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The morning call., 1895-02-03

been practically settled by stipulation, and
construction will be pushed, the road on
California street to be Completed as quickly
as possible.
In constructing the tracks the rails are
being laid on blocks of hardened cement
instead of using so many ties. The rails
are being united by new process, and
there is reason for it. When car passes
over the rails SO much electricity passes
from the wheels into the rails If the rails
be properly and tightly joined this cleo
tricity is absorbed again by the wheels
and passes back to the power-house. 1t
has been calculated that about one-ffth of
the electric power or energy expended in
propelling train, if the rails are properly
united, returns to the power-house. In run
ming large road there is vast quantity
of electricity required.
The escape of such large percentage,
in case the rails are not properly united,
by passing into the earth instead of re-
turning to the power-house, can readily be
seen to be a matter of great economic
value. This exact percentage has never
been accurately calculated, but its loss or
saving has been found to cut large figure
in the management of electric roads
throughout the country.
The morning call., 1895-02-03
TIE DAY OF REST.

It will be both pleasant and good for the
average man and woman--the dwellers IN
the homes of San Francisco-to turn away
to-day not only from the toll and the worry
of work, but from all thought and consld-
Grafton of the words of those who talk only
of the evil things of life and fill the world
with their clamors of corruptions and
denominations.
Because there is an evil side to some
phases of life in San Francisco is no reason
why we should shut our eyes to its aspects
of beauty or deafen our ears to its sounds
of good import. The city of our homes
has many influences to which the home
may be thrown open without fear. 1t has
many attractions to which we may attend
with profit, and many a charm whose
allurements lead toward the realization of
that ideal life in which there are only fair
passions and bountiful pities and loves
without STAIN"
Whosoever looks down upon the city
from any of those hundred heights that
girdle it with joyous chorus of hills
beholdS IN it not mere workshop for over
worn toilers, not sordid marketplace for
the greedy pursuit of gold, not battle
field for men warning fercely in the strug
gle for existence; but a city of homes-the
place of well-ordered families-brave men,
pure women and happy-hearted children.
On every hand are schools where educa-
ton equal to aught that wealth can buy is
free to the poorest; and, conspicuous in
size and nobleness of architecture, rise the
temples that, with the libraries, the mu-
seums and the glories of art, lead educa-
ton into an expansiveness that embraces
everything from science to divinity.
Beyond the region of the homes them
selves stretches the park to the sand and
the sand to the sea. Modern appliances
for transportation have made these as
accessible to the people as their own
gardens. To them the San Franciscan can
resort without trouble for the cheerful
suggestions of the greenwood or the
sublime inspirations of the ocean. No
other city in the world affords its people
such opportunities for the rest that in
vigorates and the pleasure that gives
health. In this city the artificial luxury
of civilization has blended with the pic
turesque glory of nature, and out of the
union has come the fairest dwelling-place
that man can find on earth.
Whatsoever things are beautiful" said
the apostle, "think upon these" One day
at least from the seven may be spared for
a delight in our homes and our city. The
finer aspects of the life around us, rem
dered sacred by the tender joys or the
deep sorrows of the family circle, are sure
to have strengthening influences upon all
who are responsive to them. Under these
influences all the wild cries and the clam
ors of those who denounce the city will
seem but as ian idiots tale, full of froth
and fury, signifying nothing" The di-
viner truth will be manifest to all, that
good predominates over evil, that the
homes of our city are pure and the city of
our homes is fair; that the world is full of
beauty and that it is good to be alive.
The morning call., 1895-02-03
A NOTABLE WOMAN.

