Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1896, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, MONDAY, OCTOBER 12,. 1896-SIXTEEN PAGES. SSTSSSTSSSS SS SSS TESTS SSS OS SSCS SSE SS SESSSSESSHSSSOS TSS Old Ox Xe RERER EER ERE RY dark ground shades, flecked with bright “Silks & Velvets. For evening wear we offer a lot of Silk Crepons, in light colors. eB. Were $i. Only. 59c. yd. Crystal Benguline Silks, assortment of and ‘BOTH at SPECIAL PRICES. Every energy is being bent to dispose of the W. D. Clark & Co.’s stock at the earliest possible moment. 2 half, one-third, and in some instances one-fourth former prices. There is another aspect to the store news. | crowding in upon us. These we secured at a considerable conces- sion in price, owing to our being in the market late. Our prices for them will average 25 per cent lower than you will have to pay |) colorings. Be.” value. 290 yd. Price before ------ $y and $1.25 yd. | 38-inch” Ati woo! Novelty "Suitings, in an Elegant, 32-inch Bitck Sik Velours, oh | attractive array of new color Lier capes collar- Is] effects. Value, 50e. Z yd. ettes, at......... $2.50 and $4 yt si 40-inch All-wool Novelty Cloth Suitings, ‘An “odd? lot of Colored Siik Velvets, | newest colorings. ever “soc. yd. in “odd’” shades, in pieces of from 2 to S$ sold under 75e. " Only....-- - ya. 5B yards, at the price of one yard. lots of Extra Large, Heavy Marseilles Bed colors. Were $1.25. Re- vd. Sp » which will be offered at the fol- duced to eo . Jowing special prices: ® ening coors ; s yd Usual $2.00 Spreads for. .$1.48 |. Fancy Crepe Silica, In even- Usual $2.50 Spreads - -$1.79 |) pe ee eee REE Usual $3.00 Spreads... .. .$2.25 New. SES Ss eesesle It is yours at one- New goods are [XE ERM KKIRK elsewhere. ls) Superb new ‘‘Monotone’’ Silks, entirely Dress Goods Specials. new design In rich ble effects. in. French “Ai-wool” 950. yd. Ree ek een Stor: etn See Henrietta Cloth, In colors.. ‘5c. yd. Sear 36-ineh “*All-wool” Novelty Suitings, Colored Silk Velvets of a ittle better quality than you've ever bought at the si le. S| Bed Spreads. We were fortunate enough to secure 3 us, the war of the proletariat against the Property holder. Ni er meaning than this can be given to”tlie appeals to the ‘common people,’ ‘to labor,’ ‘to the poor and downtrodden’ and to the denunciations against ‘plutocrats,’ and ‘money grabbers,’ ant “Many adherents of jth; perceive its full mean! ware, they are lig! is borne in the hands off reckless men, may start up in this co the lurid fires of a ‘commune.’ iN “America, heretofore, has heen free from socialistic hatred and warfare. It has been a country of opportunities for all men and it has given to the laborer a_ livelihood higher and better than is afforded him in any other country of the world. Is this all to be changed? Is social chaos, gloating over ruins, to be thé-meéthod of social ele- vation of the masses? “There may be rogm in some things for peaceful amelioratio® through a well-in- formed public opinion and orderly legisla- tion, but class hatred’ and angry passion never lead to aught but general misery and suffering. The people of America must to- day look warily around, guard against catch-words and misleading war cries, avoid giving any countenance to socialistic or anarchistic tendencies and know that the first condition of prosperity to any and all classes of the people is a peaceful com- monwealth and assur¢ Social order. The Monetary Question. “The monetary question is; indeed, a secondary issue in this campaign. I have, however, my convictions in this matter. The fres and unlimited coinage of silver dollars at a. ratio of-16 to 1 by the United States, independently of the other great commercial nations, into dollars which shall be made legal tender will disturb the whole business of the country and bring upon it a financial depression far beyond anything which we are now experiencing. “I am often confronted with the pamph- let of Archbishop Walsh of Dublin, on bi- metallism, as a reply to my objection to the silver resolution of the Chicago con- vention, The pamphlet of Archbishop Walsh has no bearing whatever on the sit- NATIONAL INTEGRITY Archbishop Ireland Discusses the Political Campaign. } But let them be- torches which, FAVORS THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM re The Chicago Platform, He Says, Means Secession. SILVER QUESTION SECONDARY Archbishop Ireland of St. Paul, Minn., in response to a written request from twenty- seven business men of that state, has made the following statement in reference to thé political campaign: “I am not unwilling, in this crisis through which the country is now passiag, to speak ple, if I am in reality advising them for their good and serving their true interests. Those above all otners in the land who should today be on their guard against the silver movement are the laborers of Amer- ica. “But will not the farmers be benefited? ‘Will they not receive a higher price for their products? May be a higher price, but not higher value. Of what use is it to have a dollar instead of a half dollar if the dollar can purchase no more than the half dollar? And will farmers receive even nominally a much higher price than they do now? The best market of the farmers’ product in his own country. And if his own country is impoverished, if factories are closed, if laborers in cities are penniless the farmer will receive but little for hiz harvests. “Men