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SUNDAY MAY 5, 1895
Love
Reverence v the mother of conscience.
Indolence is the red feather in Satan's
cap. _
There is no good rest after dish
Cheerfulness is the handmaiden of pros
perity.
D staying at home may become a dis
sipation.
Every man is a preacher and his even
act a sermon.
There is a silurianism in society as well
as in busii ■
No one i . ■. - a joke that ha? been
carried too far.
:n down easy.
Some people tin; innot save
money without
any.
Vanity his been compared to a t
.-ner than a football.
It is by • ting line we are going
to get the beat [mil on pro?] •
Every sitter at a photographer's tries to
look cheerful becai;-e it takes well.
A shrew Is either an unn.arried wnman
or one who has only half a husband.
Optimism not only mak* .- trouble
bat it ry it.
He ruan who
know- when
The musical tongues of church-belles draw
a great many men to Sunday worship.
"With some people Sunday is the only
day of the week
The woman who makes a living-picture
of herself is not i todel woman.
Under some aspects the world appears to
have been created simply to breed daisies.
Every man has would lay
golden t-i-'i-'S if he rould properly tend
her.
Sunday is the day on which we can sober
up from the drunkenness of six days of
work.
No sort of land monopoly can keep us
from cultivating our dreams in our garden
of sleep.
• .
One of the drawbacks of life is that we
can't lie awake and realize how sweet is
slumber.
•
It is one of the paradoxes of life that the
cheapest is never the best, but the best is
always the cheapest.
*
The Lark is a new little paper in this
City that halts between the inclination to
ting and the duty to fly.
Some people make a great splatter in
the swim by their frantic efforts to keep
their beads above water.
The roses at the Maple Hall show are
pretty, but those in the cheeks of the girls
of San Francisco are prettier.
The average gossip would sacrifice the
friend to make enter
tainment for a casual visitor.
A London woman is said to be drawing
and making money by de
livering lectures on the art of ranking up
A tali man generally wants a short wife,
r learns till after marriage just
what her height is — whether it reaches to
his pocket or his heart.
There a.-' . apart from those
which science tarnishes, to convince us
tli.'tt the Atlantic coa«-t is gradually sinking
ami the Pacific Coast rising.
It requires; a eery strong faith, great
fortitude and a deep devotion on the part
of tlif- Salvation Army to kneel on the
cobblestones of Baa Francisco.
There are some people so mean that
when they see a person with the milk of
human kindness in him they wonder if
some of it isn't water and chalk.
The face is the mirror of the heart, which
is a prood deal warmer than a looking-glass
and gives back a much prettier reflection if
looked into long and often enough.
When we extend our sympathy to the
wind-stricken people of lowa, let us not
forget those of New York, Massachusetts
and Delaware, for their Legislatures are
still m session.
Some people think that being good one
day in every week makes them worthy of
heaven by the cumulative process, just as
though salvation can be v»urchased on the
installment plan.
The discussion over the high theater hat
has reached Paris, where an ingenious
citizen suggests as a remedy that ladies be
compelled to sit on one side of the audi
torium, thus giving men an unobstructed
view from the other.
M Rome should get up from the seven
little hummocks on which she has been
sitting so long and should try a seat on
the lofty summits of San Francisco's hills
she would feel like doubling up to keep
from becoming bald by wearing off her
hair as her head rubbed against the clouds.
If the Philadelphia Record is correct in
Haying, " The flower festivals in Santa
Barbara and Los Angeles show that Cali
fornia is getting there with both of her
fetes," then the occurrence of so many
other festival! all over the State would
imply that California is a kind of centi
pede or hundred-feter. «
The New York Jl'rald has made a new
departure in journalism by combining the
Weekly Herald with the Sunday edition, on
the ground that the field of weekly new*
is well covered by local papers in country
towns and that metropolitan journals can
achieve the best results weekly by concen
trating their energies on the Sunday paper.
THE PLOWEES OP THE CITY.
The rose show in the maple room of the
Palace Hotel was a very beautilul exhibi
bition, as enctianting in its way as was the
chrysanthemum show in its own a few
months ago. The most useful lesson
taught by these two exhibitions is that no
matter how rich and gorgeous are flowers
in the countries of their original produc
tion, when transplanted to California
their excellencies are amazingly increased.
Behind this simple and patent fact lies the
whole story of the wonderful capabilities
of the Stau-.
San Franciscans have need of the-*
flower shows in order that their '■
flowers may be cultivated, for the City i~
wofully behind every other city in the
State in the maintenance of attractive
flower-gardens. The grounds gurround
the mansions of the millionaires on
Nob Hill give distressing evidence of a
lack of the love of flowers, of their high
decorative value and of the wonderful
of the climate. Around the
«plendid brownstone Flood house not a
- to be seen : a few struggling
- break the bare tine rf the pretty
Huntington villa; some heliotropes and
Lardy geranium? are seen in the old
>-r grounds: the chief adornment of
:;ew Crocker mansion i- ivy, which
■ as inappropriate to this climate for
decorative purpon - the Far
mansion is the only one that offers any
.ation to those who love flowers and
•.vhat a dazzling gunien of bloom the
whole of San Francisco might be made.
