ‘the c-rew went out upon their weekly | 'pracuce Cap'n Elihn might have been scen busily threading a string through the hole In the roof of his new plate. ‘When he took his seat in the stern of bis boat the teeth were in their place, | ! but a slender black string waved from Cap'n _Elihu’s tightly closed lips, its buttonhole of his sou’wester. Not So Formal. John Ellsworth, Superjor Judge of Alameda County, is nothing if not fully | imbued with judicial dignity when pre- siding in his court. But off the bench as well as any of his fellowmen. particular joy is Ray Baker, his clerk. the exalted office that his Judge oc- cupies—that is when his Honor is not the bench. 'he elderly Judge and his volatile clerk are boon companions. Daily they |in Oakland. At table the other day, in { hearing ¢f several lawyers, merchants and men about town, Baker leaned over and spoke to his Honor. “Now, John,” dentially. Eilsworth. “Don’'t call me ‘John. { When you talk to me call me ‘John- I ny. " Luck Versus Ignorance. “The luck that attends some men is remarkable,” said a well known Stan- ford man the other day during a dis- | cussion of college life. \ ber with great vividness an incident of that it is better for some men to be born lucky than with the proverbial i silver spoon. “At the time I speak of this man was bothering the life out of me for | a place on the staff of the ollege week- | 1y, of which I was the manager. Just | to get rid of him I told him to go and | hunt up the owners of a new crema- forty miles from the college. Well, he disappeared for a couple of days and then showed up, and with a look of triumph in his eyes presented to me ‘ad.” “‘I landed the crematory people,’ said with a chuckle. “And he did, but his ‘crematory’ was a milk and cream depot in San Jose.” All Right in the End. The road is rough and the day is cold, And the landscape’'s sour and bare, And the milestones, once such charming friends, Half-hearted welcome wear. There's taouble before and trouble be- hind, And a troublesome present to mend; And the road goes up and the road goes d he own, But it all comes right in the end. The heart is sick and the heart is sore For a heart to call its own; And we scramble hard for the precious crumbs Amongst the heaps of stone, For a love's love, and & man’'s man, Our gold’s gold would we spend; And the heart goes up and the heart goes down, But it all comes right in the end. The road goes up, and the road goes lown To a desolate depth below, And lhel;el nevgr a shred of the mean- est robe On the naked ones to go. There'? a heaven above, and a God of ove, And a Father who will fend— And life goes up, and life goes down— But it all comes right in the end. -Westminster Gazette, Edison’s First Check. Thomas A. Edison not long ago told a friend the story of his first acquain- tance with any big sum of money. It was when he was struggling with his earlier invention, and he had about clear an idea of the value of a bank check as. the man in the moon. He | had finally sold his patent on the gold and stock indicator to the Western Union Telegraph Company and had called at its cffice to close the deal. After a few preliminaries he yas given a check for $40,000. He eyed it curious- ly and appeared to be puzzled what to do with it. Observing his perplexity, General Lefferts, then president of the ‘Western Union, told him that if he would go to the Bank of America on Wall street he could get the cash on his check. “So I started,” said Edison, “after carefully folding up the check, and went toward Wall street. So uncer- tain- was I in regard to that way of doing business that I thought, while on the day, that if any man should come up to me and offer me two crisp thousand-dollar bills for that piece of paper I would give him the check very quickly.” On his arrival at the Bank of Amer- ica, he half tremblingly shoved his eonvlnew that his check was h $40,000, and again thought, | Elihu Blank, who holds the stern oar | jin one of the life-saving boats not a | boat is overturned and its crew given | other end fastened securely in the top | Judge Ellsworth enjoys a bit of joke | His | Baker is not always appreciative of | lunch together at the Athenian Club | said the clerk confl- | “See here, Ray,” interrupted Judge | “I ¢an remem- | my early college days that showed me | tory that had recently been built not| for my signature a contract for a $500 | THE TOWN OF FHE i | I |k said he could not get any money. A clerk was sent to the bank with him to identify hi “This man,” sald the clerk, “is Mr. Thomas A. Edison, to whose order the check is drawn.” | “Why, certainly, Mr. Edison,” said the cashier; “how would you like your money—in what shape?” “Oh, any way tc suit the bank; it doesn’t make any difference to me so long as I get the money.” Edison was given $40,000 in large bills. After dividing the roll into two wads | of 320,000 each, he stuffed one into each trousers vocket and made all speed out of Wall street. The next day he began work on his first laberatory im New York.