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as $40 to the pan of coarse gold. The largest
nugget yet found is valued at $48. The soil is
composed of the washings and detritus OF
glacier moraines.
Sixty miners remained there all winter and
will be ready to go to work when the summer
opens in May, the season lasting from May to
December.
Turn Again Arm is narrower continuation
of Cooks Inlet and turns from it to the east at
almost a right angle. Here the tide rises from
forty to sixty feet and travels down the Arm
so fast that schooners have traversed tie
eighty miles from the placer diggings to the
steamer terminus on Cooks Inlet in five hours
from the mouth of Resurrection Creek to
Tyone.
No quicksilver is used in panning out the
precious metal, because the ice-cold water pre-
vents the quicksilver from acting and all the
free gold is permitted to escape from the pan,
only the coarse gold being retained.
The mines are infested with an intolerable
plague of mosquitoes and gnats, the gnats being
the worst. They swarm about in millions,
and when the miners light fires to keep them
away the pesky little pests mingle with the
smoke and thaw themselves before their even
ing meal upon the tobacco and whisky.favored
blood of the gold.hunters.
There is lively competition in fares from San
Francisco to the gold fields. One can go from
and thence the route lies around Fire Island in
schooners and other small craft eighty miles
to the diggings.
S. X. Hagins, representing wealthy Chicago
colonization syndicate, arrived in this City
yesterday after two months tour of the in
terror of the State, exporting lands preparatory
to the Inauguration of colonization scheme
during the present summer and fall. He has
taken rooms at the Lick.
Mr.. Hagins makes a rose-colored report OF
that part of the State east of the Coast Range
and north of Tehachepi as far as Sacramento.
He says that it is far superior to Los Angeles In
variety, quantity and quality of horticultural
and agricultural products.
He was especially impressed with the won-
derful fertility of the reclaimed land west of
Stockton on Roberts, Union and Bouldin
islands. where seventy-five bushels of wheat to
the acre have been produced.
1.-The Valley road will infuse new life into
the valley of the San Joaquin" he said. ut is
more than ordinarily well-built road, so far
as have seen, and will vastly stimulate pro-
duction in one OF the most fertile valleys in the
world"
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ENCOURAGING PROSPECTS.

Although San Francisco is dong fairly
well in commercial way, 1t observes
with pleasure a steady Improvement ana
the sure prospect of good year. heports
from the interior of the State are exceed
ingly bright. With the opening OF spring
the mining industry is exhibiting un-
wonted activity; investments, improve
ments and extensions being on larger
scale than the State has ever witnessed be-
fore. The last rains removed every doubt
concerning the fruit crop. which not only
will be large from old orchards, but which
will be increased by an extensive new acre
age just coming into bearing. The high
price of wheat has kept stream of monty
pouring into the State. The wines ready
for market have brought twice the price OF
former years, and the money for them is
in hand. Organizations effected by pro-
ducers in other lines promise results
equally good for the coming year. On top
of all this is prodigious activity in devel-
oping the oil resources of the State, in es-
tablishing great irrigation systems, in the
conversion of waste water into electrical
energy for mining ana manufacturing,
and IN the founding Of new colonies on
sound, honest and extensive basis.
San Francisco is feeling this varied and
widespread stimulation. Owners of un-
improved blocks are making extensive in
vestments in pavements and the like in
order 10 invite purchasers. AS fast as
these lots are put in order they are placed
on sale, generally at auction, and that the
prices are eminently satisfactory is shown
by the fact that these Improvements and
sales are constantly being made. Banks
have opened their vaults and money is
flowing freely at reasonable rates. That
the people all over the City are eagerly
clamorlng for better streets is sufficient
evidence of their confidence and energy,
but the best sign of all is the absence OF
business failures and general air Of spirit
and progress. Never in the history OF the
City has there been so much intelligent
determination.
These facts are already being recognized
in the Eastern States ana are bound to
have an important effect. For instance,
the Bankers Encyclopedia Monthly of Chi
cago quotes from the CALL reports con-
cerning the financial outlook of the State
and the estimate of prominent banker,
that not only are present conditions good.
but that the prospects are encouraging for
even better things. The republication of
these things by the Chicago monthly shows
that the East is becoming interested in
California affairs and that capitalists are
looking in this direction for profitable in
vestments.
The movement that is now steadily i'm
proving business in all sections of the
country might, in fact, be justly called the
Western revival. 1t began in the West and
is most noted in such Western industries
as mining and the settling of new COM
munities. All the States feel it more or
less, but here it has had its origin and here
it will probably accomplish the greatest
results IN the next decade.
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THE APPOINTMENT OF CADETS.

