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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1896. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Dafly snd Sunday CALy, one week, by carrier. .80.18 Daily and Sunday CALI, one year,by mall.... 6.00 Dally and Sundsy CALL, six months, by mail. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CaLi, three months by mail 1.50 Dally and Sunday CALL, one montd, by mail. .68 Bunday CALL, one year, by mail.. 1.50 W EEXLY CaLL, one year, by mal .50 THE SUMMER MoN'an. o re you going to the country on & %acation ? w112 w0 Sronble for s to forward THE CALL 10 your address. Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the Carrier or left &l Business Office will recelve prompt astention. NO EXTEA CHARGE. BUSINESS OFFICEs 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californt Telephone......... Main—-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. Telephone. ... ... = BRANCH OFFICES: 650 Montgomery street, Corner Clay: open until ©:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open untfl 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. &W. corner Sixieenth and Mission strests; open untll § o'clock. 2518 Mission street; open until § 0'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 'clocks OAKLAND OFFICE: $U8 Brosdway. EASTERN OFFICEBs ERooms 31 and 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Maln-1874 PATRICTISM, PROTECTION and PROSPERITY. FOR PRESIDENT— WILLIAM McKINLEY, of Ohlo FOR VICF-PREXIDEN GARRET A. HOBART, of New Jersey ELECTION NO {MBER 3, 1898. To-day Maine speaks. The Arkanscas vote is now a back num- ver. Maine will see Vermont’s majority and go it several thousand better. Lvery workshop is quarters in these d need protection. a Republican heads s, for the workers The silver-mine owners who have backed Bryan have made a mighty poor gamble tor their money. e Next to the speeches of McKinley the best Republican campaign documents are the speeches of Bryan. We shall know when the Maine vote is counted just how much Sewall’s nomina- tion is worth to Democracy. The battle for protection is virtually won, but the people should be careful not to elect any free-traders to ofiice. In the mad whirl of his oratory in these . days it is doubtful if Bryan ever takes time even to think that he thinks, The trouble in the fusion camp is that every fusionist wishes to get the 16 and give the other fellow the measly 1. We have now been informed that Clande Matthews is sick and Boies is tired out, but what about Suver Dick Bland? The American workingman who wishes good wages and good dollars is not taking much stock in the Bryan movement. Level-headed Democrats have given up this campaign and are trying to console themselves with the hope of better luck in 1900. It is safe to say that when Tom Watson reads the report from Maine to-morrow e will conclude that he has a good one on Sewall. It is certainly unnecessary for Bryan to discuss the tariff since everybody knows he voted for the Wilson bill and his record is enough. The free silverites will make a hard fight to cut down the Republican majority in Maine to-day, but they will find the job even harder than the fight. The Democratic orators talk of money, money, money, but the people know the only way to get money is to get work, and work is hard to get nnder Democratic free trade. Before long the Indianapolis nominees will be notitied, and they will then bave a chance to write letters of acceptance which will cause them to be remembered for one day more. Our readers are doubtless wetting tired of tue relteration of Bryan's speeches, but we must keep publishing them, for we wish to increase the Republican vote as much as possible. To well-informed advocates of free silver coinage international agreement seems not only the safest but the shortest way io establish bimetallism, and therefore they support McKinley. 1f ever there was a political forlorn hope it is that of the Palmer and Buckner Democrats, but nevertheless there are a good many right-thinking Americans who glory in their pluck. Itis reported in Chicago that Governor Altgeld did not make h1s trip to Glenwooa Springs, Colo., for health only, but to strike the silver-mine owners for a cam- paign fund, and it is the belief in Chicago tuat he got it. —_—— Republicans must be on their guard in Congressional and Legislative districts. 