- duce po hand
e as in other parts of the
.c most useful of ail flow
re among them. The fogs induce mil
dew and tend to blast the buds. This does
■ j say that hfghly satisfactory
not be secured in rose culture
raain trouble is a lack of knowl
:; their treatment. About the only
on they receive is a constant and
ruinous drenching with the hose, whereas
they need very little water and generous
fertilization and cultivation.
A remarkable advantage that San Fran
• njoys over any other city is that
many tender plants, including the helio
trope and the cafla, will bloom in the
t with little danger from frost. The
banana, even tenderer than there, is seen
in many garden?. No roots or bulbs have
dog up in winter to keep them frwiu
freezing. Now, as summer is the natural
time for plants the world over to bloom
and mature their seeds, and as the seasons
south of the equator are opposite to ours,
evident that plants brought hither
from those southern regions will bring
thfir habit with them, and bloom during
our winter. There are many of these, and
they make a splendid show in the hothouses
of Eastern cities. But many of these
thrive and bloom outdoors in
Francisco, and yet this opportunity
irnefnlly neglected by our people.
Nothing is more needed here than a -
of instruction in floriculture, and if Super
lent McLaren of Golden Gate Park
not see in this suggestion a dazzling
opportunity his strong Scotch head is
not so hard nor his purse so eager a3 it
might be.
K.»-ri in the summer month? the pau
city of flowers is disheartening. As a
rule, only a few of the hardiest and com
monest perennial plants are grown, and it
is extremely rare that any care is taken in
training them or by intelligent cultivation
developing their highest blossoming ef
ficiency. It is almost impossible to hnd a
housewife or daughter who has the least
idea of the planting and growing of an
nuals. If even a tenth of the women of
San Francisco would develop an intelligent
love of flowers they would produce a city
which for its little flower gardens alone
would become one of the wonders of the
world.
A HAND ON THE CUETAIN.
With the destruction of awe for the
Unknowable has come almost a fierce
determination to «ound the uttermost
depths of the mysteries which surround
us. Here in the West are two daring men,
each with a hand on the curtain behind
which lurks the Inscrutable — one engaged
on the problem of the fourth dimension
with all the boldness of inspired courage,
and the other coolly and patiently working
to solve the mystery of gravitation. While
these scientists are proceeding on material
istic lines, searching the Unknowable by
means of algebraic forinuke, shrewd and
logical believers in what are commonly
termed occult matters, are pushing their
efforts into the darkest places and reveal
ing marvelous phases of the human mind,
will and spirit.
The singular part of it all is that these in
quirers are fighting for the same end — the
discoTery of the Inscrutable.
Among the most recent of wonderful
di-coveries is the presence of argon in the
air; and we may be sure that the next
problem to be assailed will be the purpose.
and function of this mysterious com
ponent. The possibilities which it pre
sents are dazzling, but there is not space
here to disenss them.
Next we are assured that the mysterious
phenomenon of table-tipping is explainable
on the theory of "levitation." That is,
for every positive force there must be a
negative one, and a particular preponder-
ance of one over the other determines a
specific condition. Granted that there is
such a force as gravity, there must be a
force in existence which tends to overcome
it. What can this force be? Suppose that
the human will, which has developed so
extraordinary and mysterious powers in
certain cases — as in the hypnotic control of
other persons, in the healing of physical
ailments by faith, and in other ways —
shouid have a special individual power,
amounting to a physical force, which
should be able to counteract gravity to a
limited extent by compelling heavy ob
jects to float in the air; that is a problem
upon which some earnest minds are at
work; and who can declare that no proof
of the fact shall be given, and who can
foresee the extent to which this force
might be exercised if proved and devel
oped ' Would not at least the problem of
"aerial navigation" be solved?
Another manifestation of this spirit of
unrest and inquiry is found in the wonder
ful progress that medicine is making. It
la true that many ludicrous mistakes are
made — as that by Brown-Sequard, when he
announced that he had discovered the
elixir of life— but these do not dampen the
ardor nor impair the value of the great
achievements of Jenner, Pasteur and
Koch. Along with these gTeat d iscoveries
of the nature and the cure of disease are
proceeding intelligent efforts to prevent it.
Hygiene is becoming one of the greatest
of sciences. Not only have the dreadful
plagues which formerly devastated the earth
been shorn of their terrors, but communi
ties and individuals are learning the secret
of preserving health at home. It is singu
lar, however, that the mastery of the art
of intelligent living is the slowest of all.