In the course Of the debate in the Senate on
the Military Academy appropriation bill, Mr..
Gray of Delaware called attention to the exist
ence of very general misapprehension of the
terms of the law relating to the appointment
of cadets at West Point. The popular impress
sion is that the right of appointment belongs to
the Representative in Congress from whose
district the cadet to be selected, except as to
the cadets at large, who are appointed by the
President.
This supposition Is quite erroneous, for, as
Senator Gray points out, "there is nowhere in
the statues of the United States now provision
of law that authorizes Representative in Con-
gress to nominate cadet to the Military Acad-
envy" The power to appoint cadets in the
army is vested in the President alone, and the
prevailing notion to the contrary is due to the
1ong-continued practice of the Executive to be-
stow the appointments upon the young men
whose names are proposed by members OF
Congress.
The statutory provision on the subject is
contained in section 1915 OF the Revised
Statutes of the United States in these words:
The corps Of cadets shall consist OF one from
each Congressional district, one from each Terri
tory, one from the District Of Colum ba and ten
from the United States at large. They shall be
appointed by the President, and shall, with the
cent ion of the ten cadets appointed at large, be
actual residents Of the Congressional or Terri
toria districts, or Of the District Of Columbia
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CURRENT HUMOR.

Deacon Jones-As was coming through the
room 1 saw Mrs. Smith and Miss Robinson
They were talking about the early martyrs.
Deacon Brown-If there's any scandal a-going,
let them women alone for getting hold of it,
But what was it the early martyrs had been
oing?-Boston Transcript
Oil Upon the Troubled waters.-Lady-Al
your marine pictures represent the sea as calm.
Why don't you paint storm once in while
Artist-We painters in oil can't paint storm
1 have often outlined storm on the canvas,
but as soon as began to spread on the oil
colors the waves subside, and the sea becomes
as calm as a duckpond.-London Tit-Bits
II think gold is being boarded" observe
Manchester.
'Nonsensep replied Birmingham; ri was in
a bank yesterday and saw about two quarts
gold coin on the counter"
''Thats fine way to speak of gold coin.
measuring it as though it were milk or cider. y
"The expression is all right. Gold comes in
quartz."-Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
All Luck.-"Ef mad your luck and You has
mine," said Dismal Dawson to one of his pros.
porous clients, 81 s'poso it would be me helping
YOU"
"Luck?" answered the prosperous one. .1
made all my money by hard work"
"Thats WHARF the luck figures. You was
borned with a in for work. l wasn't.n-
Indianapolis Journal.
Teacher-suppose you were king. Tommy
what would you do?
Tommy-Pd never wash my face any more.
Woonsocket Reporter.
"Johnny," asked the clergyman. az Won
could have your way what would YOU do with
Sunday?"
"Pd postpone 1t until Monday" replied the
urchin.
"Then you think you would enjoy it?"
Eyes, guess SO, for schools keep then, you
know."-Adams Freeman.
Jazmer-Why don't you make memoran-
dums and then YOU won't forget things you
want to remember?
Gribbs-I do, but always forget where 1 put
them.-Roxbury Gazette.
De Vere-I heard a compliment for you to-
day.
Miss Antique-Indeed! What was it?
De Vere-Young Chapman says you carry
your years well.-Town Topics.
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THE COMING CENTURY.

