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IS A PLUTOCRAT NOW.
DENIS KEARNEY OF "SAND
LOT" FAME IS RICH.
Tells the Story of HU Troubles, His
Downfall and Hls Rise to Wealth—
A Hear in Wheat and Looks for a
$1.61) Kate Before Spring.
Denis Kearney of San Francisco,who
gained world-wide fame nearly a quar¬
ter of a century ago as a political
economist from the standpoint of a
common day laborer, has been direct¬
ing his efforts in more profitable chan¬
nels. As a preacher of the truth he
remained a common drayman. As a
man soured utterly on reform people,
“too apathetic to act for themselves, he
has won'* a fortune. Today he is a
millionaire and is one of the most pow¬
erful plungers In stocks and bonds and
other securities.
“There Is no mystery about my suc¬
cess in the big markets,” said Mr.
Kearney to the writer the other day.
“My whole life seems now to have been
arranged as a training school to fit me
for this business, and because I am
prepared I am obtaining the financial
results that naturally flow from prop¬
erly directed efforts. My career? Well,
it is quickly told. I was born in Ire¬
land, followed the sea as boy and man
from the time I was eleven until I was
twenty-five years old, all the time on
Yankee ships; came to California in
1S67; married Mary A. Leary, and we
have our children and grandchildren
about us; was assistant superintendent
of the Folsom street wharf for Ben
Holliday; bought out a draying busi¬
ness and soon built it up so that it net¬
ted $500 a month clear profit; first be¬
came an agitator for better streets, be¬
cause our city thoroughfares were al¬
most impassable and the money ap¬
propriated by the city to repair the
streets was being stolen right and left;
then came the opposition to the Chin¬
ese and the new constitution campaign.
I was right in both and won both
times, as everybody knows. After the
anti-Chinese episode the merchants be¬
gan to boycott my business. I saw
they were going to ruin me and so I
transferred the business to my brother,
Dan Kearney, but they said it was still
?n tile family and kept up the fight.
He had to get out for $S00, which was
all he could obtain for a business that
a and so
they succeeded in depriving me of my
property, in which I had all my earn¬
ings invested, simply because I exer¬
cised my right as a citizen to stand by
what I believed. Only two firms re¬
fused to be bulldozed into leaving us—
they were Cartan & McCarthy and T.
W. Jackson & Co. I went to Engle-
brecht & Levy, who were most violent
in their attacks, and in their efforts to
break up my business, and pointed
out that they were getting ready to
have their own throats cut by intro¬
ducing so many Mongolians in ’ their
business. They had 500 Chinamen
making cigars, and thought they had a
good thing. Pretty soon those Chinese
started into business for themselves
and Englebrecht & Levy were driven
from the field—ruined by Chinese
cheap labor. It served them right.
Nearly all of those who boycotted me
then have gone the same way. business £fter I
getting out of the draying
pushed my anti-Chinese crusade and
made my campaign for the new con-
sti tution. During the excitement I
was unjustly sentenced to the house
of correction for six months on a
charge of using language tending s to
incite a breach of the peace. I served
forty days and was compelled to wear
striped clothing the same as other
convicts. The Supreme Court declared
my conviction illegal and I was re¬
leased. All the talk about the Kear-
ney riots is w'rong. There never were
any Kearney riots, for my reason for
taking part in Chinese agitation was
to put an end to riots, and I did it ef¬
fectually. Nobody can point to a sin¬
gle China washhouse that was attacked
or burned after I took hold. My plan
was to prevent the danger of riots by
changing the laws. While I was speak¬
ing through the state my expenses
were paid. After that I lived on what
I had saved from my draying business.
But my money gave out, and when the
road to the ocean beach opposite Seal
Rocks was completed I went out wiu
the crowd of unemployed to see the
sights. I was hard up and saw a
chance to do business. I started a cof¬
fee kitchen in a big tent near the Cliff
House and sold coffee and doughnuts
and pie. Stephen Maybell was with
me. We had the best coffee on the
beach and fairly coined money. Some
days it cleared over $100. It was a
new thing, times were good and thou¬
sands of people visited the beach every
day. But that was too good to last.
