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The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03

separate, with the collar of velvet sewn to It.
the neck of the waist being finished with a
binding, how easy to chsnge the effect by max
ing an extra vest OF pleated black chiffon, with
collar OF the same, or vest of pink chiffon
with black velvet collar. A third change
might be made of white nainsook, with rufies
OF narrow yellow Valencennes lace
These vests of nainsook are the latest fad
ana very dainty ones sold, ready tucked
and trimmed, for 81 so the yard and upward
Half yard only isrequired With this should
be worn tiny points OF. the same nainsook and
lace, laid over the front of the collar, one on
either side, the points downward Cuffs of
nainsook can be added, and the pattern for
them is included though not shown in the
This model had neen used for making waists
of black satin or crepon to match a skirt the
color being supplied by vests of bright eoiored
S6t S6ifon N, or tafteta fril OF yellow lace on
waist of black crepon had a yellow fowered
taffeta vest, with frills of yeIiowlsh lace and
collar OF yellow chiffon. Wash goods make up
very charmingly after this model, with Main
sock, lace or embroidery for the vest. using
sides OF the vest - -
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PERSONAL.

FL. Mel of Pope Valley is in the City.
S. T. Constable, business man of El Paso. is
here.
K G. Craighead of Dayton, Ohio, has arrived
here.
John II. YoeIl, an attorney of San Jose, is in
town.
F. C. Lusk, the attorney, of Chico, is at the
Palace.
j. d. Lynch, the Well-knoWn Los Angeles
journalist, is at the Lick.
James McHolme and R. Mackay Trip of Van
couver 3. c., are at the Russ.
DR.. E. S. De Puy of Crescent City was among
yesterdays arrivals at the Grand.
H NJ La Rue, the State Railroad Commis-
sioner, has arrived from Sacramento.
The Rev. william Acton of the Methodist
Episcopal church at Dixon is in the City.
Superior Judge j. D. Goodwin of Plumas
County has arrived here for a few weeks stay.
Charles c. Bowman, q merchant of Suisun, is
at the Grand, accompanied by his bride, a
young lady OF Suisun.
Ex-Judge C. O.. Clarke of siskiyou County,
who has large mining and timber interests IN
that part of the State, is at the Russ.
J. G. Day, the Government contractor for
the extensive work in the Columbia River at
Cascade Locks, between oregon and Washing
ton, is here on a pleasure trip.
E. H. Winchester of the firm of Main &
Winchester, who has been living at his old
home in New Hampshire for twenty years or
more, arrived here yesterday, accompanied by
his wife. They are at the Occidental.
Charles Perkins, one of the pioneers of Little
River, is at the Russ. Mr.. Perkins owns large
area of land there and is extensively engaged
in sheep and cattle raising. He also conducts
large creamery and other enterprises.
Marcus C. Hawley, the old-time San Fran
cisco merchan, who for nearly two score years
has been partner in the firm of Hawley
Brothers. but who has been living in Connecti-
cut for many years. is at the Occidental He
will remain here most of the winter as is his
annual custom. Mr.. Hawley is looking very
well.
John Gray, son of Colonel Mike Gray, the
Arizona pioneer, and one of the owners of the
noted Gray ranch at Camp Rucker, at the ex-
treme southeastern part of Arizona, is in the
City. At Camp Rucker are some magnificent
springs, the only ones to be found over a vast
area, and here Geronimo, the kid" and other
noted Apache chiefs were born. The springs
are near the strongholds OF Cochise.
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DANGERS OF THE SEA.

