The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 28, 1896, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1896, “BECOMES OWNER - OF ALL JUNEAU The Alaska Town Site Now in the Possession of One Man. . ‘Deciared to Be His by Right of a Mineral Claim Filed Years Ago. - 'Had Relinquished His Popers to Escape Lynching at the Hands of Citizens. PORT TOWNSEND, Wass., Nov. 27.— Eight years of litigation, during the progress of which one of the principals had a narow escape from being lynched by * a mob, has just been terminated, and the . man who almost lost his life because he upheld his rights is now the owner of the <! greater part of the flourishing town of Juneau, Alaska. His claim, as approved by the United States Land Office, gives .. him title to all the business and a greater * part of the residence portion of the grow- . -ing settlement. It was in 1886, after several others had filed and abandoned, that A. A. Goldstein, & prominent merchant, located on a min- . eral claim which included nearly the whole of the present site of Juueau. " More than the necessary amount of assessment work was done to secure the - patent, and when two years late a regular -.application for a patent was made the citizens awoke to the importance of the matter and began a8 concerted movement to kill 1t. In November, 1888, a mass-meeting was held, attended by 300 citizens of Juneau. Goldstein was brought by force before this meeting, where a demand that he aban- don the claim .was made. This he refused to do, but agreed, in the event of securing - a patent, to deed, free of charge, to actual occupants, all property improved or held by them. The offer was declined with the threat that if Goldstein did not at once ‘abandon the land and give up his papers © he would be lynched. To save his life Goldstein agreed and did turn over the official documents, demanding only to - know who received them. United States . Commissioner (now Marshal) Willsans . and W F. Reid were appointed a commit- tee to accept them, and since that time all .- efforts to find the documents have failed. ° Goldstein’s assertion that he would ‘sécure justice if possible was met by threats against his life, but he hired an attorney and prepared for the struggle. The citizens elected a trustee and applied for a town site patent. To the granting of this Golastein objected. The case was heard before the local Land Office at Sitka and was decided against Goldstein. Immediately an appeal was taken to the General Land Office at Washington City, where, after dragging along for over a year, it has finally been decided, accord- ing to private advices, in favor of Gold- stein. During the time the litigation has been in progress the great mining discoveries in and about Juneau have populated and pros- pered the piace until to-day Goldstein’s holdings are worth, at the lowest estimate, a half-million dollars. The greatest ex- citement prevailed in Juneau upon the re- ceipt of the decision. While it will be of great advantage to Golastein, it consti- tutes a blow from which it will require years for the business interests to recover. -In connection with the case Goldstein now has pending suits for damages against Williams and Reid and against Orville T. Porter, ex-officio SBurveyor-General, who refused to turn over a copy of the official - papers on file in his office. FOX HUNTING IN ~ SAN MATED COUNTY A Pack of Hounds Coming From the East With Foxes. - Burlingame Club Organizing the San Mateo Hunting Club. A shadow hasfallen upon the San Rafael paper chase. The sportis to be eclipsed 8o that borsemen with any regard for their . reputation as such will have to look upon . " chasing trails of shredded paperas so much child’s play. Ther of course it will be - beneath the dignity of the fortunate pos- sessor of high bred hunters, and naturally regard it in the nature of country sport. Instead of paper hares and trails across the fields the bay of the hounds will soon be heard und the *“piping horn,” and above all else will ring out the cry remind- ful of crisp frosty days *tallyho! tallyho!” For California is to have its pack of English foxhounds, and the San Mateo bills are to be stocked with genuine Eng- lish foxes. And soon the rivalry among gentlemen who follow the hounds will be largely confined to capturing the “brush,” or to be particular where this term may abpear technical, the tail of the fox. After that will come the struggle for foxes’ heads to decorate the stalis of winning horses. Burlingame will then be strictly in good form. Tt will have its red coats, its whip- per-in, its master; and San Mateo County its red coated fox-huniing squires. This will be truly English, you know, but to be au fait nowadays, such