A very remarkable paper, entitled "The
Twentieth Century" was published IN the
Forum of August 1895. The fact that it
appeared in that periodical and that it was
written by Justice Henry B. Brown OF the
United States Supreme Court may rightly
be taken TO give the article an uncommon
value. The aim of the paper is to show
principally the evils which have arisen out
of lax use of the republican idea of gov
ernment and to indicate the duty of the
twentieth century in correcting the abuses
to which the nineteenth century has given
birth. Among the numerous evils cited is
one thus treated:
After showing how incorporation is often
resorted to in establishing monopolies and
practicing dishonesty that would be diff
cult for an individual, Justice Brown says:
Corporations are formed under the laws
of one State for the purpose of doing busi-
ness in another, and railways are built in
California under charters granted by States
east of the Mississippi for the purpose of
removing their litigation to Federal courts.
The grossest frauds are perpetrated in the
construction of such roads, which are built,
not by the corporations owning them, for
the best price that can be obtained, but by
the directors themselves, under guise of a
construction company-another corpora
ton, to which are turned over all the bonds,
mortgages and other securities, regardless
of the actual cost of the road. The road is
equipped in the same way-by another
corporation, formed of the directors, which
buys the rolling stock and leases it to the
road; so that when the inevitable fore
closure comes, the stockholders are found
to have been defrauded for the benefit of
the mortgages, and the mortgages de-
frauded for the benefit of the directors.
Indeed, the process of reorganiz;ng-or,
as it is popularly and often properly
known, neutrality-suspicious. in the
interest of the directors has become an ex-
ceedingly profitable if not very reputable
industry. Property thus acquired in de-
fiance of honesty and morality does not
stand in favorable position to invoke the
aid of the law for its protection"
OF course Justice Brown had the South
ern Pacific in mind, for not only has he
accurately described the rascalities of that
corporation and the method by which it
has plundered the Government, but there
is no other road to which his description
can apply. Apart from the high source
from which these utterances come is their
fidelity to truth and the bearing which
they have on the duty Of the Cove rnment
with regard to the funding bill and the in
famous charter Of the Southern Pacific
Company granted by the Legislature of
Kentucky
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FLIGHT.

hickory tree In the valley grew;
The SHOWS and sun and the spring rains found IL,
And shrill- voiced winds from the northward blew,
And the dews In the night time fell around 1t.
Deep into the earth its fbers crept,
And pierced the flint In the depths down under
iii the lightning out Of the cloudways leapt
And the hickory fell and was split asunder.
And there by its side the shadowy marsh
A cranes nest held by the curving river,
Where the tall grass mingled coarse and harsh,
With reed-beds broad and the sedge aquiver.
And the tree and the egg and the stone lay there,
But shreds ami shards at the dim earth's portal
IS common things that could never dare
The higher realms OF The far immortal.
But an Indian wrenched from the tree shaft
And struck flint from the rock.rbbed lodges
And cranes Quill picked from tangled raft
Cf reeds and weeds Dy the brown marsh edges.
And the arrow sped from his twanging bow
III the lonely blue vault Of the sky was riven
And that which was humblest here below,
Now OF the last WAS nearest heaven.
ERNEST McGAFFEY
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PERSONAL.

