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SUNDAY DECEMBER 15, 1895
THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
The past week was gay, but the coming
will be gayer.
Santa Claus is a great fellow for gift
schemes, but be is no fakir.
It is apparent the Sublime Porte has a
limit to his sublimity, even in his own
port.
There is no Ciosarism in a third-term
movement that substitutes a cuckoo for an
eagle.
Every community has its difficulties —
Arizona has her Apaches and we have our
Solid Eight.
Study our advertisements to-day, and
you will know where to get Christmas bar
gaina to-morrow.
During the coming week the Oakland
exposition of home industries will claim
attention and get it.
Money talks openly, but boodle trans
acts business with a wink, even when it
operates in the dark.
Reorganizing the National Guard seems
a good deal like reforming Democracy. It
demoralizes at the first nutter.
It is worth going the rounds to inspect
the holiday novelties just to see the pretty
women who are looking at them.
In the poultry show, in the holiday sea
son and in European diplomacy there is
nothing bigger just now than Turkey.
From the stormy time he is having on
his hunting trip Cleveland seems to be a
Jonah for weather as well as for politics.
The joy of the Christmas season comes
from the fact that planning for the happi
ness of others makes everybody happy.
You can easily figure out to-day how to
make your Christmas gifts tit your pocket
book, but to- morrow it will be different.
The Grand Jury is trying to make the
punishment of official corruption a holiday
task, and the people should assist in the
work.
People who believe it is always the un
expected that happens are now telling
their friends they do not expect any Christ
mas gifts.
The appearance of bears on the Colorado
stock market is not surprising. Tender
foot speculators are very tempting meat
and winter is at hand.
||There is a growing belief that while the
tpp of the National Guard may be a trifle
heavy in time of peace it would be light
enough in time of war.
The weather suits the shopping season,
as if it were made for it, and. what is more,
it is homemade, for no foreign country
could produce anything like it.
In a recent gale in Boston a gust of wind
struck a girl on a bicycle and blew her
clear off the wheel, and yet some people
talk about wind in San Francisco.
We did not think much at home of the
Btate exhibit we sent to the Atlanta ex
position, but just the same it astonished
the East and captured the medals.
The beautiful novelty catches your eye
in the shop-windows, but when you go in
and try to get your hands on it it rises on
the wings of price and soars out of sight.
As rich gold discoveries are now reported
from Argentina there is a brightening pros
pect that silver may yet reach a parity
with the yellow metal despite the gold
bugs. _
It now seems certain the Republicans
will reorganize the Senate, and before the
adjournment for Christmas both branches
of Congress will be in proper shape to do
business.
The cleaning of streets should include
the sweeping away of the fake poolrooms
where the youth of the City is corrupted
by gamblers and incited to recklessness
and crime.
It is said Cleveland went hunting to give
Carlisle time to fix up his figures, so the
iSecretary probably intends to treat the
statistics of the Treasury as a kind of wax
work show.
It is one of the perverse freaks of the
time that sends capital all over the world
hunting for mining booms instead of bring
ing it to California to strike pay rock in
legitimate business*
The Japanese have now evacuated Port
Arthur and the Oriental situation seems
very much as it was before the war, with
Korea still lying as a bone of contention to
start the dogs of war again.
As Belmont says, "I do not see bow it
will be possible, to avoid much longer an
other issue of bonds," it is evident he is
one of the fellows who look to Cleveland
instead of watching Congress.
It is now proposed to establish across
the Santa Cruz Mountains a road with a
grade easy enough for bicycles, and when
completed Santa Cruz will be one of our
wheeling suburbs with the bloomer right
in it with the bathing suit.
There is very little rivalry among cities
to obtain the Democratic National Conven
tion, and it is hard to understand why un
less it be on account of the prevailing
belief that the assembly will be more like
a funeral gathering than a lively party.
GLOKIOUS WHJTEB DAYS.
It is a fact familiar to the residents of
San Francisco that the winter months are
pleasanter than the summer. This is so
extraordinary a thing for a place lying
north of the equator that it deserves
analysis. A study of the conditions which
produce it reveals curiously complex and
an intensely interesting combination of
natural forces, working with rixed and un
failing regularity.
The differences between our summers
and winters are these: During the sum
mer a wind often rises in the afternoon
and continues till sundown. To one not
properly clad it is coid and disagreeable.
