The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 2, 1897, Page 6

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Maln—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Stree: Teleptone.. .Main=1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 27 Bromtgomery Biees, corner Clay: open uotll £:5¢ c'clock g ££9 Hayes street: open until 9:30 o'clock. %18 Larkin street: open untll 9:30 o'clock: W _corner Sixteenth sud Mission streeis; open 21131 § w'clock. 2412 Mlission street: open nntil 9 0'clock 347 Skl sireet; open until 9 0'ClOC. *bixel sueer, open bl 9 0'CIOCK UAKLAND OFFICE Broad way. EASTERN OFFIC ark. Row ew York City- JLTZ, Fastern Manager. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e e Pay your bills. Hold fast to'the swear-offs Square away for hard Work. The carnivals will begin before long. Sacramento is the center of attraction. By this time the reformers haveall their axes ground. We shall never refer to this as the winter of our discontent. The good resolution will grow better the longer you stick to it. This is the day for you to leaye orders for THE SUNDAY CALL. Polk street put a rosyred cap on the climax of the old year. Two months more of Grover. still basten, O Time, in yourflight. There will e aluliin” business for.a lit fle while and then will come the spring re- vival: No brighter day thian that which we en- d opened the- year in any part.of the The happy plowman will now indulge himself in the recreation of ripping up | the earth. half thé promises of our prospects are fulfilied it will be for us a year of splendid | reslization. The Cabinet-makers have collected the | material and now the time has.come to | put it together. It will start in as the Legislature of a thousand bills, but there is no telling bow it ‘will come out. Msceo seems 16 have as many lives and deaths as Bill Dalton; and may turn out to be the same man There fs very little time left for Cleve- land to get out of the Cuban road before Congress ruas over him. In this year as in the past we shali con- tinte to talk of peace, strengtnen our coast defenses and increase the navy. The year will bring us an international bimetallic conference and once more we shall see the silver lining on the clouds. Theré would be more pleasure in build- ing warships for.Japan if we were sure we would pever have to test them in battle. The novelty which -does tot get off the bargain counter in a few days will have to £0 to the back shelf, so now is the time to reach for it. Street improvement has made itself suf- ficiently luminous, and ‘it should. now re- move the cobblestonesana give itself a good footing. This year should see the American peo- ple make a marked advance in ‘the direc- tion of producing -at home all ‘the sugar the country needs. American industry does hiot have to beg protection from a Republican Congress. It Has only to point oiit what it needs and Congress will proyide it. The Sultan does not. observe our New “Year, butall the same it would be wisdom on’ his part to whirl in and reform just to show himpelf a good fellow. Senator Hill's statement that hedoes not intend to talk politics: at present may be an evidence of wisdom, but the general impression is hé has-no politics to- talk aboat: : - It is"full time -for the General Govern- ment to directits “appropriations for pub- lic .improvements 10 the. mighty West. For the Nation as well as “for individuals the West 1s the place to make investments. The Democratic assertion. that. the bank occurred”if Bryan had ‘been elected has this much of truth-in it that the banks would ail have failed long before the holi- days began. . e . According to the Indiapspolis News over 200,000 bushels of cucumbers were har- vested in Northern Indiana during-the l4st season and now we know why there are so many stoniach ache remedies sold in that section of the country. There is still talk of the proposed mone- tary conference at Indianapolis, but it has lpst most "of its vigor. The ‘promoters have begun to understand at last that the people eiected Congressmeén to aitend to the money question and expect them to do it. = Thke California Teachers’ Association is to be congratulated on the election of L. 3. Chipman to the presidency, for he is one of rhe'most experienced and progres- sive educators in the State and his energy and skils in the work will prove-beneficial to/the association in many ways. : 2 Sl Tacinih] In denyirga report that some Republi- ‘can members'of the Ways and Means Com- mittee were opposed fo adding a reciproc- ity clause to the new 'tariff, Chairman : “Opthe contrary,all the Republican members.of the committee are in favor of going as far as the McKinley practicable.” " That question, therefore, {'that of -1396 of nearly two million doliars, may now be accounted as settled and set- tled right. * s * 2 SUGAR IMPO_]EIATIONS. Ths showine made before the Ways and Means Committee by the advocates of pro- tection to the American sugar industry must have been tioroughly convincing to every one who is not so extreme a free- irader as to be willing to sacrifice any and all of our home industries rathet than in- terfere with unrestricted' competition. In almost no other industry is the: American so unfairly matched with his European competitor, for the sugar producer hasto meet notonly therivalry of cheaper wages, but the md given to the European manu- tacturer by Government bounties. The cost to the people of -the United States of imported sugar was explained. to the committee by..Mr. : Myrick . of New York in a striking way. ‘He. pointed out that it required every pound of wheat and tlour exported by the United States during the last fiscal year to .pay for the.sugar bought from foreign uations. The total value -of :live and:. -dressed beef, - beef: products.