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HEARD AT STOCKTON The Mail Claims Special Knowledge of a Bank ing Policy. TO PROTECT THE FUNDS. New Move by the Commissioners Concerning State and County Moneys. GOVERNOR BTJDD'S THEORY. He Thinks Banks Should Not Aid in the Election of County Treasurers. STOCKTON, Cal., Dec. 12. — With a claim that the information is special ana reliable, the Mail says that the Bank Commissioners held a meeting yester day in San Francisco and determined upon a policy which will materialy affect banking methods in this State. The object of t lie new move is to protect State and county funds. An order will be issued by the commis sion directing the bank managers to re fuse to accept State and county moneys except as special deposit?. Tnis fact was learned from a local finan cier who held a conference yesterda> with the members of the Bank Commission. The new rule will keep the State and county moneys intact in the banks in which they are deposited, for a special de posit is one in which the cash deposited is undisturbed and the identical coin re turned, when drawn out, that was de posited. This will be a safeguard a-jainst the loss of any State or county funds, and it is re ported that the city money will be pro tected in the same way. According to the last statement published by the Bank Commissioners, the total amount of money then being used by banks in this State was $2,756,127, and a large proportion of this could not be paid on demand. From the statement referred to it can be readily seen that, while a number of banks are perfectly solvent and capablo of more than meeting their obligations, they cannot pay on demand the amount of money due the counties or the State. They have plenty of assets, and have passed muster before the close scrutiny of the Commissioners, but if they were called upon to turn over at once the money they owe the State or the counties they could not do it. Under the new rule made yesterday by the Commissioners such a stale of affairs cannot exist, as the money will always be on hand. Governor Budd was in the city to-day, and, discussing the subject, said: "I think there will be a change in bank ing methods before the end of the present fiscal year. I do not think that bank? should' co into politics for the purpose of securing the election of County Treas urers in order to have county funds de posited with them. This has cut quite a figure in the past in the election of Treas urers and it should all be changed. "My theory is to take the matter of plac ing the county funds out of the County Treasurer's hands altogether. This should be done by the County Board of Supervis ors, who should place the money with the bank which will give the heaviest bonds and the highest premium tor the privilege of using the money. This will keep the money in circulation and at the same time the county will be secured against loss. "The money should be subject to the check of the Treasurer at any time. There is now some $6,000,000 of State and county money that if put into circulation would be a great benefit to the people of this State." VISALIA FLUME BUILDING Four New Principles Adopted by the Kaweah Irrigation and Power Company. Increase of Velocity and Economy in Material, With Added Endurance, Accomplished. VISALIA. Cal., Dec. 12.— The Kaweah flume of the Kaweah Irrigation and Power Company is interesting, not so much for its magnitude as for the fact that four new principles in flume con struction have been introduced in its de eign. The flume is <>40 feet long, six feet inside width and will carry a depth of six feet of water. The first of the principles is applied in the approaches at either end of the flume. These are constructed in a manner exactly the opposite to the con struction of the prow of a boat. The approaches involve two bents of the flume at each end of sixteen feet each and begin and end with the exact cross-section of the canal and gradually assume the cross-section of the flume. This was in troduced to reduce the loss of velocity con sequent upon the change from the full cross-section of the canal to the con tracted cross-section of the flume at the entrance to the flume and vice versa at the exit to the flume to a minimum. The second principle has heretofore been applied only in pipes and closed conduits aha will explain many of the failures of