Often it is followed by a fog, which may
persist throughout the night and last well
into the forenoon of the following day.
It is damp and chilly. Whatever injuri
ous or disagreeable effect the wind and
the fog may prodv.ee can be easily avoided
by the use of warm clothing, and if this is
done their good effects may be enjoyed.
These are very valuable, as may be in
ferred from the fact that they come directly
and always from the ooean, and are neces
sarily pure, invigorating and laden with
life-giving ozone. They are immensely
better than showers or thunderstorms.
Both wind and fog disappear in winter,
and rains occupying about one day in
seven take their place. They have none of
the characteristics of an Eastern summer
rain, and are c-hillins; only because they
exclude sunshine. The intervals are filled
with the softest and balmiest days of an
Eastern spring and brilliant calm nights,
in which the stars have a wonderful luster
or the moon gives a dazzling light. Now
and then there is a frost, hut the fact that
oallas, heliotropes and even bananas growin
the open air without much risk of damage
shows, that the frost cannot be severe.
The difference between the temperature
of summer and that of winter is slight.
The winters often seem warmer, but that
is because they have no winds. Hence
throughout the year one needs warm
woolen clothing, and it is generally wise,
even in summer, not to go out at night
without a wrap. Strangers often take
severe colds because they cannot realize
the wisdom of wrapping up warmly against
the summer winds.
The causes for this peculiar arrangement
of conditions are these: During the sum
mer the winds come unfailingly irom the
west and northwest, and hence have
passed over the cold water which comes
down through Hering Sea from the Arctic
Ocean to tne Pacific. In winter the winds
shift to the south, bringing up the warm
climate of the tropics. If the conditions
were reversed our winters would be as cold
as those of Lapland, and our summers as
hot as those of Central America. That
they are as they are, is one of the reasons of
California's uniqueness and charm.
CHEISTMAS SHOPPING.
Early in the present month the dis
patches from Berlin announced that the
Empress of Germany ana her children
had gone the round? of the shops
and made their Christmas purchases.
Her Imperial Majesty was wise. As
a shopping woman she is now in a
position as secure as on a tnrone, and
can watch the crushing crowds of eager
gift-seekers from now until Christmas eve
with the serenity of one who has been
clever enough to distance the multitude
and get there first.
To undertake Christmas shopping a
month before Christmas day would hardly
be as commendable in this country as it
seems to be in Berlin. Our shops have not
displayed at that time the brilliant array
of holiday novelties that come later, and
those who seek i;ifts so early are likely to
get the remnants of last year instead of
the newest inspiration of this. At present,
however, it is full time to get the Christ
mas shopping; well under way, and as far
as possible it should be completed before
the week closes.
A crush is sometimes enjoyable, but
it is never so to those who have a per
plexing business on hand. Now, the selec
tion of gifts suitable to the taste of the
person for whom they are intended and at
the same time within hearing distance of
the talking power of the money of the
giver is decidedly a matter of perplexity.
It must be carried on with something of
deliberation to produce good results, and
ought therefore to be undertaken when
there is time enough to transact it with
out flurry and freedom enough in the
shops to see things without being consid
ered a hog by some one who wishes your
place at the counter.
Beyond all question much of the pleas
ure of the great holiday is derived from
the excitement of the shopping in prepara
tion for it. This is particularly so when,
as at present, the weather is fine enough
to make the open air a delight that en
tices everybody to the streets. All of our
main thoroughfares in these days are as
joyous with gay and well-dressed crowds
as if every afternoon were a festival.
The splendor of the shop windows,
bright with the beauty of innumer
able flashing jewels and gems of rare
art, is not more gladdening than the hap
piness that giows in the faces of those who
pass from window to window and gaze on
each new splendor with a new admiration..
To mingle with ti.ese crowds is to get in
spirations of kindly sentiment toward all
the world, ana it is not to be wondered
that many shoppers delay to make pur
chases in order to have fresh excuses every
day for a new promenade of the streets.
This enjoyment of the crowds and the
sliodb is natural, but it should not be in
dulged too far. Make your purchases
early and then you can join the crowd
of sightseers without being annoyed by
the coming crush. The example of the
Empress of Germany in this respect is
worthy of imitation even in this land of
freedom. There is nothing to be gained
now by delay, while much may be lost,
for in this as in all things else the first
comer has the first choice.
BEAUTIFY THE GROUNDS.