on salaries will scarcely hope to have their salaries doubled, even nominally, and then their salaries, such as they may be, will have only hi the purchasing power they have toda; “Those who owe debts payable—principal or interest—in gold will receive the same salaries as today, and their salaries wil! have but half the debt-paying power which they have today. “But—and here is the popular argument in favor of free silver coinage—we have had hard times under the gold standard. That is true, and what is also true is that under the silver standard we shall have much harder times. ‘It is the great fallacy of the day to be attributing our hard times to the gold standard. The craze for free silver as a cure for hard times is explicable on the same theory that a man who has been a long time sick, despite the attentive care of expert physicians, will call for any quack who advertised to cure all the ills of humanity. Cause of Hard Times. “Hard times have come through the severe and resistless working of economic laws, which go their way in spite of lega} enactments of parliaments and congresses. Good times may be expected to come back surely, even if only gradually. The over- production that glutted our markets hae been used up, capital is anxious to do We Get the Contract. E HAVE the honor of having again been award- ed the contract for furnish- ing the uniforms for the High School Cadets. Twas secured in competition with the various other clothiers of this city. The fact that we were awarded this contract the second year is a decided compliment to us, or rather our clothing, for if there was a flaw in it objections would have been raised to our having the contract again. We were not awarded this contract on price alone — but quality and workmanship for the price. We are glad to note the marked im- provement in business generally. We pre- sume the increase is general, for we hardly think we are the exception. The present is the richest stock of cloth- ing we ever offered. New Suits and Over- coats begin at $7.50. which CLARK & CO. (Successors to W. D. Clark & Co.), 811 Market Space. [XR EMM EREKEEKRRRE ES CXR REXEREEEREXEEEES MILLIONAIRES’ NEIGHBORS They Have Proved to Be Expensive in the Long Bun. Large Sums of Money Refused for Small Pieces of Property Which the Rich Man Wanted. From the New York Journal. When a millionaire who has rolled up a great fortune decides to look around for some nice spot where he can enjoy Arcadian delights close to nature’s heart, he is apt to fancy it the easiest sort of an undertaking. He says to himself: “I've got money, and money can buy anything.” So Mr. John D. Rockefeller thought when he saw .n his mind’s eye the picture of his magnificent country place in the Pocantico Hills, near Tarrytown. When Mr. Rockefeller bought up miles cf country here, there and everywhere throughout this most picturesque part of the Hudson, he planned placing a fence around it all and inclosing all in one beau- tiful park. So large was nis idea of whit he wanted that he hoped to cwn enough land to drive ten miles straight ahead wita- out going off his own estates. Acres upon acres were added, as Mr. Rockefeller found new outlying pieces of property that pieased him. When the sur- veyors set out to place the boundaries cf the big fence they were amazed to find a small piece of property that was not in Morton Can't Buy This. the plans. It was a small strip of laad running back about forty rods into Mr. Rockefellers domains. Upon the little plot stood a simple frame house, untenanted, while around the door strayed a few lone- some chickens. The surveyors reported this to Mr. Rockefeller. “Buy it,” he or- dered. And thereby hangs a tragedy. When the Rockefeller agents approached the small house they found an old man out hens. “I doan’t said he. reflect- ively glancing over the spreading acres beyond. “Fact ts, I like ter have a nice nelghbor like that. I'm contented here, doin’ chores for the neighbors an’ working out winters. No, I doan’t want ter sell. “One of those obstinate old fellow: ejaculated the agent. “Leave him alone, He'll come around.” But the man did not come around fast enough. Meanwhile Mr. Rockefeller wanted to build that fence. The little plot stood next the best water chance on the place. A beautiful little river cascades into a ravine back of the plot. “Buy at any price,” ordered the millionaire. But the agent held out. All summer the man worked out doing chores, and when winter came he housed up, only going out to do odd jobs. Spring dawned, and with it came the agent. The old man by this time was ugly. “You can't hev that thar house fur less than $50,000,” said he, “and cash at that.” “I'll pay it,” said the agent. “I will be here tomorrow with the money and a law- yer.” Next morning came the agent, the lawyer and the money. But when they ap- proached the house they saw something had gone wrong. A wildly dishev: ure came rushing out, crying: money! Where's the money? Let me eat it!’ The poor fellow had gone stark, raving mad with Joy at the prospect of sudden wealth. Three months afterward he died in the madhouse. Upon the very border of Biltmore, George Vanderbilt's North Carolina estate, there Austin Corbin’ Life-Long Dream. Qwells a farmer, fat, ruddy and contented, knowing, as he does, that the owner of Biltmore would give a cool million any day to oust him. This old man sold his estate to George Vanderbilt, but carefully marked off one section of it for himself. He did not sell quite all he owned. There was still a nar- row strip left. Upon this he moved his little farmhouse and stubbornly refused to budge. Every year immense sums have been offered to sell the little farm house and live elsewhere. The late Austin Corbin bought his im- mense country estate in New Hampshire more craftily than most millionaires know how to do. For months before he built his Bouse he had old around with their pants tucked in boots saying to the farmers around: “Wall, I guess I'd like to buy a strip of that land o’ yourn “Think o’ settling hereabouts?” the farm- ers would ask. “Wall, ye—es, if you don’t hold your land too high.” And so his crafty agents got hold of many and many a hundred acres at the regular market price. But there was one old farmer in the in- terior of the forest land who said nothing, Worth a Million to Geo. Vanderbilt. but sawed wood. When the make-believe farmers approached him, he answered: “I guess I won't sell jest yit. In the spring this here wood'll all be gone. Then I'll sell the place ter yer." But in the spring he changed his mind, and refused to budge, and he {s there yet. Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan has a neighbor next to his Hudson river estate who has a house and farm Mr. Morgan covets, but can’t buy. And up in the Lenox Hills, close to young Harry Whitney's paradise, is a little shanty where a poor woman keeps a thin-sided cow. At first she asked $5,000 for the shanty and the land. Now she de- mands $25,000. Governor Morton's Ellerslie and Anson Phelps Stokes’ Hudson river es- tates also have neighbors whose crude dwellings and sightly situations would bring thousands if the owners would only sell. —+e0—_______ CHINESE WHO HAVE STYLE. Costumes They Wear Now and Couldn’t Have Worn Ten Years Ago. From the New York Sun. New York has reached that degree of cos- mopolitanism at which the most extraord!- nary of foreign garbs attract little atten- tion In its streets. Even the picturesque and once abused Chinaman can go forth in all his glory without much comment. One of the most picturesque of this race went up Broadway a few days ago In a manner which, ten years back, would heve created a small riot of interest and curiosity. He lounged back in the corner of a brougham, with a fat cigar poised at a graceful angle in his face. His garments were cf the most flowing style and amazing pattern. The material was elegant flowercd silk and the color dazzling blue. On his head was some sort of gear that could hardly be called either a hat, cap or bonnet. This also was blue, and between balancing it properly on top of his curled-up queue and keeping the fat cigar tilted at the proper angle the at- tention of the gorgeous cejestial was pretty well occupied. On the opposite seat sat two American- ized Chinamen, short-haired, correctly clothed, and duly ornamented with large watch chains and scarf pins. They ap- peared to be listening reverently to the re- marks which from time to time their com- banion trilled out in ground-and-lofty ca- dences. At that particular hour Broadway was busy getting back to business from its lunch, and that carriage load of celestials didn’t even inie up people on the curbs to see it go by. The only persuns wno tcok more interest in the brilliwaily dressed Chi- naman than was expressed in a brief glance were the women. A number of them halted and compared admiring notes as to the silk of his apparel. The consensus of opinion was that they all would lika some off the same piece, but that its like couldn’t be found in this country. Very different was the dress of a China- man who paraded on the Bowery on last Sunday. He, too, had he appeared ten or even five years ago as he was on Sunday, would have needed police protection. He was a big fellow, over six feet tall, a most unusual thing for a Chinaman of low caste, as most of the New York Chinese are, and his stature was made more imposing by a silk hat of a forgotten style. Furthermore, he wore a long cutaway coat, a faney waistcoat, striped trousers and patent leather shoes, and his mien was that of a demi-god as he sauntered along the well- filled ‘thoroughfare. Imagination pauses powerless before the thought of what would would have happened to that hat and its wearer in the times wags the Bowery was the subject of song and story. In its re- formed state of the present day it treated that Chinaman almost with deference, One might have supposed he owned the place. His fellow-countrymen as they passed bowed low, receiving patronizing nods in return. One of them, in handsome silk at- tire, stopped and fingered the big fellow’s coat and hat, apparently complimenting him upon the beautiful shine on the diago- nal of the one and the fine furry appear- ance of the other, for he looked much pleased. Even the policemen on the cor- ners nodded affably as he passed, and one of them said to an inquirer: “Him? Why, he’s one of the biggest politicians in China- town.” eo —_____ Was Asquainted With WL From the San Francisco Post. A slender, pale-faced lttle woman in mourning attended a spiritualistic seance at the rooms of a Market street medium the other evening. Materializations had been advertised, and the little woman confidingly whispered to the medium that she would like to see the departed William. She was overjoyed to learn that William was on hand when wanted—the first time since she had known him—and, when a few minutes later a shadowy form appeared in the cabinet, she trembled with mingled fear and joy. “Is that you, William?" she asked in a faltering voice. “Yes, dear,” was the hollow response. “That's a fraud. I don’t believe it,” she exclaimed. “William would have “Who the dickens do you think it is?’ ” Archbishop Ireland. for the integrity of the nation, for soctal order, for the prosperity of the people, for the honor of America and for the perma- nency of free institutions. I am a citizen of this country, concerned in all the interests of the nation, subject to all the responsibil- files of citizenship. To be silent, when words of mine may be of some profit to the people, would be cowardice, would be crime. “I am not unmindful of the objection made against the churchman speaking at any time on matters which have entered the arena of politics lest his influence as a teacher of religion seem to be used to pro- mote the interests of a political party. I might reply that there are occasions when a political platform means disasier to the country when politics are closely connect- ed with morals or religion, and on those occasions the churchman must be ihe pa- triot without allowing a moment's thought to considerations of expediency, and must take in hand the moral or religious issue, even If It be vested In the garment of poll- ies. “But in the present instance I seek no ex- cuse of this kind. I speak entirely as the citizen, without warrant from my ecclesias- tlcal position. Deep as my convictions ure, I hold in due respeet my fellow citizens who hold convictions at Variance with my own. I impeach neither their good faith nor their honor. I am dealing not with men, but principles and movements. This justice which I render to those whose ideas I am ready to combat I am sure tney will render to me. Favors the Republican Platform. “I stand by the platform and ‘he presi- dential candidate of the republican conven- tion at St. Louis. I am opposed to the platform and the presidential candidate of the democratic convention at Chicago. he days of the civil war excepied, at no time did so great peril threaten the country as that which is involved in the political campaign of today. “The question of free and unlimited coin- age of silver ts put in the foreground. This question has its importance, but it other questions which are brought into issue. “The movement which had its expression in the Chicago convention, and wnich now seeks by means of popular suifrage to en- throne itself in the capital of tne uation, is, in its logical effect, against the United States. It is secession—the secession of 1961, which our soldiers believed they had censigned to eternal death at Appomatiox, but which demands again recognition from the American people. State Rights. “The declaration in the Chicago platform has and can have no other meaning. ‘We denounce arbitrary interference vy federal authorities in local affairs as a violation cf the Constitution of the United States and a crime against free institutions.” “These words point to the act of Grover Cleveland sending United States troops to protect national property and enforce na- tional laws during the Chicago riots in 1894. In those words there is the old secession doctrine that states are independent cf the national government at Washington; there is the annulment of the Union; there is 1o- tice served upon the flag of America that outside the District of Columbia it is with- out power of self-assertion or self-defense. “The President of the United States is told that to enforce national laws and pro- tect national property he cannot march his troops into any state without the authori- zation of the governor of that state. “One of the chief speakers at the con- vention of Chicago understood the sign‘fi- cance of the convention and voiced its spirit. ‘I come from a state which was the home of secession,’ said Senator Tillman of South Carolina. ‘I say,’ he continued, ‘it is a sectional issue and it will prevail.’ “and fitting was it that the speaker veic- ing the spirit of the Chicago convention should be the representative of South Caro- lina. Thrice now has South Carolina spck- en for secession—when it passed in 1832 the nullification ordinance, when in 1861 it fired on Fort Sumter and when in 1596 it cries out: ‘A sectional issue, and it will prevail.’ “The platform of the Chicago convention threatens the country with destruc-ion of social order, with lawlessness and anarchy. The personification of law and of social or- der in America is in our courts, and the promise of safety to our free institutions is the prompt obedience of the people to those courts. And, now, the courts are to be shorn of their power, and shorn of it in favor of mobs bent on rioting and the de- struction of property. “We especially object,’ says, the Chicago platform, ‘to government by injunction as a new and highly dangerous form cf cp- pression.” Here reference is made to the action of the courts during the Chicago riots, without which action there is no calculating how much ruin would have come to the city. The Supreme Court. “The palladium of American liberties is the Supreme Court at Washington, the counterpart of which in majesty and in power to enforce absolute justice does not exist among the nations of christendom. “Put, as far as it is possible to human in- genulty, outside of partisan politics, inde- pendent of all political