Cheering news comes that the Miowera
is safe, though no explanation of her ex-
traordinary desertion of the Strathnevis
has been given. She LETT the latter ship
helpless on dangerous coast and at the
mercy of gale that was blowing heavily
onshore. 1t is true that the Miowera' S
two lines had parted, and that it was next
to impossible to make them fast again,
but the Miowera after the accident slipped
away in the dark without a signal of such
an intention and gave no heed to the
StrathnevIs' repeated calls for a reply.
The peril of the Strathnevis illustrated
the helplessness of modern steamships
with broken shaft. Having insufficient
sailing facilities to give her headway in an
ordinary rough sea, she was an unresisting
prey to the violent storms which prevail at
this time of the year in the Northern Pa
cifc Ocean. Steamships are stripped of
masts, spars and sails because these ad-
juncts of safety lower the speed of the YES
sells under steam by offering resistance to
the wind. In other words, speed is deemed
a more important consideration than
human life.
As the shaft is the weakest part of the
machinery, and the most difficult to re-
pair when broken, it seems strange that
inventive genius has not discovered way
TO make one that cannot be broken. Or
dinarily shaft can be mended if the
weather is fair and the fracture is within
the body of the vessel, but in the case of
the Strathnevis the fracture occurred with
out, close to the propeller, which sank
With infinite labor the men of the vessel
had rugged jury propeller made of some
boiler iron that happened to be board,
but there was no opportunity 10 test it
before the ship was picked up. 1t would
require a very sanguine temperament to
expect even headway to be secured by such
a device.
The method of making a shaft seems
crude and creates the expectation of break
ing. 1t is merely piece of hammered
steel. If by some accident it should hap
pen to be truly homogeneous, the calcula-
ton of its strength would be simple mat
ter. 1t is strange that the idea adopted
by makers of fishing-rods has never been
tried with steamer shafts. 1t is true that
the strain OH shaft is torsinnal, which is
not the case with fishing-rod, but the
segmental plan of building, particularly if
the completed structure be given perma-
nent tw ist in the direction of its strain, as
can be done with metal, would likely pro-
duce vastly greater strength than a homo
geneous piece of metal, as in such case
the strain would be divided between ten
sile and torsional elements.
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new territory, too, create business for itself.
and be of great service to the farmers in the
region through which it viii pass.
''TheTe is lot of country there now that
has no railroad within reasonable distance, and
the Stockton and Lodi road, with its branches,
will try to supply this need.
THE work VIII be continued right along. l
want to reiterate that the road is not for sale.
No part OF it has ever been offered for sale,
and in fact we don't want to sell it,
J. w. Hartzell, who built the San Mateo cleo
tric road, the first electric road in the State,
and who is interested in the first named road
with Mr.. Louttit, was also at the Lick yester-
day, conferring with Mr.. Louttit.
The ex-Congressman is almost native of
Stockton and San Joaquin County.
II came to California with my people when
was about 2 years DID," he said. awe settled
at Mokelumne Hill, near stockton. grew up,
attended school, studied law and finally set
tied in Stockton. There l have beeII ever since,
except when l was in Washington and in Colo
RADIO, where mined for awhile"
Mr.. Louttit is candidat te for the position of
delegate-at-large from California to the Ma
tional Republican Convention, which meets in
st. Louis on June is next. He says he thinks
he will get it. The convention here will prob
ably be held in May.
Mr.. Louttit is in the City on business in con-
nection with his road.
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PEOPLE WORTH READING ABOUT.