The suggestion made by Regent Rein
stein and eagerly adopted by the students
of the University of California, that they
each give three or four days of manual
labor on the university {.'rounds, was an
inspiration. Undoubtedly the students
would have done this long ago bad the
suggestion been mii'le. As there are over
600 students their labor will save the State
some thousands of dollars and produce a
valuable result iv nutting these notfle
grounds in attractive condition. It has
always seemed an extraordinary fact that
while the grounds of every other public
institution in the State have received in
telligent attention, those of the university
have been persistently neglected. Re
cently the rezent3 secured the co-opera
tion of Superintendent McLaren of Golden
Gate Park, and as he is one of the most
skillful gardeners in the world his directing
aid will be important and the contribu
tions which we can make from th? park's
resources will be invaluable.
We shall expect that Recent Reinstein's
suggestion will prove but the beginning of
a permanent system of student care of the
grounds. There is no desire to make
laborers of the ambitious young men
and women of the institution, but as
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1895.
gardening is one of the most whoiesoma
and fascinating occupations it will inevit
ably follow that the personal and fostering
interest which the students will acquire
from observing a beautiful creation of
their own, growing and developing tinder
their hands and by their efforts, will in
spire them with an affection for their work
and an added pride in the institution, and
that they will formulate a permanent plan
for the care of the grounds and for a steady
extension of their rare possibilities.
And this purpose will be advanced in
other ways. Many of the students are
members of well-to-do families, and these
will be led to contribute money for the
work. Our more wealthy citizens will
then be drawn into the movement. From
landscape and flower gardening at the uni
versity the pride and ambition of the peo-
pie, inspired by the students, will be urged
to higher achievements. The inferior
wooden buildings of the university will be
replaced with handsome stone structures,
the material for which will be quarried
from the boundless resources of the State.
Statues will be erected and a local observ
atory subsidiary to the one on Mount
Hamilton established.
In their plan of organization the stu
dents will divide the work among them
selves intelligently according to the abil
ities and adaptabilities of each. The young
men will do the harder work and the young
women the lighter and daintier. A far
reaching effect will be to inculcate such a
taste for floriculture throughout the State
through dissemination by the students as
will transform* California into the garden
of flowers which nature intended that hu
man hands should make it.
SURVEYING MINERAL LANDS,
William 11. Mills, through an interviev
published in The Call, has made a sug
gestion of very great value, as it bears
directly on the contention that has arisen
between the minimi interests of California
and the Southern Pacific Company. It is
that the Miners' Association should wora
for a scientific survey of the western slope
of the Sierra Nevada, with a view to ascer
tain what lands are mineral-bearing, and
that the entire slope *be plattert. In this
way, as he points out, immense quantities
of gold would be at once discovered and
mines developed. He thinks that the
work should be undertaken by Congress
and that it could be done with an appro-
priationof $200,000.
There are many and very urgent and
just reasons why this should be done and
why it is the duty of the Government to
doit. Mexico is a long way ahead of us
in this matter, as it has been thoroughly
surveyed and platted for mineral deposits.
Mr. Mills gives some figures to show the
obligations under which the Government
rests to California. Down to June 30, 1893,
it received in internal revenues from us
over $84,000,000, and from customs duties
since 1850 over $218,000,000; from the sale
of lands between $5,000,000 and $ti,000,000,
and between $15,000,000 a~d $20,000,000 in
postage. This does not include the mil
lions in precious metals which the State
has contributed to the welfare of the
Nation.
In return for all this the Government
has given us $.3,9;j8,000 for public buildings
and $0,:235.000 for the improvement of our
rivers and harbors. As a simple act of
justice we ate entitled to much more.
Therefore Mr. Mills adds that to make the
whole scheme complete the Government
should establish on the straits of Carquinez
metallurgical works at a cost of f r \ooo,ooo
to rival the world-famous institution at
Swansea. These works should be for the
treatment of all kinds of ores; if estab
lished they would have a wonderful effect
on the development of the gold-mining
industry of the State.
The suggestion is so fair and its be
neficent results would be so great that
neither its justice nor its wisdom can be
doubted. The question as to whether great
bodies of land in the Stat° are mineral or
agricultural has always been and still is
undetermined and a source of endless liti
gation and conflicts. The peculiar geology
of the Stace accounts in large part for the
fact. The ancient gold-bearing rivers that
ilowec 1 . parallel to the axis of the Sierra
were buried ages ago under heavy ilows of
lava. Where erosion has exposed the beds
gold in abundance is found. To determine
the course of these beds under the still
superimposed lava would be a very valu
able work, but there are other phases of the
case equally as important.
IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS.
Settlement of the Pico Claim.
San Dle?o Cnlon.
It is announced that the old claim of Jose
Pico, a son of the famous Governor of Califor
nia, against the State, amounting to thousands
of dollars, is soon to be paid. This will bo
gratifying to all ■who remember the valuable
services rendered by this famous Spanish fam
ily. be I'ieos were very liberal in their deal
ings with the State in early days. The Kites of
the San Quentin prison, the Stockton asylum
and some other public institutions were gifts
from the old Governor, lately deceased. It is
pleasant to know that one of the survivors of
this historic family, himself far advanced in
years and disabled by honorable wounds, i
to receive payment of his claim against a com
monwealth that owes so mucH to his father's
generosity.
Most Effective Diplomacy.
I'orland Oregonlan.
There is no assurance of peace that is equal
to the power and readiness to compel it. The
most effective diplomacy Is that which is
backed by force. Barehanded patriotism,
though admirable in theory, is no match for
aggressiveness well armed. In a proper and
prudent state of defense, the Monroe doctrine
would enforce itself; without this it may be
necessary to fight for it.
The Golden State Was Benefited.
Napa 'Register.
California has lost the. National Convention,
but it has gained a whole lot of advertising. No
better men could have been sent East to talk up
our State— its climate, its wonderful resources,
its hospitable people— than those elected to
light for convention honors. They represented
coast interests in an effective and* forceful way
and their work will bear good fruit.
Converting Horseflesh Into Pork.'
Winticmucca (Nov.) Silver State. V
Tom Rickey of Carson, so we are given to un
derstand, la killing eighteen horses a week and
feeding them to the hogs. The meat is boiled
in a caldron with grain and is very fattening.
People who have tried horse steaks* way (hat
they ere very palatable, a good deal better than
tough bee/. \ --. -.',-.
Phenomenal Coincidence.
. Whatcom (Wash.) Reveille.
At least ten papers have published, as orig
inal, the wonder of the young fellows entering
college next year if their class will be known
as '00. , .
"TecuiDielil'.Would Not Be Bad.
• Alameda Telegram." : ' > \
What shull be the name oi Indian Territory
when it knocks at the door for admission as a
State in the Union?
LOS ANGELES CELERY.
Los Angeles Record.
One of the growing industries of Southern
California is the raising or celery. The Santa
Fe Railroad Company shipped four carloads
East .Saturday, and these make a total of thirty
forwarded ho far this season, which iS a much
larger number than for the same period last
year. The celery is grown on the peat lands
nenr Santa Ana. About 250 acres of it nre now
under cultivation, and this area is being in-
CTMned every year. The season lasts from the
middle of November until about March 1. Last
year 150 carloads wore sent East, and that
number will be doubled this year. The celery
is what is known as the White I'lumc variety,
and is in great demand in the Eastern mnr
kets, rankiiifr equal if not superior to the cele
brated Kalamszoo (Mich.) product, It will not
be long before Southern California ctlery will
be as well known throughout the East as its
oranges are now.
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
" Slay Irwin had a rather amusing and, for a
time, puzzling experience one evening during
the last week of the run of ' The Widow Jones'
at the Bijou Theater, New York," said Ramsey
Morris, the playwright, at the Occidental Ho
tel last night.
" On the occasion in question a number of
bouquets had been thrown and passed over the
footlights and the actress had them carried to
her dressing-room. While changing her cos
tumes between the acts she glanced at the
cards and notes that accompanied them. One
note, however, through being well pushed down
among the flowers, escaped her attention.
Meantime she had been chatting with a young
lady, a non-professional, who had called on
MISS IRWIN, WHO GOT MR. IRVING'S BOUQUET.
[From a photograph.]
her in her dressing-room. During the conver
sation this young ltdy happened to mention
the fact that her mother was quite ill.
" Miss Irwin grew sympathetic at once and,
seizing a bouquet, the one which unfortunately
contained the unopened note, said:
"'lnm so sorry that your mother is ill. Tell
her that I gent her these flowers ana that I will
call on her to-morrow.'