influences through their life tenure of office, the judges of this court rule Congress and President, states and nation, and expound the law in all its inflexibility, no matter who or what must yield to it. And now a convention speaks of the Supreme Court, as it may be here- after constituted,’ intimating unmistakably the intention, if the party represented in that convention come to power, to so con- stitute the court by the popular election of the judges, by the shortening of their terms of office or otherwise, as to make it insensible to the stern voiee of the law and responsive to the passing whims of political parties. “Worse to my mind than all this is the spirit of socialism that permeates the whole movement which has issued from the con- vention of Chicago. It is the ‘International’ of Europe now taking body in America. War of Classcs. “Of this one cannot but be convinced when the movement is closely observed, the shibboleths of its adherents listened to, the discourses of its orators «arefully exam- ined. The war of class against class is upon lan present commercial value of silver. consequences of unlimited coinage in these circumstances are easily perceived. is of a minor importance in presenze of- ccuntry upon those dreams. commercial reasons suggest the contrary. uation in Argerica. The archbishop dis- cusses bimetallism versus monometallism, and that only from one point of view, the effect of monometallism upon farmers’ con- tracts under the land-purchase act in Ire- “He expresses no opinion as to the ratio at which silver is to be coined, and he manifestly presupposes that bimetallis: would be brought about under an intern: tional agreement. He explains that India was unable to keep up a silver currency independently of European nations. It was impossible for India to obtain the loans that are absolutely necessary for the de- velopment of the country,’ and the reason was ‘the fluctuation in the relative value of the rupee.’ ‘It ts the silver currency of China,’ he adds, ‘that stops the inaking of railways in that country.’ “Archbishop Walsh's pamphlet is through- out a solid argument against the Chicago platform. To what he says, we might add that France and all the countries of the Latin union together were ultimately com- pelled to give up bimetallism so long as other couniries of Europe would not co- operate with them. “The question before the people of Amer- ica today is the coinage of silver by this country independently of the great com- mercial nations of the world'at the ratio of 16 to 1. This ratio is the double of the The “The one hope of the silver party is that under free coinage we will raise the value of silver to $1.29 an ounce, gold. On what authority is this said? On measured in that of the mere word of the men who make the assertion. Cannot Raise, Silyer’s Price. “The experience of our’own country con- tradicts the assertion. The purchasing of fifty millions’ worth~of*silver bullion per year under the Sherman act was not able to prevent the fall:in the value of silver from over a dollar an otince to its present low value. The experience of France con- tradicts the assertion; France, with all tne countries of the Lafin union, had to give up the coinage of silver lest, overloaded with the silver of the world, {t should lose all its gold. Common sense is against the assertion.” i “Silver is now produ in such quantt- ties at such small expehse. of production that its value cannot be kept up to its for- mer standard, and is the whole business of America to be imperiled by a leap into an experiment which thoap;yery men who ad- vocate it confess to be onl; and which experience’ an condemn? t “The boast that the United States is able alone to whip England and the rest of the world into the coinage of silver at 16 to 1, an experiment, common sense or to force the value of silver up to $1.20 an ounce is mere nonsense. We are a great people, indeed, but we have not yet grown to that commercial strength that our coun- try means the commercial world. “Our national pride may give us extra- ordinary dreams of our importance, but it will not do to build the business of the Would all the commercial nations together coining silver at 16 to 1 bring up the silver value of bul- lion to $1.29 per ounce? Perhaps—strong Would America alone bring silver to $1.29? Assuredly not; though, of course, the new demand for silver from the mints would give some increase to its value, which in- crease, however, might again be offset by an increase of production. A Changing Ratio. “Some imagine that the ratio of silver to gold was always 16 to 1, or thereabouts. The ratio was constantly changing through- out historic times. At one time silver was more valuable than gold. At the time of the discovery of America silver was ten times less valuable than gold. Two hun- dred years before it had been eight times less valuable. “The ratio is constantly changing, and the question for us today 1s not what the ratio was at a preceding date but what it should be in our time. “But has not Herr Bismarck counseled the United States to go ahead and make the experiment all alone? Yes, and some Americans quote his advice as an authori- ty. The sly old fox would, indeed, be pleased to see America make the experi- ment—and go to the bottom of the sea. The Government Stamp. “Free coinage, then, will give us money worth in the commercial markets of the world. a little over half its nominal value. No