The voice of Dr.. Max Nordau so closely re-
sembles Gladstone's that it is almost impossi-
BILE to distinguish between them when thev
are heard together.
Lady Halle, the violinist, who was Mrs Nor
man Neruda, is to have a testimonial in Lon
don next year to celebrate her first appearance
as seven-year-old prodigy fifty years ago.
Mr.. Albert Brassey, NJ. P, brother of Lord
Brassey, was struck in the face while playing
tennis with his son recently, losing the sight
OF one eye, and, it is feared, perhaps OF both.
Dimmick, the great elephant catcher, says
tha it is declared on good authority that but
twenty-four white elephants have been caught
since the commencement of the Christian era.
The citizens of Amesbury, where John G.
Whittier made his home during the latter
years of his life, are planning to make the
house where he spent many years public
library.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich and Mrs. Aldrich will
start about the 1st of January on yachting
cruise to the West Indies, with party of
friends, including Mrs. James T. Fields and
Miss Sarah Orne Jewett. They will be gone
several months.
1t is said that the oldest living man and wife
in the United States are Louis and Amelia Dar-
win of Black Falls, Wis. The husband was
born in 1888, or one year before the Inaugural
ton of the first President of the United States.
and his wife was born in 1894. They have
been married eighty years.
The Orleans family bought in all the real
property of the late Comte de Paris, which WAS
liquidated recently. The Due d'Orleans has
bought the chateau and woods of Eu for f200,-
900, the Due d'Aumale the chateau of Am
boise, the Due de Montpensier the chateau OF
Autonne for e16,000.
The Empress Dowager of Russia has sent her
father, the King of Denmark, a ring possessing
no ordinary interest. 1t worn by Alexan-
der II on his little finger at the time of his
assassination, and his son, Alexander III,
never removed it from his hand from his acces-
sion as Emperor till the day of his death.
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pie Creek, Colo, and the new Gold Mining
Exchange can be made the means for pro-
ducing that result. The tremendous ex-
citemenr at Cripple Creek is drawing
hlther an enormous amount OF foreign
capital. A proper presentation OF the
claims of California can bring much OF
this money to our own mines.
The good results which may be made
to flow from the new movement are
numerous and various In the first place
serious menace threatens the industry in
this State in the shape of a railroad land
grant which covers very large area i'll
the gold bearing regions and which is in
danger of being patented by the Govern
ment to the railroad as agricultural lands.
Several bills are now pending in Congress
for protecting these lands, and the new
xchange can do effective work by CO.
operating with the California Miners AS
sociation in urging the passage of these
bills.
Still another need is careful and
thorough survey of the mineral regions by
the Government, in order that the work
OF prospecting may be simplified and large
gold bearing areas thrown open to de-
velopment. An appropriation from Con-
gress will be required for this work, and
the matter should be urged with all posi-.
bic diligence.
Still another is the organization of pow
erful companies for placing water on the
desert regions in the southern part of the
State, where gold is known to exist in
great abundance. 1t cannot be mined at
present, by reason of lack of water. The
Colorado and Moiave rivers contain vastly
more water than would be needed for the
purpose. The turning of them into the
deserts would open up splendid tracts of
agricultural land, as well as render mining
possible. These irrigation companies
might be made Independent institutions,
and there is no doubt that they would Sc
cure handsome profits.
The cheapeping of mining methods
within the last few years has enor-
mously increased the mining area of the
State by making it possible to mine low
grade ores at a profit. In every way the
industry is one Of the most attractive that
California offers to enterprise and capital,
and the new exchange can employ its
energies to make the facts known.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03
THE MAGIC OF a SMILE.

Smile a little, smile little,
As you go along:
Not alone when life is pleasant,
But when things go wrong.
Care delights TO see you irowning-
Loves 10 hear you sigh;
Turn q smiling face upon her,
Quick the dame VIII fly.
Smile little, smile a little,
All along the road
Every life must have its burden
Every heart its load.
Why sit down in gloom and darkness
With your grief 20 sup?
As You drink Fates bitter tonic
Smile across the cup
Smile upon the troubled pilgrims
Whom you pass and meet;
Frowns are thorns and smiles are blossoms
OFT for weary feet.
Do not make the way seem harder
BY Sullen face.
Smile little, smile little
Brighten up the place.
Smile upon your undone labor;
Not for one who grieves
Ger his task waits wealth or glory;
he who smiles achieves.
Though you meet with loss and sorrow
In the passing years,
Smile little. smile little
Even through your tears.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03
THE MINING EXCHANGE.

The organization of the San Francisco
Gold Mining Exchange has come none too
soon. 1t is an extraordinary fact that prac-
tically the only mining securities which for
many years have been dealt in here are
those of the ComstocK lode in Nevada,
which represents silver-mining. The new
concern will not only list the worthy GOLD
mines of California. but will be an ex-
change in the proper sense-it will pro-
mote mining by serving AS an agent be-
tween mine-owners and capitalists 1t is
in this particular that the most important
feature of the enterprise appears. 1t must,
however, be a spirit above that of mere
gambling in mining shares and must have
the backing of responsible mining inter-
ests.
California is bound to benefit eventually
from the great eold-mining boom at Grip
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03