flumes in many cases to carry their theo retical capacities. It consists in putting the water with the head of che flume under pressure. Owing to the greater proportional cost of flume construction over canal and ditch construction, where both are of the same sectional area, it has been customary tor engineers to greatly decrease the area of the cross-section of the flume and increase the grade of the same, expecting thereby to increase the velocity of the water in the flume and carry the same quantity of water as the canal above it. But Mr. Burr, chief engineer of the company and de signer of the flume, point 3 out the fact that thisafalsedoctrine.both becauseof the great impediment to flow occasioned by the sudden contraction of area of cross-section, and although the trrade of the bottom may be increased at will the fall of water surface will not make an abrupt change from one grade to the other, there being many flumes constructed in which the flume it self will run one-third or one-half full, while the banks of the canal above over flow, although the flumes are correctly constructed upon existing theories and formulae. The third and fourth principles are minor ones, and involve detail of construc tion, one being that all bracing is done overhead by cross-sway braces between the four by six posts, which extend above tiie flumes, to be constructed closer to the hillside, which, in the construction of grades through rocky canyons, is a big item. The other is the dividing of the yoke posts into two posta longitudinally, passing the yoke between these posts ami across the flume and bolting them to their place, which makes a moro equal distribu tion of strength among the timbers. The application of this principle requires less material and affords greater simplicity in construction than methods heretofore employed. AFRO-AMERICA* COS FEU /-;> C-fc. Ways to Secure Full Kights of Citizenship to lie Considered. DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 12.— The Na tional conference of the Afro-Americans, which was called for the purpose ot con sidering ways and means of securing for the negro citizen the full rights of citizen ship, met in the Second Baptist Church here to-day and brought together about twenty delegates from various States ana a like number from this city. Little or no business was transacted at the sessions to day, ttiey being occupied with organizing the conference and speech-making. D. A. Straker of this city was made permanent chairman, Hon. R. T. Green of New York vice-president, and Rev. .1. M. Townsend of Chicago secretary. Committees on reso lutions and on an "address to the coun try" were appointed and will report to morrow mornine. To-night's session was devoted to speech-making. Saluted the Morion* Dead. ROME, Italy, Dec. 12.— The Chamber of Deputies this afternoon paid a tribute to the memory of Major Tosselli, the com mander of the Italian column in Abys sinia, which was decimated by a surround ing force of Abvssinians, and who was himself among the killed. After a num ber of eulogistic speeches the President of the Chamber invited the orators of all parties to salute the glorious dead, and THIS IS WHERE EUCKLEY'S FRIENDS GET THEIR COCKTAILS AT TIIF OCCIDENTAL CLUB. [Reproduced from a photograph.] the members stood ud in perfect patriotic accord. The scene was a touching one. LIVELY AT COLLINSVILLE Survey Corps of the California, Oregon and Idaho at Work. Running the Line From That Point to Red Bluff for the Big Enter prise. COLLINSVILLE, Cal., Dec. 12.— The California, Oregon and Idaho Railroad Company has a corps of ten men here, preparatory to starting an actual survey from this point to Red Bluff, where it will meet a surveying party from Eureka al ready in the field. The corps at this point is under the supervision of Harp and Bald ridge, with Chief Engineer Sumner di recting the survey. They are securing rights of way from all the property-holders in this vicinity and disposing of many contracts for bonds. There are two series of these bonds, one running for thirty years and the other for twenty years, each to draw 5 per cent in terest, payable annually, and secured, re spectively, by a first and a second mort gage on all the property, rights, franchises and privileges of the corporation, the first CORNER OF THE BIG I PPKR ROOM WHERE CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY MAINLY FASHIONS HIS POLITICAL WORK. [Reproduced from a photograph.] at $15,000 a mile, the second at $5000 per l mile. The company is oreanized under i the laws of the State of Oregon. The pur chase price is made payable in calls of 10 per cent as the money may be needed for ] the purchase of material and construction Of the road. The company proposes to construct within three years from date of the bonds a standard-guage railway from Coliins ville, Solano County, Cal., to a point at or near Rei Bluff, Tehama County, Cal., to gether with an intermediate line from a point on the main line in Yolo County, Calilornia, to Washington, Yolo County, Cal., and a continuous line from Collins* ville to an eastern connection in Wyom ing within five years, uniess prevented by the decrees or injunctions of the courts or the elements. It is provided that the subscriber to the second mortgage bonds shall reserve the right to pay 20 per cent of all freight or fare charges contracted over all the com pany's lines in said second mortgage bonds. Both the first and second mort gage bonds are to be exempt from State or Federal taxation. Failing in either of its covenants the company agrees to repay the subscribers tueir purchase money. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1895. BUCKLEY AND THE BOYS. How and Why Things May Now Sizzle at the Political Pal ace on the Hill. IN THE OCCIDENTAL CLUB. Gossip About the New, Fine and Strange Headquarters That Boss Buckley Is Booming. Buckleyism is about to sizzle up at the corner of Bush and Stockton streets, where a new, quite peculiar and interesting polit ical headquarters has begun a career of some sort. Ju3t now it's something like a sons; very likely it will yield a sermon. There is a quite magnificent, really odd and somewhat uncanny palace up there on the slope of Nob Hill just a little below the shelf made by Bush street. In it the returned boss, who cannot see, has estab lished his throne, wakened the Occidental Club into a life whose thrill was not dreamed of or hoped for a few months ago, and made of it the nucleus of a political ag gregation representing the highest and lowest levels of the City's social life, which expects to become the reigning Democratic power of San Francisco. Buckley's Occidental Club is nominally a social-political organization with a ueihi- ite membership, but membership doesn't count particularly. It is a rallying place for the Buckley forces of the eighteen As sembly districts, and during the next year of politics it is going to be a lively court. Buckley politics will be nearly all planned up there at the Occidental Club. Hither the district leaders will go to report and receive orders. There doubting converts will be drawn to be inoculated with the Buckley gladness. The Occidental Club is to be a "political home" where the boys will be welcome and a place that will be endowed with every charm for the lambs that have been on short grass for so long. To help alnns the boom and swing that it is sought to be put into the air up there money is now being spent with a touch of lavishness in fixing things up in still hner style, and plans for making the place a constant joy are being arranged. Wben you go up Stockton street from Sutter toward Bush, you come to a pecu liarly situated big white mansion next to the corner building. There is a hole in a high stone wall, from which granite steps wind up a shrub-studded yard to the elegant front portico that doesn't face the street. If you go on and along Bush you come to a little cul de sac, and if you dodge down that you will rind a side door and an elec tric button. If you want to dodge in the front way, through the stone wall, under the trees', nobody will be apt to see you, either. Buckley didn't build this place for a po litical club, but he couldn't have planned one more convenient for his political pur poses. This used to be the home of the wealthy Mrs. Peck, who lavished some thing like $125,000 on it. She built and changed it mainly as the spirits directed, and that may be one reason that the house is so full of peculiar little passageways, stairs and nooks. One can aodge all through the house from attic to basement without being seen by the people he may want to avoid, and when the house is fiiled by a careless throne it is easy enough for a caller to see Buckley in