"The next morning Miss Irwin called early
on the invalid. Her young friend of the night
before had gone on a preracnade, but the old
lady had evidently just awakened and was ex
amining her bouquet, for from the next room
came very distinctly and angrily these words:
"'Whoever sent me those Sowers must be
crazy or under the impression that I am a
fool.'
" Miss Irwin scenting trouble rushed into the
room with a terrified ' What's the matter?'
"' This.' shrieked the old lady wrathfully,
holding forth the note which she had discov
ered in the bouquet.
" Miss Irwin nervously grasped the paper and
read tho words, which were es follows: ' I have
seen ymn Hamlet and it's great. I want to see
your Macbeth and I'll be up to-night. An Ad
mirer.'
"The jolly May at once smoothed the old
lady's ruffled plumage by explaining that a
bouquet evidently meant for Henry Irving at
Abbey's had been left at the Bijou by mistake,
' and, probably,' added Miss Irwin, ' Sir Henry
has received bouquets intended lor me, with
accompanying notes informing him that his
' Widow ' was fine.' "
There were doubters in the little knot of
people at the Palace who heard Boswell M.
Blythe tell ins' evening in an off-hand, sincere
and mntter-nt-fact way about the big beets and
potatoes that grow down in Los Angeles County,
Bos well M. Blythe and His Ordinary
California Sweet Potato.
[Reproduced from a photograph,.}
•rbeffl he lives. Mr. Blythe settled the potato
matter l»y digging down into his pocket and
producing a photograph showing himself
sho'ililenng a sweet-potato three or four feet
I long and weighing twenty-three pounds.
Mr. Blythe in at the front of the "Kentucky
Klvtheb" nnd their renewed battle for the
Hlythe millions. He is the leading real-estate
dealer of Downey, Los Angeles County, and is
about as keenly interested in his wonderful
little Los Nietos Valley as in the Blythe case.
"The Los Nietos Valley is one of the finest
gems of Southern California," he declared.
"It's fillinf up with Eastern people steadily,
and, like the rest of the country down there,
is growing faster than at any time since the
boom. I think that my experience shows the
value of advertising California in the East.
Now lam interested in the Los Nietos Valley,
only n few miles from Los Angeles, and to ad
vertise it I keep a neat exhibit of products at
the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, keep
adti in the local and Los Angeles papers and
send circulars descriptive of the valley all
over the East. I have sent East about '^0,000
of those circulars in eighteen months. I send
four or five to every address I can get, and
they are read and passed around. I send them
te every Eastern name I see in the papers, and
I get names out of all sorti of Eastern papers.
"One result is an average of twenty letters of
inquiry a day. Some are peculiar and full of
all sorts of foolish questions, but the people
are interested. Many visitors come to the val
ley, and I actually sell small ranches to about
j five Eastern families a month. A large pro
portion of the Eastern people who locate are
people who have been out here before, liked
j the country, and in the course of a year of two
! got ready to leave Eastern blizzards and hard
| grubbing and move to God's country. That
: shows the value to the State of getting excur
| sionists to visit the coast.
'•Now, talking about the big things we grow
that sweet potato is rather an ordinary one.
Plenty like it grow there, and I remember one
that weighed fifty-three pounds. Last year I
had in my office a pumpkin that weighed 250
; pounds. Visitors, -mostly Easterners, would
' dig into it to see ii it was real, and it rotted. I
could find bigger ones if I'd try, for 300-pound
pumpkins are comparatively frequent. I have
a watermelon at the Los Angeles Chamber of
Commerce that weighs 100 pounds. I've
knocked them all out in sweet potatoes and
watermelons."
'•I suppose you did those potatoes with a
stump-puller," said an auditor.
"Well, you'd better say that about our beets.
Last year 1 had one five feet long, that weighed
1<;~> pounds. But I'll have bigger ones this
year when the beets are pulled. Of course,
some people don't believe these biij-pumpkia
stories, any more than an Easterner can be
lieve that down there v« harvest from six to
nine crops of alfalfa a year; but we do grow
big things down there in Los Angeles Cour.ty."
John Walsh, one of the pioneers of the rich
Washington Gulch, Montana, whose home in
lecent limes has been at Victoria, B. C, is at
the Kuss. Mr. Walsh has had experiences in
almost all the mining districts of the coast.