is t; and Simon Wing, Social Labor party. The
popular vote for each candidate was: Cleye-
land, 5,556, ,91S; Harrison, 5,176, 1OS; Weaver
1,041 OPS; Bidwell, 264 1873; Wing, 81 ,164
The electoral vote was Cleveland, 277j Harri-
son, 145; Weaver, %.
PRINTED NATTER. K. D., Newman, Stanis-
laus County, Cal. The duty on printed matter
from foreign countries is % per cent ad
valorem. The tariff is not on the number of
pounds. but upon the value of the printed
matter. That is the tariff, except in certain
cases specially mentioned in the tariff act. AS
your communication does not designate the
class OF printed matter you wish to import; it
is impossible to give more definite answer.
FENcE-P. C. P, Blanchard Ventura County
Cal. The general law OF this State in regard to
fences is that coterminous owners are mutually
bound equally to maintain: First, the bound
aries and monuments between them; second,
the fences between them, unless one of them
choses TO let MS land lie without fencing; in
which case. II he atterward incloses it, he must
refund to the other just proportion of the
value at that time OF any division of the fence
made by the latter.
INTEREST,". w. O., Oakland, Cal. If YOU
borrowed money on your property, gave a.
mortgage and agreed 10 pay the interest on the
same at stated period each year, it certainly
Is your duty to go 10 the party you borrowed
the money from and pay him the interest or
send 1t to him. To notify him that You have
the money for the interest and that he can
come and get it would probably not be held in
law to be tender of the interest money and
you might find yourself called upon to defend
an action for foreclosure OF mortgage.
WALL PAPER-W. K, City, The following is
the method of twose who are professional
cleaners OF wall paper: Cut into eight por-
tons loaf OF bread two days DID, it must be
neither newer nor staler. With one of these
pieces, after having removed all the dust by
means OF feather duster from the paper to
be cleaned, or by means q pair of bellows,
begin at the top of the room, holding the
crust in the hand, and wiping lightly down
ward with the crumb tillthe upper part of the
paper is completely cleaned ali around Then
go around again, with the like sweeping stroke
downward, always commencing each success
sive course little higher than the upper
stroke had been extended, till the bottom be
finished This operation, if carefully per-
formed, will make very old paper look almost
equal to new. Caution must be used not by
any means to rub the paper hard, NOR TO
attempt cleaning it the cross or horizontal
way. The dirty part of the bread too must be
continually cut away and the pieces renewed
as soon as it becomes necessary. Oil marks
and marks where people have rested their
neads against the wall paper it is said can be
taken out by means OF pipe clay mixed with
water to the consistency of cream. laid on the
spot and allowed to remain until the following
day, when it may be easily removed with the
blade OF knife or a brush.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03
LADY's BLOUSE WAIST WITH VEST
EFFECT.

A blouse waist with vest effect, which is ad-
Unstable, If desired, is appreciated by all
women, allowing, as it does, of variety, with
very slight expenditure. ..t'.4
The pattern has a fitted lining, over which
the material is laid; the fronts gathered at
the shoulder and belt, the back laid in pleats at
the shoulders aud gathered at the waist The
vest is separate piece. that may be sewed to
the waist or may be made separate. c.....
The waist here illustrated is of pink taffetas,
with black lines. The trimming is of jet, with
belt and collar of ribbon velvet. Now, IF this
vest is not sewn to the waist, but simply made
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03
NEW MONUMENT TO WASHINGTON.

The members of the Society of the Cincinnati
resident in Philadelphia have presented the
municipality with a magnificent statue OF
Washington, which is said to be the most costly
equestrian statue in the United States 1t has
been decided to erect it at the Green-street
entrance OF Fairmount Park. This, of course,
is far removed from the business center of the
city, and this fact has awakened good deal OF
unfavorable criticisms. Voicing this senti-
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Ex-Congressman ]. A. Louttit of Stockton,
who is building the Stockton and Lodi Termi-
nal Railroad, is at the Lick.
Mr. Louttit says the entire sixteen miles be-
tween the two towns is now graded, and that
the ties and rails are ready to lay.
"The road will be thoroughly equipped in
first-class shape an6 the cars running by March
H. he said. "The sixteen miles, however, is
onlya small part of the road as it will be before
we get through with it.
"There will be in all 160 miles of road, TAX
ing in the two branches from Lodi twill tap
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03
A Valuable Production.
San Luis Obispo Reasoner.

san LUIS OblSpO ReasOner
The San Francisco CALL publishes f1fty-two
page Christmas number. Unlike many such
efforts on the part of the daily press, it is not
altogether an advertising scheme padded out
with trashy reading matter. The articles are
carefully prepared by well-known men and
women OF the State who sign their names to
their writings. There are more than a nun
dred of these, and the range of subjects is
wide, not only including matters concerning
the industries and advantages of different sec
tions of the State, but treating of econom ical,
scientific, literary, artistic and other subjects.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03