an upstairs room without his presence being known. One peculiarity of the house is that every corner in every room is rounded in ac cordance with directions by the shades of the other world. It is the old Buckley crowd that ran local Democratic politics back in the ' Bo 's and before the Sullivan-Dwyer revolution of 1892 gave the party reinw to a new set, who compose the Occidental Club, and who are setting up a Rood thing to push alone. The organization is merely an old one that has taken a new name. Most people will remember the Tamm any Society that Buckley organized in 1887. For a long time it did quite well over Steiner's saloon in Bush street, near Montgomery. Sam Newman was its first president and among the leading members were: Colonel A. A. Andrews, James H. O'Brien, A. T. Spotts, John McCarthy, E. T. Mills, A. J. Clunie, Jerry Driscoll, Maurice Schrnitt, Dr. Bryan, Tom Ford, W. P. Wilshire, William Mcgann, Martin Bulger, and so on. In 1890, while Buckley was still in the heyday of his power, Mrs. Peck's property j went on the market after her death, anil ! Buckiey bought it at a bargain for $32,000. ' Then the Tammany Society became Buck- S ley's Manhattan Club. It moved $4000 | worth of furniture up the street to Buck- j ley's new mansion, and Jake Lindo bought the line mirrors and some of the furniture i of the house at auc ion for the club. The i Manhattan Club began to flourish under the presidency of Colonel Andrews as a high-toned social club, with politics on ; the side. There was terrapin stew and | champagne to be had there then. But in 1891 Buckley had important busi- | ness in Canada while the Wallace Grand I Jury was in session, the clnb went to 1 smash and a time, of storm and distress ! came on. Some of the Manhattan people ! — ana some of them are back now — got : out with the reorganizes and shouted J against Buckley, who was thought dead forever. An old guard remained true, j but silent. During this season of bad foi tune the club owed Buckley a year and a ] half's rent and the furniture became his j and stayed there in the deserted rooms , where "the spiders nested long. The Manhattan Club maintained a nomi- ! nal sort of existence while Buckley ] was so thoroughly down and out. In February, 1893. the Business ; Men's Democratic Association organized | and took the old Republican Alliance headquarters on Powell street. Soon after \ this organization and the Manhattan Club i combined under the name of the Business ! j Men's Democratic Club, with John Mc- Carthy, the wholesale tea merchant, for I president. Quarters were taken in the Baldwin Annex and Chri3 Buckley and Jerry Driscoll were dropped from the rolls, i This club didn't make any great amount j I of noise, and it was not very lively along ' i about hist Christmas. Buckley had" mera- ; time safely returned, had secretly shown a ! strong hand in the larft election, and some j of his old friends of political experience consulted with him about a new pro- ! j gramme for the important political cam- ; paign that was coming. John McCarthy, A. T. Spotts, O. M. Welburn, John H. Wise, E. T. Mills, Wil liam Cronin, Ambrose McLaughlin, spe- j cial agent of the treasury, and three or four other members of the Business Men's j i Club, talked things over and decided on the new organization, about which Buck- | ley gave his advice and to which he offered | his deserted palace on the hill. Heads ■ i were scratched for a name and McLaugh- | I lin's (suggestion of "Occidental" was taken. ; The Business Men's Democratic Club be came the Occidental, and early in January the Siockton-street mansion was swept out and occupied. About all the club had to do was to rncve in and sit down on Buckley's furniture, and it did so with 210 members. Since then there have been many changes in the roll and now the membership is stated at 384, and every man a friend of Buck. The following present officers can all be traced buck with the leather upholstered chairs that cost $27 apiece to 18«7, Bush street and the Tammany Society: President, John McCarthy; vice-presi dents, E. T. Mills and T. E. Dunne; secre tary, Joseph A. Baxter; treasurer, William J. Bryan. The directors are these officers and Joseph Rothschild, P. F. Dundon, William Cronin, J. \V. McDonald, Samuel Newman and Thomas J. Karbour. But there are other nntitled officers for what really goes on