things are neces- sary. The good oid sport will be the fad of Burlingame, and already it has given new life to that arstocratic club within the exclusive precincts of which fox hunting has become the favorite topic of conversation. On the polo ground between inuings members discuss hounds and foxes with the ladies, at dinners they talk about five-barred gates, and the fair ones sigh for stone fences and trim hedge Tows while reconciling themselves with i);dinury California cow fences ana the ike. Even now there is a pack of fox hounds on the way from Nrw York, where the dogs were bought by WaitersS. Hobart. They were shipped by rail Wednesday last and are expected to arrive here in the course of a week. The pack consists of nineteen pairs, or thirty-eight hounds in all. The kennel will be at San Mateo, whence the first hunt will start as soon as the dogs are well rested after their trip across the continent. With them, though in another train, a goodly supply of English red foxesis being hurried toward Caiifornia. They will be set free in a large inclosure back toward the foothilis beuind the town of San Mateo and left there to increase in num- bers. For the present, at least during this season, the fox will not be hunted, for the reason that the number must first be materiaily increased beiore any of them are set at liberty 1n the hills. “That will not be until the following hunting season, but there will be royal sport aiter Reynard through the mesa lands and the rolling foothills down the peninsula. And all the bunters will have a merry time in trying to getin first st the death., Until that time bags of aniseed will be used to furnish thesport. This method of making a trail for hounds is known as a drag hunt. A horseman rides away ahead dragging a bag of anisced over the ground. It is part of his performance to imitate the cunning fox. € must go back on his trail and use such sly tricks to throw the hounds off the scent. At a given time the bounds are let loose. Then they vick up the scent and away they go, the pack bay- ing and flying with noses to the ground and the hunters at their heels, riding for all that is in them over drains and over fences and everywhere, if they don’t wish to iose caste, the hounds go. At last the end of the trail is reached, and the first hunter to arrive wins the first honor. Through the energies of some members of the Burlingame Club a bunt club is be- ing orgamized. This will be an indepen- dent organization to be calied the San Mateo Hunting Club. It will select a master of the hounds and the whipper-in. Ladies can become members, so that tney will now have an opportunity of this mag- nificent country sport, and in addition to that their presence will make it de- cidedly popular. Horsemen say that the new rivalry which fox-hunting will create will improve the quality of hunting horses in California. 00ST OF FIRING GUNS. Heavy Kxpenditures Incurred in the British Navy. The days are long past when we Eng- lishmen sang 1n a free and easy way: Two joily Frenchmen and one Portugee, One jolly Englishman could lick them all three. We are ready enough now to give our possible adversaries all credit for pluck, and perhaps for technical skill, and yet, as rezards practice in the use of their weapons, we still have them at an im- measurable disadvantage. This factor is commonly omitted from newspaper com parisons, but it would probably have more weight than any other in determining the issue of an actunal struggle. Two duelists may each have lion hearts and each the best Damascus blades, but if one has ten times more practice in the art of fencin, than the other, it is long odds that he wifi win. So it is with our navy. It has a far greater knowledge of ships, acquired by actual maneuvering at sea, and a far greater knowledge of guns, acquired by actual firing practice,than any other power. And the reason of this is precisely because such knowledge is a very expensive thing to acquire and_England is the only nation that cares to afford it. It is probable that where France (the next naval power) spends one million in sea-cruising and gun-firing we spend five. From every gun in our navy baving a caliber of ten inches and under there are fired each quarter eight rounds of ammu- nition by way of practice and from all guns heavier than the ten-inch four rounds a quarter, irrespective of the additional rounds used in the annual “‘prize-firing.”’ The heavy expenditure involved in this 1tem alone may be hinted at by observin, that every full réund fired from a six-inc! gun cost £16, from an eight-inch gun £30, from a 12-inch gun £123, and from the 16.25-inch or 110-ton gun as much as £300. And these figures are only a small part of the story, for the life of a very heavy gun is not a long one, and though a six-inch gun can fire as many as 500 rounds, sey- enty or eighty full rounds are the limit of the 110 ton; after firing that amount they will both require a new inner tube, a costly matter enough.