Evening Sentinel from Santa Cruz, California • Page 2

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? MILLION'S ABROAD. THE ATTACKS ON THE SPEAKER. EVENING SENTINEL Gems of Thought. A habit founded in' judgment, but with no reasonable deviations is as bad as a habit founded in folly. San Diego Union: This country probably needs all the money it has Washington Star, the bitter partisan arraign- Humboldt Standard: The abominable muddle into which road matters RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.

One wceK (In advance) lOcts One monih (by mall or 25 cts One year (If not In advance) 3 00 One veur (strictly In 2 50 have been thrown through the passage of what is known as the Clark law, and the unwisdom of Governor Budd in promoting the muddle by signing it, is likely to create chaos in connection has fairly begun. This year the tide treats the matter lightly, like the phil-with guardianship of our county roads, of American summer travel is to Eng- osopher and man of courage that he is. That ments of Speaker Reed should reach anij affect the ranks of the cranks and jokers need surprise nobody. It has not surprised the speaker himself. He But those who are responsible for it have occasion to give it a little serious consideration.

n0 cause is ever advanced by a mis- representation of the opposition. In the present congressional controversy, the Populists wnd a few Democrats have persisted in holding the speaker up to obloquy as a tyrant, a usurper of authority, a menace to congressional liberty In all declamation from these sources, and in the work of the comic prints intended to supplement it, the speaker has been represented as a frowning bully, gavel in hand, overawing representatives, and refusing to permit any business but of 'his own choosing to be transacted. Every possible change has been rung on that theme, and it is not an unnatural result that giddypates, both with or without vicious purposes, should take the matter up. At the same time, what a gross perversion of the truth that representation of the speaker is! So far from domi-! nating the, situation single-handed, tranquility, in order that you may re-Mr. Reed is the organ of the majority tain the Possession of yourself and of in the attitude he occupies.

He has settIed Peace. been formally instructed to do what he is doing. He would be recreant to his The honest and just bounds of obser- just but nevertheless Americans! will spend many millions of dollars in Europe this summer. Reports from the east indicate that the annual exodus land. London is now becoming the attraction of the world.

Nearly all the sovereigns of Europe and nearly all the famous statesmen of the Latin-1 American republics will be present in the British metropolis during the eele bration of the queen's jubilee. The most famous artists of the dramatic and operatic stages will be heard in London during the coming season. There will be such pageants as the century, and perhaps the world, never yet has seen. It is not strange that hundreds of Americans have already crossed the Atlantic, and that hundreds more are preparing to make the voyage. Of course from an economic point of view it is to be regretted that they will take so much money from this country to spend abroad.

Still it will be a matter of pride and satisfaction to the people of the United States that this nation is so largely represented at the great anniversary of the country with which Americans are bound by so many ties. EMBLEMATIC FLOWERS OF STATES. New York Sun. Though all states have mottoes and all states have shields, only a small portion of the states have flowers, though all may have them before long if the popular demand for flowers typical of statehood continues to increase. The Iowa legislature at Des Moines last week adopted the wild rose as the official flower of the Hawkeye state.

There are forty-five states, but twelve of them only have official flowers, the selection of which has devolved in some instances upon the public school children. Two New England states only have expressed a preference for any flower Vermont for the red clover, by an act of the legislature, and Rhode Island, by a vote of its school children, for the violet. The golden rod is the favorite flower in Alabama, the magnolia in Georgia and the peach blossom in Delaware. Southwestern states are not represented in flowers to any great Those states in which complete or limited woman suffrage has been established, by law are those which have taken the lead in the selection of state flowers. Colorado has the columbine, Idaho the syringa, Montana the bitter root and Utah the sego lily.

The state flower of Nebraska is the golden rod, which is likewise the state flower of Oregon. Michigan has adopted the clover, and Kansas, "the sunflower state," would naturally, one might think, adopt the sunflower as its favorite, but "they do things differ ent in Kansas," and the field daisy is the favorite. The state flower of Minnesota is the moccasin flower. New York's preference for a state flower has been for several years a matter of contention. The rose is the favorite, but on the i vote of the school children of the state held some years ago the preference for several varieties of roses led to a sub division of the vote among these, with the result that, technically, the golden rod had the majority, and was chosen; but efforts have been made since to reverse this declaration of preference, with the result that there are some who say the golden rod is the favorite of the Empire state, and others who contend that the rose is entitled to the distinction.

The favorite of New Jersey is the white clover. Pennsylvania has never pronounced in favor of any flower. John L. Sullivan has again asked Fitzsimmons for a match, and the latter has promised an answer shortly. If they fight, the money of the Santa Cruz sports goes on Fitz.

The scientific academies of several German universities are planning the issue of a comprehensive Latin dictionary of 12 quarto volumes of about pages each. Santa Cruz is the most orderly city in the state. A comparison with the local police records with those of other cities will bear out our assertion. The summer season will really open next week, when the San Francisco schools close. Already the advance guard of visitors has arrived.