In this field we have earnest workers, Ed
ward Atkinson being the greatest, and it is
in this field that the highest work of socio
logical reformers is to be done.
Robert Bt«venson of San Francisco has
promised us that if some of our wealthy
men give him the material aid necessary to
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 5, 1805.
prove his theory of 'kinetic stability " we
can secure a glimpse of wonderful things
that at present lie beyond the ken of our
senses. It is hoped that some patriotic
gentleman of means will look into the
matter. As to Henry Thurtell, the brill
iant young professor of mathematics in
the Nevada State University, we hope that
ne will so successfully pursue his inquiry
into the problem of the fourth dimension
as to make u« capable of acquiring it with
out having to die to attain it.
SENSATIONAL JOURNALISM.
One of the disadvantages to a com
munity resulting from that form of jour
nalism which delights in sensations ratner
than in common-sense, is the evil repute
which such journalism gives to the com
munity abroad. People at home can easily
detect the bugaboo under the scare head
and be satisfied of its harmlessness, but
people in other parts of the country take
; re in earnest and regard the com
munity as the abiding place of an awful
Francisco is just now suffering as
the victim of this kind of misrepresenta
tion. The lack of funds to pay certain
debt- due to contractors for supplies has
been so exaggerated as to lead outsiders to
believe that the treasury is empty, the City
bankrupt, all its institutions destitute and
the inmates of its charitable asylum « re
duced to starvation. As an outcome of
this the Chicago Tribune recently pub
lished a dispatch from this City under the
headlines: -San Francisco's Treasury is
Empty— Funds Exhausted Through Reck
less Expenditures by Officials." The
reader of such a dispatch would of course
hardly think of coming to San Francisco
to make his home or to enter business, and
as a consequence the City suffers.
The publication of these exaggerated
stories at the very time when we are mak
ing such earnest efforts to build up the
City and to increase its population, has at
tracted the attention of the keen-eyed,
clear-headed editors of the interior, and
they have been commenting on it in their
usual incisive way. The Alameda Argva
in referring to the scare-head publication
said : "Thlfl may be one way to increase
the population to a half million, but it i? a
mighty queer way." And the Petaluma
('wirier said: "It it truly refreshing to
know that such brilliant and brainy men
are at the head of our metropolitan dailies.
They should go and serve an apprentice
ship on some cross roads country weekly."
The sarcasm of our neighbors hu.« been
well directed. A few years' experience in
provincial journalism would be of great
advantage to some of our metropolitan
contemporaries who regard sensationalism
as of more importance than a due regard
for the welfare of the community. In this
particular case there was no good n
for making a sensation at all. San Fran
- not bankrupt, her treasury is nut
empty, her institutions are not destitute,
and their inmates are in no danger of
starving.
OUR EXCHANGES.
During the recent editorial excursion to
the festivals at Los Angeles and Santa
Barbara, some of the excursionists sug
gested the formation of a Sacramento
Valley Newspaper League, and the project
ha< beea favorably considered by many of
the leading papers of that .section. The
Woodland Mail in warmly indorsing the
measure say-: 'It remains for the organ
ized press of this valley to commence the
campaign for a new Sacramento Valley,
built upon new faith in its destiny and
new purpose in compelling the world to
recognize and confess that no section of
this land of plenty outrivals it in its wealth
producing possibilities."' A similar view
of the chance of advancing the welfare of
the valley by the work of the combined
press is taken by the Corning Observer,
which urges that if there are to be any
trips of the association, they should all be
in the north, so as to make known each
fruit section. "There are beauties to be
seen in all our counties," says the Ofjsener,
"thai cannot be surpassed in any part of
tfie State. In one year more than 7000
acres belonging to the Maywood colony
will have fruit and flower shows as well as
the south." From these statements it will
be seen that the editors are thinking less
of the advancement of their journals than
of the welfare of the communities in which
they are published, and it is doubtful if
any better proof of genuine local patriot
ism could be found anywhere than that
which is so abundantly evident in this dis
cussion on the formation of the proposed
league.
In commenting upon «ome reports that
the work of the Southern Pacific Company
on the gap in the coast Jine is to be discon
tinued or carried on with diminished vigor,
the Santa Barbara Preu says: "This idea
has been very happily exploded and all
doubts set at rest by a letter just received
by one of our real eßtate men from C. P.
Huntington himself, in which it is defin
itely stated that the work will be pushed
through to a finish without the slightest
delay, and that the working force, instead
of being diminished, will shortly be in
creased to the fullest number of men that
can be worked to an advantage." The
publication of the statements of this letter
has naturally given no little satisfaction to
the people of the coast counties. The clos
ing of the gap is to them of as much im
portance as the construction of the com
peting road is to the San Joaquin. In
deed, it is of importance to the whole
State. The opening of that line will be
another important step in the development
of California. It will give easy access to
some of the fairest portions of our broad
domain, and lead to an increase of wealth
and population, which, while primarily af
fecting the coast counties, will indirectly
benefit all. Moreover, it is an easy pre
diction that when the south coast road ig
completed the north coast road will soon
be begun.