—Chambers Journal. . Cycling is a pastime on which the sun never sets. Even Japan has caught the craze; the only great drawback is that, except in Yokohama and Tokio, the roads are terribly bad all over the country, being very narrow and full of deep ruts. ———— There are forty-eight distinct diseases of the eye. No other organ of the human - all the rest who follow them, to seriously l body has so many. Beauties of the Pack zs They Wiil Appear at Fur ingam MERCHANTS WHO ARE PROGRESSIVE Streets Which Will Be Made Attractive for Commerce. The Go-Ahead Success of the Mission and Richmond to Be Emulated. Polk, Larkin and S xth to Be Brought Into Active Comp:tition With Market Street. Market, Kearny and other downtown streets, which heretofore had a monopoly of the business transacted in the retail trade, will ere long have, in the langnage of the street, ‘‘to geta move on to them- selves” if they wish to retain the prestize which was theirs for a number of years. The first outside business street to wake up to the agejof progressand improvement was Polk, whose property-owners and business men created no smail boom a few weeks ago by having that thoroughfare lighted by a series of electric arc lamps from Sutter street to Vallejo. With a reg- ular whoopup of music and red lights on a recent Baturday evening they convinced the people of the Western Addition that Polk street had some public-spirited mer- chants on its line, Since that time busi- ness has improved over 20 per cent. This condition of affairs so encouraged the property-owners and merchants that the “hump” which blockaded the north- ern end of that street from Greenwich to Lombard will be removea as fast as men, | borses and money can be made to accom- plish the work. 8o progressive have they been that the engineers are now preparing plans for street levels and other matters to give an outlet to the street to its north- ern limit. Larkin street from Sutter to Market has caught the contagious fever of improve- ment and progress to such an extent that Dr. Hill and other business men and prop- erty-owners nave formulated a call for a meeting of those interested in the scheme to meet at an early date next week, when steps will be taken to give this street an impetus on the progressive scale. Elec- tric li-hts will illuminate this thorough- fare over its length as above mentioned, and in addition to this the 6x4-pane win- dows, with the pioneer semblance of some country village where the ends of houses are made to face the streets, will give place to full fronts, with plate-glass show- windows and other modern inventions, which isa change that removes the ap- arance of decay and dry rot from old ouses and makes them look like new. Last but not least comes Sixth street, where the same spirit of progress has seized the men who own property and the merchants who rent the stores for busi- ness of commerce. This street will, it is expected, cne week from to-day be transformed from a half- lighted place at night to one of splendor and brilliancy. There will be no less than eighteen arc ligh's placed in the center of the street from Market to Folsom. These will be so distributed that they will be placed in front of the small streets which open into the main one and which here- tofore have been so dimiy lighted by an occasional and stray zas lamp as to make it both dark and dangerous to enter any of them after sundowa. The property-owners and business men on this street have with but very few ex- ceptions responded most cheerfully to the call of progress, so that sufficient money to light up had been subscribed inside of twenty-four hours after the movement had been fairly started. The few picayunish property-owners, who declined to get into the van, will be noted, and if their stores do not have con- stant and permanent tenants they may find out that to live in Rome one must do as Rome does. The hitch that secmed to exist between the two electric light companies in sup- plying the required illumination has had something to do with retarding the work on Larkin and Sixth streets. But so far as the latter street is concerned the com- mittee having this branc . of progress in hand has succeeded in getting concessions which are satisfactory and which will con- tinue to epable the contributors to keep the street illuminated continuously. The same terms will, 1n all probability, be made with Larkin street, and Pofk street will, woen the present contract ex- pires atv the end of