He lived in San Francisco thirty years ago
and has only visited this City three times
since. Recently he has spent four years in
Europe, mostly in England and Ireland, as the
profits ot his mines and different investments
therwise more than warranted this.
Since he got back he has been visiting some
of the new mining districts of British Colum
bia.
"They think they are going to have the big
prest mining excitement there in the world,"
said he. "They talk as though they were go
ing to have in the Kootenai, Slocan and Trail
Creek districts other South Africas, Cripple
Creeks and Coolgardies.
"They have really got some good gold in
Trail Creek, with a number of excellently pay
ing mine.-, but there is 100 clnims staked out
to one that 'pays. It is almost amusing how
the rinding of pieces of white rock anywhere
are set forth as gold discoveries.
"But the Slocan aud Trail districts are at
tracting much attention in London. When I
was at Vancouver a few days two London ex
perts had arrived, one of them with 1*400,000
to invest. There were 100 men after him to
sell clnims. He got switched off, however,
and was going to invest in Vancouver water
power or something of that sort.
"A good many people, however, from Eng
land who have arrived are putting money in
the British Columbia districts. I was amazed
to see how much money they had in London
when I was over there. 1 didn't know there
WAS BO much money in the world. And they
are scattering it in all parts of the world.
"The statistics show that London throws
away $100,000,000 a year in various schemes.
Not a cent ot it comes back. Yet they never
squeel. They seem to like to lose money.
They play one thing and another, and if they
win, ali right, but if they don't it's just the
same. They rather scera to enjoy losing as
much as winning.
"There are innumerable thousands of men
in London who have incomes of £15,000 to
£20.000 each a year above all expenses, and
they t-eatter this, to a large extent abroad in
various schemes. The common people also
come to the front each year with enormous
Bums. It was perfectly amazing to me, the
freedom with which they spend what they
have."
Mr. Walsh intends staying in San Francisco
during the winter.
LADY' O3 WAIST WITH YOKE AND
BLOUSE FRONT.
The box-pleated blouse variety of the separ
ate waists is at present the favorite, and th«
model here shown has another popular fea
ture—the yoke top. It is made over a fitted
lining and fastens invisibly in the center front
under the boxpleat, the yoke being hooked
over on the left side. Some of the richest
waist 3of silk made in this style have the yoke
of embroidered batiste, with the lower sleeves
of the same. A handsome waist of figured silk
was made in this way, with the blouse front
of chift'on, two colors being used, one over the
other. Green of the mignonette tone and dull
yellow are good combined in this way, with a
light silk shotting these colors in the tig
ures. Pull rose and dull green make another
pretty combination, and the use of a third
color over two bright tones make a delightful
rainbow effect. The collars of such waists are
made of the chiffon, the colors being inter
twined or laid one over the other, a wash silk
waist alter this model was tastefully trimmed
with full ruffles of narrow Valenciennes lace of
a creamy tint, which outlined the yoke and
edged the box pleat. Wash fabrics for morn
ing and evening wear make up charmingly
with yokes of lace over a plain color, suck as
plain blue, with lace for the yoke and striped
blue and white for the rest of the waist. A
checked pink and brown was made with a
waist of plain pink, the yoko and lower sleeves
being of the checked goods to match the skirt.
This idea might be carried out in any fabric- of
silk or wool.
PERSONAL.
Dr. Stephens of Petaluma is here.
H. E. MeCrae of Moline, 111., is a recent ar
rival.
A. Markham, the banker of Santa Rosa, i 8 in
the City.
Morris Trumbull of Chicago arrived here
yesterday.
E. M. Jones, a business man of Healdsburg, is
at the Russ.
Drury Melone, the patriarch of Oak Knoll, is
at the Palace.
H. J. Llewellyn, the attorney of St. Helena,
is at the Lick.
Superior JmJge Horace L. Smith of Hanford
is at the Grand.
E. F. Musson, a business man of Hay wards, is
at the Occidental.
C. P. Berry, a business man of Mountain
View, is at the Russ.
Ex-State Senator G. S. Berry of Lindsay is
registered at the Grand.
w. E. Hite, a merchant of Portland, is at the
Russ, accompanied by his wiffl).
J. C. Mangharn, an old resident of San An
tonio, Tex., is visiting this City.
John C. Wright of Indianapolis is here on a
Tint, and is staying at the Palace.
H. B. Field oi Mobile, Ala., is at the Occi
dental, accompanied by his mother.