Out of the flower festivals at Los Angeles
and Banta Barbara has come the good
fruit of a popular sentiment that is at once
optimistic and patriotic. It is worth not
ing, moreover, ihat the action of the
Chamber of Commerce and the Half
million Club, in cordially supporting the
fetes, has won for San Francisco almost as
much praise as has been given to the
festal cities themselves. The people of the
interior see in the grand excursion of the
Half-million Club a proof that San Fran
cisco has taken a new departure and will
hereafter be found working for the whole
State as zealously as Los Angeles has been
working for the southern counties. A
good expression of the general trend of
sentiment throughout the State on this
subject is found in the statement of the
Fresno Republican : "If San Francisco has
been sleepy and lethargic in the past, so
much the greater is the credit that we
would give to her now that she has girded
her loins for the friendly fray of commer
cial competition. The whole State has
regretted her past somnolence; it rejoices
in every indication of awakened enter
prise."
Progress and enterprise are tne prevail
ing words in all sections of the State. The
Point Arena Record having said there is
some talk of extending the North Pacific
Coast road to Gualala, the Meuducino
Benron adds: "If this road was continued
up the coast as far as EureJta it would
meet with good support, not only at Eu
reka, whose inhabitants at present are
very much enthused over the subject of
railroad communication with San Fran
cisco, but also along the coast. The in
creasing industries of this coast demand a
railroad, and we believe at no far distant
date one will be built."
Of course casual references of this kind
to the need of great undertakings do not
imply any early beginning of the work:
but they keep these enterprises in the
public mind and in that way inculcate a
sentiment for progress which, at the first
opportunity, will take the shape of action.
One of the most notable features of the
day is the sudden outburst of aspiration in
Central and Northern California to emu
late the example of Southern California.
The Colusa Herald yearningly exclaims:
"Oh, that we people of the northern part of
the State had one-quarter of the energy
and pusn of our southern neighbors ! Eye
hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath
it entered into the heart of man, what are
the possibilities of this great Sacramento
Valley. Those possibilities are spread out
before us by a generous and pleading Provi
dence, and when, oh when, will we stretch
forth our hand and possess them?"
It would seem that this outburst is not
altogether unreasonable. The Napa Register
quotes General Wasson of Pomona as
saying: "You have natural advantages in
Napa that we do not have in Southern
California, and if you had done one-half
the work in improving your country that
we were obliged to do in our section of the
State in order that we might live there,
you would be compelled to use force
against settlers if you prevented their
coming in." That there is much truth in
this is beyond question. Southern Caii
fornians have taught us all "there is more
in the man than there is in the land," and
now that the northern section of the State
has begun to realize this, we may expect a
new California, in which the people will
not only brag of the climate, but show the
enterprise to profit by it.
To the people of Santa Clara County the
completion of the gap in the coast mad it
of almost as much importance as to the
coast counties tfcemselTe*. Under present
condition* Santa Clara County is in a
pocket. It lie> off the highway of travel
and its prosperity has thereby been gravely
impeded. The Han Jose Mercury in repub
lishingthe statement of the- Santa Karbara
Prem that the com pletion of th^ gap is to
be pushed forward with all vigor -ay?:
•fiii- i- welcome news for San Jose. The
coast route is k> much pleasanter in every
way than the route through th-
Joaquin Valley that there can be no doubt
that all the overland passenger traffic will
be transferred to the former road and so
will pass through this city. We shall thus
be placed upon a direct transcontinental
line, and the advantages to the city will be
at once perceptible." There can be no
doubt of the accuracy of this forecast.
The people of San Jo<e are in fact experi
encing the truth of the old saying that
everything touches the pocket sooner or
later. They have been in the pocket a
long time, and now both the competing
road and the coast road are coming to
them.
The people of Southern California are
naturally pleased with t lie flowery compli
ments that are being showered upon them
faster and more profusely than the ro?e?
fell in the joyous contests of the recent
festivals. They exult in this glory and are
iilied with wonder that other Californians
are not built on the same style. For exam
ple, the Redlands CUngrapk says: "South
California has the pluck, the vim, the busi
ness acumen to use every means of adver
tising our country. It takes lots of money,
but it is freely poured out. When is San
Francisco going to get thoroughly awake
to latter-day methods of doing business?"
While indulgence in the glad boasting of
the Jirst part of this paragraph is permissi
ble, the question with which it closes is in
bad form— that is to say, it is out of date.