The park commissioners drove me out
and I began to dabble in mining stocks,
besides writing sea stories for the Mc¬
Clure syndicate. By careful operations
in the mines I made a pretty good
living for several years, watching the
fluctuation of prices, which was a good
school for the larger game in wheat.
Then took a chance on sugar and oil,
but have settled back to wheat as a
steady thing. This is going to be a
great year for wheat, and California
farmers will reap the benefit if they
have the ability to hold on. All Eu¬
rope is short and will ask us for 220 ,-
000,000 this crop year. We haven't
it to spare unless we consent to eat
corn. That’s why wheat will sell for
$1.20 per dental in Chicago and $1.60
here between now and May. Our farm¬
ers ought to get $1.50 per cental. The
figure here has been ranging from
fl.13% to $1.15 per cental. It must go
up, and I hope to see the farmers of
California get the benefit.”
Mr. Kearney does not acquiesce in
the idea that Leiter’s wheat corner was
detrimental to the wheat growers of
the country.
“Leiter’s operations were the big¬
gest thing for farmers in the United
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said. “That corner, unsuccessful
though it was, got the farmers $114,-
000,000 more than they otherwise
would have paid. The farmers could
have afforded to pay Leiter’s debts
and give him $ 10 , 000,000 to start over
with, for if he had been in this crop
year he would have brought taem
$80,000,000 more than they can obtain
without his help.” After Kearney was
released from the house of correction
by the Supreme Court he was drawn
through the street on one of his own
drays, admirers taking the place of
horses. His triumphal return was
marked by a speech from his own dray
as it stood in front of Lotta’s Foun¬
tain, at the intersection of Kearney
and Market streets, The speech for
which he was arrested was delivered
from a platform reared in the middle
of California street in the Nob Hill dis-
trict. There were bonfires, and tae
sand lot adherents made considerable
noise in their celebration. Kearney’s
lurid oratory capped the climax, and
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KEARNEY THE AGITATOR,
the timid denizens of Nob Hill were so
scared that they thought nothing ex¬
cept the incarceration of the sand-lot
despot wouiS assure their safety. Not¬
withstanding his recent good fortune,
Mr. Kearney continues to reside in his
modest home at 658 Harrison street,
where, outside of stock dealing hours,
he may be found surrounded by his
children and grandchildren. He re¬
ceives visitors with cordial hospitality,
and while indulging the tastes and
wishes of others, continues for himself
the simple and abstemious habits that
have been a part of his life since boy¬
hood. “Mineral water is the strongest
tipple we ever tackle in this house;
won’t you join me in another quart?”
said Mr. Kearney.
Wanted Papa to Experiment.
While out taking a walk a precocious
Philadelphia child and her father en¬
countered a big St. Bernard dog prome¬
nading beside its owner. The little
one evinced a strong desire to pat the
dog as she passed, but evidently chang¬
ed her mind. When they had passed
the little one said to her astonished
father: "Say, papa, won’t you pat that
dog? I want to see if he bites.”
When a wise man makes a mistake it
teaches him something.
LAND AND WATER.
Their Distribution Is More Advantageous
in Kuropo Than Here.
There is no other region of the world
in which there is a larger proportion
of coast line to land area than in Eu¬
rope, and this appears to be the secret
of military, naval and political pre¬
ponderance, granted always that the
internal conditions of climate and soil
are favorable. The total land area of
the continent may be taken at about
3,750,000 square miles. The coast line
is between 50,000 and 60,000 miles, and
with the possible exception of the ex¬
treme east of Russia there is no part
of Europe which is more than 500 miles
from the seacoast. It will, therefore,
be easily understood that in the days
before railways and telegraph were
dreamed of this fact must have given
Europe a very great advantage over
any other quarter of the known world,
and the fact that this advantage has
been maintained may be seen in the
further fact that, with the one excep¬
tion of the United States, an offshoot
of European civilization, this advan¬
tage has been maintained up to the
present day.