You can never tell how a girl looks at the breakfast table by the way she looks when she sits out on the porch in the eening. President McKinley is coming to California. Santa Cruz will be pleased to have him for her guost. There are people who would do great acts; but because they wait for great opportunities, life passes, and the acts of love are not done at all. Every life which draws something from the common stock and adds nothing to it is dishonorable.

Service is the true standard of life. Outlook. A mere inclination to a thing is not properly a willing of that thing; and yet in matters of duty men frequently reckon it for' such; for otherwise how should they so often plead and rest in the honest and well-inclined dispositions of their minds, when they are justly charged with an actual non-performance of the law? -South. In a paragraph from Madame Guyon is advice which all housekeepers might do well to take to heart. It is this: In your occupations try to possess your soul in peace.

It is not a good plan to be in haste to perform any action that it may be the sooner over. On the contrary, you should accustom your- self to do whatever you have to do with vation by one person upon another extend no further but to understand him sufficiently, whereby not to give him offense, or whereby to be able to give him faithful counsel, or whereby to fitand upon reasonable guard and caution in respect of a man's self, but to be speculative into another man to the end to know how to work him, or wind him, or govern him, proceedeth from a heart that is double and cloven and not entire and ingenuous. Lord Bacon. Society is, indeed, a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure; but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties.

It is to be looked on with other reverence; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science, a partnership in all art, a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership can not be obtained in many generations, it becomes a part nership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. Burke. Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

We are, indeed, so often conversant with one set of objects, and tired out with so many repeated shows of the same things, that whatever is new or uncommon contributes a little to vary human life, and to divert our minds for a while with the strangeness of its appearance. It serves as for a rind of refreshment and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of, in our usual and ordinary entertainments. It is this that bestows charms on a monster, and makes even the imperfections of nature please us. It is this that recommends variety, where the mind is every instant called off to something new, and the attention not suffered to dwell too long and waste itself on any particular object. It is this, likewise, that improves what is great or beautiful, and makes it afford the mind a double BORN.

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The "Evening Sentinel" contains three times more reading matter than any other 25-cent daily issued on the Pacific Coast DUNCAN McPHERSON, Editor. SATURDAY JUNE 12, 1897 FLOWERS AS CLOCKS. It is quite possible to so arrange flowers in a garden that approximately all the purposes of a clock will be answered. As long ago as the time of Pliny forty-six flowers were known to open and shut at certain hours of the day. The number has since been largely increased.

For instance, a bed of common dandelions show when it is 5:30 in the morning, and also when it is 8:30 at night. These flowers open and shut at the time named, frequently to the minute. The common hawk weed opens at 8 in the morning and closes at a few minutes of 2 o'clock in the afternoon. The yellow goat's beard shuts at 12 o'clock noon, sidereal time. Our clocks, it is well known, do not follow the sun, but are usually a few minutes fast or slow, according to the longitude of the place where they are.

The goat's beard, however, shows true noon all the world over. The snow thistle opens at 5 o'clock in the morning and closes between 11 and 12. The white lily at 7 A. M. and closes at in the evening.

The pink opens at 8 A. M. and shuts at 6:30 P. M. In the country farm servants often take their dinner 'hour from the yellow goat's beard, which is never mistaken, whether the sun is obscured by clouds or not.

DURRANT AND WORDEN. Attorney Geo. K. French, who was associated with the late General Benjamin F. Butler in the practice of law, has expressed himself as to the probable outcome of the Durrant and Wor-den cases as follows: "While I acquiesce in the assertion that the appeal from the United States circuit court to the United States supreme court acts as a stay of execution by virtue of the provisions of Section 7CG of the Revised Statutes of the United States, until the latter court has passed upon the appeal, I fail to see by the most liberal construction of the question raised by defendant's attorneys in what manner they will justify their appoals when they appear before the tribunal at Washington in October next.

To speak plainly I consider the appoals absolutely frivolous and without the faintest color of merit; and I am confident and predict that the supreme court will, if the appeals are perfected, go so far as to announce their opinion without leaving the bench. "There is no doubt but that both Durrant and Worden will find their tenure of life extended for several months to come, but unless the government interferes, an improbability, the correct administration of the law will result in the execution of sentence." Sheriff Barclay of Perth, who died some years since, kept a record of the curious cases of drunkenness that came under his observation. Several habitual cases had developed odd manias. One woman who had Leon, arrested 107 times for drunkenness in 21 years had a mania for breaking windows when she was intoxicated. An old soldier, suffering from a wound in the head, always stole bibles when he was tipsy.

Another man stole nothing but spades, while one woman's fancy ran to shawls and another's to shoes. A man named Grubb was transported seven different times for stealing tubs, although there was nothing in his line of life to make tubs particularly desirable to him. A Russian correspondent says that there is now a great opening for locomotives and wagons in Russia, He states that the Russian railways require 300 locomotives at once, and more than 1,000 wagons annually, and he suggests that a company should be formed with a capital of about 3,000,000 rubles to establish wagon and locomotive works near the newly discovered iron and coal mines in the south of the empire. Such a company, he estimates, fairly expect to re- reive dividends of from 15 to 20 per cent. Just how a commencement is to be made, or whether it can be made at all, are queries which rack the brain of supervisors from one end of the state to the other.