one imagines that the stamp of the government gives value to a piece of metal; it merely certifies to the quantity and qual- ity. Otherwise the government stamp might as well be affixed to copper or to mere paper. “If the government stamp gave value the debased coins issued in the past by im- pecunious sovereigns would not have ruin- ed the subjects of those sovereigns, and the paper issued by Ferdinand of Naples a century ago wouid not have sold in the market almost as government rags. Legal tender compelling men to accept against. their will money above its commercial value in the market of the world is rank injustice. “The early financial statesmen of Amer- ica, Jefferson, Mortis, ‘Hamilton, never thought of making the legal value of coin higher than the cotimercin! value of the metal of which the ¢oins! were made. “Therefore, with the passage of free sil- ver coinage we shall have a currency re- jected at its nominaf value from the mar- kets of the world, unstatile and fluctuating in real value. Busines cannot prosper with such a currency, “The first condition of the life of business is stability of the cutren¢y. None will in- vest money of a cértain value today in commerce and indugtry if, by the time the raw material has been .turned into mar- ketable wares the currency is likely to have changed in viilue.’ Business in all branches would becdme''a speculation, a gamble, and conservative capital would Keep out of sight. No loans would be le. “It is nonsense to\say that capital must put itself into the American market, whether the capital be American or Evro- pean. We should not be deluded by words. We may clamor in vain for capital; it will not come to us unless there be security for it. It will remain in the vaults of safety or go to other parts of the world where reward is small but certain. And without capital there will be no enterprises and no work for the people. Warning to Laboring Men. “I am absolutely convinced that the la- boring classes will suffer the most of all from free silver coinage. And yet the laboring classes are those that are the most urgently appealed to in this free sil- ver movement. A man who talks against free silver ts put down at once as an enemy of the ‘common people.’ Well, for my part, I am willing to be called an enemy of the working classes, of the common peo- something with its money if it can be In- vested safely, our wondrous natural re- sources invite investments to develop them, and, confidence restored, the outlook ts bright. But the essential thing is confi- dence. “I may, of course, be mistaken. But I have come to look upon the present agita- tion as the great test of universal suffrage and popular sovereignty. Can the people defend public honor and the institutions of the country at the polls as they have done on the field of battle? “The only men benefited, and they are few today, and it is scarcely worth while to bring around a revolution in the country to benefit them, are the debtors, who nave today gold un hand, and who, by free sil- ver coinage, will have their store doubled in nominal value, and will be enabled to reduce their debts by one-half. And tc those the question remains: If it is honest? “It is a delusion to imagine that silver will circulate so plentifully that it can be had easily by all, and that the quantity will make up for the lack of value. If sil- ver bullion does not increase in commercial] value silver will not be produced in quan- tities, and owners of silver. will not part with it except in exchange for commodi- ties or labor which they deem useful and valuable. If the business of the country 1s not prosperous, the people will get very little silver and obtain no profit from free mintage.” ——__-——+ee- SWAM THE GOLDEN GATE. Charles Cav Remarkable Per- formance Against Adverse Tides. From the San Francisco Chronicle. The most important feat in swimming in the history of the coast was accomplished yesterday by Charles Cavill, the champion swimmer of Australia. Cavill managed to breast tides and currents between Fort Point and the Marin county shore and swam across the Golden Gate. It was 3:30 o'clock when Cavill left Devil's Point and just one hour and fifteen minutes later he touched the rocks about 200 yards sea- ward from Fort Winfield Scott, having covered a distance as the crow files of over one and one-half miles. The Australian's performance drew a Hg crowd. The shore about Fort Point was lined with people, and the waters in the gate were crowded with small craft of every description. The terry Loat Sausal- ito had a place in the stream with almost a thousand people aboard. From a swimmer’s standpoint the day was an ideal one. The water was as smooth as could be desired, its surface only rippled by the curling edges of the long swells that came from the ocean. There was a slight wind blowing, but it was not strong enough to kick up any disturbance. Cayill left the Sausaliio when the boat arrived in midstream off Lime Point. He had as companions Adolph Kahn, the high diver of the California Swimming Club, and Professor Killick of the Sutro baths life-saving crew. The tide was at a stand- still, and the three men chose as a start- ing point for the swimmer a bunch of rocks about one hundred yards north of Devil's Point and a mile north of Lime Point. A selected crew from the Dolphin Boat Club acted as escort in a Whitehall boat. Cavill wore the regulation tights. He dipped into the