--and. lard exported- hardly equaled-the value of ‘the sugar imported. Even our immense exports of cotton were only .about twice as valuible as our im- ports of sugar, while the barley, oats and rye, fruits, nuts, hops, vegetable oils, oleo- margarine, butter and -cheese, pork and hams that.were exported last year, all put together, represent in value only two- thirds of the sugar imported. Stated in this way the immensity of our sugar importations from abroad can be more fully comprehended than from a compilation of statistics. - The. consump- tion of suger in this country is in fact enormous. It is with our people an- arti- cle of universal daily use and the con- sumption -increases with - the growing prosperity and wealth of the population. So long as we do not produce enough for our needs at home we shall ‘haye to pay this vast tribute to other lands and . sacri- fice our home welfare in ‘doing it. Germany and ® France are making stren- uous efforts to reap the large profits of this rich American trade, They- pay ex- port -bounties to - their ‘sugar-shippers, which more than make up the cost of ireight across the Atlantic and offset the duty now exacted at ourports, . The Amer- ican producer has.to comvete with these | bounty-sapported competitors, and, under the low tariff system, has found it almost impossible to pay to the American farmer cient price for the raw: material to fy him in growing'it. ‘The folly of leuving our. sugar. industry unprotected is the greater because it is one that under right protection. conld be carried'on in almost all sections: of the Union. - In California it can' be made one of the most profitable -of the products of oursoil.. The nublic-spirited enterprise of Claus Spreckels has aiready firmly estab- listied the.industry amoug us, and 'if itis | rightly protected the benefits to the Staté | will be hard to overestimate. . MINING PROSPECTS. The outlook for a large increase in the mining industry in this State.for the com- ing ‘year is very encouraging. The books | are not yet made. up |8o. that an accurate | statement of the product of 1896 can . be given, but the:gold- yield, which is the most prominent feature of California min- | ing, will -probably show an’ increase over | The coinage of the branch Mint here was the highest since 1878. The 'statis- tician of the Siate Mining Bureau estis | mates that: the yield of all the mineral products of California for the year just | ended will be §25,000,000. The prospect for a large increase for the coming year is evidenced by the fact that whereas in| former years it has been the custom for the | owners of mining -property-to look up the | buyers, now there is §o much demand | that the purchasers are hunting for the property-holders. Another good augury for the fature of California mining i3 the"assured conf | dence displayed in a number of “places | failures is the necessity of better banking banks in° the States where. they have oc- curred. This lesson ill have: its effect when Congress enters upon the work oi extending and révising the national bank iaw, and Will probably -lsad the Legisla- tures of the several Statas affected to re- vise their local laws to ‘some extent. From the . failures, therefore, we may ex- pect good as well as evil results, and the prospects are that the good will remain with us long after the évil has been over- come and forgzotten. B M'OULLAGH'S DEATH. The cifcumstances attending the death of J. B. McCullagh,” the veteran and famous editor of the St. Louis Globe-Demo- crat, will have the effect of reviving the controversy over tfie right of a man to kill himself when life has become an iiicessant pain and is of no further value to the pos- sessor. Mr.. McCullagh was a believer in. the doctrine of the Stoics, -He wasno weak- ling. ‘There was no coward’s bload in him. He deserted no apparent duty. He worked and fought so long as there wasstrength in him to do_either, and then not caring to linger “superflious on the stage,” and knowing that his pain aud weakness would render him a source of anxiety to those whom: he. loved, he ended life “in the high Roman fashion, and made death proud to take him,” ‘Whatever views. one may . take of the philgsophy. of suicide as an abstract ques- tion- none “who have known: McCullagh either personally or by his wide extended fame will reproach his memory for acting as he did when the" issue “‘to be or not to be'’ came to him for determination. - We could not' judge him- rightly unless we knew all the conditions of -his life’and felt ail the pain that racked. his body. These we do not know and ‘bave notfelt. - We only know that hé had been a strong and faithiul worker: for goed in Americs, that he had broken down at bis labor, that he longed for rest and went o it in-1he way. and at the time which séemed best to him.: On that record he merits all-honor for his life and the tenderest pity for his death. strongest of that generation which devel- oped out of the stress and strain-of our civil war the qualities of ‘heart and brain which infused a new force ‘and vigor into. | American journalism. The nervous inten- sity of thought and ‘feeling which were the excitements of war affected every in- dustry of the country, but in no kind of work were these effects more rmarked than in that.of the publication of newspapers. The change was radical. In the old days thenews features of a ‘paper were subor- dinate to the editorial columns. . When the batties came, however, public interest demanded news above everything else, and out of that universal and intense demand came the hewspaper of to-day. A large part of McCullagh’s suceess was due o his understanding of this new need of the time. He gathered the news wher- ever it was to be found and at whatever cost. He was himself a trained gatberer of news, baving served as a correspondent. at the front during the war, and he profited by the experience thus gained when he became the editor of & great paper. Jour- nalism therefore owes much to his exam- ple and his nfluence, and his feliow- niembers in the profession will feel that in his death they have susteined the .loss of a ieader whom they can ill afford to spare. e THE STNDAY CALL. The first Sunday issue of THE CALL in the New Year will be ‘a fine number in every respect: Its contents will make a vleasing variety. There will be & collection of. views of rare merit and interest from local artists, showing their respective skill in different throughout the State in-the sinking of | lines of work. deep mining shafts. It used to be the | An article that will create astonishment custom to make these pay their way as | and command admiration for the man of th now they are being sunk to depths of from 1000 to 2000 feet without stovping to work. | the ore. v went down by taking out ore, but.| talent and persevering endeavor of ‘whom t treats relates to one of the really great intellectual feats of -the time. It will be Recent operatious. .by various | of particularinterest 10 philologists every- companies in this deep shaft sinking rep-:| where, and is the first publication of facts resent outlays of from $150,000 to $300,000, | that will bring fame 1o a resident of San and the significance of bold investments in these days when mining is both cautious and scientific is very clear. One of the notable features of the in- creasing gold production is that much of this increase is due to the reopening of Francisco who has been hitherto prac- tically unknown to the world of litera- turé. This-man’s work has already acca- pied - thirtéen years of his life; and to complete it, ten . years more of incessant labor will be required. old mines which had been for years aban- | stupendous one, and--the resnit. will bea doned as unprofitable. This is a practical monument to history and an invdluable proof of the great improvement in.the |aid in diplomacy and commerce to.the' methodsof extraction. - The tailings which | were thrown away as valueless by old- | fashioned methods are now- being worked over at a handsome profit. S With our gold prodnct increasing at the rate of $2;000,000 annuajly we can consider the report from the Mining Bureau as one calculated to. inspire: confidence” in the prosperity “of the new.year. Gold is a most potent factcr in starting great indus- tries, which bring -cecupation, prosperity and happiness to the people. .- Now that it is'being produced in enlarging quantities it gives what.is literally & golden glow- to sll the prospects of tho State, - - EASTERN BANK FAILURES. The bank failures in the Lake States coristitute the largest-cloud ori the finan- cial and commercial.horizon of the .coun-. 1ry.: ‘They have-been serious’ enough. fo, engage the attention. of ‘all parts -of the Union, and ‘in-the States where they have’ occurred have occasioned a widespread . distrust which it is not surprising to learn is proving almost as prejudicial as the failures themselves, ~ ° It is wor(h noting that the lack of con- “fidence caused by the failures is confined almost wholly to persons who are: outside the higher circles of commerce and finance, Bank presidents and the larger merchants and manufacturers of the country hae shown no signs of “panic; but'on the contrary have treated the fail- ures as ordinary events in the course of business and significant of nothing excent mismanagement. G5 g _Tue judgments of the experienced mas- ters of finance and-commerce are un- doubtedly correct. All theevidence made public concerning the failures show that 1n every instance the failing banks have been corducted. without regard to good business methods. Money has been loaned without good security, and more- over hag been advanced in amounts ex- ceeding what the capital of the banks justified. Such methods would lead to disaster even under the best conditions, and it is not to be wondered at that they have proven disastrous now. o The clear. understanding that the fail- ures-have been due to bad managemeht and other causes that are wholly local has prevented any distrust arising in other portions of the country. There is little or no danger of runs on banks ouiside the districts which have been already affected. In fact there is reason for. belieying the distrust. there will soon pass away -and business will move forward with as much confidence as eyer. : * The one lesson to be learned from the English-speakirig nations. Westerners with a taste for poetry have a-very kindly regard for Sam L. Simpson, the clever poet of Oregon. . His verses “To in thé rank of the best minor poets of the |-country. In Sunday’s CaLr will appear | another contribution from Mr. Simpson entitled’ “A Forgotten ‘Anniversary.” It | mended for his bravery ini - championing the cause of ‘a friend of mankind whose glories have hitherto beed quits obscurei in'arather commonplace region of : prosy reality. : _ i _“The very latest secret of photpgraphy .is disclosed for thie benefit of society womenin as amusement. % i i An excellent letter ‘from the -north ot : will find meat for discussion in a new invention that proruises to dis- ‘pense entirely with-the fire horse. Ev'ry department is well filled and no Sunday newspapér on the coast wikl be | productive of more- genuine epjoymen | than THE SUNDAY CALL. & NEWSPAKER - PLEASANTRY. “I don’t know what to do with my boy, he hates to read s0.” 