Attorney-General Fitzgerald has been guessing as to the meaning of the law, and district attorneys from Siskiyou to San Diego are at a loss to know how to interpret or advise in regard to it. The attorney-general acknowledges his inability to fathom the meaning of a law which might not be looked upon with so much of discredit if it had emanated in the brain of an escapade from the insane asylum, or had been signed by a man who could not read. He can not see how it is to be made effective, though he Is or opinion that supervisors have the power to appoint road trustees under it when the time comes for the law to go into effect. Yet he is not certain what the duties of the trustees will be after appointment. The matter of levying a tax for road purposes is as badly muddled as many of the other provisions.

The scheme is a monumental jumble from the opening to the closing section, and the most certain way out of it yet proposed js suggested in the following from the Sacramento Record-Union: "The right thing for the board of supervisors to do in this matter is to do nothing; refuse to fill vacancies; let the whole absurd thing lapse; decline to foist upon the county a new lot of political road machinery with some four thousand new officials, some of them salaried, and for not one of them a single qualification or evidence of fitness as provided by the Clark law." A LITTLE PATIENCE. Fresno Republican: The individual Republicans who, last fall, asserted that a vote for McKinley for president would be a vote for the immediate re turn of prosperity, were not wise. The prosperity which had been frittered away, or which had been kicked out of the back door, through four years of Clevelandisin could not, in the very nature of things, return in a moment. A general treasury which had been depleted can rot be replenished by the wave of a hand or the fall of a ballot. It is a condition of widespread business depression which confronts us; a condition which steadily for four years had been growing more deplorable, and it will not be waved away in a few days, weeks or months.

The men who insisted that it might be were very unwise. But they were no more unwise than are the Democrats who assert that the fact that prosperity returns slowly is a reproach to the Republican party. It was folly to insist that good times could and would return in a moment; it is equal folly to reproach the Republican party because it has not in three months overcome the effects of four years of national mismanagement. And this reproach comes with particularly bad grace from representatives of the democracy. It is too much as if an individual who had spilled the milk should chide another person be cause the pail was empty.

The pail can be refilled when the cow is milked, but the milking operation is only possible, or advisable, at certain times of day, and it requires an expenditure of some time and effort. That an enormous number of Christian Endeavorers will attend the convention in San Francisco next month is already assured. Estimates made by transportation managers and officers of Eastern delegations a few months ago have been greatly increased during the past few weeks, in some cases being doubled and in all showing re markable growth. It is estimated that about one thousand Endeavorers will visit Santa Cruz. The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune prims the inside and exclusive information that a catalogue of the newly-discovered widows of departed California millionaires will be published for the benefit of the legal fraternity, and says it will be in six octavo volumes, handsomely bound in half morocco.

When a woman gets to heaven it will bo a groat disappointment to her to find that it is against the rules to act surprised to see some other women there that she knew on earth. trnst if he did anything else. And more than that. Republican senators, a very large portion of the press of the country, and the national administration, support the position taken. Could the speaker wish for higher or better authority? To attack the speaker in this business, therefore, is to attack responsible public sentiment, and to challenge the deliberate judgment of the party responsible for public busi- ness.

it is superfluous to eulogize Speaker Reed. He is equal to the greatest and the gravest requirements of his post. If he despises mere talk in the house, and leans to a policy shutting talk off, he is distinctly right, if a little in advance of the average official. This special session was not called for talk but action, and the more resolutely the speaker keeps that in view, and governs himself accordingly, the more thoroughly he will continue to deserve the thanks of the American people. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

New York Press. Be good and your wife will not be happy. The worst kind of a cynic at heart is the man who says lie used to be one. A girl is never really in love with a man till she tells him the funny dreams she has. Every old bachelor knows less about love than he will admit and every married man knows more.

Probably the serpent told Eve that eating the apple would bo just the same as reading over all the bargain-day advertisements. A woman will quarrel with a man because he sits in his shirtsleeves and then go around the house with no corsets and a combing sack on. Glen Falls, New York, has a bicycle ordinance which provides that any one who will pay one dollar has the privilege of riding on the sidewalks, and the Daily Times of that city says the people after two years trial are well satisfied with the measure. A Soqucl man once boasted that he used to walk five miles to court his wife before marriage. And now he objects to walking a block early in the morning for the meat and the groceries for the breakfast, but makes his wife trot out for them.

The city of Liverpool is about to copy Glasgow and take over tin whole of the street railroads. The price to be paid is about $2,803,500. Tekkihle Accident. It is a terrible acei-dent to le humeri or scalded but the pain and ngoiiy unit the frightful disfigurements can lie quickly overcome without leaving a sear by using DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve. LIST OF LETTERS Remaining uncalled for in the Santa Cruz Postofflce for the week ending June 12th, 1897: Andrews, Sam Albright, Joseph Breen.

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