water easily and naturally, and started for the San Francisco shore with energy, Killick and Kahn and th: Dolphin crew accompanying him in boats. The swimmer led off with a long, easy, right-side stroke, and for the first few hundred yards of the course the way was easy and his pace was rapid. About a quarter of a mile from shore the Australian encountered what he says was the swift- est current he ever met. The tide had turned since he left the ferry, aud was now pouring through the channel with the speed of a mill race. ‘the ripples roared like a miniature sea and threatened to engulf the boats. Cavill struck into it bravely,and attempted to stay its progress by turning his face toward Sausalito and swimming north. The row- ers in the boat attempted similar tactics, but the rush of waters toward the ocean carried everything with it. Seeing that it was useless to attempt to withstand the force of the tide Cavill drifted with it. He was carried out almost to the Heads before he encountered the counter-currents on the Presidio shore. The eddy opposite Foint Lobos caught aim in its grip and whirled him back again toward ine bay. From this time on Cavill’s work was com- paratively easy. He swam leisurely and easily toward the fort, followed vy half a hundred boats aud tugs. <A half a mile from the landing point he picked up an old felt hat that was floating in the water and put it on his head, much to the amuse- ment of the spectators. As he neared the shore Cavill increased his speed. The Dolphin crew and a boat from the life-saving service cleared the way. There was a long, slow swell smash- ing against the rocks, and on top of one of these breakers Cavill landed easily. There was a great crowd awaiting his ar- rival, and as the swimmer walked vp the beach he was given an ovation by every- thing and everybody, from the small boy on the fort parapets to the big whistle of the steamer Sausalitg, Cavill returned to the water almost immediately and swam to the Dolphin club’s boat, from which he was transferred to the Sausalito. Cavill’s perrormance adds a new notch to the swimming record of the coast. The time spent in covering the distance is re- markaply short, considering contrary tides and currents and the fact that he was carried almost a mile out of his course. Throughout he swam on his right side, using a side stroke. At the finish he was almost as fresh as when he started. The water was cold, and when he touched shore after his long swim his right arm and leg were benumbed to the point of uselessness. The swimmer’s physical dimensions sre: Height, 5 feet 10 inches; weight, 180 pounds; chest measurement, 43 inches, with the phenomenal expansion of 93-1 inches. He is the son of Prof. Fred. Cavill of England, who swam across the English chanrel in eleven hours, making a world’s record. ——— THE GAME OF CRAPS. It Originated in New Orleans Over a Century Ago. From the Savannah News. If there is one game to which the Savan- nah negro is devoted above ali others it is craps. City or country, it is all alike. On Sundays the country negroes gather in little groups in the shade of the trees, out of sight of the “big house,” and play all day long or until the wages which they received on Saturday night are gone. In the cities they gather on the wharves, in the corners of warehouses, or any favor- able spot out of sight of the “cop” and play for any amount they may possess, from coppers to dollars. ‘The Savannah bootblacks and newsboys, like those of any other city, gamble away It is “the-quality-for-the-price” has built up this big business. Parker, Bridget & Co., Straightforward Clothiers, 315 Seventh St. SeeSredoedendondendesdendendendeaiestendeaieatentsi ite GREATER REDUCTIONS —ON THE— MERTZ STOCK! price markings have been brought down to the quick sell- ing point. The wise woman will see a grand opportunity in this sale to lay in a supply of needed articles at less than half price. pint bottles. 16 Extract of Witch Hazel, Page's Sarsaparilia, ood tonic. . .47 100 3-gr. Quinine PiWs... Almond Cold Cream, per jar. Eau de Quinine, famous Cure. : cet and Celery’ Com: Reming: Barth's pou Coca, Be fe. ¢ | Every single article in the store is doomed to go. The You'll regret it if you delay! 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There are fascinations about the game peculiarly African. It is not without its in- tricacies. The ordinary “come seven, come eleven” plan of the game is simple enough, put there is a crowd around the players, there may be a half dozen interested in the game and a dozen side bets. How they manage to keep the run of the game is a mystery to the ordinary observer, but they do so with unerring accuracy. Fights over crap games are rare. ‘The expressions common to the game are amusing. “New dress for de baby,” ex- claims one. “See my gal Sunday night, exclaims another. “De little number 2 says one,as that unlucky number shows up. “I eight you,” says another, meaning that he bets that number will not turn up again before the “lucky seven.” And so it goes. ‘The city council of New Orleans has just passed a law making the game of craps illegal. It does not matter where it is played, whether in the streets, in the club or at home, craps is specially singled out as the most depraved of gambling games, not tc be tolerated anywhere. The game, according to a writer in Harper's, is of New Orleans origin, and over a hundred years old. Bernard de Marigny, who