0 z : “Why not make a book-reviewer of him?”- Brooklyn Life. Bacon—I was reading to-day of & violin- maker who made over 7000 fiddles in his life, -, Egberi—IVs a fact, then, that the evil a man does lives after him.—Yonkers Statesman. 01d Gentleman=—3eriously, I don’t remember ever to have told a lie in all my life. . - Young Gentleman—So? Well, do you know, I'm getting a little forgetful mysell.—Boston Transcript. S8 Brown—Do yoh ‘believe in civil service re- form? ° 2 2 S Jones (who has failed to pass an examina. tion)—T do. The questions should be made -easier.—Puck. 5 . “What's the gloaining, Uacle Tom?"” “Well, before & man is married it is the time to take & walk, but aiter he is' married itis the time he falls over rocking-horses and building-blocks op the sitting-room floor.”— Chicago Record. - 5 “Do you beliee that a greeh <Christmas makes o _fat graveyard?” asked: the horse ["editor. . [ don’t kno# anything about that,” replied the snake editor, “but Ido know that any sort Gf ' Christmas makes a lean pocketbook. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegrapb. 2 laws and ‘more thorough-supervision of’ AROUND THE- CORRIDORS. . “Thomas H. Van Frank, the electrician, who did the yaried and complicated electrical work ‘in connection with thé lighting of the Emporium Building, ha returned herésfter several weeks in Southern Californis, where he went for his health. ~ He'is much improved and will agein give his attention to hiselec: trical business here: 2 Mr. Van Frank says things have & cheery look in’the south. There is a steady thrift nearly everywhere one may turn. He believes from the way things appesr that there will be an improvement during thie next few months. “The business outlook in the south,” said Mr. Van Frank yesterday, “has materially brightened since the election excitement has cleared awny. ‘Los Angeles is rapidly fliing with tourists; all the leaging houses are com- Tlotis enterprisés of his firm. Mr. Friedlander [ will be absent for ten days, after which he will return to devote his time to the interests of the Carnival of the Golden Gate, CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 1.—D. 8: Davis #and J. D. Warrack of San Francisco are at the Shoreman; Henry D, Stahl of Los Angeles is at the National Hotel, PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. - A l4-month:old child of Reading, Pa., re- joices 1n the rather unique distinction of hav- ing four great-grandmothers-living. Only one of these ‘great-grandmothers wears spec- tacles, and. all live within a short distance of McCullagh was one of the foremost.and produced among all classes - 'of people by | ELECTRICIAN THOMAS H, VAN FRANK, Who Has Returned Home After Several Weeks in the South. (Sketclied from life by a “Call” artist.] fortably filled withi the better class of visitors intending to spend the winter on the coast. “Electrical circles are interested in the im- mense power-plant located in the San Gabriel Canyon, from which power will be traus- mitted to Los Angeies for use in operating the street-railway system. - This will be the model transmission plent of the south and will mate- rielly add {o the upbuilding of that section. The matter of converting various cable lines into electiic roads is under advisement, and, The task isa most |." - | the River” and to ““The Sword’” place him | | is -happily illustrated and will make de-| | lightful readirg. - It can hardly be termed |. | “neroic,” but Mr. Simpson will becom- | with cheap power, it is not improbabie that many of the outlying districts which heve heretofore Iabored under the disadvantages of inadequate transportation facilities will now receive the attention which is their due. “The'southern section of the Stateis fully awake to the adventages of good roads. The increased population with which that section is favored during the wintér months has given an impetus. in this ‘direction with the most gratifying results. “Special ettention has been given to the drives lending -ont from Los Angeles toward San Bernardin and Riverside. The distance is but sixiy.five miles, and the attraction which the rua has for ‘tourists awneel has brought the matter of good rosds prominently before the public. “There is n6 more pleasing section in the State than tHe valieys east of Los Angeles, and a'féw ‘hours’ wheeling that can take in such sections s Pomona, Rialto, San Bernrdino and Riverside is an_attraction which the resi- dents of thése sections are not slow' {o press upon the wiliing tourist. “And, by the way, it is the {nsistonce of the Sonthern California resident—the faculty of holding to the proposition which he advances, and his kindly expressed feeling for rival communities—that 1s so rapidiy buildingupa world-wide