1t is the evidentintention of the Popocrats to abandon Bryan and make every effort to elect Congressmen ana the United States Senator. Workingmen might as well quit asking Democratic orators and newspapers how they will get any profit from free silyer while American mills are closed, for they will never get a satisfactory answer no matter how often they ask. Farmers have learned by their experi- ence with the Democratic tariff that they need a home market for their products more then they need free silver, and ac- cordingly they are not going to vote for Bryan the free-trader, no matter what he may promise about money. According to Moses Handy the attempt to raise a fund to start a free-ffiver news- paper in OChicago had to be“abandoned several hundred thousand dollars short of the mark, so it seems the silver boys are not bleeding half as much as they are yelling, m A GREAT DAY AT CANTON. Five thousand men, Republicans and Democrats, called upon Major McKinley last Saturday to assure him that the peo- ple are siill for good money and prosper- ity, the active working of jawsmiths in the direction of ruin notwithstanding. In the course of his speech to some 700 Penn- sylvania workingmen, Major McKinley said: “l do not think there was ever a time in the history of our country when so many men were interested in the rightful settlement of public questions as this year, and no class of our people are so much in- terested in their rightful settiement as the men who work for wages and salary.” Mr. Bryan is on record in a dozen places as being opposed to the Government af- fording any protection whatever to Ameri- can workingmen against the competition of pauper and other kinds of low wage schedules of Europe and the Orient, and he isdrying 1o organize a following that will enable him to put his free trade in labor’s product theories into practical operation. Major McKinley is right. There mever was a time in the history of the country when so many men were in- terested in the issues as those now before them, especially are men who work for wages interested, for if Bryanism prevails they know that they will be brought face io face with the wages of other countries and that they will be defeated. No doubt the question which the Bryan- ites have thrust upon the country ne- cessitate an unusually deep inter- est in public affairs on the part of the people. Mr. Bryan is trav- eling through the country soliciting votes for himself for President. He is ad- vocating the adoption of & system of gov- ernment which means the overthrow of traditions and economic principles which have obtained ever since the Nation was founded, and the question which the peo- ple have to answer is, Shall we experi- ment with other forms of government, or shall we hold on to the basic principles of the federation of the States which have enabled the country to grow from a few colonies to the most powerful Nation in the world? But there is equally as much danger to the people in Bryan’s monetary theories asin his free-trade doctrine. It matters not if he does talk of bimetallism, what he is aiming at is to put this country wholly upona silver basis. His theory could lead to no other result. He denies the rightof those to whom our farmers and manwfacturers sell their products to have a voice in determining what kind of money shall be employed in our {rade in- tercourse with them. Thisis a proposi- tion which should, as Major McKin- ley says, interest our people deeply. It surely connot be that those who work for wages and those who buy and sell in the marketsare will- ing to substitute a doubtful and ever- changing monetary system for the one we have now, which firmly and without vari- ableness holds every form of our doilar up to the equivalent of 100 cents, and not only in the United States but in every country where money is used. There is no doubt st all that the people have great interest in the issue now before them, for the prosperity of the country and the safety of all business enterprises are in- volved, Mr. Bryan would tear away the basic principles of the Government and build anew, while Major McKinley would repair the waste places and revive busi- ness on the lines of protection and sound mouey. Iam from the West, but I have neither left an enemy’s country nor found an enemy’s country in New York. No man who stands Jfor American progress, prosperity and pres- tige will find an enemy’s country in the great Empire State. None but they who seek to tear down and destroy, mone but gey who incite to_prejudice and passion, none but | they who lead a campaign against the credit of the country, will find New York an en- emy’s country; but those who do will be over- whelmed by the votes of freemen to the er- tent of a_quarter of a miliion majority.— Senator Thurston. A TRUE DOOTRINE. In his speech accepting the nomination of the National Democratic party for Vice-President, General Buckner said: “Wages are fixed by a law that is as im- mutable as the seasons. Wages depend on production, and nothing else. An in- fallible test of prosperity is the rate of wages paid to Jabor, and I will support any man who will raise the rate of wages, no matter by what political name. I be- Jieve 1n high wages, because they mean general prosperity.”” ‘What General Buckner said has been a doctrine of the Republican party from the beginning, but the Republican party did not discover the principle underlying the declaration. It is as old as humanity. The law which General Buckner say: immutable is the law of supply and de- mand, with something added. There might be demand enough to consume the entire supply of labor and the price of labor might