P A. Buell. a lumber merchant ofStockton, is
at the Grand.
Senator J. C. Holloway OF Cloverdale is so.
journing at the Russ
Adm Alexander, a mining expert OF Los An
geles, is at the Palace.
Bruce McClurg, the horseman, of Woodland
is at the Cosmopolitan.
E. NJ. Hadley, the hotel man, OF Ogden is q
guest at the Cosmopolitan.
Benjamin Reece of the Chicago Board of
Trade is here on vacation.
Senator Frank MCGOWAN OF Eureka, Hum
boldt County, is at the Lick.
NJ. Russek, wife and two daughters, of Jimi-
nez. Mex, are at the Palace.
D. Casasas a wine merchant of Santa Rosa. is
visiting friends in this City.
Ex-County Clerk W. A. Shepherd returned to
his home in Fresno yesterday.
District Attorney C. E. Lindsay of Santa
Cruz is stopping at the Palace.
R. A. Brophy. captain of the Pittsburg police,
Is registered at the Cosmopolitan.
Telfair Creighton, business manager of the
Los Angeles Herald, is at the Palace.
]. B. Foltz, wealthy mining man of Foltz,
New, is stopping at the Cosmopolitan.
Sam Jackson, lawyer and promoter of
Fresno, is visiting this City on business.
T. ]. Murray, prominent mine-owner Of
Volcano, Amador County, is at the Russ.
Albert Coffin of the Gloucester and Boston
Steamship Company is here on pleasure tour
R.. R. Hind and wife will return to their
home in Honolulu on the steamer Australia
to-day.
Colonel II. Trevelyan, who is managing
vineyard in Fresno for British syndicate, is
spending few days in this City.
Bishop B. c. Goodsell of the Methodist Epis-
copal church will leave at the latter end of
this week for a three months trip.
Frank H. Short, leading attorney of Fresuo,
is here on business. He has been retained as
one of counsel for Mrs. Theodore C. Marceau.
Vice-President Stubs of the Southern Pacific
Company left last evening for New York where
he will attend meeting of the Transconti-
mental Association.
Archbishop Rordan and Rev. P. C. Yorke,
Chancellor of the diocese, left yesterday for
Los Angeles. They will visit the principal
towns in Southern California during the next
two weeks.
On next Saturday President Colnon of the
State Board of Harbor Commissioners will start
for Los Angeles for two weeks vacation. He
will De accompanied by Mrs. Colnon and niece,
Mrs. Scott.
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by the way, has that contract ever been COM
pleted?- "a few cases of matches, few bales of
cheap rugs. some gross of tooth brushes
Of a watch factory in Osaka, have created all
this sensation.
When the steamers begin to bring cargoes
instead of few packages of goods, which, ac-
cording to some people, threaten to close our
factories and throw thousands out of mDloy-
ment on this coast. then there will be time for
us to act and act intelligentiy and quickly,
which threaten our industries-not only m an
ufactures OF Japan, but OF any country whose
productions threaten home indus tries.
as well as figures, and they will see this agita-
tion is created more for political than an in
dustrial movement. II. II.
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great object OF the new road. and that in
itself should be sufficient to warrant the
construction OF the road. Adding the
stimulus which this road will give to the
agricultural interest to the increased
tourist travel which comfort and conven-
ience of transit will cause, it is safe to say
that the Merced and Yosemite road will
prove valuable and lucrative lateral to
the Valley Railroad, and that it will prove
thorn in the side of the corporation
which has so insolently arrosated to itself
the monopoly of railroad transportation
in the State of California.
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to obtain the import trade of Japan. 1t is
especially unwise at this time, as representa-
tives Of the largest ship-building firms in the
United States are now in Japan doing their
utmost to obtain contracts for the building of
one or more of the several vessels which Japan
is soon to add to her navy.
Is it likely they will favor our countrymen
when we are rousing through the press feel
ing antagonistic to all things japanese? l
should certainly be inclined to think-and
speak whereof / know-that we will be the
first to suffer in the matter which is now being
so publicly agitated My idea is that to pre-
vent the threatened disaster which some
alarmsts anticipate movement should be
made privately and gradually, and after an in
telligent survey of the field and ascertaining
wherein our danger lies. A few buttons-and.
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cept1on in Rochester, N. Y, in recognition OF
her seventy-sixth birthday anniversary.
Rev. John Watson, better known to novel
readers as elan MacLaren,' has been chosen
to deliver the Lyman Beecher course of lee
lures at Yale.
Mark Twain, having had very successful
tour in Australia and New Zealand, is now in
India. He is said to have collected material
for new book of travels.
At Grenople, the seat of the glove trade in
France, statue has been erected to the MEM
ory of Xavier Jouvin, who established the
trade there and thereby enriched the town.
1t is said in Indianapolis that General Har-
rison has been invited to contribute a series OF
articles to one OF the leading London maga-
zines, with permission TO choose his own SUBJ
jects and name his own price for the work.
The library of Senator Allison, at his home
in Dubuque, Iowa. is so large that the books
overflow the house proper, and many of them
are stored in the cellar. The value of the
library is said to be several times that of the
house itself.
Maitre Pouillet, one of the most eminent
lawyers in Paris, has begun an original work
OF charity. He gives sittings at the Palais de
Justice at which he offers legal advice, free of
charge, to persons who cannot afford to en-
ploy la wyers.
Nine. Marian s. Gambault of Pau, France,
who is g1andniece OF Commodore John Paul
Jones, has offered to lend some relics of the
famous naval officer to the promoters of the
proposed National Museum in independence
Hall, Philadelphia.
William Z. Curtis, well-known Washington
correspondent, has been selected by the Ways
and Means Committee of the House as an ex-
pert to examine the tariff laws of other coun-
tries and the statistics of commerce, so as 10
report how and to what extent the principle of
reciprocity can be applied in the commercial
relations of this country with them.
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with a collar OF the same linen, with blue
China silk and finished with ruf1e of the
silk.
Wrappers Of washable fabrics are made of
heavier cottons, such as duck. cheviot. etc.
The collar may be left off for nightdresses if
desired.
If muslin nigh tdresses are made the collar
may be of batiste, lawn or other thin fabric.
A dainty finish is narrow ruffle, set on with
lar. This is put ON by making very narrow
French or bag seams. These are stitched with
the seam on the right side of the garment,
then turned over and stitched again, hiding
the original seam.
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

