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TUESDAY MAY 28, 1895
Prepare for Memorial day.
For a time we rest from fiestas.
Anger is the insanity of impatience.
Whoever buys home goods helps home
labor.
About the hardest thing to reform is a
reformer.
Every mineral spring in California is &
sanitarium.
The Silurian's deafness is the result of
his blindness.
Stanford and Berkeley are locking arms
instead of horns.
No man can be square whose life is a
round of pleasures.
When capital ceases to employ labor it
becomes pernicious.
The supreme issue of the day is the re
turn of better times.
Perhaps Grover will try to float his book
as another bond issne.
Those who do not work for good govern
ment do not deserve it.
He laughs best who has the gayety to
laugh at his own expense.
Democratic leaders are making a tobog
gan slide of the silver question.
Cranks may wrangle over the silver
question, but statesmen will settle it.
It now appears to be a fight between
"sound money" and "honest money."
Everybody will be pleased with street
improvements as soon as they are done.
The sweet girl graduate of the colleges is
the coming woman of the summer resort.
The City prepares for a holiday about
the time country folks are busy picking
fruit.
The Carson Mint scandal is slowly shak
ing out its reefs and sailing on a wider
course.
If Market street gives King Cobble a
black eye the Twin Peaks will split with
laughter.
Prosperity will never be complete until
every workingman can find employment
at good wages.
He who understands the glories of trout
fishing knows how to cast his line 3in
pieasant places.
The people who are trying to make ene
mies of gold and silver have a larger stock
of brass than either.
The first skyrocket fired at the Santa
Cruz carnival will be caught on high by
the Angel of Plenty.
The society man is preparing to revise
dancing programmes by consulting the lists
of graduating classes.
Money spent in a foreign market may
come back, but money spent in a home
market never goes away.
As it is said Cleveland is not satisfied
with Carlisle we may reasonably doubt if
Carlisle is satisfied with himself.
There can never be a union of Central
American States until there is first a union
of the people in any one of the States.
The only big pumpkins that California is
pointing to these days are those that grow
on the shoulders of unprogressive men.
The spring weather fluctuates so much
in the East that the people do not know
whether to call it next summer or last
winter.
The Memphis gold convention having
proved a failure, Cleveland might have
better success by calling the next one in
London.
The summer is singing blithe songs of
welcome to those toilers of the city who go
to seek health and happiness in the
mountains.
The forthcoming meetings of the State
Horticultural Society will probably discuss
the art of buading independence on an
industry stock.
Since the advance in the price of oil
Kaiser William has been encouraging Ger
man scientists to discover a cheap substi
tute for petroleum.
It would not be a laaghine matter to the
Hawaiian Government if the deposed
Queen should marry a Japanese Prince
who could train the Mikado's eye on the
islands.
If the New Jersey man who claims to
have discovered a method of producing
light without heat wishes to put it to an
extreme test he had better try it on the
money question.
Of the late New York Legislature it is
said only one member was indicted for
bribery, while three were investigated and
declared to be strictly honest. The rest
£eem to be doubtful.
Memphis, having tried her hand ' dis
astrously at a gold convention, has now
called a silver convention, and it is wonder
ful how every Memphian face has bright
ened at the announcement.
The new corporation organized in Santa
Clara County to manufacture fruit juices
and ship them away is one of the wisest
and most promising plans for development
and profit that have been devised.
Civic pride lurks in the heart of every
good citizen, bnt it is so timid that it has
to be coaxed a little in order to emerge into
the light, and then it is always delighted
at the praises it receives for its good looks.
The Redlands orange-grower who sold
his 27-acre crop this year for $10,000, thus
netting an interest of 25 per cent on his
Investment, has his own opinion of hard
times in the fruit-crowing business of
California. j
CITY GOVEENMENT.
The work of the National Municipal
League at its meeting at Cleveland on the
29th, 30th and 31st of this month ought to
make interesting reading for San Fran
ciscans, for methods of city government
will be very fully discussed. As yet but
very few American cities have felt the
pressure of the great municipal reform
wave that has swept over Europe. London
is one of the last great European cities to
prasp the vital idea that has transformed
Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and
Bradford into comfortable cities, and is
preparing to reform its own condition. It
was Mr. Chamberlain himself who recently
declared: "The people are beginning to
appreciate the fact that municipal govern
ment is the moat potent agent of social
reform, and that it is the best instrument
by which the wealth and the influence and
the ability of the whole community can be
concentrated and brought to bear in order
to relieve the pressing wants of its least
fortunate members, and in order to raise
the general level and standard of the
whole population."