Carnival Time in Russia.
Shopping, shopping, shopping, goes
on without intermission, says Good
Words. Those who can prepare to
adorn their bodies with one or more
articles of new clothing, but all make
preparations for a sumptuous feast. It
is interesting to watch the shops, espe¬
cially in the public markets, to see the
avidity with which every article of food
is bought up. The butchers come in,
perhaps, for the largest share of cus¬
tom. as flesh, especially smoked ham,
is in universal demand. Ham among
all classes of the community is indis¬
pensable for the breaking of the fast
and the due celebration of the feast
Dyed eggs are in universal request.
The exchange of eggs, accompanied
with kissing on the lips and cheeks in
the form of the cross, accompanies all
gifts or exchange. The “koolitch’’ and
“pasha" have also to be bought. The
koolitch is a sweet kind of wheaten
bread, circular in form, in which there
are raisins. It is ornamented with
candied sugar, and usually has the
Easter salutation on it; "Christos
vezkress” (“Christ is risen”), the whole
surmounted with a large gaudy red-
paper rose, The paaka is made of
curds and is always pyramidal in
shape. It is ornamented with a
paper rose inserted on the top. These
are sine qua non for the due observ¬
ance of Easter, but what relations they
may have, if any, to the Jewish feast
of the Passover it Is difficult to see,
although in many other respects there
is a striking resemblance to the serv¬
ice of the temple in Jerusalem in the
ritual of the Russo-Greek church.
Protection for a XVlld Flower.
The Connecticut legislature has pass¬
ed a law protecting the trailing arbu¬
tus, said to be the first law ever passed
in any state id the union for .ne pro¬
tection of a wild fiewer. T-e law in
question is said to b> largely due to a
newspaper article cr’\_g attention to
the need of such a b-w.
f nippy Game.
Larry —0 say th’ beer wint to th’
catcher’s need?” Denny—“Yis, and
bedad! . 4 ’ bottles wint to th’ umpire’s
■head."
SAYS EARTH IS ROUND
AND HE MAY BE THROWN INTO
PRISON. '
Rad Condition of Affairs In England —
Sir John Gorst Accused of Intention
to Tench False Precepts—City of Ports¬
mouth Excited*
It is painful to read that Sir John
Gorst, the head of the British educa¬
tional department, is in serious trouble
.tnd has been threatened by Mr. Eben¬
ezer Breach and other taxpayers of the
city of Portsmouth, in the kingdom of
England, with prosecution under the
"imposters’ act.” It seems that the
schools of Portsmouth have been teach¬
ing the damnable and heretical doc¬
trine that the earth is a sphere. Sir
John’s attention has been called to this
dissemination of seditious and trea¬
sonable doctrine, but he has refused to
correct the abuse. Ebenezer and his
friends know, of course, that the earth
is as flat as a pancake. They have
been patient with Sir John, and day
after day have allowed the false teach¬
ing regarding the shape of the earth
to go on, but can stand it no longer,
they say, to see their children cor¬
rupted with this most “heretical doc¬
trine,” as the complainants call it in
this protest. Sir John Gorst has many
political enemies, and even his politi¬
cal friends do not always agree with
him; but the depth of his depravity was
not known until he was unmasked by
Mr. Ebenezer Breach and his friends.