still pe unreasonably low. Were it not so there would be no oceasion for labor organizations. To be just the demand should amply compensate the supply, and labor unions seek to have that done. But the demand is under the law of competition, and if the cost of 1ts product is higher than the similar product of an- other demand it is shut out of the market. It cannot reduce the cost of its raw ma- terial to meet competition, therefore it is at a disadvantage which it cannot over- come so far as that item is concerned. It may, bowever, compete in the markets for finished product by lowering the price of labor to where no competitor would have the advantage in the matter of total cost of the articles marketed. Tn that event the demand for labor would be equal to the supply, but the supply would not have just compensation, nor would pros- perity be general even though the pro- ducer’s final profits should be as great as it he paid labor twice as much. General Buckner understands the work- ing of the law of demand and supply ex- actly as Major McKinley does. That is to say, the demand for labor should be so circumstanced that it may be able not only to take the entire supply, but give it such compensation as shall enabie it to bave a reasonable margin of difference be- tween what it costs for its proper main- tenance and what it receives for its service. This difference is what labor puts into a home and in thesavings bank. It eo hap- pens that under our system of govern- ment the standard of living for labor is necessarily very much higher than in any other country. Moreover, a peculiarity of our system of government is that labor, as an inaividual, is a sovereign, clothed with as much authority and entitled to as many rights under the law as the demand for labor who gives labor employment, hence the demand hLas no right to ask for exclusive privileges. If the law secures good to it labor has the right to partici- pate in whatever good accrues. But the question 1s, to what extent shall the law secure good results to demand and supply, they being sovereigns upon an equal footing? The ultimate purpose of the Government being to secure the lar- gest possible degree of comfort, prosperity and safety to its people, it follows that it must protect 1ts people against foreig competition that would impoverish the: quife as much as against foreign invasion that contemplated the acquisition of any part or all of the country. This is the law of self-preservation and to abrogate it would be to annul the law of demand and supply, so far as our own people are concerned, for the material strength of this country must necessarily come from conditions which enable us to not only create a demand ourselves but to supply the demand ourselves. This is what General Buckner means. It is what Major McKinley advocates every day. It is what the Republican party has always contended for, and it is nothing more nor less than doing business on a business sense basis. Mr. Bryan is not in favor of anything of this kind, but Mr. Bryan is not a true American in very many ways. Whenever a nation has debased its cur- rency in ancient or modern history the man who has suffered the worst has not been the man who lends money, but the man who has toearn it. We have tried the experiment our- selves. When we suspended specie payments during the Civil War the price of goods went up enormously, but the wages of labor lagged behind. 1t dis a matter of official record that a weelk’s wages in 1865 bought less than they did in 1860.—Hon. Curtis Guild of New York. COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS AND McKINLEY, Commercial travelers are the jolliest men in the world, but they never forget that they are “on the road” to sell goods. They are, too, the best readers of the signs of the times and are in the best possible position to keep & finger on the pulse of public sentiment. Itissafe to conelude, therefore, that when so very many of them go out of their way to call upon Major McKinley and assure him that his theories of government in practical opera- tion are necessary to the trade and traffic of the country, there is reason for their going. In his business life the commercial tray- eler isall things to all men. It is his business to know people, and from people he gathers information that is valuable to him, which he utilizes for the good of his line of trade. If, then, he is espousing the cause of Major McKinley, it is because | he sees that his customers believe that McKinley’s election would give stability to their bnsiness enterprises and increase the volume of their trade. As a business proposition the commercial traveler wants done whatever will honorably enable him to sell more goods, and hence if his cus- tomers demand the election of McKinley because they believe it to be to their inter- csts, he is for McKinley. But aside from all that, the commercial traveler is the manliest of men and a sincere lover of his conntry’s institutions, and no one better than he knows what in a commercial way is best for the country. He is never a partisan politician, and hence it follows that in advocating the election of Major McKinley be is doing it as a busi- ness matter, and sincerely believes that protection and the other economic declar- ations which Major McKinley is pledged 1o apply in the conduct of the affairs of the country would be of greater advantage to commerce tiian those which Bryan ad- vocates. 