Glasgow now claims to be the best gov
erned city in the world. It has acquired
the ownership of the water, light and
tramway service, and operates them at
an amazingly low cost. It has a curiously
organized government, the principal
feature of which is an elective Corporation
composed of seventy members, who are
selected from the body of business men.
Not only do they look after all the sani
tary conditions of the city, including pure
water, perfect sewers, the destruction of
sewage, smooth pavements and absolute
cleanliness in every nook and corner of
the town, but they encourage domestic
cleanliness and decency, require that each
house shall have abundant sunshine and
ventilation, establish picture galleries and
libraries on a scale that no millionaire
could afford, and private baths, parks, con
certs and recreation grounds for the free
enjoyment of the people. The whole
plan, in short, is to make the lives of the
citizens as healthy and happy as possible.
As one writer puts it: "The Corpora
tion recognize three duties as being laid
upon them: To fulfill their trust by
economical administration of the city's
finances; to improve public health, both
physical and moral ; and to give bright
ness and the possibility of happiness to
civic life. There are few residents in Glas
gow to-day who are unwilling to admit
that this rather ambitious programme has
been carried out to the full."
To contrast this condition of things with
that prevalent in San Francisco is to in
vite a blush to the cheeks of every citizen
who cherishes the smallest civic pride. It
is discouraging to reflect that the old
vicious system is much more deeply
rooted in the large cities than in tha small.
The government of Bradford is immeas
urably superior to that of London, and
Santa Cruz is vastly better managed than
San Francisco. In attacking the problem
of municipal reform three great obstacles
must be conquered: First, a firmly in
trenched political machinery that makes
of municipal mismanagement a profitable
business; second, lack of organization and
energy among the better classes who
understand the value of good government;
third, a strong body of non-progressive
men of means, scientifically classed as
Silurians, whose native meanness and inade
quate perception of broad and sound busi
ness principles causes them to regard im
provements as a waste of money and a
temptation to municipal roguery.
A SHAMEPUL CONDITION.
Andrew McElroy, chairman of the Com
mittee on Buildings and Grounds of the San
Francisco Board of Education, in an inter
view published in yesterday's Call gave
some astonishing information of the
shamefully bad condition in which many
of the school buildings in the City are
maintained, and he declares that it will
require an average of $3000 each to put the
sixty or seventy houses in a wholesome
condition. Equally discouraging is his
damaging assertion that School Directors
in the past have given more time to the
harrying of teachers than to the, care of
the buildings.
If in the management of City public
schools the teachers themselves should be
permitted the exercise of a large influence
there would be a far better condition of
affairs. Most of them are women, and the
fine organization of women makes them
peculiarly sensitive to the presence of con
ditions which make against health and
comfort. And yet of all refined and edu
cated persons engaged in intellectual pur
suits they find themselves under the con
trol of a system which permits of no liberty
of speech, no incentive to originality of
thought, the least liberty of opinion and
the smallest power in controlling their en
vironment. It seems clear that while dis
cipline and a uniform scheme are neces
sary to their management, it would be
wise to stimulate them in all possible ways,
to make of them advisers instead of
drudges and to expand them with encour
agement.
Fortunately for San Francisco the su
perior natural drainage and the constancy
of the ocean winds enable us to ignore with
comparative impunity hygienic laws which
elsewhere would bring down the severest
penalties. But there is a limit to the for
bearance of nature, and it is noteworthy
that about the only epiaemics which
attack the City are those which originate
in the public schools, and which are due to
violation of hygienic sense. If every
teacher in the department should be re
quired by the Board of Education to file
his written opinion of the physical needs
of the schools the department would learn
many important things, in addition to the
bad sanitary condition of the schools, of
which it is now ignorant.
If the schoolhouses are as bad as Mr.