Sir John may cavort about parliament
and deceive some people, but when he
runs up against a body of respectable
British taxpayers, the bulwarks of the
throne and the guardians of the consti-
tution, it is another matter. Such new¬
fangled ideas as that of the earth be¬
ing a sphere he may impose upon the
frivolous persons who riot in the .un¬
godly city of London, but not upon the
taxpayers of Southampton. Ebenezer
and his friends mean business, and
have served formal notice upon the
Portsmouth school board that the
teaching that the earth is a sphere
"cannot be allowed to continue under
any circumstances, plea or explanation
whatever,” and that it must be aban¬
doned under pain of the ‘‘punishment
for schism by the law provided.” After
having stamped out the dastardly doc¬
trine in the schools of Southampton,
the committee announce that they will
next go up to London and bring the
London school board before the courts,
being well advised and informed that
the same doctrine regarding the shape
of the earth is also taught in the Lon¬
don schools. Sir John, meantime, is
to be brought to court and prosecuted
under the "imposters’ act” aforesaid.
Now, the “imposters’ act” is a part of
the British constitution, probably-—-
no one knows what is, and what is
not a part of that nebulous thing—and
provides certain pains and penalties,
such as forfeiture of estate and burning
at the stake, if recalcitrant. Ebenezer
and his friends are worthy and reputa¬
ble citizens and mean business, If
necessary they will light the fires of
Smithfleld again for the wicked Sir
John. At last accounts Sir John was
still at large, and so was Ebenezer.
Women of the Orient.
A recent visitor to the Philippines
says that some of the women of the
island are remarkably pretty, having'
big, languishing eyes and an abun¬
dance of long hair. This they fasten
up with a big gold pin and then adorn
with flow'ers. They do not wear hats,
but use sunshades, and do so very co-
quettishly; they wear very dainty
shoes, but do not w r ear stockings. They
are distinguished by grace of figure
and movement, though according to
our ideas not especially by refinement
of habits, for both women and chil¬
dren smoke huge cigars and indulge
in betel chewing. It is their custom
to keep the thumb nail of the right
hand very long, as this assists them in
playing their favorite instrument, the
guitar. The use of the fan originated
in China and sprang from the follow¬
ing incident: A royal princess, very
beautiful, was assisting at the feast of
lanterns, her face covered with a mask,
as usual. The excessive heat com¬
pelled her to remove it, and in order
to guard her features from the common
gaze she moved it quickly to and fro
in front of her face, thus simultaneous¬
ly hiding her charms and cooling her
brow. The idea was at once adopted
throughout the kingdom.
How to Get Beer in Wa lea.
The well-known attorney, J. Willis
Gleed of Topeka, is going to Wales on
business, and Howell Jones has been
instructing Mr. Gleed “how to ask for
two glasses of beer in Welsh.” This is
the proper version: “Byddweh mor
garedig a dyfod a dau wydriad or diod
oreu sydd genych.”—Kansas City Jour¬
nal.
A Plagiarism,
Dusty Roads (his eyes fixed on a
party of golfers)—Weary, if you and I
only had some swell clothes and a bun¬
dle of sticks apiece they wouldn't call
us tramps any longer. Weary Waggles
—Yes, I've often thought them golfers
were a-plaglarizing our profesh.—Bos¬
ton Transcript.
No Trouble at All.
Grimes—I should think it would be
awfully hard to write a sea tale. Tin-
son—Not at all. You only want to
speak of a cloud no bigger than a
man’s hand and to say that the boat
was as far off as you could toss a bis¬
cuit.—Boston Transcript.
Kept Her Word.
Ida—“Belle said the man she mar¬
ries must have a fashionable name."
May—"The idea! And then engaged
herself to an Italian.”
A MUMMY MYSTERY.
Remains Found of Woman of Gigantic
Proportions.