1t is contended by the advocates of free sil- ver that this is an issue between the gold standard and bimetallism. Nothing could be farther from the truth, It is an issue be- tween a monetary system which will give us silver aione and the eristing monetury sys- | tem, which gives us a practical bimetallism.— Senator Thurston. | WEBSTER ON BRYANISM Last Saturday night the local Democracy held a mass-meeting to give expression 1o pol’tical sentiments which proved to be as thoroughly un-American in tone and character as could be expressed in lan- guage. The warp and woof of the speeches were composed of expressions like these: “Will you settle this matter by the ballot or by the sword?’ *“When the physical strength of the classes is brought against the physical strength of the masses the former will be crushed like eggshells.” “As in July, 1776, the American people adopted a document setting them free from the yokes and chains of slavery that they had borne hitherto, so in July of 1896 the American people had placed before them a new Declaration of Independence, setting them free from yokes and chains just as galling.”” “While the War of in- dependence brought upon our ancestors their Saratoge, their Camden and the pangs of starvation and of unshod bleed- ing feet, in the end it brought to them their Yorktown. So it may be in this new No better reply to these and all such revolutionary utterances could be found than the following trom a speech of Daniel Webster, delivered in January, 1834, ata time when the money question was dis- torted and twisted by demagogues just as it is to-day for personal political ad- vantage. The great commoner said: Mr. President: On the greatquestions which occupy us we all look for some decisive. move. ment of public opinion. As I wish that move- ment to be free, intelligent and unbiased, the true manifestation of the public will, I desire to prepare the country for another appeal, which I perceive is about to be made to popular prejudice—another attempt to obscure all ais- tinet views of the popular good by loud cries against false dauger, and by exciting the passions of one class against another, Iam not mistaken in the omen. I see the magazine whence the weapons of this warfare are to be drawn. I already hear the din of the ham- mering of the arms preparatory to the combat, There may be such arms, perhaps, as reason- able justice and honest patriotism cannot resist. Every effort at resistance, it is possible, may be feeble and powerless; but I for one shall make an effort to begin now, and to be carried on and continued with untiring geal till the end of the contest comes. 8ir, I see in those vehicles which carry to the people sentiments from high places, plain dec- larations that the present controversy is buta strife between one pertof & community and another. Ihear it boasted as the unfailing se- curity, the solid ground, never to be shaken, on which recent measures rest, that the poor naturally hate the rich. I know that, under the cover of the roofs of the Capitol, within the last twenty-four hours, among men sent here to devise means for the public safety and the public good, it has been vaunted forth, as matter of boast and triumph, that one cause existed powerful enough tosu pporteverything, and that was the natural hatred of the poor to the rieh, Bir, I pronounce the author of such senti- ments to be guilty of attempting a detestable {fraud on the community; a double frand,a fraud which is to cheat men out of thelr Pprop- erty and the earnings of thelr labor, by first cherting them out of their understanding. “The natural hatred of the poor to the rich!" Sir, 1t shall not te to the last moment of my existence—it shall be only when I am drawn to the vergo of oblivion, when I shall cease to have respect or affeclion for anything on earth —that I will believe the people of the United States eflectually deluded, cajoled and driven about in herds by such abominable frauds as this. If they shall sink to that point, if they 80 far cesse to be men, thinking men, intelli- gent men, as to yield to such pretenses and such clamor they will be slaves already, slaves to their passions, slaves to the fraud and knavery ol pretended friends; they will de- serye 1o be blotted out of all the records of freedom; they ought not to dishonor the cause ot seli-government by attempting any longer to exercise it: they ought to keep their un- worthy hands entirely off the cause of repub- lican liberty, if they are capable of being the victims of artifices so shallow, of tricks so stale, so threadbare, so often practiced, so much worn out, on