There died at Pasadena on Friday an
aged lady whose name will figure In the
history of the West. Her name was Au-
gusta Tabor. She was until divorced the
wife of the gentleman who, having filled a
brief unexpired term as United States Sem
ator from Colorado, has sometimes been
called the 'thirty-day Senator" Augusta
Tabor and her husband, II. A. w. Tabor, a
raw-boned Vermont boy, were among the
earliest emigrants to Kansas in the days
before the war.
After the war Tabor moved to the Terri
tory of Colorado and engaged in prospect
ing for gold. He was practically grub
staked by his wife, for she supported him
by keeping clearinghouse while he was
following lines of outcrop on the noun
tains. They tried their luck successfully
at Idaho Springs, Denver and Fairplay,
and finally settled down at Orc Gulch,
where the camp and city of Lead
vile afterward grew up. There Mrs. Ia
Dor opened a grocery-store and boarding
house, and was doing very well when Billy
Stevens discovered the lead carbonate in
1877. Her husband was one of the first to
take advantage of the discovery. He was
now able to grubstake others, and through
their exertions he became part owner in
most of the astonishing mines which led
to the Leadville boom. Ne had share in
most of the productive properties on Fryer
Hill and when New York awoke to the
birth of new Ell Dorado he was in con-
dition to make the most of his opportunity.
The best mines were capitalized; fat
slice of stock in most of them was allotted
to Tabor, and when the stock gamblers
went mad over Leadville mines and wanted
shares at any price he was able to sell out
with profit which has been reckoned as
high as six millions. He bought ranches,
built opera-houses at Denver and Lead
vile, erected blocks of buildings, wore the
biggest diamonds ever seen, and crowned
his ambition by getting himself elected
Senator of the United States for the Tag
end of term.
This was the turning point in his for
times. In his wealth and glory he tired of
the faithful wife who had stood by him in
the days Of his poverty. He divorced her
acquiesced, and to reward her Mr.. Tabor
gave her property enough to support her
in comfort. From that day fortune turned
her back on him. His speculations failed,
his mines petered, his plans came TO
naught, and now tits supposed that of all
his vast properties nothing remains. Mean
time the lands and stocks which he had
given to his wife increased in value, and
are now supposed to be worth million and
half.
The whirligig of fortune has thus
strangely enforced the moral law. Old
Coloradans, with spice OF the superstition
which miners often acquire, shake their
heads and say that if old Tabor had stuck
by the good wife of his youth luck never
would have deserted him, And the lesson
is impressed on the attention of the young.
The morning call., 1895-02-03
PERSONALS.

Dr. S. N. Laird of Tulare is registered at the
Grand
B. Mi1likin, San Jose capitalist, is at the
Palace.
ia. Hull, Napa attorney, arrived at the
Lick yesterday.
]. Gambetta, merchant of Stockton, is a
guest at the Lick.
D. shakespear, ex-County Clerk of Napa, is
now at the Grand.
Don Ray. a moneyed man OF Gait, is registered
at the Occidental.
Edward Fisher, a vacaville merchant was at
the Lick yesterday.
w. Fl. Knox, a lumberman of Sacramento, is
q guest at the Grand.
C. C. Wallace, mining man of Eureka, New
is registered at the Palace.
c. w. Hathaway. large landowner of San
Lorenzo, is at the Occidental.
F. C.. Lusk, formerly proprietor OF the Chico
sugar factory, is q guest at the Palace.
Andrew Markham, a railroad man of Santa
Rosa, registered at the Lick yesterday.
DR.. w. E. Fisher of Washington, D. c., was
among the arrivals at the Lick last evening.
Charles Rule, lumberman at Duncans
Mills, was among the Grand's arrivals yester-
day.
The morning call., 1895-02-03
A SANTA CLARA VALLEY RAIL
ROAD,