McElroy says they are they should receive
prompt and adequate attention. In as
suming to educate its children the City
cannot afford to imperil their health. And
the thing that none of us should forget is
that though children have wonderfully
elastic vitality and, to all appearances,
quickly recover from unwholesome sanita
tion, every outrage perpetrated upon their
health will give an account of itself in the
years to come. With all the natural con
ditions for producing the hardiest and most
wholesome race in the world, it would be
nothing «hort of criminal to nullify these
beneficent influences and introduce an
element of weakness at the very beginning
of life. Every citizen of San Francisco is
morally responsible for the smallest injury
done to any of the thousands of children
who attend the public schools.
OUB TWO UNIVEBSITLES.
The selection of Professor T. R. Bacon
of the University of California to deliver
the baccalaureate address at the gradua
tion exercises of the Stanford University
was happy and convincing evidence that
the friendliest relations exist between these
two great institutions. While no special
reasons for unfriendly rivalry have ever
arisen human nature has its weaknesses,
the two institutions have their partisans to
operate in the direction of antagonism,
and few persons would have been surprised
to observe an absence of good feeling. A^
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 1895.
the time of the founding of the Stanford
University the friends of the State institu
tion som?what bitterly complained that
Leland Stanford might have put his bounty
to better use by giving it to the State
University, and thus enabled it to become
one of the richest and greatest institutions
in the world. There was some idle talk,
further, to the effect that pique decided
the millionaire on his course.
But a better understanding has since
come to' prevail. Two special motives in
fluenced Senator Stanford. One was to
perpetuate the memory of his son and only
child, whose hope and ambition was to
establish a great institution which should
teach poor and ambitious children the use
ful vocations, the other was a knowledge
of the fact that the scheme of a State uni
versity could not include to its full breadth
the plan of a practical education which his
own ideas contemplated. This represented
the most advanced theories of a utilitarian
education, in which even though the
highest scholarship should be regarded, it
was to be employed less for adorning
effects th«n as having a direct bearing
upon the practical concerns of life.
That the presence of the Stanford Uni
versity has spurred the State University
to higher achievements there is tangible
reason to believe. The old troubles which
formerly afflicted the latter and which
grew out of conditions formerly deemed
inseparable from the presence of a politi
cal element, are now matters of the past.
The tone of Berkeley is high, clean and
dignified, and its numerous technical col
leges are a guarantee that the leading pro
fessions in the State will be guarded by a
lofty standard.
It is not to be expected, nor could it be
advised, that another great university will
be founded in California by a millionaire,
nor that anything like the vast endow
ment—originally estimated at $20,000,000—
vrith which Stanford started his university,
will ever again be devoted by a California
millionaire to one institution of learning.
Yet it is eminently appropriate that the
splendid examples set by Lick and Searles
in their princely gifts to the State Uni
versity should be emulated by more million
aires in adding to the strength, efficiency
and glory of the Berkeley institution.
THE DEATH OF GEESHAM.
The death of Secretary Gresham will re
vive in the public mind the many services
he rendered his country before he became
a member of Cleveland's Cabinet. Men will
recall that he was a brave soldier, a just
Judge and a statesman of eminence before
he was called as Secretary of vState to enter
upon the performance of duties unfitted to
his tastes, his talent or his training; and
ou this remembrance they will find abund
ant reason for doing honor to his memory.
Among the men who, without previous
military education or experience, entered
the armies of the Union during the Civil I
War few achieved a higher or more de
served distinction than Gresham. Wise in
counsel, resolute in action, daring under
fire and cool at all times, he was one of
those examples of citizen soldiery of whom
the Repuhlic is so justly proud. Called by
President Grant at the close of the war to
fulfill the duties of a Jud^e of the United
States court, he won on the bench honors
not less notabie than those gained on the
fields of war. Again, as Postmaster-Gen
eral under President Arthur, he succeeded
in the able performance of great duties to
win the esteem and confidence of the peo
ple, and took rank among the foremost
administrative statesmen of the country.
The prestige achieved by these manifold
services to the nation, added to his per
sonal integrity as a man, made him a
prominent candidate for the Presidency.
At several Republican conventions his
nomination was among the possibilities of
politics, and in 1888 it was at one time
fairly probable that he would receive the
nomination. Even at that time, however,
it was known to the leaders of the party
that his political course had become
erratic, and the nomination went to
Harrison. From that time forward
Gresham's politics became so un
certain that in 1892 while come
of his friends still suggested him for the
Republican nomination, not a few Popu
lists favored him as a candidate on their
platform. It seems indeed reasonably
certain he might have had the Populist
nomination had he been willing to accept
it. It was while Gresham was occupying
this uncertain position in the public mind
j that Cleveland appointed him Secretary of
State, an office which he at once accept ed
and in which he lost much of the
prestige he once enjoyed.