—Success. la Eix The test of the auction-room Is still antagonistic to the exaggerated prices which the violin fanciers would have | us believe show the true worth of old | violins. Some excellent specimens were | sold last week ana they were nearly all | purchased by dealers, so that their 1authenucity may almost be taken for granted, but £200 was the highest price secured. This was gained for a Joseph | Guarnerius of 1731, while a Jerome Amati (with certificate by the renowned authority, Josef Chanot) fetched £100, an A. and H. Amati of 1630 went for £95 and | some excellent old fiddles fetched a lit- tle over £50 each. I sometimes wonder | that ordinary purchasers do not buy | more at these sales, where, although no | great bargains are likely to be picked | up—for the dealers would not allow a violin to go to an outsider for much un- | der its trade worth—yet the prices are very greatly below those asked in the | shops, and are, of course, almost trivial compared with the figures quoted by some of the collectors. The £3000 fiddle |is in fact a myth. Nothing over £1000 | has ever been known.—London Truth. - His Sins. Costly Violins. Everybody knows the fondness of the adult Chinese for kite-flying. The Korean, however, puts this pastime to a use altogether novel. When the time | of good resolutions comes around at the | new year the Korean writes on a kite all his faults, “Evil disposition, impa- | tience, bad words, street fights,” etc. | “It was so dark,” says one American residing in Korea, relating such an in- stance, “that no kite could be seen, but | when he had run the string out to its full length he cut it and let it go, im- | agining that so he had rid himself of | his enemies and could begin the new | year with new courage.” Answers to Queries. PEDRO—A Subscriber, City. In the game of pedro, pedro goes out last. CORPORAL PUNISHMENT—B. F. B., Seabright, Cal. In all the prineipal cities of the Union corporal punishment | Is Inflicted in the public schools, but in | extreme cases only. The tendency of the age is to inflict other punishment. STATE QUARANTINE—A. D. R., | San Jose, Cal. The State Board of Health in California has the power to establish quarantine lines at any point where infected cattle and sheep may be brought into the State. The law does not set out any particular line. | POLLTAX IN OHIO—F. and W, Auburn, Ckl. A polltax of $1 is collects | | male inhabitant between the ages of | 25 and 50, except from exempt firemen and from active firemen who have been such one year. The money so collected is used for county purposes. GRAND ARMY—B. D., Guinda, Cal A post of the Grand Army of the Re- -| public can be organized with any num- ber, not less than ten men, who are qualified. For further advice about or- | anizing communicate with J. H. Rob- | erts, assistant adjutant gemeral of the Department of California and Nevada, City Hall, San Francisco. PEDDLERS—A. C., Kelseyville, Cal. If there has been a decision by the Supreme Court to the effect that ped- dlers do not need to pay a license in any State .of the Union this depart- ' ment has not been .able to find it in | the reports. On the contrary, that court has decided that authority un- der police power is granted to levy sich a license. CATTLE — J. B., Freestone, Cal. In California if animals are found running at large upon any public road or high- way, suth may be taken up as estrays and held by the varty so taking them up under the gemeral law governing estrays. Each county has some ordi- nance on the subject. To asecertain what the law is in ydur county, com- municate with the clerk of the County Board of Supervidors. o el et Trunks and Valises. Evervihing that is new. good and mod- erate priced in trunks and valises, dress suit cases and traveling sets now in stock. Lettered in gold free of charge. Sanborn. 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