four months, obtain similar conditions, which consist of $1 75 per lamp per week, whereas at present the price is $3 a week. Filimore In the Van. The business men on Fillmore street have caught the improvement boom and at a meeting held in Franklin Hall last night organized an improvement club and elected John G. Waibel temporary presi- dent and C. V. Cross secretary. Committees on permanent organization and plans of improvement were appointed, It is the desire of the property-owners and merchants on this street to iollow in the footsteps of Polk and other business streets in this Citv which have already carried into effect a general system of im- provement. Fillmore street, between Sutter and Washington, has for quite a number of years assumed a commerciel aspect, but arc lights will give it a new impetus into modern activity. TALMUD AND TESTAMENT, Rabbi Nieto Draws Interesting Paral- lels on Humility as Described in Both Books. Rabbi Nieto lectured last evening in the Taylor-street synagogue on “Humility, as De. scribed in the Talmud and New Testament.” He said: “The overbearing disposition with which tke popular Christian mind had invested the Pharisee is one of those fallacies which the world, even in this enlightened age, accepts without question. To state, even to educated men, that this is an error involving great injustice toa people and the descendants of that people, one would obtain for the state- ment as much credence as he would for say- ing thatthe Tower of Babel was not built to avold destruction by a deluge. Yet is this statement true. How itcame to be a belief that the tower was erected to escape flood—- pemzonally I canuot tell. “The Bible makes the plain statement that the people, averse Lo being scattered, erected a rand fortress in which_they intended to live. n just such inexplicable manner has 1t be- come the fashion to regard the Pharisee as the embodiment of all thatis vain, haughty and unbending. Were this indeed 8o 1t woula most naturally reflect discredit upon that sect of Jews; but that unmerited contempt has been meted out to the Pharisee can be shown by a reference to the hllwz’:f the period pre- Sedlnl and continuing ugh the life of esus. “That humility and modesty were held to be the highest ideals of human conduct by the teachers of ancient Israel the Talmud and He- brew literature abundantly pflr:.vdo. ;’M many were the tales and maxims them to impress the practice of ‘humility’ upon all. “In_the Gunral of Mark it is ‘those that humble themselves who shall be exalted.’ In the Talmud tractate Erubin it “‘Be lowly; whoever humbles himself shail be exalted, and whoever exalts himself shall be humbled.” And, further, in Berachoth: ‘Who- ever makes naught of himsel{ here shall be glorified herealter.’ ‘*According to both the New Testament and the Talmud the humble are to be the princi- pal inhabitants of the future world, ""Happy are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.’ Also, *Happy are the goor ip spirit, for they shall inberit the kingdom of heaven.’ " —————— BANNISTER'S BAD FAILURE. His Assets Are Nothing and Liabilities Are Quite Heavy, The failure of Alfred Bannister, who was formerly a partner of A. D. Starr, deceased, in the Star Milling Company, appears to be complete, Mr. Bannister has filed a petition in insoivency, in which he states his total assets to be $500 worth of household effects. These are exempt from execution. His debts aggregate $23,628., Notes amountng to $10,600 are held by a local bank. He has other quite large creditors, one of whom, Charles Gardiner of London, has a claim of $5885. G. W. Bannister of Ireland is aiso a creditor to the amount of $2400. One of his largest creditors 1n this City is J. Feaso, to whom he owes $1200. STORIES ABOUT WELLINGTON. How the Great Soldier Admitted a Piece of Injustice. In a paper on Assye and Wellington a contributor to The Cornhill tells these stories about the Iron Duke: During the last few weeks of the life of the second Duke of Wellington, up to within a few days of his very sudden death, I, happening to be living in the neighborhood of Strathfieldsaye, spent almost every day and many hours in long talks, chietly in the grounds of the park, with the Duke. He, knowing that the one subject on which I wanted to get him to talk was his father, most kindly in- dulged me by devoting his conversation to him. I think I may say thatit wasa relief to him to do so. For the fact was that he was bardened by a sense of respousibility. He was fulf of stories and anecdotes of the great man whose heir he was. He had been con- tinually pressed by many, by Lora Wolseley, and by me perhaps more than by any one else, to zive to the world all that he could tell of his