serfs and siaves. “The natural hatred of the poor agaixst the richl” “The aanger of a moneyed aristoc- TAacy!” “A poweras greatand dangerous that resisted by the revolution!” *‘Acall to a new Declaration of Independence!” Sir, 1ad- monish the people against the object of out- cries like these. I admonish every industri- ous laborer in the country to be on his guard agamst such delusions, 1 tell him the attempt is to play off his passions against his interests, and to prevail on him, in the name of liberty, to destroy ali the fruits of liberty; in the name of patriotism to injure and afflict his conntry, and in the name of his own independence to destroy that very independence and make him & beggar and s slave. Has he adoilar? He is advised to do that which will destroy half its value. Has he handsto labor? Let him rather fold them and sit still than be pushed on by fraud and artifice 10 support measures which will render his labor useless and hopeless, COAST EXCHANGES. Frank A. Leach of the Oakland Evening Enquirer has purchased the Oakland Morning Times and if he succeeds in the publication of the palr of them as well as he has done with the Enquirer he wiil have entitled himself to be called the Napoleon of Oakland journalis m, Charles Burrey has disposed of his interest in the Marin County Herald to Mgssrs. George Bing and 8. D, Chatterton, who, in assuming charge of the paper, remark that they are actuated by an honest desire to make Sausa- lito their home for the future; that they have 10 ax to grind and will “treat rich and poor alike with courtesy and respectso long as they deserve it.” Both of the new proprietors have bad experience in the newspaper field. It is rather & good sign for a community and rather & £00d advertisement as well when its local paper finds it necessary to enlarge in order to accommodate its increasing business. The ZEtna (Californin) Reporter has just shown this excelleat evidence of progress a perity. Charles Calkins, its editor, that “the paper will continue to keep abreast ofthe times and grow up with the age of en- terprise and progress which has now fully dawned upon the new Scott Valley.” D. D. Bowmean, who at different times was connected with the Mountain View Register and the Los Gatos Mail, has purchased the Til. 1amook (Or.) Headlight. It is a pleasure to note that George F. Weeks Las become sole proprietor of the Bakersfield Californian, a paper which owes its high stand- ing and reputation to the amole qualifications of Mr. Weeks as a newspaper man of the all- round varlety. In pursuance of the divine injunction, “six days shalt thou labor and do sll thy work,” the men who meke the Stockton Dail v Record will be given a day of rest on the =abbath and no paper will pe issued from that office on Monday mornings hereafter. As compensation to the public for the one day of rest the Record promises to be brighter and more newsy on the other six days. The Stockton Independent will also become a six-day paper, its publishers trusting that all its hard-worked artisans “will find their way to some of the houses of worship to atone for their past transgressions in laboring seven days in the week for the past six months.” The town of Williams has lost & newspaper and Arbuckle has gained one in the change of base of the Transcript, published by J. L. Ken- non and L. A, Eichler. The Keystone, & new Populist newspaper pub- lished at Maltermoro, near Fresno, has made s special offer, with the object of increasing its subscription list. To everybody who brings in $2 in cash for two yearly subscriptions it will give a choice of any two of & number of prizes, including one gallon wine, half gallon brandy, two pounds plug tobacco, one box cigars and one pair corsets. Bread, butter and meat, or any other kind of food, do not appear on the list. The Keystone is a radical reform paper. San Benito County farmers now haul their hay by team to the San Jose market. Says the San Jose News: “The distance is forty-five miles and the cost of hauling is $2 per ton, which on the amount of hay that will be hauled before the rain sets in will mean the vaying of nearly $2000 to the teamsters, which until last year went to the railroad company. Last year tne firm of Bennett Bros. paid $3000 for hauling its hay by team. The railroad rates ere $1 per ton, but the question of time and mode of shipping are not convenient for the shippers.” Merced is enjoying quite a building boom at present. According to the Starof that eity: “Several new hiouses are being erected and other buildings being altered or improved. The brick work on the high school building is finished and the carpenters and cornice-men are now at work on their portion ot the struc- ture. Every effort is being made to hasten the completion, in order that the building may be occupied this winter. The Board of Supervis- ors bave advertised for bids for fitting up the scientific laboratory in the basement. Work on the Valley road freight and passenger depot is also being rapidly prosecuted, The