It can hardly be doubted that history
will indorse the judgment of contem
poraries that this appointment and accept
ance was a mistake on both sides. As
Greisham had never been a Democrat his
selection for the chief Cabinet office did
not please the President's party, and in a
short time events proved that the new Sec
retary was out of place and had assumed
duties be was not equal to. Over his bier,
however, as we have said, men will not
review the mistakes of his later years.
They will recall only the glorious deeds of
his career as a soldier, his honorable Ser
vice as a judge, his efficiency as Postmas
ter-General, his prominence as a citizen;
and remembering his patriotism, his learn
ing and his personal integrity, will mourn
for him as one whom the Republic has
done well to honor.
THE OHIO CONVENTION.
The Republican State Convention which
assembles at Zanesville, Ohio, to-day, will
be watched with more than ordinary inter
est in all parts of the country. The pro
ceedings will be notable for various rea
sons. Ohio is one of the dominant States
of the Union, and as a consequence her
local politics have an important effect at
all times upon National parties. At the
present time, moreover, she is the home of
an unusually large number of Republican
leaders. No other single State has any
thing like such a galaxy as that made up
of Sherman, McKinley, Foster and Fora
ker. Each of these men is within a meas
urable distance of the Presidency, and one
of them at least seems fairly certain of at
taining it. The party convention in such
a commonwealth and under such a leader
ship cannot fail to attract the attention of
all who are interested in political affairs,
and every step in its proceedings will be
carefully scrutinized for evidences of the
course which Ohio Republicans will take
in the National Convention in 1896.
While there are so many leaders of al
most equal eminence in a single party con
tending for the same prizes or preferment
there are sure to be rivalries. Even if the
leaders themselves have no antagonisms,
their followers are likely to be less har
monious. It is natural, therefore, there
should be rumors of possible dissensions
in the convention. These rumors, how
ever, we are sanguine will be disproved by
the result. The Republican party ia not
made up of discordant factions. The rank
and file as well as the leaders know the
value of discipline and organization, and if
they did not there would be enough in the
present condition of the Democratic party
to warn them of the folly of dissensions on
the eve of a campaign.
While the local interest in the conven
tion will be directed mainly to the nomi
nation for Governor, that of the country at
large will be concerned almost exclusively
with the declaration of the platform on the
money question. The action taken in
Ohio will of course not be binding upon
the party as a whole, for only the National
Convention in 1896 can do that, but it will
still be regarded as an expression of the
views of some of the greatest leaders of the
party upon the policy which at this junc
ture ought to be pursued. That it will be
substantially the same as that of the
National platform of 1892 can be hardly
questioned. That platform was a plain
declaration for bimetallism as opposed to
the extremists who advocate either gold or
silver monometallism, and affords there-
fore a safe and secure standing for the con
servative elements of the country who are
in favor neither of the schemes of Wall
street nor the vagaries of the Populists.
FLYING MACHINES.
The report of a fairly successful test
made with the Langley flying machine
near Washington gives renewed encour
agement to the hope that this generation
may see such machines in practical use
for purposes of pleasure trips at any rate,
if not for freight-carrying and for long
journeys. At the recent test the machine
is said to have risen easily, sailed for a
thousand feet and alighted safely in the
water. This in itself is no great achieve
ment, but it seems to have demonstrated
the feasibility of greater results in the near
future and renews interest in the rivahy
between the Maxim and the Langley ma
chines as to which shall be first perfected.
The day has gone by when experiments
with flying machines were left to incom
petent hands. Without counting the able
men who in other countries are working
in this direction, our own experimenters
are men of whom much may be expected.
Professor Langley is one of the foremost
scientists in America and Hiram Maxim
has in other inventions too fully shown
his knowledge and mastery of mechanism
for any one to doubt that he understands
thoroughly all the factors of this problem
and the difficulty of bringing them under
human control. These men have made a
careful investigation of the air currents
and of the flight of birds. They know by
what means the heavy body of the condor
is sustained in the rarefied atmosphere a
thousand feet above the summits of the
Andes, and knowing this they have confi
dence that human ingenuity can devise a
mechanism which will enable men to make
an almost equal flight.