j. A. Becker, civil and mining engineer for
the Lucky Chance Mining Company at Sitka,
Alaska. and R. B. Markle, mine-owner in the
same region, have just arrived from the
country where gold nuggets are kept on ice.
They are domiciled at the Russ.
They brought the latest news from the new
placer mines near Cooks Inlet, and the story is
very interesting. The diggings are situated in
an extensive region as yet unexplored and un-
prospected. Last August few prospectors
returned from Cooks Inlet to Turn Again Arm,
and south of the arm they came upon fields
rich in free gold. They got in places as high
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A GIRLS WRAPPER.

wrapner is shown here for little girls. The
same model is shown in nightgowns and IS
much liked for the simplicity OF cut ana the
ease with which 1T may be made at home, there
being only shoulder and under-arm seams.
The sleeve is the stylish bishop shape ana mas
but one seam. -.
Flannelette OF pink. with white halrhne'
had collar of white China silk.
Another wrapper was OF light brown hannei'
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CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y, March 9.-Among the
recent arrivals are: NJ. P. Ross, Holland; He'd
Kiesvandaesburgh, Mrs. B. Dickman, Mrs. A.
A. Grattan, ST. Cloud; J. Kahn, Plaza; A..
Blum H. L. Blum, r. H. Davis G.. Martin and
wife, Metropole: w. Bradford and wife, Gilsey;
J. H. Davis St. Denis; Mrs. Frantzell, Marl-
borough; A. D. Moore, Hoffman; r. Williams,
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through it would be desirable to so stain u;
The nse of glue in wall pain ting is OF doubtful
nronriety: ii should never, under any cIrcum-
Stances, be pu on until after the second COATS
applied, and then it should be rubbed on very y
1e, e raoo1nmended Plaster mixed with weak
glue size. which prevents its setting too fast Is
the best method for stopping walls preparatory ar
to painting. Each coat OF paint snoulu oe cai re,
fnllv rubbed with worn sandpaper before the
su cceeding coat is put on. Each succeeding
coat should be shade lighter than the pre-
dir,r
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Governor Budd's Plan.

San Bernardino Times Index.
A plan suggested by Governor Budd to re-
lieve the taxpayers of part of the burdens of
our penal institutions and insane and inebri-
ate asylums is to place a direct tax on the
liquor business for that purpose. He considers
for a major portion of the insanity, pauperism
and crime of the State, and there is no reason
why 1t should not bear the burden of the care
of the insane and criminals which now rests
so heavily on the taxpayers. This plan has
been adopted in Illinois, New Jersey and other
States.
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pectively, from which they purpors to be ap-

p0 nted.
from this language it will be seen that the
Intervention of mem bers of Congress in regard
to appoin tments to West Point is simply a mat
the President in requesting them to make NOM
nations for him to confirm by appointing the
nominees.
In reference to the Naval Academy the law
is different. The Representatives and dele
gates in Congress have the legal right to rec
ommend persons for appointment as naval
cadets, and the recommendation, if seasonabiy
made, must control. Ii not made within the
period prescribed by statute the Secretary of
the Navy fills the vacancy. The selection Of
the candidate allowed for the District of CO.
lumbia, however, and of all the naval cadets
at large is made by the President himself
New York Sun.
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NEW goods all over the store. Don't think of
old styles or old prices. What 81 used to buy,
rs cents, and even so cents is likely to purchase
now. We have many new things in Pictures
Frames, Artists Ma sterials, Leather Gpods, Sta
tionery, Lamps and Shades, ArtifciaNFlowers
and Toilet Articles. which the public il invited
to see. Everybody welcome at all times. SAM
born, Vail & Co.
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The Potent Pull.
Watsonville Pajaronian.

Watsonville Pajaronian.
The action of the Kentucky Legislature in
refusing to annul the charter of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company was a disappoint-
IN ent on this coast, as the press dispatches in
THE CALL and Examiner had indicated that the
repeal bill was bound to become a law. This
was one Of the times when newspaper report
ers were poor guessers-or did Uncle Coils get
in potent pull?
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"Say, Jack Perkins has asked me to lend him
$40"
"Well, do it. AS personal favor to me let
him have it,
personal favor to your
eyes. If you don't let him have 1t he'll come
to me for it."-Harper's Bazaar.