founda- tions are completed and the superstructure has been started. Sonoma County is awakening to the fact thatits hills are rich in treasures of gold, sil- wver, copper, quicksilver, coal, marble, etc. A vein of manganese is supposed to lie near the base of St. Helena Mountain, and its course is said to have been traced by float for several miles. A bleck sand on the coast yields parti- clesof gold. It was worked some time ago at the mouth of Bodega Bay with small success. In the Santa Rosa Republican William M. Got- waldt has an article, in the course of which he says: “The mineral deposits of Sonoma County, as evidenced by recent discoveries, seem principally to lie along a line drawn from English Hill to Occidental, thence north- erly to Cloverdale, and then deflecting to the east at an augle of 90 de<. “Beginning at the lower extremity of the line there is an extensive ledge of quartz, as- saying $4 in gold and 60 cents in silver. Pros- pect shafts have been sunk on the ledge and assays made from & number of places. Barren rock has never been found lying between its walls. Johnson & Stillwell of Bloomfleld have recently been doing considerable development on the ledge, but have as yet treated none of the ore, Around Occidental some excellent float has been found lately. “*On Dutch Bill Hill, several miles from the town, is located the Garibaldi gold mine, which has been worked for several years. Three assays recently obtained from different laboratories average $12 Ol a ton. This indi- cates a rich strike, as the ledge is very exten- sive and has been growing better as develop- ment work progressed. The ore body has been tapped by a driit over 200 feet long and a shaft sunk sixty feet deep at the face of the tunnel. Itis expected to have a stamp mill at work before the end of the year. The prin- cipal stockholders in the mine are Johm Go- betti, Pedrini Bros,, Gamella Bros. and Fran- cisco & Co. “Less than & month age a valuable cinnabar deposit was unearthed within the village of Occidentsl by James Brian, who was digging & well on his property. The sulphate of quick- silver is embodied in a vein of quartz 30 feet wide. The cinnabar shows in tiny red streaks, and is supposed to comprise 2 per cent of the ledge matter where it Is richest. Notwith- standing the low price of quicksilver, the claim looks like & paying property, at least worth investigating. “M. C. Meeker has cut many thousands of dollars’ worth of timber on his land, but he believes that a greater fortune is concealed beneath the redwood roots. There are im- mense crobpings of auriferous quartz, iron ore, graphite and pure ochre on many of his ‘wooded hillsides. “Near Healdsburg the Madeira brothers made a discovery a year ago which may result in & huge bonanza. It consistsof a mountain of onyxized marble. Notonly is the supply wonderful for its extent but for its superior quality. Thereis only one drawback to the development of the property, and that is the bility, If & road were built to the quarry and a moneyed company owned the property it would doubtless yield handasome returns,” Visalia and Porterville in Tulare County are rejoicing over the completion of the Mount ‘Whitney telephone system. It is expected that branch lines will soon be extended in all directions. The Visalia Times thus refersto the leading spirit of the enterprise: *Dr. J. M. Gilstrap, president of the company, has, in the building of the line, shown his ability in managing and pushing such & project to a suc- cessful conclusion. Better than all, he has built seventy miles of telephone wires, with fixtures complete, without incurring but a few dollars of debt,an achievement that was never done before in California, and that was pro- nounced impossible by many of the stock- —————————————————————————————————————— AROUND THE CORRIDORS. One of the most picturesque characters reaching this City for a long time is General G. Reuling of Nicaragus, who came on the steamer Newport a day or two ago, and is at the Oceidental. General Reuling isa young mad with wavy brown hair, and wears a neat-fitting dark blue uniform, decorated with gold after the style of the Nicaraguan srmy. He is scarcely 40 years of age, and before he sought distinction in war was a civil engineer in Nicaragua. But before this he came as a boy to Nie- GENERAL G. REULING of the Nicaraguan Army, Who Won the Battle of La Paz. [Sketched from life by a “Call” artist.] holders of the company. To show their ap- preciation of the doctor’s management the directors at their last meeting voted him $100 worth of company scrip as a compliment for his efliciency.” The sixteen-page Admission day edition of the Stockton Mail wes a creditable one in every respect. The illustrations were many and attractive, and besides the matter relative to the celebration and the history of the day there were several pagesof information con- cerning the wealth, resources and prospects of the raiiroad center of the San Joaquin Valley. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Steamer trials in the British navy have of late been conducted with a view of ascertaining what avessel is capable of doing in actual ser- vice. Thus the trials of the Venus, protected sheathed cruiser of 5600 tons, which took place last month, extended over ten days and consisted of eight hours’ continuous steaming under natural draught, four hours under forced draught and thirty hours’ continuous steaming at sea over & certain course under natural draught, hali-boiler power, to &scer- tain the coal consumption. The contract called for 8000-horsepower and 18)4 knots speed under natural draught.and the trial gave 8204-horse power and 19}{ knots. Under forced draught the power was 9774 and 20.18 knots speed. Under hali-power the engines developed 4876-horsepower and & speed of 16.8 knots, with & coal consumption of only 1.6 pounds per horsepower per hour, Three serious accidents from lowness of water in the boilers have recently been re- ported from the British fleet in the Mediter- ranean. In the Trafalgar and Pheeton no casuslties occurred, but on the Blake the crown-sheet collapsed and one man was scalded to death. It is said that the feed pumps were not properly weighted and that the water returned to the tanks instead of going into the boilers. It is also alleged that young inexperienced engineers are blamed for these very serious and costly accidents. Forty-seven torpedo-boat destroyers are now in course of construction for the British navy, the admiralty baving just placed orders for twenty with light ship-building firms. All these vessels are to have a speed of 30 knots. The Santa Fe, one of tour torpedo-boat de- stroyers building by Yarrow & Co. for the Argentine, has had her three-hours' trial, and with a load of thirty-five tons made 2615 knots. These boats are 190 feet in length, 19 feet 6 inches beam and 12 feet depth. The Belleville boiler, water tubular, on the same general principles as the Werd boiler on the Monterey in our navy is meeting with reat conficgence in Europe and South Amer- ca. Inthe British navy the Belleville boiler has been placed in the Powerful and Terrible, and is also to be used in two 13,000-ton bats tleships just contracted for. Russia has ac- cepted the system for three 11,000-ton cruisers and several other vessels, It is likewise being introduced in Australian, Italian and Chilean war vessels, but it 1s in France especially that this boiler finds its reatest use in the navy and merchant service. No less than twenty war vessels, now in course of construction, are being fitted with these boilers. Armstrong, Mitchell & Co., on the Tyne, have in course of construction no less than twelve war vessels to be delivered by the end 2 0£1897. ‘The Itali: ttleship, 8icilia, has developed a speed under & six-hour natural draught trial of 19.6 knots on & displacement of 13,100 tons. The engines were builtin Italy, while those built for the Re Umberto, a sister ship to the Sicilia, were built in England, and gave a speed of only 18.8 knots. In the naval arsenal at Akabane, Tokio, 1808 workmen were engaged last month. Of these five received the maximum pay of 1.20 yen per gj;y. ‘The others earned from ;& 10 26 sen g'e: em. INFANT'S LOMG CLOAK. The bisaop sleeve is the ideal shape for an infant’s cloak if made without a fitted lining as this is, for it facilitates putting the garment onand makes the little arms more comfort 8ble, leaving them free and untrammeled. - ‘The double capes are pretty and servo a pur- mo if the fabric is not very heavy, making ment warmer. If desiréd, one cape m omitted. A binding of narrow ribhon R:e : & neat finish for the capes if they be un- aragua, for he is a native of Holland. He 1s to allintents and purposes now, however, & na- tive Nicaraguan, for he has all the ways of his Spanish-speaking, dark-skinned compatriots. Strictly interpreted, though, the residents of Nicaragus are not allloyal to President Zelaya. They have been having a revolution down there, and General Reuling has been coping with it This accounts for his arriving with his left leg in chancery, so to speak. It was swathed in bandages, because of a bullet discharged irom a rifle in the hands of the followers of General Francisco Baca at the battle of La Paz six months ago. The wound refused to heal, and Genera! Reuling, finaing it would never get well there, came here to iry a new climate and new treatment on it. He may have to re- main here several months. “President Zelaya is one of the wisest rulers Nicaragua has ever known,” said he yesterday, “and the attempt to overturn the country by Baca was a monstrous case of ingratitude. The President is doing everything he can to bring about prosperity there,.and he has suc- ceeded pretty well. - “The revolution is now suppressed. Nica- ragua is flourishing. The coffce crop is good and money quite plentifu.” DISCOVERY OF AN OLD FLAG Philadelphia Inquirer. Charies Mund, who now occupies the house 289 Arch street, in which Betsy Ross made the first American flags, yesterday discovered a flag evidently