renown for ‘Our ltaly,” " PERSONAL. . Graeter of Placerville is In the City. G.E. M. Prattof Chicago is at the Palace, A. Brown Of the ship Arctic is at the Grang J. F. Kelly of New York is a late arri here. 21 ¢ . G. W. Mc1ntyre of Salinas is a late arrival in this City, 5 s Max Kahn of St. Joseph, Mo., is & recent-ar- VLRG0 - e e hete W. Hughes of Sacramento- is registered - at, e Grand. - . - G s g e * A.B. Shoemsker, a business may of Modesto, 18 in this City: : A Max Engle 6f New York is visiting this City :and isat the Palace. -~ -~ Ji 3 .. B. P. Stevens, ‘an old resident of- Portlas arrived here yesterday:. " i “Ex-Sénator K. E. Kelly of Williams is among | general, and some revelations are afforded that will be received with- surprise as well, Eugland gives.'a description- of scenes | amid the histori¢ally rich ruins of ancient | the arrivals at the Russ.. ** G. W. Mahon of Bakersfield and K. 8. Mahon of Yubd City, areatthe Lick. . - .. - Lieutenant Eugene T. Nilson- of tlie United States'army is at the Occidentai. . '~ ~ orrigand T. J. Kennedy of Portland, Or., were among yesterday’s srriyals.: ° sgricuitural implements, is'in this City, H. Plowmas of Seattle arrived on the Walla ’| Walla this morning on a visit (o the City. U. 8. Murphy and M. J. Murphy, land-owsters of Merced, are at the Cosmopolitan Hotel: George D. McLean, the well-known mining man of Grass Valiey, is here for a few da Mrs. Clara Williams and son of Palo Alic are among the guests at the Cosmopotitan Hotel. J. B. Banford of Ukiah, one of the néwly elected Senators from that district, is in this City. . E. W. Carden came down from Portland, Or., last night and is at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. > ‘Among the arrivals here yesterday was E. M. Mannion of. Los Angeles. He is af the Grand. 2 William Pritchard of Sacramento is spend- ing New Year's here. He is registered at the Grand. W. F. Morgan of Liverpool, England, is in " this City on bis way to Japan and staying at | the Cosmopolitan Hotel. e g Miss Alma A, Kaerth.came down from Sacra- mento to spend New Year's day and registered at the Cosmopolitan Hotel. T Edward Pelilka of Mjchigan Bluff, Super visor of Placer County, is at the Russ. He is’ one of the old residents of that.region. R. C. Sargent, the millionaire land-owner of 8an, Joaquin County, one of the pioneers, and | 1argely interested in Stockton, s in this Cit; Georgo F. Beveridge, who owns an interest in’ a large gold mine in Mexico, arrived here last night and is at the Palace. He is the son’of ex-Governor Beveridge of Illinois. 3 - Thomas E, Laduer, founder of the town of Laduer, British Columbia, snd proprietor of a general store and of various enterprises there, is at the Lick, accompauied by Ed B. Ladner, also of British Columbia.” W. B. Ladner of Aubura is alsoat the Lick. : ‘8. H. Friedlarider leaves to-nignt for Port- '1and, Or., on business connected with the va- .| he, Banie act David Young of Stockton, s manufacturer of | the home of this presumably well-coddied miss. Judge Murphy of St. Loufs refused. to allow & policeman to testify in' his court, saying: “There hasn’t been &’ policeman in St. Louis for ten years wio has seen anything.” The Dowager Empress of Germany is visiting her mother, Queen Victoria, and recently cele: brated her fifty-sixth birthday by an elavorate royal dinner. party. She is considered omeof ihé best scholars among the royal women of Europe. The State of Maine furnished one-eleventh of the Governors chesen last fall in the différ- ent States of the Union. They are Llewellyn Powers in Maine, Hazen P. Pingree in Michi- gan, Frank S. Black in New York and Jokn R. Rogers.in Washington.. Mrs. Temple, the wife of the hew Archhishop of Canterbury, after making -a call the other évening entered what she supposed was ner own carriage and ordered. the-coachman to drive to the palace. The coachman promptly. drove her to the Palace Theater of Varieties, and it was with great d:fficalty that the good iady, who haa never boen in such a place in her Iife, was #ble to persuade’ him that that was niot the destination she wished. Queen Victoria always wears, thrée rings— one that the Prince Copsort placed on her finger when they were married, her engage- ment ring, and a slender circle carrying a tiny diamond, a giit from her busband that was to De two or three years before they were wedded. The Queen’s coronation ring is never out o her sight and is worn by her every evening. Itisa band of gold containing a eross in ru- bies surrounded by white brilliants. A coro- nation ring is supposed t6 symbolize the wed- ‘ding of the sovereign with the nation. % A LBOSTON BABY. ‘Baby’s brain is tired of thinking + ._On the wherefore and the %hence; Baby's precious éses ure blinking With {ncipient somuo.ence. Little hinds are weary turning _Heavy leaves of lexicon: & Tittle nose is fretted, How to keep 1t gl ing on.- . Baby knows 'he laws of nature .. Are beneficent and wise;. . His medulla oblotigata Bids my dar’ing close his eyes. . "And his pneamogastrics tell him e Quietude is always best " Wheu his liitle cerebellum. ¥ "Needs recuperatfve rest.” . Baby must have relaxation, - ; Let the world go,wrong orright. Sleep, my daring: leave cteation 3 * To fis chances for the uight. % . . . . —Boston Pilot. Letters From the People. Zheir - Magna. Uharter. i Comavess Their Runnymede. - "To the Editor of the San Franciso Cali~SIR: Believing thit there are large numbers of men who cai really think below the surface and who will do it if once jolted out of -the rut in whith they go the rounds of their daily activ- ity, Tam encouraged to go on trying to break ’| up thetr apathy and fix their attention on cer- tain aspects of publicaffairs which elude their observation aid leave them .wholly absorbed in their own pursuits, that they may not go on in blind unconsciousness of the subtle but wellnigh all-powerful influence at work all aboat them which should be clearly under- stood and seriously dealt with by every loya! citizen. 