E. E. Bain of Chicago, son of the millionaire
wagon manufacturer, is at the Palace.
D. J. Small, the chief of the Southern Pacific
Railway's chop at Sacramento, is in town.
The Rev. F. H. White of London, Ehgland, is
at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife.
Adjutant-General A. W. Barrett came down
from Sacramento last night and is at the Cali
fornia.
E. G. Flannagan, a general goods dealer of
Marshfield, on Coos Bay, Oregon coast, Is at
the Lick.
George J. Seybert, a mine-owner of Scotts
Bar, of large experience in digging for the
precious metals, is in town.
James F. Wardner, the noted Pacific Coast
mining man who h«s made many discoveries
and been rich ana poor many times, is at the
Lick.
Robert B. Maey. a mining man of Clifton,
Ariz., one of the noted copper regions of the
West, is here on a business trip. He is at the
Grand.
Ex-Senator Archibald Yell of MendocLno
County came up from Hanford yesterday,
where he has been for some time. He is at the
Baldwin.
F. X. Steele of Pescadero, one of the wealth
iest dairymen of that part of the cosst and an
extensive manufacturer of milk products, ar
rived here yesterday.
George M. Colburn, manager of the well
known Clifton House, Niagara Falls, where
most of the dukes and other notables from
everywhere stay, is at the Palace.
Dr. Rupert Blue, assistant surgeon of tha
United States Marine Hospital service, has been
allowed a month's leave of absence. He will
spend it at Galveston, Tex., with his wife's
parents.
Frank L. Coombs of Napa, ex-United States
Minister to Japan, who has been frequently i
spoken of for Governor and who has served the
Htate as a Senator and in other capacities, is at
the Grand. Mr. Coombs is a native of Cali
fornia.
A. L. Selig of Tulare County was in the City
yesterday and left for exhibit at the Press
Club several dozen of the largest and finest
oranges and lemons seen here this season.
They were all grown in Tulare County. Mr.
Selig returned home last night.
Nicholas C. Den of Santa Barbara, son of Dr.
Den, the first white settler at the aforesaid
place, and nephew of Dr. Den, who died « few
days ago at Los Angeles, is at the Oc 1 ' ■ tul,
accompanied by his daughter. IP
A. H. Den, is also there, accoaipai
bride, a young lady whom, he iaai...
days ago at. Sacramento.
The reorganization of the National Guard
occurs at a most infelicitous moment in the
careers of Bert Hecht and Sanford Goldstein.
Beth had accepted posts on the staff of Colonel
Bush of the First, and had qualified for the dis
tinction by the purchase of brilliant uniforms.
Yet, here cometh the Governor, who at one I
fell swoop sweeps their chief out of his com
mand and relegates them back into civilian
dom. They were colonels but seven days. At
the Concordia and Verein Clubs there is much
sympathy felt for both, and under proper
guidance might take the shape of a properly
engrossed expression of regret.— The Wave.
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, JT. V., Dec. 14.— Mrs. Bateman
and C. B. Wingate were amjng the passengers
who sailed on the steamship Etruria for Liver
pool. Among recent arrivals are: F. A.
Frank, Holland; T. J. Swift and wife, Grand
Union; F. Toplltz, Gilsey; M. 8. Eisner and
W. J. McAidle, Marlbo'rough; C. Gruber,
Plaza; H. Law, Ashland; H. D. Perciva!, Ven
dome; F. J. Voss, Hoffman. Mr. and Mrs.
Charles H. Hammond, Upper Lake, Cal., are
guests of Miss Alice Lee Roosevelt of Oyster
Bay, L. I. They are at the Windsor. Miss J. L,
Stone and Mrs. F. G. Sanborn left the West
minster Hotel to sail for Europe* Mrs. J. M.
Peck of Munchen, Germany, is with them.
They sailed on the Kaiser Wilheim.
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
MR. WRIGHT'S POSITION DEFINED.
San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 13, 1895.
Editor Call: In your report of the proceed
ings of the Miners' Association's executive
committee on Thursday night it is stated that
I made the motion to adopt the bill which ■vvus
finally adopted by the committee. Tnis is an
error. Three bills were under consideration.