Even if it be conceded that the flying
machine can never become a freight car
rier nor a safe means of transport across
the ocean, there would still be a wide field
of usefulness for it. If it serves only such
purposes as the bicycle it will be of im
mense advantage. To take a flying trip to
San Jose would be a livelier recreation than
the speedy bike affords, and would be a
greater improvement than that which the
wheel has made on the old fashion of foot
trudging.
It is, of course, impossible to estimate
how long it will be before we may expect
to see a flying machine in successful opera
tion. At the rate of progress with which
the improvements have been made thus
far it will be many years. It must not be
overlooked, however, that men of science
working on other problems altogether may
discover some motive power that will en
able the flying machine experimenters to
master some of their greatest obstacles at
once. Moreover, it not infrequently hap
pens that men who nave pondered for
years upon a difficult problem arrive at
last to such an intellectual tension on the
subject that the solution comes to them
suddenly like an inspiration or a dream in
the night. Some such intuitive perception
of the rijjht thing to do may come to some
experimenter in aeronau;ics at any time,
and then the problem would be solved and
the long desired machine would be realized
as unexpectedly to the geieral public as
was the locomotive to the .aat generation
and the telephone to purs.
REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.
According to a recent report, the State
Department will ask Congresi at the next
session for an appropriation iullicient to
begin the work of publishing Jie records
of the Revolution now in the lunds of the
Government. It would seem this work
should have been undertaken '.ong ago.
Many of the papers were obta^ied at a
great cost and could not be replaced. Some
of the more important show signs of de
terioration from age and handling Their
preservation depends upon keeping them
away from the public, and as a consequence
the publication of copies of them b»comes
imperative.
In addition to the preservation ?f the
original?, another benelit will resultfrorn
the publication. It will be possible tt sup
ply all universities, historical societies and
libraries of note with a complete set oi the
records. This will be a benefit to stud»nts
in all sections of the Union. It will en»ble
them to reach original sources of informa
tion concerning the Revolutionary perpd
without going to Washington, and jor
this reason, if for none other, the St4e
Department is likely to find a hearty su|
port from" all the libraries of the Union i\
urging upon Congress the grant of thi
needed appropriation.
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.
The man who dares to get in front of the free
silver chariot will be crushed.— Vancouver
(Wash.) Register.
Those who have the greatest knowledge of
the mineral resources of this section predict
that in time Angels will be as prosperous as
Virginia City was in its palmiest days. — Angels
Herald.
The Monroe doctrine is apparently a very
pretty bauble to decorate a Fourth, of July
oration, but it does not seem to be worth a cent
in the wear and tear of an international dis
pute.—Sacramento Bee.
Now Arizona is the fruit paradise of the
country. Here in the mouth of May we are
shipping ripe apricots in large quantities to
the Eastern market. This cannot be matched
by any part of the country.— Tucson (Ariz.)
Star.
That the bicycle has cut severely into the
traffic of the street railways, except in the hilly
districts, is very evident from the increased
sale of bicycles by local dealers and the com
parative failure of Increase in railway receipts
in spite of the rapid increase of our popula
tion.—Los Angeles Record.
There will be no boom when the San Joaquin
Valley Railroad is built, but there will be busi
ness. Any set of men who would undertake to
duplicate the crazy and disastrous boom of
eight years ago should be taken clear away
from both rivers and drowned in some alkali
slough like so many blind puppies.— Fresno
Expositor.
The public mind is a curious study. It seems
to demand some impulse to stimulate action.
The Napoleon craze has had a big run, and now
that interest in that fad is subsiding it is rea
sonable to expect that the public mind will
seek some other. Eastern papers appear to
think that a, similar movement, with Washing
ton as the central object, may be expected.
That is a change that ought to be commended
in this country, wnere too little is known about
that Great American.— Woodland Democrat.
Many receipts as published still call for
cream-of-tartar and soda, the old-fashioned
way of raising. Modem cookine and ex
pert cooks do not sanction this old way. In
all such receipts the Royal Baking Powder
hould be substituted without fail.