There has just eomo into the pos¬
session ot tho Historical society oi
Kansas a most interesting and remark¬
able relic of the days when giants trod
the earth. The relic consists of the
mummified body of a woman cf glgan-
tic proportions, in whose arms are
clasped the remains of an infant. The
bodies were found In a cave In the Yo-
semite valley. There was no clew to
the age of the mummy, and so far no
authority on arehaelogical subjects has
been bold enough to go on record with
an opinion regarding the probable time
in the earth’s history when the mother
and babe were living beings, The in-
formation ^0 far gathered is somewhat
meager, although those most interested
in the matter are doing their be3t to
arrive at some plausible theory, Here
is the signed statement of the histori¬
cal society, which throws as much light
on the subject as it is possible to obtain
at present: "We have no history of
the relic, excepting that G. F. Martin-
dale, whose home is at Scranton,Osage
county, Kan., left it as a temporary
deposit with the Historical society. He
reported it as having been found by a
party of prospectors in a cave in the
Yosemite valley, in California. He
says he is endeavoring to trace its his-
tory. Our best local authorities on
matters of this kind are uncertain as
to the probable origin of the relic.
The mummy is 0 feet 8 inches in
length, 14% at the shoulders, and IS
inches across from elbow to elbow, ap-
pearing very narrow for the height.
There is a necklace about the neck,
consisting of perhaps a leather cord, in
which two or three slender white teeth
are inserted. Coarse black hair shows
in the wrapping about the neck, The
shroud has the appearance of a very
thin piece of buckskin, badly worn
and frayed about the edges, covering
the head like a hood, and enveloping
the greater part of the body, It seems
to have been divided below the knee
and drawn up about the leg and laced
at the foot and ankle. The color of the
mummy is a dusty gray, much like an
old "chamois skin, which has been wet
and long exposed to weather and where
the flesh is exposed it presents the ap¬
pearance of old putty.” Pittsburg
News.
THE FLAIL.
Its Sound Has Dnpartod from Nearly
All the Farms.
The sound of the flail has departed
from nearly all the farmsteads and the
calling of the thrasher has gone with
it, says Notes and Queries. Yet for
eo me time after harvest was over there
was no more familiar sound in the
country places than the “thud! thud!
of the flails as- they fell upon and beat
out the grain on the barn-thrashing
floors. There remain, however, some
sayings in which "like the thrasher”
occurs, but the use of these grow less
and less. A short time ago some
friends were in a country place where
a part of the thrashing is done with
the flail. A couple of the implements
were hanging on the barn wall and a
heap of straw was on the floor, The
use of the flail was explained and
demonstrated for the benefit of those
who had never seen this “weapon” of
husbandry, Incidentally it may be
mentioned that the sayings, “Sings
like a thrasher” and “Works like a
thrasher,” came from that occupation,
and are “as old as Adam.” “lt looks
easy enough; that can’t be very hard
work,” said one of the company, a re¬
mark whleh led to the flail being put
into his hands for a try at the “easy
work.” One swing was enough for
the amateur, for t’other end” caught
him “a friendly whack” which probably
he will remember to the end. It also
doubtless impressed upon his memory
that “working like a thrasher” as he
had done had not led to “singing like
a thrasher.” “You’ll get a good flail-
ing.” Has any reader seen the flail
employed as an effective weapon?
When used by an old hand there is no
standing against it.
More Magniilcent Tlian Niagara.
A correspondent writing in The
Spectator says the Gersoppa falls, on
the Sharavatti river, in South Kanara,
India, are larger and more magnificent
than Niagara. He says: “The river
is 250 yards wide; the clear fall is S30
feet. The Gersoppa falls in the rainy
season are incomparably finer than
Niagara in every respect. The roar of
the falling waters is simply terrific;
the whole earth shakes, and the thun¬
der is so great that it completely
drowns the human voice. When I vis¬
ited Niagara and told my American
friends about Gersoppa they replied
with polite incredulity, ‘We never
heard of Gersoppa.’ I replied, ‘Make
your minds easy; the people at Ger¬
soppa have never heard of Niagara.’
If Niagara could see Gersoppa she
would wrap hor head in a mist.”
An Unfair Advantage.