ment, the Inquirer says: "Because of the APP
parent lack OF any proper site anywhere in the
city OF Philadelphia the statue is to join the
procession OF mounted and unmounted figures
that have wended their way out into the
country. Most of these statues, we are glad to
say, are out of sight and their ugliness is un-
noted But ii is a matter of regret that Phila-
delphia should lose an opportunity to adorn
herself and make herself beautiful by stupidity
neglecting to furnish site somewhere in the
old city in the Philadelphia of 1776, for the
Washington statue"
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03

trovertible claim to leadership among the
great metropolitan journals of the country 1t
was demonstration that great bulk was not
necessarily destructive of excellence in quail
lty, that TO multiply volume it is not necessary
say that the edition had reached the standard
of high-class magazine, but that. after all,
might be dubious compliment. The Christ
mas number OF The CALL was read. That is
nisber praise. Such editions are usually only
"hefted' and glanced at asksnce
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03
CHICAGO LIMITED.
VIA SANTA FE ROUTE,

A new train throughout begins October %.
Pullman's finest seepingcars, vestibule reclining
chair cars and dining-cars Los Angeles to. Chi
cago, via Kansas City, without change. Annex
cars on sharp connection for Denver and st.
Louis. Twenty-seven hours quicker than the
quickest competing train. The Santa Fe has been
put in fine physical condition and Is now tha bess
transcontinental railway
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03
All Am orleans.
Santa TrY,1 Ct.rp

Within the forty-eight hours Just passed the
words Northerner and Southerner, Democrat
and Republican, have lost a certain shade of
meaning, and the word American has been
magnified in the minds and hearts of men,
We are one people to-day in a sense in which
we have not been for sixty years.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03
These Three.
Stockton Record.

Congressman Johnson has touched re-
sponsive chord in the hearts of his constitu-
ents by coming out squarely against the bond
swindle. He can gain the everlasting conf
dence of these people if he will come down
just as strong against retiring the greenbacks,
in favor OF free silver and opposition to any
funding bill as proposed by c. P Huntington.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03
outriva1ed Competition.

Nsalt GaZSIle
The Christmas editions of the San Francisco
daily newspapers were marvellous to behold.
1t is the opinion of the Gazette that the letter
press of THE CALL, the subject matter treated
the valuable and interesting Information pre-
sented, taken all in all, was the superior pub
lication. and that 1t outrivaled competitors in
each and every department of news, literature
and MISCELLANY.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03

Valley Railroad and the beet industry; Richard
Gird on beet sugar; l. w. Hcllman on finance;
George c. Perkins on navigable waterways; in
TACT almost every subject OF interest is treated
by the best recognized authority. Luella
Green Harton, Colusa girl. has an article on
Father Junipero in Alta California
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03
Enterprise and Energy.

Redwood City Times Gazette.
The Christmas edition of THE CALL was
mammoth affair that displayed enterprise and
energy Unlike most editions, THE CALL con-
tained well-written articles that were read by
ALL 1t was full OF useful information, and is
q splendid paper 10 send TO friends or to lay
away ior special reference.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03
Covers the Entire Range.
Selma Enterprise.


The "Table of Contents" to THE CALLS Christ
mas edition is a grand index to the teeming
riches which should make our California
Christmas merry one indeed 1t covers the
entire range of industries in progress, IN con-
temptation and the potentalities. In its Christ
mas edition THE CALL has again proved its
right TO the motto, 'THE CALL speaks for ALL
and to be designated a thoroughly up-to-dete
iourDal
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03
Keeps Up with the Procession.

BeHlCla New Err
THE CALLS fifty-two page Christmas edition
came as a pleasant surprise and was most
sensible and readable journal. THE CALL keeps
UP with the procession all right
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03
Letting n Bird Go.
Ioa An-1fa .ol

There is an old tradition about how foolish
the man looked who let bird go. Perhaps he
didn't look as foolish as the man who runs
after his hat in the street. And neither of
them could look as foolish as Uncle Sam VIII
look If Nicaragua gets out of patience with our
fooling and gives q charter to a syndicate of
Englishmen VINO will furnish the capital and
go right ahead and dig the canal That is
what IL may come to.
The San Francisco call., 1896-01-03

PINAFoRE-A. R. H, Stockton, Cal. Pima
fore was produced at the Tvoh July 1, 1889.
Max Figman was the Admiral, Charles NJ,
Pyke the Captain, Arthur Messner appeared as
Ralph, Harry Norman the boatswain
Louise Manfred appeared as Josephine and
Kate Marchi as Buttercup.