father, He could neither altogether make up his mind to go to his grave burying all record of the past, nor yet, as he appealed to me again and again to agree with him, could he feel that the stories of domestic life which he had to tell were altogether such asa son would willingly give to the world of a great father. InTact he felt, 1 think, that some day or other they ought to be known, but he wanted to leave tosome one else the responsibility of teliing them. In reality I do not think that they much alter one's imvression of the man. But perhaps the fact that Dr. Gleig went to his grave knowing all such stories well and never gave them forth, and that It is twelve years since I first heard them, and that, though often pressed to do so, L have never used the freedom which was entirely left to me in regard to them, will indicata that they have seemed to many out of tune with the sort of conception of the man which one knows to be popular and half hesitates to disturb, lest in dispersing the cloudy vision one should blur the true grandeur of the face. In fact, they are all stories of a sirong, hard man—harder on bimself than on any one else—and, being chiefly ot his later life, apply to a time when thes: characteristics had become set and rigid. Here, atall events, are a few specimens, for good or bad: During his campaigns the Duke had acquired a peculiar Labit in regard to sleep. No noise, not the discharge of the loudest cannonade or an explosion, would wake him; but the most delicate touch, even on his clothes, roused him instantly. When roused there was no moment of semi-somnolence, of eye-rubbing or blurred consciousness as to where he was or what had happened. Out of the deadest slee; he was instantly in the possession of afi his faculties. Now, whether it was a de- termination not to yleld to advancing years or merely the habit of a lifetime it would be difficult to say; but during all the time when e was [iving as a country gentleman at Strathfieldsaye there was nothing that he resented so much as the attempt of any one in his household or out of it to do him any personal service. Numbers of the anecdotes turn on this peculiarity. He had made for him a specially con- structed tandem. It had two seats at the back and was completely covered in, the whole front being of glass. The reins assed under the {lua casing in front. n this way the Duke himself drove two very fine horses. Oune day his second son, Lord Charles Wellesley, was sitting with Rim in this carriage. The Duke, as in later life he often on various occasions did, fell fast asleep, still holding the reins. The spirited horses soon felt the loss of control. Before lonz Lord Charles, anx- iously watching the situation, saw that in another moment the leader would dash up a steep bank and that his father’s life and his own wouid be in imminent dan- ger. The risk was too great to runm, though he knew his father too well not to be aware that any interference with him as the driver of the horses would be bit- terly resented. As quietly as he could do so, he slipped his hand over the rein, drew down the leader from the bank, and saved them both from a ca:astrophe, anxiously en- deavoring not to wake bis father in doing so. It was useless, however. Light as his touch had been the great Duke was instantly awsake, and fully alive to all that had happened. 'What are you doing, Charles?’’ “I only turned off tue leader, sir, from the bank. He was just running up it, and we should have been upset,’” “Mind your own ‘business, Charles! mind your own business!” was all the thanks he ever received. The same son, Lord Charles, had been on leave in either Spain or 1taly. He had met with a series of accidents on Lis re- turn journey, had been in very serious danger, and, though he had made the ut- most effort to do so, had failed to get back in time. His father asked for no explanation and would near none. He treated him as a convicted culprit, refused to have any intercourse with him, and in various ways made him feel his displeasure. One day a visitor to Stratbfieldsaye drew out from Lord Charles an account of his journey. The Duke listened, and when tne story came to an end he went up to his son: ‘‘So, Charles, you met with an acci- dent?” “Yes, father.” “And youdid all you could to be back in time?”’ “Yes, father.” “Well, I'll give you a horse, Charles; T’ll give you ahorse.”” It was the only form in which he admit- ted the injustice of which he was clearly conscions. —_——— A Curious Story, I came across a curious story of Field Marshal Joseph Sabine in the current number of “Good Words.” It is so curi- ous that I venture to give it to my readers as it is told by Mr. Baring-Gould, who is, 1 fancy, his godson. General Sabine was 1 the battle of Ramillies in 1706, when he lost the signet ring off his left hand. Joseph had been a third son; accordingly bhe had borne on hisarms g mullet for a difference. But owing to the death of his elder brothers he came to be the re n- tative of his family, and accordingly, with the point of his knife, he dug out the m:“"'t d ter after this, hi; century and 8 quarter af t! s great-grandson, Edward Sabine, was trav- eling in Belgium with his wife, and vis- ited Tirlemont and the battlefield of Ra- millies, when, h-'j)ponlnT to look into the window of a little ! watchmaker, he was surprised and delightea to se aring with his own arms on it—in fact, the very ring lost by his ancestor. He at once se- cured it, and the ring is now in the pos- session of the family.—London Sketch, ————— No human head was imrmuod on coins until aiter the death of Alexander the Great. All images before that time were of deities. anc Buckner o resi Irefuse to mi‘:l an REED EXPELLED BY THE IROOUOIS He Read His Resignation, but It Was Not Ac- cepted. WAS T0O0 HOT TO HOLD. Charged Max Popper and J. J. Dwyer With Being for the Gold Standard. HEENAN’'S GLOVE IN THE RING. Isidor J cobs, Reed and Heenan Will Be No Longer W:lcome to Sit by the Council Fire. The Iroquois Club purged itself of dis- loyalty last night by expelling Isidor Jacobs in accordance with the report of the committee which found him guilty of having outraged the shades of Jackson and Jefferson by voting for McKinley and Hobart. The club also listened in amazement and indignation to a document read by Charles Wesley Reea, in which he scari- fied the club and its members until Max Popper grew pale and J. J. Flynn got as red in the face as a genuine Iroquois on the warpath. Mr. Reed’s document read in this wise: To the Officers and Members of the Iroquois Club—GENTLEMEN: 1 herewith tender my res.gnation as a member of the Iroquois Club, not becuuse of the resolution requesting all members who opposed the Chicago platiorm 1o resign, but becau e I do not desire to be a member of & club professing the principles of Jefferson and yet repudiating all that he held most sacred. At the last meeting of the clubI wascharged with treachery to Democratic principles be- cause I nad opposed the Chicago platform. In my defense I was proceeding to prove that the Chicago platform was opposed to Democratic principles and the constitution oi the club when & poluot of order was made that, inas- much s the Chicago p atforra wi bodiment of Democratic princlpl received the support of the club, any argu- ment iending (0 prove that the Chicago plat- form was undemocratic and inconsistent with the constitution ol the ciub was out of order. Despite the fact that the articles of incir- poration of the club were filed with the Secre- tary of State years ago, aud Democratic prin- cipies were crystallized nearly a century before the Chicago piatform startled the country, tue chair sustained the point by an anaichistic ruling in keeping with the Chicago platiorm. Itis needless to say tnat the ciub sustained the chair. It was stated frankly that the last regular Democratic National Convention was the infallible judge of Democratic principles and that no one could be a Democrat who did not loyally support that convention’s declara- tion of principles, no matter how much he was opposed (o the platform and no matier what the principles of the party had previously bees. Such a contession of iotal depravity was never belore made by a political organization above 2 piece club. M. x Popper, who brought in the resolution, bas made many speeches within the year in support of the gold standard, deciering free coinage meant National dishonor and National disaster. It was eminently proper, in view of the tem- per of the club, that. he, of all men, should propose to read Democrats out vt the party for voting as he believed. Mr. Popper’s peculiar fitness for the task was enhanced by the fact that he had bolted the Democratic Municipal Convention, after having secured the passage by the club of & resolution that the Leneral Commuittee which appointed the convention was the only regular Democratic organization in this City and County. The resoiution requesting the resignation of the gold Democrats who voted as they be- lieved was sugpcxled vigorously by ail of the chronic Buckley bolters, whose souls wcre narrowed at the thought of bolting for any- thing but jobs. It was also supported by all but Suree or four of the members who had previously howled for Cleveiand, and had de- clared that his financial policy was the szive- tion of the country. The club, I believe, in- tends to square itself on its Cleveland record by turning his picture to the wall after the 