up there. Buckley, of course, is the king who can do no wrong. Things rather wait and languish when he cometh not. When he puts in three or four days at Ravcnswood there is some thing like a drooping to be sensed as though a worm mi; lit be getting in its work in the bud of promise. Buckley is the soul and breath of life of the Occiden tal Club of the present. He knows every trick and move in every district in the City and the measure of every influence in oueration. Jl is masterly "advice" to his friends directs every play. The active, experienced leaders with whom lie counsels, and who make and execute the plans of operation are princi pally John McCarthy, A. T. Spotts, James H. O'Brien, Robert Boyd and Joseph Rothschild, with several others taking leading parts. This is a glimpse at the political organi zation which represents Buckley and his new campaign. The Occidental Club has NEW TO-DAT^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ _^- bargains! Hat are booming trade' . — — — - — — ■«^<gy«i-j©ss»» That our DAILY SPECIAL SALES of Holiday Goods draw IMMENSE CROWDS is but the natural result of the EXTRAORDINARY INDUCEMENTS OFFERED as will be readily apparent on glancing through the following examples of TO-DAY'S SPECIAL OFFERINGS! INITIAL HANDKERCHIEFS! LADIES' KID GLOVES! Ostrlch-Featlißr Collarettes ßoas LADIES' HANDKERCHIEFS! At 25 Cents. At 75 Cents. Black Ostrich Feather Collarettes, 20-inch, At 15 Cents Each. At <£.O merits. At 75 Cents. with ribbon ends at $° $3 $3 75 $5 $(i tacn. MEN'S HEMSTITCHED 800 pairs 8-BUTTON LENGTH MOUS- $7 50, $8 50 each. '**"*'» ' ' ' LADIES' SHEER WHITE LAWN SCAL-. ■ SILK H^DKLRCHILI. 8, large size, QUETAIRE UN D R 8 SED KID Black Ostrich Feather oas. in 36 ,45 and LOPED EMBROIDERED HAND- with embroidered initials, will be of- GLOVES, colors tan, slate and brown 54 inches long, best quality and fullest KERCHIEFS, regular value $3 per. fered at 2oc each. also black, regular value for $1 25, .will made at lowest prices. dozen, special at 15c each At 35 Cents be offered at 75c a pair. L_ MEN'S JAPANESE HEMSTITCHED At <3O Cents FUR NECK SCARFS, ODPHIO HSaCIS At 25 Cents Each. SILK HANDKERCHIEFS extra large 800 pairs 5-HOOK KIDOWVEB, colors In coney, natural black and brown od- LADIES' SHEER WHITE LAWN SCAL- size, with embroidered initials, will be 800 pairs 5-HOOK KID UIAJVii-S, colors xn coney, naiurai Diacs ana orown op- LOPED EAf BROIDFRFD WANTV offered at 35c each, $4 a dozen tan, brown and slate, also black, regular possum, imitation and real mink, Khtfps rninnr^t, „ '7" onerea at ml eacn, *•* a aozen. . offered at 90c a pair. electric seal, stone marten, real black KERCHIEFfe, Guipure effects, regular At 50 Cents. wue*ia»,wiuDeorarwi««w, p» marten and Thibet, at the lowest value $6 per dozen, special at 25c each. MEN'S JAPANESE HEMSTITCHED At 90 Cents. prices. g!^%| - f „ I SILK HANDKERCHIEFS, extra large 700 pairs 8-BUTTON LENGTH MOUS- CHILDREN'S FUR SETS At $1.00 Per Box. 1 size, with very handsome Pinbroiaered . (^UETAIRE GENUINE FRENCH T«,,pp \wn Rnl\ LADIES' ALL-LINEN HAND-EM- initials, wul beofiered at 50c each. ID GLOVES, colors tan, slate, navy, (MUhF AND BOA). BROIDERED INITIAL HANDKER- At oc r'^r.+o brown and green, also black, regular White Coney, Gray Hare, White Angora, CHIEFS. l^-inch hemstitch, 6in fancy M ™™.c HVMWiTn S ' TTrvi , v value $1 50, will be offered at 90ca pair. . White Thibet and a large assortment box, regular value $3 per dozen. MEN HhMbl ITCHED ALL-LINEN of other grades, at the lowest prices. HANDKERCHIEFS, with hand-em- ***,•>« . -.._.. «-^T"^ *~Z. « broidered initials, will be offered at 2oc At $1.00. LEATHER GOODS. At $1.00 Each. each, or in fancy boxes of half dozen 600 pairs 2-CLASPPIQUE KID GLOVES, PURSES in all sizes and styles, com bina- REAL DUCHtSSE LACE HANDKER- atSISO. in English ; reds, brown, tan, cream, tion cases (pocketbook v and cardcase CHIEFS, regular value $150, special At 35 Cents. pearl an white, regular Tame $150^ combined), in black seal, colored seal at $1 each. MEN'S HEMSTITCHED ALL-LINEN will be offered at $1 a pair. TOM and alligator, with and without ster- HANDKERCHIEFS, with hand-em- ■ hn| silver corners; a very large variety HIHfsHS"--"'^ HOSIERY! HOSIERY! ■ ■ "HS=^^i^ir : ID?ILiIES IN NECKWEAR! ■ - - • •-■ - ; ..^.