Fan Francisco is alive, awake, erect and
leading the State. The competing road,
the Manufacturers' Association, the Half
million Club, the grand excursion and the
project for bringing the next Republican
National Convention to this coast attest
her enterprise and her abundant energy.
The Citrograph should get into line with
the procession and not throw chestnuts at
the elephant.
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.
Bllzag— What is that low, rumbling sound I
hear?
Beezin— Hush! That's the man at the next
table eating soup.— Roxbury News.
Van Clove— Who is going to be the best man
at your wedding with Teddy Thoughtless?
Miss Vanderwhack— l am.— Town Topics.
"Well, George, I suppose we will go to the
lake again this summer?"
"Well, no, my dear. Now that you have
baby, I don't think wed better, fcqualls are
always dangerous in lake regions."— Harper's
Bazar.
Nodd— Our nurscgirl has just had a terrible
fit of sicknc--.
Todd— Yes? What was the matter?
Nodd— By mistake she took some medicine
she was going to give to the baby— Judge.
Trivett— Miss Flop claims to have made 1000
refusals of marriage.
Dicer— That's easily explained. When young
Callow asked her to marry him she replied:
"No, a thousand times, no!"— Tit Bits.
"I guess," said the sharp-nozed girl, "that I
will take the wind out of her sails."
"Why," asked the fluffy girl, "don'tjyou be
up to date and say take the wind out of her
tire. 1 -."—Ci ncinnati TriDunc.
Visitor— What are the usual steps your eti
quette requires to be taken by an individual
preparatory to marriage?
New Yorker— A divorce.— Chicago Record.
"Bless him," she mused; "there's none of
the new man nonsense about him." With a
tender smile she watched her husband as he
sang the children to sleep.— Detroit Tribune.
The old bachelor is merely a cheap remnant.
Galveston News.
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
A plaster cast of the statue of Chancellor
Kent has been made by George E. Bi6sell. the
Poughkeepsie sculptor. The Cnanceilor is rep
resented as standing in a thoughtful pose,
wearlngthe full silk robes of his office. In his
left hand he holds manuscripts which repre
sent his commentaries. A pen is in his right
hand. The statue is to be cast in bronze and
placed in the reading-room of the new library
of Congress at Washington.
Thomas Shepherd, a convict in the Indiana
Prison, South, at Jeffersonville, a trusty, fell in
love with & woman somewhere In the town,
and in order to see her manufactured, after
months of secret toil, a rope ladder out of bits
of yarn, string and the like, which from time to
time he picked up. It was over thirty feet
lon({ and very strong. With this on several
occasions he made his way out of the prison,
always returning to his cell after an absence of
& few hours.
| Guillermo Moncada, one of the Cuban insur
gent leaders, said to be now dead, was a negro,
black as coal, of huge stature and vast strength.
He is described as being a« gentle as a woman
in his ordinary disposition, and to gain mere
private ends would not hurt a fly. It was only
when fighting for Cuban independence that he
became fierce and warlike.
J. B. Swan, a Massachusetts man, claims to
have raised a potato of th« Maggie Murphy
variety which weighs 86 pounds and 10 ounces.
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
Andrew Mason, the gentleman who has been
stirring things up in the Carson mint by inves
tigating bad melts and bogus bullion bars, is
in the City, housed at the Palace Hotel.
M r. Ma*n is one of the tried and true Inspec
tors who inspect, but is really not an Inspector.
Said he:
"I cannot understand why I am called an
Inspector of Mints. I am merely the superin
tendent of the United States Assay Office at
Washington, and have merely come to San
Francisco for a conference. "
Mr. Mason is a very pleasant gentleman to
ANDREW MASON. WHO INVESTIGATES MINTS.
\Skelclicd from life for the "Gall" by XanklvelL]
chat with, but he only likes to chat about
things which do not pertain to the mints.
"Has the conference any connection with the
Carson mint, Mr. Mason?"
He placed his hand on the scribe's arm with
a fatherly air, saying:
"I always like you newspaper boys. lam
glad when it is possible to do you any favors.
No; it has no particular connection. "
•'Have you straightened the shortage out to
an exact figure?"
"Yes. I believe I can give you the amount.
I think it would be all right. Here it is."
The gentleman went down in his vest pocket
and secured a slip of paper containing the fig
ures, "75,504 75 3-10 total gold loss."
"There you are. sir. That is the exact
amount. I have reduced it to actual dollars
and cents."
••Who got it. Mr. Mason?"
Mr. Mason arched his eyebrows, gently patted
the reporter's shoulder and returned the slip
to his pocket.
"Have you located the man Heney, who was
said to have been in on the deal?"
"I feel as though I could safely say not yet,
but it is probable we shall."
"Do yon expect to recover the amount of the
shortage?"'