en- tertained Louis Philippe when he came to Louisiana, and who stood, seventy years ago, as the head of the creole colony of the state, as its wealthiest and most prominent citizen—he was entitled to call himself murquis in French—was the inventor, or father, of “craps,” and brought it in high favor as the fashionable gambling of the day. When he laid off his plantation, just below the then city of New Orleans—it is now the third district, but was then the Faubourg Marigny—and divided it up into lots, he named one of the principal streets “Craps,” and explained that he did so be- cause he had lost the money he received from the lots on that street in this favorite game of his. It remained Craps street un- til a few years ago, when a protest was raised against such a disreputable name for a very quiet and respectable street, especially given to churches. “The Craps Street Methodist Church” sounded partic- ularly bad. After Bernard Marigny’s death craps as a gambling game descended in the social scale, and was finally monopolized mainly by negroes and street gamins. Some five or six years ago, however, some Chi- cagoars, who happened to be on the levee in New Orleans, were struck by the game as offering novelties to the jaded taste of dice-players, and took it home with them. It crept into favor at once in the west, and “craps” now rages from the Mississippi to the Pacific, and no well-regulated gambling house is without a “craps room.” But while it has flourished elsewhere it has been tabooed in its birthplace. And now, not content with the ordinary laws against all gambling games, the council has de- clared “craps” especially prohibited, and not to be played for money even in’ one’s back bed room, with the blinds pulled down in front. + e+ —____ A Criterion of Age. From the Pittsburg Chronicle-Trlegraph. Birmingham—“Your daughter is to marry a young man named Hill, I believe?” Manchester—“‘Yes, he belongs to one of the very oldest families in the country.” “I didn’t know that he came from a par- ticularly old family.” “Oh, yes; you often hear people use the expression, ‘As old as the Hills.’"’ The Yale’s mammoth laundry business was built solely on merit. The very smallest laundry receives just as much attention as the very biggest. Send a postal to 514 10th st. “Phone 1092. It MALARIA Can Be Cured. We guarantee “ELIXIR KCNA” to cure any case of Malarta, ‘lis and Fever, A splendid tonic for run-down systems. 25¢. bottle Evans’ Drug Store, 938 F St. Whetestle Habeas and Retail, TESTED BY A STAR. Old-Time Calcu! Distances a: From the Detroit Free Press, Some very old printing that was brought to light the other day contains curious suggestions for making certain calculations that will interest many people. One of the Suggestions runs to the effect that a per- son may ascertain his rate of walking by the aid of a string with a piece of lead at one end of it. The string should be knotted at distances of 44 feet, which distance Is the 120th part of an English mile and bears the same proportion to a mile that half a minute bears to an hour. If the traveler, when going at his usual gait, drops the lead, letting the string slip through his hand, the number of knots which have passed in half a minute indicate the num- ber of inches he walks in an hour. An easy method of correctly regulating a me by the stars is suggested as fol- lows: As the motion of the earth with regard to the fixed stars (those that twinkle) is uniform, timepieces can in a most simple manner be correctiy regulated by the stars with greater facility than by the sun. Choose a south window from which any fixed point, such as a chimney, side of a building, etc., may be seen. To the side of the window attach a piece of cardboard having a small hole in it, in such a manner that by looking through the hole toward the edge of the elevated object some fixed star may be seen. © progress of the star must be watched and the instant it vanishes behind the fixed point the observer must note the exact time it disappears. The following night the same star will vanish behind the same object three minutes and fifty-six sec- onds sooner. If a timepiece mark # o'clock when the star vanishes one night, the fol- lowing night it will indicate three minutes and fifty-six seconds less than 9. If the timepiece be faster or slower than the indi- cation of the star, then it has gained or lest the indicated difference. If several cloudy nights follow the first observation of the star, it is only necessary to multiply three minutes fifty-six seconds by the num- ber of days that have elapsed since the ob- servation, and the product deducted from the hour the clock indicates the first night clear enough for the second observation gives the time the clock or watch ought to show. The same star can only be observed during a few weeks, for as it gains nearly an hour in a fortnight, it will in a short time come to the meridian in broad daylight and become invisible. In making the observation care must be taken that a planet is not chosen instead cf a star. Additional to the fact that the light of fixed stars twinkles, while that of planets is steady because reflected, a sure means of distinguishing between them is to first watch a certain star attentively for a few nights. If it changes its place with regard to the other stars it is a planet, since the fixed stars appear to maintain the same relative positions with regard to each other.