1.am constantly reminded by passing events |. of the attitude of just such men when Lincoln and Trumbull, Greeley and Seward, Phillips and Sumnér, Giddings. and Lovejoy, Whittier and Lowell, Fremont and all the early Repub- licans strove so bravely to awaken the coun- try to a full consciousness of the ever growing |- aggressiveness of the slavenolders’ power, its. increasing victories and its dominancé in every department of the Government, and I do not forget how these apatpietic men awoke at last and came tp the support of these maligned Republicans, for thie clamor against them'as fanatics and disturbérs of business was just as petulant-and persistent as it {s to- day, egainst.those who insist that the rresent order of things must be changed or a worse fate with a more menacing futuré will pres- ently overiake our country than eame with the slaveholders’ rebeltion. . Intelligent men neod hardly be'reminded that the power which had gained conirol. of the Government in 1856 feit comfortably se- cure in its immense advantage and-confidenfly counted on the final but sullen surrender. of these'Repubiican agitators ana the uliimate triumph of the Southern aristocracy over the greasy méchanics and other ‘“‘mudsills of so- ciety"” in the North, for the “business inter- ests” of the North were unitedly opposed to agitation. History Tecords the re-uit. In our day, as in that day, danger lurks in the apatby of business men, who are immersed in their own affairs and only ask to be let alone in trade and that thereishall be no disturbance in business; and on. they go, heediess of the fact- that their own apatiy may . lead.the | anything sincs the French Revolution. | ruffles of blue lawn to match. Sage money power now in control of our Govern- ‘ment, our corporations, our trusts, our rail- 104ds, our telegraphs, ‘our newspapers, our Tnivdrsities and colleges, our churches and religious newspapers to go too far in placing burdens and restrictions upon the’ mudsills of soclety, which: will be followed by another re- bellion too disastrous to be compared with 'he money barons aré NOw in absolute con- trol of all the industries-and avocations of the mudsillsof society. 15 was an evil day for our country when these money barons wrested their magna charta, the “National” bank-act, from a pliadt. Congress and Drought the Na- tion under tribute 1o their greed. This is none f the less true because so_few. men understand the secrei of their power. And they have held sway for & quarter of & century, during which | oné statesman after another hufi_lnllen as the great Daniel Webster iell on the 7th of March, 1850, before the slaveholders’ power to be re- warded by political promotion, tnough in Webiiter’s case’it camo 0o late for the reward, and ss hisgreat name passed behind a clou the power which temptad him to fall was broken and utterly destroyed. Lincoln arose and slavery fell. To make good this retrospect and werning let me repeata part of what was published & few days since in the editorial columns of & Republican paper whion hes ¢ daily circula- tion 01 200,000 copies with probably & million readers, the Philadelphia Item, 8 to the power and 1nfluence of the ‘Netionel’ bankers over the industrial and commercial affairs of our country. Alter quoting one of the largest Eastern financial news associations as saying that “it is noticed that Eastern capital s in- | clined to seek investments nearer home, probebly the result of the recent political campalgn, the growth of Popuiism having probably revolutionized the Investment field,’ ihe Item makes these comments: “That is very large news. It is vitally impor- tant news. And the worst of itis that itis e izct well known to every expert on the street. Itall means this: These money lenders sre now intimidating the West and South. They well know their power. They well know that inaustry cannot be carried on except with the aid of loans of money; thatwhen they shut down on loans business is likewise shut down. Which means that these money lenders, as things now are, have our country by the throat. This power for §ood or evil is so great, is sooverwhelming in its effects, bringing starvation and misery 10 given localities, that apeople are unwise io intrustitin any other hands than their own _organized = Gov- eroment, and - this is the very A B C of -financiel economy. = It is time that a_Government committee act in be- halfof the people instead of the usurers who now <ap the life out of industry to an extent of probably over two thousand millions each year,” and there §s more to the same effect. T ihink that our money barons have too much power. - Itisnot s good time for ‘‘taking the Government out of the banking business.’” 