The San Joaquin Valley Railroad project
may fairly be said to have passed the Rubi-
con of doubt and to bear upon the face of
its subscription list the assurance OF a soon
to be realized fact. 1t has been hailed as
the solution of the railroad problem for
California-as the key of competition
which shall surely unlock the letters which
have bound San Francisco for so many
years; as the liberator OF the interior from
a monopoly of the means OF transportation.
The San Joaquin Valley Railroad will
doubtless do much to realize the hopes
which are being built upon its projection,
but it alone will not be enough to place
California where its vast resources entitle
it to be. There are other valleys lying
nearer to San Francisco possessing much
larger population to the square mile and
offering annually for shipment produc-
ton per acre far more great and more va
ried than the San Joaquin. The Santa
Clara Valley is such section, and it too
demands and is entitled to receive the ben
efts of a competing railroad.
During the past ten years there have
been several attempts to secure this com
petition, but either fortune did not favor
There is at present, however, a renewal OF
energy in this direction. The merchants,
the capitalists, the property-owners and
producers of Santa Clara County have
walked up to the idea that the fullness of
time has come for a competing railroad
reaching from San Francisco down through
the Santa Clara Valley, tapping its most
fertile and populous parts and finding its
outlet to the southwark through one of
those passes which open at intervals from
the coast counties into the San joaquin.
There can be no question that the con-
struction OF a competing railway through
the Santa Clara Valley viii be seen to be
necessity as soon as the San Joaquin
project gets fairly under way. The region
is too accessible, too populous and too pro-
ductive to be omitted from the calculations
of the railroad builders of the present
time. The merchants and men of af-
fairs of San Francisco, who are
to-day opening so generously their
pursestrings in aid of the San Joaquin
Valley Railroad will not fail to see that
their hope of greater San Francisco, to be
created by competing railways, requires
that competition to be complete and to
embrace every portion of California now
languishing for lack of it. While the San
Joaquin Valley project is being realized
let it not be forgotten by its projectors that
the great and populous Santa Clara Valley
is holding out its hands and offering rich
reciprocity for similar benefit and bless
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ing near, except for the change made by the
wrapping. Pieces of iron held at the muzzle OF
either are affected alike, but start the dvnamos
and allow current of electricity to make the
circuit OF the miles Of wire about the cannon
until % amperes are registered and then OBJ
serve the result. The magnetic power per-
ceptibly reaches a distance of 200 feet, for at
that point it viii defect the needle of COM
pass 3 degrees. AT the distance of 20 feet from
its muzzle its power Is equal to the earth's
magnetism, for there the needle is DETECTED As
degrees.
Iron in contact with the magnet is held in
spite of the effort of the strongest man to re-
move it. All iron within its magnetic field be-
comes magnetized, and five cannon balls, each
weighing 325 pounds, are held suspended from
its muzzle, one clinging to the other. Iron
chains hanging near become rigid, and swing
ing block few feet by reason of its suspended
iron hook was drawn to the magnet and held
against all efforts of the workmen to remove It,
The heaviest crowbar brought near will at once
fly to the magnet, and drag with it the strong
est man if he persists in clinging to it.
AS magnetic force cannot be insulated, but
manifests itself through all substances, even
though they be the best known non-conductors
of electricity, man can stand in front of the
magnet and its mysterious force acts through
his body without diminution or without in any
way affecting him. With his back to the muz-
zle of the magnetic cannon he may place iron
spikes on his chest, and they will be held there
by the magnet, and If placed with the ends
toward him they are held in that position,
giving him the appearance of human iron
quilted porcupine.
One interesting feature in the experiments
so far as conducted is the location of the "neu-
tral'' point, or the point in the electric field
where the magnet exertS no force. This point
is on the axis of the magnet extended and six
inches from the muZzle. piece of iron-a
spike Tor instance-held at this point is not af-
fected by the magnet. If between the muzzle
and this point it is repealed; if beyond this
point it is attracted.
Why has this monster magnet been con-
structed, and why the preliminary expert
ments and the more elaborate ones that are to
follow? Simply for the purpose of learning
what the results will be, without a precon-
ceived idea of their practical application. In
other words, for science or the gaining of
that it may be systematized. 1t is |
the purpose of Colonel King to practically test |
all of the theories that have grown out of ex- !
periments with small electro magnets, from !
the time of Professor Henry, when he expert |
mented with his bonnet wire, down to to-day. |
This he has been doing. With his great mag
net he has been able to demonstrate many |
conclusions that have rested in theory, and he |
proposes to push his investigations to the ex-
RENE bounds Of the wide field which the giant
apparatus gives him.
The results obtained will be put into prac-
ice wherever they can be used, and will be
awaited with interest.
The morning call., 1895-02-03
SETTLED By STIPULATION.
Sutro's Road to Be Pushed to Speedy
Completion.
An Agreement Reached by Which the
New Line Will Turn Into Cali.
fOrnia Street.

The Sutro Electric Railroad to the beach
and Cliff House will be completed in three
months and in running order. So says
Colonel Little, the business agent for the
road. Until the formal opening of the
electric line the Sutro baths will not be
thrown open to the public-that is, for
bathing purposes.
The cause of the delay in the construc-
ton of the Sutro road has been some neces-
sary grading on one of the thoroughfares
over which the line passes and the obstruc-
ton by the Southern Pacific Railroad
Company by its cars on California street,
just above Central avenue. Sutro's line
passes for some blocks over the extension
of California street, and the railroad COM
pany objected on the ground that more
than two lines could not pass over the
same tracks on the same street. Other OBJ
jections were also made, and it looked as
if the whole construction of the road would
be blocked.
According to Colonel Little the diff
ferences with the railroad company have
The morning call., 1895-02-03
UP TO DATE IDEAS.