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
"The Alaska Indian," said Dr. Jules Prevost
last evening at the Occidental, "is, without
any doubt, more susceptible to the influences
of civilization than the members of any other
of the various tribes scattered over the Ameri
can continent. It is remarkable how environ
ment tells upon these people. They are al
most wholly without the vicious instincts so
prominently developed in the Indian char
acter by other climes, and perhaps it is due to
this one fact that they so readily fall into the
customs of civilization. The Chinese are com
monly spoken of as the most skillful imitators
on earth, Dut, as a matter of fact, they are not
to be compared with the Indians of Alaska.
An Indian of average intelligence will give the
best Chinaman on earth Ctirds and spades
and beat him on anything from a dog
yoke to a clock. Just give them the
tools, and they will duplicate anything that
they see. For native ingenuity I have never
seen their equals among any other people.
They are not alone imitators in the mechanic
arts, but shev marvelous adaptability in the
acquisition of Knowledge pertaining to cus
toms and morals. For generations they have
lived in underground huts. No sooner did
they see the cabins of the white man than they
too took to surface habitations. Not a few of
them, but thousands, at once recognized the
advantages of a house of wood above ground.
Now it is not good form to live underground,
and the whole nation is rapidly acquiring com
fortable houses. It was the same way in the
matter of personal cleanliness. They saw the
white men use soap and water and they were
not slow to fall into line.
"Mentally they are certainly far superior to
other American Indians. They acquire Eng
lish with great facility and learn to read
and write in about half the time required for
these accomplishments among the Sioux or
Apaches. We often have visitors from settle
ments six or seven hundred miles away. They
look with awe and wonder upon those of their
kind who enjoy improved conditions of living
at or near the mission. They see cabins in
course of construction where bunks and
blankets are used initead of a skin and the
floor . The lesson is not lost upon them. They
return to their settlements, and at once prac
tical results of their newly acquired ideas are
to be seen. No more sleeping on the floor— no
more underground caves. In this way whole
towns have been changed from squalid misery
to a fair degree of comfort. Many of them are
devout Christians. I have known an Indian
to bring the dead body of his wife hundreds of
miles over mountains and almost impassable
rivers that she might have Christian burial at
the mission. There are great things in store
for the Alaska Indian, for he is progressive and
anxious for instruction in the arts of civiliza
tion."
"The press dispatch from Washington, which
cays that Governor Hughes of Arizona is to be
retired from office on the report of Secret Ser
vice Inspector Oliver will come as a surprise
to a good many people in Arizona," said
William Metzer of Globe at the Grand yes
terday. "Of course, the rumors have been thick
relative to his removal for some time. He has
been in hot water ever 6ince his appointment,
and there have been complaints from a dozen
sources, whether well founded or not I am not
in a position to say. But this report from the
Secret Service Inspector was generally sup
posed to contain matter favorable to Hughes
and a complete refutation of the charges of his
enemies, who, of course, were responsible for
the investigation. They have made a great
cry because he appointed members of his
family to places under the Government, but if
I am not much mistaken, there is much of this
sort of thing among officials higher than
Hughes. It's a poor man, indeed, who will not
take care of his friends, in a political way,
when the power to do so is given him.
"Hughes' unpopular'ty, in my opinion,
comes from the fact that he changes his poli
tics every few years. Here again selfish mo
tives should not be charged ageinst him, for
he has veered several times without having in
sight any office, or without tne expectation of
reward of any kind.
"The rumored appointment of ex-Governor
Zulick to eureeed Hughes is hardly within
the bounds of the probable, but it is hard to
account sometimes for the turn of fortune in
political warfare. He may have bridged the
gulf which a short time ago was very stormy
water between himself and Hoke Smith."
Baron C. de Choisy, who is out here for the
Societe Industrielle dcs Sciences et dcs Mines,
an immensely wealthy French syndicate that
is purchasing some large quartz-mining prop
erties in this State, in speaking of the reason
for seeking foreign investments, said the other
day at the Palace: "There is a great deal of
idle capital in France that must seek invest
ments abroad. We have no such opportunities
as you have here. All our lartce railroads and
other such public enterprises have been built
up so that there is little opportunity for invest
ing in that way. So it is with the different
lines of manufacturing. The surplus capital
must jro out of France, and a great deal is
beine; invested now all over the world. There
seems to be a great field here." The Baron and
Mr. de Bourgade, who came out with him,
have satisfied themselves of the value of sev
eral large properties and will recommend their
purchase.