-(V est prices. MUFFLERS ASD REEFER SCARFS. rHTTni A F t N^^rtbbTd "black ■' MAPlfliifTOfTK I At $1.00 Each. • MEN'S SILK MUFFLERS in white 'h Si^o^Seef^efs .MbillUllbll» ! YOKES OF INSERTION AND ? RIBBON, cream black navy and f-incv colors at and toes, Hermsdorf black, sizes 5 to 9, A.s] on trimmed with lace, in all colors, value 75c, $1, $1 25. *1 50, $2 to *4 each. worth 40c. children/gossamers, with hood, for?i7 °- MEN'S REEFER SCARFS, in black, At 25 Cents a Pair. will be offered at $1. At SI 5O Each white, navy, etc., single at 75c and $1 LA piES' FANCY HOSE, black boot and At $2.00. YOTrFq OF TVSFRTTOV AND PTTl^v each, double at $150, $2 and $250 each. top combinations, spliced CHILDREN'S CLOTH MACKINTOSHES ™ m °f d with PchantUlv^U?e bh^ iKiwittTiiawuii sawssst— — ' —-■'---•-•• jpß»a»ri-B — — At ok Cents a Pair LADIES' CLOTH MACKINTOSHES, in MEN'S A^-sfLK BSS& in tecks LADIES' BLACK MACO COTTONHOSE, JfJJbo^^ a " d "^ *be Offered At $2.00 Each. four-in-hands, fancy* bows, Dp Joh> unbleached feet nigh spliced hee sand At $3.50. LACE COLLARETTES, Vandyke points, villes, Windsors, etc., will be offered at toes, Hermsdort black, gooa value at LADIES' CLOTH MACKINTOSHES in trimmed with net-top point Yenisei 50c each. . :'; iJsc< ; . navy and black twilled serge, will be lace, value for $3. At 75c, $1.00, $1.50. At 5O Cents a Pair. offereaats3jso.^^ —^ , MEN'S EXTRA FINE ALL-SILK LADIES' IMPORTED CASHMERE At $5.00. At $6.75 Each. SCARFS, in the latest styles and made WOOL HOSE, . high-spliced heels, LADIES' DOUBLE TEXTURE MACKIN- REAL HAND-RUN SPANISH LACE I up of the newest colorings, will be of- double soles and toes, black, natural : TOSHES, in navy and black, will be SCARFS, extra size, -regular ■ value fered at 75c to $1 50. , J and tan shades, value for 65c. k - offered at $5. $12 50, special value at SS 75 each. UU Murphy Building, / Wlf =■ Murphy Building, ' / . \Hf Murphy Building, J w(f Murphy Building, / Marie! and Jones Streets. Market and Jones Street! Market aid Jones Streets. Market and Jones Streets. Jliuiiul diili JullDo ijliuola. I Jlialiul UUU JUliufl Oiluula. ilidllGl aliu UUiiCfl uliro, JlidlJLul dllll UUllud Dliuula. — — - — _«j the "glad hand" always ready, and there isn't much up there too good for the boss. That's the idea of the new proernmme. Somebody is putting up between $2000 and $3000 for the new fixings that are going in, under the direction of Vice-President E. T. Mills, who takes a deeper interest in the club itself than in its politics. The tapestries that Mr. Mills got out here from New York a few days ago cost from $12 to $15 a yard and they are going in the upholstered furniture in the big parlor that has a great $2500 onyx mantel in it. Everything is being reno vated and improved with touches of costly elegance everywhere. Beginning pretty soon there are to be weekly entertain ments, with songs, speeches and some thing to eat and drink, for that is the way to treat the boys. A good-natured, hospitable, though in congruous, Democracy is characteristic of the Occidental Club". The Buckley ex firemen piay pedro in a fine bay-window room on a heavy walnut table, and down stairs the valiant heroes of many a primary loaf on plush cushions and rosewood chairs and receive jolly salutations from big men with lots of money. Downstairs in the basement is a big room where seances used to be held. That's where meetings are held now and where the ban quets that are planned will be enjoyed. Sometimes there will be champagne on tap down there and sometimes good old beer, according to the proprieties of the occasion. When they say "Come and have some thing," they go out to the sideboard where cocktails are mixed by the white-haired, gentle and courtly Sam Sample, who has been known so well for thirty years. When people go to the Occidental Club and touch the button, the door is opened by a nephew of Charles A. Daha. He is Percy Dana, a bright and popular little fallow of 22 years. His father used to be a big stock dealer in Missouri, and sup plied mules to the Government his brother wrote so much about. Percy drifted out here, went into the grocery business out on Bush street, oppo site Buckley's City residence. He bought tea and coffee of John McCarthy and sold it To Buckley. Both liked him, and when the grocery business became bad a few months ago he became assistant steward of the Occidental Clnb. "Just loot at them windows, there's a different kind of hand paintin' in