The first was known as the "committee bill,"
or "Idaho-Montana act," along the lines of
which it was framed. The second was known
as the "Singer bill," being the one proposed on
the part of the railroad company. The third
was known as the "compromise bill," being j
the one -prepared by the special committee
with a view of framing some measure which
would bring some relief to the miners and at
the same time not meet the violent opposition
of the railroad. The compromise bill was the
one under discussion. My motion whs to sub- j
stiiute the first or Idaho-Montana bill in place i
of the compromise bill. My motion was de
feated and it was the compromise bill which !
was adopted. John M. Wright.
A REVIEW OF HUXLEY'S ESSAYS.
Dr. W. IC. Brooka, in the forum.
Huxley's essays are so far from a miscellany
that they remind one of a fair landscape j
stretching from the- rugged heights of eontro- i
versy over meadows filled with the flowers of j
literature and through fields and orchards
loaded with the ripe fruits of science, all vital
ized by a clear stream, sometimes welling up
in great gushes of truth, sometimes wandering
in silence under the verdure which it nour
ishes, but always there for all who wish to j
drink of it. All the essays either set forth the j
results which have been won or maj* be hoped
for from the application of this golden rule, or
else they teach our moral obligation to sus
pend judgment on questions to which we are
unable to apply it, however great our decire
for answers. In the long run their value will
depend on the success which attends this
purpose— the purpose to which their author
tells us he had subordinated whatever hope he
may have had of scientific fame: but they
have other claims to consideration. All are
good reading; in all we continually come
across profound truth put into word* so apt
and pithy that we store them away in our
minds as" permanent additions to our stock of
wisdom.
Since I began this account of the new edition
of "Huxley's Essays," word has been brought,
If you want a sufe relief for -nuns in the back, side, chest, or
limbs, use an
Allcock's £z
Bear in Mind— Not one of the host of counterfeits and imita-
tions is as good as the genuine. —»•—
through the daily papers, that his work is
ended. As I review them with this in my
mind I find it hard to refrain from wondering
which of them will do most to keep him In re
membrance; but this is not the end for which
he labored, and the speculation Is unworthy of
the example of the man who walked his path
In life with no thought to any footprints on
the sands of time. Whether his earnest faith
lulnessovera few things does or does not make
him ruler over niary things, his life needs no
completion and no monument.
No need hnth such to live as ye name life.
That which began in him wh»n he began
Is finished: he hath wrought the purpose through
Of what did make him Man.'
Huxley's life-long devotion to : the task of
teaching the right method of using our reason
in the search for truth has been so fruitful that
the success 01 failure of his attempts to teach
the application of this method to specific
problems is a matter very subordinate im
portance. ■- >."■"'•*•> --■;-.-. ■'.' "•'■'■""'.','
YE. H. Black, painter, 120 Eddy street. •
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lb in Japanese baskets. Townsend's. *
There is no keeping up with the "lightning
change Emperor," as the "■ Kaiser is facetiously
termed in England. As soldier, orator, painter,
stage manager, owner and wearer of 109 uni
forms, he is familiar to all of us. Still his Ma
jesty has ."another forthcoming attraction," in
the language of the profession which he affect;;.
The Kaiser's >-cry latest" is :in the character
of esthetic dress-promoter. ; . He >is very
anxious, it seems, to have his court as pictur
esqu&looking.as possible,' and to this end he has
given orders that a certain number of courtiers
shall attend - state ceremonies in v costumes
which ißhal{ be fac-similes •of those worn by
Venetian Senators in the Middle Ages. | The
Emperor's talent for stage management is as
serting itself in private life, 1 and if he does not
tire of this latest whim .the Prussian , court
promises to be the most picturesque in Europe.
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business houses and public men by the Pre3i
Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Montgomery. *
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for extravagance in ; stage dresses. j Her latest
addition to her theatrical wardrobe cost the
neat little sum of $7500. It is of ivory satin,
decorated with diamonds and turquoise, the
train being lined with ermine. The skins of
200 animals were required to line the train,
and the turquoise band on the skirt contains
1800 stones, so it will be seen that Mme. Bern
hardt got her ivory satin gown at a compara
tive bargain. "' ' ' ' .'TC'-'
When catarrh gains a firm hold on the system It
baa very dangerous tendencies, being liable to de
velop into consumption. For this disease use a
constitutional remedy like Hood's Sarsaparilla.
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sity, for the summer semester of 1895, there
are 189 American students registered in that
institution. The total number of students is
4265, of which number 403 are taking the
course in theology. ; , ....,;..
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