Ben Maddox of the Visalia Times is in town
and is very enthusiastic over the outlook in
his end of the Pan Joaquin Valley for this sea
son. Yesterday at the Grand he said: "In no
part of the State will there be a better crop of
-vvheai than in the upper end of San Joaquin
Valley. In fact they have never before had such
crops even there. Thousands of acres will
yield from fifteen to twenty-five bushels to the
acre. With the way the price of wheat is go
ing up that means a great deal. There is the
best of feeling in Visalia. The population hns
been increasing very fast the past two years.
It is the most prosperous town in the State to
day. You couldn't get a house to live in and
there are a great many improvements going on
all the time p.ud buildings being put up. One
good sign is that we have hardly felt the hard
times that the rest of the country has had."
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.
The rooster crowed at the third night hour,
He crowed at midnight, too;
But to crow at 6 was beyond his power,
For the tramp got up at 2.
—Washington Star.
The little Boston boy was so plainly puffed
ip with juvenile vanity that her visitor noticed
t. "Robert seems unusually proud to-day "
the said. '
"Yes," the fond mother answered, "he has
oi his first pair of spectacles."— Indianapolis
Juirnal.
i henpecked husband called the servant
m4d aside and said: "Look here, Robustina, I
am told that my wife and daughter are plan
ning a trip to the Continent. Do you know
Wh4her I am going with them or not?"—Rich
morfl Star.
Te»cher— What is the gender of money?
Sclblar— Feminine.
Teaher (severely)— Wliy?
SchQar— Because money talks.— Detroit Free
Press.
"Ar«b't yon starting rather early," inquired
the viator, "to put that young boy of youra
forwarl as a candidate for United States Sena
tor?"
"Youdon't know my ambition," said the
fond Dfaware parent proudly. "I mean that
he shall be elected before his eightieth birth
day."—Chicago Journal.
Mrs. day— What a terrible thing has hap
pened t» the Blacks! Mr. Black was coming
home fro* his club the other night and he fell
down anc broke his leg so badly that he had
had to ha^ it amputated.
Mrs. Grem— L,ost his leg! Isn't it awful?
And his fifaily saw bo little of him before!—
Boston Tratscript.
FEO'LE TALKED ABOUT.
Prince Niciolas of Montenegro has written a
diama in virse called "Prince Arabanet,"
wLich will t» performed soon at Cettinje, his
capital, and b to be translated into Russian.
The Prince ha previously brought out another
draiaa called * he Tsaritsa of the Balkans."
Although SliWilliam Jenner Is in constant
attendance upin Queen Victoria, he has no
special fears of ier breaking down at this time
Despitt her rhelmatism the Queen has a fond
ness for open-ai" driving in all sorts of weather
and sht still k<*pa her rooms cold and her
windows open.
Sarah Orne Je-sfett, whose sketches and tales
so endeaied her fc the people of New England
was bop in South Berwick, Me., September 3,
1849. \er father, Theodore Herman Jewett,
was a p'^sician of great ability, and for many
years fil>d a professor3nip in the medical de*
partmenof Bowdoin College.
Congre«(man Patterson of Tennessee, the
leader ofthe sound money element in the
South, is , tall, large-boned, heavy-set man,
now well \dvanced in years. He has a deep,
rich voice, od is a fine orator. His old party
associates hTennessee consider him an apos
tate on acco-nt of his vigorous sound money
campaign throughout the Southern cities.
The younfcCrown Prince of Germany re
cently demonstrated his primacy in the im
perial nurser\ by thrashing his younger
brothers. Kai*r Wilhelm entered, and, pick
ing up the heiifcpparent in one band and a
birch rod in be other, quietly remarked:
"Now that you Vve shown your brothers who
is Crown Prince,\ will show you who is Em
peror."
F.RSONALS.
Dr. C. E. Rea of lytaluma is at the Grand.
R. D. Safiald, an^uorney of Napa, is at the
Lick.
John Pollard, a caveman of Ferndale, is at
the Grand.
W. Levy, a merchan of Woodland, is at the
Baldwin.
E. B. Hornunj, a meftant of Marysville, i*
at the Grand.
W. H. McKenzie, a bafcer of Fresno, is regis
tered at the Lick.
V. S. McClatchy of thec a cramento Bee is a
guest at the California.