4th of March, and expelling W. D. Engiish, when the power of those Democrats to do violence to the principles of tae club, by removing its members {rom office, has ceased. Some groans and a few short dry laughs greeted Mr. Reed at this point. Chair- man Gildea rapped the ciub to order, after having first cast an apprehensive glance at the oil portrait of General Jack- son on tae wall. Then Mr. Reed, holding his typewritten resolution in bis left hand and buryine his rizht hand in his pistol-pocket, pro- ceeded to read 2 comparison tween the Chicago platiorm and the principles enunciated by Mr. Jefferson. Then he proceeded : ‘The Democratic perty in California is a gold party. Between 35,000 and 45,000 Democrats voted for McKinley. The Democratic State Central Committee is made up of gold Demo- crats because they could not find enough silver Democrats who knew how to conducta campaign to fill out the committee. National Committeeman Dwyer, less than a month be- fore he went to Chicago, was the most belliger- ent goldbug on the coast. He said that “if & iree-siiver House, a free-silver Senate and a free-silver President were elected, still no free-coinage bill would be passed, because the people of the Unitea States wou.d not allow the perpetration of such insane folly.” * * * The gag rule adopted by the club shuts off all discussion. If there wes a chance of a fair fight—or a fight of any kind—I would still battle for the gold standard, no matter how many champions nrpeued under the leader- ship of Tillman, A l%eld, “Bill” Stewart and Semuel Braunhart. To remain under present conditions would be to procaim myself a Democrat for revenue and a patriot for place, but I have not yet adopted the new Democracy roclaimed bv the Iroquois Club. Respect- l’nn, submitted, CHARLES WESLEY REED. When Mr. Reed mentioned the name of Bryan the club rose to its feet and gave three genuine war whoops. 2 At the conclusion of the reading Fred Raabe moved to accept the resignation “because Mr. Reed had attempied to give the ciub a black eye.” “Youn called me a traitor and a rene- gade last Friday night,”” said Mr. Reed to the club generally. “That's what you are,” replied J.J. Flynn, cheerily. Fiynn thereupon proceeded to say that the communication was an insult to the club, to each individuai thereof and to the party. The proper thing to do wouid be to expel Mr. Reed. He said that Reed had never been a Democrat. He had ac- cepted what the organization had done and then did not vote for the ticket. He had accepted office as a Democrat. Mr. Cabaniss denounced the paper as a screed. It had made his Democratic blood boil in his veins. Max Popper made a lengthy speech, in which he said that he had been a Demo- crat since 1864 and that Reed had been in the party for only four years. Hereferred to the fact that Reed had supported Judge Magulre, Senator White, James V. - man and other silver Democrats, After an acrimonious discussion, which was all one way, the club declined to ac- cept Mr. Reed’s resignation and it was re- solved to draw up the necessary charges against him in order that he might be legally expelled. r. Reed left the hall amid derisive cries, John Heenan was the next member to harrow the feelings of the club. His com- munication was read as follows: In answer to your resolution of last Friday requesting all those who supported Paimer , allow me to regply that atthe request the clu Children Cry for Pitcher’, Castoria. earliest moment (o proceed with my expul- sion in the formal way laid down in the by- laws. A copy of the charges and the notice of expulsion by the ciub will be in my politiesl career & most valuable document. To enable your commitiee to prepare specifi- cations and charges I avow the iollowing: That I wrote, worked and voted against Bryan; that I took part in the Palmer and Buckner movement in California and was one of the committee of three to prepare a peiition to have the Palmer end Buckner electors placed on the official ballot; that I procured person- ally over 300 signatures; that I was on the committee on distribution of literature advo- cating the !ln:le gold standard; I was nominated for Presidential elector on the Palmer and Buckner ticket and ac- cepted the same, though I afterward resigned in favor of Jeremiah Lynch E-q., to show my Tespect for the virtues for which he is well known. I repudiate the Cnicago piatform and indorse the platiorm of the National Democratic party at Indianapolis. Mr. Ball diew up charges to have Mr. Heenan expelled. Abraham Jacobs denied with some heat that he was any relative of Isidor Jacobs, as stated 1n a morning paper. He then moved to remove President Cleveland’s picture from the room, but his motion was voted down. Then