When Professor Joseph Henry conceived the
idea OF making magnet out of piece Of soft
iron by wrapping it with bonnet wire through
which a current of electricityis passed he little
thought that one of his intimate friends would
construct on his plan the largest electric mag
net OF the century and one capable of exerting
a pull of $4,000 pounds, says the New York
Herald. Yet such is the fact, and such is the
magnet now at Willetts Point.
Until within the last year no one, except the
visionary gentleman who originally told the
ARABIAN Nights story and described the
great loadstone that drew the nails out OF ap-
preaching ships ever thought of constructing
a magnet that would hold twenty-four tons.
Though the magnet constructed by Colonel
King cannot draw the nails from approaching
ships nor defect their compasses at distance
ofsix miles-as has been declared it could do
1t can do astonishing things through its silent
and mysterious power, and it is expected that
future experiments will still more manifest its
capabilities.
Think of magnet II feet long, feet in
diameter and weighing $4,000 pounds. Such
is the great instrument as it stands to-day on
its carriage, looking like huge cannon
wrapped to keep it from the cold. And it is
huge cannon resting on its carriage and point
ing out over Long Island Sound. 1t is also
wrapped, but not to protect it from the cold,
but to transform it into magnet. This cover
ing is more than ten miles of insulated copper
wire, wound layer on layer around it. When
the great weight OF twenty-four tons was held
the magnet was doubled by the addition of
another cannon connected with the first by IN
DERIVING iron plates; thus the magnet was
made to have its two poles, as is usual with
the small ones seen on the telegraphic instru-
ments. For the purpose of additional intended
experiments the magnet is now reduced to the
one cannon, 15-inch Rodman gun.
This piece of ordnance is like its mate stand
The morning call., 1895-02-03
BROKE THE sHBRIFFs PADDOCK.
An Attempt to Burglarize an Attached
Grocery Store.

An Attempt to Burglarize an Attached
Grocery Store.
The firm of Hayes Bros, whose grocery
store at 40 Sixth street was recently at
tached, was broken into yesterday morn
ing. Pending insolvency proceedings, the
Sheriffs paddock has been on the door.
Two young men drove up to the store
in wagon yesterday morning. After
breaking the Sheriff's paddock, they entered
the store, and began to remove lot of
groceries to the sidewalk. preparatory to
putting them into the wagon. A man
named Erskine, living in a fiat above the
grocery store, observed these proceedings
and went down to the store to investigate.
On asking the men why they were remov-
ing goods from store on which was the
SheFiffs seal, they announced that they
had permit to do so.
Where is your permit?" inquired Frs
kline.
The bold thieves began to get alarmed, as
a crowd began to collect, and jumping in
their wagon they drove rapidly away.
Erskine notified the Sheriff of the at
tempted burglary, and he in turn commu-
nicated with the police. The thieves are
described as peddlers.
The morning call., 1895-02-03
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

Having repealed the coyote bounty act let
the Legislature now, while on the line of re-
peal, take the proper steps 10 wipe out the
mortgage tax law. The law was intended to
protect the poor man, but it has been the
means of keeping Eastern capital away from
this State, making interest high, and the bor-
rover instead of the lender has really paid the
tax. 1t has done much harm and no good.
Let it be epealed.-Escondido Times.
In the first place, Cleveland used his vas
Presidential influence and overrode the law to
force silver down, and down, and down. Then,
when he had done this thing, he insisted that
silver must be demonetized because its parity
with gold could not be maintained-"could
not be-" mark you, when he had himself
forced its price down.-Fresno Republican.
If the professional beggars were compelled to
work for everything they receive the tramp
problem would soon be solved. That charity
which gives something for nothing is re-
sponsible in a great measure for this rapid
increase of pauperism in this country.-Dixon
Tribune.
San Francisco has ohe justifable cause of
complaint against Los Angeles, and that is our
constant reference to our "sister city, as
"Frisco." Her charitable belief that only our
tenderfeet and drummers are guilty of the con-
offense.-Los Angeles Herald.
It looks as though the days of the private
detective were numbered. There is growing
demand for his suppression by law, or failing
in that, for some legislation defining his
powers and duties.-Stockton Mail.
The Republicans left $1O7, 900, 900 in gold
in the treasury. Since then the Democratic
administration has borrowed $117, 900, 900
and it now wants to borrow 800, 0O0, 900 more.
Santa Cruz Sentinel.
That story of the young lady capturing
burglar in San Francisco is another argument
in favor of giving the fair sex a chance on the
police force.-Los Angeles Herald.
A new railroad will put new life into every
city on San Francisco Bay, but none viii re-
ceive greater benefits than Oakland-Oakland
Enquirer.
Give the farmer and mechanic the same
chance to borrow money from the Government
that bankers have,-West Coast Alliance.
The morning call., 1895-02-03