C. S. Fitch, a mining mQ of Sonora, regis
tered yesterday at the Lick
John G. Ritchie, manageiof the "Alabama"
Company, is at the Baldwin
George Russell, a cattlen^n of Reno, Nev.,
registered at the Lick yester%,y.
L. H. Abramofsky, a mercfcnt of Jackson,
Amador County, is at the Graa,
General Nelson, late of St. Luis, Mo., regis
tered yesterday at the Occident.
Charles M. Cassin, an attorne;of Santa Cruz,
registered yesterday at the Graq.
Professor Maxwell Sommerville o f the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania is at the>alace.
W. A. Anderson, an attorney of Sacramento,
■was one of yesterday's arrivals at \e Lick.
E. Carl Barm, superintendent 01 the Indus
trial School at lone, is a guest at thGrand.
R. C. Clayton, a well-known mixing man of
Clayton, was one of yesterday's arri\ls at the
Lick.
L. T. Hatfleld, an attorney of Sa*amento,
came down yesterday, and is a guet at the
Lick.
E. J. Cahill, a civil engineer from San Mar
tin, was one of yesterday's arrival at the
Grand.
Senator E. C. Voorheis and his wife and
daughter of Sutter Creek register^ at the
Baldwin.
Chevalier Ghisi, the Italian Consul t Shang
hai, came in yesterday on the Chia on his
way home, and is at the Occidental.
John Buckingham, Deputy United Sta^s Col
lector of Internal Revenue at Ukiah,came
down yesterday and is a guest at the Gra\d.
Louis Weinberger, a big commission mer
chant dealing in California fruits, of Ne\ Or
leans, was one of yesterday's arrivals at the
Grand.
Mayor Robert EfFey of Santa Cruz and Jfc,n
ager John T. Sullivan of the Ocean Beach Htel
came up yesterday to attend the meeting of be
San Francisco committee on the Venetian Vk
ter Carnival at the Union League Club, ail
both registered at the Grand.
THE VALLEY RAILROAD.
Proposals Received for Three
Hundred Thousand Red-
wood Ties.
A Committee From Visalla Holds a
Conference With the Directors
of the Road.
The construction committee of the Val
ley road, consisting of John D. Spreckela,
Leon Sloss and Captain Payson, met at the
company's office on Market street at 2
o'clocK yesterday afternoon and opened
bids for 300,000 railroad ties. Thirty-five
proposals were received. The bids ranged
in price from 30 to 45 cents.
To-day at 2 o'clock the directors will
meet and award the contract to the lowest
responsible bidder. All the bidders are
Pacific Coast men, but some of the pro
posals come from Oregon contractors.
Chief Engineer Storey yesterday sent to
Fresno a party of ten surveyors, headed
by E. E. Tucker. The party will work
south to Visalia on the preliminary sur
vey. Another party is in the field working
toward Hanford.
The surveyors working south from Stock
ton moved yesterday to the Stanislaus
River. They have completed more than
half the work from Stockton to the Stanis
laus.
Three parties are now in the field push
ing the work right alonjj.
A committee from Visalia, consisting of
Messrs. Stewart and Maddox, came up yes
terday fora conference with the directors
of the road. They desired to ascertain
definitely wh at the directors want.Visalia
to do in order to secure advantages* of the
road. Mr. "Watt talked with them, and, it
is understood, gave them the information
desired.
At the meeting of the directors to-day
final action will probably be taken on the
lease of China Basin.
SPRUNG A LEAK AT SEA.
Arrival of the American Ship James
Nesmith From New York.
The American ship James Nesmith ar
rived in port yesterday morning 146 days
from New York. When she was out three
days she encountered a circular storm and
sprung a leak. All hands were ordered to
the pumps, and were kept there day and
night until the storm abated. Five days
later an off-shore gale struck the ship, and
put her almost on her beamends.
The captain decided to run into Ber
muda, and at that port the cargo was
shifted forward. An examination was
made, and the leak was located aft near
the stern post. The vessel was laid up at
Bermuda for ten days. The leak was not
as serious as was thought at lirst, but tne
fear of ruining the cargo prompted the
skipper to steer for Bermuda. From the
latter port to San Francisco the trip was
uneventful.
A Denial Frowa Schmidt.
Edward A. Schmidt desires to contradict a
statement recently published that he had
formed a partnership with Gns Meesinger in
the insurance business. Mr. Schmidt still rep
resents the Palatine Insurance Company. .
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