4 JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. San Francisco, December 27, 1896. FIELD FOR i ARMERS. SUPPLYING THE HOME DEMAND FOR BEET SUGAR. Philadelphia Times. The people of - the United States consume upward ot sixty pounds of sugar annually per capita, which at the rate of 5 cents per pound for the manufactured product costs the con- sumers upward of $200,000,000. Of this amount we produce less than 300,000 tons and import in the neighborhood of 2,000,000 tons. That s, we purchase from South America, the West Indies and the beet-sugar countries six pounds or more of sugar for every pound we produce. What is more, the cane sugar pro- duction of the United States cannot be greatly extended owing to the fact that about sll the cane sugar producing territory is now under | cultivation. Even ii we possessed Cuba we should suill. have to buy sugar from other countries, as the largest crop yet produced in that island did not_exceed 1,000,000 tons. We should need another Cuba at this rate to supply our wants unless we could make two canes grow where one grows NOW. If we would turn our attention to the pro- duction of beet sugar, we have the soil and climate to supply aii our own needs in this direction without Cuba. Already the world’s production of beet sugar exceeds that of cane sugar by more than one million tons, but while the Unitea States produced, in 1895, 290,000 tons of cane sugar, only 30,000 tons of bect sugar were produced. The cane sugar aren of the couniry is fully ccupied. but the | beet sugar area has scarcely been entered upon | at all. - The 4,236,000 tons of beet sugar pro- duced in 1895 were grown in -Germany, | Austria, France, Pussia, Belgium, Hollana and Sweden'and a few smalfer European countries, and yet in none of these are the conditions of | soil and elimate for sugar beet.culture superior 1o those to be found over & large area of the United States. Here is a fleid for the farmers who have been growing more wheat and corn than they could sell at & remunerative price. They would not need to look abroad for a market for beet | sugar. The home demand would sbsorb 2,000,000 tons annually, and until this &mount was exceeded the beet sugar farmers Would hive their market at their own doors, At the low price of 2 cents per pound, or $40 & ton, this would keep $80,000,000 ‘at home thatare now spent abroad for sugar. As a matter of fact the country had been paying | mote than $100,000,000 annually for raw gar for the last five years, and aswe in- ase in population this sum will increase in a like ratio. Why not occupy this field and | thus add a most valuable &nd extensive arti- cle of agrietltural production to those we now have? * ! The 30,000 tons of beet sugar grown in 1895 | while s relatively small amount compered | with, the product of Germany and the other | sugar:growing countries, is sufficient to cou- stitute & gusranty of successful sugar culture when the farmers of the' country once turh | their attention to the cultivation of this | staple. There are now three beet-sugar fac- | tories in Californis, one in Utah, two 1n Ne- | braska; one in New Mexico, a small one in Virginia and one just established in Wiscon- sin.” Within this belt, extending from the At- lantic to the Patific, Beet cylture is possible, and when thé nine {actories now in operation have been increased in number to twice the 405 factories now in operation in Germany, the greatest beet-sugar country.in_the world, | wewhall only have reschied the capacity of | supplying.our own wants in sygar. There should be as much enterprise, in- geriuify and science among the farmers of the United States as among those of any country ih the world, and attention is called: to this industry as one capable. of .indefinite expan- sion. Give beet sugar an exhaustive trial. It will help to_secure higher prices for corn and | * wheat, besides making us -independént of other countries for our sugar supply. ‘A - DAINTY DRESSING® s'.séotm.' A delightfully comfortablegarment 15 shown here. It is cutwithiout a limng, the fullness being gathered into the.collar band-and fin- ished with a drawstring at the waist line the back. Itis'uncozifined in front, xcept by | aribbon.: . - . s . Made.of pink and white stripéd lawn, with ruffiés ‘of ‘a- very finely embroidered white BN lawn and ribbons of fink, it is a dream of daintiness. A white Japanese silk, with ruffles of white iace ‘and Dresden ribbon, is charming and serviceable, as this silk laundgrs as well as ol s A spi mity of white background had e ateh the figure, with white ‘alenciennes lace trimmin S Crepons in delicate shades are much used for these jackets. One of pink had ruffles of black chiffon and collar and sleeves.. A pink and black striped ribbon was worn at the waisty Lo Jellow nun's veiling had suffics of black -Albatross of a creamy white had frills of pale-blue chiffon and blue-ribbon trimmings. A white lawn with ablue spot had collar and HE.bAU ME! THEM. o Boston Evening Record., . - A well-known Worcester clergynfen tells's GLAD .