who is in i'll health or ailing.
In the case of Mary E. Campbell, of
Albion, Noble Co., Ind, her suffering
was so severe, her relief so suddenly real
lied, and her gratitude so great, that she
wishes the circumstances published, in
the hope that others may be benefited
thereby. She says:-
My physician told me / had dropsy
and falling of the -yomb. My stomach
and bowels were so bloated / could not
get full breath. My face and hands
were bloated badly. l had that dreadful
bearing-down pain, backache, palpitation
OF the heart, and nervousness.
"One of my physicians told me had
something growing in my stomach; and
the medicine that took gave me relief
only for short time. / thought must
die. Ibegan to take Lydia E. PiRkham's
Vegetable Compound, and it worked like
q charm. After taking the first bottle
could walk across the street, now am
well. advise all my friends to take it,
MARY E. CAMPBELL, Albion, Noble Co.
The morning call., 1895-02-03
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

Girl Gokingly)-Pd like place where I'll
have everything want, nothing to do and no
one to boss me.
Clerk-This, miss, is an employment office,
not matrimonial agency.-Tit-Bits.
Little Johnny-Mamma says Mrs. Highmind
is very superior woman. What does that
mean?
Little Ethel don't know exactly, but Mrs.
Highmind has travelled good deal, and may
be she can read railroad timetable all by her
self.-Good News.
Unkeltom-I hear you turned people away in
Jayport.
Barnes Tormer-We tried to, but they. would
MT go until they got their money back.-In-
di annapolis Journal
'iI presume, Mr.. STAR" remarked the land
lady to the boarder who had been her guest for
about two weeks, "that when you were out
West there were many desperate characters
there?"
mo more desperate, ma'am, than a man gets
here sometimes" he replied savagely, as the
edge of his knife slid across the piece OF steak
and hit the plate a bang.-Detroit Free Press.
Bobby-You ought to see my big sister.
Everybody says she's beauty.
JOHNNY bet she can't hold candle to my
slster Ter LOOKS. why, my sioteI soiu eHoHIf-
two tickets fer charity concert.-Good News
Miss Wanterno-Can you write as well after
good, heavy dinner?
Mr.. Inkleigh (sadly)-I really don't know
Life.
The Affable Stranger am dealer in plumb
ers' supplies, and called to see If we couldn't
do some business to-day.
The Polite Plumber-I'm afraid not, SIR
have all the billheads can use for some time
to come.-Life.
Poet-This world is full of beauty, isn't it?
Editor-Yes; collected $50 to-day!-Atlanta
Constitution.
The morning call., 1895-02-03
Latest Marriage Licenses

The following marriage licenses were is
sued by the County Clerk yesterday:
John Karr and Matilda Humbser, 1873.
John f. Phelan and Della OConnor, 27-21.
StevenaZzi Romeo and Luigia Moiraghi,
1877.
Thomas Bowman and Mary Grote, 27-22.
George D. Sevelle and Eva Downs, 22--1S.
Leander Mattson and Maggie Erickson,
34-24.
Frank A. Bartlett and Helen Reinhold,
1872.
Fred B. venter and Clara A. Buckley, 27-22.
Allyn H. Cooke and Ursula G. Bushnell,
06-1d
The morning call., 1895-02-03
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR DAY.
Fourteenth Anniversary of the Begin
ming of the Movement.

ming of the Movement.
This being the fourteenth anniversa ry
of the Christian Endeavor movement,
known as ''Endeayor day." meeting with
special exercises appropriate to the occa-
sion will be held at $50 o'clock this even
ing in the Third Congregational Church
on Fifteenth street, near Mission.
Miss Carrie A. Beckwith of Honolulu, a
daughter of Rev. DR.. Beckwith, the former
pastor of the church, will give short adj
dress. The meeting will also be addressed
by DR.. E. E. Kelley, president of the State
Christian Endeavor Union.
The morning call., 1895-02-03
DRY GOODS.
KID CLOVES!

We have just re-
ceived q large lot of
Ladies' Kid Gloves,
purchased under very
favorab bic circum-
stances. The quality,
make and finish are
superior to the regular
81 Glove-large pearl
buttons, 4-button, all
sizes, in street shades.
We fit and warrant
them.
The morning call., 1895-02-03

You can bid your friend "good-day" this
morning, and mean it.