"I do not anticipate that it will eTer be sent
back to us, but we may recover something.
You see those things are always of such a char
acter that it requires a little care in discussing
them. But whenever anything occurs that I
can give to the reporters I will do so.'
"Is it likely that this steal will result in clos
ing up the mint at Carson?"
"There will be no more silver deposits taken
there, and in future nothing but gold will be
accepted."
"Will that be coined there?"
"No. Probably— in fact it will be sent down
to the San Francisco Mint. All the silver vaults
are sealed up."
"Does that not practically close up the insti
tution?"
"Well, it is still an assay office. You under
stand I do not know just what it will result in.
There is nothing stupendous about the short
age. I will return to Nevada on the 10th and
clean up the business, and then —
There was a peculiar expression on his face
Which suggested the query, "What will occur?"
"I shall probably go back to Washington
with my report.
C. B. Treadwell, the son of Tiffany's principal
diamond buyer in Europe, stopped ' here a few
hours yesterday on his way to Los Angeles.
Mr. Treadwell's father has large antique art
stores in New York, Boston and Chicago, where
"C.8." acquired his early mercantile educa
tion, but for several years past the young
man has been in Nebraska. His home is at
present in North Bend, on the Union Pacific,
about 100 miles west of Omaha, and Mr. Tread
well had many amusing incidents to relate
concerning the State of his adoption. He said:
"I have seen Nebraska develop from a wild
cattle and cowboy country to a rich agricul
tural district, but I can never forget my first
experience there as a sheep-raiser. I had a
chum in New York, whose father ana mine
concluded that it would be the best thing they
could do to buy us a sheep ranch in Nebraska,
and get us out of New York for a few years.
Accordingly the ranch was purchased— a
mere song — and we emigrated. If I had ever
been told that two lifelong chums could become
the bitterest enemies, without cause, I would
not have believed it, but my experience con
vinced me that anything is possible .under the
influences of solitude and Nebraska blizzards.
Our ranch was back from the Platt River about
six miles. The nearest neighbor was four miles
distant. For three months and nine days we
were prevented by the storms, deep snow and
blizzards from getting off the ranch, and for at
least two-thirds of that time we were.unable to
get out of the house. In lien of plastering we
had pasted the interior of our one-roomed
shanty with copies of New York papers which
had been sent to us from time to time during
the Bummer. Those old papers were read a
thousand times, I'll venture. We would stand
on chairs and boxes and read those that we had
pasted on the ceiling, and lie on the floor and
peruse those low down on the walls. At last a
coldness sprang up between us, the cause of i
which neither of us could afterward recall or
surmise. For exactly eight weeks to a day,
though sleeping in the same bed, eating off the
same table, washing in the same basin and
taking turns in the performance of certain
household duties, not a word was spoken be
tween us. It is remarkable, as you may say,
but I will give you my word as a man of honor
that during those eight weeks neither of us so
much as uttered a syllable to the other. I
could tell you much more about the blizzards
and the loss of all our sheep, and the subse
quent return to New York, but I consider that
to have been the banner experience in my
Western life. Were we ever friends afterward?
Yes, the best of chums again, but I we never re
fer to that unhappy season of silence on our
Nebraska sheep ranch."
Major Hoot>er is a busy man, for, as he says
himself, a man who runs a hotel, engineers a
fipht for office in the Loyal Legion, and cares
for the funds of one of the biggest churches in
the City has little time for other things. Of
his latter capacity he is especially proud. "We
have settled up everything at Trinity Church,"
he said, as he leaned against his own counter
in the Occidental corridor, 'and I have money
still left in my hands. We have paid over
$200,000 for the building and lot which we
have on Gough and Bush streets, and have
paid off lots of other expenses, and now after
all is finished we have money still in the treas
ury and our Income ia running ahead of our
r
expenses. As for my chances of getting the
head office of the Loyal Legion, I don't know
much abotit them. Colonel Smedberg is run
ning my campaign, and what he is doiDg or
what success he is meeting with I don't know.
Colonel Kinne has guaranteed to keep order
and suppress all rioting during the election at
the Palace on May 13, and so I euess the affair
will pass off quietly."
Warden Charles Aull of Folsom prison is
wandering around the halls and the office of
the Palace with life air of a man who has lost
something. "I came down yesterday to see
how they would get through with their work
at San Qnentin," he said, "but it seems that
the men were reprieved. We have two men
under sentence of death at Folsom ourselves,
and we will probably have to do some work of
that kind up our way. Repairs are in progress
just now on the Folsom buildings, and some
ad«l:ti'ins are being made to them, notably in
the commissary department. All else is quiet
up there, including Chris Evans."
PERSONAL.
Captain A. Lederman of St. Louis is at the
Grand.
Dr. W. H. Baldwin of Sacramento is at the
Grand.
Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Lewis oi Los Angeles are at
the Palace.
H. Hirschfeld, a capitalist of Bakersfleld, is
at the Lick.
General A. L. Hart of Sacramento is staying
at the Grand.
George C. Bryson Jr. of Carson, Nevada, is at
the Russ H<
J. B. Howard, a contractor of Mexico, regis
tered at the Russ yesterday.
Carl E. Lindsey, District Attorney of Santa
Cruz, is registered at the Grand.
G. C. Coker, one of the Supervisors of Placer
County, is registered at the Rus«.
M. Lawrence, manager of the Tallac House
on Lake Tahoe, is at the Baldwin.
■ci. W. Stohl, a merchant of Napa, came down
yesterday and registered at the Russ.
Louis Dean, a big cattle-man of Nevada, is
down from Keno and stopping at the Russ.
Charles Aull, Warden of the State Prison at
Folsom, and Mrs. Aull, registered yesterday at
the Palace.
J. R. Trainer, a commission merchant of
Marysville, came to town yesterday and regis
tered at the Grand.
R. G. Barton, proprietor of the Barton Opera
house and a vineyard-owner oi Fresno, is a
guest at the California,
J. L. Gillis, assistant superintendent of the
Sacramento division of the Southern Pacific,
came down yesterday and registered at the
Grand.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
Every letter sent east or north ought to con
tain a line or two drawing attention to our
summer climate. Make the rial statement that
this is the best summer climate on earth, and
stick to it. Repeat it and keep repeating it:
quote summer temperatures ana hammer it into
the people, as winter figures have been quoted
and hammered for twenty-five years. We have
the winter advantage pretty well advertised
and generally believed in. A persistent cam
paign in behalf of the summer will do a vast
deal of good.— San Diegan Sun.
There is not a State in the Union where the
expenditure of money for public parks, hand
some streets and boulevards, and lovely, well
kept private grounds, will yield ?uch solid and
abundant returns in yellow gold as in this
Golden State of ours. Need we hay to Santa
Cruzans that the bright particular spot where
returns from such expenditures will be most
sure and abundant is right here, where nature
invites the highest efforts of art. and where
nature, beauty and utility resfde?— Santa Cruz
Sentinel.
With the addition to the population which
irrigation, fruit farming and the new railroad
will unite to bring, home consumption will be
increased, and there will be more demand for
labor, more demand for small farms, more
trade for merchants, more employment for
clerks, and the increased number of laborers
will cau«e an increased demand for building
lots and buildings. — Stockton Independent.
?an Francisco is scared, badly scared. The
United California problem is only a question of
scaring her so badly that she will turn the mil
lions of her hoarded wealth out into the chan
nels of industry for the upbuilding of the
State. This ii likely to be done and it fore
bodes ill to the success of the cause of State
division, if there is such a cause.— Pomona
Progress.
Claus Spreckels expressed the opinion that
the rich land around Visalia would produce
from thirty to forty tons of sugar beets to the
acre. This is an industry that should be care
fully thought about. There is money in the
business, and we have thousands of acres of
land that ought to be producing a good reve
nue ana which is now idle.— Visalia Times.
It would not be strange now that the price of
oil is so much higher if our Humboldt oil field
should be prospected. There is oil in abun
dance in Humboldt and in time it will be
found in paying quantities. The reservoir of
nature^ lubricator will yet be tapped, when
oil and mineral ga« will flow in pipes through
the streets of Eureka.— Humboldt Standard.
If that Pasadena girl who grabbed a lamp
and rushed down the track to stop a train after
she had discovered an attempt to wreck it is a
sample of the "coming woman," we hope she
will arrive in time to take a hand in hanging
the man who made her deed necessary.—Red
lands Facts.
The marked advance in the price of wheat,
together with the recent decided improvement
in prospects for both the grain and fruit crops,
augur well for a year of great prosperity for the
State and coast.— San Luis Obispo Breeze.
The cause of the gold monometallists must
need bolstering up, indeed, when its support
ers demand that no Federal pap be given to
any person favoring bimetallism. — Stockton
Mail.
Times are getting better. Wheels are be
ginning to go round in other places besides the
heads of the cranks.— Oroville Mercury.
EATES IN THE BALANCE.
Transcontinental Freight Schedules to
Be Discussed by the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
C. F. Smurr, general freight agent of the
Southern Pacific Company, went to Chicago
yesterday to attend a session of the Inter
state Traffic Association which is to be
held in that city for the purpose of dis
cussing the "long and short haul" across
the continent.
Denver merchants protested to the com
mission that freight rates from common
Eastern points to the Pacific Coast were
less than to Denver. The railway com
panies explained that it was necessary to
cut rates to coast points on account of com
petition by ships and steamers via the
isthmus and Cape Horn. To this the mid
land men made reply that if the railway
companies could afford to carry at a low
rate clear across the continent, they could
certainly deliver freight half wav for a
lower -figure. This is the questi6n now
before the commission, and further evi
dence will be taken at Chicago before a
decision is given.