made by her. It was tucked The Old Flag. away in the corner of the loft, and its presence was accidéntally disclosed while he was put- ung away other flags which had been used in decorating the house. It wasa flag of the old regulation size, its bunting stained with dust and age, its blue considerably faded and the stars, once white, turned dingy. There were just thirteen of these stars, arranged not as in the original flag in a circle, but exactly as in the cut, and the stars, instead of being woven 1in, were sewed on to the material of the flag, precisely as the very first stars are said to have been sewn on :l:;n’{i-‘{ which the Continental Congress e Mr. Mund was not long in coming to the con- clusion that many years must have elapsed since that union and those stripes and stars ht. The elder Mr. Mund bought the » his son said, more than forty years and he was confident that his father knew ago, nothing of the existence of this old-time relic. There, undisturbed, in the dark and dust, has that old flag lain while the thirteen nthll's tacked fast upon its blue have multiplied into five and forty, and a bitter conflict has been waged in order to keep them together. CAMPAIGN ECHOES. In addition to itsother failures, the Demo. cratic party will fail to carry the coming elec- tion.—New York Press. While Bryan is showing himself to curious crowds his own State is getting away from him.—Minneapolis Journal, A great man is one who claims the right to sit up in a sleeping car and discuss the money question all night.—Galveston News. If you hear a big nofse in a saloon as you pass by, it is not a fight. It is simply some loeal politician explaining his position on the financial question.—Florida Times-Union. “Do you understand this 16 to Mr. Goligntly?" ‘Yes—and I think sixteen boarders to one watermelon isjentirely too many.” —Detroit Free Presa. 1 problem, There ought to be a 8pecial provision on the statutes for cases of deadly assaultin whinh one or the other party to the encounter is shown to have begun s silver argument.—Chi- cago Record. Nobody ever before knew such a benevolent candidate as Bryan. He keeps right on talk- ing, although the Democratic camphign man- #gers warn him that all his talks make Repub- lican votes.—St. Louis Globe-Demoerat. It would be much more profitable for Mr. Bryan to spend his time denouncing the crime of the year 1, when the deappleization ofithe tree_resulted in compelling one of our first families, the well-known Adamses, to emi. grate.—Chicago Tribune. “What does he mean by an appreciated dol lar?” asked Weary Watkins as the free silver advocate was holding forth. «“More'n I know,” answered Hungry Hig. gins. “Fur as that goes, I'd appreciate a nickel if I could git holt of it.”—Indianapolis Journal. PERSONAL. * W. H. Hatton, an attorney of Modesto, is at the Lick. W. F. George, & Sacramento attorney, is vis. iting at the Grand. M. Marks, 8 merchant of Oroville, is at the Grand on a brief visit. J. A. Northway, & hotel man of Nevada City, is staying at the Grand. Malcoln Sale, a merchant of Astoria, Or., ig registered at the Cosmopoliten. H. W. Wagoner, a iarmer of Ashland, Or., is at the Cosmopolitan with his wife. Rev. A. L. Jones and wife of Cloverdale are spending a few days at the Ramona. H. 8. Shamp, owner of a large vineyard at St. Helena, is registered at the Lick. A. S. Bigelow, 8 mimng man of Nevada City, is among the latest arrivals at the Grand. . G. Yancey, who is engaged in the lumber business at Newman, arrived at the Lick last nignt. F. P. Reece, a prominent hotel man from Johannesburg, South Africa, is staying at the Ramona. D. W. Morgan of Sacramento, who owns mining property in El Dorado County, is a late arrival at the Lick. J. F. Clapp of Chicago, who is interested in mines on the mother lode, is among the late arrivals at the Grand. J. B. Hammond, a large manufacturer of ag- ricultural implements at Portland, Or., ar- rived at the Palace last night. Harleigh Johnson of Santa Barbara, man- ager of the San Ysidro orange ranch in El Montecito, is a guest at the Grand. P. B. Fraser, president of the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank of Stockton, registered at the Occidental yesterday with his wife. Judge Henry L. Lorenz from Washington, D. C., connected with the Postoffice Claims Department, is making the Ramona his head- quarters here. Dr. William Martin, surgeon United States navy, retired, has returned to San Francisco from a prolonged visit to New York, Washing- ton, Boston, Atlanta and New Orleans. Among the late arrivals at the Russ are sey. eral members of the railroad grievance com mittee. In the party are J. C. Stout of Hous- ton, Tex., D. Frell of Dunsmuir, C. Crane of Port Costa, E. E. Moulton and W.T. Cristy of New Orleans, La. Alfred V. La Mott of Glen Ellen arrived at the Grand last night with tanks containing 115,000 small trout, with which he will further stock Blue Lakes, having already recently put in 800,000 young fish. 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