every glasa," said one of the boys proudly the other day, and he was as welcome as one of "Buck's business men" who wear dia monds. That's one of the ways that Buck ley is now doing politics and one of the features of the new political headquarters in the bill. Where .Jewsharpa Are Made. Bath claims tne distinction of having the only jewsharp factory in this coun try outside of the city of New York. The industry is carried on in a building situated on Fourth street, in the rear of No. 16. J. R. Smith, the proprietor of the establishment, has made jewsharps for thirty-five years. Twenty years he worked at the business in England, and nearly fifteen in this country. He first started in Troy, but believing the location would be more healthful in Bath he re moved to that village about nine years ago. The jewsharp was classed as a toy up to a few years ago. It is now placed among musical instruments. For centuries it wa9 known all over Europe. It is also known as the Jews' trump. It consists of a metal frame with two branches, between which a slender tongue of steel, fastened at one end and free at the other, is made to vibrate by twicthing with the finger while the frame is held between the teeth. While there is no decrease in the de mand, Mr. Smith says, there has been during the last few years a gradual mov ing of the demand westward. Orders have increased in Chicago in the same propor tion that they have fallen off in New York. Mr. Smith manufactures twelve different styles of jewsharps, ranging in price from $3 to $25 per gross. They are put up and shipped in boxes of twelve-gross lots. Mr. .Smith is an expert performer upon the in strument. — Albany State. In Paris there is a wineshoD for every three houses. WILL GO TO WASHINGTON. They Will Urge the Passage of Measures to Protect Mining. WOBK OF THE ASSOCIATION. Tirey L. Ford Delegated by the State Association, to Be Aided by John McMnrray. The executive committee of the Miners' Association has decided to send a man to Washington to work for California raining interests and to push the passage of two bills adopted at the last meeting of the association. Copies of those bills will be sent to the Congressional representatives of this State, with requests to bring them prominently before the Ways and Means Committee, and two mining men will be on hand to make all necessary explanations of their purpose and importance. Those two men are Tirey L. Ford of tbi9 City, who was unanimously elected to the position, and John McMurray of Trinity County, who has volunteered to spend a short time in the National capital at his own expense in the interests of the Cali fornia mining industry. It will be Mr. McMurray's first experi ence in Washington. It was decided to have 1000 copies of the constitution and by-laws of the associa tion printed for distribution to the mem bers in the different counties of the State. W. C. Knlston, chairman of the Mineral Lands Committee, was allowed a clerk to assist him in taking up the mineral land question. And it was voted to pay the secretary $50 a month for his services to thr association The meeting was held in the rooms of | the Union Leaeue Club at the Palace Hotel and was a continuation of the long executive session of the preceding even- j ing. Jacob F. Neff presided and Julius Sonntag was secretary. Last evening's effective session began with Judge Walling moving the previous j question, and immediately after J. M. Wright moved to adopt as amended, "an act to provide for ascertaining^ the charac ter of certain lands in the State of Cali fornia." It was a proposed substitute for the Singer bill and will now be sent on to Wash ington. In substance the act provides for a speedy determination and indication of the character of all the odd-numbered sec tiens of uupatented lands as to whether they are minoral or non-mineral, and as soon as practicable to publish a notice describing the location of the mineral lands and informing the people that they may file with the Registrar protests against patenting such lands to any railroad. These notices are to be extensively pub lished for two months, and during that time or within thirty days thereafter any one may offer a protest against a patent being issued on any Jand thought to be mineral. An accurate description of the location of the section, together with the names of the persons seeking