| Dol driver's seat of a stage conch. The-diver was an_interesting character, loaded™ with good stoties. ,The three speedily became friendly, and it was with reiuctance that they parted at the end of the journey. ““I'mglad fer hev met yer, fellers,’ seid the driver, in farewell, Yer see, I heven’tseen a map this summely exceptin’ ministers.” g purdnt v SRS VICTORIA'S AU:OBIOGRAPHY. New York Mail and Express, With Queen Victoria's life spared until the 20th ‘day.of nextJine, the sixtieth anniver: sary of her ascéntto the British throne, Eng- land will undoubtedly witness the most gar- geots pageant, the most splendid edlebration of national character ana ‘the most extraordi- nary popular demonstration ever seen within ner borders since glory first perched upon the British standard in the field or on the sea, mounted guard at the portals of her sthools end of her workshops. Butdespite the nofes of preparation for this great festival which come to.us from over the sea {rom time {0 timg no announcement equals in importauce, in our view, that made yesterday by the James Gazetie that the "aged Queen will per- sonally dictate and revise her own biography for publlication next year. Tnat Victoris, now _approaching the age of 78, after a life in which keenest sorrow and unremitting toil in the affairs of state have piayed s0 Couspicuous s part, snbuid wrider- take a task of this sort, is little short of marvelous. That her sutobiography would rove to be one of the most valuable contri- Pitions to English literature in the ciosi years of the century admits of no question. Would not only be the most authentic hisio of England’s longest reign, but it would in & Cconsiderable degrée be & history of Europenn diplomacy and international relations during the past sixty years, from royalty’s intimato point of yiew. Above all, such a work must be treasured. peculiarly a8 bringing into closer relation with the peop'e than ever before tlie woman who stands highest in the world's esteem of ail the long1ine of British monarchs, and fills the hearts of her subjecls as royalty has neyer before filled them. To the woman 1ot less than to the Queen we extend an American Christmas greot coupled with the hope that it will not be last, and especially that she will be preserved to give to the world the expected autc- biography. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENT PaPUA—W. M., San Diego, Cal. Papus, or‘) New Guines, is with the exception of Austra< lis, the largest island in the world. It is 1500 miles n length, with varying breadth of {rom 200 t0 430 milés. The area is 284,768 square milés. The aren of British New Guinea is 88,- 460 square miles. WHO WAS THE AUTHOR—R., Leadyille, Colo. This correspondent is anxicus to know who is the author of & poem that commences: He dieth young whom the gods love Hath been In vérse confirmed, Happy 18 he who dieth in his flower— Can any of the readers of this department furnish thic desired information ? 1t TuE NATALE—Subscriber, Glen Ellen, So- noma County, Cal. On the 14th of October, 1834, a vessel called the Nataile was wrecked in the bay of Monterey. It has been as- serted time and again that it was in that ves- sel that Napolcon escaped from the island of Elba. Iu is, however, & matter of record that Napoleon escaped. from Elba on board of the s100p 0f war Tnconstant, twenty-six guns, Feb~ ruary 25, 1815. LuNG TroustE—S., City. - There are a num- ber of places in the United States that lay claim to being “the best place for a person affected with lung trouble.” This department cannot tell which is “the best,” as mucn de- pends npon_the condition of the patient, and | only & pnysician who understands the naturs | of the case can determine which of the many | places is the best one for a person affected a3 describes the correspondent, ADrvorcE—A Womsn, Porterville, Cal. If your husband left you and when you sént him Toticé of intention to tommence an -action for diyorce, he in reply sent you what purports t be'a decree of divorce obtained in Kansas, if the document does not bear tlie evidences of authenticity you shoula, before entering. tite matrimonial stale again, make sure thatitis all right, because 1f you do-not you might lay yourself ligble to prosecution for .bigamy. You can ascertain if the document is all that it purperts to be by writing to the County Clerk of the county from which it purports to come. Follow the advice of Davy Crockett, “Be sure that you are right; then go.ahead.” SHELLS T0 CLEAN AND COLOR—A Readér, San Pablo,.Cal. Dark-colored’ organic matter on thé outer suriace of &-shell is first removed by using a thick mixture of bleaching-powder ) one part o Lwo parts of water, and soakin/ the shell ‘therein, On removing wash an/ serubit. Thick incrustations of limre must be Picked off with.a sharp-edged hammer or some simiiar tool, and then the shell must .be dipped in boiling diluted hydrochloric acid. Valuable shells may have the face or pearly portion covered with shellac yarnish, which may be removed with alcohol after the acid bath, For strong heavy shells use one part acid " to threo partswater; for delicate ones oné'part geid to ten of water. - Dip -the shell for & second only and exanine it, and if the éffect is not ‘sufficient give it another dip. Hold the shell with wooden forceps or_attach it to astick in any way to serve as a handle. The important part is nos. to let the acid stay 100 long on the shell. For local spots the soli- tion shoula be applied with & brush. To color shells a little deep lac. lye is boiled and leit standing to settle, and it s then dissolyed in a solution of tin cnforide. 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When it is scien- tifically prepared, asin Scott’s Emulsion, it checks the pro- gress of the disease, the «con- gestionand inflathmation sug sideand the process of healing (begins. There is the wholé g00d story at his own expense. In his younger days he was trempiug through the White Mountains with & companion, Who was also s clergyman. One day they moynted the truth. Book about it free. . SCOTT & BOWNE/New Yark. *