tue council fires were put out and the braves struck out on the trail across the prairie. RESTAURANT LIFE IN PARIS. Americans Are the Most Frequent Vie- tims of Servants. The restaurant life of Paris, says a let- ter from that city in tne Lonisuille Courier-Journal, is as distinctive and idiosyncratic as the club life of London. The two modes of living are totally differ- ent, however, and mark elementary di- vergencies of national character and tem- perament. The Frenchman is a gourmet; the Englishman is a gourmand. The Frenchman likes the open air; the Eng- lishman likes the open air. too, but he wants his open air to be latiiced in and girt about against intrusion. That which delights the Frenchman—the glitter, the chatter, the radiant and noisy ¢bb and flow of the boulevards—offends the Euglish- man. Yet the better restaurants of Paris do not get their profits off their French pa- trons. It is the Americac who is relied on 1o bring up the average and to convert a loss into a gain, and for the Americens, therefore, the trap is set and the triggers are adjusted. He may swear and squirm and amu-e the onlookers by his futile at- tempts in very crookea French to make his meaning Llain, bat to no avail. He will have to pay the bill. The swell restau- rants have discovered a device for taking the luckless American completely captive which deserves the name of great. Like everything great it is simple. No price is affixed to the several dishes upon the bill of fare. Thus the strancer is Yflfl entirely in the dark. He is at the mercy of the lady accountant and the head waiter. There is no fixcd standara of value. There is no check upon_ enterprising rapacity. You order your dinner blindfold, and when *'la note” is brought you have no re- course. The garcon shrugs his shoulders. The other garcons stand around and grin. The maitre de cuisine is dignity a little tempered by majesty. You know that you are being swindied.” You know that mon- sieur yonder, who has had more dishes than you, and better served, has been charezed some 50 per cent less. But what can youdo? You can do nothing. You can simply disgorge. If you ask the price inadvance you commit a dreadful solecism. What does milor care about Ynces? Prices are made for the canaille. If milor wants cheap dinner he go to Duval. The Cafe Voison exists for gentlemen, not for per- sons who need to economize. The Cafe Anclaise does not desire cheap custom. It prides itself on being ‘‘tres cher.” The poor American does not see it at all, but yet his vanity being touched as well as his pocket, he goes away with an abridgment of the basso in his grumble. He is a wiser but a poorer man. ——————— WHAT SNAKES EAT. Interesting Results From Sclenttfic Observation. During the last fow months some of the gentlemen connected with the Museum of Natural History at Paris have given to the world various interesting results of their observations, says an exchange. The learned professor atthe museum, Leon Vaillant, describes the diet of 3 ser- pent more than twenty feet long, which has been on exhibition at the Jardin des Plantes since the month of August, 1825, Uu to the end of 1895 this reptile had eaten fifty times, that is, on an average of five times a year. The largest number of times in one year that the snake took food was in 1886, when he ate seven times. Nearly all the food consistea of the flesh of goats, old and young. Three times, however, the repast was composed of rab- bits and once of a goose. The feeding of the serpent, which will eat nothing but what is alive, offers an uncommon specta- cle, and many persons request to have no- tice of the times when the creature feeds, so as to witness the feeding. Yet the lightning-like rapidity with which the reptile seizes its prey produces a powerful impression. Apropos of the volume which can, by means of distension, enter the stomachs of serpents, Professor Valliant relates that a French viper was once put in the same cave with a horned viper. As these indi- viduals, although belonging to different species, were of the same size, it was sup- Eoud that these reptiles would live amica- l{{idn by side. evertheless the horned viper during the following night swallowed his com- panion in captivity, and, in order to ac- commodate this prey so disproportionate to irseif, its body was distended to such a degree that tne scales, instead of touching each other laterally, and even overlaping each other a little, as in its normal condi- tion, were separated, leaving between the longitudinal rows.of them a space equal to their own breadth. Allthe same diges- tion proceeded regula.'y and the viper did not appear to have cffered in the least. 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