a patent, must accompany the complaint. At the end of thirty days such collected evidence is to be forwarded to the Secretary of the Interior, who is to suspend the issuance of patents upon tho land described until a court of inquiry shall have declared it non mineral. Twenty thousand dollars is asked to be appropriated by Congress to defray the expenses of a mineral lard commission, a member of which must be a practical miner. The act further provides that all an surveyed lands shall, as soon as surveyed, come under these regulations. Of the two other bills that the associa tion will try to bring before Congress early next year one asks for an appropriation of money for the construction of works to impound mining debris and thereby to protect the navigable streams of Califor nia, and the other is to amend certain sec tions of the Revised Statutes relating t* mining claims and their location and pos session. A Sons Recital. An interesting song recital was given last evening in the Mercantile Library by S. Homer Henley and Miss Maud Chappelle, pupils of Willard J. Batchelder. Besides Mr. Henley and Miss Chappelle the following artists took part in the entertainment: The Hawthorne quar tet, composed of Messrs. Batchelder, Coffin, Tilton and Tucker; Dr. Resrensberger, 'cello; R. Fletcher Tilton, accompanist. Dr. Brown on 3lusic. Dr. C. O. Brown will begin a series of weekly lectures on Music next Sunday evening at the First Congregational Church. The choir, un der the direction of Samuel D. Mayer, will each evening render selections from the composer whose life and compositions are being con sidered. A Grateful Patient. "I perceive that you have a cold." With a look full of intense sympathy the young man who utterod these words leaned slightly forward as he gazed earn estly at the beautiful girl he addressed, who sat opposite, and violently sneezed by way of answer. "Yes, Miss Calliope," he went on, en couraged by her silence, "and I am sorry to see it. In this enlightened age, where scientific investigation has done so much to reveal the hidden mysteries of all ail mpnts, the common cold has by no means been overlooked. I will pass over briefly the causes which produce a cold, and pro ceed to the cure. To cure a cold," he con tinued, drawing his chair slightly nearer, "it is necessary to produce an in creased circulation in order to counteract the congestion. This is done in various ways. The old-fashioned method of taking a hot drink before going to bed, and all of the attendant miseries, was but a blind groping after the truth. Some doctors rec ommend a brisk walk; others believe in various forms of stimulants to increase the circulation. But" — and here he gently took her hand — "you will admit, Miss Calliope, there are other and better ways than these. "I suppose there must be," she mur mured, with a slight show of interest. "There are indeed !" he cried, as he threw his arm swiftly around her waist, while her cheeks began to Hush with the un wonted excitement, and he heard her heart beat. "Don't you think so?" And with a grateful look in her deep-blue eyes she replied: "Yes, indeed. I can't tell you how much better my cold is already.'— Judge. What the Russian Thistle Looks Like. Did you ever see a Russian thiatle? Imagine an old-fashioned muff, say from two to three feet long and two feet in di ameter, made of thistles instead of fur, rilled with from 15,000 to 25,000 seeds. I have seen them on ttie Dakota plains in aggregations of hundreds and thou sands, blown as thistledown over the prairies, into the fields, down the gulches and across the acres, carrying devastation and ruin in all their paths. Sometimes these spheres, like huge bowlders, or rather like so many snowballs, are rolled along with marvelous velocity. They are the terror of the West. Early in winter, when the plant is dead and prone upon the ground, the wind whirls it as a tumbleweed, scattering its seeds wherever it flies. I see by agricul tural exchanges that the pest is making its way eastward. If ever it tackles the fields of Ohio, Pennsylvania or New York, prosperity will be diminished and pro fanity increased. — Howard in New York Recorder. He Ought To. Mr. Aikin — You see things in a different light since you married, do you not? Mr. Nuwed — I ought to. There were fifteen lamps among our wedding Dresents. — Pearsons 1 "Weekly. 5