ESTATES IN PEOBATE.
Applications for Letters of Administra
tion Are Made.
Margaret A. Skelly. has petitioned for
the probate of the will of John Scannell,
who died on April 12 last, leaving an es
tate valued at $9000. The property was
bequeathed to the petitioner, who is a
daughter of the testator.
Giovanni Ralto and Giuseppi Ralto have
applied for letters of administ ration over the
estate of Alesaandro Matastazio. who died
on the 14th ult.. leaving at estate valued at
|3500 to the children in equal share*.
Fred A. Lawson, a sou of tMflttlix, has
petitioned the Probate Court for letters of
administration over the estate a! Annie K.
Law son, who died intestate Maivh It) last,
leaving an estate valued at JSjOO.
HIS FRIENDS STILL HOPE
They Claim That Dr. Leving
ston Will Be Made Health
Officer.
ALL APPLICANTS MUST WAIT.
They Receive Cordial Greetings
From Covernor Budd, but
Not Any Plums.
Dr. Marc Levingston's friends have not
despaired. They thronged the eon
of the California Hotel yesterda
talked among themselves and wftJ
Governor. They have put on a bo! I
and intend to keep it up.
Dr. Levingston's friends are among the
men closest to the Governor. They are hi?
intimate companions, and it is know
Governor Budd is always loyal to his
friends.
Among those who look hopefully at the
future is Porter Ashe. He has the i
of Dr. Mizner and of Dr. Levingston both
at heart. Speaking of Dr. Levingston, he
said :
••Yes, I think he'll be appointed Health
Officer. I feel quite sure of it. I can't
for the life of me see why I shouldn't.
"Nobody has dared bring a single spe
cific charge against him. i : ■ nough
for disgruntled politicians who see they
are about to lose a play to yell about the
winner. When it comes to proving their
statements tt'fl a different thing, though.
'"Lobk at the men who are making a
tight against him. Who are they:
pose We should begin telling about their
shortcomings, don i you think we could
give some interesting reading?
"But we won't. L'r. Levingston doesn't
dv that sort of thing. He is too big a man.
But I do think it is wrong for the public to
cundemn a man just because a lot of poli
ticians are assailing him.
•And look at what they say. Not one
of them knows a thing against Dr. Leving
ston. They all say that some one has told
them, or that some one, who has been told
by somebody, who heard about it from
fume one else, ha-? told them.
B' I don't see that Dr. Levingston has
anything to fear from his detractors. He
ought to be apoointed, and I think he will
be appointed.' f
The enemies of Dr. Levingston are any
thing but idle. They are doing everything
in their power to move the Governor.
Even if Dr. Levingston were as spot
the driven =now his friends wouJd have
hard work driving against the storm that
-:sen.
Crowd* gathered in the California Hotel
quite early yesterday morning. The Gov
ernor did not appear till afternoon, though.
In the morning he visited the Mint and
had a chat with Superintendent Daggett
while the anxious applicants were waiting.
When he did arrive his callers were cor
dially received. There was a jolly bit of
pleasantry for each of them, but that was
all. They were all put off till next week.
Weekly Mortuary Ileport.
There were 113 deaths in the City during the
week ending May 4. Nine deaths were from
heart disease, 5 from bronchitis. 6 from can
cer, 6 from pneumonia, 4 from apoplexy, 3
from Bright's disease and '26 from phth.- -
Criminals Sentenced.
Charles Wilson, convicted of grand larceny,
was sentenced by Judge Bahrs to imprison
ment in San Quentip for four years. H. Anix
ter, convicted of felony embezzlement, was
sentenced by Judge Belcher to six months' im
prisonment in the County JaiL
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E. H. Black, painter, 114 Eddy street.' \*
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Rests collected. Ashton, 411 Montgomery.*
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California Glace fruits, 50c lb. Townsend's.*
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Bacon Printing Company, 503 Clay street. *
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Geo. W. Monteith, law offices, Crocker bldg.*
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Try our "Atlas Bourbon" and you will want
none other. Mohns «£ Kaltenbach, 29 Market.*
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It cost Kentucky $114 to secure the ex
tradition from Ohio of > T ai>oleon Bonaparte
Shackleford, who stole a $2 hog.
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Have you ever noticed how jour system seems
to crave for special assistance In the spring? Just
the help most needed is given by Hood's Sarsapa
rilla. It gives nerve, mental and bodily strength.
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Ado 20 drops of Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters
to every glass of impure water you drink.
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Ir afflicted with sore eyes n,se Dr. Isaac Thomp
son's Eye Water. Druggists sell It at M cents.
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