Mrs. Blank found herself in a rather
embarrassing situation one day when
she was dining for the first time at
the home of a minister. Opposite her
sat the minister’s little boy, a sharp-
eyed little fellow of 4 years. While
his father was asking a somewhat
lengthy blessing the lady elevated her
eyelids slightly and caught the eye of
the little fellow opposite her. The in¬
stant his father said “Amen” the boy
pointed an accusing finger toward Mrs.
Blank, and cried out, shrilly, “She
peeked, papa! She peeked!”—Harper’s
Bazar.
Slaughter of Bird*.
One million five hundred and thirty-
eight thousand seven hundred and thir¬
ty-eight is the precise number of birds
estimated by the British consul ir.
Venezuela to have been killed last year
to provide aigrettes for ladies’ hats.
*v He That Any Good
Would Win
Should have good health. 'Pure, rich
blood is the first requisite. Hood's Sarsa-
psrills, by giving good blood And good
health, has helped many a man to success,
besides giving strength and courage to
women who, before taking it, could not
even see any good in life to win.
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A flood Strategist.
“John," said Mrs. Thursby, “you
were saying yesterday- Unit you were
in financial trouble, I believe.”
“Yes,” Mr. Thursby replied, "and
I’m terribly worried. I didn't sleep a
wink last night.”
“I think I heard you say something,
too, about a note held by Mr. Hewitt,
didn’t IV”
“That’s wlint Is causing the trouble.
If I could get liim to extend the time
on it for about ninety days everything
would come out all right. 1 could
then realize on rams securities I hold
and get on my feet, but if he insists
on payment now I shall have to sacri¬
fice my valuable holdings, and this Will
practlcaly ruin me.”
“Have you asked him for an exten¬
sion of the time?”
“No. That wouldn’t do any good.
He never favored anybody in his life.
If he knew how I am fixed he would
be all the more anxious to press me
for an immediate settlement.”
“Well, don’t you worry dear. His
wife, y-ou know, is several years older
than I. We met at a party tills after¬
noon and I spoke to a lot of women
there of the days when she and I went
to the same school. She L .’iied palo
when I mentioned the fact, fearing, of
course, that I was going to tell how
long ago it was, and tlmt she was sev¬
eral grades above me because slie was
older; but I put down my pride, anil
pretended that as I remembered her
she was a little thing in pinafores just
learning her primer lessons when I
graduated. You go to Hewitt’s house
now, and when she is present ask him
to extend the time on that noted’—Chi¬
cago Times-Herald.
Evolution of the Salmon.
When a young salmon is first
hatched it is known as a parr; just
before it leaves the fresh for the salt
water It is called a smolt; when it first
returns to spawn it becomes a grilse,
and not until It has spawned is it en¬
titled to be dignified by the name of
salmon. __
PctNAM Fadeless Ftes do not stain
the bunds or spot iko kettle. Bold by all
druggists.__
Cotton Bolls for Paris Exposition.
O. C. King, commissioner from Mississippi to
tho Paris Exposition In 1900 has arranged what
promises to lie a great novelty lu the way of an
exhibit from his state. He has made arrange¬
ments to secure five hundred thousand cotton
bolls, which will be sold at tho exposition by
original cotton field darkles as souvenirs of the
American exhibit. shipped They will be the first cot¬
ton bolls ever abroad.
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Ills Away.
To quit lobaceo easily and forever, be mag¬
netic. full Of life, nerve and vigor, take No-To-
Bae. the wonder-worker, that makes weak men
strong. All druggists, EOc or *1. Cure guaran¬
teed. Booklet and sample free. Address
Sterling Remedy Co., Chicago or New York.
Human Frailty.
If some men could realise in cash their own
estimate of themselves, the money market
would soon be cornered.
B j writing at ono« • $40
for tho remarkable offer of iho South'B great¬
est Institution of Practical Business Training,
The Ga.“Ala. Bosmess College,
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that I purchased another suoply and was com¬
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